Alta High School - Accipitor Yearbook (Sandy, UT)

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Many of the works studied in English classes are supplemented by the extensive video library in the media center. Most students enjoyed seeing complet ed novels translated to this modern medium. To avoid recycling students into regular English classes for credit makeup, a new class. Contempo- rary Fiction, was created to allow students to earn a semester's credit. Relaxing, students have a day of casual fiction reading. English Foreign Languages • 107

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Under heavy pressure, debaters Kellie Kimball and Curtis Smith use prep time to get ready for their speeches. An in-school tournament was held to pre pare novice teams for the Orem tournament. Languages: Ours And Others English: a mind-boggling but required class for every student except the seniors who have the option of replacing it with foreign language. Foreign Language: classes to teach you to twist your tongue in several languages, such as Spanish. French, and German. English at Alta is a neccessary part of most students’ lives. Most students inter- viewed responded with positive com- ments. Junior Dori Bowman said she liked the class because it was so well-organized, and the teacher assigned enough good books. “I hated The Oxbow Incident, and the filmstrips were pretty weird, but other than that, English was okay.” Sophomore Sydney Schelin comment- ed, ‘‘This year. I've learned so much. It helps that I like my teacher and do my assignments in class, compared to last year when I hardly went to class!” Mrs. Ward said, ‘‘Alta has an exception- al English program, and we’ve received many fine compliments from the universi- ty communities. Each program has been designed for a particular grade level. Foreign Language classes were designed to teach students how to speak, read, and write a foreign language, and also to inform them of different cultures. Most students said that they took the class to prepare for college, and others said they just enjoyed it. The Foreign language teachers have built a growing program of language study and hope more students will enroll every year so different levels of each language can be created into their own classes. Students line up for foreign food at an early morn ing breakfast. Foreign language students expand ed their classroom studies to explore actual hands on cultural experiences. Sampling for- eign foods was the favorite of many bilinguists. Having a heavy emphasis on grammar studies, fresh- man English classes got the basics from Mr. Julian Mercer and Warriners. 106 • English Foreign Languages

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» Blasting away in the auto shop, welder attempts to get his car into shape by fixing up a corner with some solder and a blazing torch with the power to cut steel in two. Discussions of dating, courting and marriage fill the class room in Miss Potter's Parenting class as Heidi Warr, Russ Johnson. Kelvin Daniels, Dean Langston, and Kevin Pili listen to questions and ideas from classmates and celebrities like Dan Valentine Jr. Hacking away at a conglomerate of metal gripped in a metal shop's vice. Jeff Anderson grunts as he strug gles to saw at a hunk of metal needed for one of his class projects. Inspection of the underside of their car lends a new perspective to two auto shop mechanics as they check out and explore everything from the transmis sion to the drive train. In an often odd territory, four boys bake, create, and enjoy the rewards of licking the beaters used in the creation of some pastry masterpiece in their cooking class. 108 • Home Ec • Ind. Arts