Joliet Junior College - Shield Yearbook (Joliet, IL)

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To Miss Julia H. Woodruff We The Class of 1922 Most Respectfully Dedicate This Booh Page Seven

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DR. L. W. SMITH SUPERINTENDENT AND PRINCIPAL Page Six

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JOLIET TOWNSHIP Departments of the School English The English Department is a life-sized one, hav- ing enrolled in its fifty-six sections of high school and college work 1,550 students. System is its watch- word. Mr. Trams, head of the department of thir- teen teachers, issues each year a manual which out- lines the aims of each course, the texts used, depart- ment regulations, questions for outside reading, and a calendar of work which is followed week by week. An equal amount of work is covered in all sections of one subject, and at a given time each class is working at the same problem. In the Junior College every student is provided with a manual outlining the requirements in a similar way, but containing in addition a schedule of daily assignments. The work offered is similar to that of other schools, three years of required English, electives of American or English Literature or Public Speak- ing in the senior year of high school. Rhetoric in the first year of the Junior College and English and American Literature offered as electives. One dis- tinctive method is the alternating of literatu re and composition throughout each semester. Special at- tention is given to cultivating in the students good reading habits. Diagnosis is made through stand- ardized reading tests. The pupils learn the use of reference books through study and practice based on Hopkins ' Reference Guides. The Junior College students work out weekly library problems and pre- pare extended bibliographies. This year a new plan for outside reading was de- vised. The books on mimeographed lists prepared for each semester are credited according to their length and value, and a minimum number of points is established as a requisite for passing a course. Pupils file simple reports on printed blanks. In the advanced work these reports are made more detailed and demand finer critical ability on the part of the students. The plan has proved so successful that a thousand copies of the books listed will be added to the high sehool library to take care of the demands which the public library could not fill. Members of the public speaking classes render constant service to the school in speaking before the home rooms and in the Auditorium in behalf of school enterprises. Each year they furnish several fine entertainments, finishing off their achievements with the Junior College Play in February and the Senior Play in June. Page Eight