North Side High School - Legend Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Miss Jacquelyn Moses uses Spanish jlash cards to teach her first year students. Students gained flavor Conversations, skits, and magazines aided the stu- dents taking one or more of the five foreign lan- guages offered. There was little homework as Spanish students memorized dialogues and oral exercises. A new audio-lingual approach introduced first year students to a switch from the book to that of study with the aid of actual hearing and speaking. The more advanced classes concentrated on the cultural study of Spain. Latin students gained an introduction to an ancient language and increased their own vocabulary by studying derivitives. Those who choose to go on in the language studied Caesar ' s Commentaries on the Gallic Wars, an epic poem The Aenid by Virgil, and poetry of Ovid. Beginning German and Russian classes offered practice in speaking and reading the language. There were dialogues to be memorized and presented to the class weekly. All classes of Russian and German viewed slides presented by the teacher. French students learned how to pronounce the different sounds of the language by forming their lips. Advanced students applied their knowledge by reading novels, plays, and magazines. Turning in Christmas cards written in Latin. Gary Parker- son and Eddie Meisner used their knowledge and imagina- tions. Mr. Paul Lemke ' s third year Spanish students read Spanish migazines to increase their vocabulary. 20

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and dramatized plays to further their understanding Blackboards, books, and each other ' s help all seem to make diagramming sentences easier to understand. A typical junior English class under Mrs. Diane Holtz increases their knowledge oj diagramming ' s basic pattern .4 little talent and a large imagination go into the writing of children ' s stories. Mrs. Dana Wichem develops both through her story books. In finding a theme and thesis for note cards, Marsha Dill and Marcy Grove seek Miss Elizabeth Little for help. 19

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from five offered languages, learned their cultures Improving his German pronunciation, Steve Brewster en- tertains his German I class by giving a dialogue. A French class ran into diffi- culty in pronouncing eu , but with Mrs. Ramona Rans- burg ' s demonstration — suc- cess. 21