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

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TO DEVELOP CREATIVE ABILITIES . Student In Corole's Office Practice eloM are using the business machine to improve their accuracy and speed. Carole uses her Study Hall to work In llbrory on o book report for her English closs. 23 These enthusiastic art students are eagerly taking odvantage of o live model who is posing for them while they do their gesture drawings. This is the type of work that helps develop their creative abilities by toochlng them to restrict their art work.

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AN OPPORTUNITY Carole tok« »K advice of the iign on the roitrum at the gives a current events report on President Kennedy's cobinet in her Social Science class. Senior Corole Berset begins her doy in her second year Art course where she works on gesture drawings, clay and other forms of creative expression. Second hour, Socital Science develops in Carole an awareness of the many sociol problems which she as o future citizen must face and attempt to solve. Her third hour gives her on opportunity to leorn how to correctly use modern office machines and proper offee procedure. Fourth carries Carole across the sea to the sceptered Isle with the study of English literature. There are also tho fa-milior lessons in spelling and punctuation which make every English course complete. After her fifth hour Study Hall, Corole con be found in her World Geography room. This course explains the effects of geographic factors on political, economic and historical occurrences in a country. During the three years that Carole hos attended Pork High, she has had the opportunity to take any number of interesting and beneficial classes. She has chosen a curriculum that hos satisfied her own needs, but many additional courses are presented which ore geared os a prerequisite for almost every individual's future. St. Louis Park High School offers 96 different courses ranging from Humanities to Home Economics and from Typing to Trigonometry. In addition, special classes such os Remedial Reading and Debate are provided for the students' benefit. Specifically, four languages, Latin, French, Spanish and German, are taught on a two year basis. English, including American and English literature, is provided in an enriched program in the junior and senior years while English skills predominate in tenth grade. Mathematics and the various Natural Sciences are both offered on the accelerated level beginning with selected classes in the ninth grade. Biology, Chemistry and Physics as well as Geometry, Algebra and Trigonometry are studied extensively. The Social Sciences, from American and World History to World Geography, Social Problems and Humanities, are taught by a number of methods. Among them ore lectures, discussions, conclusions and a new innovation, team teaching. Current events magazines and the Great Books ore just two of tho texts used in this area of study. Speech, Dramatic Arts, Journalism, Music courses and Art as well os Industrial Arts, Home Economics and Physical Education ore all provided for the express purpose of educating students in specific areas to help them meet particular demands in loter life. Thus, Carole os all senior high school students hos been faced with the problem of selecting her courses wisely. It must be remembered that the opportunity is here; the challenge is to make the most of it. Thete tenlori In Wotld Geography are tning tho mop of South America to help thorn underttand and remember the information that they ore learning concerning the cowntrie JOuth cl the border.

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Tronslotion call} for concentration, ord Jock and his classmates aro using the time allowed in their lotin II (lou to work on it. These Humanities students ore oil ottompting to state their views in one of the many discussions held in the Humanities doss. AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP FRIENDSHIPS ... 24