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

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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

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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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John Chalik ay Good Morning” in French to Judy Grandorf. Mr . Stevenson’s Spanish class enjoys rciding papers, magazines, and books in Spanish. through language about the Spanish festivals and holidays, and the con- versational aspect of the language is stressed in all classes. All the foreign language groups put a display in the showcase sometime during the year. At Christ- mastime the French and Spanish classes sing Christ- mas carols in their respective languages through the halls of LPHS. Students, representing each foreign language, are sent every year to state contests. Conversational French, a one semester course, is taught in LPHS by Miss Dick. This year conversa- tional Spanish, another one semester course, was also available to the students. Mrs. Stevenson taught con- versational Spanish. Through the study of foreign languages we arc constantly becoming more aware of other peoples and their particular ways of life. A Jo Fran Griffis points to Terry Decker’ sweater, he points to the French translation of the word. Both are students in Miss Dick’s conversational French class. 11