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

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n.. omething To Cheer About ? U.K., so it ' s expected to find large, rowdy crowds cheering for teams in gyms, but imagine a crowd cheer- ing for a team taking a test? North ' s Aca- demic Decathlon Team, which took that test in the State Competition at Orange [bounty, was only the most visible of the nany breakthroughs North ' s academics ex- jerienced in 1985. The journalism, Pascal and forensics classes re-instatement of the Polaris new Academic Booster Club new computerized library minigrants for special ed., yearbook, math, physics, the library, and Polaris addition of AP Physics and Calculus, 9th grade recognition program new scholastic recognition board the four National Merit Winners and the many scholarships students won all added to the academic program some- time during the year. The advances of North ' s academics in 1985 provided some- thing for the school to really cheer about. forking out a scheduling conflict, Mrs. Curtis id Regena Flowers talk in one of the home ec )oms. Scheduling problems were commonplace for :ost students. The Collectioin -5 - Aurora 1985 academics 201

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While in AP, U.S. History class, Adn. ' utv- Carefully adding the finishing touches to her Keltn.T organizes her notes. Taking notes in class art assignment, Didiie kogeis dabs tempera onlo her played a major pari in preparing (or the AP exam in painting. Art students olten used only diflerent val- Iviay ues of one color for their

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Students Take AP Challenge Need a challenge? For many North students, Advanced Place- ment English or one of the AP history classes provided just the challenges they wanted. Minds were broadened in a variety of ways. The two AP history classes, Modern European and US history, provided students with in-depth coverage of historical events. Instead of learning what happened in the Civil War for the fourth time, students looked more closely at why it happened, finding out how complicated history could get. The class gives me a chance to mispronounce French and to see the brightest students at school reduced to tears and abject misery on a daily basis, said European history teacher Chuck Libolt with a smile. I ENGLISH I SOCIAL I SCIENCE I AP English provided a pleasant res- pite from all the tedious grammar and syntax exercises of other English classes. It ' s good to be done with all those stupid exercises, said a re- lieved Andy Peek. Students read a variety of works and evaluated them in class orally in groups, or individual- ly in timed writings. Said teacher Lauro Canales, My students get to read, discuss, and explore works that other students never do. ' The AP Liberal Arts classes encour- aged students to ask questions like, Why did that King invade Austria? or Why did everyone in that play turn into rhinoceroses? The chal- lenges provided by these classes en- couraged students to challenge their minds, -ir 202 academics