Washburn High School - Wahian Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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'THE ROOT of good expression is a flexible vocabulary,” said Mr. Beck. Seniors Develop The Elements of Good Expression That's what education means, to be able to do what you've never done before. Seniors learned the truth of this quotation from George Palmer by taking speech, drama, and creative writing classes They learned to express themselves in new and different ways through speech presentations, writing poems and stories, and dramatics In addition, the word study course gave students valuable word tools to use in their creative expression All these courses enabled students to do new things in a more effective manner DRAMA STUDENTS LEARN many aspects of stage acting. One form of expression learned by the creative writing students was the cinquain Rock Unaware Colorless mass Crushes everything beneath Exists for itself alone Humanity Melanie Stewart PRE-PLANNING is essential for a good play. Garrard Beck Robert Krause Ronald Rogers SPEECH MAY REQUIRE a variety of emotions.

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Examine, Acknowledge, and Interpret It. Do Washburn students find Shakespeare courses dull and uninteresting, merely tolerating them as unavoidable7 Evidently not. for the annual pilgrimage of Washburn students to the Guthrie theatre has increased to the point that it is anticipated that in the near future the whole theatre may have to be reserved to accomodate all the Washburmtes attending Aware that being able to express oneself is a necessity, the English department spent a great deal of time studying textbooks in order to obtain the best possible books for teaching grammar, literature, and composition The administration of the Minimum Essentials Test was changed so that, instead of taking both grammar and composition tests at the beginning of the year, the composition test was reserved for a later date English teachers felt they could then better acquaint students with the essentials of composition

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-™ TSCHUN%ALIEMAGNE • -btBarlholomd am Knigssee JXSJi LANGUAGE IS A MEANS for understanding other cultures. French. Spanish. German, and Latin classes this year somewhat spiced up their introductions to the foreign cultures This year French students listened to operas, sang popular songs, and studied a newspaper published by selected students. The Spanish students enjoyed a textbook of the supernatural and mysterious. In creative exercises the Spanish class composed and presented humorous skits A group of German students travelled and studied in Austria last summer, and they learned how difficult it was to use. in a fast dialogue, the German words and grammar that they knew George Austin Margaret Boran Foreign Michael Oill Languages Are Vital in A Shrinking World Harold Dunn Mrs. Kay Gale Mary Laird dames Rutherford 23