Luther L Wright High School - Hematite Yearbook (Ironwood, MI)

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Manual Training HROUGH the munificence and public spirit of the people of Ironwood and through their insight into the needs of the school, and for the benefit of the children and future citizens of Ironwood, a building and complete equipment costing approximately $40,000.00 has been provided for classes in manual training. This building was completed in January, I 908, and classes in bench work and drawing were started immediately. At the present time the manual training work starts in the seventh grade, and is continued through the high school. The nature of the work is as practical as existing conditions will permit, and is given in the different grades as follows: Bench Work in wood is given in the seventh and eighth grades, and consists of exercises bringing in the use and care of the common bench tools, in the making of useful articles for the home, such as bread-boards, coat-hangers, knife-boxes, etc. The first ten weeks of the ninth grade are given to the making of common joints, and the last thirty weeks to cabinet making. In the tenth grade, the first ten weeks are devoted to wood turning, and the remainder of the year to pattern making and foundry practice. The work of the eleventh grade consists of forge practice, and machine shop work is given in the twelfth grade. Mechanical drawing is given in all grades above the seventh. Each pupil gets three hours per week in the manual training building, and this is divided into two periods of one and one-half hours each. One period is devoted to shop work and the other to mechancal drawing. The manual training work is compulsory and counts as two points toward graduation. School of Domestic Science HE School of Domestic Science was built, and work in home economics started in 1904. In 1909, on account of increase in number of students and interest in this branch of educational work, the building was doubled in capacity and re-equipped; making it possible to give instruction of a thoroughly practical nature in all branches of home economics, which have direct bearing on the problems of the home. The building has sewing and fitting room, where the buying, planning and making of a girl’s wardrobe is taught. Kitchens and a dining room, where girls are given instruc- 23

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MACHINE SHOP FOUNDRY MANUAL TRAINING SCHOOL LATHE ROOM MACHINE SHOP

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DOMESTIC SCIENCE SCHOOL tion in focd values, the preparation and serving of foods and their relations to the needs of the hcdy and home, and where they are taught to select according to their means. Habits of economy of time, labor and money are taught in the application of these principles in the production of good recipes and in the serving of them. For instruction in furnishing and care of the home there is a living room, bedroom and bathroom, which are simple and attractive. In the basement is a laundry where the laundry work of the average household is done. This work begins in the fifth grade and is continued through the twelfth, and is presented is simple ccncrete form in correlation with other subjects. Fifth and sixth grade, work includes work in darning, mending, handsewing and simple garment making; seventh and eighth grades, elementary cooking, invalid cooking, and housekeeping; ninth and tenth grades, machine sewing, drafting, and designing patterns, the cutting of undergarments. waists, and dresses; laundry work is also given in the ninth grade. The work of the eleventh and twelfth grades includes advanced cooking and the planning and serving of meals, in which each girl acts in the capacity of host, hostess, waitress and cook. 24