Gavit High School - Futura Yearbook (Hammond, IN)

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Students Develop Artistic Interests During the past year high school students furthered their artistic pro- gress in Art Projects. In this course, students were able to work in a field of art which particularly interested them. These advanced students experi- mented with such mediums as water colors, oil paints and ink. Junior high art classes worked widi clay, planned and made toothpick de- signs, and learned the basic principles for cartooning and drawing. Working on a wood sculpture is Jim Werner

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Committee members Chuck Stahl, Andrea Beaty and Jim Williams add the finishing touches to a scale model of the Shakespearean Globe Theater, built as a project for the sophomore English IV class taught by Miss C. Quinn. inglish Curricula types of stories according to journal- istic principles. The required weekly assignments were often published in the school newspaper, the Scroll. Speech classes practiced construct- ing and delivering different kinds of speeches. After the most advanced type, the persuasive speech, had been mas- tered, students studied debate, discus- sion, parliamentary procedure and both humorous and dramatic interpretation. 19

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French Is Newest Of Languages Offered At Gavit David Rose and Katherine Korba puzzle over the intricacies of the Latin language. When the language department added French to the curriculum, the total number of foreign languages offered at GHS reached four with German, Latin and Spanish. Latin III and IV classes translated Caesar from the original Latin, while the beginning classes studied the basics of grammar. Emil und die Detektive formed the focal point of study for the second years course in German, while, again, the first year classes studied the funda- mentals of the language. Spanish classes planned to translate episodes from Don Quixote after read- ing stories on customs of Spain. In the first year in which French was offered at Gavit, the students translated from a series of four French legends, the first of which was entitled Sept d’un Coup. In addition, they made extensive studies of France, its customs, landmarks, history, peoples and cultures. In addition to its literature and customs, Spanish students Nick Hether and Myretta Ordway learn about the geography of Spain.