Maumee Valley Country Day High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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A my FRENCH Etes-vous bon en francais? Naturellement, if Madame Geary is the one to teach you! Even. the little first graders can say, La pomme est rouge. Through the middle grades the mysteries of French grammar are gradually solved. ln your last two years you read De Maupassant and-if you're especially good - Cyrano de Bergerac. Your French course is brightened by personalized anecdotes of French life and French history. Especially, you come to know Madame's Paris. You receive your own bi-monthly copy of 3Le Petitilournalu complete with a comic strip, Les Aventures de Toto Gourdiflotf' and a cross- word puzzle in French. R v, vas.

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ENGLISH speak English correctly, you must leam the me- chanics of speech. After learning all the rules, you draw a relieved breath and then find out you have to learn the exceptions. What is more fun is your first taste of Shakespeare Cyou usually start with Iu1ius Caesar J, Milton, and Dickens. You read by periods Cah, that Age of Romanticismll or you read on special topics such as The Frontier. All this is tauqht by Miss Parsons, an avid Information, Please listener, who qets so thrilled over the topic on which you will write your next paper, that soon you are just as enthusiastic yourself. To

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HISTORY History is a series of patterns, so we spend the year tracing Power-Hungry Individuals. Mr. Cory- ell's history without dates is practically a painless process except when our discussions of labor, re- ligion, and race become too heated. There are two passwords you must know to enter these ancient portals: nationalism and feudalism. You learn in World History, your first year, to be ready with these answers. Thanks to you, Mr. C., we shall always think more clearly, and strive for unpreiudiced, open minds which can chanqe their opinions.