Waukesha High School - Megaphone Yearbook (Waukesha, WI)

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LISTENING WITH YOUR MIND as well as your ears zs an zmportant technzque tn the learnmg process Msss Sechtzg explams grammar rules to her Englzsh class who wzll learn both the grammar and the need to lzsten attentwely Expressing Ideas ENGLISH Why IS EnglIsh requIred'? IS a questlon whIch has plagued many students We study EnglIsh so that we wIll be more accurate In expresslng our Ideas and opInIons In both our Wflllng and speaklng Creahve wrItIng In our EnglIsh classes contrIbutes to our ablIty to put In lIterary form our orIgInal Ideas and thoughts ExpressIng ourselves verbally IS equally Important Proflclency In doIng thIs before an audlence acquIred whIle practlclng oratory In speech and dra matIcs classes Learnlng to lrsten and to read IH such a manner that we are able to grasp all the facts re lated by a speaker or author IS another Important aspect of EnglIsh In EnglIsh we gradually become acqualnted wlth the varIous llterary works of authors ranglng from WIllIam Shakespeare to Booth Tarklng on In lhlS manner we acquIre a deeper understand Ing of fIne llterature, and at the same tlme add to our own personal enrIchment and knowledge PREFIXES AND SUFFIXES are clues to meanings of words Enghth graders Dean Kznd and Dzane Prtce dns cover the help they can be sn learmng basu: vocabulary HOW WOULD YOU SHOW by your faczal expresszon that you were about to be beaten? Mr Metzner shows Bev Schwantes how to be more expresswe Impromptu pantomzmes to zllustrate various emottons are staged tn dramattcs class 29 . , ,Q-if gy ' - - I I l , A ' ,V I ,, . . . ,, . . . . .... . is I ' ' , - ' I 3, .

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.'.L.!l N F' 1 4-we WRITING A TERM PAPER creates many problems for sentors takzng College Englzsh A lzbrary sesszon wzth Mzss Magdanz starts these students uorkzng uith the card catalogue, Readers Guide, and other references STAGEFRIGHT IS A PROB LEM Strange thmgs and hzlarzous ezents fn speech class help to otereome this ueakness Such an ezent uas Jack Keupers attempt to set Y1 onne LanCelle s neu ly at quired hair 28 , I V I i -'5.'vY2', . Vs 1 'Q' rl?- I , , J ,. f A' A fi- VV v i 4 I A 5 ' . ,Q 'Y .er 'A' .1 N 'N N' r It M i A . W , xo, A . ,,e:. '1 5 is 1 I . ,. , . . 7 1 , v -

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Good itizens Appreciate I-Instor ,J X. '--at UPPER LEFT: THE ST. LAIVRENCE SEAUVAY is pointed out on the map by Tom Duckel and Marlene Spelich. Through the aid of maps and films, civifs students acquire a more thorough understand- ing of important places and events in the news. UPPER RIGHT: THE IVEEKLY NEUVS REVIEIV is the basis for this discussion, led hy Miss Knipfel. Discussing helps these students understand our problems. LOIWER: COLLECTING THE VIEIVPOINTS of various authors' interpretations of historical events gives these history students a t'lJd71L'6 to form their own opinions, Interrupted by the camera, these students willingly take time out from their studies, -30-