New Carlisle High School - Olive Branch Yearbook (New Carlisle, IN)

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New Carlisle High School, realizing the importance of English for success inany field, has expanded its English Department to meet the individual needs of every student. Everyone received the basic require- ments by completing three years of grammer, literature, speech, vocabulary, spelling, and composi- tion. For the student planning to attendcollege, a fourth year, Senior English, was offered. What? No Funnies? English Curriculum Increased M:aF- wet acd]. Fp3e- Sue and Linda receive a few pointed'' pointed remarks on debate procedure. It looks as if the boys are not fooling Mrs. Bechtel in their research. Remedial Reading, a course that was recently introduced, stressed the development of reading skills and offered individual assistance to those students who had some dif- ficulty with reading. This year, a new addition was made to our English Department, Speech and Debate. This elective offered students a change to express themselves and gain poise by pre- senting formal debates for school andcommunity organizations. The classalso entered the area league, which gave them an opportunity to compete with other schools. iP FU 10

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Algebra Plus Geometry Equals Headaches It appears that Mr. Noel is trying to tell Dick something. Trig is not as hard as all that, June! New Carlisle High School offers a wide variety of math courses. These are highschool math, algebra, plane geometry, and trigonometry. High school math concerns itself with the basic fundamentals of mathe - matics. The course, taught by Mr. Loyal Marker, is offeredto all fresh- men. Algebra, is offered for two years. Mrs. Ruth Crouch instructs students in the workings of equations and the mystery of the unknown. Those who finish first year algebra may enrollin a second and more dif- ficult year. Plane geometry, taught by Mr. Robert Noel, gives students the con- cept of plane objects such as tri- angles, angles, and lines, and theoretical application of logic. Trigonometry is offered for a full year at New Carlisle. Mr. Darle Pfieffer taught the course this year.

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Athirdyear offered in Spanish and French and an increased number of students enrolled in Latin classes showed the popu- larity of the foreign language department at New Carlisle High School, Languageclasses included learning pronunciation and vo- cabulary as well as acquainting the students withthe land, people, and history of the respective countries. Spanish and French students were aided by records andtape recordings. The aspiring Latin scholars translated poems, myths and accounts of Roman life. This increasedtheir knowledge of life in the days of old Rome. Latin's main purpose was to increase the grammer, spelling, and vocabulary of English through a transfer-of-training program while French and Spanish were primarily college preparatory courses. Mr. Overmyer is showing the class one of the Spanish customs-- the siesta. Mr. Glossis explaining that Bridget is not a part of French culture. Duo. = Tres Dan objects to Jennie's implication! 11