John C Calhoun High School - Talon Yearbook (Walterboro, SC)

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You know how it goes, you say one thing wrong, and BOOM! You’re kicked out of class! It’s not so bad in the hall when you're not alone, to which Whit Carter and Bubba Jones can attest. The four musketeers? No, just four rowdy third graders living it up in the canteen. These seventh graders find P.E. is much more exciting when they share the fun. Not a bad way to spend sixth period, either! No one enjoys a good football game more than these second-graders, Lance Wilson, Will Haynes, Michael Castle, and Tony Fargnoli. Who could lose! Wendy Litchfield and Scott Pellum share lunch and each other’s company at the cafe at Charlestowne Landing. Friendship is a wonderful thing. It spans cultures, miles, and even generations. Imagine all that you learn through interac- tion of generations, and learning is one of the best aspects of friendship. Teachers can prove to be the best friends you’ll ever meet, guiding you through school and helping to mold you into the person you want to be, while learning a lot themselves from the fresh insight so typical of youth. Mrs. Howell spends as much time as possible with her students, showing them at the young age of kindergarteners that teachers are friends too. Friends 0 7

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Mrs. Brightwell, librarian, practices a tried and true method of education, reading to young people. Methods of education experience the influence of trends much the way styles do. Recently one of the most important trends to affect high schools was the realization that stu- dents do not know factual information about the history of our country. Our country had been going through a period when educators stressed the importance of concepts and relationships. A result is a generation of students who do not know factual information. Educators now feel the previous trend was an error: facts should be taught while rends In Education instilling concepts and relationships. Edu- cators are also now emphasizing the im- portance of geography. Many current seniors in the country could not even identify the states, Mrs. Smoak, high school history teach- er, tries to vary her discussions with top- ics relevant to current issues. This serves to make her classes more exciting, and thus increases the interest in history for her students. I think they need to have a desire to learn, whether out of textbooks, newspapers, or whatever, just to learn ft They need to have a desire to learn Academics Editor Wendy Litchfield Academics Division V 9