Horace Mann High School - Horace Manual Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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Joe Morris and Steve Todorich display a sign meaning Hello, friends” in Latin I. Miss Georgia Bopp helps Nancy Weiss and Debbie Evans pronounce a difficult Ger¬ man sound, the umlaut. German students take part in listening and responding to a dialogue.

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German Pupils Write Deutsch Newspaper Composing a newspaper was a new project for third and fourth year Germans. Containing news of Ger¬ man students, Die deutsch Zeitung provided German students with extra reading and writing practice. Students studying French and Spanish participated in a new pro¬ gram stressing speaking and reading. Spanish four and five classes con¬ centrated on poetry and stories of Spanish people using the Coloquious system, while three, four, and five French pupils employed the Par er Et Ecrire series, a collection of accounts of the French people. Besides learning to read and to write the language, Latin students studied English vocabulary derived from Latin. Short stories in Latin provided pleasure reading; Greek and Roman culture were subjects of serious study. Rosemary Sanchez displays Aurelio , the pinata, a gift to the Spanish class from a for¬ mer student. On the chalkboard is the Kennedy family tree written in Spanish. 18

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Political Classics Replace History Texts Mr. Paul Carlson’s Advanced Placement United States History course, offered to qualified juniors, substituted three political classics— The American Republic, A Diplomatic History of the American People, and A Documentary History of the Ameri¬ can People —for the conventional textbook. A clearer view of the na¬ tion’s past was the reason for this change. European History, a new course also of advanced placement diffi¬ culty, was taught by Mr. William Stern, who expected his students to have a reasonably detailed knowl¬ edge of European history from 1500 to 1945. Students selected an era within that time for intensive study. The book employed was Civilization Past and Present; outside readings were part of the course. Pupils re¬ ceived grades on a five to one scale on the Advanced Placement Test. Students enjoy an informal discussion in European History, a new course at Horace Mann.