Spring Woods High School - Safari Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Using the headphone set, senior Kristy Horsted develops her sliill in listening comprehension. The sets were used tor pronunciation drills, grammar practice and lis- tening comprehension by Span- ish l, Il, and lll, Ready for TAGS competition senior David Santord and sopho- more John Rhodes add polishing touches to their practicing. Although we didnt place, we did a good iobf' said Santord. Translations in any language are ditticult as iunior Nancy l'lous' ton agonizes over a Latin Trans- lation. Quotations were also studied in l-loustons Latin l class along with Latin drills. 76 llcreign Lanqugggg L5 fx r , no 1' 5, :Jil Il'S Illll llI'BBll lll lllltlll Fewer students than ever betore enrolled in the toreign language program, but the ones that did were involved in some interesting activities. Edith Frame, eleventh grade counselor, telt that the decrease in enrollment occurred because parents don't encourage it and colleges don't require it. So while toreign language teachers were stressing listening comprehension and grammatical torms to students. guidance counselors were busy encouraging students to fx NJ 'Q enroll in these worthwhile courses, Foreign language students did not spend time merely reading from boolcs and answering simple questions put to them by the teachers, Slcits and radio plays were pertorrned, monologues and dialogues were presented, and also tilrns, trips, slides and tapes were used to turther incorporate toreign language into an everyday type use. Spanish IV classes spent the tirst part ot the year studying about Spain itselt, We studied the provinces as a class, iunior Felicia Faringer said. We did a report on a Spanish city, iunior Kendall Johnson said. We had to tall: to travel agents. lt wasa lot ot tum, the iunior added enthusiastically. Spanish IV, V, and Vl were combined into one mixed class, so the ditterent levels worked on ditterent assignments. One level did a report on Mexican Christmas customs, said Johnson. 1 32, A D

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Sllilrlllilllll sed' fm lT's The hardesl' Thing l've done in high school. said iunior Kevin Kelly, reTerring To his criTical review on STephen Cranes Maggie, Girl of The STreeTs. Research Tor The paper included long hours OT searching and noTe Taking, CollaboraTion in pairs was allowed when creaTive wriTing sTudenTs prepared a dialogue To be acTed ouT Tor The class, llllill' IIITIIISB The mosT emphasized and basic elemenT OT The American educaTion sysTem has always been The sTudy oT The language arTs: English. All Tields OT higher learning depend on The usage OT our culTure's Torm OT expression. ThereTore. English is reTerred To more emphaTically Than iusT Two OT The Three R's OT learning. lT is The only course required by graduaTion sTandards as a Tour year sequenTial sTudy. ObiecTives are cha rTed and goals are seT so ThaT when The sTudenT receives his diploma he is prepared To Tace The demands OT The business and college worlds: a neglecTed achievemenT ThaT is plaguing many school sysTems. Armed wiTh a new TexTbook. Treshmen were exposed To genre according To Emily Davis Treshman English Teacher. She noTed ThaT This included shorT sTOries, poeTry, novels, and drama. l liked The uniTs on Greek myThology. because iT was easy. and GreaT ExpecTaTions The besT. Treshman Ronald Shaw said. OTher areas OT sTudy involved grammar. composiTiOn. and addiTional liTeraTure such as Romeo and JulieT. Goals OT The course were To use grammar To improve cOmposiTiOn and explore The diTTerenT genre Davis commenTed. STudenTs were TaughT less sTrucTural linguisTics and TransTormaTiOnal grammar according To sophomore English Teacher Virginia Johnson. She also explained ThaT The goal OT The English deparTmenT was To noT have To puT emphasis elemenTs buT on reTinemenTs. Besides grammar, liTeraTure was invesTigaTed Because grammar is so impor- TanT Through all The grades. Treshmen spenT Time sharpening Their skills Tor coming years. Daniel Wargo conTemplaTes a problem in his new grammar TexTbook. by second year sTudenTs. Several novels read were Silas Marner, To Kill A Mockingbird, and Julius Caesar which all conTained universal Themesl' Johnson said. ReTerring To Silas Marner, sophomore KeiTh SilversTein believed The Theme OT The book was ThaT iT you sTick wiTh someThing long enough, you will geT whaT you wanT, lT was kind oT a rags To