Lubbock Cooper High School - Pirate Yearbook (Lubbock, TX)

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Library Is Enhanced b New librarian Cherryl Hill work- ed to update the library for the student body. Mrs. Hill subscribed to twenty new magazines, and two hundred new books were also ordered. These new additions provided a wide range of sources for those students doing research. A greater variety of books were available for enjoyment by the students. The audio-visual room was enriched with a new film projec- tor, and a new color television and video recorder. This special equipment added to new methods of teaching. C’est La Vie French, taught by Ms. Good- win, was the only foreign language course offered at Cooper this year. The students started the year by learning to converse orally in French and adding to their vocabulary. Students started writing in French the second six weeks. This was a big transition because the written words did not look like they were pronounced. To sup- plement their knowledge, the students saw French culture in films and learned French songs. As the French say, C'est la Vie! — (that's life!). (a) Mrs. Hill rearranges the supplies in the audio-visual room, (b) Shannon Freden- burg catches up on the latest periodicals in the libary. (c) Debbie Drew finds this French story amusante. (d) Brenda Barnell thinks and writes in French at the same time, (e) Lisabeth Polley looks up how to say paw to describe her pet in French. Academics 13

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Karen Arp Sharon Bernstein jay Brown Pam Brown Wink Cherry Connie Goodwin Kay Graves Donna Hanfeld Randy Hanfeld Cherryl Hill Nancy Howard jerry Jones Karla Kitten Susan Lake Tim Nix Phyllis Orr Kathy Pitts Randy Rushing Jackie Shoults Nell Stanford Faculty c and Administration Harold Carpenter — Supt. James Gordon - Prin. Nancy Tabor - Sec. to Supt. Charlotte Sue Adams - Sec. to Prin. JaneBednarz - Tax Office Ganeen Southern - Tax Office Zana Stanford - Tax Office Linda Thompson - Tax Assessor Eugene Bednarz - School Board Gary Bell — School Board Nancy Fehleison - School Board Joe Kitten - School Board Clay Oats - School Board Sputter Thomason — School Board 12» Academics

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Students Piece Together Knowledge for College The major concern for English teachers this year was preparing their students for higher educa- tion. Teachers went through the year teaching their charges the skills that students will need for college. Students were taught grammatical skills and well as literary abilities. Susan Lake and Connie Good- win concentrated on teaching their freshmen how to put sentences together into well form- ed paragraphs. In addition to reading snort stories, the freshmen read longer works such as The Hound of the Baskervilles and Romeo and Juliet. Sophomores under Mrs. Lake devoted their time to learning how to write five paragraph com- positions. These students had practice in formal writing when they wrote their own short stories. English II students read the plays Our Town and Julius Caesar. Mr. Brown's English III students faced the inevitable task of writing the research paper, to which an entire six weeks was devoted. Juniors polished their grammatical skills while also studying American literature. Seniors tied together loose ends of their previous three years of English. They studied Shakespeare's plays such as Hamlet which they went to see at Texas Tech. The Seniors also read other examples of English literature such as Beowulf. (a) Debbie Wren takes notes for her junior theme, (b) Angie Coventry gets a library book for reading day. (c) Mrs. Lake's English II class studies literature, (d) Anna Montelongo and Lupe Alvarado furrow their brows over a Macbeth test. Hi d 14 «Academics