York High School - Falcon Yearbook (Yorktown, VA)

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offered as English credit. For example, journalism — Year- book or Newspaper — became an advanced English course. The numerous Drama classes were also placed in the English department as well as the SCOPE courses on various types of literature such as Satire, Speech, or Debating. Mandatory subjects, except the few required by the state, were non-existent at York. Under the new SCOPE program enthusiasm toward learning showed a definite improvement. Even the directed study courses, where students study a particu- lar subject on their own, showed that students were serious about the knowledge available to them.

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English Includes Used-to-be Electives Fine Arts courses were changed very little, but were greatly added to. Music courses moved to more specific areas. Ear Training, Advanced Theory, and music histories were added to the three singing classes. Art classes expanded to cover vari- ous facets of sculpting, different painting styles, stage design, and art histories. Actually the lan- guages were the only courses left unaffected. They continued on a yearly basis and showed little change. Students were qu ite surprised to see that many courses once classified as electives were Front to Back, L to R: N. Thompson, H. F. Rush, A. Bradley, R. Perkins, L. Hed- Holben, J. Smith, O. Wilcher, C. DeVault, gepeth, P. Turner, E. Meyers, V. Brown. 1 8 Humanities

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I ' m Taking What I Want to. Not What I Have to! Although Science and Math courses retained their roles as year- long endeavors, the new SCOPE pro- gram replaced student apathy with excitement and interest. Students were required to take at least four units pertaining to their level of the subject before they could receive any credit. Units were actually mini- courses in the areas most students requested and showed interest. Math became things like “Complex Num- bers, Logarithms and Quadratic Rel- ations,” “Probability,” or “Statistics.” 20 Math-Science