Estancia High School - Flight Yearbook (Costa Mesa, CA)

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Reloring o personal experience ro the srory rhey ore srudying, Lois Richardson grins or her class Pausing for o momenr, Leticio Sonto Cruz seorches her memory for rhe answer ro o comprehension guesrion on her laresr guiz Helping Students Explore The Wild World Of Reading Joe Louer, sophomore, conn- menred, Ir ' s o killer doss, Reeding Lab, o newly esrcblished course, in- volved individual vocabulary skills, composition, and will evenruolly in- clude speed reoding, Srudenrs earned English credits but needed a teocher recommendation to enroll. This course was held oil six periods and was designed to accommodate any high school student for one se- mester to two years. One junior, Brendo Alvorodo, said, It ' s helped me in reading a lot better than other classes have This first year was expensive due to the new eguipmenr, such as headsets and tape players, but will benefit students in the long run by helping them read olong with a voice reoding the story aloud and understanding comprehension ques- tions. The students hod free reading time with their own choice of books and also parricipored in co-operative leorning through group projects. Joe Louer recommended it ful- ly. 40 Academics

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Difficult and Exciting: A Challenge A six ro ten page essay by rhe end of first semesrer Are you kid- ding, Mr. Harvey? Seniors ore old pros or kronking our papers like rhis, bur for sopho- mores, rhis came as o big surprise. Yes, rtnar ' s righr. Sophomores. 25 of rhem. All in a new, expenmenral, berrer-rhan-ever Honors English doss. According ro Mr. Dove Harvey, rhe new English reacher from Cor- ona Del Mar High School, rhis subject of Dnrish Lirerorure is normally raughr ro seniors, nor sophomores. Despire rhe frighrening newness of rhis course Felina Danalis, who wanrs ro be a publisher, soid, ' 1 real- ly like ir I feel berrer in here rhan in College Prep. Mosr of rhe other sophomores also enjoyed the doss. Comments such OS The course is grear, by Irene Liu, ond ' 1 love Dnrish Litera- ture, by Darbora Hargrove showed their appreciarion of rhe class. The new honors English class seemed ro have struck rhe right cord wirh rhe srudenrs of rhis school. Drendo Martinez, sharing a joke wirh her friend, raises a break from her English assign- menr Dove Horvey, new reocher from CDAA, correcrs his Drirish Lirerorure dosses ' essays on Beowulf Englisn Osi

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Anxiety Did you cram for rhe SAT or one of Its offshoors such as rhe P5AT or SACT? Or did you srudy rhe sample resr like rhe bookler Taking rhe SAT rold you ro. One junior, Kris Choi, sold, Sure I ' m worried, bur I ' m going ro srudy for rhe SAT. Either woy you ' ve experienced somerhing quire unique: SAT mtd- nighr madness, as sophomore Bar- bora Hargrove described ir There are orher rerms, ones pschologisrs mighr use, Anxiery, Fear of failure. No marrer how prepared you were rhe firsr rime, you rhoughr you mighr fail. Some even sroyed up half rhe nighr before rhe resr, srudying in hopes of a good score. Of course, rhere were rhose who didn ' r really core whor rhey gor on rhe SAT or didn ' r rake ir. They missed our on o nerve- wrocking experience. Were rhey lucky ' Who knows? Selecnng Winning Posirion, Joe Louer prepores himself ro read onorher ossign- menr English 41