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

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From writing short stories to reciting soliloquies, English classes provided varied activities. iEngli FInolly Published. Several of Roberro Young ' s Creotive Writing students were chosen to hove their work published in o notionol mogozine Lourie Tinker ond Cindy Forren ore looking over o letter informing them of their publication D. WiiilQms. Reeding It Ovei, During o grommor unit. Debbie Riley looks worksheet on prepositionol phroses English isn ' t my best subjea, but I om enjoying the doss, Riley sold M. Ehilund. Analysis. Researching A Sneer Named Desire by Tennessee lllioms, Ursula Wyss looks oi a book of Iritical essoys on her author, I ' ve ' lolned so mony things in my ex- leriences here, Wyss. o foreign ex- hange student from Switzerlond, sold, . Putz. Lending Some Advice. The hordest subject to reach is the criticol review because the concepts ore hord to understand, soid Suson Drury, Drury tries to explain some of those concepts to Keith Conrad while her doss does reseorch in the library, J. Pufz. than we bargained for 147 I M

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% Looks of urrer panic filled the faces of students in the English doss The teacher had just an- nounced another composition to be written. I hate writing compositions more than anything else, Heother Eshenour said. Compositions weren ' t the on- ly thing thot caused anxiety among English students. In Roberto Young ' s Creative Writing doss, students were told to write Q one thousand word short story I remained ner- vous about the short story from the time she assigned it until the time I turned it in, Amon- do Gregg sold. Plays, poetry, reciting solilo- quies and criticol reviews were just few of the things that kept students busy in English enjoyed my sophomore year a lot better than my junior year because there was not critical review, Trey Weatherford sold. Reading books for English oc- cupied a lot of time. I hated reoding Animal Farm because it is strange to read obout animals talking to each other, building things and controlling a form, Goyle Hajdik said. Opposing that view, Eshenour said that the book was interesting because it made her think about sociolism. Although English classes were mostly hordwork, handing in that last term paper or reading the lost paragraph of Aldous Huxley ' s A Drove New World was o feeling that was hard to beat. Intensive Study. While loying on his bed, Dort Mulhenn studies for English I like my 12th grade yeor best becouse I wos oble to choose what type of course I wonted to toke. Mulherin said D. Willloms. Helping a Filend. During Advonce Composition, Dorren Owen osks Joh Gosselink for odvice about his pope Grommor was my fovorite class. leorned o lot, Owen sold D. Wllllarru

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Pointing It Out. Lee Erickson exploins o The Pocketsized Computer. Coicuiofors trigonometry problem to Husty Urnege proved useful in odvonced moth during the fifth period moth doss F. courses Dovid Selonder purs one ro use Telxelro. for o complex rng problem F. Teixeiro. Picky, Picky. Toking o scontron test in computer moth, Amy Goodell corefully selects the best onswer Computer moth wos o full yeor course offered to Hf students who ore toking or hove token Algebra II J. Putz.