Dana Hills High School - Mast Yearbook (Dana Point, CA)

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CRQSSROAD .. PRO IDES LTER ATI Crossroads is a newly created school designed to be an alternative to standardized teaching. The program is based on allowing the student more control over his destiny. Cross- roads gives the student freedom of choice in classes and allows him to go deeper into levels of learning starting with the teacher directing the student and ending with the student pro- viding his own direction. The students are given a chance to take either Communications fEnglishJ, Computations QMathJ, Social Studies fSocial Sciencey, or Science, The ways the stu- dent can earn credit are by taking Dana Hills classes, Seminar meetings, Individual study, Community Service or ROP. A typical student schedule reveals varied amounts of time spent in class and in the community learning at a first hand basis. . , .,.....,.. -f T . 4 21' .XQI il

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----' GLISH EXHIBITS NEW APPRGACHES is nun' -an 17 ' , ,MM , ' a fc 2 + x '25 y - ,- , f .. ,L f e0QffilA ff, 9..- ,Fi l -.I L.. According to Mrs. Prescott, the department head, the basic philosophy of the English department is f'to help each stu- dent gain the language arts skills, such as reading, writing, and listening, needed to function well in our society. In or- der to accomplish this goal the English department has ini- tiated two new teaching methods this year. One is the ex- tensive use of video tape and the other is a different approach to grammar and writing as prescribed in two new textbooks. Video tape allows the student to compare what he has inter- preted in his reading to how others have interpreted in creat- ing a film or play. The new approach to grammar centers around understanding how to use words correctly and ef- fectively in communication even to the point of Grammar as Style which is the title ofa new Advanced Composition text. lj Jaime Bernhagen practices secretarial skills. 21 Students practice short- hand notes in the useful business class. 31 Consumer survival offers different modes of instruction. 45 Lit. of the Sea students take time in class to read a novel about life at sea. 53 Mrs. Prescott tells it like it is in college review. 61 Students usually begin building writing ability with English l 71 go on to English ll 85 and then finish honing their writing skills in either Basic Com- position 9J or Advanced Composition,

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. NJ' Q ' E4 i -.. N f . . Duties Aboard Ship 8 -rar e ihi' ' 1 . E 'E' '.1 1-'21, fp 4 J will' - t,if41.54LQi ' , Xt - .' Q, Q' '..-J., 331' -A . ' n .x xx - ' i . .4 ,,,.,...-.,... , ,nun Q 1 ' . .- - t 'QA .M-1 'g N r-'ef T 5 , ' .Q an . 1- i X- .Y I l lj Mr. Ryan and students make book shelves which will be placed in the Crossroads portables. 25 Dee Taylor works in the Seminar room on one of her individual work assignments. 31 Chris Shanahan is called to the black- board to write an answer during Social Science class. 43 During Science, Mr. Mosbaugh gives a lecture in a portable on the Crossroads campus. SJ Tom Valli earns ROP credit by working at a nursery. 63 Mr. Porter talks to students at Sherman Institute, where they are earning ROP credit. 73 Debbie Osburn writes in her notebook keeping track of her contracts and assignments. 81 The Crossroads portables were bought from the district and arranged around a dirt area which the students plan to landscape. The student built the information kiosk in the center ofthe campus, 95 During Seminar, students discuss assignments and problems. Here students talk about a project they have in common,