Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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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.

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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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.sf4,+-r.u.gfA ' Mr. Huxham, Mr. Larson, Miss C. Scone, Mr. Schoonmakcr, Mr. Campbell. Miss Reynolds, Miss Ryan, Miss E. Sconc, Miss Hopkins. Social Science Department ln Social Science one becomes acquainted with one's duties and responsibilities in regard to the social, economic, and political life of the nation. This involves a consideration of the local. state, national, and world relationships of society. Of course, all this means that one must not only learn to co-operate in the home and city or community in which one lives. The lasting peace and welfare of the world must eventually rest upon the fact that nations co-operate and depend upon one another as individual members of good families do. The true principles of democracy are learned by all pupils and are used as the foundation on which to build a better America. This involves SOIUC changes so that the group is in step with the fast-moving machine age, and not plodding along in the horse and buggy age. Instruction is of such a nature that no room is left in the minds of pupils that changed conditions bring about new problems and the realization that that which seems best today may not be the best next year or later. The lives of outstanding Americans are studied, so that the pupils may have the guidance and example of these men and women in helping them to solve the great problems which will confront them from time to time in the future, j t . I - 0 141 ROOSEVELT 1935