Clark High School - Cavalcade Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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■V Specialized courses stress lifetime skills Some of Clark's mandatory dosses included Health. Driver's Education. Careers ond Physical Education. Heolth dosses were required for one semester for oil sophomores. Students learned about themselves ond also studied how their bodies work. They leorn-ed about the couse ond effect relationships of drinking. smoking, ond drug abuse. Sophomores took Driver's Education for one nine-week period. This course fomiliorized the students with the driving lows in Nevada. Simulators ond behind-the-wheel troining were provided to help students leorn the correct woy to drive o cor. A coreer closs promoted oworeness of the various fields for coreer choices. Students were required to write o report of the end of the nine weeks on o coreer of their choice. The practical ospects of jobseeking, including applications ond resumes, added to the course of study. Physicol Education seemed to be o favorite of the students. Many students go on to take P.E. throughout their remaining years of high school even after requirements ore met. A few sports that the students were introduced to were soccer, soft-boll. orchery ond tennis.- instruction included octuol gome skills os well os rules. 1 Checking on college information. Dole Akrtdge uses the Coreers library. 2 Debbie Wilson performs o routine during donee P.E. 3. Jennifer Shodduck expkxns the structure of bone 4 Dehind-the wheel experience with o simulator helps Sonio Botisto leorn driving skills. 204 Required Classes

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1 Coreer Doy provide! irtfofrrvotion in many oreos of the business world 2 Shop dosses utilize reollife situations 3 Food dosses feoture instru tion in nutrition ond food preporotion 4 Many students toke drofting to prepore for o coreer in orchirecrure 5 Typing dosses develop speed ond occurocy In business skills Vocational Classes 203

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Required Classes 205