Stockton High School - Blackhawk Yearbook (Stockton, IL)

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 Mr. Bretl serves as Social Studies Department head in the Junior-Senior High and will soon begin to co-ordinate this work with the elementary program. On the high school level Political Science has been added to the curriculum for eager freshmen and News Analysis (1 2 credit, two semesters) has been added to the weighty burden of all underclassmen not electing a social studies course. The ex- periment with News Analysis is based on the assumption that a democratic nation wishing to sur- vive can hardly afford to have any but alert and well-informed members of society. Mr. Borg land smiles at this group for the first Ume this year. PoliUcal Science, in which the picture was taken, has been set up as an elective for ad- vanced freshmen. In addiUon, Mr. Bergland teaches sophomore Citizenship, and senior Social Problems. Mr. Werkheiser lashes one of his 7th - 8th grade Social Studies groups into study action. 5

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 Mrs. Thomas, as English co-ordinator, represents one of the significant advances in the system this year. One staff mem- ber from each of the four “basic subjects’’ has been appointed de- partment head for his particular area in grades one through twelve. Such a stable nucleus in each subject area should produce substantial benefits as a result of continuity of direction and avoidance of duplication at differ- ent grade levels. Mrs. Buford and Mrs. Pierce compare progress in their 7th and 8th Language Arts groups. Bubbly Mrs. Werkheiser would float down the corridor if she weren’t weighted with a box of new books each day. In addition to working with three English classes, Mrs. Werkheiser has been doing a wondrous job of stuffing empty library shelves with shiny, enlightening books. Mrs. Hill has her Frosh- Soph English classes sweating over a few classics. 4

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Mrs. Berg land looks forward to happy results in sophomore Biology now that she has the opportunity to prepare these people on the 8th grade level. As part of the science re-organization plan 8th grade science has become a two semester course in elementary Biology. Mr. Hill, on his way to 7B in Room 3, stops to say some- thing nasty to the photographer. This is one of six Junior High math groups he meets each day. The two handsome males in the background were identified as Tab Hunter and Rock Hudson. Mr. Snyder phones a Science Fair committeeman in reference to any one of six thousand min- ute details. Mr. Snyder’s res- ponsibilities as science - math co-ordinator include setting-up and supervising these subjects on all grade levels. This sort of continual direction plus Title III, federal subsidies for science, should ultimately reveal a vibrant new student interest in these areas.