Fairfield High School - Quill Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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Last-minute note” taking before a test occupies mow of some people's prep period. GOOD MORNING FHS The alarm screeches; you awake from a great dream. You roll yourself out of bed, stub your toe on the bu- reau as you make your way to the window; as you glance through your curtains, you are greeted by a misty, rainy day. A voice inside your head screams ,STAY HOME TODAY YOU IDIOT!! , but you go to school anyway. As you pull into the parking lot at 8:10 you try to find a parking space. Finally after circling the lot for 20 minutes you decide a 55 fine isn't all that bad and you park in a teacher’s parking space just as Vice Principal Green pulls up beside you. Granted, not everyone's day goes like this, hut for those who have en- dured such, it makes the mornings all the more irksome. One of the busiest times of the day at FHS is between 8:00 and 8:40 a.m. Students recall last weekend's exper- iences, the weekend to come, and all the latest gossip and grips. The main floor's hallway is jammed on both sides with students sitting, discussing assignments, parties, and romances (not necessarily in that order). During prep period, students can be seen sleeping (if they can get away with it) and scribbling down essays and papers due for that day. One ex- claimed as he put the final touches on a research paper that was due Thank God for prep periods! Fifty years after the FHS disaster, Kris Watson tries to recreate the scene by setting off the fire alarm.

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F R E N C H S P A N I S First and second year French students start- ed out by learning the basics — speaking, listening, reading, and writing. They also studied Paris, Belgium, and Switzerland as well as France. During the holiday season they baked traditional French breads and feasted on French quisine. French HI students found themselves read- ing Le Petit Prince”, a fairy tale. They wrote and performed their own skits, and like first and second year, studied the culture, gram- mar, and vocabulary. Students in their fourth year of French bus- ied themselves with history, music, art, litera- ture, and French body language. First year Spanish students learned to fol- low commands using the new concept of learning foreign languages called Total Physical Response . Making Christmas cards in Spanish was the one way the students learned about the Spanish Christmas celebra- tion. Spanish II students learned the language by practicing with a language Laboratory as well as a textbook. Also, they made colored dough ball decorations for the Mexican Tree of Life . Third and Fourth year Spanish classes at- tended a production in Des Moines from Spain. The program was about a Spanish dance theatre in which the adventures of Don Quijote provided the basic theme. The typical dances of Spain were also represented. The students ate at Garcia's , a Mexican restau- rant, in Des Moines. Students in third and fourth year classes also taught Spanish in the elementary schools for 6 weeks in the spring. A holiday celebration of all Spanish classes included the celebration of the Day of the Dead with pan del muerte, or dead bread . French students Loni Curtis. Dana Carlson, and Theresa Rubey gather around Ms. Hansen's desk during a class eating day. Spanish Club members Carlos Rodriguez and Tracy Liblin huddle while it snows during the annual Christmas caroling.