Barbe High School - Les Memoires Yearbook (Lake Charles, LA)

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HACK TO BASICS. Senior Southey Hayes uses his reading skills to find information on King Henry VII for Mrs. Connie McDonald's English IV term papers. HEADING BETWEEN THE LINES. Everyone can be seen studying at one time or another during lunch. Junior Pam Lang is no exception when it comes to memorizing a few definitions. 124 — Academics

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| Step % Stefr CRAMMING IT UP. School isn’t 11 fun nd games especially when you have a biology lest «o study for. Sophomore Derrik Woodscn gets in a few last minute facts during his lunch break. into the Wonderful World of Tests and Term Papers n between late winter and early spring, junior and senior English teachers handed out (heir latest out assignment. While the task's required note cards, rough drafts, and final copies might be a boon for the paper industry, for the students it spelled f-c-a-r. d-i-s-g-u-s-t, and l-o-a-t-h-i-n-g. In the beginning, only the knocking knees and trembling hands of the term paper-searching students could be seen and heard in the library. However, after the initial shock wore off, students were surprised by their reactions. Once I got into the work, it was really kind of fun. said Roma Breaux, junior. Some were plagued with procrastination. I had typed most of my term paper the night before, explained junior Gary Robertson, “but I wasn't quite finished. So I paid some ■■■■■■■■■[ guy $3.00 to type my title page and data sheet 1st hour, and turned it in 2nd hour. The thought of having a biology test, geometry exam, and an English Quiz, all on the same day, was enough to make the average student sick. Of course, tests had a purpose; to see if one was learning what one was supposedly learning. However, if one hasn't learned anything, one had to spend the night before the test studying what one should already know. And somehow, what is on the test is never what you've studied. No matter how hard I study, sighed freshman Robbie Firaro, “I never study what I need to know. Claimed Stephen Kitt. If we never had tests. I guess I would never bother to learn anything that didn't interest me. — CHOZEN THE EYES HAVE IT. In the commons Sophomore Anna Tarver takes time out from her lunch break to read over her geometry notes before the test.