Douglas MacArthur High School - MacArtair Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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Here we go, good-bye. Jackie Whitten- ton, Peter Casares, Tracy Peppard, Lori Wisenbaker, Julia Blackshear and Johne Shoe perform in the Mannequins Dem- se. Faking, pretending, putting on Many adolescents often ask the question, Who am I? For some teens, this is not easily answered. For those drama, speech and history students who found themselves involved in role playing, keeping up with their own identities was probably a little more difficult. Ms. Jo Wilson's speech and drama students were active in area tournaments all year long. They brought back overall second place in Grand Sweep- stakes from the Klein Tournament with Tracy Pep- pard placing third in Oratory, Kevin Smith and Clin- ton Forsyth placing third in Duet Acting. Kevin Smith capturing first in Humorous, second in Prose and third in Dramatic Interpretation, Pam Prescott and Mike Frye coming in at first place in Duet Act- ing, and Mike Frye wrapping up first place in Dra- matic Interpretation and second place in Prose. Those students placing at the Klein tournament were qualified to compete statewide at the Texas Forensic Association CTFAJ tournament, which was held at Baylor University. MacArthur came home from Baylor with first place in individual sweepstakes. Social studies students also did some role playing this past year. World History students had the opportunity to learn about the countries of the world by placing themselves in the role of experts on a particular country and telling the class all that they knew about it. Mr. George August's government stu- dents had a trial take place in their classroom with the students playing the parts of jury, judge, lawyer, and defendant, while Caroll Jordan's classes held party conventions at which students became delegates. After all was said and done, some students might have still wondered who they were, but they knew what they were doing.

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ofa, 'un A touch of class. Although much of soci- ology is done outside of school, the majority is done in class. Richard Storm gives his term speech, a lot of paper work. vii XL, Kung Fu. Baretta Gabriel, Debbie Trim, and Denise Lewis get ready to demon- strate the oriental way of self-defense. lVlan. . .adifferent kind of animal The human mind is a complex and awesome thing. Its ability to reason and to think, along with its size and capacity for learning, set man apart from all other mam- mals. However, as any psychology student can tell you, the mind can be trained. The mice and the mazes are used in psychology to study learned behavior in humans. You get to see how the mind learns through trial and error, explained junior Sheila Barber, who has taken both Psychology l and ll. The object is to teach the mouse to go through the maze correctly. When he does, then you know that he has learned how to do it. Sociology teachers took a different approach to the human mind. ln my opinion, the human mind is like a computer that is programmed by its environment, stated sociology student Marion Ewton. Sociology taught me that each person is different. . . and that you need to relate to people on an individual basis, explained Caroline Khalaf. In addition to The individual, sociology emphasized the study of cultures. People think that whatever is going on in America is going on all over the world . . . they're shocked when they learn cultures are different, said Caroline. Whatever differences may exist in individuals and cul- tures, people are humans, teaching that to psychology and sociology students is half the battle. the human mind l01