Hillsdale School - Telescope Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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A PaTh To Universal Friendship The language lab helps Jo Deupree in foreign pronounci- aTion. Madame Low'fher waTches a sTudent Translate a French sentence on The board. French, one of The most imporTonT of The foreign languages, is Tuughf in all six grades. In The lower school The basics of grammar and vocabulary are ToughT. The sTUdenTs also wriTe composiTions using The recenle-leorned moTerial. In The sophomore year, some French hisTory is TGUghT To help The sTudenTs To undersTond The French noTion and people 015 well as Their language. The juniors review grammar briefly, and conTinue The sTudy of French hisTory. The seniors devoTe mosT of Their Time To reading shorT novels by famous French auThors and To wriTing Themes. Every class uses The language lab once or Twice a week. By IisTening To Tapes each girl learns To under- sTond colloquial French, answer quesTlons rapidly, and Improve her accent. The Teacher may listen in on any or all of The sTudenTs To correcT Their grammar, accenT, or inflecTion. She may also Tune one person in on anoTher, so ThoT They may carry on o conversa- Tion in French. In This way, sTudenTs learn useful idioms and are given a chance To apply when They have lusT T learned Have you ever eOTen lunch wiTh someone who only spoke French? This year a Table 0T lunch was seT aside where only French was spoken. Though The con- versoTions were somewhaf llmiTed, The girls beneTleed from The experience. In her six years of Hillsdole a girl is given The op- porTuniTy To acquire all The fundamenTols of The French language, read works of The greaT French au- Thors, and form a background in French hisTory.

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A Modern Text The Spanish department at Hillsdole has expanded by leaps and bounds over the past five years. Each year Spanish has become increasingly popular, making Mrs. Schroder's life more hectic. She is the only teacher for four grades of classes, All tour levels use the language lob; thus, each girl may improve her accent and increase her understanding at her own rate. Every student studies grammar and vocabulary, but in diFterent ways First year students struggle over the coniugations 0nd endings, rules and their dreaded exceptions, cmd those awful idioms, while Upper classes use these simple fundamentals to write imaginative compositions on innumerable subiects. Not all class time is spent on composition techniques, but also on reading South American or Spanish novels, learning the customs and geography of Spanish speak- ing countries, and corresponding in Spanish. Immediately before Christmas vocation the students had a party during which every word was spoken in Spanish. The afternoon was complete with a pinata and games. The party is quickly becoming one of the annu- ol highlights for those who take Spanish. Miss Stanton interests her latin class with early Roman history. . and how do you say butch wax in Spanish? Mrs. Schroder finds the language lab a great help in teach- ing Spanish conversation.

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:nm-mv um mmmmmm mum Mlle. Armand says: Les prepositions ne sanf pas dimciles. Mrs McGreul reads aloud in French to the eighth grade. The recently established French table has enabled sfudenfs to relax and practice French conversation dur- ing lunch.