Happy High School - Roundup Yearbook (Happy, TX)

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Demonstrating apple-bobbing was part of the report on Elizabethan Christmas customs for Jay Wade Johnson. Kenny Shaw, and Jimmy Phillips. With Rock me Amarillo playing. Jeff Armstrong, Jimmy Moore. and Tony Gonzales work on their reading contracts sixth period. ACADEMICS 11

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English Gives Variety to Students’ Year The freshmen were in for the ex- perience of their lives entering English I. Awaiting them was diagramming and The Hiding Place. Work on grammar continued for the sophomores in English II. Research papers had to be the highlight of the year. They read Julius Caesar and All Quiet on the Western Front. An essay once a week awaited the juniors in English III. They also had to do a research paper. They, however, had to do a book report the first semester. Hamlet received the seniors upstairs. Writing theses and doing essays became a part of their lives the last six weeks. They discovered Chaucer's England by reading The Canterbury Tales and they watched Following along in their copies of The Hiding Place, the freshmen listen to Mrs. Smith. Spelling test keeps the 7th graders busy in Mrs. Sims’ last period language arts. Getting to the last biology paper in the stacks pleases Mrs. Cox. Now she can begin on the 7th and 8th grade reading papers. Camelot. Mrs. Sims was the taskmaster for Correlated English III. They, too, did research papers and book reports. Correlated English II studied nouns, pronouns and clauses. While reading prose, each had to read in front of the class. 10 ACADEMICS

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Master Minds Make Math Memories Algebra I started off easy with equations, according to freshman Jim Tirey. The year got harder for the freshmen when they began doing FOIL. The students studied ine- qualities, circumference and radius, and square root. The geometry students found class harder with proofs and theorems for half of the year. With Mrs. Carlson's help, the class worked on graphs and geometric shapes. It was hard work, but it was enjoyable,” commented sophomore Tricia Foster. Mrs. Carlson also taught trigonometry to two students at dif- ferent times. It's a lot harder than algebra, said Shelley Greenfield, senior. Learning trigonometric figures made the students really think but algebraic functions were easy. Mrs. Sims taught FOM I and II. They studied fractions, multiplying and dividing, and decimals. Most of the Algebra I students think solving equations is hard and so is the homework. Marty Middleton takes one last look at his homework before he turns it in. In 7th grade computer literacy Mandy Stevens, Peggy Hartman, Laura Alex- ander, and Marc Bonds study their worksheets which explain the intricacies of computer programming. 12 ACADEMICS