Green Run High School - Equus Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

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The baby eggs must be made to look like a real baby. Klm O'Con- nor even carrled hers around in a basket. It you have to go some- where wlthout the egg, you must get a babysitter! Not only does Ms. Lisa Mitchell give weird assignments, she's a lit- e strange herself. Cruzln' 51

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50 Cruzin' l-low many times has a teacher given you a WEIRD assignment? Well, if you think your teacher's strange, listen to this. lvlrs. Debbie Lankford stands on her desk and delivers a real fire and brimstone sbeech when her classes study Puri- tanism. An eggcellent assignment is given by lvlrs. Brenda Snead each semester in Effective Parenting. You have to carry an egg baby around with you for a week. The baby must be clothed and constantly watched. lf the egg breaks, you must write a paper on child abuse. With Mr. Johnson for govern- ment, you may be asked to call him Dictator Comrade, and pretend you are in a com- munist country. lf you have lVls. Lisa lvlitchell, you may be asked to take off your shoes and sneak around very quietly, as if you were actually hiding with Anne Frank from the Nazis. Mrs. Patti Pasko's assign- ments can really bug you, To get her students' imaginations going in the beginning of the year, she makes them pretend they're cockroaches and then write a paper on being a cockroach for a day! lvlr. Paul Lankford teaches his classes how to waltz! So you see, you don't have it so bad after all. - Dawn Breathwaite School is more than just Readin', Writin' and 'Rithmetic l 1 The cockroach assignment In Mrs. Pasko's 10A Englls classes ls one ot her tavorltes, especlally to grade. In Mr. Charles Johnson's govem- ment class, students leam about Rovemments other than ours. He kes to teach something totally dltterent, llke communism. ss- of ll

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Tricks of the trades lvldny sTudenTs cornpldin ThdT school is noT reolisTic. They hove o nord Tirne undersTdnd- ing some Theories oecouse They connoT see Thern ln dc- Tion. Such cornpldinTs dren'T mode oy sTudenTs of vo-Tech. vo-Tech is like o second school for rnony iuniors, seniors, ond even o few soph- omores in The oedch dred. There, d person cdn ledrn skills ond opToin knowledge in d vdrieTy of dreds, Trorn duTo- oody To power rnechdnics, ond unlike oTher elecTive courses, These closses ore oirned oT one specific cdreer field, Along wiTh clossroorh sTudy, d sTudenT dlso geTs knowledge The oesT wdy known To mon - me .-1 '. !' J? fslru7ln' hdnds on experience. There ore only Two cldss periods dT vo-Tech. This medns ThoT d person hos only Two or Three closses oT school, puT be- cduse of The Time ond dn'iounT of informoTion puT inTo The Two ond d hdlf hours of closses dt vo-Tech, Three crediTs ore given for eoch cldss. So, if you like working wilh ooTh your heod ond your honds, vo-Tech is The pldce for you. - Tony Arviold Belng careful not to splll any thln- ner, Terry Peltler washes sllk- screens In commerclal arts. l l T E 151 'Y I l ss T '4 - I e if 1 E 4 7 fl . ' ll f 1 This lumble ot wires Is an open book to Edgar Lunasln, a student In electricity. Dwayne Fucura strains to remove a broken sta lllzer trom a car In auto mechanics. f' S 'D