La Porte High School - El Pe Yearbook (La Porte, IN)

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£el{j CxpreAAicH Chuck Sodcrquist entertain himself with one of the magazine in the library. Kathc Wciler attempts to increase her reading rate in Mrs. Par- ker’s developmental reading class. Mr. Reifett and member of last year's El.-Pi- staff— Dave Parker, Judy Kepler, Jackie Cloutier, and Car- mine Griffis—look at the award-winning All Ameri- can 19 9 El-Pe. Four years of English are offered to every student in school. By the time one is a senior he has had six semesters of English. Each semester consists of 3 six week courses: composition, literature, and speech. As a senior one may rake English literature, modem world literature, and advanced composition, which are semester courses. Journalism courses are offered for those students who are interested in writing and newspaper production. One may also apply for the El-Pe staff, which utilizes the student's knowledge of English in the production of the yearbook. An ade- quate library is available to the students in the school. The English department acquired a number of new teachers this year. Upon the retirement of Miss Walk, it also acquired a new department head, Mr. Linne- mann Vicki Garrison, Bill Eggleston, and Karen Moore work on the Christmas edition of the Hi-Timcs.

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We foeVeh i and uJe the fat Ann Guyer and Vic Forsgard study the bulletin board in Mis Brudck's composition class. Karen Hunt find that The Iliad provides excellent outside reading for literature class.

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Rosalie Piasecki lead» her Latin class in verbal conjugation. We Secern 'Jamiiar With Other Pecple Jean Magnuson checks her declension of the Latin noun spear.’’ Around LPHS a student has the opportunity of taking the foreign language of his interest. A choice of three foreign languages is offered. In Miss Horne’s or Miss Hittle’s room may be heard famous Latin phrases. Four years of Latin may be taken in high school. During the first year, one learns the declen- sions and words. In the second year Caesar is taught, and in the third and fourth years Cicero and Virgil are taught. C'cst si bon may be heard from one of Miss Dick’s French classes. During the first year of French, students learn the common French words, songs, and also stories. In the second year the student learns to converse in French. Mrs. Stevenson may be heard saying Buenos dias to her Spanish classes. Verb forms and common words are taught in the first year and an advanced vocabu- lary is taught in the second year. The students learn 10