Snowden Junior High School - Yearbook (Memphis, TN)

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We Ninth Graders begin to see the purpose of all the knowledge we are acquiring A simple machine such as a teeter board shows how a small force, Russ Barhan, can lift a heavy weight, Fred Klyman. Algebra provides a method for us to solve problems. Changing temperature from Fahren- heit to Centigrade is a problem for these ninth graders. Algebra is a top aid to engi- neers and to chemists in solving problems of measuring distance and in chemical analysis. In arithmetic we learn how to find per- centage and to understand its meaning, wheth- er we read the term in the newspaper, in science, chemistry, statistics, or in business graphs. H. QE ', 'i -up . . , Q1 ,Q - - A ., W. V. - ' 11,111 F, if -iw ,r , '77 1 I r H.. ,ml.HlhrI'll-'.hHdIyL'Elll.

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NINTH GRADERS Begin to select subjects most interesting to them Some are interested in the sub'eet matter, some J are interested because they think the work is easy fAnd what a rude awakening some have

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We see how our learning can be used in everyday life and to obtain further knowledge Latin teaches us much about words. We lstiii ' ..m,, umm 'M' have had a great deal of fun hunting for Latin derivatives in reading material and putting them on the board. We've about filled the board now. Barbara, Mike, Marvin, and Eliza- beth have learned that there is more to Latin than just amo, amas, amat. - f.t1.R1l1Ai LAHN W .i. Sandra White is pointing out to these ninth graders how the Constitution framers divided the powers of the central government so that one department had no more power than the other. This division has, at times, been vague and hard to understand. Mike Rauscher is showing the class that compound complex sentences are made up of different kinds of clauses and demonstrates the uses of the clauses in diagraming. ' ::.1Li In the Music Appreciation class Leeba An- drews discusses the Baroque composers with the class. 47