Crown Point High School - Excalibur Yearbook (Crown Point, IN)

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tfVL ' MlUJG Students develop study habits in high school years Studying is a part of every student ' s life. During the four years of high school, each person develops his or her own study habits. These habits how they like to study, where they study, and how much time they study. These habits are formed on three major factors. The first factor is if the student works or not. The second is how important the class is to the student. The final factor is how much social life the person has. When a student works, he or she spends many after-school hours on the job. This means that study time is very limited. Many of these people find it con¬ venient to take a study hall during school. Because study time is limited, they must plan their time out very care¬ fully, so that they will have time to do their homework and keep up their grades while holding down a job. The second major factor is how impor¬ tant a class is to the student. If a person feels that a class is boring and unimpor¬ tant, then he or she will not put very much effort into the homework in that class. Also the student will find reasons and excuses not to do the homework. When a class is interesting, the student will find the time to do the work. The last factor is how much social life a person has. If a person goes out, he or she has to schedule time to keep up social life and have enough time to do homework. Some students feel that their high school social life is more important than their homework. This means that these people might not even bother to figure out how much time they need for their homework. All three of these factors determine what kinds of study habits a student develops during their high school years. Good or bad, these habits will last the student throughout high school and sometimes the rest of their lives. Diane Davis (above) finishes some of her school Cindy Urbanski (above) looks over some elec- work in her study hall. tion pamplets that she will use for her govern¬ ment class. Members of the girl ' s choir (above) rehearse one Christmas concert, of the many songs that they will sing for the ■Studying

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Do you feelyour life has changed now that you have a job? “Yes. I have less time to do what I want to do, and I also can’t seem to get my homework done. So, consequently, I have piles of homework to do when I get home.” Yes. I don’t have as much spare time, though I do get the car more often now.” No, I don’t. I can still do the same or as many things as I used to.” Yes, it has. I seem to have to limit my time more, and I become more tired because of running to work after school then back home after work to finish homework. I also can’t go everywhere I want to. If there is a game, sometimes I can’t get off that night to go to see it.” “Yes. My job gave me the chance to meet new people and go out with these new people. Yes. My job demands more of me, and when I go home. I’m really too tired to do any homework.” ‘‘Yes. I’m a lot more responsible because the job requires more time and effort on my part.” No. But I have less spare time to do the things I would like to do.” Yes. It has made my life more hectic rather than an easy and more simplified one as it was three years ago.” “No. But I really have less time to do homework.” “No. But my job has made me more responsible and, therefore, my parents let me have the car because they believe I’m more responsible. “Yes. My home life seems to be a lot more hectic than it used to be.” Yes. Because I have to work all the time and I have no social life of my own.” Yes. Because I am working, my fam¬ ily life is messed up. Sometimes I don ' t get to see my parents until late at night. Other times it is hard to get the whole family to sit down together at one meal. Yes. The pressure is on always to save money. I’m working to help pay for my college expenses.” Working—3

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c Tsikouris (above) reads a book for a book report Jamie Lambert (above) uses the card catalog to at he has for one of his classes. find a book she needs for one of her classes. ian McNary (above) makes up a test that he has Herb Bitting (above) uses the reader’s guide to issed. find an article on the topic he is researching. What value do you put on studying? “Studying is very important to me. Without it, I could never pass any of my classes.” “It’s not important. Sure I do my homework, but, when it comes to tests, I never study.” Every student should study. If a per¬ son studies, it seems that person learns more than a person who doesn’t study at all.” “I think it is somewhat important. It depends on what class I am studying for. If it is a class I like, I tend to study more than for a class I don’t like.” Studying is not important at all. I can think of better things to do with my time than to do homework. I am in school most of the day so when I come home, I want to do other things than school work.” I personally think studying is very important. Right now, I am thinking about going to college. I know that in col¬ lege, I will have to do twice as much work as I do now. Right now I am getting as much practice as I can for that hard col¬ lege homework.” Studying is one of the things I do the least of. Be tween working after school and going out with my boyfriend, I can’t find the time to do it. I wish I did have more time because I think it is important. I guess I could find the time, but I don’t want to give up work or my boyfriend. They’re more important.” Homework is important, but I hate when teachers give real long assign¬ ments. When teachers do this, I get mad because I dislike long assignments.” I really don’t mind studying. I don’t go out much so when I do have home¬ work it gives me something other to do than watching T.V. I like to study. When a teacher gives me homework, I go right home and do it. Studying is all right. Usually, I do most of my homework because I want to get good grades not because I like to study.” Studying is O.K. I knew that in high school I would have a lot of it. iula Kennedy and Missy Lenner (above) discuss library during their study hall. ie of their many class assignments in the school