Park Tudor School - Chronicle Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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SCIENCE Park School offers a full science curriculum for Upper School students-biology for sophomores, chemistry for juniors, and physics for seniors. The Science Depart- ment has its own building for classes and laboratory work, a building equipped with valuable instruments and chemical supplies 'For student use. The Park School Development Program includes plans for a new science building designed to give the school even better facilities for work in this vital field. During the past year Assistant Headmaster Kimber headed the Department and taught biology, while Mr. Garrett experienced the pleasure of returning to his old iob of teaching chemistry and physics. 12

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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

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HISTORY The courses currently offered in the History Department are: geography, in the seventh grade, American history, in grades eight and twelve, world civiliza- tion in grade nine, and economics, in either grade eleven or grade twelve. The first of the courses in American history, taught to students in the eighth grade by Mr. Baker, deals with the principal movements and most important figures in the history of our country. The second course, conducted by Mr. Harrity, the Department chairman, enables the seniors to probe the political, economic, and social ideas on which present-day society rests. Students in this course under- take a number of research proiects throughout the year. The purpose of Mr. Berkeley's course in world civilization is to view the history of the world, from the stone age to the present day, with an eye to gaining a better perspective of the world situation today. Geography, also taught by Mr. Berkeley, reveals to the seventh grader the foundations of geography and the ways in which they are related to current world events. ln Mr. Berkeley's discussion course in economics, the students survey consumer and marketing problems, banking, prices, and the like. This course is intended to give the student a better understanding of the American economic system. In addition to the foregoing, courses in ancient history and modern European history are offered from time to time. 'I3