David Crockett High School - Texan Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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I . ' 'f e 43 ' ff , 43 l t f Mary Seale English II CLA Il Left: Senior Jeff Sassenhagen reluctantly looks through one ofthe most im portant tools used by high school students: Cliff Notes. With the tremendous number of books students have to read this is almost a necessity. Elizabeth Susan Barnard Aston-Sullivan English II-IV Am. Cult. ,, V ' al, is Q. Lois Combs Jennie Caughram Ginny Garrison Adv. Rdg, English Il-IIH Lit. Genre CLA II English IIH- VI 13: ' .fs 1 iv in V ' fl? F - ', il. I It 1 A 5, , R Q Q . L f. ga, K , ' K M l I N 1 ' V' ' fm X- W5 I M - f 3 I ' , 1 M ' Jo Hammer Frank Kuanaugh Kathleen Luedke Susan Lydic Rdg. Il English II English IV English VI CLA II CLA IV E Nora Maisel Diane Matzke Maggi Miller English VI English II Bsc. Rdg. CLA VI CLA II 9 ' ' ff, I s. f ei F 7 I fi 'v - ,gg If ,Q 2- I -af , '.,. ng: ' 1 J , ,, f f' . K . S V Y' Rf ET my QQ. 4- : -GW X' It f - ' A I ,Q A ,, A I I 2 C ,X , E! L91-QN gsm 5 'KW 1 f ,. LT I . fr.: -L ljklgw v K g xx itfaefw X v U .Wolf 1?-VASE! --sn -, ' Nita Smith Bill Warren Joan Welch Janet Wayne Doris Wukasch World Cult. English VIH- VIII English II Gram.!Comp. Sp. English CLA II Rdg. English I 59

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Communicate ENGLISH , probably one of the most broad, deep, and boring subjects that students are required to take. If you are college bound, brace yourself for four long, tedious years of it. Crockett's English program ranges from CLA fco-related language artsl I-VI all the way to AP iadvanced placementl English, the highest senior's honors English class that can be taken in high school. Regular English I-VIII are also included in the choices available. CLA could possibly be con- sidered the blow-off English course for the students that don't take school seriously, but there are some people whose competency levels put them in this less demanding kind of English course. used. This class prepares students to be able to test out a lot of their English in college. Two tests are being offered to students. The first can be taken following their junior year and the English Honors V and VI courses are geared to help on this test. It's the Language and Composition Test and if a 4 or 5 is scored, 5 being the highest score, three hours of freshmen college English is the reward, plus an A for the course. Sometimes even a 3 is high enough in some colleges. The second test is given to the seniors close to the end of the year, and this is called the Lituature and Composition Test. If a student scores well on this test hefshe will place out of three hours of college sophomore English, with an A . The AP course has some of the English department stresses understanding through correct reading, writing, speaking CLA is designed for students with a lesser aptitude in language. Junior Erica Duitman, a CLA VI fjunior levell student feels she could handle a regular English course and, would have to work harder in a higher English. Carlos Aponte is a ninth grader with another reason for taking CLA. He moved here from Puerto Rico in 1981. When he arrived here he spoke no English but had been in 4th grade in Puerto Rico. The slower paced English class allowed him to catch up on his language skills while keeping up in other subject areas. It would have been harder to speak to other people without this. My friends helped me a lot but the class helped me get it right. Carlos has been in special classes for four years but has been recommended for regular English next year. 'fl feel great about getting out of CLA because it makes me feel like I know as much English as any other stu- dent AP English is definitely the course to take if you are a college bound student. It is a college level course and college text books are 58 I English elements needed to perform will on this test. Each test costs 3549.00 which would be considerably less than taking full blown college English courses. They offer, great advantages economically, said AP English teacher Miriam Tor- mollan. AP English is worth the trouble to Senior Michael Hafner. Your study of everything is more in depth, and makes you use your brain more. You look for things you wouldn't normally look for if you didn't know to look for them, said Hafner, it,s more of a challenge than regular English. One of the most common things practiced in any English class is the reading and analysis of novels, and there are quite a few of them. To Kill a Mockingbird, Catcher in the Rye, The Grapes of Wrath, A Brave New World, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, 1984, A Scarlet Letter, Hamlet, The Crucible, MacBeth, A Separate Peace, f'Sons and Lovers, The Great Gatsby, and, Plato's Republic. The list goes on and on. K Ann Moore Bcs. Rdg. English IV is 1 -si .ws ,, .www - I . .f,,i'-it , X e 1 fi-W-refill' inf? W - Q. . V... . . V ,,.,g, , g . 1 :ii 5, P r A .fx Fran Moore English IV CLA IV .ua - 46? - .. S-'if' A :Va 4- 2 .-fff2 ' 2. fs .J ge- A . X '-2314,-lA..lSt:': i' 1-r. G Q41 5 mam Estherlene Moya Mary Price English VI English II - IV ESOL

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. XX o Pam, o Gam Physical Education encourages strength, endurance, and hygiene The students at Crockett have a wide variety of traditional Physical Educa- tion classes to choose from. These range from Soccer to Slimnastics, and Foot- ball to Tennis. The classes enable the student to achieve their physical goals while having fun at the same time. Even though the goal of the Physical Education, and Health program is to improve the physical, and social development of the students, the opi- nions about P.E. are as different as the students who take it. For some, the specialized courses of- fered in P.E. make it worth while. I en- joy bowlingg it's something different and I have a lot of fun in this class. A lot of my friends are also in it, said sophomore Leight Schoette. Sophomore Wayne Lange said that rollerskating is not a waste of time. It's good exercise and gets you into shape? Although members of the faculty agree that P.E. is benefical to the students, they don't agree whether the required year and a half is the right amount. Coach Cooks said, 'KStudents should be required to take P.E. all four years of high school, because health is very important, and by only taking a year and a half, the students will lose much that they have gained in the class. Juniors study Health to learn how to take care of themselves when they get out on their own. Eleventh graders also study nutrition and how it can influenl the body's health. Health teacher Coax Joe Miles said, It's kind of hard tellil someone that smoking is not good f- their health because there are a lot N students who smoke. It seems like thl need a cigarette after every class. Whi they don't understand is that they at looking at themselves now, but doli realize what kind of effects it could c later in life. Health and Physical Education is u ed to build better health knowledg health habits, and health attitudes. i also provides an opportunity students to develop skills and to the basic knowledge for life. W A I 2 'W ,354 1 ,' 4 f S 3 i f J F s