The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-10-09
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to do extra experiments which will
increase their knowledge, as well
as help their mark a little.
In Senior English we had our
test on the middle English period.
We have been studying the differ
emit kinds Of sonnets, ballads and
now we are studying Macbeth" a
drama by Shakespeare.
In German class we have enjoy
ed reading "The Piper From Ham,
elm" and 1.-THE Three Axes" Az
ter we have translated the story
we have certain exercises to do
which pertain to the story, such as
reading the story over in the past
or present tense.
The taxing and commercial pow
ers Of Congress- is what the stu
dents Of Social Studies are study
ing. This includes the different
kinds of taxes, tariff duties, for
eign and interstate commerce. Fol-
lowing this they will study about
Congress in action.
In bookkeeping they have just
started work on the use of bank
ing service. This should be enjoyed
by most of them as 1t includes
writing out checks. The only troub-
lie is that the checks aren't any
good.
Stenography I students are still
reading exercises from their much
loved, or at least much used books.
In tipping they are trying to type
faster than the person next to
them.
Physics students are doing prob
lens and experiments much to
their delight.
If you would have passed the
Latin III room the sixth period last
week you would have seen us in
dustriously writing declensions of
nouns and adjectives, and conjug-
atoms Of verbs on the blackboards,
for we are reviewing for the test
on the first unit, which we took
Monday and Tuesday of this week.
Now we have started a new unit en-
, titled Ulysses" in which we are
reading the stories about his trip
home.
We have started a new unit in
American History which is called.
''How Our Country Won its indie
pendence and established a Nation
al Government" We have read the
first chapter which contains the
causes of the American Revolution
and we are now preparing for a
test on it.
In Miss Swanson's English class
es this week we are continuing our
speech work, but strange as it may
seem by not uttering word. This
is done by giving individual and
group pantomimes in front of the
class and making them guess what
we are portraying. Many of these
proved most amusing.
In Miss Jones' English class
they are finishing there unit on
Short Stories and Essays. For extra
credit they are writing original
short stories, which are to be hand
ed in Friday when they have a
unit test.
In history the tenth grade are
drawing maps Of the Ancient Near
East and the present near East.
Miss Ranstad has them read the
Weekly News Review and answer
the questions.
The sophomore English classes
have been studying and have al
most completed the unit on
Essays" Wednesday Mr.. Thomp-
son gave us a review on most Of
these essays and on Friday he will
give us an entire test on this unit
Studying the cells of plants and
animals through the microscope
has proved to be very interesting
in Biology class this past week. Mr..
Ray Schwartz gave a test on the
, chapter.
During the past week the tipping
classes have made excellent pro-
gress. The have now learned almost
all the letter keys and machine
parts, Miss Jones, our tipping teach
er, has given us more exercises for
us to do so we type perfect copies.
| She has also given us one-minute
tests in which most Of the students
are tipping an average Of twenty
| words.
The Geometry class has been
studying the Geometric Concepts
this last week. Tuesday Miss Rob-
bertson gave each pupil a differ
ent problem to work and the next
morning all the problems were put
on the board by the pupils.
SAGEBRUSH DENTIST
BY DIR. VIII Frackelton
This racy, fascinating story Of
! a tenderfoot dentist who saw the
last days Of the winning Of the
West. He witnessed that colorful
chapter in American life from a
vantage point in Wyoming at a
time when characters like Buffalo
Bill, Calamity Jane, Indians Of the
| Custer Massacre, veterans of Fort
Kearny and a host Of others were
still on the scene.
The practice of his profession
brought him into contact with the
cattle and sheep wars, the building
Of the railroads, the rush for Klon-
dixie gold and the last Of the wild
tribes of the West. Every page
is packed with entertaining anec-