Fort Worth Country Day School - Flight Yearbook (Fort Worth, TX)

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iv, A n Ar' -. 'y W 5 il 5 A if . ygf a. Mrs. Knecht shows the Fifth Grade French students a film- strip about Paris. b. Mindy Wil- lis and Kathy Stoddard strengthen their vocabulary with Spanish flashcards. c. Proelium, proelii, proelio, proelium, and proelisfl lVlr. Schwartz helps Kathy Mack de- cline a Latin noun. d. The AP Spanish class listens to a re- cording of Federico Garcia Lorca's poetry. e. Phyllis Hage- man and Dan Foster work to- gether on taping a French dia- logue. f. Third Graders and lVlr. Venegas speak Spanish.

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How D0 You a The Language Department at CDS offered French and Spanish to students from the Third through the Fifth and the Seventh through the Twelfth Grades. The Lower School French students worked on vocabulary pertaining to parts of the body, weather and other conversational words. They learned French numbers by playing nu' merous games of bingo. The Lower School Spanish stu' dents got a taste of Latin American culture through lis- tening and dancing to the autoharp and the maracas with Mr. Venagas. The kids worked hard at learning all the pieces of furniture and parts of a house from a large poster. Mr. Schwartz offered Latin to Seventh Graders. They translated chapters from his Hlittle bookf' The Seventh Grade French students acted out dialogues and plays while the Eighth Grade Frenchers worked on grammar, used phonetic spellings to aide them in pronunciation, and wrote scripts for silent cartoons about Monsieur Carre . The Middle School Spanish students used photo- graphs of themselves as characters of Spanish stories, and reviewed their vocabulary with flashcards. The Eighth Graders acted out chapter supplement wordsw and had group sessions about dialogues. That In... . l 5 ,ss 1 365' At Christmas time, French III had a party at Kipis with Mr. Avery and Mrs. Knecht. Academics were as follows: French I, Il, and III studied composition and grammarg French IV worked on novels that dealt with existential- ism while French V studied the history of French litera- ture. The Upper School Spanish students learned to un- derstand and speak as well as read and write through the ALM program. Spanish III discovered that the chapter readings turned from a few paragraphs in Spanish II to a short story in Spanish III. The AP Spanish students studied nineteenth gand twentieth century authors in Spanish. WW s 4 ' , aid fifty E f 3 ' , f,,,.ffi tae. N vw me- 't .5 Q 2. til -Hg

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MSers Cheer, Dance, Listen Despite the fact that the Middle School did not have a designated activities period, the students par- ticipated in projects and listened to various speak- ers. Whenever a speaker came, Mr. McKinney dis- missed classes. The Middle School Stu- dent Council sponsored a Fifties and a Western Day. The first took place at Hal- loween and the second during the week of the Fort Worth Fat Stock- Show and Rodeo. On lioth occasions, Middle School- ers used the cafeteria for dancing and contests. The students took part in pep rallies which formed an- other part of Middle School activities. f A