Nottingham High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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English Sophomores are initiated into Nottingham's English Curriculum with an introduction to the Florida swamplands of The Yearling, the English bleakness of Silas Marner, and the primeval forest of Albert Schweitzer. In the iunior year emphasis is placed upon American novelists, poets, and dramatists. Upperclassmen explore the history of English literature in depth and take a survey of world literature. Required senior reading includes Macbeth, The Good Earth, and Hiroshima. Creative students are placed in advanced or excel classes in their iunior and senior years. Cer- tain pupils from these groups have appeared as panelists on WFBL Radio's book discussion programs. Three outstanding English students are chosen by the English Department each year to represent Nottingham in the writing competition ofthe National Council of Teachers of English. 1'- Mrs. Mary Alice Cregg Miss Dorothea Duell Gerald lannotti William Kinslow 44 Miss Floris Wilkinson Abraham Yagod l r Miss Wilkinson reads a passage of Hamlet aloud to the senior excel English class.

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uidance Dennis O'NeilI ,. rr-. f Miss Frances Costello 'l . . 4- --5 A ' ' GUIDANCE DEPARTMENT ' Dirgcted by Mr. OfNeill and Miss Costello, the Guidance Departmer' handles-sqme discipline problems, prepares Transcripts, organizes schedules, a ff counsels students. Room 150, adjoining the two main offices, is a college information -enter stockedwith catalogues and scholarship literature. There eniors and i'-niors mffeft representatives from colleges in which they are Q' 'ef' , r a discussion of the requirements and nature of these colleges.

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i ,X tw N! I t 1 Social Studies , :lf -kb ,. . xi lily! fy v .,. ' if William Barnosky ..-fc Elizabeth Cicclarelll . is. Sr FF i R W .: . Frances Durkin Francis Mulholland ,figigl examination. Mia! ui? 4 Miss Finck and her senior history class discuss the economical aspects of American government. Ethelea Pecola Social Studies Department. Because knowledge of the world past and present is indispensable to an informed citizenry, social studies prepares the pupil for much more than a In his sophomore year the Nottingham student examines the successes and the failures of great civilizations in a survey of world history. America's wr 'cice in the world is analyzed more thoroughly in the iunior year, and econom- 'ii:s'is,'l'taught in the first half of the senior year. Advanced students complete the entire three semester course in their second year and may secure college cgedit if they score sufficiently high on ci standardized Advanced Placement Exam. A f eat Issues course is offered to the interested pupil in the spring dfiujss year. Here he explores the influence of imP0rtGr1t iI'1CideI1tS0f1d I 'fm' ' 'cor' Phe course of history. Edwina Rapp Katherine Sherwood