Pleasant Lea Middle School - Flashback Yearbook (Lees Summit, MO)

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Below Right. Working in groups make t Speech Speech was one of the many electives that erghth graders at fPl.Jl-l had the option to take Mrs llignttle our speech teacher got very tnyolved wrth her work There were two, different speech courses e- the semester class and the full year class The Semester class per formed many different krnds of speeches such as Introduction demonstratron and persuaslve They also made u p thear own com- rmercrals and sales talks Durmg sec- ondquarter the classes malnly worked wlth drama t pantomrme and tdrtterent plays Duong thrrd fclufartter the students aiso learned about stage presence The ad yanced class learned about Parlra mehtary procedure debate and citations. l lt s rmportant an these classes to acoomplrsh ay feelmg of jselit esteem t and self confrdence an torrent ofa group said Mrs Lrttle yrgTrfsg2Students especralty DeNe1l Gary really jengoyed therryspeeoh class DeNell l took thas class be geause 1 wanted the acting part and I ttroughtrlt woutd be alot oflfun. class also teaches melhow to speak an publlc wltha sense of intelligence and contldence One yeffE3eNerll srgoals was to learn how its-speak effectnvety amongst the etzbirc t r 11251 you re thrnkrng of pursuing an faettng career ID the future here s some advrce from Mrs Lrttle Be sore you take as many classes as 'passable an hugh school audrtlon alot for parts and learn how to dance Aoove Right. Mrs. Little showsstudents S l to use the micro film tn the library t Qtgnmentsffun in Mrs: Littte s classy 16 ! Academics r f . . . . . Q 1 . . . ... . f . . X . I ' - 1 . . , . . , . . . l . 1 1 . . . . f ... . - .- 1 s ' as 1 ' ' . . y 1 4 X 1, I 1 , . . . . f 1 9 X X , , . . . 5, . , ..- f f 1 J f 1 f X O I 0 4 f 1 l ,, . ' 1 . ' I .. , . . . f . , , , 1 ' ' , xc . . . . . . . 1 fi 1 n . ff ' 7 I f l i small' I 'mmgyf Typing witl I-lorne Ecc

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K . A x ex fs hx of Xxx xex X X N X W X RN sa, he Mass-, x X AWXW ,-Y see hx Typlng wlthout glanctng at the keys IS trylng for Steve ... ...,...... s.-.awww f Typlng ln the typtng classes at Pleasant Lea Juntor l-hgh students were try ang hard to accomplrsh goals whtch they set for themselves earlter rn the year Mrs Bowles our typtng teach er at PLJH hoped that her students had learned as much as posstble ln the buszness world and had learned to type accurately and qurckly Mrs Bowles sand that approxrmately 8096 of all robs offered today tn volve typlng skulls Mark Bruno a student rn the ad vanced typrng class sard l hope an the future to be rn the bustness world and rt as necessary to know how to type well Mark also sand that he enjoyed hrs typrng class be cause Mrs Bowles was a great teacher There were two typtng courses of tered at PLJH tor the etghth grade level The full year class produced the school newspaper and learned about typtng and computers The semester class learned the basrc skulls for typrng By Emrly Akers and Carla Otto Home Ec Home Economtcs was a class that many students enjoyed Mrs Brlggs taught Home Ec t and Ms Bard taught Home Ec ll The classes were comprehenslve and taught a wrde vartety of subjects tn home maktng Some of the dttterent unrts tncluded foods clothlng chrld care groomrng, and personal care l took thus class to learn mo e about myself and also to learn how to cook commented Amanda Whrte Amanda entoyed thus class because she was able to make more trrends wrthnn her class Mrs Brugge hoped that her stu dents had become more mature, more independent, and developed good homemaking skills. f Q ,WW , f 7 Mrs Mary Ann Lanue Home Economrcs Home Economlcs students enjoy a guest speaker '-5.1 ' Y- Acadernlcsf17