Wakefield High School - Echo Yearbook (Wakefield, MI)

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The aim of the social science department is to acquaint the students with the development of man and institutions, to teach the organization of governments, and the duty of students toward this government. General history and geography are required in the seventh grade and American history in the eighth grade. Community Civics and World History are elective subjects in the ninth and tenth grades. Community Civics teaches the student how a good citizen should live, how man developed economically, how man is governed, and what is the duty of man toward his government. General history includes a study of the social, political, and cultural development of man from prehistoric man to civilized man of today. Juniors are required to spend a year studying the development of the United States, and to acquire an understanding of how our institutions, our ideals, and our traditions have l een built up. In the senior year. United States is studied more intensively from the economic and political viewpoints. In economics, the student learns how the factors of production function how his country developed industrially, and how economic laws have l een applied to this development. In Civics, he learns the organization of National, State and Local government in order that he may comprehend his duty as a citizen and his responsibility toward his government. Milton Johnson. li Geography. History 'll Win iam H. Carter History VI11

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William R Wood, V li. Unfitish XII Contemporary Literature Elizabeth G Adams, li. S English X. XI Creative Writing ENGLISH AND SPEECH This year several changes have been made in the high school English course. Besides the combined courses in miscellaneous literature and composition required from the seventh through the twelfth years, two new senior high courses have been offered: Creative Writing and Contemporary Literature. These courses are open only to junior and senior students who have maintained an average in their high school English work of A and B and who have taken the required half year of American literature in the junior year and of English literature in the senior year. About forty students were enrolled in these two courses during the second semester. The students in the Creative Writing class have studied and written familiar essays, short stories, poetry, and other types of literature. Each student, also, entered a short story, an essay, or a poem in a national high school creative writing contest, the results of which are not yet known. The Contemporary Literature class has studied some of the best literature of the present day—drama, short story, essay, biography, and poetry. I hey have become familiar with modern authors whose works are most worth while and have thus acquired standards by which to guide their selection of leisure time reading. The Public Speaking Department this year has offered three courses: a beginning course in public speakiiig lor senior high students, and two new courses for junior high people: Creative Dramatics and Balladry. Catherine Semer. A. li English VIII Velma E Sherrod, li S. Speech Irene Ki ein. li S. English IX Henrietta McDonald. V li English VII

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Dkri.ktii. A B Vkra Nichols. A. B. French, English X FOREIGN LANGUAGE One of (he chief purposes in education is to awaken in the vouth an understanding ami appreciation of an individual or a people whose background and view point differ from his own. The development of this tolerance through the study of the language, the history, and the customs of an alien race is one of the most important aims of the foreign language department. To further this end, an ancient and a modern language are taught. At the present time, two vears of French and four of Latin are offered for the student's choice. SCIENCE In biology, living plants and animals are studied. The student is made to realize that this is an interesting world in which we live. There are innumerable things still to Ik discovered about living things. I he scientific method is a good one to live by. Chemistry and physics are decidedly living, growing subjects. Research brings new facts to light, new helpful theories into lK ing. Life is becoming more and more complex. We depend more upon manufactured products today than ever before. There are very few articles in use today which are not directly influenced by scientific research.