Friendly High School - Spirit Yearbook (Fort Washington, MD)

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53 R. X . Q a es. K, Willie l8CliSOI1 Studies his English. Mrs. Schineltz plans for her next grammtr Class Funamentles of Gramar and Compsis- tun is now a rekwired corde for all Friendly studints. Studints must take a semister of it each yere and it gits a little mor advansed each time. The skool bord thinks that studints now-days cant spel or rite in paragraf form, so they give us compsistun to teech us how. They also think we don't talk good, so they give us Gramar. Cramar tell us what we mite be able to do with langwage. The Friendly studints hav many Colorful opinyons of this Corse. Some say that one yere is sufishent enuf and threey yeres wold he a waste of time. Some uthers say that the idea flat out stinks! All in all, it wold be perfecly safe to saythat it ain't to popler among the stoodints. We ain't puttin' down Mrs. Schmeltz, Miss Beaver, Mr. Williams, Mr. Meehan, Mrs. White, Miss lowers, Mrs. Gorecki, Mrs. Fuller, Mrs. Williams, or Mr. Stringer. They are gude. We like the teechers, but we jist think that taking the same Corse for threey yeres will be borering and unneceasary. T56 X ACADEMICS . tb if Smiles reign supreme in this class

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i 1 9 si' Q 1 i Bit Krc-plin enters the Annex Library. Luffy Williams Smiles while she simulates. v 4 . '4 4 ' I I z ' l 'T' 1 , av in 1k,4 4 6 U f,,,f Q J M.VhzV In IK M , VV .V i i it i Steve lakish studies hard in the library. 'F i F Jv ' M vgiufif f,,,, .. 1. it There has been some grumbling lately about the lack of senior privilages. The big, bad seniors want to be distinguished from the sophomores and juniors. Well, maybe there aren't a lot of senior privil- ages, but the sophomores this year seem to be loaded vvith restrictions. All sophomores must have a semester of P.E. every year or have written proof they get 60 hours of exercise each semes- ter. Along witht he required Grammar and Composition courses they may choose between just two other courses, Novel and Short Story, or Basic Reading. Also the class of 79 is the first class which must have 20 credits to graduate, vvhile the seniors and juniors need only 18, It is also the first class required to pass a standard test before graduating. ACADEMICS! 155

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S catteri ng 'Zi oiia l Stetti alsz E 69 5 Li ifitraiendl 7 I E 59 Q Q20 Qt-2 77 E 5 E it i C - CCY- I IE EJ E lil l maryland Ztel 3 779 5 UQ 77 Q john Meering takes a wide stance around his rlesk. Do you remember the Basic Skills Reading Mastery Test? To check and compare reading intellect among Maryland students, questions quizzing functional abilities were assembled. The test contained problems that some found quite easy: Mary had a scrum or a scarf on her neck? Where would you find john Smith's phone number, under the l's or the S's? Although, some questions were challenging, FRIENDLY, having scored the highest in Prince Georges County kept P.G.'s average from falling ridiculously below that of Marylancl's. Because of the poor results, GrammarfComposition has become a re- quired course for each year of high school. Had other school's done as well as Friendly, you might have chosen two elective English courses. ACADEMICS! 157