Savannah Country Day School - Country Data Yearbook (Savannah, GA)

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Journalism lt's This way! frequent writing of themes, vocabulary work, and other skills are given attention. The Honors English course for juniors and seniors requires not only the usual major research paper, but also a study, changing each year, of sophisticated literary works. 15

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ENGLISH DEPARTMENT T ' '- I I wi ..... f . , M, Y M ,, N NW ,... Y f-ef 's ' -1 P ---- l ...... rfiz 3 T ' f MR. R. W. TRUSDELL, M.A. MRS. ELIZABETH STANTON MR. L. B. SAYRE The English Department of any school or college deals with the fundamental area of communication. All knowledge and all ideas must be communicated if they are to be truly useful. Thus, it is appropriate that the English Department of our school should be the first in which an honors course is introduced. Our Upper and Lower Schools pupils' exceptional achieve- ment in grammar and mechanics has enabled us to reduce the bulk of our teaching of mechanics so that it is substantially finished, except for a brief review, by the ninth-tenth grade level. This means that even fuller attention is being devoted each year in our Upper School grades to composition and literature. Through use of various paperback editions instead of the ordinary Hcannedl' literature textbooks, we have organized our study of literature as follows: ninth grade, an introduc- tion to the novel QDickensj and to the drama QShakespearejg tenth grade, a stronger emphasis on the novelg eleventh grade, emphasis on the dramag twelfth grade, emphasis on poetry. In each grade, of course, other kinds of literary works are read, always including a Shakespearean play and the 14 MR. JOHN DUNN Members noi pictured here: MR. R. W. CONKLING, M.A THE THINKER

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Maestro FINE ARTS The purpose of the fine arts department is se1f-ex- pression. The faculty seeks to develop a sense of crea- tivity and aesthetic apprecia- tion through training in dra- matics, arts, and music. Look at all the fruits! This is ART? s r is 1 ' -r. Z., vgl! v,,, V' ,,-. a sf 3, if MRS. ROBERT WAGNER Dramafics MRS. JOHN INGLESBY Ar? MRS. RICHMOND MURRAY Music 16