This curriculum guide discusses an English program for the middle school and the junior high school. The guide is based on the premise that the study of English involves helping the student to clarify, order, interpret, and communicate his experiences through the skillful use of language. This is achieved by allowing the student to exercise oral…

This course is designed for the students who wish to train for secretarial work, receptionists, or office clerks. It will enable the students to understand and use orally and in writing the terminology and style of language used in most business occupations open to untrained young people seeking part-time employment in the business world. The…

This curriculum guide for Latin classes in grades 6 through 12 is intended to assist the teacher in offering the student the linguistic and cultural aspects of the language and to provide a series of techniques, activities, and approaches which will facilitate the learning of the language. Contents include: (1) general objectives, (2) the…

This course is designed to orient students to the variety of career opportunities which are available to them on a part-time basis, the duties and responsibilities involved in various occupations; and the qualifications necessary for employment in a selected career. The course is aimed particularly at tenth grade students. The instruction received…

The Quinmester course "Shakespeare" is designed to bring out behavior patterns in characters revealed through dialogue in the plays of Shakespeare. Selections include sonnets, the romantic comedy "A Midsummer Night's Dream," the history play "Richard II," and the tragedy "Hamlet." The sonnets are analyzed…

The Quinmester course on words gives the student the opportunity to increase his proficiency by investigating word origins, word histories, morphology, and phonology. The course includes the following: dictionary skills and familiarity with the "Oxford,""Webster's Third," and "American Heritage" dictionaries; word…

This curriculum guide for secondary grades encourages new young voters to understand and participate in the political system. A major objective is to help students consider the political system as an agent of change, and, moreover, to help them understand how individuals control, influence, and change government. Students learn that there are many…

The teacher's manual on physical education curriculum is designed to serve all handicapped children, preschool through high school. The manual first states the problem of physical education, its scope, limitations, and the value and importance of physical education in the special education area. Instructions and guidelines are then provided for…

The curriculum guide for teachers of trainable mentally retarded (TMR) children identifies numerous skills appropriate to three developmental levels (level one, chronological age (CA) 4 to 10 years and mental age (MA) 1 to 5 years; level two, CA 10 to 15 years and MD 3.5 to 7 years; level three, CA 15 to 18 years and MA 5 to 8 years) in the areas…

This resource guide for vocational development curriculums in the elementary grades provides subject content, concepts, teaching techniques, related concepts, and resources for occupational activities, focusing mainly on social studies. The program works from the principle that all young people will be entering the world of work; therefore all…

A committee of administrators and faculty of the Fort Benton school system, assisted by consultants from Montana State University, developed a social studies curriculum on the theme "the expanding social order." Objectives of the curriculum are to help the student to acquire a dependable body of knowledge in addition to developing cooperative…

This course is designed to assist high-school students who have not achieved mastery of decoding skills in relating phonemes to graphemes and sequences of graphemes representing these phonemes; to deal systematically with the basic word pattern of English; and to analyze the structure of word pairing, morphology, roots, prefixes, suffixes, and…

This revised collection is designed for students from kindergarten through high school contains 78 objectives in the following major categories: (1) individual word forms, (2) multiple word forms, (3) division of the form, and (4) history of the form. The individual word form is organized into four sections dealing with changes occurring within…

"Secondary School Offerings" provides a brief annotated outline of the general education courses offered in two middle units and one senior unit in the Cherry Creek Schools during 1971-72. The purpose of this summary is to supply a guide for new staff members, interested students, and parents. An overall instructional goal is to…

GUIDELINES FOR INITIATING A RESEARCH AND INSTRUCTION UNIT WITHIN A SCHOOL WERE PRESENTED. THE PROGRAM FOR ESTABLISHING THE UNITS WAS DEVELOPED TO (1) SECURE MORE EFFICIENT LEARNING BY STUDENTS (2) ENCOURAGE PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT, AND (3) PROVIDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR RESEARCH, CONTROLLED EXPERIMENTATION, AND DEVELOPMENT OF INSTRUCTIONAL PROGRAMS. A…