Roosevelt Junior High School - Yearbook (Rockford, IL)

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Mr Edgar Van Barriger, Miss Bernadette Robertson, M.A., head of department: Mr. George Fridly, M.A. Miss Roberlsonhr sixth-hour class in typing. COMMERCIAL The commercial department offered courses in business practice and typewriting. Manufacturing and science have progressed so rapidly in the last quarter of a century that the business of living has become a very complicated procedure. In everyday life the student or adult constantly encounters a business transaction as a producer or a consumer. The aim of business practice has been to acquaint the student with fundamental facts which will facilitate these transactions. A great many people enjoy developing a skill. Typewriting is a skill and presents a challenge to anyone to see how well it may be developed for personal use at present, and for probable vocational use in the future. For personal use manuscript writing, outlining, tabulation, basic business English, simple letter forms, more advanced letterwriting, de- mands of employers in standard of work and personality are stressed throughout the course. 23 i I if if!

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fir! Weld. Q NIL, Miss lVeld's sixth-hour class in algebra. MATHEMATICS Mathematics, based on fundamental human needs, has assumed an ever-larger place in work of the civilized community. In all courses units were given which will prepare pupils to meet these demands in everyday living. Special emphasis this year was placed on mastery of those skills taught. Mathematics was a required subject in seventh and eighth grades. Work covered by seventh-grade course gave background to further study by presenting everyday business applications of arithmetic and the practical uses of intuitive geometry, including direct measurement and the construction and study of basic geometric figures. Work in eighth grade emphasized the social applications and stressed such objectives as indirect measure- ment and the hrst phases of symbolic thinking in algebra. Algebra I and II were ninth-grade electivesg problem solving' was emphasized throughout, and a unit of numerical trigo- nometry was given, with the purpose of showing the significance of indirect measurement. 22 Mrs Helen Monahan BA. Mr. Arthur Annrs BS Miss Florence Penstone MS Mr. Edgar Van Barriger Miss Naime Eckberg BA . Miss Violet Sherwood AB Miss Ruth Hollem M.A, head of department Miss Mary

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nf, . it s ,ft - C Miss Lucia Keller, M.A,, Miss Blanche Scone, Ph.B., Mr. Ralph Keltner, M.A., Miss Myrtle johnson, M.A., Miss Ann Mousseau, A.B., Miss Bertha Morse . . . Miss Edith Stewart, A.B., Mrs. Helen Monahan, B.A., Miss Vira Esther Clark, M.A., Head of Departmentg Miss Elizabeth Sullivan, B.S., Miss Dorothy Black- burn, B.E., B.A., Miss Sarah Snyder, teacher of English, was absent. Miss Blarkburrfs sixtb-hour class in Lalinf Miss Moussealfs sixlb-bour rlass in reading. , LANGUAGE AND ENGLISH Courses in language gave pupils not only a knowledge of the language, but an under- standing of the people whose language was studied. Greater emphasis was placed upon the study of foreign languages this year because a thorough knowledge of French, Span- ish, and German, will be necessary in the postwar world. The eighth-grade course covered the cultural background of Italy, Germany, France, and Spain, and the elementary gram- mar, songs, and rhymes of the people. A two-semester course was offered in all courses to ninth-grade students who plan to continue their study of language in senior high school. All work in English was planned that pupils might have experience and practice in reading, speaking, and writing the English language effectively and well. Units in read- ing, literature, oral and written composition, and spelling made up the course, which is required for all grades. Newswriting was given as a ninth-grade elective, and auditorium was required of all seventh-grade pupils for one semester. Remedial procedures, especially in reading and spelling, were emphasized. 24