Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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ROOSEVELT I936 Mr. Campbell, B. 8; Miss 0. Same, A. 11.; Mr. Svhoomnakel', 13.8.; Miss Hopkins, A. 13.; Miss Ryan. MI'. Huxham, B. 8.; Miss E. Scone, Mr. Larson, Head of Department of Social Science; Miss Reynolds, A. B. DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SCIENCE In ancient Rome the proudest boast was Romanus sum which is translated, n1 am a Roman citizen? In ancient Rome, how- ever, the privileges of a citizen of the E111- pire were very few in comparison with those which we as citizens of our country enjoy today. Too often, it would seem, we think of our blessings and privileges and forget that we have duties and re- sponsibilities to render in return. All school work should aim toward a better fulhllnlent of these duties and re- sponsibilities. The work in the Social Science Department is of such a nature. In social science, geography teaches us about the lands and life of our fellow Americans who live in South America. This study should make it easier for us tO understand the problems that may arise in our relations with these people. A study of the history of our own country should and does help us to understand better what the ideals of America are, and how our forefathers struggled to obtain these privileges we enjoy. Such study also makes us more conscious of our duty to maintain these blessings. Problems are constantly arising today just as they did in the past, and we need to prepare our- selves so that we shall be able to solve better than before the many difficult prob- lems that are almost sure to arise. Com- munity civics gives us information about the problems and work that confronts us as citizens of the city, state, and nation. In civics, too, we learn how to mark ballots and discover what the qualifications which the candidates for public offices should have. In social science vocations are studied, and each pupil tries to select the one vocation which he will follow when he leaves the school life for the community life. Social science in an age like ours and a country like ours is a most important subject. Paw

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i: J Many of the most important services of the school are rendered directly or indi- rectly by the school office, where Mr. Muth, Principal of Roosevelt since it was Opened in 1924, Miss Joyce. Assistant Principal, and Miss Berg and Miss Gustaf- son, the two clerks who have charge of the office work. keep busy from eight in the morning until five at night. On Saturday the school office closes at twelve noon. A school office is really the center of things in the school organization. Here the general management, policies. and plans are outlined, and under the guidance of the principal are carried forward. The principal has Charge of the supervision of instruction in all departments; in music and art, he is assisted by the two special supervisors; in other departments, he is aided by department heads. Miss Joyce, assistant principal, has charge of discipline cases, truancy, and attendance, and works I,yitss Berg; Mr. Muth, Uh'incilmh; Miss Joyce, tAssistzlnt Pl'im-iszD; Miss Gustnfsun. OUR SCHOOL OFFICE very closely with Mrs. Atchinson, the at- tendance office- and Miss Hanstrom, the school nurse. She also has charge of one study hall and sponsors the Student Coun- cil. On Miss Berg and Miss Gustafson fall 2111 the hundreds of detail tasks that must be continually taken care of to insure the school life moving on smoothly. There are locker permits, bicycle permits, lost books, found hooks, program arrangements and changes. school accounts, and in addition to all that, the clerical work of a busy office to be done. Each one of the workers in the school otitice at Roosevelt has an important phase of the school life to care for, and it is he- canse each one as an individual and as a member of this group works so efficiently that Roosevelt pupils and teachers are able to work so well and so easily.

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Miss St- art, A.B.; Miss Blackburn, A.B.: Miss McGuire, AIL; Miss Whiting, B.S.; Miss Scone; Miss llivan, B.S.; Mrs. Warren, A.B. Morse. Miss Snyder was absent. DEPARTM ENTS OF E Strands in reading, literature, oral and written composition, instrumental gram- mar. and spelling are presented to junior high school pupils enrolled in English Classes. Experiences in silent readingr give practice with study materials. with locating, collecting, and stunmarizing helpful facts, with supplementary reading and recreational reading. This year a few Classes have done work which has enabled them to find out very interesting facts about their own reading rates. compre- hension and memory scores, and they have made much progress as a result. Litera- ture, where more oral work is done, uses selections of many types and corresponds with the present and possible future in- terests 0f the class. For oral and written composition, exercises are chosen on a basis of probable social usefulness, suit- ability. and probable ettectiveness. Instru- mental grammar includes necessary in- formation and considerable drill in gram- matical usage. Spelling lists and tests are identical for all, as the problem works for Mis Green, A.B.', Miss Clark, M.A., Head of Department of lilnglish; Miss Holt, AJL, Librarian; Miss o h LISH AND FORE N EANGUAGE these grades vary little. Remedial work and creative compositional activities are carried on in certain classes; in all cases the Course of Study is designed to be suf- hciently flexible to permit its use under whatever conditions may exist. The classes in the Foreign Language Department are all elective. Eighth-grade students usually choose general language, which gives a greater knowledge and ap- preciation of their own through compari- son with others. Simple songs, grammar. simple poems are learned in the different languagesi Ninth-grade pupils have the choice of French. German, Spanish, and Latin. Last year there were no Spanish or German classes; so few were interested in these two. Class activities in ninth- grade work include grammar. vocabulary drills. translation, and a study Of English derivatives. Miss Stewart and Miss Black- burn have the foreign language classes at Roosevelt.