The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1941-10-02
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how much Of land, etc. Next they
will start on the Solar System.
SOPHOBrORES
For the past few weeks the Geo
graphy classes have been construct
ing figures and reviewing a few
or the things that the class learned
in Algebra. Tuesday, Miss Rob
ertson gave a test on the review
work. On Wednesday the class will
start a new unit entitled the Fun
damental Geometric Concept.
In Biology classes Mr.. Raw
Schwartz has been performing ex-
periments demonstrating physical
and chemical changes for the pup-
lis. After each unit he gives a
unit test. This week the class has
been studying "The Life Function
Of Living Things" On Thursday
the class will start a new unit
called, 1.-THE Physical Basic of
Life" which deals with the study
OF the cells of plants and animals.
In the tenth grade World His
tory we are studying the first two
chapters in the book. The first
chapter is on What History Is?"
What 1t Gives to Us?" and 1.-THE
Different Ages Of History" In the
second chapter you will find What
the Beginnings Of Our Civilization
Is The Geography Of the Near
East" The great powerful coun-
tries Of the Near East are also in
this chapter. The education, the
history and the religion of these
people of the Near East is in this
chapter. We are studying the first
world empire which is Persia. We
also are learning what we are to
each tribe of people today for our
present day world. We also are
studying about the great pyramids
which are left behind us. Besides
studying this we must be able to
spell and know the definitions of
all the names and terms at the end
of each chapter. We are given
different drawings to make such as
charts, time lines, etc. For the
different parts of history. We will
have test Friday on the chapters
which will consist Of the most i'm
portant points in these two chap
tiers.
In Miss Ranstad's Latin I class
the sophomores are studying case
endings Of the first declension.
They are then translating Latin
paragraphs and showing the use
of case endings in a sentence.
Along with this they are reading
stories about early Rome. In Miss
Ranstad's Latin II class they are
translating a Latin story about the
travels of a Roman father and his
two sons and also they are review
ing declensions and conjugation.
There are three sections in typ.
ing again this year totaling IS stu
dents. This week they are COM
pleting the control of the letter
keys and each day the students
hand in as many perfect copies Of
the assignment as they can. Some
Of the best beginners have handed
in as many as four papers every
day during the past two weeks.
Tipping is a practical subject and
1t seems to be one that most of us
like very much.
Since school started the sophie
more English classes have been
reading a unit on short stories.
Monday Mr.. Thompson gave us a
test on all of the short stories the
class has been studying. Tuesday
the classes will study the unit
Essays"
SENIOR CLASSES
In Deutsche Klasse we have been
reviewing to see what we didn't
remember over vacation. The same
exam that we had last spring was
given to help us along little bit.
Since then we have been reading
and translating the story entitled,
"Munchhausen's Abenteuer." It
seems quite difficult to translate
and read; we find that we mispro-
nounce many of the words.
The new social science teacher,
Mr.. Howard Schwartz, is having us
study The Importance Of the Gov
eminent, Development of the State,
Constitution, Federal System Of