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

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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

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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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, YT To Trace The drawing lor The Tera: AEM conlesl senior Alan Mrchla uzez f1f,ifCl6l6Vf1Dlclle a ilrulfinq rriacliiriff and dl ruler. The drawing in called a Slep Bearing ' and was enlered in The runleglulonq Ni1hTheTwo Olher drawing finished in mechanical ilraliing. Changing sparlc plugs iiriil r1'ril.iririigcJil'miilsisiriiirlfil The iT-lil, lfmlirii- lui iiiilii viii-i lmriii ', xi-iiiiir slim Giiylcin. iiaiiiii ini lll'EIWIIlU llllillll They can be Tound under cars wiTh greasy hands. polishing a Table Top worlcing wiTh a laThe or drawing an isomeTric design. lndusTrial arTs sTudenTs covered a broad range oT Tields including wood and meTal shop. auTo mechanics and draTTing. Their daily school rouTine consisTing oT class insTrucTion and proiecTs. was occasionally inTerrupTed by various club as well as Tield Trips which were scheduled ThroughouT The year. Tony Jones. woodshop Teacher, planned a number oT Trips including a visiT To The Pennsylvania l:urniTure Company which was exclusively Tor sTudenTs in The l.A. club, Jones said. STudenTs nurTuring an inTeresT in auTomobiles. wheTher To learn more abouT Their own vehicle and whaT malces iT Ticlcu or connecTing iT wiTh a Toreseen career, noT only acquired useTul knowledge buT more imporTanTly gained priceless experience during The year long course. li Tggi auTo mechanics Tor me if learn how To Tix my Car correcTly f. iunior John Balmer said. fXuTo mechanic sluden' repaired cars belonging -5 individuals in The communiTy and were pgij by These cuslomerg TQ,- Their services. These sTudenTs Toolc Their work seriously: regarding Them noT as regular school proiecTs, buT raTher as an excellenT display ol skill, auTo mechanics insTrucTor Dennis Copp said, We were assigned a proiecT aT The sTarT oi each quarTer and were expecTed To have iT compleTed by The encl ol The quarTer, iunior meTal shop sTudenT Michael LP' 'isp X .. J. Q , Av... Y' 2. K. 'S if' . 41