THE LANGUAGE ARTS DE PARTMENT Independent small study by group discussion and interaction is considered important, is an important the department. technique Checking individual needs a continuous process used is The Language Arts Department believes that each student is a living, longing, needing young man or young woman. Each is very different. Each has his own special aspirations and his own abilities to receive, to give, and to create. Each has his own special need for skills. Because of this the department is searching for and beginning to discover a program that will completely change language arts from an English "class" to an "area" where students are surrounded by many books and many small packages of information. Each young man and young woman will be a "magnet", attracting unto himself the- particular information according to his special interest or need in all covery by the human needs. the skills student that of communication. speaking, This would include listening, - 98- reading, and the dis- writing are