Jersey Village High School - Falcon Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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108 Trying to find the best phrase, senior Darryl Permywell compleles an English assignment. Close-Up Participants: Front row: Melissa McGahen, Nancy Holland. Back row: Sponsor Mrs. Mitchell, Cara Werner, David Ganske, Margery Chen. senior academics Suzan Nicholas begins research for her English IV term paper 5-

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If 1 ,mtl grwiulsh end umnwxgm Juniors In English class' Mrs. Vardeman sits back and listens closely to her students .L S give their oral reports of Scarlet Letter. Pa! Raney is trying to make it on the double from his English class to World History without getting his fourth tardy. .4 'var' At the end ofa long hard day, this sixth period English class cannot believe its long assignment for the weekend. In World History, Pam Hidalgo is turned around copying her notes from the board. junior academics

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Filling out her name, senior Valerie Crowley hopes to earn a good grade on a Government test. Discussing the answers, Mrs. jennings conducts another day of English. aw. 'bfi Getting her facts straight senior Eva Sellr prepares to answer a question in Government nl . Have you gotten any articles for Government? No, I stayed up all night trying to finish that book for English. Such was a typical conversation between typical up- perclassmen because the only required courses for seniors were Government and English IV. The team leader of the Government Department, Miss Riddle, said, The Government Department hopes you will look back on this year and remember debating major issues, writing a bill and taking it through the jersey Village House of Representatives, reading the newspaper Cfor the first time? and planning how to in vest your future millions Students often ask why they are required to take a particular course Ms Brown, English Department chairperson answered that question saying Listen mg speaking reading, composition, la guage literature, and visual literacy these components form the English language arts program Broadly speaking the English teacher s task is two fold CID ro provide students with opportunities to expand their repertoire of language and composition skills to enable them to define clarify and communicate their experiences, observations, thoughts, and ideas and KZD to provide students with opportunities to grow in self knowledge through personal experiences with literature The activities centered classroom promotes accomplishment of these goals students working in dependently or functioning as members of a group, are actively involved in their role as producers and consumers of communication if ,s aa. I wonder what he wrote? thinks senior Tammy Moore of fellow classmate Damon Bndga senior academics 109