Walter Johnson High School - Windup Yearbook (Bethesda, MD)

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y Maria Soukhanov, Jim Fox, Sharon Atkins, and Mary Coda discuss Grendel's mother. Pete Brethouwer and Joe Davidson study third year German grammar amid Bavarian atmos phere. English The English Department aimed at mastery of written communication through the structured composition program, now in its third year, and at mastery in speaking. The Writing program guided each student from Description, one paragraph to mul- ti-paragraph e X p o s i t i o n s. Some classes supplemented this program with college texts. Students who wished could take public speaking in addition to regular English. The literature curriculum included paperbacks such as Benito Cereno and Darkness at Noon. Some classes add- ed to the traditional titles Plato's Re- public and Machiavelli's The Prince. The future staff of the Piteli was trained in Journalism class, learning about advertising appeals based on glittering generalities and about such semantic principles as non-allness. 24 Departments

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Language When the audio-lingual system ex- pands the teaching of modern langu- ages, the Language Department will institute a regular credit French 5 course. This year those students who had already finished with the first four years of French studied in a non- credit course. They read Stendha1's Le Rouge et le Noir and Marcel Proust's Combray. Interest was sufficient this year to offer Spanish 4 for the first time. Here students read Espana y su Civil- izacion and Maria while their less ad- vanced fellows in Spanish 3 and 2 read El Frijolito Salton and Platero y Yo. Latin 4 students read Vergil, com- paring his concept of the land of the dead with that of Milton and Dante. Dave Dierker listens in fascination as his teacher expounds in audio-lingual Spanish. Departments 25 xx 'R ,-f'a,a- W Barbara Heider, Ann Showalter, and Dick Mortimer, Pitch staffers paste up copy on the Pitch before sending it to the printer .v '42 x M-'95