Canton High School - Backtrackin Yearbook (Canton, SD)

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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

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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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Agriculture he area of agriculture curriculum has been expanded Besides I B I listening to guest speakers such as Farl B Horstman, a vo-tech representative, and two state FFA officers, Shawn Cramer and Mike Fossum, the ag classes also took many field trips. They visited the Canton Lockers, Tea Rural Processing, the Canton Sale Barn, Bid-Well, and McCords. The ag classes also participated in various contests such as the ones in the fields of land judging and horse judging. Class projects included welding and working on small en- gines. They also helped the commu- nity as they developed and imple- mented an emergency rural system of numbers in case of accident or fires in fields. See also FFA, page 108. AS A SPECIAL PROJECT FOR THE AGRI- CULTURE classes. Mr Marshall quides stu- dents such as Tom Theede and Tim DeJong as they clip piglets' teeth. 26 Agriculture SANDING WOOD FOR A PROJECT IN AN INDUSTRIAL arts class. Doug Viereck works under Mr. Martinson, instructor.