Dumas High School - Bobcat Yearbook (Dumas, AR)

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Martin Henry, Robin Farmer, Susanne Bryan, and Carla Jones joined in playing London Bridge in connection with their study of Canterbury Tales in English IVa. 514. 18 ACADEMICS Q?l0 Remember, Academics Was What School Was All About! Homework, music course, advanced homework! Give me a placement calculas, and break! Do you forming an Advisory remember the reason Council. Teachers were you WENT to school responsible for testing everyday? , , , to see and retesting on Basic your friends? . . . to Skills, as well as have something to do? covering Developmental , . , or just because you and Extension Skills. had to? Hustling and bustling Though many were to keeP their involved in extra- gradepoint up in curricular activities, all classes, many DHS DHS'ers knew that the students were also REAL reason for school faced with PSAT, ACT, was academics. SAT, PACT, With the governofg standardized tests to emphasis on raising prepare them for educational standards, college entrance- A10l1g DHS had to adjust. We with these was the met the standards by MAT-6 that every adding a new choral Student t00k- DHS administration also implemented a new and exciting program for the gifted and talented students called S.W.A.T. iStudents With A Talentj. The class of '88 was the first to need 20 credits for graduation. Teachers and students alike were pleased with the smaller classes which made a more personal approach possible. To some, learning seemed a waste of time, but true DHS'ers knew how to reap the rewards of a good education. 5 i

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Unforge ta ble!! English Literature Book, Grammer Books, Books, Books, Books! Any DHS'er will tell you, that in looking back on their years as English students, what stood out most in thier minds was the constant bickering between Mrs. Lay and Mr. Reding, the time consuming books which had to be authored for Miss Murphery, Mac Beth , and the long drawn out grammar section. Unlike other courses offered at DHS, English is the only one that students are required to take for four years. First semester is usually literature The Fall of the House of Usher by Poe, MacBeth by Shakespere, She nf,- 20 '5 ENGLISH 'iv -v Sweeps With Many Colored Brooms by Dickinson, While second semester centers around participles, infinitives, gerunds, periods, and semicolons The seniors took things a step farther, having to go through the torment of writing a term paper. Lighter days included viewing video tapes in literature, free writing, acting out skits, and chanting poems orally. English may be one of the more difficult courses, but it is imperative. So, dot those i's and cross those t's , English is with you to stay. Robin Farmer displayed a piece of artwork she made as a representation of the merchant in Geoffery Chaucer's Canterbury Tales .