Canton High School - Backtrackin Yearbook (Canton, SD)

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College Student Teaches English erm papers, filmstrips, and final drama and ||j mass media proiects highlighted the Eng- lish department’s ac- W tivities. Normally taught by Mrs. Trumm. the drama class had a stu- dent teacher for the last twelve weeks of class. Mr. Chuck Case, a Wisconsin native and Sioux Falls College student, conducted Mrs. Trumm’s English classes including English I. English II, and drama. In the latter class, Mr. Case required students to perform a final drama production of six to eight minutes on the stage. Mr. Schultz, teaching English I. American literature, short story, and novel, said that one of his classes studied Shakespeare and the Globe Theater as well as watched and discussed filmstrips of stories and books that the class was reading. Directing the advanced and practical composition classes as well as English I and English II classes, Mrs. Davis assigned a pa- per to her writing classes about ev- ery week, she said. She also re- quired a term paper to be complet- ed after a nine-week period. Other English-related courses include mass media and creative writing, both taught by Mrs. Trumm. PERFORMING A DRAMA SKIT FOR HIS CLASS. BRIAN McEntee received raves lor his final drama protect assigned by Mr Case, student teacher RECEIVING INSTRUCTIONS FOR THEIR FI- NAL DRAMA projects, Missy Maier and Dawn Kretci speak with Mr Chuck Case, stu- dent teacher for Mrs. Trumm in many English classes 24 English

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MEASURING AN AMOUNT OF CHEMICAL, CARRIE Carlson and Nikki Englert perform a laboratory experiment lor chemistry class. WORKING ON A COMPUTER ASSIGN- MENT, TOREY JACOBS takes advantage ot the school's resources. Physics Class Competes In Egg Drop, Physics Bowl ffered every other year, the advanced i.v. . which i B I taught by Mr Herting IB-B J took field trips to sup- plement classwork. and the physics class which is taught by Mr. Rinken par- ticipated in an egg drop and the physics bowl. Traveling to Sioux Falls, the advanced biology class visited the Great Plains Zoo; the class also went to the Federal fish hatchery in Yankton and identified trees at Union State Park. Collect- ing different types of aquatic life, they dragged a net through Sciene Creek. Class projects included labs on bacteria and dissection. Placing sixth, physics students were in- volved in the annual physics bowl which was held on the campus of SDSU in Brookings during April. Competing against the Art II and Art IV classes, the physics class spon- sored the egg drop where students built a structure of drinking straws and masking tape which would sup- port an uncooked egg dropped from the top of the school. The physics class once again won the egg-drop contest by a two-percent margin with 69 % of their structures safely landing eggs on the ground. Other science courses offered in- clude chemical and physical labora- tory classes. science 23

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SPANISH III STUDENTS SARA DERBY AND JOLEEN Finstad make Spanish cuisine. CONSTRUCTING AN ORIGINAL PINATA. MICHELLE Sauers begins her structure with a piece ot a cardboard tube GERMAN II INVOLVES MUCH TIME IN FRONT OF THE class reciting memorized dialogues in both German and their English translations as Vicki Oliver and Shelly Smith demonstrate. German Class oreign languages are fast becoming parts of curriculum in all schools; students may enroll in either Spanish or German in the Canton school system. Although foreign language knowledge is no longer a require- ment in the state, Mrs. Erickson, Spanish instructor, said that two years is strongly stressed in other states. She also said that knowl- edge of a foreign language offers students a chance to test out of col- lege level courses; Mrs. Erickson Goes To Deutschfest, Spanish To Chi Chi’s maintains that a basic knowledge takes two years of instruction. The Spanish classes cooked meals na- tive to that culture, constructed pi- natas, made family trees, designed seasonal cards, and the Spanish II class took a field trip to Chi Chi's, a Mexican restaurant in Sioux Falls, where they had to order their meal in Spanish. All Spanish classes par- ticipated in a national Spanish test coordinated in the state by Mrs. Erickson. Two Spanish I students received high scores, their tests were sent to be compared with na- tional results. Miss DeBates teaches German, a class which allows stu- dents to be involved in reading dia- logues in class, to cook German foods, and to perform German skits at assemblies and other functions. The German II class traveled to Le Mars, Iowa, for the Deutschfest where they received a trophy for their skit which was performed be- fore and judged against many Ger- man students from schools in Iowa and South Dakota. Foreign Language 25