Nashville High School - Scrapper Yearbook (Nashville, AR)

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THE VIEWS PRESENTED by Leon Daughtery in a speech class debate leave Pamie Salisbury, Linda Bennet, Lynne Roberts, and (uanella Sparks speechless. WHILE RELATING THE adventures of his European excursion to Ms. Ball's second period English class, Johnny Graves attracts the attention of Becky Butler, Kelly Callan, Cathy Chism, Pam Lingo, Debbie Graham, and Regina Scoggins. Journalists racked their brains for ideas to make the school newspaper and yearbook more up-to-date. The yearbook kept some workers after school to draw up layouts, write copy, type and cfevelop pictures. Some dedicated souls even spent part of their 'spring break' working on the yearbook. Constructing the TATTLER at the NASHVILLE NEWS office proved to be valuable experience for future journalists. Nineteen students in the public speaking class delivered informative, persuasive, and how-to speeches. Pantomime speeches aided students in gesticulating more effectively. Panel and class discussions were also common occurrences. French I students discovered how to order food and tell time in French. Spelling bees and oral conjugation of verbs proved to be trying experiences for first year students. French II students improved their articulation, learned to conjugate five different types of verbs, reviewed sentence structure and pronouns, and became acquainted with the various regions of France. A mini-course in Greek mythology benefited some sophomores with a brief respite from the grammar book. Bonus points lured students into creative writing. Literature became a daily routine in the spring, pushing the grammar books to the far corners of the lockers. Juniors reviewed basic grammar, but spent the last nine weeks in literature which ranged from Poe to Steinbeck and Fitzgerald. Book reports became class projects with tne reading of A SEPARATE PEACE. Two research papers, memorizing 200 lines of poetry, and reacting LES MISERABLES filled in the gaps for seniors when they were not studying grammar and literature. English lit constituted the major portion of their studies beginning with Beowulf and including Chaucer's famed Canterbury Tales. Keeping pace with the ever-present journalism deadlines gave anyone who did not possess stamina a nervous break down.

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Language Arts Furnishes Basics Conforming to the 'back-to-the-basics' trend, English provided the fundamental knowledge essential to the comprehension of all other courses. Parts of speech, subordinate clauses, punctuation, sentence structure, and diagramming sentences constituted a major part of the year, but left ample time for book reports and research papers. Sophomores gave oral book reports using visual aids such as posters, scale models, or dressing as a character from the book to enhance their presentations. RIGHT-Capturing Melinda Hayes in one of her rare industrious moods finds her laboring over a difficult English assignment. RIGHT CENTER-During a poetry-in-schools workshop, graduate associate David Reich from the U of A Fayetteville analyzes the handiwork of Billy Ray Jones while Gary Kirkpatrick remains in the thinking stage. BELOW-Averaging grades requires Mrs. Dillard to enlist the aid of Quin Minton, David Teague, and Remmel Henry from her class of accelerated sophomores while she assists Janet Langley with an assignment. BOTTOM RIGHT-ln fourth period journalism Sandy Blakely, Kathy Barnes, and Scott Millward pause to read the combined efforts of the fourth and fifth period journalists in THE TATTLER, while Gaye Gallas is already hard at work on an article for the next edition. 18

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POSING WITH THE winners of the Arkansas history class county Benson, Sheila Chambers, Mark Dowdy, Sandy Baker, Quin Minton, elections are county officials Mrs. Delta Chalker, Miss Kay McClure, Su an Pile, Boone Dean, Cassandra Wright, Greg Radebaugh, and Sam Mrs. Eileen Jamison, Mr. Garner Russell, Mr. O'Neal Davidson and Mr. Reeder. Dick Wakefield. Winners are Alan Howard, Lisa Jamison, Nathaniel Students Journey Around World Into Past Two new courses, sociology and world geography added to the social studies curriculum. Students in sociology studied the culture of a society to make clearer the way in which people live, interact, and exist in groups. They learned to recognize problems to determine what has and has not been done to solve them. Although most students studied geography from the fourth through seventh grades, world geography is new to high school. After gaining general knowledge of geographic locations, topography, and climates of the continents to create an overall picture of the globe, students toured the countries of the world to learn political systems, languages, religions, customs, and modes of livings of the countries' inhabitants. Topics of study in world history ranged from the theory of prehistoric man to Napoleon, the world wars. Hitler, Charlemagne, Aristotle, Plato, Greek art, and the Boxer Rebellion. Trips to the Ouachita library, reporting on a person relevant to world history, and filmstrips maintained a high interest level. Juniors in American history relived the highlights of our country's past. They discovered America with Columbus, fought in most of the wars, and studied problems, progress, Indian difficulties, inventions and inventors, the moneymakers, the glitter of the roaring 20's, crash of the stock market, depression, the 50's, and Kennedy's assassination. ABOVE - Wracking their brains for the right answers, Charles Benson and Janice Wynn learn that people, climates, land types, populations, capitals and livelihoods arc what world geography is all about. LEFT- The history of our country is interesting to Gaye Goodrum, Judy Lamb, Steve Savage, and Cindy Jones, but Jerry Gardner, Stan Staggs, and Terry Ray find that the present intrigues them more.