Flemington High School - Memories Yearbook (Flemington, WV)

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It's not a Sunday drive. Driver's eduation student Carl Pinnell and Mrs. Pam Blumetto, teacher, get ready to leave for a lesson. Getting a chuckle out of life, Mr. Mike Withers, social studies teacher, holds a discussion with his junior class.

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A Class Act Students are the Masters of finding more ways of wasting time in class. The bell rings. Students race down the hall, sliding through the classroom door. Did you finish grading our tests yet? What? A test! We just finished a test. Can I go to my locker? What did they say about a surprise test? Finally the students shuffle to their seats. BANG! A book drops. BANG! A book drops. BANG! A book drops. In the back of the room, a compact is opened. Hair is fluffed, eyeliner is reap- plied. I want you to finish these work- sheets today for a review ' Do we use our own paper? Pen or pencil? Is this a test? No ' patiently. You don't need paper. I don't care, and no it isn't. Can I go to my locker? I forgot my pencil. Hey, what's today's date? Did you ever finish grading those tests? Turn to page 184. Page 84 ... I thought we were past page 84. Can go to my locker? brought my Geometry notebook by mistake. Meanwhile in the back of the room, five girls shake their legs in unison, causing the whole room to suffer a minor earthquake. Would you please stop shaking those legs? Who, us? CLICK! CLICK! CLICK! Somebody is flicking his BIC. A bent head concen- trates taiooing a desk for life with '7 was here! And just as the room quiets down . . . GROWL A hungry stomach cries out for lunch. Classes 9 Chewing on his pen, Rick McGee, senior, reads his driver's ed. book.

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Overheard Conversations And even telephone numbers can become sources of inspiration for students' poems Thrills and chills .. . Ac- tion and romance . . . Tears and laughter . . . Subjects of the latest movies? After spending an hour with Poet-in-Resident, Ms. Devon McNamara, eighth and tenth grade students discovered that anything can be interest- ing topics for poems. Have nothing better to do with your time than eaves- drop in on a con- versa- tion? Ms. McNa- mara showed how any student can turn it into a rather amusing, and at times, in- teresting poem. Read- ing from selected works of West Vir- ginian poets, Ms. McNa- mara demonstrated that poems can cover a wide range of topics. Finally it was time for the students to get down to work. Listening to the various comments around the room gave some stu- dents their source of in- spiration while others ex- perimented with syllables they got from their tele- phone numbers. After the session was done, almost every student was able to leave with two poems complet- ed. It was a little bit of perspi- ration and a whole lot of inspi- ration for the stud- ents. Ms. Devon McNamra reads some of her favorite poems. Sophomores listen to Ms. McNamara's poems, (center) while in eighth grade class she explains how to write a pantoum. Poetry 11