Harvard School - Sentinel Yearbook (North Hollywood, CA)

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MR. HOYLE GL Significant changes in Harvardls English Department occurred this year, largely as the result of four new mem- bers in the Department. Bob Archer took over three sec- tions of the twelfth grade and shifted the coursels emphasis from broad readings in modern literature to the study of rhetoric and two of the most elusive literary concepts, tone and point of view. Together with Bill Bartman, Mr. Archer also experimented with non-graded classes-classes mixing seniors with sophomores. Don Thompson, who taught two twelfth grade sections, introduced to Harvard students the British public school approach to literature. His students spent several weeks examining a single work, Macbeth, from numerous points of view: Elizabethan stage conventions, source material, historical background. Ted Woods filled a vacuum of long standing at Harvard, the absence of any formal speech training. This year, debate and public speak- ing became elective courses in the English Department, next year one semester each of speech and debate will be re- quired of all high school students. Bill Bartman, teaching three sections of the tenth grade, brought zest and en- thusiasm, redesigned several classrooms on a seminar . format, and added a number of 4-'uA MR. SHR! VER FA THER GRANT r Works of Black literature to the tenth grade reading list. Bill also p. completely revitalized the school's dramatics program, producing on a near professional level plays tradi- tionally considered Huntouchablen for high school actors. MR. WUODS , si qt Vl A . , . lgfi Z J if I 'tt A it ,, , 1 A um ,X A 3 fn V 'ff . 1 ..-. A . - f if i m. ik 4.1-,. 5,,g:b I g 0 V ' 1 4- 'Mft ap..-'aff' S 'I 1, bf? 1 It at ff! ff A lguv'

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