Washington High School - Scroll Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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65 x ff? e, 5 5: CAROLFNE MURPHY English Department HE NEWEST thing that the English department has been trying to do the past year is to lay greater emphasis than ever before upon the old-fashioned virtue of placing a terminal mark at the end of each complete thought. The de- partment has also striven to teach pupils to write clearly, through the study of punctuation and sentence structure, correctly, through the study of gram- mar and spellingg and effectively, through the study of the principles that apply to the word, the sentence, and the paragraph. In literature, the same classics have been studied, the same heroes and heroines have been discussed, and the same courses have been followed as in past years. The work, however, has been enlivened by many new projects. These have consisted of contests in poetry, the short story, and the essay, together with scrap books bigger and better than ever. Some attempts at vocational guidance have also been made. In place of the M. O. S., the Seniors have a new friend in the Practice Leaves in the Essentials of Englishn. Eldon Schneller Margaret Thompson Alma Boundey v Helen Green Page S ixleen

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Gemge jf. Ballzer Principal Page Fifi

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Harry O'Neil Ilma Zinns INEZ STROHM English Deparitment UCH supplementaryvniaterial has beenlprovided for all classes by the Chicago 'rgestsnfor lgflasieryi, and the new Satterfield and Hadsell-Wells Objective ests on t e c assics. Also a new card catalogue system has been instituted for keeping a record of each pupil's outside reading for his whole high school course. On the whole, the year 1928-29 has been one of progress and hard work, for as yet no 'royal road' has been discovered for the mastery of English , ac- cording to Miss Caroline Murphy, head of the department. Rose Hauer Ella Phelps Orma Keuper Gerda Wittman Page Seventeen