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

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Students in social study classes participated in everything from designing African masks to holding an open market . THAN BASICS From enrrepreneurship to family trees, they ' re both o port of history Students encountered more rhon just the basic worksheets and book work in social study courses Students in world history. American history and govern- ment did moke something of their two-semester course, from African masks to becoming on entrepreneur for o day. Besides the regulor worksheets and book questions, students in Wiliistine Criners world history classes designed their own African Masks with symbolic morkings on them. I enjoyed making the mask ... if wos more creorive rhon just writing o paper. Beth Hungote sold. World History students also hod to prepare a report on a dif- ferent phase of the R,enoissonce Her class was difficult but we leorned a lor. Mark Watson sold. Keeping up with the Times. For o government project Mark Fuhrmon looks for o job through the classified on of the Chronicle Fuhrmon has government first period F. Teixeiro. In American history, students were assigned o project in which they hod to interview o person 65 years or older obout the Depression. They also hod o family tree assignment in which they traced their oncesfors as for back in time as possible Other projects ronged from reports on the wars to one on inventions. In government, the seniors hod to moke o product or buy one under $3 50, with ten items per person. The students were given six dollors ploy money to spend at o market where they sold their products. Whether the class wos American history, world history or government, the student could always look forward to do- ing something besides book work. After high school history, if one ' s mind aches for more knowledge of the post, there ' s olways college courses thot con be token. BY MICHELLE RIDDELL Listen to Me. With pen in hond. Greg Hommond takes notes on the Isms lec- ture given by Virginia Westbrook to her first period doss It s fun to leorn oboui, Hammond sold obout World History G. Dorone, Another Project. We were work- j on onorher project — we hod to ' J a job. on oportmenr. figure o .budget, buy the necessities for living. I ere Eve McForland said about Goil jHookes first period government doss. F Teixeiro. than we bargained for 153

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Fill ' r Up. Seniors Mitchell Shelly and John Sewofd prepore rheir non- olcohollc Strawberry Delight drink for o potentio! customer He conne bock for seconds after sampling our Number One selling product. Shelly sold F. Telxeiro. Captivated Audience. Freshmen, dur- ing the second semester of Americon History, wotch the assassination of Presi- dent John F Kennedy in the ouditorium All classes gotheted thete to view it on film F. Teixeiro. . 132 Moi HaL studies . .

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