Lyman High School - Eagles Flight Yearbook (Lyman, WY)

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'il don't understand, said Ronni Kump to Instructor Layne Parmenter while she and Traci Gregg researched speeches. . ' A ' 4 .4 A 'H r ' V! A I II ,A 1, L 1 .4 .1 A 1 -1, A .h!- I 1 1 V, 1 I ' 4 K C- - ii fig: Vsggn 6 4 0 .. ' '- In the spring of C1985 former Prin- 'concerned with all the failing grades, cipal .lr Matthews requested that but said the students could bring up the English Department change its their grades if they tried. Hicks said curriculum, The new curriculum eee the change was right, covered more change was quite aswitch from the ilstrategiciareas, and he hoped to see regular procedure of teaching high gradual improvement as students re- school English. Department Chair- alized they were required to he more .man Charles Kellersaid, This cur- accountable. . . riculum gets students to use the grammar taught in previous grades and to think a little more. The cur- riculum consisted of the freshmen and sophomore students changing teachers every quarter. In this man- ner each teacher taught his or her strengths.cRelta Cox taught creative writing and speech for freshmen while Keller taught the vocabulary, basic study skills and literature, Layne Parmenter taught creative writing and speech for sophomores and Cox and Keller taught two quar- ters of literature. 1 y Most all new changes area little shakey at first, especially a drastic change like the English Curriculum. There was a problem with the change. Theefailure rates were much higher, but Principal Mike Hicks said, 'Tve talked to every kid who received an 'F, each nine weeks. They earned the had grades by not turning in work. Hicks was very The change was made to teach more of the basics, to get them ready for upper gradesf, said Cox. The new curriculum was liked by the teachers. The English Department noted this new curriculum was going to take a few years to really sink in and show its effectiveness. Chang- ing classes every quarter doesn't con- fuse studentsg I think they look for- ward to a different teacher every quarterj' .said c Cox. Keller said, This changing allows teachers to evaluate students betterf' The stu- dents were required to do more work at home and in the library. ul have noticed increasing serious research in the library, said Carol Buckley. If a sophomore .received no lower than a B in English 10 then sf he could skip English l l, and could take creative writing or newswriting upon invitation. If a student earned a C then sjhe took English ll. T Pleasant and unpleasant smells like ammonia were passed under the noses ol' Reita Cox's creative writing students during a sensory ex- ercise for taste. smell, touch. and sound. XX I-nglish Curriculum H if

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s Choices, choices, choices! Spinner Jones and Steve Lopez tried to decide which buttons they wanted to budy from the marketing class' book store. .,,. ,.,, W, K 'N-Q., .l -nu. L, J xt -Xu ,fm 2 qu- X X f 2 f ff f f if f 3' Q 5 if f f ,V 'Z my jk' X f ll'-A dll ference Beverly Adkins made the dif- ference in Lyman's business de- partment. Adkins taught market- ing, accounting, careers and of- fice practices. Heather .leans said, She taught me a lot and having marketing skills will help me in getting a job in the future. Stephanie Young echoed Jeans' comments, The experience should make it easier to get a job. Another student, Crystal Netuschil, said, She knows how to help us out and teach us busi- ness practices that we need to know. Business 87

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You have their attention. Deena! Relta Cox and her freshmen English class watched their speeches on videotape. 1 ,Mm ,,,mW, 7237 dn' f ', ,, ,LQ 'Q Janet Buckner anxiously awaited the results as Charles Keller corrected her assignment.