McClellan High School - Lion Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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I rena scheduling, a new system which enabled students to :hoose their classes, teachers, and time slots, was the forerunner of academic achievement. A wide variety of classes available brought out a spirit of challenge among the students. Q Although classwork played an important role in academics, an occasional change of pace was in order. The witnessing of a murder trial by the Business Law class allowed them the experience of courtroom proceedings and a trip to the zoo gave the Art Club a chance to sketch animals. All in all, classroom work along with a break in the daily routine, gave the academically involved student a strong sense of challenge. Calculating the orbits of Earth, Mercury, and Mars are fourth period physics students, David Jones, Karen Daniels, Bart Herndon, and Pam Preller. V! I i r Division f 33

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I mlnl.Lem: 3 2 f Division Before begllhg to type, Tanya Smiley fu-st reads the instruo tions in order to properly set the margins. 1

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Students have to study others, works before they can produce their own. Our students who read avidly are better writersf'-Miss Susie West, teacher nglisru Etu q That Never Eues Dui' El Etqle ey! That's my copy of Newsweek ! No it isn't. I dug through three years of back issues to get this. I really need it, too. I only have four more weeks to do my research paper. How many sources do you have now? Only twenty-seven. In addition to research papers, traditional grammar, and various writing techniques, English classes studied a wide range of world literature with juniors concentrating on American writers and seniors on British. While sophomores borrowed that precious extra day to work on King Arthur and Julius Caesar class projects, juniors waded through the transcendental movement concepts and seniors wrote about their classmates in the style of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Following a four-year absence, Advanced English classes returned to the curriculum to aid college- bound students who excelled in Language Arts. Hopefully, im- proved communication skills will aid students in any career they choose. said Miss Susie West, Department Chairman. 34 fAcademics Working on grammar lessons is Mrs. Dalton's second period junior English class. As chairman of his group studying poetry, Allen Williams makes an oral presentation. I took the one less traveled by, . . . Explaining poems such as The Road Not Takenv to her sophomore advanced English class is Miki Spikes. i Short story units are a major part of sophomore English. Studying this portion of her course work is Cindy Hardy.