Norwalk High School - Signal Yearbook (Norwalk, OH)

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IN ONE OF HER senior English classes, Mrs. Martha McConaha gives Jackie Helsel some pointers on im- proving a letter of application for a job. The names Banquo, Samuel Johnson, and James Boswell are fa- miliar to all seniors in literature. Freshmen also are instructed in English by Mrs. McConaha. The direction of the junior-senior plays is another big job for Mrs. McConaha. IN THE CONFUSION of advising an annual and a newspaper in his job as journalism instructor, Mr. Kendall Falke settles down to teach the juniors American literature and English grammar. Every- thing from Benjamin Franklin and Washington Irv- ing to Robert Frost and Edgar Allan Poe are dis- cussed in Mr. Falke's classes, lf they learn any- thing else or not. Juniors learn the space between is but an hour. 4? f f sw-4' marsh English Plays Big Role MR, HOWARD WHEELER proves to be a Jack-of-all-trades as he teaches sev- enth grade English and geography and also grooms the musicians of the Junior Band for their more advanced work in the Symphonic Band. ln the midst of all these activities, Mr. Wheeler takes time to help Ronnie Burns pick out subjects and predicates for his English grammar assignment.

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Minds Are Improved B Math and Science MR. MAURICE FOWLER demonstrates the fundamentals of electricity to Tom Connerton, Ronnie Allan, and RayThomas in general science class, Everything ba- sic in the sciences from how levers work to the makeup of the atom is learned by the freshmen. Juniors and seniors find out what the chemical equation NaOH plus HCl yields qwater and table salty and learn to watch for chemical reactions in their chemistry classes. -Q4' '-1' fx va' .hx PROPER CARE and use ofthe micro- scope are demonstrated to Tom Price by Miss Ruth Bell in keeping with her role as biology and general science teacher. The fundamentals of all the basic sciences are learned by the fresh- men, while the sophomores go deeper into the sciences by learning the mean- ings of such terms as amocba, homol- ogous organs, exoskeleton, and stamen ball and basketball. MR. HARRY SHADLE reads the Current Science paper so the eighth grade science classes can keep abreastwith the lat est science news. The seventh and eighth grade boys have Mr. Shadle for physical edu cation and health. Mr. Shadle also coaches junior high loot

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,R i I r , .nuttin K ,. ANOTHER ENGLISH CLASS begins for sophomores as Miss Madge Mossman collects their homework papers on principles of English grammar, Besides grammar, sophomores spend hours on memorizing I-riends, Romans, Countrymen ----- from Shakes- peare's 15315 Qaesar, Julius Caesar's Gallic ll comes to lifg in Mossman's second-year Latin class, after students spend the first year learning Latin grammar. ED BARKER Checks with Cuban-born Mr. P. J. Garcia on the pronunciation of certain Spanish words in second year Spanish class. Spanish students can be distinquished from other stu- dents by their use of Buenos Dias instead of Good morning when greeting Mr, Garcia. One characteristic of the Spanish classes is that almost all conversation is carried on in Spanish. X I , , . it fs? z fa-5 x's 4 fda f-'lv JOHN LEVERS in his eighth grade English class praf tices diagraming sentences, one of the essentials in learning English grammar, as Miss Carol Embick, the youngest and most recentaddition to the faculty looks on approvingly. Eighth graders also spend a lot of time reading various short stories. Miss Em- bick in addition to English helps Mr. Garcia teach a second year Spanish class.