Le Roy Central School - O At Kan Yearbook (Le Roy, NY)

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Foreign Languages French Besides teaching Latin, Miss Burton instructs students in the mastery of the French language. Classes are usually filled with imperfectly pronounced phrases, such as Ie vais en ville, and time passes quickly while students receive rigorous drill in grammar and vocabu- lary, converse in French, -read French stories, and have periodic dictations, Before important holidays, French songs are sung, and frequently movies in that language are shown. Miss Burton's classes are fun. German VVie geht's? Wie beiinden Sie sich P Guten Morgan, es geht mir gut, danke Daily sentences like the above nonchalantly roll off the tongues of Mr. Copp's German students, filling rooms and corridors with foreign-sounding phrases Typical of foreign language classes, the period is spent in doing vocabulary and grammar drills, in speaking German, and in reading German stories. For variation of the dailv routine, the students have a weekly dictation, frequent comprehensive tests, and sing German songs Like most good teachers, Mr. Copp is versatile and can easily change from teaching German to reading Caesar and Cicero with his Latin classes Latin is also an interesting subject, and most students study it during their high school career.

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Home Economics SEWING CLASS Home Economics is included in the curriculum of seventh and eighth grade students, but is an elective course for girls in high school. There are classes in which foods are studied and prepared in the kitcheng a second branch of the course offers instruction in elementary and advanced sewing, while a third di- vision is devoted to the study of children and how to care for them. Indicative of the large place that the Home Eco- nomics Department has been taking in school life is the winter noon cafeteria and Miss Messing's co- operation with the dramatics department in making costumes for the annual operetta and various plays. FITTING A DRESS School, a place in which boys and girls are prepared for later life, offers many courses from which the student derives no immediately noticeable benefit but Home Economics is different. A girl who learns to make an apron, bake a cake, or plan a meal, can apply her newly gained knowl- edge within a short time, and thereby live more healthfully, economically, and es- thetically. if if ,- COOKING CLASS

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Mathematics MR. DAYTON MR. PERRONE MR. BURTON Mr. Burton, commonly known to most people as the basketball coach , has a more important job than teach- ing boys how to throw a ball through a hanging basket. He teaches General Math to the eighth grades. This subject is a combination of all the math courses offered, and presents the fundamental operations involved in each. General Math provides the student with a firm base in any field of mathematics which he might wish to enter. A student desiring to further his education along trigonometric lines would enroll in a class instructed by the versatile Mr. Dayton. Every pupil who studies either geometry or algebra gets an idea of the principles in- volved in trig and can do simple problems, but it is necessary to take a course dealing entirely with that one subject in order to fully understand it. Classes in which such a course is taught are small, because trigonometry is a specialized and rather difficult subject. Despite its lack of numbers, trig class is always interesting. One of the busiest math teachers in the school is Mr. Perrone, whose duty it is to teach plane geometry, solid geometry, intermediate algebra and advanced algebra. Classes slide along because of Mr. Perrone's method of fast talking, which seems to make the minutes fly. XVhat math course will you have? Mr. Burton, Mr. Dayton, or Mr. Perrone can surely fulfill your desire. They teach everything.