Highland High School - Iris Yearbook (Highland, IL)

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Physical education is that part of the edu- cational program which aims to develop the individual physically and socially through su- pervised physical activity and guidance in for- mation of good health habits. On the physical side, it tends to build the muscles in legs, arms, and various parts of the body. Socially it tends to teach the students to get along with others, co-operate, and be fair and truthful. There are three physical education classes which meet twice a week. There are one hun- dred two girls in these three classes. The var- ious games played are soccer, basketball, volley ball, baseball, and other miscellaneous games and exercises. The Girls' Athletic Association is an extra curricular organization, numbering about twen- ty girls, the purpose of which is to maintain high standards and promote ideals of health and sportsmanship and to stimulate interest in athletics among girls of the high schools of Illinois. The leader of the group this year was Pearl Duft, and Estelle 'Beichel served as secre- tary-treasurer. The program of the G. A. A. is closely linked with the girls' physical education classes in the regular curriculum. The organized ac- tivities are soccer, basketball, volley ball, base- ball and other games. The unorganized activ- ities are walking, skating, bicycling and golf. Health rules are also required. Each girl must keep these rules. They are to aid the girl in GIRLS' GYM forming good habits and to keep them after they have been acquired. On September 24 the G. A. A. sponsored an all girls' mixer. This was for the purpose of getting new girls interested in the organ- ization. March 14 several of the girls entered the state basketball shooting contest. A girls' basketball tournament was also held. The seniors, juniors, sophomores, and, freshmen each had a team. The games were played ac- cording to state rules. The seniors came out victorious, the juniors second, the sophomores third, and the freshmen fourth. The girls also enjoyed a play day at Granite City in the fall and a party at East St. Louis. Initiation of new members was held April 21. The new girls were Delores Isert, Ruth Neubauer, Nina Zimmerman, Aleen Huth, Hazel Curtis, Doris Ferraez, Evelyn Iberg, Geraldine Moser, and lone Zeller. Each girl was required to wear overalls, one black shoe and one white one, have ten curlers in her hair, and carry a market basket to school that day. In addition to this they had to recite a tongue-twister to all old G. A. A. members when they met them. For every violation to rules set down by the committee the new members received a black mark. After school each girl had to scrub her initials in colored chalk oft of a brick with a toothbrush for every black mark that she had against her. The girls enjoyed a Wiener roast held at the park later in the evening.

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The aims of English are to train pupils to speak clearly and correctly and to write simple, natural, and forceable English prose. The study of English also gives a familiar acquain- tance with some of the great masterpieces of English and American literature. It aims to foster a taste for good literature and to strengthen the power to interpret and appre- ciate what has been read. Approximately half a semester each year is given over to literature and half to the study of grammar and composition. Literature is read both in class and out of class. Testing is based on comprehension of content rather than on style or wording. Grammar work is done by means of work books in which the pupil works with printed materials. The funda- mental idea behind the work books in the first two years is proof-reading, not rewriting the material but putting in correct punctuation and forms. In the latter two years more time is spent in recasting sentences which are poorly constructed and on composition. The number of compositions has been, reduced because of wasted effort. Fewer themes well done are worth more than many poorly done. Book reports and other forms of outside reading have been put upon an optional basis because the literature texts in themselves carry such a wealth of material and because required read- ing encourages cheating invarious forms. In English l the text used is Adventures in Reading, the first of the series of four liter- ature books for high school work published by Harcourt, Brace, and Company. In the book are found stories, biographical selections, es- says, plays, ballads, tales, lyrics, and humorous poems, all of which are suited to the needs of the high school freshman. Shakespeare's Mid- NGLISH summer Night's Dream is one of the longer selections. The work book, Adventures Wise and Otherwise, is also one of a set of four such books published by Harcourt, Brace, and Com- pany. A story runs through each of the books so that the element of suspense may keep up interest in the exercises. The book is divided into units on punctu- ation tapostrophes, commas, quotation marksl, capitals, spelling, the parts of speech, kinds of sentences, the parts of a sentence fsubject, -verb, predicate nominative, objects, phrases, clausesj. Each unit begins with a discovery test which allows pupil and teacher to learn what knowledge the student already has about the subject. A style sheet follows. Here rules and illustrations are found which the pupil should master. Next come pages of exercises to give the student an opportunity to use the new skills. The answer sheets follow after the exercises so the pupil may check his own work or his class mate's work, as the teacher de- sires. Tllen comes the preliminary tryout: if the student passes this, he is ready for the mastery test given by the teacher. If he should fail the mastery, he goes back to his workbook for further drill on the same unit. The English II class uses the second book of the literature series called Adventures in Appreciation. Like the freshman book it con- tains units on the short story, the novel and novelette, the essay, biography, the long narra- tive poem, ballads and tales, lyrics past and present, and plays, .but the material is of a more advanced nature. The Shakespearean play given this year is As You Like It. The work book, Trail Fires, teaches more advanced work in punctuation and grammar. Tressler's