Sherman Oaks Center for Enriched Studies - Excalibur Yearbook (Los Angeles, CA)

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Click, click, click! . . . Gleefully typ- ing away is Ramon Miller with the help from his friends Julie Arnold. Marvin Duque and Alvin Thompson. The apple is an excellent tool for the students to get experience with to- day ' s technology. Just say no . . . Having previously missed the program on T. V.. Ian Fon- tenot and Donny Polanco stayed after class to view the special program re- garding drugs and alcohol and stay- ing away from them. These shows are very helpful to youngsters. SL » j«(l- E E» 1m ' 4k H n 1 L Listen! Listen! You ' re not listening! . . . equipped with the necessary items like a cleaner and marker in hand. Ms. Wormell demonstrates to the class that if you multiply by the reciprocal, everything would come out fine. As it turns out the equation was solved correctly. H herefore art thou, Romeo , , , As an effective aid in teaching her class Shakespearean literature. Mrs. Jan Lambert uses her handy film pro- jector. The class is watching slide by slide the scenes from Romeo and Juliet in which Romeo is em- bracing Juliet. Visual Aids r r Academics yU

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A C A D E M Seeing things at g a different angle Math, foreign lan- guage, Health Edu- cation, Driver Edu- cation and English classes all have one thing in common — they all use some sort of audio or visual device to help aid the teacher in enhancing the lesson plans. For some students, to ac- tually visualize or hear the lesson on an overhead projector or tape player helps them to bet- ter understand the concept the teacher is trying to teach. The overhead projector: Lyn- da Wormell, Marian Paster- nack and Janet Yasuda, to name a few, are notoriously known for using this device. It ' s actually easier for them be- cause they could keep their eyes on the class and teach at the same time. Given the position of the ta- bles in Ms. Wormell ' s class, the projector helps me to see bet- ter. said eleventh grader, Sandy Cavallaro. • Both of the aids have always helped me to get familiar with Spanish dialogues 99 The Foreign Department em- ploys both devices to aid the stu- dents. The students sit eagerly and listen for that little irritat- ing voice pronouncing Voulez- vous Francais? or Como Est- as. The purpose in this exercise is to hear how the native tongue sounds o that students get a feel for the language. It ' s done to help conjugate certain words and improve oral skills. Being in Spanish for three years, the aids have always helped me to get familiar with Spanish dialogue. said Jeffrey Nodd, eleventh grader. In Health Education, Ms. Lisa Lewis shows her class the movie, THE MIRACLE OF LIFE a movie about the inside anatomy of both sexes. The film shows the develop- ment of the egg and sperm cells and the baby itself. The lesson wouldn ' t be as effective without showing the class this movie. Ms. Lisa Lewis, Health teach- er. To begin with we ' d start off . . . Dr Pasternack. a skillful niarlwmalician. instructs the liass in the simplicity of the ninth equation in that if you put your mind and heart into it. there ' s no equation loo hard to overcome — where there ' s a will, there ' s a way. But wait, yonder overhead projector there lies a hidden message — HELLO!?? Hello to you. too! 94 Visual Aids Academics

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I ' ve got 10 find it soon! — Melissa Kaplin, 10th grader searches frantically to find information to compete her report, looking through the encyclopedia, she finds what she needs to look for in the card catalog, therefore, completing her assign- ment in the nick of time. THE FACTS ABOUT HOMEWORK Do you use your assignment sheet? yes 65% no 35% Do you think it helps you stay organized? yes 67% no 33% Ways to get around doing homework 1. Pay someone to do it? — 15% 2. Copy a friend? — 4l7o 3. Make up an excuse and do it later? — 45% 4. Forge a note from your parents? — 9% 5. Say you didn ' t do it and take a zero? — 6% How do you handle friends who don ' t do their homework? 1 Smile and let them copy your paper? — 46% Do you feel this helps them? — 52% said yes 2. Tell them it would be easier to take a zero? — 33% said yes Do you feel this helps them? — 42%) said yes 3. Tell them they have a few minutes to do it themselves? — 51%) said yes Do you feel it helps them? — 30%i said yes Help! — Sherry Ino, senior, working frantically to gel her assignment in on time. No one wants to turn their home- work in late. The library provides a great working place al school to help all the students thai don ' t have a satis- factory place to work at home. 96 Homework Academics