Frederick Douglass High School - Polaris Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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Juniors The Curriculum States For the class of eighty-four, the curriculum is changing. The requirements are different from those for the class of eighty- three. The Eighth Grade does not count towards graduation for this class or the classes following it. Next year, quarters are to be- come semesters and quarter hours will become units. The science curriculum states that one must have taken 15 hours in physical science and 15 hours in biological science for a Nothing but rigid training, long persisted in, can perfect the character of men and women. total of 30. There is also an addi- tional 15 hours that one needs in science or math. The physical science classes include earth sci- ence, energy and measure- ments, and physics. Courses of- fered for the eleventh graders are human biology, horticulture, chemical structure, physics, and genetics. Mr. Woods stated that there are no required classes but that one needs 30 hours towards graduation. However usually stu- dents take math up to their sen- ior year. Usually one would be taking advanced algebra, ele- mentary functions, and trigo- nometry during their junior year if one had started taking algebra in their eighth grade year. Also like math, English has no required classes. One needed 60 quarter hours to graduate. There was a balance between writing and reading in these classes. Usually in the eleventh grade one would take U.S. Democracy, U.S. Reform, and Modern U.S. Every hour sees the blacit man elbowed out of employ- ment by some newly arrived emigrant whose hunger and whose color are thought to give him a better title to the place. provided that you have not taken the American History classes during the tenth grade. One also took U.S. Law as a citizenship course, which one had to have to graduate. Sociology and psychol- ogy classes usually were taken in the eleventh and twelfth grades if one wished to continue in social studies after completing the re- quired classes. f Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Fc No comment. No comment. Academ ics J uniors 49

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y Juniors s S Right Bradley Williams — How grody! Center Stephanie Boyd — Look girl! Bottom left Lisa Perrymon — When will this class be over? Bottom Center Robert Jennings — The lone sleep- er. Bottom Right Mitzi King — No, you didn ' t take my picture. Bottom far Right Zondra Mencer — The teacher look . Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Fa Mathematics 48 What Manner of Man by Ler- one Bennett It was a striking and moving account of the life and times of Martin Luther King Jr and the movement he led to ob- tain the civil rights of black people. No comment. W. Montgomery Physical Education V. Moody Music Academics Juniors

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Center Rhonda Hall — Can ' t you see that I ' m doing my homework. Top right James Fox works his body to the beat with the rest of the class. Lower left Catherine Porter and Elliot Allhabet have a nice conversation. Lower right Greg Frazier works hard in Spanish. Bottom left Todd Carter is The Thinker. Bottom center JETS Assembly. Bottom right Jacqueline Chester, studies math. Bottom far right Micheal Bond talks to his class. qif p rh Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty Faculty W. Nabrit Foreign Language The Gospel of Emerson by Newton Dillaway Provoking! Soul stirring! Emerson ' s quotations pro- vided richer illumination in understanding myself, my fellowman. and the Inner Presence which I believe pervades the universe. C. Parland Foreign Language, Chairperson 50 Academics Juniors