CARDIGAN CHRONICLE VOL. 13
NO, 9
CARDIGAN 1"IOUNTAIN SCHOOL, CANAAN, N. H.
New Class Schedule Proposed For Next Year's Winter School A new diaily schedule for the 1964-65 winter school has been pr,oposed1 by Mr. Bradford Yaggy, director of studies. Classes will be held on five days a week, with seven dass periods a day, one .period after lunch. On Wednesday, aill seven periods . will be held in the morning. Saturday mornings will be devoted to •clubs, choir practice, music lessons, art groups, special hobby sessions, and a study hall for those not participating in any of these.
CMS Choir Wins Second Prize Award Cardigan Mountain School's Choir brought back laurels from a talenit c,ompetiti:on sponsored by the Mascoma Valley Regional High School on May 13th. Second prize winners, the boys, under the direction of Mr. Smith, appeared first on a long program of contestants. Their selections were "Go dlown, Moses,'' ,a nd "What A Day This Has Been,'' from "Brigadoon." Though beaten out for first place by a square dance te,am, the boys felt second-place honors wer:e adequate ,a nd graciously turned their winners' check back into the Mascoma School's fund for Dollars for SchoLars.
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English wm be offered for seven pertods during the week; two of these sesstons will be devo,t ed to literature and five will stress composition, grammar, and spelling. Seventh grade English will emphasize sections of introduction to literature catego.r ies; eighth grade will feature American literature stress, and ninth grade will cover a basic curriculum of English and! world liter.ature. Science for the eighth -grade will be given on five days inste,a d of the present three . Able students will be offered an introduction to Conversational French at grades six and seven. Latin wm be offered to those qualified in the eighth and ninth gnades. SentO'rs will have .a required course in Religious Education three times a week.
43 Seniors Join CMS Alumni Forces Plans for almost all members of the '64 graduating class have been amwunced by He.admas:ter Wakely -and include the following seniors and the schools they will attend in the fall: Alva B. Adams, Jr., Worcester Academy; Peter M. Atwood, Deerfield Academy; David M. Bishop, Phelps School; John G. Bronos, II, •(Continued on page 8.)
JUNE, 1964
Headmaster Tackles Spelling Twenty-three boys who tested below grade level on the Morrison-McCall spelling test were selected to participate in a spelling workshop. A ,g roup of alphabet patterns built around terminal route sounds has been the text of the course. This text has been developed by Mr. Warren Johnson, handwriting specialist from Peterborough, N. H., Mr. Charles Drake, Staff Psychologist for the Wayland, Massachusetts Public SC;'hool System and Mrs. Buchan, Head of the Language Training Department of the Adolescent Unit of Children's Hospital, Boston. They have joined for,ces to help improve reading, spelling and handwriting by using the Johnson-Handwriting Alphabet Patterns. Twenty minutes, four times a week was spent on the patterns. Another form, of the .Morrison-McCall spelling test was administered after fifteen meetings-twenty of the ,boys who completed the course took the test. The median gain was four months. Four students showed more than a year's -g rowth.