Pulaski Academy - Bruin Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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Bare Necessitl Food, clothing, shelter, English, social studies, science, math and P.E. You had to have them to get by in life. Every fall when students selected courses in each department, they did what they could to spice up their daily schedules putting their imaginations to work and finding ways to add variety to the routine. The reasons behind choosing a particular course were as varied as the course selections themselves. Sophomore Lundy Colvert said, My goal is to take Calculus my senior year. The only way to do this was to take two math courses during one year. Doubling up was the only way to take Calculus the senior year, since the option of taking Algebra I during the eighth grade had been abolished. I decided that taking Geometry and Algebra II would be the least difficult combination, he added. There's a big advantage because sometimes I use Algebra II in Geometry and vice-versa. Tracy Manning, Mark Pace, Ashley Smith, Carrie Stuart and Carolyn Gerber took double math loads. Choices such as these often meant that students did not have room in their schedules for electives such as typing, computer programming or art. However, some students were forced to endure heavy course loads 70.Academics in order to meet requirements unique to P.A. Seniors Kirk Aronson and Amy Korenblat found themselves enrolled in American Civics, a ninth grade requirement, because they had transferred to P.A. as seniors and Civics was not required in their previous school. P.A. requires four years of history.My old schoolonly required two, explained Kirk. I had always planned to take three subjects my senior year, leaving more time for electives I was interested in. Instead, they told me that Civics was required to graduate which left little choice. court iesters. Seniors Scott Cline and Greg Bell clown around at the annual Medieval Feast held at senior jennifer Haynie's house. , Q.

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Bare NECESSIEI For a native language, English was much harder than it might have seemed. john Edgell's senior honors class wrote approximately 35 papers. The papers were tough because they had to come from the student's own ideas, not books, explained senior janet Allen. In sophomore English classes a research paper was added to the curriculum to prepare the students for the paper they would write in American history during theirjunior year. l don't think we should have to do a paper two years in a row, said sophomore Ashley Smith. The teachers should teach us how to use the library and how to write the paper, then we'd know how to do one when we're juniors. On the other hand, sophomore Katie Quaintance added, I think it is good that we are doing a paper this yearg now we'll know how to write one next year. Check it out! Rick Dowda, sophomore, looks through the card catalog in order to find books and other sources for his first research paper in Mrs. Kathy Beaumont's English class. what in the world! Sophomore Rick Dowda examines a slide in biology. Feastival. Working up a good appetite, senior Mark Cornell stares at the loads of food being served by senior jennifer Haynie at the Medieval Feast held each year by Mrs. Nancy Rousseau's senior English class. f ,f . M-,W 72'Academics