Coronado High School - Legend Yearbook (El Paso, TX)

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Mrs. Effia Motari, English taochar, onolyxas, corracts ond grodas har junior class nina-waaks tasts. English IV studants in Mrs. Bassett's closs gothar into small discuuion groups for lha purpose of analyzing each ofhars' fhamas in ordar to discovar errors. 24

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Administration works to solve problems Coronado'» counselor» ore Mr». Stewart, Mr». Goldberj, Mr. Walter» and Mr. Leonard. The positions of student activities director and guidance-instruction coor- dinator were newly filled this year by Mr. Aubrey Cherry and Mr. Robert Taylor, respectively. Mr. Cherry moved up from his posi- tion os varsity sports trainer lost year. He organized and supervised school- sponsored extro-curricular activities, including sponsorship of the newly revised Student Council House of Representatives. Transferred from Irvin High School, Mr. Taylor was responsible for working with teachers on problems concerning curriculum. He utilized the new system established in the El Paso Public Schools using computer-chosen substi- tute teachers. Counselors at Coronado deal with educational, personal and vocational problems of students. The recently initiated four-year plan continues this year. With this plan, one counselor remains with a class throughout its high school career. By this method, the counselor may become better acquainted with each student. 23 Mr. Robert Taylor Mr. Aubrey Cherry

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English classes discover new approaches to learning Strains of the younger generation's poetry expressed in song could be heard drifting from Coronado's senior English classes, os teacher and student exchanged different ideas of poetry. One class performed o puppet show of Macbeth; others viewed films of Mac- beth performances and listened to a student-made tape of the original Mid- dle English version of the Canterbury Tales. Junior classes put on the Crucible by Arthur Miller as a part of an extensive study of witchcraft and American literature. As an exercise in writing short stories, sophomores wrote ghost stories for Halloween. The underclassmen selected, explained and illustrated poetry in notebooks and were in- troduced to William Shakespeare through reading and studying Hamlet. Freshmen were introduced to novels by reading such works as Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. Classes learned about English authors by view- ing slide presentations on the background of the authors. Students wrote compositions and essays. Before turning in their work for a teacher's grade, the pupils exchanged papers to discuss mutual errors in style, transition, use of con- nectives, parallelism, grammar and use of specific wording. Mr». Leavitt it attounded by a ttudent't excute. Mr». Horl ond her Englith IV ttudent» look up o word in order to tettle o ditpute over pronunciation. 25