St Joseph High School - Jongleur Yearbook (Lakewood, CA)

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and Mr. james Plouh Language Department: Mr. john Reyes, Mrs. Debra ConnelL Mrs. Marilyn The lwely teachers of the Forergn Language Depart ment helped students to apprecrate and understand other cultures of the world Spamsh and French were the two forexgn languages avarlable for students at St joseph Mrs Connell hoped that her Spamsh students would learn to apprecxate the Spamsh cul ture and the h1span1c peo ple and understand how d1fferent people can be They achxeved thrs by v1s rtmg Olvera Street and act 1ng out sklts 1n Spamsh 1n class Mr Plouf s French classes attended The Llttle Prrnce a play performed rn French These and var 1ous other rn class 8Ct1V1 tres gave students a chance to experrence and wrtness drfferent cultures of the world frrst hand Wittkop teaches her Spanish I class about the of the language and about Spanish culture America. 11 - 11 1 11 . - 11 1 . , ' 1 Mrs. Connell enthusiastically teaches her Spanish Ill class how to perfect their Spanish speaking skills. Faculty 52 Academics 79

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The Englrsh Department at St Joseph s pr1mary goals were to enhance the student s understandrng of the hrstory and 1mportance of lrterature and to develop spealung and wr1t1ng skllls By asslgnrng essays term papers and speeches the teachers were able t accornphsh these goals and more They also helped to prepare students for col lege exams and the S A T Enghsh Department at tended the NCTE Confer ence 1n Los Angeles Each teacher attended a drfferent workshop at the annual conference Therr declrca t1on to therr students was obvrous because they en thusxastlcally applred the new rdeas to thexr materrals and were able to make Eng l1sh exc1t1ng durrng the 1987 88 school year o Late in November, the Z8 Faculty English Department: Front: Ms. Carrie McDermott, Mrs. Claire Carlyle, Sr. Regi Shaughnessy and Mrs. Karen Connolly. Back: Mrs. Miriam Fuentes, Ms. Sue Simor and Mr. Steven Connolly. English Department Chairmen Sr. Regina explains an English concept to her class of freshmen. Kr Academics Mrs. Connolly encourages her students to be enthusiastic abo the study of literature in her English classes.

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The Socral Scrence de partment has come a long way rn the past four years For example 1n 1984 Mrs Marrlyn Wrttkop and Sr Mary Pat orgamzed the frrst school debate dealrng wrth rssues from Demo cratrc and Republrcan vrewpornts In the years that followed the toprcs focused more on rssues that could have a drrect rm pact on the students hves For rnstance th1s years toprc was Should Drug Testrng for Professronal Athletes Be Mandatory? Ms Shawna Pautsch en couraged and helped the aratron and sard Overall I was very happy wrth rt fthe debatej The teachers rn the So cral Scrence department gave the students the de srre to learn about such rel evant subjects as world rs sues and hrstory When the teacher s personal1t1es mrxed wrth those of the students the classes came allve Thls resulted rn a hrgher level of commun1 catron between student and teacher and produced a more enthus1ast1c student of the socral sclences Social Science Dept: Ms. Kathleen Keiser, Ms. Carrie Mc Dermott, Mrs. Sarah Klap man, Ms. Wanda Mullikin, Mrs. Marilyn Wittlcop, Mrs. Carolyn Nelson, Ms. Shawn! Pautsch, and Mrs. Miriam Fuentes. MULTIPOCHOHOLES ers from overerasing. Q SM M'1l P bl' rf . Qmul ti po cho holzj n. Wounds left in test pa- R98 ac ran u ns mg Co I I ' I , . I students with their prep- I I ll I Cynthia Morales reviews her text, while jessica Sziebl listens Ms. Mullilcin tries to control her laughter at jack: attentively to her U.S. History lecture. Reynas unique excuse for not having her hom work. 80 Faculty and Academics S E 5 s