Sahuaro High School - Viva Yearbook (Tucson, AZ)

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R. Bend f E' sf tt' Miss Walker receives a first-hand experience of teaching Lecturing to her class, Miss Wingate pauses as students writ history. ELEC TI UN ELEMENT Seniors catch on to multi-faceted During the busy election year, some government classes seemed to have focused on the November 4 event. The Executive Process class, for instance, learned about the qualifications necessary to become President along with precedents set by earlier present system of government was derived. Students were also taught an understanding of the rights and responsibilities of each citizen in a democracy. While the three previous government classes offered insight to seniors who were going to vote as well as those presidents. The Cabinet and its who could not, other government departments were also mentioned classes made students more in this class. The American Foreign Policy class were informed of the many diplomatic relations between America and other countries which often ranged from the first foreign relation to the most current. The Federal System class was where students learned how the 158 FACULTY aware of the governmental system and its surroundings. Election Day may have had a lot of people wrapped up in it but history was also being made. Juniors were offered many courses to choose from and such classes included the American Revolution, the Civil War, American Indian studies, government Westward Expansion, Immigration, and Boom 8: Bust. The variety of eras ranged from the 1700s to the present day and each section seemed to be well explored by all students. Next to American history, most juniors also took free enterprise which broadened students' horizons of the American economic system. This class also brought out aspects of how to become a better consumer as well as learning how to purchase stock. During the past years, Sahuaro's social studies department has expanded and covered most of the historic as much as the governmental views of America and the world.

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N. Lauteret +8 Mrs. Bishop makes all of her P.E. classes fun for learning. As a teacher of Driverfs Education, Mr. McConnell teaches STUP, LUCK, LISTE Students learn to be aware in classes When one entered the driver's education class for the first time he thought that the class would scare him out of driving and especially out of cruising. Well, he was partially right. The tactic used was to scare you enough that you would become aware when you drove. But some of those movies did scare you in to being a safe driver for about the first ten minutes after getting in your car. After being in driver's ed. for awhile one learned a lot 160 FACULTY of the danger signs and knew how to react to them, so one would not get hit. Health class was one of those courses that everyone loved to make fun of because one can really embarrass people. No matter how much fun it was to poke fun at, health was a great course for basic understanding of how one should look and feel and how one could look their best, without losing or gaining too much weight. safety first Physical education brought all the things students learned in health into a regular program. The PE. department was of high quality, and there was something for everyone. If a student's thing was tennis or racquetball, he could have taken them. Of course, Sahuaro still offered basic PE, courses like volleyball, gymnastics, and dance. So no matter how enthusiastic you were, there was something for every student.