Pennridge High School - Pennant Yearbook (Perkasie, PA)

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, ome conomiczi The basic goil of home economics, is to help girls live a more useful and satisfying personal, family, and community life. As Freshmen, all girls have four units in 'home ecf Advanced courses in homemalcing are olliercd to the Sophomore, junior, and Senior girls. All these courses are presented to help prepare the girls to surmount the problems that they will meet when they ieave school. Cf So fluffy and dry ,l1leaAA ana! l9Ay5zca givlucafion Girls' health is so interesting. Speed and accuracy, girls! The health course is designed to instill thc basic health rules in the pupils. Health is required of all Freshmen and Seniors. Satisfactory completion of the Senior First Aid course merits the pupil a Senior Red Cross certincate. The course in physical education aims at improve- ment of the general physical condition of each pupil. Group activities, work on apparatus, and mat-work combine to make a well balanced program. This is physical education.

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Woodworking in the shop. cgncludfriaf Arid The Industrial Arts course in high school is otfered to those boys who are interested in learn- ing through experiences with tools and ma- terials. It is one of the practical arts-a form of general or non-vocational education. Industrial Arts is required of all Freshmen boys, and ad- vanced study is optional. Industrial Arts I, II, III are advanced courses in woodworking and metal- working. junior Business Training. Electric mixers are handy. Busy at the forge. udinezki giclucafion The business course consists of a variety of subjects including General Business Training, Typing, Commercial Geography, Stenography, and Transcrip- tion, Bookkeeping, and Office Practice. These subjects are taught to prepare a person to enter successfully the business world, and to inform individuals of everyday consumer problems.

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How's your accent? lsn't biology interesting! ocafionaf .xdgricu fare Any students who are interested in agriculture and the related fields may take this course. Vocational agriculture is taught in the classroom, shop, and field, and then it is put into use at home. The pupils study animal husbandry, crops, vegetables, dairy farming, farm machinery, production, and farm management and economics. In addition, each pupil has a project which helps him learn farming by experience. Each student enrolled in agriculture is entitled to be- come a member of the Future Farmers of America. 76 Spanish music is so invigorating. elaarfmenf 0 cienceri There are five different courses in science offered in Pennridge. General Science is the introductory study, giving the student a background for the more advanced sciences. Biology, the study of living things, gives the student the opportunity to collect pro- jects and to use the microscope. Chemistry and Physics prepare students for college work, but they also are given for an under- standing of how they can use these subjects in everyday living. Related Science is a course of study combining chemistry, phy- sics, and biology and stressing them in daily life. Weltliimg expert