Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keeping with the trend of the '60s, Marshfield began offering its 1,866 students a wide variety of courses in an effort to broaden the traditional curriculum. The number of courses has grown to 215. Elective options in English include science fiction, film studies and business communications (considered easy) or British literature (harder). An array of general math and essential math courses has sprouted in the mathematics department, traditionally regarded as the best in the school. Although four years of English are mandatory standard survey courses stop after the tenth grade. No foreign language is required. Students must take...
...most demanding teacher, feels that "students aren't being challenged enough. They complain that I make them work, I make them think. But they're glad afterward." He conducts his classes as vigorous discussion groups Margaret Burdg, who has the prim and proper air of an old-fashioned English teacher, team-teaches with History Teacher Connell an English-history course called American Culture. She says grade inflation has lowered a D from 68 to 60 and, in some classes, all the way to 50. Another teacher complains that there is great pressure to pass students "If my failure rate exceeds...
...propose "study projects," in which they can tackle anything from music to horse training. Yet, as at Medford and Coos Bay, the easier route beguiles many. To graduate, students must complete 180 hours of graded coursework, including 45 hours in language arts (which must include nine terms of English), 15 hours in science and 30 in social studies. But only slightly more than half the coursework is prescribed, and full credit is given for such courses as American Teen-Ager and Interior Decorating. One disgruntled teacher brands them "education by entertainment...
Seniors are belatedly showing their own back-to-basics concern. Tod McConahay, who pumps gas five nights a week to save money for college, is taking English Lab, a brush-up grammar course, in addition to regular college prep courses. "Grammar?I just can't do it," he confesses. "Somewhere along the line, somebody screwed up." Classmate Jim Jordahl is also taking English Lab. "Deep down, most people feel that requirements should be stricter," he says. "If you leave what courses you take up to the school, you won't be that well...
...knowledgeable these days, but in only a superficial way, and is upset that so many cannot write and spell properly. "The kids ask me, Trau Galer, do you mark off for German spelling?' I say 'Of course I do.' But if they ask me if I count off for English spelling, I say 'Of course not; you'd all flunk.' " She criticizes the severity of her native German schools, but frets: "Next year, these kids are going to sit in lecture halls and it's going to be a big shock. Some have never even taken a semester test...