Elmhurst High School - Anlibrum Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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and stress on composition highlight Trojan English classes The all-girl junior English class reads Wuthering Heights, one of the novels they studied in class. Students in Mrs. Oberlin ' s senior English class spend their time during the first semester studying English literature. Mr. Kurtz teaches the all-boy junior English class, which was one of several teaching experiments this year. Sophomores now read American literature. Here, students in Mrs. Bil- liard ' s class read the play Our Town. 29

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Miss Glassley, new at Elmhurst this year, collects papers in her first period sophomore English class. Seniors with ability in creative writing are enrolled in the ac- celerated English class taught by Mrs. Decker. Here, Patty Ball, Patsy Maxwell, Jane Black, Sue Hardwick, and Jane Grissom fol- low a discussion on seventeenth- century English literature. Change of literature program The English curriculum, keystone of scholastic work in high school, is undergoing many changes and experiments both in the Fort Wayne Community School system and at Elmhurst. Elmhurst is changing its English literature curriculum in fwo noticeable ways- This year, under a revised literature pro- gram, sophomores are studying American literature. Juniors and seniors are using the same textbook covering English litera- ture. Next year, at the completion of the transition to the new program, seniors will study Adventures in Modern Literature. The second change in our English curriculum is an increased emphasis on paragraph writing. The students use Better Para- graphs to help create a definite form in high school composi- tion. Besides the many standard English classes, taught on the sophomore, junior, and senior levels, Elmhurst has several special classes this year. Miss Falls and Mr. Kurtz teach, respectively, during the same period each day, one junior English class en- tirely of girls and another entirely of boys- The purpose of this experiment is to create more spontaneous discussion within the two separate groups. On certain days, the classes unite for dis- cussion. The other special class is a senior English class taught by Mrs. Decker. This class differs from others in that it reads Greek drama, studies Hamlet as well as Macbeth, and practices creative writing throughout the year. 28

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Analytic geometry for seniors and Algebra II for sophs Mathematics provides a foundation that is vital to science and engineering, to homemaking, and to business and technical skills- From the general math to the analytic geometry, the Elmhurst mathematics teachers are dedicated to the goal of de- veloping each student ' s math ability to its fullest. As the student progresses from the more elementary courses to the advanced ones, he learns the why of mathematics as well as the how. Mathematics at Elmhurst High School has always been an integral part of the student ' s curriculum. Math courses offered at Elmhurst include: general math, Algebra I, Algebra II, col- lege algebra, plane geometry, solid geometry, analytic geometry, and trigonometry. In order to offer an exceptional program, EHS is con- tinually adding new courses and improving old ones. Added in ■1964 to the mathematics curriculum was analytic geometry. Seniors may take this course during their second semester. This year, for the first time, a group of sophomores studied Algebra II and solid geometry. These advanced students worked at a fast pa ce so that they may study calculus in their senior year. Mr. Richard Poot uses plastic models of cones, tetrahedrons, and spheres to illustrate the concepts of solid geometry. Steve Shultz, a junior enrolled in Algebra II, explains the steps in simplifying an algebraic expression. Sophomore Dave Barron demonstrates the proof of a quadrilateral theorem in Mr. Hoover ' s plane geometry class.