Paris High School - Arena Yearbook (Paris, IL)

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HISTORY The students of Paris High School appreciate the competent staff of our history department. In his sophomore year the student makes his choice of either a one or two year history course. Mr. Sweeley, our football coach, teaches five classes of world history. This course is open especially to those students who are pursuing a commercial or vocational course. Mr. Sweeley believes in keeping up with world activities in the national and international arenas, and as a result his students study a current event paper one day each week in addition to his regular course of study. Mr. Van Deventer is the instructor for both ancient and modern history, the two year course for college preparatory students. Ancient history is taught in the sophomore year ami modern DON H. SWEELEY, B.S. World History, Football Coach CARROL VAN DEVENTER, B.S. II istory, Geography EFFIE M. FANSLER, B.A. A merican IIistory history in the junior. The second year, starting with the events leading up to the French Revolution, analyzes the Revolution, the political and military histories of each of the European nations, and finally completes the two year course by discussing the events which brought about the first World War and gives a detailed report of the war and its effects on international relations. In the fourth year, the students must take a course in American history, taught by Miss Fansler. Her course deals extensively with the formation of the United States as we know it today. Each instructor has large classes of at least thirty-five students; this re- eals, I believe, the place the history courses occupy in Paris High School. 21

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E N G L1 SII Although the curriculum at Paris High School has ably served this community for more than seventy years, now more than ever is this service essential in building intelligent citizens for tomorrow. English is considered of such importance that it is required for four years, while in many schools it is required but three. M iss Baldwin and Mrs. Hightower begin with the freshmen in the formation of better literary and rhetorical habits. Due to Miss Baldwin's illness. Miss Green has ably substituted for her this year. In the student’s sophomore year M iss Hunter furthers their training of the freshman year. This year in sophomore English vocabulary building has had special attention both in the literature anil language work. Weekly composition assignments stress letter writing, paragraph development, and familiar essays and are correlated as nearly as possible with the study of BETTY LOU HUNTER, B.A. English III HELEN MURPHY HIGHTOWER, B.A. English I. III. I literary types as presented in the text A d ven tu res in A ppreciat ion. Miss Dayton, Miss Cleveland and Mrs. Hightower have charge of the English in the junior class. It includes the study of the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon days to the present time, together with the study of composition and grammar and practice in theme writing. In this field we have a new text. Learning to Write. Senior English is under the direction of Miss Wenz and Miss Hochstrasser. The development of American Literature from the earliest colonial times to the present is traced, with emphasis on the fact that literature is the expression of the life of the people. In rhetoric we begin with the paragraph as the unit of all writing, increasing later to themes of several paragraphs, and ending with the writing of a long theme of two thousand words or more. Attention is called to modern literature by the keeping of notebooks of newspaper and magazine clippings. LARUE DAYTON, B.A. English V ADDIE HOCHSTRASSER, B.A., M.A. English VII

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L A N G U A G E and L I B R A R Y In our foreign language department courses in Latin and French are offered. The French course is taught by Miss Farrell. The program includes a study of the basic forms, rules, and constructions of French rhetoric in the first year; and the reading of interesting French selections in the second. As a supplement to the second year a newspaper of current happenings written in French is used. Miss Tate has charge of the Latin. The first year the student learns the declensions and conjugations and a limited vocabulary of Latin words and phrases. The second year continues this type of work and the pupil puts into practice the knowledge so gained by translating Caesar. If the student wishes to pursue the course still further. he may read Cicero’s Orations the third year and Virgil’s Aeneid the fourth. To accompany these courses Signing for books in the library. two Latin newspapers, the Res Gestae” (Things Done) and the “Acta Diurna” (Daily Doings) are read. As an aid to the student, a large library, one of the largest in the state for a high school of this size, has been established. It consists of more than three thousand volumes at the present and is being increased day by day. Mrs. Marv Bryan has charge of the library. The books are catalogued according to the decimal system used by the Library of Congress. These books, both fictional and non-fictional, cover such subjects as philosophy, religion, sociology. languages, science, the fine arts, literature, history, biography, and travel. CATHERINE FARRELL, B.A„ M.A. French. Sociology, Civics ELSIA TATE. B.A. Latin MARY DOLE BRYAN. B.A. Librarian