Northwest High School - Vanguard Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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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.

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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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Personal accomplishment stressed in science courses From dissecting a fetal pig to studying reaction rates of the ele- ments, science department courses offered practical knowledge as well as variance in uncommon general knowledge. Enrollment increased by 200 to 1,510 this year. Because the science department was one of the largest in the school, expanding the science classes to the old math wing was necessary to accommo- date the growing number of en- rolees. Research and careful observation were stressed in experimentation. One pupil received S100 from the Heart Fund on his research proj- ect. An accurate account of every satellite launched by America and Russia was another project record- ed by a science-minded Pioneer. For the first time, four NHS stu- dents enrolled in the Science Seminar, an organization which meets Saturday mornings to enable pupils from various high schools to attend lectures covering the science field in depth. Biology teacher Mrs. Leigh Richie points out new fish acquired by the science department to her pupils, Bob Gushree and Rexanne Coleman, sophomores. 38 Linda Montgomery, junior, measures zinc as the first step of an experiment. Terry Boring and Gail Fisher, juniors, prove teamwork pays off during experiments.