Suffolk High School - Peanut Yearbook (Suffolk, VA)

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HISTORY. GEOGRAPHY, GOVERNMENT MissTa| cllc I’rudcn Miss Thelma Pruden Miss Gladys Yates SOCIAL STUDIES “Why is a man the individual that he is?” “ I dunno, do you?” This, my children, you will discover, accidentally or otherwise, when you grow” into the social studies classes. In junior high the desire to become good citizens is instilled in us through social studies. We are encouraged to become alive to the things going on about us by being radio, newspaper, and magazine conscious. Then, in our history classes we study man’s beginning, his rises and declines. In order to better understand the state of affairs today, we know that we must study and learn something not only alwiut the present but also about the past. This we do in our history classes. Government teaches us the aims and ideals of citizenship, democracy, and Ameri¬ canism. Geography and general business help us to find our way around in the physical, economic, commercial, and political world of today. So take heed, students, and start your learning. One will never finish Suffolk High and not at least begin to see the answer to Why is man the individual that he is? hi crick ration of Pan-American Week. Miss Yates’ Government classes broadcast a special program over WI.I ' M on April 18 , with memlier of the classes taking part. Ill

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GRAMMAR. COMPOSITION. LITERATURE Miss Anna Anderson Miss Frances Armistcad Miss Winston Cobb M iss Kml West LANGUAGE ARTS We students are that we go t« a school where the study of English grammar is not neglected. Sometimes we get pretty tired of juirts of speech, phrases, ami clauses, but down deep in our hearts we appreciate those teachers who drill us in these essential things. No longer do we seem bored in our study of English, for our new system of language arts classes combines literature, grammar, sj elling. and oral and written composition all in one. We like this method much better because it gives us more variety. When we get to be juniors and seniors, we begin to do more creative writing. Some of us even w rite short stories, poems, and maybe a one-act play now and then. We also learn how to speak in public, how to conduct and take part in open discussions and debates, and how to carry on meetings by parliamentary procedure. Then, most of us, but not all, like literature, for through reading and studying good literature of the past and present we can broaden our fields of interest. For these reasons and many others, junior high students devote two periods a day to language arts, while four years are required of senior high students for graduation. Pro and con? brittle and round table discussions are carried on in Miss Anderson ' s Public Speaking classes.

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BIOLOGY. CHEMISTRY. PHYSICS Mr. Wilbert Crocker Miss Irma Hurflf Mr. Albert Hawkim SCIENCE Can you imagine a class using mi parti cular textbook? Wouldn ' t that be Utopia? But don’t get vour hopes too high—there is not just one textbook—there are many. Not only do we use books, but also magazines, encyclopedia?, and personal observation in biology, a study which helps us discover the wonders of nature surrounding us. Chemistry plays such an important fiart in the creation ami utilization of everything around us that our high school course would not lie complete without it. In class we learn such things as what air is, what chemical elements make up our various foods, and that table salt is really NaCL Some of us even select a more difficult science, physics, while still others elect a course in general science or applied science. No matter which we choose, we know that with a knowledge of science we are better prepared to meet the prob¬ lems of the future. Hats off to better living through science! What could this contraption ! «•? Ask anyone in Mr. Crocker ' s Itiysic class, and he can tell you immediately.