Grand Junction High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grand Junction, CO)

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Spark Student Language Understanding Jock Martin finds that even German can be humorous. Ronnie Workman puts her German to work while reading Quick. Dennis Nowlan prepares the yoke of submission for Latin class. Dave Gilman and Mary Susemihl appreciate the details of a Roman mosaic. H AIOR iL W AfVv 4:

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Students Gain Knowledge Of Foreign Languages Over 600 students attempted to acquire a working knowledge of one or a combination of the foreign languages: German, Spanish, French, and Latin. Geography, music, and literature enlivened the dialogs used by first year German students to gain basic ability. Dialogs, readers, texts, and novels gave advanced learners better understanding. Spanish fiction, nonfiction, and dialogs provided linquists the opportunity to acquire basic and advanced ability to read, understand, and speak Spanish. El Camino Real and a verb notebook taught second year students grammar and vocabulary. To enable students to speak the language as if they were natives, French classes emphasized ability to converse, to listen, to understand, and to reply without effort through use of intensive study of dialog material. Would-be matador. Jack Barks, shows Sherrie Fleming how to conquer the bull. Lab, Dialogues, Novels On the other hand, Latin courses emphasized the contributions of Latin to the English vocabulary, modern foreign languages, literature, art, and politics. First year students concentrated on vocabulary and constructions; second, third, and fourth year emphasized reading by covering works of Livy, Caesar, Cicero, Ovid, and Vergil. Dialog via the language lab makes listening easier for Mike Ball. Joan Stephens discovers the excitement of reading French.

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 Feeding white rots is a common task for biology students, Sherrie Gray and Linda Carol Wright. Science Examines Earth’s Mysteries Science courses helped students gain the knowledge to probe the secrets of the earth and universe. The natural sciences of biology and human anatomy taught the secrets of life on this planet. Biology and advanced biology stressed the classification and study of living things, their relationship to the conditions of earth, and the interesting adaptations of many strange plants and animals. Human anatomy taught life in its highest form, the human being. From anatomy students learned the structure and functions of the systems of the human body. ✓ 'V !. r: • — —-1— With the help of o chart, Vicky Humphreys explains the structure of the cell to Jim Dusa. Linda Soelberg and Pam Schumacher assemble a model of a DNA molecule. Raising a culture in the incubator is par for the biology course for Tom Yarbrough and Mike Flannery. The physical sciences of chemistry and physics answered questions on the many strange forces of the universe. Physics strove to teach students the laws of matter, energy, motion, speed, and the relationships of matter to energy, helping them to understand the startling developments as people reach for the stars. Chemistry stressed learning of the periodic table, composition of gasses, liquids, and solids. Through lectures, experiments, drawings, dissections, realistic models, and charts the students in the different courses became acquainted with the problems of the sciences. 46