Shadle Park High School - Sporran Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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Classes Encourage Creativity, Form Critical Minds

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Histor Department Modernizes Exciting, different, and a little hard, expressed the opinion of many students from the new World l and ll and Humanities course that entered the his- tory department this year. Lec- tures and individual research work replaced the conven- tional text books. Students also received a college credit for the Humanities course. Government, Economics, and Contemporary World Problems classes modernized their techniques by analyzing re- cent laws passed, the story of corporation, and foreign aid. Guest speakers helped to stim- ulate student interest in eco- nomic classes. Mr. George Manning, who taught Govern- ment and United States His- tory this year stated, Even the students who don't, or haven't liked history have taken a more active interest this year than formerIy. Go- ing on, he said, Students to- day seem better informed on world and political affairs, this is largely due to television. Art, literature, and music helped the U.S. History stu- dents understand the philo- sophical approach to history, as they worked on a research paper this year. Finding new answers to old problems and working inde- pendently, the sophomores studied the basic facts of World History. Northwest History replaced Washington State History for those who didn't receive Washington State History as freshmen. Students are re- quired to take this course to graduate. Jessie Sussek and Chris Brannan animatedly discuss a problem in third period Northwest History. fa.: '--' t ' f' f-- f ' - as r N 'e-r ' l'-VHWW A---Masai' '