Highland Park High School - Little Giant Yearbook (Highland Park, IL)

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ENGLISH English courses focus on communication arts, options With another year of consolidation after the radical change of the past several years, English curriculum remained essen- tially unchanged this year. At all levels, teachers placed heavy emphasis on the art of communication. Using Gibson's The Miracle Worker as a jumping off place, freshmen experi- mented with wordless modes of communi- cation. They also continued to concentrate on Mythology. Department chairman, Mr. Grunska, commented, The whole educational proc- ess is the learning and unlearning of mythologies. The study of myths enables us to see the myths of our own culture . Sophomores again spent a semester with speech and another with literature. Many sophs requested a full year of speech. As one student said, Speech really helped me communicate. Juniors again had several options, including Search for Self, Social Protest, and Comedy. Seniors switched each quarter choosing from communications, composition, mod- ern and dramatic tragedy, poetry and short stories. The ambitious had AP as a challenge, and budding news hawks took journalism.

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FINE ARTS Jazz-Rock, dance pace course changes This year the Fine Arts Department gave people who liked to fool around with melodies a course to do it in. Jazz Rock Improvisation. Students worked out solos to tunes like Girl From Impenema and Bye Bye Blackbird, covered jazz history and read what name musicians had to say on the art of improv. February clinics with jazz sax- man Bill Ussleton highlighted the year. Participants in beginning and the new advanced dance course explored space, time and energy in their 1202 studio. Class members planned to present an avant garde concert that teacher Miss Johnson described as movement for the sake of movement. In '73, dramatics continued to grow in popularity. Drama offerings included beginning and advanced acting and tech- nical theater. Numerous directing class plays, ranging from Sartre's bitter No Exit to the lighthearted I Remember Mama, provided dozens of good roles for eager newcomers so often relegated to first man in the crowd in school prod- uction. Dabblers as well as serious sculptors and pointers enjoyed diverse art offerings. Structural arts students worked with three dimensional form in wood, plastic, paper mache and wire. Studio Arts covered problems in water colors and oils while those enrolled in Advanced Drawing sketched figures and landscapes. Another proposed course. Exploration of Fine Arts, will focus on the principles and underlying philosophy common to all the arts. According to Fine Arts chairman Ruth Esserman, The contemporary trend has been toward lessening the boundaries in art forms. Leaving no doubt about what the wontt, Mrt. Greener (right) pullt o performance out of tome beginning acting ttudentt. Proving hit obiktiet with the trumpet at well at with the toccer boll, jazz rock mon, tenior Don Brugioni (obove) jomt a mean cho- rut of Hello Dolly for hit dottmotet. 18