Pontiac Township High School - Pontio Yearbook (Pontiac, IL)

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fat! fwLn YOUO wore! flzeme, clue fomowow 94 En gl1sh Did you ever stop to think that uc four hundred and twenty five students have one thing in common' Well we do' We all must pass three years of English to graduate Whether we have Miss Garrity Miss Karl, Mrs Kipfer or Miss May the courses are generally thc same Our freshman year we have one semester of literature We have book reports and good books whether they be the kind we taste or the kind we chew and svn allovn As our sophomore year closes we cover a similar but stiffer course and naturally we re all twice as 1ntell1 gent OJ Then the Junior year rolls around all too quickly If we make at least a B average we may register in sideline courses of English such as journalism and speech If we dont keep our nose to the grlndstone we register in English III which combines literature compost tion and grammar Seniors at last the college bound scholars may enter Miss Garritys English IV class Here we are introduced to the tops in English poetrv novels, drama and essays In the spring we have a six weeks refresher course in grammar so we are ready for college the next fall you guessed it more English Freshies display their good work on the board. Goodie goodie a six weeks English III test. 'Double double toil and trouble. Guess what English Lit

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006 ll QCL, 5011, uf OZAQI J IJ lille! lf 0.5! LUQQZ lnsplratnonl Come to me I have to xx r1te an edltorxal for tomorrow s journal lsm tssxgnment M1ss Garrlty teaches the lournahsm students the rules of xx r1t mg to produce a paper They are gnen mueh opportunxty to apply these rules Speeml stress IS placed on readrng news p tpers and betng wx 1re of propaganta Many lost fortunes mly be found ln the hbrary IS 1 few beggars of sehool m1t,ht tell you Why some people vnll forget 1 boole m their loelsers for months' Nevertheless there are treasures to be found ln the llbrary too Unllmxted ref erenee m1ter1al IS at the d1sposal of latest best seller to the hfe hxstory of 1 snul Our llbrlry IS 1 dehnlte asset to our sehool as was shovxn by the many eomplnments pfud by the state lnspeetors Some of the ambltxous dreamers of sehool have thelr future homes ll planned All they need IS SIS 000' Thls meehlmeal dravung eourse taught by Mr Sutton gnes pr1et1e1l lI'1l0I'fI11flO!'l on the use 1nd e ire of xnstruments letter mg prlnelples of s1ze and shape free hlnd sleetehxng pletorml dravung and blue pr1nt readrng J ournahsm L1btary Meehamcal Dravvmg ,, . . , . 7 . Y A-It ' ' v , 2 ' c . 2 'Z c ' ln. A 4 J 2 ' l ' . 1 7 2 s V ' c Q .Y A A Y. e ' 3 . 2 f l 1' - - . , . . , A .L 9 - ' students and faculty, anywhere from the 1. U . 2 . 2 i . 4 ' ' c . . V .. ' I fi A A . , . e . 4 , . A h 2 . lc 1 V. h ' c ' L . U 1 1 .-2 . . 2 , A .2 -2 . ' 1 , l , - L' I l 4 la 1 H h . a .X .C Y. , C 1 . .

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5 ag, 0 yOu f UlJlJ0f 0 f lt caf LUOUKCI Leia H12 P T H S Romans roam throuLh Rome lrteraturc ly Translate. the yoke for us alumnos lc espanol Grxe us a play vurh laughs Speech Languages Venn vrdr v1c1 Thrs rs the vrctorrous cry of the students vsho came savn and con quered Latin Thls basrc language helps rn the study of Englrsh and the romance lan guages Sometimes when you re reading about mythrcal characters as well as Caesar s hrstorr cal wars rn Gaul CFrance to you non Latrn charactersl youre absolutely carrred avs ay Mrss Robinson also orders a Latrn nevs spaper vshrch contains current events and vuhrch proves one thing vue re grateful vue speak md vxrrtc English rn our everyday lrfc' If you stepped unto Room 211 mnth hour youd find a few dyed rn the vsool Irrshmen Germans and other natronalrtres speakrng absolutely nothrng but Spanish Startrng second semester Mrs Krpfer la profesora made the rulrng that only Spanrsh would be spoken durmg class At first the students found rt hard but after they caught on rt was fun and Spanrsh was put to practrcal use Legends and some hrstory was translated the first semester whrle part of the second semes ter was devoted to real Spanrsh literature E1 Przyam Verde There rs '1 quret peacefulness hoverrng over the school and then howlmg and guffavs mg rarses the roof rn the vsest wrng Everyone knows rt s fourth hour speech and pantomime rs the assrgnment Mrs Krpfer teaches thrs pox ral group vsho learn porse self confidence and orgamzatron durrng the first semester when they study parlramentary procedure and the delrverance of varrous types of speeches