North High School - Polaris Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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UlTH Row—Jensen, Mandetille Midmlk Row Austin, .Voi«l, Uosier, Sanderson, Ms t.aird l i B Row-6‘oj?. Mary Could. Whittier, Matson. Fell. F.dqulst Social Science ALL students of North High School take two and one-half years of social science. This time is divided as follows: world history, one year; United Slates history, one year; civics, one-half year. In addition to this minimum requirement, students may elect either commercial law, sociology, or economics, giving one semester to each. Effort is made in each course to relate the text-hook material with life situations by daily study and discussion of pertinent current events, and by frequent visits to local industrial and civic institutions. As a special teaching technique, the widest encouragement is given to the making of charts, graphs, and map material. Each teacher has the use of a class room lantern with which to picture various data. The picture below is typical of the modern method and equipment used in North High school. The department at present includes fifteen teachers; eleven women and four men. Teaching assignments for the year 1928-29 were as follows: Mrs. Elsie Matson, Miss Ruby Sanderson, Miss Lulu Mosier, and Miss June McLaird, world history; Miss Florence Fell, Miss Mary Goff, Miss Harriet Austin, Mrs. Lucy Edquist, Miss Mary Gould, Miss Bessie Whittier, M. A. Olson (second semester) and W. N. Mandeville, 1 . S. history. One semester subjects, commercial law, economics, civics, and sociology were taught as follows: Miss Austin, Mr. Shepherd, sociology; Mr. Mandeville, commercial law: Mr. Jensen, economics; Miss Moses, Mrs. Edquist, and Mr. Jensen, civics. —Gkorgk A. Jknskn. Chairman. Fifteen

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Vrttn Itow—Crittenden. Lindt ten. Potrell. Shannon. Horseh. Seder. Laurence. Sherman. band tor,. Thorpe, Long I.nwiK Hi « Adamt, loner, Abbot. Pierce, Kelly, Get, Marion Gould THE English course provides for a definite amount of oral and written composition and literature in each semester. The sophomores study Ivanhoe, Idylls of the King, and American literature; the juniors, oral and written expression and Shakespeare; the seniors, English literature. Besides this, opportunities are offered for public speaking, debate, news writing, play writing, and play production as well as for special work in contemporary essays, poetry, and fiction. In each semester except the S6A, all students are given drill in functional gram m a r, spelling, punctuation, and correct usage of words; and they are expected to pass at least a minimum in these before they arc permitted to advance to the next grade. Provision is also made for the technical boys and for those people who wish to do commercial work. The former enter English classes which have been planned to appeal to their interests and suit their needs. The latter are given one year special training which not only affords a background of literature but also furnishes practice in business forms and in salesmanship. At the close of the first semester, those students who are proficient in the minimum essentials are put into groups known as A classes and encouraged to read more widely and to do creative work. It is in these classes that a large proportion of the honor and honorable mention students are found. The picture below shows one of these classes taking part in a socialized recitation. —Katherine Kelly, Chairman. Fourteen

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Own How -l.undrrn, Fart'ih, Valin, Hall, .4munition l W m Kow it,inn, T iompion, Apt!, Bmgett Language THE language department embraces in its interests the land of the midnight sun, the fertile fields of France and Germany, the sunny plains and valleys of Spain, and “Rome Eternal.” Miss Mann, Miss Burgess, and Miss Thompson teach Latin: Miss Amundson and Mr. Galin, French; Miss Konig and Miss Holtz, German; Mrs. Hall and Miss Apel, Spanish; Miss Lundeen, Swedish: and Miss Farseth, Norse. Mastery of any language requires a thorough knowledge of the fundamental principles underlying it; hence in the first year, grammar must he emphasized and the student must wrestle with forms and their uses. Interest is added, even in grammar, by a combination of both the direct and the academic method, shown by the use of charts in the insert below, which is employed by all the branches of the department. Newspapers, magazines, and maps, drawn on the board are kept so that the routes and places may be marked as the class comes to them in their reading. Models of camps, weapons, dress, armor, stories of the lives of great men and women offer incentives to class work. Pictures, games, songs, dramatics, exhibits, banquets, and various activities are promoted and sponsored by the different language clubs. All add interest and bring a wider knowledge ami better appreciation of the life, history, and culture of the nation, whose language the student has elected to learn and its gift to the progress of the world becomes an inspiration for further study. —Ida V. Mann, Chairman. Sixteen