riches sTOry. Juniors' liTeraTure was concenTraTed Towards American novels. Huckleberry Finn, The Crucible, and The ScarleT LeTTer were several wriTings analyzed. Junior English Teacher CleTa OrTloTT TelT ThaT an impOrTanT aspecT OT The Third year English course was To Teach The sTudenTs To Think Tor Themselves. OrTloTT added we do believe in sTrucTure and we do believe in speciTics. WiTh a criTical review on Their curriculum. iuniors were given a big chance To do This Thinking. lT lcriTical reviewl Teaches Them To analyze liTeraTure. OrTloTT said. OrTloTT also explained ThaT The L sTudenTs were given Their choice OT wriTing a review or a research paper. Seniors were oTTered The chance To specialize should They opT noT To Take a Tull year OT English. QuarTer courses in grammar, comparaTive novels. and creaTive wriTing were popular among The upperclassmen. CreaTive wriTing is diTTerenT Than oTher English. You wriTe Tor Tun Trom your imaginaTiOn and you don'T have To prove whaT you say. senior lviaTT Norris said. English DeparTmenT Chairman Doris Eranz noTed ThaT The graduaTing sTudenTs in The English course used a new TexTbook in liTeraTure and grammar. Eranz TelT ThaT liTeraTure was inTeresTing and advanTageous Tor The sTudenT To know. English

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French levels I and ll sTudied culTure and vocabulary. French I composed dialogues, while French ll wroTe and prepared monologues. BoTh exercises, memorized and presenTed orally To The class Tor a grade, sTressed pronunciaTion and provided oral pracTice. Every Two To Three weeks we do a monologue, 80 To IOO words To be presenTed by memory, said iunior Donna Rhea, a sTudenT in French II. Oral is The mosT imporTanT parT oT The grade. lT's one-Third oT The grade and poinTs are given Tor parTicipaTion, Rhea said. Johnson, also a French I sTudenT, Teels The dialogues are worThwile, even Though she haTes To geT up and do Them. German sTudenTs spenT a lof oT The Time preparing Tor The Texas AssociaTion of German sTudenTs compeTiTion. TAGS evenTs include skiTs, a spelling bee. reading comprehension, The use oT Tense, prose and , Meme Oblivious To The view from The window behind him, senior Alan Michka reads in his LaTin l TexT- book. Michka, who enrolled in The class To help his vocabulary said, IT's noT a hard class. DiligenTly concenTraTing on her Spanish homework exercises sen- ior Kelly Joyner Tries To Tinish beTore The bell rings. I enioy Spanish, iT's inTeresTing, Joyner added. poeTry readings. choral singing. and plays. Advanced German sTudenTs, German III, IV, V, and Vl, were in a mixed class and did The same work buT were graded on diTTerenT levels. ATTer sTudying The old German radio plays The advanced levels wroTe and presenTed radio plays oT Their own. I.aTin I sTudenTs were required To learn a quoTe per week and be able To reciTe all previous weeks' quoTes Tor each TesT. We made ChrisTmas cards aT ChrisTmas, and we also did commercials, said iunior Becky Baldwin who Took l.aTin because she is inTeresTed in a medical career. German club members all had a background in German, eiTher being enrolled in The class presenTly or having been enrolled aT one Time. AcTiviTies included aTTending OkToberTesT aT Bavarian Gardens, The lnTernaTional ChrisTmas ParTy, TAGS compeTiTion, a Trip To STephen F. AusTin's compeTiTion, and The annual banqueT. FarTicipaTion in The lnTernaTional ChrisTmas BanqueT was only one oT several ways The French club was acTive. ln addiTion To joining all The Toreign language clubs aT The banqueT, French Club members aTTended a Tall ouTing and compeTiTion. We wenT To New York, New York Pizza, Sonia Espanol, club presidenT said, IT was To geT The new members acquainTed. Money needed To aTTend The STephen F. AusTin compeTiTion was raised by selling DrosTee candy bars and SoTTe Chews, a TaTTy-like candy. Spanish Club also parTicipaTed in The lnTernaTional ChrisTmas BanqueT and The SFA compeTiTion. For The banqueT club members broughT Spanish, LaTin American, or Mexican dishes. They also perTormed skiTs abouT Spanish ChrisTmas TradiTions. Like The French Club They also sold DrosTee candy bars and SoTTi Chews To raise money Tor a Trip To The STephen F. AusTin compeTiTion. Review papers in hand German Teacher Linda MarTin aids soph- omores STeve Bobzin and Linda Giesecke wiTh Their German quarTer Tinal review. The quarTer Tinal provides a way oT checking sTudenTs' progress. Foreign Languages 7 7