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

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Teachers gear mathematics to college-level studies Making an old subject interesting was one goal of the Math Department. One way in which this was ac- complished was through the several new math teachers, who shared their freshness and enthusiasm with their students. Another main objective was gearing the courses, especially in senior math. to college-level math, since such a high percentage of our students continue with a college education. Students had a wide variety of sub- jects from which to choose. Among them were related math, algebra, geometry, trigonometry-analytical geometry and trigonometry- probobility and statistics. Mr. Victor Rojos the overhead projector to explain the addition of two functions to his second period trigonometry and analytical geometry class. 26

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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

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Mr . Dixi Trolling r, a n w moth t och r at Coronado, prepare her l ton plan for the day. 27