Richwood High School - Tigrtrax Yearbook (Richwood, OH)

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT 28 Freshman Faces First Challenge In High School English

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Juniors Meet Problems of Ibid.'s. Op. Cit.'s. and Bibliographies on Formal Perm Papers. Probably the greatest asset of a human being is his ability to communicate with others. Of all forms of communication— gesture, grimace, touch, sound--the most difficult to master is language because language alone is artificial, a purposeful discipline of accurate identification of thought which must then be couched in terms another may understand. To metamorphose an emotion into an idea requires a wide and an apt vocab- ulary; to express an idea within a sound framework of phrases and clauses re- quires knowledge of sentence structure; to permit a reader free entry into the realm of ideas demands concrete know- ledge of traffic signals—punctuation and capitalization. For these reasons English classes study sentence structure, vocab- ulary, and mechanics. To acquaint themselves with the styles of experts and to the forms suitable to the subject—novel, essay, poetry, drama, bio- graphy—the English classes study lit- erature. Literature, communicating the wisdom wrestled from mankind's attempt to rule the Universe and his half-hearted efforts to control himself, is youth's threshold for understanding life and the door to his own ultimate achievement. We regret that we fumble the key! 29