Blackford High School - Reflections Yearbook (Hartford City, IN)

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Headsets with a math record provide a shortcut to learning for Special Ed students Sherri Sutton and friend fihea Speidel. 42 Learning By Shortcuts r V

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A welcome inio ihe world is givfn lo ihe chicle by Brenda Coleman after a three-week incubation schedule in Mrs. Valencic ' s Biology I. Eight scoops of gray powder, two scoops of red, a little water — and the fun begins lor Tom Davis and Mark Mclntire as they make clay for Art. Going through the procedure of getting her pattern ready for cutting out her material is Susan Morrison in Mrs. Bowdell ' s Home Ec. III. Learning By Formulas 41

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Speed, skill and accuracy lei Brenda Charmichael take notes and write letters rapidly to become a secretary with her Shorthand shortcut. Yuk! You really mean this thing is my hearth asks Janice Turner to Naomi Uncapher, using the man with removable stomach in Biology. Tricky shortcuts simplified learning Scratch work is usually thought of as a Math shortcut, but it came in Gov- ernment class as outlines and Income Tax forms. In Publications, dummy sheets helped to decide where pictures go. Diagrams helped in the Industrial Arts and Biology areas. Rhymed spelling rules helped in Eng- lish classes. After all, who hasn ' t heard The principal is my pal. The card file and Readers Guides in the library were shortcuts around term Center Left: Use of cameras and monitors help John Eppard bring Fred Ballenger to you in living black and white. Bottom Left: Blueprints and other instructions make turning a hammer handle on a lathe a speedier job for Randy Bennett. paper time. Models illustrated for in- struction in every class, particularly Bi- ology and Drafting. Almost every math student carried his brain to class in the form of a pocket calculator. Even the teachers learned some shortcut methods of getting their jobs done. An automatic paper grader was available, and Guidance sa ed hours of making out student schedules bv using a computer. Learning B Shortcuts, 43