Hillsdale School - Telescope Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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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.

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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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