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

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Soe1al Stud1es Dates dates dxtes theyll be our Wfaterloo yet Nou we mean dates when lustory was made no, no, not that lennd but lxlee Waterloo for nn stance, rn 1815 or was xt 1'916' The Socxal Studies help us to vuden our understandlng of pre ent day problems how they arlse and hon to solve them In U S HICIOYY me learn lbout cur Amerxean herltage, xxhlle world hxstory grves us prlmarrly the Euro pean vrexs After a year 1n Latrn Amerr can Hrstory elass, rt seems as 1f one has completed a tour through South Amerlca Ineldentally the mam fed ture of thxs eourse IS thtt rt lverages In our eeonomles eourse me letrn about stoele marleets, lorexgn exehange, and depressxons, vuhrle ln LIVILS eltss me acqulre rnformatlon of the trgtm zatlon .md funetroa of the dlfferent goxernmentrl unrts junuor elvxes ton sxsts ot an mtroduetory eourse to the more eompley. subyeets of Am rtun government and eeonomy World prob lems combmes a course of soclology and advanced CIVILS sxhrch revolves around eurrent events Commercnl geography attempts to glve the student general mformatlon about all the eoun trxes of the vsorld ff! flue farm Cas .U Pro and eon VICVKS aired on ,government admxmstratlon Wtmrlel hlstorxans relive Napoleonxe period lreshmen dxplomats settle emc problems Q Q ul ' ' . . r x I Y 1. .'J A 1 . - 1 . , . . I C 1 V K . ' 4 - 1 1 Y A ' ' J 1 . v I . . . - . N I' I V .J Y I . .A . . 2 U . , , ' 3 ,v . ' . 1 - 1 -A L 1 ' '. frm movles per week! 1' .' ' A '1 pf - . 1 ' - ' jf' A A 1 . K 7 ' - - I 'I A . A 2 K 0 e ' .I , ' ' 1 A A ' V - ' fh.'f - .. 4' Y - ' . 1 ' ' y T. . ' f -'v'

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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

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