Acalanes High School - Aklan Yearbook (Lafayette, CA)

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Seeing is believing. Roger Williamson examines his petri dish looking for evidence of bacteria growth. Biology students often learned much more from lab experiments than they did from reading isolated facts and theories. Hablaespaifol.Chalo Berrocal, an AFS student from Costa Rica, concentrates on his homework assignment in English III. Arriving in the summer to stay with Jeff Boodell and his family, Chalo rapidly became a part of student life. The age of technology was upon us and it ignited a spark that affected our views on academics. We looked forward to first period Computer Programming where we fed data into the banks just to get an answer back. Though we were geared toward the future, we delighted in the past. Rendering a verdict on Eugene Debs ' guilt helped us keep in mind the relevance of history on our everyday lives. Baking gingerbread houses for the German Club made us realize that foreign language was — more than conjugating verbs. We all felt the undercurrent — that excitement when learning something new ... it was catching. Academics ACADEMICS DIVIDER

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Machine in motion. Matt Loar and Gregg Powlan analyze their experiment A way with words. Sara McCombs, Chris Crossgart and Martha Ross review the organization and development of Subject A exams. In Mrs. Meek ' s Advanced Comp. class students focused on the finer points of writing style and structure. Backrow reader. Kirk Ross spends part of the period in Mr. Muldoon ' s reading class skimming the newspaper. Students made a special effo rt to schedule courses which focused on improving specific skills. ACADEMICS DIVIDER ti Cm

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Chalk it up. Students in Mr. answer workbook questions on the important concepts, and all language Hernandez ' s fifth period Spanish III class board. Written exercises reinforced teachers used them. Coming to terms. With 75 note cards due the next day, Tom Steuber searches for information on his term paper subject, Kurt Vonnegut. During their English classes, juniors were allowed to go to the library, where Mrs. Ford made a cart full of good sources available to all researchers. A flip through Webster ' s. Advanced on some of their finer points of writing. the definitions of their vocabulary Comp. gave seniors who were very good Gayle Parker and Meg O ' Dea search for words. English students an opportunity to work 10 COMMUNICATIONS