Southwood High School - Lance Yearbook (Wabash, IN)

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exts in English The advanced speech class learned many new things. ln order to widen each individual's speaking ability to many areas, each student had to major either in drama, original, boys and girls exempt or debate and also a minor in two-area or impromptu, oratorical, discussion, lulmorous, poetry, or broadcasting. Even though the students developed their skills in three areas, they could give advice and guidance in almost any area of speech because they had been properly trained. The students had the privilege of helping to set up the second largest speech meet in Indiana. Mr. Oglesby's sophomore English and literature classes were very busy. They had short fiction and nonfiction stories, poetry, drama, speech, grammar, and composition which broadened their knowledge in many areas. Mrs. Swan taught eight grade and freshman classes. In literature they had small discussion groups of five or six, and each group discussed the area in which they were studying. The students learned good sentence structure and each was required to memorize and recite one poem in front of the class. The junior English classes instructed by lVlr.Walker worked on improving sentence structure and express- ing themselves orally and in writing. Senior students became more prepared for college by writing weekly themes, preparing research papers, and taking weekly vocabulary quizes. , o , 1 .-3 of 09'-'C .mfg- Q ,WE .A!'f7 'q l ,,lJM?:, -M----.miss W. Q HRS. LEX X SW KN: Indiana Stale l niw-rsity, ILS.. Ball State l niversity, NIA. junior high English. HRS. INA lIcCLl'RG: Ball State lniversity, BS. and SLA. Seventh grade English, develop mental reading. NIR. IR-X Mc-tILl'RG: Ball State lniversity, LB. and IIA. Freshman English, business English. basic speech. HRS. XXX JIXKS: Berea Col- lege Ixentucky. LB.. l'niversity of Southern lialifornia, Indiana liniversity. Seventh grade Eng- lish. MRS. .Il IJITH F,-XHRNOW: Manchester College, BS. Fresh- man and sophomore English, Lance. Crusader, Freshman Class sponsor. 23

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Magazines and Paperbacks Complement K n I e 5. . NEWS MAGAZINES for debate and play scripts for drama are necessities for speech. G MR. THOMAS OGLESBY: Indiana University, B.S., Ball State, MA. Sophomore English, speech, drama, NFL, Thesbian sponsor. MR. ,ILLES WALKER: W'abash College, A.B., Indiana llniver sity, M.S. and ,l.D. ,Iunior and senior English. ,ILNIGR ENGLISH students listen as Mr. W'aIker goes over , homework assignment. 22

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Lan uages Take 21 Lot of Learning The Latin I class studied the reasons for taking Latin and the heritage from the Romans and Greeks. They also learned the Greek alphabet. Their greatest accomplishment was learning to read Latin. The Latin ll class continued to learn to read, comprehend. and understand more Latin. In the read- ings the students learned the Roman way of life, poli- tics. and Roman and Creek 1'llYlllOl0gy. The seventh grade Spanish students learned short dialogues every day. Display charts were used for teaching vocabulary and sentences. Reports, maps, displays. filmstrips, and slides of the Hispanic world afford the students the opportunity to visualize the foreign language environment. ln Spanish I students learned dialogues using film- strips. Pattern drills were used for practicing pronun- ciation and establishing good linguistic habits. Read- ing of simple narrations was introduced followed by oral questions. ln Spanish II a variety of oral exercises served as a guide to the practice of the basic grammatical struc- tures. Wlritten exercises were designed for making the transfer from the spoken to the written forms of the language. Spanish I and II used the language laboratory as a reinforcement and evaluating the students' aural-oral skills. Songs and games took a big part in the Spanish classes. bs 'N ANCY WEEKLEY Brenda Taylor Emma Walker Teresa demonstration during a seventh grade Spanish class.