Fairfield High School - Quill Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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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.

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 When some students read the require- ments for English classes in high school, they got a feeling of dread, and as one soph- omore put it, I felt like I had to sign up for hours of just writing, writing, writing!” Stu- dents this year were found not just writing, hut taking pilgrimages, reading, and acting out plays such as Macbeth, creating original advertisements for magazines, exploring modern poetry, and viewing great literature works on videotape such as The Scarlet Let- ter and The Death of a Salesman. As in the year before, students in British Literature classes studied The Canterbury Tales, dressed up in period costumes (bor- rowed from the Drama Dept.) and pilgri- maged around school grounds while discuss- ing a tale or two from the book and munch- ing on popcorn, cookies, and candy. English 10 students studied Julius Caesar, wrote research papers and essays while Composition Classes wrote essays for var- ious topics. Advanced Composition classes wrote re- search papers, viewed Arthur Miller’s The Death of A Salesman, and read Franz Kaf- ka’s The Metamorphosis. Writing journals in reaction to literature was traditionally a factor of all of the Eng- lish classes, as were essays. Students were given a chance to express themselves about the class, the literature, and even the teacher. Senior Paige Plepla gives an oral opinion of Eng lish as Mr. Slechta assists. John Jenson and Jeff Gillaspie feverishly work on research papers during Advanced Composition. 29