Mount Pleasant High School - Netop Yearbook (Providence, RI)

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Permanent Record Card One of the counselor's most important tools in analyzing a student's progress is the cumu- lative record shown below. It is the school's formal record of its effort to discover the individual differences among pupils over a six-year period. The unique value of a cumulative record is that the record of any trait of an individual over a period of years is more signincant than the record of that trait taken at any one pointy also that estimates on many different traits afford a much more accurate picture of the student's educational and vocational possibilities than the estimate of a single trait. Guidance It is the function of the Guidance Department at Mount Pleasant High School to correlate the education- al oiferings with the needs and aspirations of each student to assure a competent. happy, and well-ad- justed citizen. This is done through the mediums of group guidance classes and counseling interviews, con- ducted by professionally trained counselors in student personnel work. The entering classes in senior high school are heterogeneous groups, made up of students with many individual differences as to appearance and manner. educational achievement, physical limitations, emotional stability, and social and economic backgrounds. This -..ggi implies that assembly line educational techniques should not be used, but rather that each student be given in- dividual attention and consideration in selecting a pro- gram under the supervision of a counselor. Therefore the interests, aptitudes, and abilities of our students are taken into consideration and plans made accordingly. The work in guidance classes covers problems which are common to all in the fields of educational, occupa- tional. and social guidance: whereas the counseling interview enables the student to discuss problems of a personal and intimate nature. Thus a student. by taking the core subject of guidance. is able to analyze and appraise his strengths and weaknesses, set a course, prepare for and succeed in reaching his goal. 12 ya..-

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Ifirsr row. left ro right: Miss Newell. Miss Iflanigan. Miss Iirosl Miss Couranclre. Miss lenlon, Miss liesenitv M' Blessing, Mr. Stannard, Miss Keegan. Miss Goodwin. Miss Kearns. Second row: Mr. Ryder, Mr, Haughey. Mr. Krone. Mr. Biclcford, Mr. Corey, Mr. Ziegler, Mr. liklverg. Mr. Thompson, Mr. Lennon, Mr. Mclaughlin. ART Irene P. Goodwin ART METAL William C. Ziegler CERAMICS Clifton Bickford COMMERCIAL Mary B. Eenton ENGLISH Alice M. Blessing EOREIGN LANGUAGE Alban J. Ryder GUIDANCE Lester E. Krone Departments HOME ECONOMICS Mary L. Elanigan LIBRARY C. Lucy Newell MATHEMATICS Edward E. McLaughlin MECHANICAL DRAWING Francis A. Lennon MUSIC Roy E. Ekberg PHYSICAL EDUCATION .Iames P. Haughey Mary D. Ziesenitz -..ei ii ia., PUBLICATIONS Ethel M. Kearns SCIENCE Grace M. Erost SOCIAL ACTIVITIES Barbara G. Keegan SOCIAL SCIENCE Elmer .I. Thompson STUDY Mary C. Coulanclme WOODWORKINCI Leslie B. Corey

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English A TEACHER ANSWERS A IOB STUDENT Miss fleery. tell me why I must study English each term. Paul. language is the basic means of communication. lfnglish is your language, therefore your means. liut. Miss Avery. what is communication? Communication is a twofway movement of thought. You receive from others by reading or listening to their thoughlsi you reach others by speaking or writing your thoughts to them. But haeenit I been speaking and listening all my life. and ean't I yet along without reading and writing? Hundreds of years ago, men could communicate with a fair degree of success by speaking and listening. The complexity of modern life. however. makes it imperative for us to be able to understand the thoughts ot men through reading. At times we ITIUSI write. The lfnglish course has for its purpose the teaching oli elliqctive speaking, reading, writing. and listening. Moreover. just as the telephone company must have etlcctive mechanism and eflicient operators to transmit messages. so must we have the skills to receive and to send out ideas effectively. As .1 child matures he is able through study and practice to acquire greater and greater effectiveness in communication. ln senior high school the materials of the course give him opportunity for ever-expanding discrimination in understanding the thoughts of others and in conveying his own. A day-bygday growth occurs in the student. imperceptiblc to him. but readily apparent to one who compares his skill in communication in gracle IOB and later in IZA. Well. I can see that I need to study spelling, punctu- ation, and capitalization il' I am not to seem iamirant when I write my thoughts. But why do I need practice in sentence and paragraph skills? Ah. these and your growth in words-your vocabu- lary building-must keep pace with your growth in maturity, You think in words, Without a broad vocabulary you will be a limited thinker. if at all a thinker capable of living adequately and contributing to the life of your time, Sentence and paragraph skills are needed for clarity of understanding and clarity of expression. By the way, you know. I sup- pose, that clarity means clearness-straight thinking. Yes. that word is in my vocabulary. But what good is grammar? Your study of grammar and good usage is designed to remove the debris that interferes with clarity in your speech. a cleaning up of the hack yard, so to speak. to restore its beauty and usefulness. O.K. Now. what about literature. My sister told me the course includes literature. Right. The term literature means books of fiction. biography. poetry, drama, essays. books you will read in class and books you will read more extensively. I have at hand the words of a wise teacher on the subject of the aim in literature. l shall read the passage. See whether you can understand it. We want our pupils to develop through read- ing and literature a personal sense of values by discovering in the literary works of both past and present what man has sought and found good. and what man has craved and found wanting . . . We want them to come to an understand- ing of themselves in particular and of human nature in general through the concrete presenta- tion of human character and human problems in literature, IVell. I guess it means I'm going to miss something line if I don't have literature. Of course. the literature for the various grades keeps pace with that expanding maturity l mentioned. Yes, Miss Avery. Thanks. Now I know why every high school student needs English. I'm going to think about that communication idea and the need for straight thinking when I listen to the radio ana' when I read the newspaper. Pa 'gil 1905- . '11 Da 1757 095 fam . .no I7 o,, I JZ 1,6 -'r 6 flfi fl' 4 0 I 4, P g