Green Mountain High School - Ramblings Yearbook (Lakewood, CO)

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Language Arts I would hope that each student would learn his or her talent when they take Language Arts. says Kathie Star- key, Lang. Arts teacher. I think that Sophomore Lan- guage Arts helps the student discover this. Most Language Arts teachers feel that Language Arts is perhaps the most important department because it is the one area that pro- motes life long learning other than career learning. They feel that Language Arts studies skills that are the base tools of communication. The ability of Language distinguishes us from animals, commented Jim Starkey. Several Language Arts teachers feel that GMHS has a uniquely innovative Language Arts department. Green Mountain's Language Arts department, as with many of the departments here, teach above and beyond the County requirements. says Starkey. Kathie Starkey feels that GMHS has the best publishing departments in the county. One of the reasons is that the students create and publish the material themselves, instead of having their sponsor do it for them, like in the Creative Writting magazine or the yearbook and newspaper. A very popular quote in the sophomore program this year was, From there to here and from here to there, funny things are everywhere. - Dr. Suess NSR 3 2 . N .Qs l ui , . Ti f 1 A li' its gn if L 2 IQRPUIQ I iw Academics - 43

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Mathematics Most students realize that math is necessary, but are unwilling to work at it to make it worthwhile. stated Dennis Shepherd, Math teacher. A lot of student's attitudes for math vary a great deal, some feel that it is of great need and others don't see any need for math. Faebian Baker responded, I think that the students attitudes towards math are, in some cases, a reflection of how their parents feel about Mathematics. Math's effect on the careers of today is emense. With computers becoming more and more popular and being used by more businesses today, a good Math background is extremely important. responded Baker. In fact, most of the math department teachers feel that computers will require more math for the student. I think that math has even a greater effect in general on jobs today than it did definitely thirty to forty years ago. stated Shepherd. Math is becoming more important in businesses today also, not just in the Engineering fields. Although the Math teachers feel that computers are on the rise, they see them at this point no great asset to teaching at GMHS. We are limited because of the number of computers we have avail- able to this school. Perhaps by next year, we hope to have at least fifteen new micro-computers for the school to use, and that will greatly increase their usefulness in teaching. said Shepherd. Baker feels that the terminals GMI-lS has now are outdated and are expensive to repair, and looks forward to the new computers, should the county not cut the budget. yy ,xs L 12451 , If sc X Q E X i R ws N ,E r - V Y'-W . A 321' I ki: 3 X s X 5 R X 2 X , X. , Q, is X KQX YQ? iz r X Y M? if f9 1 1. M -7, , A .. , Mg, ig' 4 ,9 i 1 We Academics - 45