William H Taft High School - Atinian Yearbook (Woodland Hills, CA)

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English One is stuck with taking English every year in high school, so the best thing to do is get used to that fact and get the best classes possible, However, not all stu- dents realize what a wide selection of English classes are available to them . Besides the required classes CEnglish 10, American Lit, and Senior Comp? there are language classes, literature classes, participation classes, and publication classes offered by the English Department. The language classes include Creative Writing, Journalism, Language Skills, Linguistics, Power Reading, and Reading lmprovement!Advanced, all of which study some aspect of the English language. The literature classes consist of English Lit, Existential Lit, Humanities, lVlinority Lit, lVlodern Lit, World Lit, Primitive Art and lVIythology, The Novel, and The Short Story. These examine certain portions of literature. The participation classes, wiich are all preprofessional in nature and also very popular are Drama, Play Pro- duction, Speech, and Cinema. The publi- cations are Tribune and, of course, Year- book, both which provide many opportuni- ties for enterprising students . 15 M me - L 5' +1-1 , 2125 gg, - F- fl'E:, i 'f'-ff., . 5 Q - Q Jia ,1f:jff:,, , A 2-Eg:-sf: 5 if ul 532424 5553154 L: fl ' ' lf? .:g?'g1iEf3f'?fF2 H' - -li f?i'!4 'X. 5 P fa.: 5. if 51.3 Z: ,, fi' ' -12 55,9 Iirbfawfi-E .,, f, -v-53 -I .19 1 rl l 1 'Ss 1 X .fu , 5 I ' . ' 4-., ' 4 x t. it ' Q , Q '. Y . v . , 1 5 fi p I . ,, I ' 8' 'Xl' 'Xi N A t ' 'ra -Q+3t:lv'-. ' ' D-H4 ll if

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Business and Home EC. ,i I: ,: l lf ! C Home Economics Courses provide an opportunity for a well-rounded education. Classes such as Senior Foods and Foods and Management emphasize the Our Business Department offers a wide variety ability to plan, prepare and serve nutritional foods . of courses stressing both occupational train- The Clothing and Creative Stitchery classes develop ing as well as consumer awareness . Courses skills of clothing construction. Child Development range from the study of American business and Childhood Education Aid emphasizes the social, structure, the study of economics and busi- emotional, physical, and intellectual growth pat- ness law, the study of office procedure and terns of the young. the machines commonly used to such time saving and secretarial skills as typing and shorthand.

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In fact, our English Department is so good that it is one of twenty selected nationwide to participate in the National Humanities Faculty's two-year Bi- centennial study of The American Covenant: The Moral Uses of Power. The 'coordinator at Taft is lVlr. Wheatley. A 540,000 grant for the study of our contemporary social malaise and the possibili- ties of reawakening and renewal of the American Dream, the key concepts of the study being the terms covenant, morality, and power, will be given in benefits and services provided by the NHF through visiting University faculty, profession- al men and women, and working artists . ln addition, several Taft teachers will be subsidized to attend two, three-week summer workshops for which gradu- ate credit may be received. Taft contributes a token amount of funding to the project, which may help revalidate a senior year program that is threatened by college encroachment and student apathy . One of the aspects of the plan is a separate school for ac- celerated students and high achievers that will com- bine several courses into an academic and practical exploration of the theme, with this school serving as a pilot for the evaluation and alteration of the senior year programs . 'P-'HJ in The gifted program is also quite important because a large number of students are involved in it. The Gifted Coordinator is lVlr. Jay. He handles the dis- position of the Gifted Funds that the school re- ceives for each student who qualifies for the pro- gram ,