William Mitchell High School - Apogee Explo Yearbook (Colorado Springs, CO)

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Translating Cicero's Orations into English demands concentration from Mrs. Jeanne Bruner's advanced Latin students. ff'-f' ii'i 1' s Advanced Language Courses' Enrollment Increases Advanced language courses offered by MitchelI's foreign language department experienced a great in- crease in enrollment this year. Miss Marion Reid, head ofthe language department, attributed this increase to the growing interest in travel and the consequent desire to learn to speak a second language, a skill re- quiring more than two years of study. The school's generally increased enrollment nec- essitated a change from last year's open language lab arrangement to a new scheduled construction in which students reserved a cubicle for a certain mod, then attended language lab at this same time through- out the year. Continued experimentation with modular sched- uling led to the initiation of large groups for the mod- ern languages. These large groups used the new lec- ture halls where overhead presentations, travelogues, special speakers, and movies were often scheduled. New resource materials, mainly books and plays, were added to the facilities of the language resource center. .Ml Language lab paraprofessional Mrs. Mildred Depew adiusts the lab's console

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Mitchell sophomores and juniors using study research and conference facilities fill the social science resource center, World History Election Scrutiny Interests Students For one week preceding the nationwide elections on November 5, Mitchell world history students d.elved into the mechanics of campaign and election proce- dures. Regular classes were suspended for the week, and students signed up for discussion groups in which lively debates over candidates and issues occurred. Assemblies in which local candidates for United States representative and United States senator pre- sented their views and allowed themselves to be ques- tioned by the students were another vital aspect on election-week studies. Independent study projects were also important to the world history curriculum. Each student planned, in conference with his history teacher, a project each quarter on almost any topic relating to history. In order to enable students to become knowledge- able about a few topics of interest to them, projects were allowed broad application. Projects took form in comparison map studies, research papers, original plays and other creative writings, models and diagrams, slide presentations, and panels and symposiums. At her post as paraprofessional Mrs. Betty Nielsen replaces books.

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English Department Presents Unique Courses Revisions made by faculty members of Mitchell's English department over the summer of 1968 resulted in the addition of three new small-group courses. The courses, multi-cultural literature, comparative classi- cal literature, and semantics, have never before been offered in District No. ll schools. Large group composition labs continued to em- ploy a mass media approach to the study of the hu- manities by presenting information through record- ings, tapes, magazines, films, and books. Extensive use was made of the audio-visual center in applying the mass media technique. More use was made of the reading laboratory this year to improve the reading skills of students in some English small groups. With this purpose in mind, the English department obtained new reading study se- ries including Tactics in Reading, Listen and Read, and the SRA Pilot Library. A new game called Phonemia was also added for the small-group English classes' use. The remod- elled, newly carpeted reading laboratory was also the site of regularly scheduled reading improvement classes. Sophomores in Mr. Carl Clay's English small group listen carefully to a lecture Description of a taste is Joe Gallo's goal as he savors a very sour lemon s flavor