Prairie Du Chien High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Prairie Du Chien, WI)

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ET Tu, BRUTEP A students high school curriculum seems to he filled vvith English. Why all this grammar and literature? a student may query. lf we were to look hack on our high school studies as an adult, perhaps we would realiife how value alnle those years of English were to us. We would find that those years in the classroom make our everyday living easier and more in- teresting. At PHS three years of English are required and a fourth year is offered as an elective, Eiesliinan English is basic, laying a foundation for both grammar and literature. Nlrs. Schreiner teaches tvvo classes of Freshman English and Miss Goan conducts a short course in library science and one clzss of Freshman English. Miss Hmelwcocl completes the English cle- partnient, tefirltirg tvvo Sophomore classes, tvvo Junior classes and one Senior class, The Sophomore course offers an advanced combination of grammar and literature while the Juniors concentrate on American literary works and the principles of composition. The Seniors can he found pouring over the authors and background of English literature. Advanced composition completes and adds variety to their course. It must be interesting to get such rapt attention from Poetry is the music of thought con- veyed to us in the music of language. Chalhed Chuck and Jerry Smile Pat! What are you thinking Helen? Eighteen

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DRI LL FOR LEARNING xjli How's this for study and concentration? The stud climbing up a ste y of Mathematics is like ep and craggy mountain, when once you reach the top, it full trouble, by opening a fine, clear, and extensive prospect. y recompenses your -Tyron Edwards What day goes by when nearly everyone does not use math in some way, shape, or form? Some, whose business depends on it, use it much more than oth ers who may use it only in figuring out their grocery bill or paying income taxes. No matter what your profes- sion or age you cannot escape mathematics and there- fore Prairie High offers an exten sive and thorough course in Math. A student with a fiair f or math can have a course in the subiect each of his four years in High School. Starting in the Freshman year, a course in practical business arithmetic and the first principles of Algebra and Geometry called General Mathematics is intro- duced. ln the Sophomore year under Miss Dohse and Mr. Derouin, Algebra is given. Miss Dohse's definition of Algerbra is a shorthand statement to be performed in arithmetic. Emphasis is placed on the basic func- tions of mathematics which appear most in life. These Nineteen are the formula, graph, equations and problems. Composed mainly of Juniors, Geometry students are constantly trying to prove the relationship between triangle ABC and triangle DEF. Geometry is basically the study of the relationships of lines, surfaces, and angles. The first is evoted to Advanced Algebra which is exactly what the name im- pines, an advanced course in Algebra. Trigonometry is studied by the 4th year students in the second sem- ester. New Trig books were introduced this year showing clearly the mathematical science that deals with the relation of angles and sides of triangles. The tie-in between Trigonometry and physics, navigation, mechanics, electronics, radar, surveying and other branches of engineering is cleverly presented in an attractive manner by Miss Dohse. Scholarships, coll- ege, and college life are also subiects of discussion in Room 3. semester of the Senior year ' d