Franklin County High School - Animo Yearbook (Rocky Mount, VA)

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Manic Monday. Robbie Hart is in desperate need of a break. Mondays always seem to start so early, especially on school days. Someone call a tow truck! Kelly Montgomery must have someone else’s books, because they couldn't possibly be hers — at least not all of them. Or could they? It is time to get out of that bed, (Teddy Gregorieff)! We know it’s Monday, but you can’t sleep all day. Mundane Monday, here he comes! He's getting up now — feet first! 28 Mondays

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Looking amused with their work, Doug Foley and Edward Jamison continue writing. | wonder what's so funny? Could it be that homework has been laid aside to favor more ‘trivial pursuits?” Take Me Home Homework! Again? Homework — daily work that teachers assigned for home, though often completed during any spare moment. Was it really meant for home after all? “Psst! Hey you! Did you do last night's assignment? If so, what were 1-30.” ‘“‘Homework? We had homework?” Teachers decided that homework was essential. H — Help! I need it! O — Off the deep end again. M — Made it this time. E — Everyone has it. W — Work, work hard. O — Over and out. R — Rest time. K — Know it all. Homework — we really need more, don't we? Homework was designed for home but it came to be recognized also as work bet- ween classes. Skipping lunch to do English was a popular pastime. Study halls gave an excellent opportunity to get the job done. No one wanted to carry home every book in his locker, though this was a very popular habit. Homework, though not always ap- preciated, was an essential part of school life. Homework helped to provide a founda- tion for learning. It also provided the ex- cuse for students to use the phone during study time at home to “check on homework.’’ Homework came to be ac- cepted as an expected extension of classwork and a necessary preparation for the next class period. You can run, you can hide; keep it locked outside; but no matter what you do, you can’t escape homework! It follows, it hounds, until you give in — and get it done! Homework 27

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Mundane Monday Quick, get your battle gear! Run for cover! back!! Monday's Hit the dirt! Haunting thought — will it be good or bad? Only time will tell how the week will start. Maybe we liked Mondays, maybe we didn’t, but they were always there. How could we avoid them? After all, Monday did start every school week. On bad Mondays, everything went wrong. It was raining and the moving zoo was late. We got on the bus and got first- hand combat training without joining the army. We were attacked by pop quizzes, bad grades, long lectures, and mountains of notes. Then they served us cheese-frisbees and vegetable calabash, with cowboy cookies for dessert and we had forgotten our ten-gallon hats! By the end of the day, we had so many books to carry that we practically needed a forklift to get them all home. On the good Mondays, everything was okay. The weather was nice and the bus was on time. No over-excited monkeys had snuck on board. We were actually prepared for our quizzes and tests, the grades we got were good, and we weren't buried under piles of work. The lunch was great. Our lockers didn’t get stuck and we weren't called to the office. At the end of the day we only had a few books to take home with us, and we stepped off of the bus at our home with no gum stuck to our shoes. Mondays could really go either way. Fif- ty percent were good, fifty percent were bad, (okay, so maybe a little more than fif- ty percent were bad!) But even on the worst Mondays you could always count on one thing. Where else can you find the quality entertainment you got from Garfield? Bus driver, Ronald Pasley, looks in his rearview mirror carefully watching the sleepy students who aren't ready to face Monday. Those lockers! Lockers were an important part of a student's life but they were also a bit of a nuisance. Ron White seems to be having a minor problem with his. Mondays 29