Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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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

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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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i 1935 VELT SE R00 Miss Herrick, Mr. Ray, Mr. James, Mr. VVise, Miss Olson. Miss Mundhcnke, Miss Otto, Miss Smith, Miss Hanstroni. Q General Science and Commercial Departments General Science is one of the newer subjects in the junior high school course of study. Its content changes from year to year, because the many fields of science change constantly with new discoveries. One of the aims of General Science is to arouse greater interest and stimulate better practice in personal and community hygiene. Besides demonstrations and textbook work, public health workers and practicing physicians often come into the classroom to emphasize the various angles of health science. Another aim is to enable the pupil to evaluate and appreciate the service of scientific experts. Today, as never before in history, people depend upon the specialist-the authority in each field of science. Our junior high school course attempts to point out the outstanding fields of science and the expert in each division. The great and simple inventions and devices are used with no more thought than the machines which are used. An attempt toward appreciation is made through the study of biographies which illustrate how men and women have often sacrificed and suffered with the ultimate result that life is more enjoyable and comfortable. Today the greatest romance and adventure in the world lies in the thrill of scientific discovery. Courses offered in the Commercial Department are Business Practice I and ll, which may be elected by eighth-and ninth-grade pupils, and Typewriting I and ll, which may be elected by ninth-grade pupils. Business Practice aims to give a pupil a simple picture of business life, to teach him such elementary business knowledge as every person can use, and to give a certain amount of vocational training in the branches of business activity which he might enter if it becomes necessary for him to leave school. In typewriting, students learn how to take care of a typewriter and how to write business letters and simple business forms with a certain amount of skill and accuracy.