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

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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

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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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Physics students drop bricks oji a moving cart in order to find the effect of increasing the mass of the cart. Amid test tubes and a Chemistry Christmas Tree . Mr. Beryl Lewis shows Anne Good how to figure a lab problem. Scientists utilized skills through logic developed Laboratory sciences taught North students to think and analyze problems. Through keen observation and theorization, science students learned to draw valid conclusions. Chemistry III applied the principles gained in Chemistry I and II, but involved further laboratory experimentation. Labs were usually held three days a week, and on the remaining days teachers lectured and discussed book material. Physics involved the study of matter and motion. Students conducted experiments such as Archi- mede ' s Principal of Floating Objects. Some experi- ments resulted in misfortunes, such as getting a finger smashed when a lab partner dropped a brick on a moving cart in order to find the effect of in- creasing the mass of the cart by loading it with bricks. BSCS was comprised of two versions, blue and purple. The purple was designed for those who did not take biology as a freshman, and blue was for those who had biology and chemistry I and II. Stu- dents experimented in burning foods to find how many calories were in each. New microscopes enabled students to observe the minute details of the living world. Earth Science pupils studied rock crystals, evolu- tion, the earth ' s past, and its composition. Purple biology students, Bill Wetzel and Barb Woody, observe fruit flies through a binocular microscope.