Washington High School - Scroll Yearbook (Milwaukee, WI)

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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

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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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Florence Van Vliet Howard Maule Kenneth Dewey English Department ...J WI in 1531 l'.Q..1, ... B f. . . UBLIC SPEAKING has four aims which are the conception and effective use of speech and action, the development of the ability to discover and to assimilate the intellectual and emotional meaning of ideas, words, and composition, the A-S ff. development of the ability to discover, select, and arrange ideas and to express . . them verbally, and the improvement of the power of expression including voice, gesture, and bodily action. In the first semester of this course ten weeks are devoted to speech making, three weeks to vocal drills, two weeks to interpretation, two weeks to parliamentary law, and two weeks to review. In the second semester four sions, two weeks in the study of matics, and two weeks in review By appointing a toastmaster, weeks are spent in making speeches for special occa- orations, seven weeks in debating, four weeks in dra- and examinations. who resides at an ima inar ban uet students learn 8 Y q i after-dinner speaking. Each member of the class also takes part in at least two plays and two debates during the semester. Madge Houghton Leila Rosenfeld Hazel Healy Marian Scanlan Page Eiglazeen