Lanier High School - Viking Yearbook (Austin, TX)

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Mr. Porter chose not to set up situations for his Urban Pol1t1cs Instead, he students to 1 into the real Acting'was'hmQre ltHan talent. Hard work and learn- ing'brbughtjlgaiuraSargologos best actress in UIL Zone Cczsntesty I ' i Kimsflruickshanktripractices her assignment in guitar class. Beginning and advanced students shared their techniques and songs with each other in the ctass. as rf' 14 quarter system i,rh iti, V m,

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ome departments, like science, really suffered with the onset of a new system. Science teachers, having to teach completely new study plans, found no time tor the extra fun projects they had undertaken before. The English department had more narrow and concentrated quarter courses which could help or hinder an individual student. The student could learn more about a given subject, but he could miss it completely if he already had enough credits. tor particular was now and Decision or Urban Politics. English Mythology, Poetry, Advanced , Drama, English Literature, l and ll. could sound dull or exciting, but the teacher could make it or break it. Sure, some taught just to get that paycheck, but the majority talked to you after class, cared about your interests out ot class, and were willing to make certain sacrifices tor their students. These teachers could even make required courses fun to go to and vanquish ail thoughts of skipping from our minds. Mr. Ftisher brought social structures alive to his American Political Behavior by dividing the classes into and lower classes. advanced or regressed went well - until the was told they could make lower two classes. We certain tinge of either when he announced that aspect of the game.

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r. Porter chose not to set up situations for his Urban Politics class. instead, he required students to jump right into the real thing. Mike White and Dwayne Dalrymple found out how much red tape there was in urban politics when they set out to have four-way stop signs put up at the corner of Jamestown and Fairfield. Learning was a real thing. The stopisigns were putup. S . . Mrs. Henthorne's Introduction to Science students took pictures using the cameras they made out of black paint and coffee cans. They also got to see how human voices, jazz, and other sound effects looked on an oscilloscope. Mrs. