Moreno Valley High School - Valhalla Yearbook (Sunnymead, CA)

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Vising her math in accounting, Elisa Woods appreciates what she has learned. Even in So- cial Studies classes, students like junior Keith Benton have to use their English to communi- cate through essay exams. Carefully explain- ing the facts of the adding machine (using math), Mr. Robb checks on Felicia Hale and Adrienne Goines. English 2 U Matl

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CO u Z u o u Time For Knowledge What are math and English besides a headache? Were these subjects in- vented to complicate life or just to give homework and tests on? Or are these just two more classes to suffer through? Even though we are reluctant to admit it, both English and math are used every day in many ways. In English we need not merely suffer, but English can be used to polish our jenior Jerry Day. readies his current event article before he shares the information with his Speech (English) class. Sometimes working in a group helps solve the problem, as Denise Dunn and her friends discover. communication skills either verbally or with the written word. Without good communication skills, where would we be? Chances are, we would be in seri- ous trouble! Math is just as practically valuable to us as English. We realize that this comes as a shock to many of you! Some types of math classes even teach us about logic, or to catalog, calculate, and organize items. Then there are the in- creasingly popular computer classes which are also offered through the math department. However, many teenagers still believe that math is only used to keep them from passing high school. Some of those contribute to this possibility by using their math class to write notes to friends, or talk, or . . . anything but work on math. In support of this statement, Mike Arias was heard to comment, Algebra is some- thing nice to sleep through. We Want To

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One of the joys of science, according to Tim Garcia is trying to spell ' echinodermata. ' Concentration and note taking are important skills in chemistry as Mike O ' Brien and Ted Williams demonstrate. CO V Z Q U Time to Experiment For the graduating class of ' 87, the science requirement was increased to two years from the former one and one half years. That meant that in addition to a semester of health science, next year ' s seniors had to also take science for another year and one half. Of course, college prep students generally took Biology and Chemistry automati- cally. And the state now wants schools to get more and more students to enroll in physics. Other science electives in- cluded: Astronomy, Earth Science, Physical Science, Life Science, Environ- mental Science, Basic Science, and Physiology and Anatomy. Science classes weren ' t just note taking and notebook making classes. Most of them involved varying degrees of lab work. Science labs included ev- erything from trying to find one-cellec creatures through a microscope to rec ognizing and labeling the muscles of i cat. The study skills learned in a sci- ence class have proven very helpful tc former MoVal students in their college courses, as many of them have report ed back that a particular science class was easy in college because of whal they learned here. We Want To Know Everything