Blackfoot High School - Bronco Yearbook (Blackfoot, ID)

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Variety Gives Key to Interest Variety is the key to making History interesting and this is what the teachers try to do Teachers of History and related courses are. Mr Sheppard. Mr Homer. Mr Palmer. Mr. Bolmgbroke. and Mrs. Thompson Several films are used throughout the year They are used to more clearly show outstanding events in the U S History teachers also use the films as the bases for class discussion New approaches being used are simulated games in the area of big business. labor. railroads and homesteading Panels, discussion, and debates are used Guest speakers are used in the following areas World War I. World War II. Civil War. Depression, and Viet Nam This seems to add a great deal of interest to the class Students also do interviewing themselves of the apprehension of World War II Does history get you down Bill? Mr Clifford Osguthorpe displayed war relics and spoke of World War I to the History classes Mr Homer's class struggles with the problem of writing a workable constitution

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Math Department Loses Mr. Owens This year Math had some improvements and changes The Math teachers. Mr. Mortensen. Mr. Perkes. and Mr Rock got a chance to meet different students in the school when Mr Owens left for the District Office at semester Mr. Jerry Hong came to teach and to help carry the load He took over one each of Mr Rocks and Mr Mortensens Modern Math II classes, as well as Mr Perkes 7th hour Geometry class Mr Mortensen received the honor of becoming head of the Math Department. He said wistfully. 'I sure wish Mr Owens was back '1 A new teaching method used by some of the teachers in their Math Classes is student contracting This is when each student talks to the teacher and decides what they are going to learn in a certain amount of time Scott Whwl«r watches while Debbie Denny. Valerie WriQht. JoAnne Reed. Lawrence Higgmson. and Debbie Erromouspe attempt to work a tough problem Mr Rock works on grades at semester Mr Hong doodles while Debbie Andrus and others concentrate on a test 10

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Boyd Warjack. Vernon Two Eagles and Alan Conilogue classify plants in Botany Beef Hearts were a topic of Lab in Mr Dahle s class Susan Harwell and Mike Roberts examine it while Leslie Waters exclaims ”1 can t bear to look» Science Yields Informed People Science courses are not just for those planning to go into a science career They are necessary for well-informed people of today Mr Dahle and Mr Shelley are the two new teachers at BHS this year Other teachers include Lewis Abbott. Joseph Cannon. Dene Carson, and Henry Clark I wish more students were interested in Science.” comments Mr Buddy Fowler Gary Cotterell. Jim Randall Dell Thornley and Dave Bitters find tak about in Mr Abbott's class Carson Mainly because we have a something cheerful to Science oriented Society. It is really what gives us our type of life from trends to trades Biology is most important, in my opinion this generation must be the most responsible generation, or it will be the last. says Mr Clark John VanDercreek and Joe Bergeman study plants in Mr Clark's Botany class