Northside High School - North Star Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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me-sr Mit? ' i' ft '11 T X 5 fx ig i S 4 - ' Q X R, 52-ik Mrs. Hartigan thinks, Oh no! , and looks away discouraged. Mis, Mary Blair Flora Mrs, Ernestine Ha,-tigan Miss Flora 3.4-san' . i of e , 28 Miss Edna Martin Miss Yvonne Myers diligently teaches her students Spanish with laughter and smiles throughout the class period.

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'sa- G, K J A i f X sage ws ' i l P A And the Black Plague spread throughout Western Eu- rope, comments Mr. Brill as his students listen and follow their notes. 1 .L,J::U,i1Cl, ' Jn ,..., ,,,, ' 5 ' --MW W ' Nh Ua.a.az .. ,.., ,, hy, ,. Wifi I , , W' ' ,rf W ,, , A 5 ' M1 H Miss Gregory energetically pushes around her podium as she makes government come alive L --:-' Mr. Anderson points out , ,mm W 55, , .. 5 Y' r r Y 1 xgf. F, A k 2 ,.f. K raphy students. far away lands to his Geog-

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an snpgquussnvvf-mf - Q s Miss Martin carefully explains the fundamentals of conjugating a verb in Latin I class. ' -' '-.M --:fi XA.l - , . . ' ss'- F Mike Morris translates for .,,,..a--mf Miss Flora's Spanish class. Languages Broaden Foreign Concepts N.H.S. language students plodded through French, Spanish, or Latin classes with the aid of brand new textbooks. Abandoning classical methods of vocabulary drills and verb conjugation, teachers stressed progress toward thinking French or correctly .pro- nouncing everyday Spanish words. Tape re- corders and records, two of the language teacher's most effective tools, familiarized students with the sound of the language. Thus vocabularies grew for first-year stu- dents much in the same manner that a child learns to speak his native language. Whether by modern techniques or by age-old methods of memorization, study of foreign languages and their related civilizations opened up a new world of far-off lands for numerous Vikings. Maps of Roman lands, recorded lyrics of French folk songs, and unintelligible discussions of Spanish patriots testified to this fact. 29