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

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4 'IA Q- xg Wi Drama turns h lecturin teacher, Ms. Deborah Eskrldge, er back to her unique cast g to her class. Left: Unknown to Juan Gonzales, Corina Trevino demonstrates to her drama classmates just how to carry off a sneak attack. Upper Left: What do you mean? asks a confused Mike Lowell in speech class. Upper Right: Posing as Eve in his performance, Donis Leonard gives the role an all out effort. while y duncan ewmp pue qoaads 'qsglSua IZI

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It's All Academic English classes were an everyday part of student life in high school. While English was a required subject, speech and drama were very popular electives. With every student taking English of some kind, everyone got a taste of literature. It was all covered, from Greek to Shakespearean literature. Plays were read out loud in class and even assigned for outside reading. The literature ranged from Medea by Euripides to MacBeth by speech and drama I can feel a titilating experience coming from this class, states Mr. T. Griffin. Concentrating on English Literature, Lucy Ching and Anna Cardenas try to finish their essay questions. William Shakespeare. In essence they would become fully enriched. Going one step forward from just reading the plays out loud were drama and speech. Drama brought these works to life, reviving all the hard work that these great authors had put down on paper and enriching the hearts of students by expressing what these great men and authors had meant audience. Speech was a way to interpret and find some meaning and message behind literature, not just of great authors but also works which meant something to the students themselves. ln total English, drama and speech were a way to enrich a person's mind and make them aware of the great works of literature which have become works of art. their plays to mean or say to the 2 engl sh, I 120 dps and photos by

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