Mountlake Terrace High School - Tempo Yearbook (Mountlake Terrace, WA)

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'C' EST LA VIE!' Alien tongue links minds by study dialogue, plays Learning about the customs and traditions of a foreign people can prove to be an exciting and valuable experience. Foreign language offered the key that opened the door to a whole new world for search- ing, eager students. French, Spanish, German, and Russian were available for study. A new system of learning a foreign language was brought into effect. Instead of being pushed along at an uncomfortable speed, students learned the language of their choice at their own rate by following the pass-no pass system. When a certain specified amount of oral and written work was completed by the student, a semester credit was earned. To some, this study freedom proved to bring about a greater understanding of the language, to others, the pursuit of other in- terests. Not all of the learning was individual effort, however. Group plays and dialogues were very much a part of the foreign language scene. All in all, the students who took an active part in the foreign language curriculum gained valuable knowledge. RIGHT, Being amused by a German textbook is Don Garka, junior, who dresses ap- propriately for his German class, LOWER LEFT, Christi McElrea, junior, directs Lynn Edwards, junior, in the general direction ofthe pinata. Nancy Elsbree, junior, waits expectantly in the background for Lynn to attack. LOWER MIDDLE, Mike McNulty, junior, tries his hand at breaking open a Spanish pinata while blindfolded. Christi McElrea winces as Mike swings the stick, while other onlookers gaze with amusement. LOWER RIGHT, Using muscles to break the pinata isjunior Dean Krahn's technique. His stick is well-aimed, but what happened to his blindfold? After the pinata is broken students will rush to gather the candy that will fall to the floor,

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WORLD AROUND US Lifestyle probe offered in social studies The past came alive and joined the present in history courses. Some were as domestic as U.S. history or city administration, others as universal as world history or contemporary problems. Underclassmen's required histories, world history for sophomores and U.S. for juniors, were offered in both regular and team teaching. Team teaching was more extensively lectures, with four classes meet- ing in the Little Theater together. Individual teaching was in the moretraditional l teacher to 1 class style. One semester elective classes were open to juniors and seniors. Any of these classes could be taken to fill the senior history credit nec- essary for graduation. These classes included contemporary problems, a series of short studies on current events, and minority race, which delves into the problems of minorities in American society. The an- thropology class that was offered dealt with his cultural obligat- tions. Twentieth century history was just that, and covered a little bit ofcontemporary history as well. Along with the rest were offered political theory, which covered the different political systems of man, and city administration, which was closely related to political theory. City administration is a unique class that, working with the city of Mountlake Terrace, studies the methods of running a city under the council-manager form of govern- ment. Students spent time on field trips to city hall and held a mock council meeting with their own elected officials. A new class, Afro-American History, caused a lot of enthusiasm. Taught by Bruce Beaman, it was included in a two-hour block with Afro-American literature, instructed by Elizabeth Houff. As a new class, Afro-American did a lot to further understanding of the Black in America, and along with the rest of the history department, fur- thered the understanding of man. 94 Social Studies TOP, Lecture and discussion are a large portion of the team teaching history program. Don Ford, left, discusses the results ofa test in his sophomore world history course, BOTTOM, There's more than one way to beat the system, and more interesting subjects than history, evidently. Hoover Cham- blis, sophomore, buries himselfin a comic book. M Nm.. L-