McGuffey Foundation High School - Reflector Yearbook (Oxford, OH)

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Classroom Work Was Comprehenslve In any hugh school there are so many unterestung extra currucuuor octuvutues that often young people tend to munumuze the umportonce of the less glamorous ocademuc sude of school The 1950 Reflector sought to pucture these doy by doy classroom actuvutues of the yeor whuch were so routune ond yet so umportant un the lufe of a hugh school student Educatuon of youngsters us the prumary purpose of any school but Mc Guffey had o second functuon un fact the rnoun reoson for uts exustence wos to serve as a loborotory for prospectuve teachers un the School of Educotuon at Muomu Untversuty Accordungly from kundergorten through senuor hugh the McGuffey student was drrected un a port of hus educatuon by o battaluon of eoger well dressed young men and women from the compus who were under the close supervusuon of hughly trouned crutuc teachers Nuneteen fuftys corps of student teochers numbered 280 Because of o T948 49 chonge un the requurements for groduatuon socuol studues wos the only subuect whuch o pupul wos requured to take from the seventh grade through the twelfth Studues un the seventh eughth and n nth grodes paralleled that of the three upper yeors wuth the uunuor hugh stressung current problems rother than the hustorucol bockground The seventh grode closses studued Asuo wuth emphosus on polutucal Chuna and Joponese land problems ond later took up lnduo Russua and Afruco The Amerucon notuon concerned the eughth grade who took up the problems foced by the Unuted States and the economuc and socuol changes whuch took ploce tn the country as ut gradually lost the charocterustucs ofa colony ond took on those of a notuon Nunth graders studued current problems of a communuty health recueotuon ond to Washungton so they studued the coputol cuty Later un the yeor they took up the problems faced by the notuon s munoruty groups World hustory from the begunnung cuvuluzotuons of Egypt and Summeruo up through World Wor I wos studued un the tenth grode wuth concentratuon on the contunent of Europe The uunuors were concerned wuth Amerucan hustory Theur work was set up un two cohesive unuts polutucol hustory ond economuc and socuol hustory The senuors were occupued wuth economuc and socuol problems ond current events They sought o knowledge of bosuc economuc terms and pruncuples Englush through the eleventh grode wos requured at McGuffey Thus fune course uncreosed the students abuluty to speak reod ond wrute the Englush longuage and hus kncwledge of Englush and Amerlcon luteroture The lunuor hugh closses reod essoys short storues poetry ond plays Uses of correct grom mor un speokung and wrutung was o mouor port of these courses and accord ungly the eughth grode corresponded wuth o school un Alaska ond the freshmen wrote busuness letters un connectuon wuth theur trup to Woshuntgon Some reod ung of longer novels wos also uncluded un these closses In senuor hugh the study of grammar and more duffucult luteroture wo contunued The sophomores un oddutuon to portucupotung un grommor ond speech drulls studted Tennyson s Idylls of the Kung Shokespeores Juluus Caesar ond mony poems and short storues The eleventh grode Englush course covered Sponsored by Paul M Campbell John Deere Farm Equzpment 8 . h. I . . , - u l - . , , u soil conservation. The big event of the year for the ninth grode wos o trip , , ' . l V H Q , ,

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