Grand Junction High School - Tiger Yearbook (Grand Junction, CO)

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Build Creative Skills On a tour of the Daily Sentinel Sandra Tucker and Connie Piggott observe a type setting machine. First year covers the fundamentals of journalistic writing and prepares students for important staff positions. Checking advertising layout, Harlan Carpenter, Earl Mills, and Gary Drake work to meet the first yearbook deadline. Second year students work on advanced phases of journalism. Practicing speech delivery, Harold Degn emphasizes an idea in his oration in one of several types of oral expression in speech. The sets for the junior class play are just one of the many built by the stagecraft classes which also do costuming, painting, and lighting. Leslie Hagie broaches an argument while Janet Johnston and Teri Lumley prepare their defense. Debate not only trains in logical presentation of ideas but in critical analysis.

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OCR ,tflflRy JliOXOS 1 Develop Readin’, Ritin’ Speed reading is one of the communication skills illustrated by this English II class in which Kathy Hart times other members. In English IV, Shirley Griffith and John Arriza point out landmarks of England. The course stresses English literature, advanced composition and grammar. Diane Fanning, Richard Grogan, James Runge, and Rita Ford participate in group discussion. Basics in oral and written expression comprise general English III. Jack Gummere explains vocabulary words while Shirley Elam, Willa Kay Maynard, and Mack Faith watch. To interpret American literature and to improve skills are objectives of college prep English III. Rita East and Pete Rickstad make use of references in general English IV. A review of grammar and composition prepares seniors for industrial or business jobs.

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Explore Foreign Languages Stanley Dodson explains the meaning and use of some French travel posters to Babs Berger. Literary masterpieces and oral expression are stressed in first and second year classes. Postcards of present day Rome are the objects of attention for Mary Kay Crider. Roman history is covered by the translation of stories in Latin I. Recording one of Cicero's orations, Gordon Rowley and Ann Jones find the study of Cicero, Ovid, and Virgil in Latin III intriguing. Marianne Geer, Pam Rhoades, Tom Dice, and Scott Grey, Spanish II students, enact a scene in Carmen, one way of enlivening the study of modem languages. Leanne Barbour and Carroll Senn lead the class in word discussion. Students of German stress not only the reading but also the speaking of the language.