Kamehameha High School - Ka Nai Aupuni Yearbook (Honolulu, HI)

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Malcolm Reynolds, 7-8 grade speech teacher, is best remembered by all his students for his eccentric behavior and his cheezie-wheezie assignment. A roll of drums or thunder might be an appropriate lead to a mini-essay entitled How to Succeed in Reynolds' Class for without drama or back- ground excitement in the learning atmosphere, the class- room appears stale, flat, and unprofitable. Without a true desire, the acquisition of knowledge and intellectual maturity becomes a dreadfully tiresome act which leaves students exhausted for the rest of their lives. Why read when television is easy to absorb? Why know more when I can get by with what I have? Why indeed? What does this have to do with achieving success in my class? Let me answer this first of all from a personal viewpoint. I'm fifty and an inveterate reader, each time I read a new piece of material, I've expanded myself as a person although that may not be obvious in any measureable way. It opens to me numerous levels of understanding which not would have evolved if I'd decided I'd had enough of this learning business in my student days. I might have stayed at the see Dick run phase and missed in this lifetime the glorious prose of a Chekhov or Thoreau, a Nabokov or Updike. May that true desire to know more never desert me, if it does, then my life will be somehow incomplete at its close. So, one succeeds in my class by bringing that willingness to learn into Room 71 and leaving outside the door the so-often- encountered attitude of, This will be a bore, it is a bore, it was a bore. Nearly any class- room can be Yawn City, but for those keen observers of life, even Monday morning with the Ogre Qmej contains a harlequin or two. If students wish to learn in my class, they will. If success means high grades, then they must work hard and do extra credit. However, if a student has been turned off by life and education process so that there is no true desire left, then I feel bad. But I can't help. In some mystic way, I feel that the Universe wasn't designed for the lazy or cynical, but those with that deep inclination to know It better. Wimgsefiiis.. Rita Littlejohn, 9-10 grade math teacher, is strict, funny, and known for her heart-to- heart talks with her students. I am constantly evaluating my level of effectiveness. And the best means of measuring this effectiveness is to notice the response of the students. I always give words of encour- agement when I find a student really trying hard , but who is having a difficult time comprehending. To some stu- dents, I suggest they learn to reduce their stress level by taking things a little less serious. I am sensitive to a students' needs. And it is this need that I address when we have our heart to heart talk. This talk can be at any point in the course. It is usually when I feel a student has the potential, but is not utilizing it to his maximum. Then the maternal Ms. Little- john comes forth to lecture to himfher as I would appreciate someone doing it to my daughter if she were faltering in her efforts.