Jefferson Junior High School - Jeffersonian Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Domestic Art Department btcmdzirg, Ivft to right: Mrs. Vamlerbc-rgeu, Miss Strobel, Miss Fish, Miss Kislil 1r It ri. Ivff In right: Mrs. Chase. Miss GaiTney. DOMESTIC ART Domestic Art, like Domestic Science and Manual Arts, is one of the many worth while subjects taught in our Junior High Schools. Is it because a survey taken showed that 985 per cent of our girls enjoyed the work, or is there a better reason ? The real purpose is to develop intelligent consu- mers that they may know good values when buying gar- ments ready-made, and may be able to remodel and make garments in the home. Each term the girls of the gradua- ting class make their costumes: skirt and middy, blouse of White, or a simple, one piece white dress. 30

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- Mathematics Department Slundiixg, lvft to riglzt: Mr. NVard. Miss Lawler, Miss Hassett, Miss Potter, Miss Bul- lock, Miss Griclley, Mr. Benedict. ' Sruh'a'. It-ft to right: Miss Becker, Miss Gallagher, Miss XVillinms.. MATHEMATICS The Work in the seventh grade consists of arithmetic, to- gether with two lessons a week in intuitive geometry, which is continued through the first half of the eighth year. The genetic method of presentation of geometry is combined with the laboratory, or experimental method. Algebra is taught during the last four weeks of SB and is continued through 8A. Arithmetic is taught in connection Qff7,W' with algebra throughout the SA. 29 ,Ag

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Q- 2' .- ef- r ' - R g is f J... .- ,, sig ,-9, QHQQE N li ' 'f ,, Re Practical Arts 3 rdf af- -Q' Until recently education has concerned itself almost entirely with those boys and girls destined for the senior high school and college 3 paying but little attention to that great number whose destination has been the shop or factory. In accordance with federal and state laws, which provide financial aid for cities which offer industrial education, practical arts courses have been pro- vided for boys and reached the age of At the present boys in the ind and 82 girls in the partment of our Our shops are the boys who are work. Beginning the boys are given tinuously through would be possible ting from the for course to have had different shops years in the junior The training not intended to al worker or a trician or an auto boy, but rather to ARTHUR H. N. ROGERS, Supervisor girls who have fourteen years. time there are 231 ustrial courses household arts de- school. ' not all closed to taking academic with the 7B grade shop work con- the 9th, so that it for a boy gradua- eign language experience in six during his three high school. thus received is make a sheet met- machinist, an elec- mechanic out of a give him hand training, correlation between hand and eye, a certain skill in the manipula- tion of wood and metal, as well as an acquaintance with shop practices and familiarity with work done on a production basis. This industrial department holds many a boy in school, from one term, to two or three years longer than he would stay in a school of the old type. The privilege of changing from one shop to another often means the choosing of that type of work after leaving school for which the boy is fitted and really likes, thus preventing the litting of round pegs in square holes. 31 YY- WY- ., . Y .4