Word: classroom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typical of this naivete is Mike Mann's story of a high-school tennis player and his girl. Mann withholds few details of malt-shop and classroom courtship and consequently manages to portray a few scenes and feelings in high school life rather accurately. Mann's autobiography, however, begins to drool a little at the mouth; if he had left out much of the diary-writing at the end, he might have seemed much less involved and his story might have had more punch...
...This classroom dialogue is reported in a new manual for teachers, part of an ambitious experiment in Sunday-school education that is being launched this week by the Protestant Episcopal Church. Instead of aiming to give children some Biblical and theological background for the faith they will later join, the program undertakes to make functioning Christians of them here and now-from six-year-old Davy Crocketts...
...sample dialogues. The series calls for a cadre of Sunday-school teachers who are a far cry from the usual warmhearted spinsters and parish wheel horses. The new teachers should be well trained in Christian doctrine and church history, teach full 50-minute periods, be accompanied by a "classroom observer" who is to be "an additional set of eyes and ears ... so that the teacher may know his pupils . . ." Other conditions for effective use of the series: regular family worship on Sunday and a weekly class for parents and godparents...
...Hymnal will be essential tools in your teaching," the chief aim of the series is to express religion in everyday, sometimes even in comic-book terms. For six-year-olds, there are three gaily illustrated booklets of stories about Tish and Mike, whose adventures make good beginnings for classroom discussions of religious truths. The booklets may well guide as many parents as children, showing Daddy and Mother coping wisely with such family crises as Mike's TV-induced nightmares and Tish's embezzlement of 15?. When Mike discovers a sprouting potato in the kitchen, his mother explains...
...present, the Committee is also discussing the possibility of certain persons donating funds for various professorships at the School, each of which may cost approximately $300,000. The endowment drive also includes plans for a new $500,000 classroom building...