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

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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

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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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lVIath and Science Departments Offer Surveying Through the combined efforts of the math and science departments, surveying was offered as part of the advanced science program. IVlr. Carl Baughman, math department chairman, taught the unit in late spring, so that field trips could enrich classroom study. ln addition to surveying, five weeks were spent on each of the following units: evolution, biochemis- try, astronomy, crystology, and paleontology. The pur- pose ofthe advanced science course was to provide apt science students with a variety of experience in science which they might not otherwise encounter. During the second semester, a series of science seminars dealing with such topics as computers, arti- ficial intelligence and the quantum theory were of- fered to Mitchell students. The seminars were con- ducted by Dr. Blade, professor of physics at the Colo- rado University extension, and were open to C group students. The course was conducted on a pass-fail basis with minimal testing. Shi 4--wnvunnu- n-K Jim Vegh listens as another student poses a question during his computer class. A tr 2 fiifszrsft C eif,iaig:i-,-:ii-'mit 1 --ii :Q iii? ' ie,- ef' iw-jf ' ' In the math office Mr. James Lewis looks over a geometry project.