Nokomis Regional High School - Arrowhead Yearbook (Newport, ME)

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FURTHER CHANGES SHOW UP IN GRADES TEN THROUGH TWELVE Sophomores, juniors, and seniors have the opportunity to choose, within the limits of their individual schedules, from a varied offering of more than forty courses. Each course is complete by itself in one quarter of the school year. Dur- ing the year each student takes at least four nine-week courses, with some students picking up extra English classes instead of study halls. Sponsored by: HARTLAND TANNING Hartland, Maine HOW IS IT DIFFERENT FROM THE TRADITIONAL PROGRAM? One change shows up in the freshman year. Each ninth- grader has, not one English teacher, but five during the year. Eight divisions of freshmen take turns with different teach- ers, concentrating for a school quarter on grammar, composi- tion, literature, or speech and mythology. That pattern of intensive study of one subject under the same teacher for a period of nine weeks is followed in the English program for upperclass students, too. . 'eggs .. Q. :gs sv as X. ....,-. 3 sm? . ........ ,,.,.,, 3 kg 1 , . S '-G ...xiii P. Ai.. T x , B , s 5' 'Ev' tl gf rw 1 1 .s..m.., I I I A . nmw- - . 5 I f ,X f wcmufoo

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English Was Never Like This Before When a group of students who share the same interests in drama . . . or poetry . . . or journalism . . . works together for nine weeks under a teacher with similar interests, English is different from the way it used to be. f HERE'S THE PROGRAM In the spring of 1971, after a year of preparation, the English teachers presented the new elective program to the student body, distributed descriptions of the forty different courses, and explained how pupils could make their choices. Sponsored by: TRIANGLE CONSTRUCTION COMPANY Charles Chandler - Hadley Chandler Pittsfield, Maine 9 fi ei 46 z

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1 48 ll. In another change from traditional programs, sophomores, juniors, and seniors take classes to- gether. The courses are numbered according to the dif- ficulty ofthe subject matter, and students are en WHAT COURSES ARE OFFERED? Courses range from special classes in reading and composi- tion to debate and research seminars. Courses in vocational English discover and follow up job aptitudes. One class each quarter not only studies news- paper production, but practices it, putting out one or two issues of the school paper during the nine-week period. Another X A5 class studies the ways propa- ff ganda can influence us in our O buying and in our voting. C Grammar courses reinforce the freshman program for those pupils who desire it. couraged to select courses suited to their abilities. But as long as students are vitally interested in a subject, they may choose it, no matter what grades they are in. '+N,,,,M ':f- 43' A great variety of literature courses enables students to specialize in study of literary types such as the short story, modern novels, and poetry, or literary themes like images of man or biography. There are also classes in drama, folk-lore, vocabulary, public speaking, and logic.