Suffolk High School - Peanut Yearbook (Suffolk, VA)

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Industrial Arts General Shop, mechanical drawing, and basic electricity are offered in Suffolk High School’s program of Industrial Arts. Much practical work is done in our well equipped shop in connection with these courses. The Industrial Arts courses are extremely interesting and popular, especially with those students who are planning to enter fields involving engineering, draftsmanship, or any other occupation which necessitates manual training. Under Mr. Apple¬ gate’s able direction pupils are instructed in the fundamental mechanics, theories, and appli¬ cations of electricity, mechanical drawing, wood working, metal working, simple mechanics, and general repair w’ork. These classes truly do their part to give Suffolk High School a varied program of cur¬ riculum activities. The boys who choose these courses are not only making worth while projects, but also building for the future.

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In Suffolk High School two foreign languages are offered to the students. They are French and Latin taught by Mrs. Taylor and Miss Brinkley, respectively. Pictured above is the French I flass. In order for a student to get any credit for French, he has to take at least two yeaVs of it. The class consists of learning the French language as well as many customs of the French people. Also the geography of France is taught to some degree, with emphasis on the more important cities such as Paris. As you know, there are many French dialects spoken, as is true of any Kuropean nation, hut the French taught in our school is the dialect spoken around Paris, known as Parisian French. In order for a student to get credit for Latin, he must take at least two years of it. e cn though four years of Latin are offered in Suffolk High. The student is taught a reading knowledge of Latin as well as the customs of the early Romans and the geography of Laly. The first two years of Latin arc devoted almost entirely to grammar, while the last two con¬ sist of reading Cicero and Virgil. Miss Virginia Brinkley Mrs. G. Warren Taylor

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Social Studies Miss Tapelle Prudes Miss Marilyn Bell Miss Martha Macklin The courses in Social Sciences offered in Suffolk High School arc American history, world history, government, economic geography, business training and sociology. These studies provide a varied curriculum from which the students may choose. Such courses always appeal to us. not only because of the fine teachers we have, but also because of the variety of in¬ teresting places and subjects that are discussed. Not infrequently one of these classes makes a trip to a court, the state capitol, Washington I). C, and other (daces of importance. 1 hese trips serve to make the courses still more enjoyable as well as to bring the subjects studied even closer to our everyday applications. Our excellent teachers. Miss Bell. Miss Pruden, Miss Macklin ami Miss Yates, do a tremendous amount of admirable work in order to enable Suffolk High School to have one of the best possible pri grams in the social sciences. One unit and a half in American history and government are required for graduation, but the elective cmirses in social studies are very popular among the students. The students pictured below watching a moving picture really seem to enjoy their classroom periods while getting a great deal of information from the films.