Villa Park High School - Odyssey Yearbook (Villa Park, CA)

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Kyra Kirkwood looks at her visual aids while doing her Spanish orals. Each language student was expected to give a couple a semester. At the end of the Polynesian dance for Fine Arts week. Donna Howell finishes with a florish. Foreign Orals Fun By Deanna de la Riva Students in foreign language classes were expected to conjugate verbs, communicate in simple conversation and do class orals. An oral that was good and extremely funny to watch was when Chuck Ro and Gregor Sarkisin did their skit on being sick and going to the doctor. Chuck Ro played the sick patient and lay across the desks while Gregor played a doctor trying to give him a shot and take orders from the other doctor. The skit was a laugh a minute and kept the class in stitches . Taking a foreign language also helped students broaden their horizons and clarify their understanding of the language and the country ' s culture. Knowing a second language does not hurt at all. If anything, it betters your chances for getting a job in the business world. Many companies look for people who are bilingual, explained Christine Norman, a Spanish student in her third year. Although it was confusing at times, foreign language was fun. V ■£ -£ Academics

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Term Papers and Field Work Kept Students in and Sent Them Out By Miho Akiyama Remember when you ahowed up for the Villa Park council meeting at night, and everyone there was from Defalco ' s class? Or when all the composi- tion students were stress- ing over their term papers, ready to hit the insanity level? Well, these are just a lew of the fond memo- ries the Senior class has had of American Govern- ment, C.P.S., and compo- sition (intermediate and advanced) classes this year. The council meetings that Mr. Defalco ' s class had to attend were fieldwork assignments the classes did, to learn more about the different systems of meetings. Karen Mohrhoff, reflect- ing back on the meetings, said, It was a good exper- ience for us, because we get an insight of our local government. The composition class term papers were basically stressful and insane, but a good opportunity to learn new things, according to many students. Carene Chiang, an Adv. Comp. student agreed, At first I thought it was a waste of time, but now that it ' s over, I realize that I actually learned something. Intermediate Comp. was expected to turn in papers 1500-2000 words long, and the Adv. Comp. pa- pers had to be 2500 -f words long. Both required footnotes and bibliogra- phies, as well as good sources and careful re- search. Although many of the students had complaints about term papers and council meetings, in the end, almost everyone agreed that now that it was over, it was a good experience, and they did learn. Acting Superinten- dent, John Ikerd. Kelly Kindt passes her Annerican Government homework to Trevor Kirschner to check for spelling. Mrs. Ester Wallace keeps a watchful eye on her Physical Science Class, as they take a test. Social Science and English Departments 21

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Foreign language teachers get students to SPEAK OUT Spanish and Music - 3