Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Miss Payne Clibrarianl, Miss Sullivan, Miss Blackburn, Miss McGuire, Miss XVbiting, Miss Snyder. Miss Clark, Miss Stewart, Miss B. Scone, Miss Morse, Miss Green, Mrs. XVarren. English and Foreign Language Departments English is required of all pupils at Roosevelt. This subject will probably not be lacking in interest or emphasis so long as thoughts are transferred and wants supplied through languageg and today, more than ever, offers teachers of all subjects a unique opportunity to co-operate. Subject material presented in English today includes work in reading and literature, oral and written composition, and spelling. Emphasis is placed upon reading as a thought-getting processg literature units, varied and graded, are grouped around ideas which tend to give pupils contacts with all types of human exper- ience, supplementary reading at home and school, preferably of pupils' own choos- ing, aids in developing knowledge, appreciation, and enjoyment of good literature and power to use leisure time with protitg oral reading and work in oral composi- tion offer practice in more effective speech, increasingly more important as evi- denced on radio and screen, the program in written composition attempts to adapt itself to varying abilities of pupils and to their personal, social, and local needsg functional grammar units are given in the B sections of each grade, as drill in the mechanical elements of correct grammar is the essential obligation of the English department. Spelling in all classes, new lists each semester, aims to bring about not only a complete mastery of the given lists, but to develop a spelling conscience and a technique for word study as well. The foreign language department with a first-semester enrollment of 18-l and a second-semester enrollment of 222, offered French and Latin to ninth-year pupils and general language to eighth-year pupils. During the coming school year Spanish and German will be offered to ninth-year students. It is hoped that so many pupils will elect foreign language study that the number of teachers in the department will need to be increased. U21 ROOSEVELT 1935

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ROOSEVELT 1935 1 ll Miss Joyce, Mr. Muth, Miss Gust 'ou, Miss Berg. S t1l'1 Administration-my goodness, 1 big word! Perhaps it can be explained by saying that to administer means tc - 1 ge. Are you conscious of being mau- aged? Probably you are all too consciou f it on some occasions, and not so conscious on others. Administration h. - two ompanions-organization and super- vision. These three friends usually a :ear on the scene in the following order: ,' ministration Supervision rg ni tion Supervision. which mea s i inspect or look over and often to overlook, is so closely related to administra on that they may be confused. In Roosevelt, as in other schools, the management of the school centers in the principal's oflice where it is the job of the principal to organize. manage, and check up from time to time. Naturally. the principal cannot be expected to handle the job alone. so he assigns certain duties and responsibilities to the assistant principal. clerks, heads of departments, classroom teachers, nurse, librarian, engi- neer, janitors, student oiiicers and individual students. Every individual has a definite part to play in the plan of administration. NV hen you. as a student, obey a rule or perform an assigned task, however small, you are helping to make things run smoothly. In other words, administration is a large word used to describe an important job that is made up of a great number of little things that all of us can do.

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ROOSEVELT 1935 31 Mr. VanBarriger, Miss Nolan, Miss Hollem, Mr. Villemure. Bliss Hyland. Miss VVeld, Miss Reitsch, Miss Eckburg. Mathematics Department An opportunity to discover one's mathematical ability, one's likes and dislikes in the vamous helds of mathematics is given to each pupil in the Roosevelt junior High School. Mathematics is required of all pupils in the seventh and eighth grade. In the seventh grade, the pupil studies the common business forms such as cash accounts, household accounts, sales slips, the reading of gas and electric meters, and how to make change. lie also becomes familiar with per cent and its uses in commission, discount, and profit and loss problems. He learns how to make and to interpret the bar and line graph in order that he may pursue our daily papers and magazines more intelligently. As he advances in the seventh grade, he enters a new field of mathematics- intnitive geometry, and learns how to use such tools as the ruler, right angle, com- pass, and protractor. I-le becomes acquainted with forms and designs used in our commercial world. ln the eighth grade. special attention is given to the common geometric solids, to indirect measurement and to congruency, similarity, and symmetry. The formula and equation are developed as aids in arithmetic and geometry. The problem material for the advanced eighth grade is in harmony with com- mon business practice. Attention is centered largely on such social topics as banking, investments, taxation, and insurance. Algebra, in the ninth grade, is an elective subject. Here a pupil receives an understanding of the use of signed numbers and literal numbers, is introduced to the concept of fractional relationship, and is given increased knowledge of graphs and graphical representations. Problem solving is emphasized throughout the course. A unit of numerical trigonometry is studied. None of the difficult parts of trigonometry are studied. The purpose is to show the pupil the significance of indirect measure.