Rockford High School - RHS Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Departments English lllliLl.IE jon Head lt has been almost fifty years since I went to school, and you are still treading the same old halls. 'iYes. the school hasn't changed much, but the courses are probably somewhat different. Everyone is required to take two years of English now, regardless of the course he is following, and seven elective courses are of- tered. ln the freshman English we took a com- position course, and rhetoric the next year. There was also an oral reading course required for the hrst two years. XVe have our composition courses the First semester of the sophomore and junior years and literature courses in the second se- mesterf' Our literature courses came in the junior and senior years and included study of Shake- speare and the classics. YVe cover Shakespeare in our English lit- erature courses, which are offered in the senior year. Then, of course, we have those courses which are not required, such as journalism, debate, creative writing, world literature, and college preparatory English. Any of the first three may be substituted for the regular com- position courses. lVe had nothing of that sort at all. De- bate was not begun until some years atter l was graduated, l905, I believef, lt was not until l92-l that the journalism course was added. The same year classes were begun in creative writing. 'fVVhat other courses does your English department include l'There are the dramatic art courses and the speech classes. The speech course was begun in 1908 and fourteen years later another course was added, the study oi the Bible as lit- eratnref' 'iAnd these are not required of the stu- dents ?'l UNO, they are all elective courses. It is very advantageous to a student to take these courses, for they further his knowledge of the subject along the line which appeals most to himf' PU IDENTIFICATION Sonja Sandeen, Dora Crouk, and Lillian Seidler were named as winners for the hook review contests. Charles Friberg, Phyllis Noreiko, Marguerite Peterson, Ronald Spongberg. Marshall Linder, and Ruth Paulson, in- structed the home rooms in parliamentary law. A group of A. B. L. girls presented an English period style show for the club. The members of thc Dramatic Art ll class are shown putting make-up on each other. page fwcvzly-eiglzi