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

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SS A From speech and debate classes, students received not only confidence, but an understanding of current events. Procrice mokes perfect, the old cliche soys. And procrice rhey did. The grades of speech ond debate students depended lorgely on nor only how thoroughly bur how quickly they could memorize plays, srories, poems, ororions and exremp speeches. In addition to class participa- tion, members of rhe speech and debote dosses were graded on rournomenr porricipotion This enabled students to put into ac- tion their learned skills in a com- petitive situofion and to rub elbows with rhe seasoned Na- tional Forensic Leogue (NFL) members. Aside from grueling rour- nomenrs and tedious practices, the studenrs were invited ro kick bock and mingle wirh NFL members at NFL birthday, teen- club and poster porries Besides tournoment atten- dance, debote students were graded on keeping notebooks In Conference. Seeking odvice from Coochi Clydene Keep. Kotrino Codnn clarifies tier dolly osslgnment Debote students were given lob rime toflnisti assignments, run errands, organize, or practice J. Putz. Negofive notebooks were o musr for defeofing the opposing affirmative team Affirmative norebooks proved a necessity in supporting the debofors ' offir- motive cose ogoinst the negative team These huge, block, 3-ring binders were grod- ed on order of briefs, orgonizo- tion of the many sheets of paper and the separation of generic and specific briefs In speech dosses, students ac- quired reading abilities ond lost their fears of public speaking I con talk in front of big groups of people now and not get really nervous, Kotrino Codrin said. Debore coach Clydene Reep felt happy with her speech ond debote dosses becouse of the many talents developed However, some involved in either speech or debate or both, like Chloe Pearson, felt it was a source of endless frustration BY AUDREY KING Togging Togs, Urillzing her debote doss lob lime, Chtoe Pearson labels togs to orgonize tier negotlve notebook Students were graded on huge binders containing their negotive briefs J. Putz. It Is Deboioble. With cleor diction, the right emphosis on the right words, ond on obundonce of supporting evidence debote student Pompee Paul proctlces during doss for stote competition J. Putz. 132 More SPEECH AND DEBATE

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Some students selected a foreign language for various reasons. ill «iiiAiiid Review Day. I enjoy working with students in octivlties outside the clossroom, such os Sponish Club, Sylvia Trono soid She exploins the elements ot review to Robert Crowford F. Telxlera. Preparing foi the Test. Cromming for o Sponish test, Greg Cogle end Eddie II- ovio look over their Sponish book, I took Sponish becouse it wos required for college, Cogle soid D. Williams. The studenrs next door to the French doss could smell rhe oronno of quiche, chocolate mousse and ecloirs Food day was rhe most popular day omong foreign language srudenrs. However, students did not sign up for o foreign language just because of food doy. Most signed up becouse it would be required for college and future jobs I wont to be a buyer for Sokowirz department stores and will need to know French when I go to Poris, French stu- dent Michael Dorbozo said, I ' m going into elementary education and need to be bil- ingual, Spanish student Julie Tyree soid. Other students hod personal reasons for learning o foreign language. I hove some Ger- man ancestry and I like the language, German student Jeff Koone soid Although foreign language come easy to some, for most students leorning another languoge meant overcoming some stumbling blocks, The subjective tense was the hardest thing to grasp, Latin student Miriam Kwon said. Because one word could be spelled a different way for each tense in Sponish, Tyree hod trouble memorizing tenses. But after months of leorning their new languoge, students hod chance to show off their skills at the Foreign Language Fair in Morch. Many who par- ticipated received medals, and of course, all enjoyed the food! BY KAREN HURT -Vi ■ 1

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SpeechI SpeechI Speech ond debore club president Kirk Liedlien s ottempts ro clorify TO non-NFL members rhe new speech ond debole constiturion ond urges rhem to join the teom J. Putz. K 4 Getting the Floor. In o doss meeting debote student Dowie HIngei seeks the floor to comment on the ptesident ' s speech Congtess-like fotmolify. silence, ond order wos stressed ot the meetings J. Putz. Otganizatlon ' s the Thing. Preporing for o proctice debate, Kotrino Codrin orgonizes her sources white plotting her orguments Proctices comprised rhe dol- ly — ond sometimes mojor grade — of the students J. Putz. than we bargained for 133