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

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Before turning it in to the teacher for a grade, Lu Le, a sophomore, inspects her chemistry paper. While explaining chemistry to his class, Mr. Salinas goes over one of the fundamentals. F1 'Silky 4' n it , K 'fw ' - Vpp . Y 1... JV . , . 4 . x Q it nr l . Despite numerous distractions in the room, Vakrie Hurta, an Algebra II student, tries to study. In the Computer Math Lab, one can find Mrs. Rupp'r Algebra class experimenting with the computers. 10 electives Turning around, Thanh Le checks to see if he and his neighbor have gotten the same answer on their Geometry problem. W,- 4 av 1

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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

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Extra science and math Students in the academic electives soared high dur ing the 1985-1984 school year. There were thirteen academic electives in science and math combined The science electives were Chemistry I, Physics I Biology II, Chemistry II, Physics II, and Marine Biology. Sun Ham, a senior, stated, My major is go ing to be pre-medicine which requires an excessive amount of science courses. Most of my attention goes to Biology II. Learning and comprehending the studies of nature and the structures of the human body are very interesting to me The math electives were Geometry Algebra II Trigonometry, Elementary Analysis, Calculus, Com puter Math, and Advanced Computer Math. Hang CTheresaj Pham, a junior, replied, I am taking Trigonometry because it will be required later in col lege. I feel that it is good to take higher math and science courses so that I will be more prepared when I get to college Approximately forty five percent of the students who graduated will be going on to college. The academic electives offer the students additional op portunities to increase their knowledge Listening studiously is Mr. jobmonir Geometry class as he teaches them a proof electives 1 1 1 O O , . y H s y