South Side High School - Totem Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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English Students Analyze Poems, Short Stories, Essays, REPETITIQ, E3T MAim S A day in old Rome? No, it is just a cornball production of Visit to a is the Martian while the defenseless Earthlings, played by Bob Cushman, Small Planet by some hams in Mrs. Spray's English 7 class. Steve Young Marsha Ehrmann Linda Weaver, and Dennie Gilbert, look on. 16

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Plays, Learn Basic Fundamentals Of Sentence Structure Endeavoring to acquire, improve, and develop by constant study and effort the basic fundamentals of our English language, South Side students were offered an inclusive program by the English Department. The ability to express explicitly one's thoughts through composition and to comprehend and digest literary material was the primary goal of the serious student. By writing a minimum of nine themes per semester, the student improved his writing skills and mastered those dangling participles and run-on sentences. Grammatical rules pene- trated his mind through extensive and intensive instruction and repetition- Serving as additional composition practice, the research paper, which could be constructed from any topic, prepared the student for advanced college work by acquainting him with note and bibliography cards, syllogisms, the Reader's Guide, and various other reference facilities offered by the library. From Julius Caesar to Beowulf, from short stories to novels, the progressing student developed analyzation power and dem- onstrated his dramatic talent in an hour-long book report. The department offered still another opportunity — that of increasing the student's reading speed and improving his com- prehension and vocabulary with a developmental reading course. Through years of exasperating toil, many a student stayed up until the wee hours of the morning but gained an ex- tensive background and foundation in our English heritage. Asleep, my love? ponders Diane Arnold, as she and the rest of the room read and interpret a difficult Shakespearian play. Diagramming sentences helps students to better understand basic sentence structure. After learning about the rules of proper sentence construction, sophomore English 3 students Ann Teague, Julie Buchheit, and Steve Roberts put the 17