Kellam High School - Challenger Yearbook (Virginia Beach, VA)

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529' l- ':!XF .fp lr 3' Dori Videtich, English IO Tom Fish, English IO WW X Y xv Well, Mo, before ya take n' whip my hind-side for bein' late, lemme explain the deal. See, I had t' stay after school for my English teacher 'cuz he says that I don't know the basics, n I showed him that I done know all the basics, n I took n handed in a composition that I drew up at the desk there, but he went and said, 'Uh uh, that aint no composition, that's a piece of hand-written vomitusf I-land-written vomitus, Ma, Can you believe that? I tell ya, Ma, English is my best subject, n if that teacher don't like my writing, than he better take n soak his head. IO9

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From Beowulf to Bob Dylan and Beyond The English Department is a multi-faceted, extremely versatile group of individuals who strive to help each student master the skills of the language. Early in a student's career at Kellam, he must learn the basics: punctuation, verb tense, pronoun usage, etc. etc. etc. In some classes, the students are encouraged to write . . . and write . . . and write to practice applying the basics. As early as tenth grade, some students lespecially those in Mr. Fish's classesl are guided through writing their own mini-novels, a project that allows them to app- ly all aspects of their ever-expanding grasp of the language. Of course, the students do not just dive into projects such as these, they are given pages and pages of examples from great literary sources to help them along. Students are fed a complete menue of literature at Kel- lam. From the Old English habber-jabber of Beowulf, to the philosophical masterpieces ot Bob Dylan, to the contemporary works of Stephan King and Anthony Burgess, the En- glish Department makes an all-out effort to educate Kellam's student body to the ways of the world. .e'Xli S it Marilyn Jackson, English l l Martha Neilsen, English lO lO8

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Parlez-vous a foreign language? W .gd -1 35 'w I Friedo Porr, French ff I 'Q 0 '15 1 'QE N Q . Lily Exurn, Sponish If you toke o trip to meet o friend by o big clock in Modrid, you would be rendevousing by the Glockenspeil in Spoing but you would not know these things unless you hove met ot Ieost one of the foces on this poge. They ore the foreign Ionguoge teochers, ond they culturize Kellom students. Herr Bradshaw, German