Harbor High School - Mariner Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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Levez-vous, Asseyez-vous. touchez-vous. Mrs Swoggcr teaChcs her class a lesson m French Later . Using Robin Richards as a model, Mrs, Swagger shows her class the parts of the body Robin was a French 1 student. While writing one of the many compositions, Frank Verdi. a Ger man 3 student searches for a forgotten word. 18 Academics

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Social Studies ticket to the world esides being one of the most useful sources of information Bin answering Trivial Pursuit questions, studying any kind of social studies was an excellent way to understand how the world worked and why it became the way it has. Some people said the reason we study history is so that world leaders will not make the same mistakes that their predecessors made. The social studies offered at Harbor include geography, world history, American history, American government, and Man,s Cultural History. World history covered. of course, the history of the world. Students studied everything from the fall of the Roman Empire to the world wars. Remember the Alamo? Students studying American history do. The battle of the Alamo was just one of the battles studied in American history. By the end of the course, students should have also been able to give anyone who asked all the details on the Boston Tea Party, Paul Reverels famous ride, and the Civil War. government class. It was a class that all students must have taken before they received their diploma. They also learned how a law was made, the Bill of Rights, and the different branches of government. Where is Iceland or the Phillipines? Students studying world geography know. Or how about the SALT talks? In Current History students learned all about the talks and most other events in the news this year It was easy to see that studying anyone of the social studies classes would provide a student a great deal of knowledge. But donlt take it incorrectly! The information gained is useful for much more than answering Trivial Pursuit questions. It helps in playing Jeopardy too! Laughing at an unseen comic. Sheila Palm and Shane Hall enjoy government classr Many students found it to be an exciting class. The after effects of a paper showing in his face. Mrv Nordquest busily figures grades World geography has a large freshman enrollment. 1 7 Social Studies

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Take Foreign Languages- Spice Up The Daily Routine hy would a student take a for- eign language? When asking members of all four classes. many different responses came up. Freshmen take foreign languages because they want to try something new when they get to high school or they hear from older brothers and sisters that languages are fun. Sophomores take a second year of language because they had fun their first year or they just want the credit for their first year. Juniors take a third year because nowadays many colleges are re- quiring three years of foreign language to apply or three years are essential for the Ohio Award of Distinction. Seniors may go on to a fourth year because they really love the language, like the teacher, or plan on making a career out of foreign languages. Senior Cheryl Holler stated, uI love German and Mrs. Kaura is the best teacher that I ever had. Larry Hooper added, uIRze learned so much about German, French, and Spanish that I cantt wait to get to college and study Russian and Japanese. Harbor offers four-year courses in French, German, and Spanish. A great deal of time is spent speaking the lan- guages, listening to tapes, memorizing vo- cabulary, learning grammar, translating words, and studying the culture and histo- ry of these countries that it's no doubt why more students are taking three or four years of their particular language. For the first time since Harbor has been in existence, Latin was no longer offered. Those sophomores, juniors, and seniors who have had Latin know that it has helped them undestand English bet- ter, but as senior Dave Jordan put it, Latin is a dead language, and today doc- tors and lawyers don,t even study it anymore? Learning more than one language, es- pecially than just English, is so important tody because many jobs require bilingual skills, and in our rapidly changing envi- ronment our country is quickly becoming fluent in several languages. lelng a little advlce, Mrs Kaura explains the methods for making a good composition better. Looking for the correct form of the verb, Roman Svoboda checks the back of his German book for the word 19 Foreign Language