Roncalli High School - Lance Yearbook (Aberdeen, SD)

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ENGLISH - A Chance to Carry on An Old American Tradition This years English curriculum offered something differ- ent, for in all classes, students were given the oppor- tunity to choose their own classes and teachers. This new benefit led to better pupil-teacher relations, more efficient teaching and learning, and better class participation on the part of the students. The most popular courses chosen by students in the senior class was drama. Other choices were: Great Books I May Have Missed, Short Story and American Novelists. Business English was also on the list of English credits. In the past, Roncalli has manifested several important changes in the educational efficiency in the school, but the English department was by far the best ever. It offers so many advantages that its success was not unexpected. Great courses are made, not born, and Roncalli's English Program offers living proof of that theory as it offers freedom to students, unburdens the teachers, and progresses into the future. Students offered further suggestions: Buy more rocking chairs. Frank Sieh Nail the door shut. Joe Sitter An improvement in the English Department would be a comprehensive program on grammar and a film studies program. Dick Molseed Craig Gardener, Freshman, completes the reading assigned by his teacher. Frank Pehoviak, Linda Whiteside, Tom Burgard, and Kevin Dandurand conduct a group discussion with