John Wesley North High School - Aurora Yearbook (Riverside, CA)

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Does hard work really pay off? Here, Heidi Witt and Blake Williams study intently for their Ger- man test the next day. A teacher ' s job is never done . . . Mr. Nicholls helps Alex Silva with an Algebra problem. Preparing for the next day ' s Christmas party in her Sociology class, Allyson Miller writes the food list on the chalkboard. Latin student Lauren Stewart works feverishly to complete her homework assignment in class in order to save some time for herself that night. math, foreign language, social studies 167

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Vectors?! It was a time ideas . . . r hard work and new Those Amazing Vectors ... Do They or Don ' t They? stated Mr. Adams to his advanced math students. This was the answer to their question as to what the next unit was about. Units were covered rapidly. In algebra I, many students worked from addition to quadratic equations in one year. With all the new material presented throughout the year, some people became confused. By the time I get to the end of the book, I can ' t remember what I learned at the beginning, said Joe Cloninger. I have to get up in front of the whole class and try to say this dialog? ask- ed Connie Mather. Struggling with foreign language pronunciations was difficult for most students. It ' s em- barrassing if you totally blow it in front of your friends, commented Lester Harvey. Oral Dialogs were just a part of the work involved in learning a foreign language. Many nights were spent memorizing words and doing written exercises. Spanish student Joel On- tiveros stated, If you don ' t keep up with all of the units, you can really get far behind. The word was out . . . For those students who wanted to beat the system, the American government challenge test could have been the answer. The plan was that upon receiving a qualifying score, five credits could be earned, and the class would not have to be taken. It almost sounds too good to be true, commented Amy Yasenovsky. For those that chose to take other kinds of social studies classes, there were many, ranging all the way from Black History to Sociology. Turning around to talk to a friend seems to keep Diane Lynch occupied during her geometry class. 166 academics

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Exploding Ferns?! Don ' t panic if your fern doesn ' t explode, folks. Give it time, give it time, Mr. Crandall called to his biology class. If any acid spills on your hands, don ' t panic. Just wash your hands . . . quickly! Your hands may burn for the rest of the day, but that ' s normal, instructed Miss Lieux to her chemistry class. Although it was not an everyday occurrence, unusual experiences along with unique instructional techniques were common in the science department. Anything from completely reconstructing the skeletal structures of frogs in biology to decomposing chemical compounds in chemistry were covered. John North High had just one farm, e-i-e-i-o. And on this farm he had a classroom? Award-winning projects? A new instructor? Old MacDonald may not have had such an unusual farm, but the agriculture department was certainly content with their instructional farmyard. The program allowed students to work on specialized projects for awards and profit, while providing excellent academic and vocational training. You can take an ag class for a grade, or you can take an ag class and make a lot of money, stated agriculture teacher, Mrs. Pirtle. Mr. McCoy returned to the department as an animal husbandry instructor after several years ' absence and brought new ideas and hopes with him. I like opening the students ' eyes to other outlooks in life. I like to see them achieve! remarked Mr. McCoy. Confused by the unit on micro-organisms, Cynthia Pearce questions Mr. Martin about a Paramecium diagram in her book. Focusing the microscope, Adele Bruner describes an amoeba as her lab partner Frances Lara records a description of the organism. Working as an aide in the science department, Ruthann Horn sweeps shelves amidst chemicals and specimens in the storeroom. In a spare moment in physics, Suzi Roger and Aiki Atkinson conduct their own experiment with Roger ' s lighter and a stopwatch provid- ed by the lab. 168 academics