McCray Dewey High School - Trojan Yearbook (Troy, IL)

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OUR CURRICULUM ENGLISH English I, II, III, and IV are required for graduafion excepf fhaf Speech may be subsfifufed for one year of English. For fhose expecfing fo enfer college, English IV is recommended, wifh Speech as a good elecfive for fhe junior or senior year. SOCIAL SCIENCES Ancienf Hisfory, Modern Hisfory, American Hisfory, Economics and Civics are offered. The Iasf fwo are one-semesfer subiecfs. For graduafion, fhe sfudenf musf make fwo credifs in social science, one of which musf be in American Hisfory fhe senior year. MATHEMATICS All sfudenfs musf fake I'wo years of mafh in order fo graduafe. Only fhose who rank high in a placemenf 'resf given fo incoming freshmen are permiffed fo fake Algebra fhe freshman year. All ofhers musf fake a year of General Mafhemafics. Then Algebra. To enfer college. Algebra and Plane Geomefry are required. Ofher mafh courses are: IAIdvanced Algebra and Solid Geomefry. They are bofh one- semesfer courses. SCIENCE Two years of science are required for graduafion. The courses offered in Science are: General Science, Biology, and Physics. COMMERCE Commercial subiecfs are all elecfive buf may be faken only in fhe iunior and senior years. Those offered are fwo years of Shorfhand and Typewrifing. fwo years lfwo periods each yearl of Typewrifing, Business Training. Bookkeeping. Commercial Geography, and Commercial Arifhmefic. The lasf fwo are one-semesfer subiecfs. LANGUAGES Lafin I and II are offered each year. No credif foward graduafion is given unless bofh years of Lafin are faken. For enfering college fwo years of a foreign language are usually required. HOME ECONOMICS Home Economics I and II are offered fo girls. Cooking and sewing are bofh +augh+ in each class. This subiecf requires 'Iwo periods a day for one credif. MUSIC Band meefs fwo days a week and one-fourfh credif is given each year. Glee Club meefs once a week. buf no credif is given for fhis. AGRICULTURE Four years of Agriculfure are offered: Animal Husbandry, Soils and Crops, Farm Managemenf and Mechanics, and Dairying. Each requires a double period, also an oufside proiecf. and gives one and one-half credifs. PHYSICAL EDUCATION All sfudenfs are required fo fake P. E. fwo days a week for four years. This granfs fhe sfudenf one credif. Baskefball and Track are offered as exfra-curricular acfivifies for fhose inferesfed. NOTE Colleges require fhaf fhe high school graduafe has 'rwo majors and fwo minors or fhree majors for college enfrance. Required subiecfs are menfioned above. A maior consisfs of fhree credif courses in one field, while a minor is fwo credif courses. Graduafion laws require I6 credifs. including credifs in specifically named subiecfs or fields.