Grimsley High School - Whirligig Yearbook (Greensboro, NC)

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ACADEMICS Pace 10

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Mi nils cannot be idle, jor to the young life is an adventure paradoxical, exhilarating, fresh. Each day is a learning experience; in classrooms seething ideas erupt and crystalize; dormant intellects rouse to the challenge of life. Teachers are guides, directing, prodding, never limiting. As they train minds, the intangible qualities which com prise personality develop, mature, anil strengthen. Page 18 • ummuuiuiiuiii J tiuuimmmmmi

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Literary scopes broaden, w riting skills improve OPPORTUNITIES for research and study are absorbing to ambitious students. The seventeen English teachers of GHS urged students to strive for flawless appreciation of good literature and ci ' eative thinking, as they worked for mastery of our complex, yet fasci¬ nating language. Sophomores entering English classes found a baffling world of themes, unfamiliar gram¬ mar rules, Silas Marner, and Julius Caesar. Quoting Shakespeare and Tennyson, they ex¬ plored short narratives, epics, idylls, plays, poetry, and humor. Juniors tested their talents by writing con¬ ceits, poems, and, in the spring, short stories. With their aim the achievement of more ex¬ tensive and comprehensive vocabularies, Jun¬ iors perused novels and essays by American authors, surveying the changes in our coun¬ try’s literature from Washington Irving to Robert Frost, from Nathaniel Hawthorne to Ernest Hemingway. Seniors delved into England’s romantic lit¬ erary background and discovered the delight- I IMPROMPTU speeches, which increase poise and articulate expression, may be quite entertaining. Pace 20