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reation at meetings.
This N That About Junior High
Last week the ninth grade said
goodbye to one of their school
mates, Marge Westhoff, who Is now
attending school in Minneapolis
A group Of students who gave "A
Ballad for Americans" for the pro-
gram are now going to give it for
the Rotary" Tuesday afternoon.
Miss Swope's class won the Eng
lish library pennant for which they
battle so furiously.
Junior High Classes
This week both the seventh and
eighth grade Math. classes have
been working on discount problems.
Because the eighth grade is smart
er they have also done problems
in compound interest. It seems
they got tired of their seats so Mr..
Smith very considerably let them
change. This was appreciated
especially by the ones that got
changed from front to back seats.
Dummy how some people always
like to sit in the back| wonder
why?) The Algebric class has been
working on the areas of different
figures with formulas, you know,
finding the distance around trape-
zoids, triangles, squares, parallelo-
grams, etc.
The seventh grade history class
es have been studying the back
ground Of history since the begin
ming Of the year. Now, at last, they
have begun the history of Mime
sofa. The eighth has started a unit
on the government Of the United
States. The orientation class, or
more appropriately called the "con-
servation class" is starting a unit
on health and safety. They have
a bulletin board for clippings on
this subject which the members Of
the class bring.
In case you didn't know it Nov
ember 20-29 was National Book
Week. The school observed this
partly by visiting the art exhibit
held in the old gym. A ticket drive
for this event was sponsored by
the Junior High, the net amount
Of which was a little over twelve
dollars. This is to be used to buy
pictures for the school.
The seventh grade geography
class has at length completed the
unit on South America and have
taken the test. Gunther Austin,
Jack Paske, David Higbie, Lois
Besser, June Dickson and Lorraine
Haider came through with flying
colors. The science class has start
ed a unit on materials and some
Of the. more progressive students
are doing experiments on the side.
The girls in the gym classes have
just completed unit on recreation
al sports. BY this time they should
know how to play badminton, deck
tennis and ping pong. Miss Ellis
reports the seventh grade girls
have become so handy with the
deck tennis ring that we might see
them between a half at basketball
game sometime. Something the
ninth grade girls have learned and
which seems very practical Is how
to keep bowling score.
The business methods class this
week has started a unit entitled
1.-The American Way Of Life" This
deals with the differences between
the American system of govern
ment and the standard of living
compared with other countries.
They have also studied the part be-
ing played by the youth in national
defense.
Miss Everhart's Algebra. class
has started equations with frac-
tions, and are learning how to elm
mate fractions. Together with this
work they have learned to find
readings in Centigrade and Fahren-
heit scales by the Algebra method.
Miss Swope's seventh grade is
studying telephone conversations
while the eighth grade is back to
grammar again. They are study
ing adverbs and proportional
phrases mostly. BY the way, If
you want to see some football
scores that shine just take a look
at Miss Swope's blackboard at Min
nesota.
SENIOR HIGH CLASSES
Sophomore
In geometry we are now apply
ing our study of theorems. To do
this we use the facts we proved
during our process of proving theo-
rems. In proving these we have
to have an argument and defense
for each statement given. We are
given a definite number to do ard
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