Hillsdale School - Telescope Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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Miss Brokaw has muzh ?o do a: she i: both and an uclive member of the lulin dnpnrlmenl. Miss Stallion diswsses Cicero with her eleventh graders. u'sisvam head latin forms a solid basis Lafin is considered one of the most important languages in a school curriculum, for iT is the base of almost every other language in exist ence. IT is required in the eigh1h and ninth grades, when a complete grammar background is taught :o prepare for The following years of Transla- fion. Caesar is Taught in the sophomore year. His sTer is quife differem from Plinyjs and Cicero's which are studied in Junior Latinh Students an- alyze The difference in fhese styles - Cicero's use of figuraHve language versus Caesar's literal passages. Seniors study Vergrilb Aeneid, The story of a Greek hero, but his class is not required To continue a study of prose as they did in the lower classes. LaTin is a very valuable foundation for further study in English and French liieratures. Mu. DoCcu-np's cast does not prevent her from demonuruting I? a husk fundamenluls of Latin grammar.

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Two years ago a language laboratory was conTriibU'red T0 Hilisdaile by The Leyman Founda- Tion To furT-her The opportuniTy of knowledge in foreign languages. French and Spanish classes can now reciTe from recorded Tapes, Thus increas- ing fluency in conversation of The languages. The new laboratory enables a Teacher To Tune in one sTudenT or The class as a whole. IT is also possible for a student to record and replay a dialogue. In This way she may discover misTak is in her accenT and sTrive To correcT Them. French, one of The foremosT foreign languages sTudied Today, is offered To alif grades. Basic grammar is Taug'hT in The sevenTh and eighTh grades along with conversational reading. These classes wriTe menus and simple dialoguesi They spend much Time on The aud'io-Iingual program iThaT is, reciting from records and Tapes in The lab. STudenuTs also learn French songs and carols. In addiTion To more advanced grammar, The freshman and sophomore classes wriTe composi- Tions and read short plays. These plays lend expression To a SaTudenT's aCCenT. Juniors and Seniors spend mosT of The year reading The College Board preparation book. Exercises, vocabulary, and reading comprehen- sion are reviewed in The book. The girls sTudy French poeTs and Their works. STudenTs also ac- quire a short hisTo-ry of The French Revolution. Hillsdale girls are well prepared for college in The languages, because The language deparT- men-T is increasing To meet The needs for fluency and comprehension in This field. Mademoiselle Armand relaxes between classes.

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Each year the Spanish department grows both in students and in facilities. The language la- boratory has become a regular part of the Span- ish course. Classes listen to records with dia- logues of conversation; This greatly facilitated comprehension. First year Spanish students began the course with elemental grammar and vocabUIary. They studied some South American countries in addie tion to Spain itself. The c3355 learned the Spanish names of foods and wrote fuIl-course menus. The first part of second year Spanish was spent in completing the grammar. From then on, all classes were conducted in Spanish ex- clusively. The girls learned some of Spain's his- tory; they read seIections from Cervante's Don Quixote and El Canter del Mio Cid, the poem about El Cid During second semester, the class read a mystery story. The special event of the Spanish course was the party which the seniors gave in honor of the Juniors. Individual invitations were written in Spanish, requesting a reply in the same. One day after school, Founder's Hall was the scene of a gay group, batting blindfolded at a colorful pinata. Refreshments were served, and all agreed that this was the social event of the season. Where is the pinnin? MIL Shrneder goes over the problems of Spanish grammar.