St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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Past and Future Once upon o time Hansel and Grotol . . and so the story goes as Bob Ezrilov roods this fable to his class in Gorman. This is an oxample of just ono of the many stories read by first year German students. Second year German concentrates on advanced material of literary merit and a broader view of Gorman civilization. Spanish class can provo to be a puzzle when a person puts the adjective before the noun. George Weyer vorifies that he is human by the fact that he needs help from Pom Peterson who is willing to share her knowledge for this particular problem. After a student's first year of Spanish, he Is oblo to understand the language better. In ordor to increase their vocabulary and comprehension, the second year Sponish students read little Spanish books which supplement their main textbook. They also uso the tape recorder to improve their pronunciation. Junior Kathleon Nelson finds American litoraturo more interesting than she had thought. She is beginning to understand American life ond ideals which ore reflected in the works of many of our great American writers. 11

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Languages Form Our Foreign languages, an important part of education at Park, have at the present time 533 enrolled students. The four language classes, French, German, Latin and Spanish, attempt to develop a greater understanding of their respective country's history, customs and people. The spoken language is stressed, that is the student hears the sounds of the words and then associates them with reading and writing. Senior high English continues the development of skills in the four areas of the language arts,- they are: listening, reading, speaking and writing. Literature is studied to develop more mature understandings of various ideas and works. In recent years the English program has been revised to consider the individual differences in student abilities. Translator , grammarian and scholar . Grammar and vocabulary are not the only things the Latin student assimilate. Observance of the past is pictured by these student contemplating the ancient history of the city of Herculoneum. Tom Griffiths isn't being examined by Doctor Nelson. She 5 just helping him pronounce hi French with the u e of a now device, the mirror. The first year French students ore being given the opportunity to express their French by acting out plays. Because of the skills that ore acquired from taking first and second year French, the students aro able to enjoy reading works from the realm of French literature. Please, please, Kathy Connor pleads as she tries to coax her class to agreo with the viows of her persuasive speech. Although one may not realize how important speech is, if is evident that wo depend upon persuasion in every phoso of our lives. This year there is a total of 235 speech students enrolled In either of Mr. Doclercq's or Miss Litsheim's classes. 10

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The Social Sciences Woke up Billl Oh, he isn't sleeping; he is concentrating on Aristotle's Politics, one of the selections which is read in humanities. A lot of thought is required to understand the various philosophies in politics. In the social science classes we learn many things, but each one leads to the specific purposes of the department. These purposes are: to train the students to be good citizens in our democratic way of life, to teach students to develop reasoning power and critical judgment and to encourage desirable patterns of conduct, as the teaching of factual knowledge is not enough. The social sciences relate to the beginning, organization and development of human society and to the improvement of each of the conditions under which man lives, economic, political, cultural and social. Whot would it hove been like to be on Indian? Jeon Hcminghauj discontinues her reading for a minute to contemplote the days of the young republic from 1789-1815. She allows her imagination to run wild os she pictures the appearance of on Indion chief. American history is the study of the struggles of the American people as they fought to improve the democratic process. Certain social skills and traits must be acquired to perfect the intended result of democracy. HISTORY Of A FREE PEOPLE Putt the stringsl Penny Rich h having difficulty showing these world history students the operation of roising and lowering a device which wos used to storm the walls of costles. This device is one exomp’.e of the type of project these students con make In world history. 12