Mishawaka High School - Miskodeed Yearbook (Mishawaka, IN)

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Symbolism Mystifies Dickens ' Readers; MOCK TRIAL. In Speech II Judge Tim Walters listens as District Attorney Chuck Schalllol questions Darlene Duncan, a witness to the murder in the tower. r ' m H!r |3| m k ' M icfl Kiiil I Mj !p 3 n ■ iwr •1 wO- - ' :rX . DISASTROUS DROP. Oh rats! mumbles Roger VanOrsdoll after being bombarded by his English VII vocabulary cards. And to think I have to rearrange all 1000 of them. PRACTICE DISCUSSION. Debate team members Dennis Laffin, Bob Bozarth, Chuck Schalliol, Chuck Whetstone, and Suzanne Veselak argue about international control of nuclear weapons, the debate topic for this year. Preparing them to debate with other students. Sponsor Douglas Hall criticizes their arguments. ' 24

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academics Racing to get equipment in the physics lab, pounding typewriter keys to make an acceptable timed writing, straining to keep up with the chattering voice in our language lab earphones, we kept busy.

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Iambic Pentameter Puzzles Poetry Pupils In the new reading lab, students took a six weeks ' develop- mental course. After watching films which show only a few words of a story at a time and after reading essays, students took com- prehension tests to see how much they had retained. To increase speed, each pupil also read novels and nonfiction books at a rate set by his pacer. In English courses students read a variety of books from science fiction to Creek epics. Instead of making their own selections, Mrs. Lois Claus ' English III classes reported on The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury. Juniors in Miss Rebecca Kabel ' s classes wrote reviews of Shakespeare ' s plays on the back of wall- paper and drew a line to show the rising action and climax of the plot. Freshmen studied literature of all types. Besides reading the works of others, students worked on their own compositions. While sophomores investigated subjects ranging from The History of Domesticated Cats to Houdini for their 1500-word source themes, seniors wrote term papers two to three times as long. Journalists wrote news stories, features, and edi- torials. Acquiring other skills in communication, speech students pre- pared talks by using cloop, a guide word composed of the first letters of choose, limit, organize, outline, and present. The debate team concluded in a practice discussion that delinquents ' names should be published to discourage crime. IHfllF MM NEW READING LAB. Before recording her improvement in comprehension and speed, Linda Dinkledine grades one of her reading tests. To increase their reading skills, students use the pacers each day in the new developmental reading lab. In six weeks the average gain in reading speed is 138 words per minute. LIBRARY TOUR. Learning to use the card catalogue, freshmen Connie Quier, Cheri Pullin and Tom Millemon find that books are classified by author, title, and subject. 25