J Sterling Morton West High School - Talon Yearbook (Berwyn, IL)

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CADEMICS2 the areas of study with which we come into contact at Morton West. The exact facts and figures as well as new speculation and insight combine to give us a deeper understanding of Our Spot. 26 ACADEMICS

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Freshman Classes Gain Reading, Writing Ability Marge Dunne fright! gestures to emphasize a part of her speech as she glances at her notes to refresh her memory concerning the contents in her speech elective course. West's English Department requires freshmen to own a grammar book. This year the teachers reinstated Warriner's English Grammar and Composition fbelowl. Playing Gulliver in a class performance of Gulliver's Travels, Mary Waitekus fbelow, rightl instructs a puppet to rise from the desk as Mrs. F. Satz's class observes. ...miiamss WM-fwfawvf Generally, the English Department found 1974-75 to be a year of evaluation for its courses. The department completely renovated the freshman curriculum to include a heavy emphasis on developing Writing skills as well as instruction in the reading lab once a week for each class. The assignment of five full-time reading teachers served to broaden the reading program. The department worked to revise the sophomore English curriculum for the 1975-76 year. It also entered its final proposal for the junior-senior elective program and a revision of those courses at the end of the year. This program expanded with the addition of the in- dividual in American literature, modern American literature, and literature of periodicals courses to its other electives.