Hillsdale School - Telescope Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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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.

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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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Outside Reading Helps Students' Science Work Nancy Smith uses the library for biology research. Mrs. Lovett writes assignment sheets for her general science class. Mrs. Schultz prepares for her upcoming biology class. 20 Advancementethe most important ingredient in the field of science. To keep up with our modern world, the science department is continuously going through change. The program has expanded so that a girl may take more sciences and possibly physics in her senior year. This means that she must have had chemistry and at least three or four years of math. Hillsdaie girls are first introduced to science in the seventh grade. Meeting three days a week, they learn the basic principles and systems of biology, physics, and chemistry. This has been the first year that sci- ence has been taught in the seventh grade and it was a very successful year. The Freshmen and Sophomore science program also underwent a complete change. Under the old system a Sophomore had to choose between biology and ancient history. Since many wanted to take the history, but were also interested in the science, Fresh- men were freed from their general science require- ment; now in the ninth grade and next year in both grades nine and ten, 0 student takes ancient history i and biology, each giving a half credit. The upperclassmen are ottered two science courses, either biology or chemistry. This gives the students a choice between two different sciences. Biology gives a girl the chance to study intensely a course about all living things. The girls take detailed notes on basic information, and on Friday they look eagerly through microscopes at cells and minute beings or disect some unlucky Fish or pig.