Park Tudor School - Chronicle Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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MATHEMATICS No Park graduate lacks intensive training in mathematics. Included in the mathematics program are courses ranging from simple arithmetic to trigonometry and college algebra. In his progress through the Upper School, the student of course encounters first- and second-year algebra and plane and solid geometry. Completing his thirtieth year at Park, Mr. Palmer, head of the Department, teaches high school math. He is assisted by Mr. Kimber, our new assistant head- master, who teaches the eighth grade and a special algebra course 'For new boys, and by Mr. Baker, who puts the seventh graders through their paces in arithmetic and introduces them to rudimentary principles of algebra. 10

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ENGLISH English at Park School is one ofthe basic subjects required in each of the four years of high school and taught throughout the Lower and Middle schools. The purpose of the English program is to teach the student to think clearly and to express his ideas, in speech as well as writing, with clarity and force. Through acquainting each boy with a number of English and American classics, the Depart- ment further seeks to increase his capacity for enioyment and to broaden his vicarious experience, as well as to provide him with models of expression. Those who comprise the staff ofthe English Department are Mr. Foxlow, chair- man, Mr. Harrity, and Mr. Taggart. 9

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LANGUAGES The Foreign Language Department offers a choice of three languages-one classical, two modern-to Park School students. The Latin classes, taught by Mr. Smith, include students in grades seven through twelve, while instruction in Spanish and French is given by Mr. Watkins to students in the Upper School only. Seventh and eighth grade Latin consists of basic grammar and vocabulary, and more advanced grammar and vocabulary, respectively. Latin I Special is the course offered to all students above the seventh grade who have had no previous Latin, in it all the grammar, vocabulary, and translations of two years are tele- scoped into one. Freshmen and sophomores read Caesar's Commentaries on 'the Gallic Wars, and iuniors and seniors study the Orations of Cicero, in addition to excerpts from the works of Ovid and Catullus. ln alternate years, the iuniors and seniors read Virgil's Aeneid. Spanish courses include Spanish l, consisting of basic grammar and vocabu- lary, and Spanish ll, made up of more advanced grammar and Spanish reading. This year the students in Spanish ll read the novel Amparo, by Perez Escrich. Mr. Watkins held classes in French I and French Ill this year, with his first-year students studying fundamentals. French lll was primarily a reading class, with the students reading parts of The Count of Monte Cristo, Les Miserables, and a short French novel, Sans Famille. 'li