Hauser Junior Senior High School - Jetstream Yearbook (Hope, IN)

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Ricky Titus becomes the temporary teacher for his English class and gives them their spelling test. Because of a bike wreck, Ricky broke his wrist and was unable to write Junior Michele Siem looks for a definition for a vocabulary word in Spanish III. Besides working on vocabulary the class studied verb agreement and listened to tapes. Pam Coffee tries to break open the pinata while Donju Taylor shouts ariba which means up. The second year Spanish classes celebrate Christmas with a Spanish Christmas party. Mr. Jordan's senior English class visits the Moravian cemetery after studying the poem Elegy of a Country Church Yard. The class then wrote papers dealing with the experience of losing a loved one or how they felt about death. 22 Languages

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Rotating Ideas Many new changes occurred last school year and one of those was the different course offerings of the seventh and eighth grade rotating classes. Last year, the seventh graders took music, art, and community living, while the eighth graders took art, music, and horticulture. Horticulture was added for the purpose of stimulating interest so more students would join high school horitculture, and a new period was added causing enough room for Mr. Arnold Ellison to be free to teach the class. This eighth grade horticulture class consisted of the introduction of high school horticulture, such as growing crops, taking apart engines, and forestry. This class has informed me on what kinds of climates to grow certain flowers in, stated Greg Gick. Along with the changes being added to horticulture, there has been a change for music. Even though both grades took music, last year was the first year that two different teachers taught the dif- Mrs. Shaw's third period community living class arranges the desks in a circle and plays an introduction game where they have to tell one fact about themselves while the others listen and repeat what the others have said. ferent grades. With the addition of a new choir teacher, Miss Rita Richmond, taught the eighth grade students while Mr. Charles Biggs taught the seventh grade class. Miss Richmond became involved with her class so that her students would be more interested in music. I have tried to let the students become more involved in class by letting them do reports and writing their own songs, explained Miss Richmond. The advantages of the rotating schedule consisted of teachers becoming better acquainted with more students, and in return, the students received a greater variety of courses. At the same time the rotating classes had their disadvantages as well. These included a shortage of time for the teachers and the students to produce certain projects and teachers were limited to the amount of material that can be taught. Rotating classes is a nice change in a school year because we are not doing the same things repeatedly, ended Karla Glaser. Kenny Owsley and Scott Mae cut out snowflakes for the front hall windows. The snowflakes were used os a background for the Christmas carolers which were made by the high school art classes. Seventh grader Shelli Jolly puts warp threads on her cardboard loom to start a small weaving. The assignment, which was an experiment in line, took about four weeks to complete. 21

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A Part Of Life The new school year brought new books for the English and Foreign Language departments. The Latin books needed to be replaced, some of the students' mothers had had-the very same book taught to them, remarked Mrs. Nancy Wagner, Latin and junior English teacher. Literature and grammar were taught all through junior high and high school with the seventh through tenth grades spending almost half a semester doing grammar exercises. Although juniors and seniors didn't deal specifically with grammar, they did do a lot of reading and wrifing. We try to let students appreciate literature and let them write and express themselves in their own ways, commented Mrs. Wagner. Foreign languages had increased class sizes because of interest in academics. For Spanish students, class was made more interesting by having the new books accompanied by cassettes for some exercises. Mrs. Joyce Isreal, Spanish and freshman English teacher, preferred this approach to teaching and picked books Mrs. Joyce Thompson's eighth grade English class reads and works on their grammar worksheets during their study time. Mrs. Thompson allowed 15 minutes at the end of each period for study. Mrs. Joyce Isreal listens while her second period Spanish II class repeats their vocabulary words back to her. which lent themselves best to this approach. The book we finally chose was a good decision because the students were given more detail and a better explanation of the Spanish grammar and vocabulary, explained Mrs. Isreal. Language, whether it's English or another language will always be part of our lives. It's to our advantage to do the best we can and pick up skills we're taught at school,'' ended sophomore Tammy Cook. In Latin I, Brian West works on his poster. Students had to pick a word, translate the word to latin and find pictures relating to their word. 23