Northwest High School - Vanguard Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Team teaching brings new interest to English pupils With the advent of team- teaching , a broader scope was achieved to cover the entire hu- manities in the English classes. Various departments cooperated in this new experience by coordinating their subjects with English. This method is-designed to prepare the pupils for their future college ex- periences. In order for more pupils to enroll, speech and journalism became one- semester classes. A new one-semester, half credit course taught by Miss Phyllis Wal- ters based on the history of drama, theater, stage settings, and costum- ing was of-fered in the spring. Pupils worked on the assembly of the sixth edition of Northwest Passages, the school literary pub- lication, composed of student classroom works. With these increased efforts the English department strived to bring more interest and a greater reward to the pupil. Preparing a skit from the English class for the variety show are Debbie Eckert, Kris Harmon and Elise jamison. NORTHWEST PASSACES-FRONT ROW: Gretchen Burkett, Beverly Owens, Carolyn Wilson, Nickie Huber, Patricia Contos. SECOND ROW: Iudith Hughes, Diane Miller, Rebecca Dresser, partment, is eager I0 assist lill Parmerlee Debbie Baron. THIRD ROW: ,Mike Deer, john Allen, Ivory McDonald, Ann Schumacher, with class materials. Diane Moore. 36 Mrs. Betty Niles, head of the English de-

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Pupils turn to stud , researc One of the three R's, reading, played a large role in Northwest student life. A count showed that an average traffic flow of 21,000 pupils used library facilities monthly for study, research, or reading. This included 109 classes that used the library facilities monthly for research papers and book reports. The library was also a source for speeches and special projects done for extra credit. Running an efficient library by keeping track of the books is the job of Mrs. Phyllis Casselman 35 librar for h, relaxation Three years ago, Northwest had only 4,000 books, this year the shelves were lined with 18,000 with 1,200 of those books being new in September, 1968. Current-event minded pioneers read newspapers and magazines to keep up with the times. During study hall and after school, Pio- neers found the library a pleasant change of atmosphere-and a source of knowledge, too. Preparing a speech, David Gobel, sopho- more, uses facts from the library. 'Nu-0

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li rk i Developmental reading laboratory gives NHS pupils an opportunity to improve their reading speed and comprehension with the aid of special devices. umm lean Brocklehurst and Debbie Coleman, juniors, assist their English teacher, Mrs. Arwilda Burton, with a special bulletin board display. 37 Mr. john Render, English teacher, is happy with janet Davenport's improvement.