George Washington High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Danville, VA)

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New Techniques to Classics SPEAKING THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE requires proper posture and tongue manipulation. Mrs. Dee Pruitt demonstrates the proper pronunciation of the spelling words to her first-year students. Now, to hear the words they come up with! TIME OUT FROM Shakespeare, Hawthorne, and Dickens! Mr. James Shields, faculty advisor for the “Cardinal Talent Scout,” delights in perusing the work of his brain-children. CAREFULLY READING OVER term papers, Mr. Sterling Perkinson takes pleasure in marking paragraphs “well expressed.” There lurk, however, in all good papers “clumsy, redundant run-on sentences.” Mrs. Evelyn Miller Mrs. Jane B. Murray Mr. Kenneth Wayne Pruitt Mr. Edward H. Smith Mrs. Hazel Tennant Miss Constance Winfield 25

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Recordings, Parallel Reading in Paperback Bring Insight, “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,” all English students will be reading those nine hundred volumes of parallel reading materials supplied by the English Depart- ment for the first time this year. This was effected through the cooperation of the textbook rental system. The gradual introduction of new textbooks was continued as juniors received new grammar books. Freshmen, sopho- mores, and seniors adopted new and better illustrated liter- ature books. Two television programs (“Poetry,” used primarily on the 10th grade level, and “Franklin to Frost”) supplemented the American Literature course of the 11th grade. Sounds of Poe, Thoreau, and Frost reverberated through the halls, thanks to the three additional record players and forty recordings, newly acquired! This equipment imple- mented the teaching of literature as well as speech. Plans are also under way to secure several overhead proj- ectors and a copying machine to make transparencies for these projectors. This will make it possible to reproduce for classroom use many types of visual material. In the making are plans for an honors course of the sem- inar type for accelerated students. The purpose will be to teach intelligent, mature students, capable of self-direction, how to read works of various literary giants. WARM SUNSHINE AND FRESH AIR diffuse through Mrs. Beverly Bedsole’s English 73 class, producing drowsiness in some and laughter in others. Enjoying the dark coolness of the shaded half of the class- room, Randy Richardson, Beverly Turner, and Laura Thompson let heads droop. On the sunny side, Kay Oliver and Joe Giles arise and shine to Mrs. Bedsole’s challenge to write poetry. Mrs. Caroline Doyle Miss Josephine Estes Miss Betty Lou Giles Miss Crystal Green Mrs. Carlene Jackson 24

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Translate, Dig That Culture! Films of Apollo’s oracle at Delphi, of the half-restored temples of the sun god, and special selections from stoic philosophers, the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius and the Greek slave Epitetus, these study aids entertained and en- hanced the study of advanced Latin students. This special material was available at GW because of a newly organized cultural center in Chatham. Modern language courses afford the student a chance to acquaint himself not only with the language, but also with the culture of foreign countries. In Spanish, French and German classes, use of language labs, tape recorders, and record players contributed to the versatility of the course content. This chance to communicate in a language other than his own and to glean a general knowledge of the background of the language gave the student an unusual learning op- portunity. Each language department sponsors a club to further the study and interest in culture. The meetings offer a mixture of fun with knowledge also furthered through the use of slides, plays, speakers and appropriate holiday celebrations. Miss Janet G. Estes Mrs. Elizabeth Hodge CAESAR’S CAMPAIGN AND the punishment of Orestes monopolize conversation in Mrs. Mariellen Weakley’s Latin classes. The divergence of topics is due to the boys’ interest in wartime strategy and the girls’ preference for mythological romance. Mrs. Marcia B. Hutchinson Mr. Ronald W. Hutchinson Mrs. Margaret Kushner Mrs. Cheney Lea “NO MATTER WHAT you think is right, no matter what your con- science tells you is right, you do what I say or else you are all wrong!” threatens the devilishly-right Mr. Robert Klotz. 26