Lenox High School - Spotlight Yearbook (Lenox, IA)

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. WORLD HISTORY Q HE WORLD h1story class IS composed of forty sopho mores It has been dxvlded 1nto two separate d1Vl9 1ons because of the large number of students and madequ xte space 1n the class room The yyorld hlStOIy coutsc hete 1n Lenox Hlgh School IQ based upon thc ust of a textbook and a yyorkbook yyhleh IS correlated yylth the textbook These books contaln quts ttons based on the maternal problems for futther study subjects for repotts map yyork comparlson charts t1me l1nes and other devlces yy hxch make the study of thls sub ject less compllcated Dutmg the year yye study the yyorld from the earllest knoyyn 'tges through medieval tlmes untll the present yr ns of atomlc energy Through thus course yye hope to establlsh 1n our mlnds the many problems great v1ctox1es noted men and other lmportant eyents of the past that yye may learn the best yyay to sc rye thf yyox ld 1n the years to Come LENOX HIGH SCHOOL 1 2 . - ., . ' ' 1 1. . '1 sv 1 , ' 1 ' u ' 1 f -1 ' 1 . -X . - b 'c , .. ., , ., 1 1 , ' ', 'Y . . . ' ' ' '. ., V' ' ,.- . , ' .' , , ' , .' . . - , , . ' . , . ' ' . , .x , , . . ' , -gba

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Q U. S. HISTORY . . N RECENT years funct1onal subject matter has come to occupy a promlnent place ln the pUb11C school currl culum Only such content as contrlbutes to a better understandmg of the world 1n WhlCh we l1ve has been g1V en a promment place IH the Lenox Hlgh Schools llst of studles In the U S Hlstory course here ln Lenox the mam emphasls IS placed on the soclal economlc and pol1t1cal developments WhlCh have dommated our ent1re hlstory Only such mxlxtary campa1gns as are necessary to gwe a balanced and accurate account of our past have been ln cluded We spend most of our course on the recent per1od m Amerlcan Hlstory rather than on the earller phase Durlng the year the class makes use of a Work book Wh1Ch 1S correlated wlth the text These books contaxn questlons on the text projects problems for 1nVest1gat1on oral reports debates compar1sons and contrasts vocabu ary drllls ldentlficatlons map exercises and charts By studymg th1s course we have hoped to galn a bet ter understandlng of Amerlcan 1deals and mstltutlons and also to apprec1ate more fully the courage and sacrnices of those w ho made our nat1on poss1ble LENOX HIGH SCHOOL . . . . . . . . . A ' . y r 1 ' v - v 1 v ' - - v v a 1 ' v v - ' . . Y . . -25d

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Q GENERAL SCIENCI' HL , ws T THE beglnnlng of the year we had forty students major phase of general SCIQHCC Especlal emphasxs was 1l'1 general SCIQHCC who were seeklng answers to glven to sclence ln 1tS relatlon and Hpp1lCat10HS to the what Why and how questlons about mterestlng war and the postwar perlod Also such lmportant con phenomena of exervday lxfe and acqulrmg a sclentxflc at s1derat1ons as health conservatlon recreatlon and the t1tude toward common occurrences 1nthe1r11ves vocatlonal uses of SCIENCE The subject matter was re lated to common experlences as the study of alr water lhey madc a stt dy of fourteen unxts each presentlng a energy work natural resources and the solar system LENOX HIGH SCHOOL 28- 1 J , . c . . , . 1 ,. ,K ' i fu . .ff ,. J . 1 L-V , 1 ' 1 u ff.1, .ly ' '1' 3 k M. A V Rauf ' ,. , -c ,- t. K ,, ' ,M M. Li... 7 VY V ' - - V . ' v 1 7 I ,. v . . ' 7 l Y '