The Sauk Centre herald., 1941-11-20
High
School
JUNIOR HIGH

1
Miss Soils English classes are
now taking up letter writing and
envelope addressing. Otherwise
Miss Soil says they are doing rou-
tine work.
Those lucky kids in Miss Mes
tande's history class They are go
ing to have a test concerning the
Revolutionary War, the Articles Of
Confederation, and the Constitu-
ton. Good luck!
Mr.. Clough was on the sick list
the first two days of last week.
Mrs. Meyers taught his classes.
The 7th grade Social Studies
classes are still studying Indians.
The name Of the section is Troub-
les, between the white man and the
red man, and tells of all the hard
ships endured by the early settlers.
Can you guess what the Business
Method classes are doing? They
are on the Business Letter. The
members of the class are rummag-
ing through old business letters,
which are brought to class and
then criticized as to the good and
bad points. Do you know, how to
fold business letter? Or, could
you diagram a business letter on
the blackboard? Well, that's what
they are doing for A work. The
members of the class are learning
that writing business letter does
not only happen to business man,
but other people as well.
The seventh grade Math class is
studying "Budgeting," which in
cludes budgets for spending money
and budgets for the home.
The eighth grade Math class is
studying checking accounts and
savings accounts. Also how the
people put their money in the bank
and they in turn pay them a larger
percent when loaned out.
Mr.. Smiths conservation class is
on the unit of the care Of the skin,
hair and nails.
We find that Miss Ellis geo.
graphy pupils have completed the
unit on South America and had
their unit test on it. These people
had perfect papers, Jean Steffes,
Arthur Thomas, Mar Ellen Majer-
us, Ralph Lentz and Jerome Read
ing. They are now starting to
study Central American Republics.
The seventh science class is TAX
ing up the unit on materials and
have found out all materials belong
to one of three classes, solids, Ii
guilds or gases.
In Physical Ed we have a unit
on recreational sports.
SENIOR HIGH
In German II we are still review
ing grammar. We have been study
ing verbs and their conjugations
in the different lenses only to find
that the more we study the more
mixed up we seem to get.
In Social Science we have start
ed a new contract on the Judicial
Department and Civil Rights. In
this section are contained the diff
ferent types of courts and what
they do.
In English we are on a speech
unit. We have had group pan
tomimes, individual pantomimes,
demonstration speeches and are
now reading articles to the class.
We have some very interesting
things demonstrated such as draw
ing with charcoal and many 9th
ers. We find our speech unit to
be rather fun.
The Junior English class have
been reading essays, and also have
been trying their own hand at writ
ing them; but from some of the
marks I've seen we haven't been as
successful as the authors were.
In History we have been study
ing the chapter called Sectional
Rivalry" which describes the state
of affairs in our country after the
war of 1912.
In Latin II we have finished
reading about the twelve labors of
Hercules and are getting ready for
another progress test.
The typing classes are typing
exercises on letters. Each day they
have an exercise to type, and to
hand in. 1t can't have more than
one error, but still most of the stu
dents have theirs perfect. They are
also doing one and five minute
speed tests; which they take nearly
every day.
The sophomore English classes
are now on a word study. Mr..
! Thompson gave book in which
were several of the words we were
going to study. We had to tell the
definition for each one. Thursday
we will have spelling test on all
| of the words.