Kimball County High School - Longhorn Yearbook (Kimball, NE)

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English Sharpens Thinking Structural grammar, dialect, phonology, the uses of language, syntax, and the rhetoric of the sentence are included in the ninth grade English classes in the area of composition and language. Attitude, tone perspective, satire, the idea of a play, comedy, and the epic are literature units used in the freshman course. Some of the works read include Animal Farm, Arms and the Man. Our Town. Twelfth Night, and The Qdvssev. Sophomore English classes spent much time studying grammar and vocabulary. Julius Caesar. Profiles jn Courage. and many short stories were also studied. Students wrote their own short stories as a part of their composition experience. Themes in American civilization which include individualism and nature, sin, and loneliness were covered in English 11. Students read works by Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Faulkner, Lewis, Fits-gerald, and Cather and do extensive work in composition. Revenge tragedy, the Christian epic, satire, and the class novel are themes involved in such literary works as Hamlet. Paradise Lost. Gulliver, and Great Expectations which were studied in senior English. MISS DEWITT, a student teacher, shows Ed Avilia and Susan Berger how to use the card catalog. STUDYING SHAKESPEARE’S Hamlet, seniors Kathy Robinson, Vern Bour-lier. Mike Anderson, and Morry Abshier read the parts of this famous play. CLASS DISCUSSION on Golding’s Lord of the Flies finished. Don Hagstrom and Rich Cederburg hand in a written assignment to Mrs. Parmley. TEACHING SOPHOMORES the basics of grammar, Mr. Strasheim helps Linda Reemts diagram an infinitive phrase on the blackboard so that the class might better understand their usage. 16

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PATTI WACKEL. whose inquisitive mind spurs her to ask questions, participates in class discussion in world history. Social Studies Classes Discuss Current Affairs To develop an understanding of the past, teach students to discover the facts, and to gain insight into current affairs were the goals of history classes. World geography endeavored to study the geography of the entire world including weather, resources, climate, manufacturing, cities, and the people of the countries. From cave men to modern men, world history students study the culture, society. and government of Europe. They spent much time on the Greek and Roman governments, comparing them with ours today. American history starts with the pilgrims and watches American progress to present time. The Constitution, three branches of national government, and local government make up the American Problems’ course. A study of capitalism, socialism, facism, and communism completes the year. KEN COLLIER makes a report on a famous American inventor, sharing his research with the rest of the world geography class. WITH THE presidential election headlining the news, modern problems' students hold round table discussions on the candidates and their views. MR GLASSEY joins his American History class as they intently watch films. 15

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INDIVIDUAL PRACTICE in translating and speaking Spanish is possible with the language lab which allows Mr. Guzman to tune in on each student separately. GOOD WITCH (Nancy Mortenson) tries to change Yorick the frog (Mark Nachtigai) back to a Prince, but fails and must seek assistance from the wicked witch (Susan Jones) as Princess Katrinka (Linda Reemts) weeps about her poor husband's condition. Such was a scene of The Frog Prince. an original play written and acted out in French. Students Express Themselves JOURNALISM students always find plenty to do in keeping pace with their deadlines for both the yearbook and the bi-weekly paper. IN HIS speech on firearms. Morry Abshier points out the parts of a gun to his audience as he explains how guns work and how to care for them. Learning to speak and write a foreign language, Spanish and French students broadened their cultural knowledge. Spanish I and French I were concerned mainly with basic grammar and students learnea to read and translate sentences. Second year classes were devoted to literature, history, and writing. Speech class provided students with an opportunity to gain poise and self-co’nfi-dence in front of an audience as they studied various units of public speaking. Debates and discussions increased their speaking ability and taught them to think. Oral interpretations and staging a one-act play provided them with experience in drama. Journalism class was always busy writing stories, copy, or cropping pictures to meet the deadlines of the paper and yearbook. Students learned journalism practices and gained an insight to the amount of work required for such publication. 17