Henderson High School - Pep Pac Yearbook (Henderson, NC)

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Students Provide a Foundation for Their Education 14 Juniors listen to directions given by Mrs. Phillips. Mrs. Glover’s Junior English class broadens their knowl¬ edge by writing compositions. Mrs. Allen takes time to instruct her students in proper procedures. The English Department of Henderson High School had courses designed to meet the needs of all students to his abilities and his plans for the future. Literature, grammar, vocabulary study, theme writing and oral reports made the four years of study in English a valuable preparation for life. Beginning in the ninth grade, freshmen studied a variety of great literature. The students studied a portion of Dicken’s works. In the tenth grade, the students thrilled to the power of Julius Caesar, probed Tennyson’s Idylls of the King, and studied every detail of Eliot’s Silas Marner. A comprehensive study of American literature was offered with the earliest American writers and advanced to the works of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Bryant. Detailed studies of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s masterpiece The Scarlet Letter and Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. While in the twelfth grade, seniors explored the world of British Literature and discovered the genius of Shakespeare as they read Macbeth and Hamlet. From the Romantic Age, students had the opportunity to read the works of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats. Miss Stanton instructs her English class in the day’s assignments. Sophomores discover that English requires concentration under Mrs. Allen.