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

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Language Arts, where do you begin? Now for that matter where do you end? As a fresh- man you start with a poetry unit, a short story unit, and a short novel unit. Then throughout your high school career in the schools biggest department, you take a large variety of classes. Your choices range from Drama classes, film classes, and T.V. productions to Etymolgy and Mythology, and creative writing mass media. In Sophomore classes, the main points that are stressed are the infamous Big Chiefs, initiation, and bi-weekly vocabulary tests. They studied and did a long unit on Ernest Hemingway, and also read J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye. Juniors and Seniors move on to bigger and better things, Journalism, creative writing, newspaper, to film classes, major British writ- ers, and Humanities. For the advanced, college bound student, advanced placement English Mrs. Crozier gives a lecture. Mrs. Chiles relaxes during her lunch break, Mr. Johnson shows us his Goofy homework. provide a way to earn college credits in high school. In our level of school we are starting to get to the point where Language Arts really is art, for example the Drama classes. The Drama depart- ment is responsible for putting on at least two plays a year. Acting classes and directing classes prepare a student for the plays, along with the back stage people in the Technical theatre classes. The Language Arts department also sponsors a Forensics class, and a forensics team and a debate team. ln addition to the above, the Language Arts department puts out a monthly newspaper, staffed full time by students of all grade levels. Finally, the Language Arts department puts out this yearbook at the end of the year. The year- book is put out also by a staff of students of all ages working in class. Ms. Crozier caught by a sleepy surprise after her class, Academics 47

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Math, Ugh! This is what is thought by some students who have Calculus, Algebra, Geome- try, and Math Analysis. Actually, where would we be without all ot the math today? Well, there would be no math teachers, that's for sure. I think we would probably still be in the stone ages, maybe the early bronze age if we were lucky. Math really is a great help though, whether or not some students like it. These days, math can get you places. Some students think math isn't necessary but if you don't have enough credits of it, you might not go to college. Medical school won't even look at your application unless you've had Calculus. So hay, whatls more necessary, math or P.E.? One of the highlights of the math department is the computer room. The apple computers are used for math by students to do many labs, Ms. Cartin finds something for a student. Mr. Taylor looks astounded. Ms. Baker gives a math lecture. Ms. Wessels helps a student. assorted assignments, and most of all, program- ming. Also, one can learn to do new types of printing and graphics on the computers, Most of all though, the computers help students to broaden their skills and learn. All the math teachers must have lots of dedi- cation to be able to teach students basically the same thing over and over. Most of the teachers do it because they like to teach and enjoy help- ing students learn more, especially math. I guess that is what makes Green Mountain High School one of the better schools around be- cause its teachers, especially math teachers, enjoy and want to work with kids so they can learn more about the elementary functions of Geometry or the Math Analysis of Calculus. Well, to sum this all up as a math teacher might say, Elementary my dear student. Academics 49