Del Valle High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Del Valle, TX)

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Academics Academics are the Secret to Success . Academics play the biggest part in life. No matter what one plans to do in the future, he must have a good foundation to stand on. There were many new classes offered for students to choose from. The Junior Honors English and History classes were combined into a Humanities course. This gave the student more opportunities to go in more detail in their study. There was also an advanced Texas History class for students to explore Texas in more depth. To give students more of a challange there was a new honors Algebra class. These changes gave students a better selection of courses. There was a lot of new equipment to make the classes the best they could be. The Industrial Arts classes got new draft- ing tables. The new Pascal class got new more powerful computers which the the journalism department also used in putting out the Newspaper and Yearbook. There also were renovations done to the computer lab to make it bigger to hold more computers and students. Education is not something to take lightly. Students learned the Secret to Success through hard work and determi- nation. Taking a moment to think junior Re- becca Chambers tries to figure out her history. With many new classes of- fered, students had a bigger selection of classes to choose from. Working under a car in Auto Me- chanics, senior Joe Rodriguez tries to make the necessary adjustments.

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Students learn to shape-up To meet the current graduation requirements all students must take three semesters of some form of physical educa- tion, the most obvious of which is P.E. P.E. class is based on teaching students a variety of diffrent sports and many ways to get in shape and stay in shape. It breaks the three six weeks of a semester up in to three dif- frent learning periods. Each period the classes are taught the basics and rules of the particular sport or game which is being fo- cused on. They also get a chance to be a part of the games and play most every day to become better. At the end of the six weeks a test to both evaluate skills and knowledge of the par- ticular subject are given to see if the students have learned and improved the skills of each game. Then the cycle begins again with a new six weeks and a new game. Not only does it give the students the op- portunity to learn new sports it also gives the chance to improve their state of health. 1 like the class because we are always doing some- thing and it never seems to be boring, said junior Yvonne Garza. The are many reasons for taking P.E. and one of the most popular is to get away from the books and teachers. Having an hour to take it easy and getting a much needed opportunity to stretch and get blood flowing sometimes makes the difference between having a bad day and hav- ing a great day. The class gives you a break from all the brain- stress and lets you use your body, said freshman Marty Saucedo. Also a large part of the class is learning to be part of a team. The students learn to cooperate to over- come their goals. Many of the sports learned in the class are team sports and require the students to be part of the team, such as basketball and softball. Be- ing part of a team is a re- quired in the everyday-life of most people and is a valuable lesson to learn. Streching before activities, stu- dents make physical education a bit more accident-free by elimi- nating unnecessary pulled mus- cles. Photo By Beojamin Vallejo. ' - ::) 124 V Health Academics