Southern High School - Southerner Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Using a map for explanation, Butch rell tells Sandra Moring about the histori- conquest of Mexico in World History. scover their abilities and weaknesses and eip them to make wise decisions about courses mtake and vocations to consider. World History enlightens the sophomores nout ages past from the modern viewpoint. ilms and maps are shown for clearer explana- ons. All juniors take United States History. They earn about the history, government, and political tructure of our country and study the constitu- on. Seniors take Government or International elations, a political science course about our odern age. 5. I 'i if U.S. History students Jackie Jackson and Charles Gibbs read about THE MAKING OF MODERN AMERICA. R ls THAT what you want to be? Cornelia Lan- caster asks Donnie Goodwin who is writing his Human Relations vocational term paper.

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Names of places become realities when They are located on The globe in Mr. Rice's Geography class. Teaching us abouT The pasT, presenT, and TuTure of ourselves and The world around us is The Social STudies DeparT- menT. Freshmen are required To Take human relaTions, which helps Them To seTTle successfully inTo Their new high school environmenT and To begin Thinking seriously abouT Their fuTures. TesTs Yarborough. Filing another set ol Government notes is Marfh

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mafkemafica elaarfmenf 1 Marc Copeland and Marietta Stevenson explore the intricacies of an equilateral hyperbola. At the right Willie Lou Lynn displays her proiect which shows practical applications of geometric figures. Seeking to explain the magic of num- bers, the mathematics department offers many courses. All Freshmen are required to further their basic knowledge by taking general math or to enter a world of equations by taking Algebra I. College preparatory students com- plete their education in numbers with plane geometry, which deals with pro- perties and relations of plane figures, Algebra ll, and Algebra lll. Future engineers also take solid geometry and trigonometry. Usually in coniunction with the commercial subiects, students take business math. For those who have not mastered enough of the essentials of mathematics by the end of their junior year, there is a senior general math class.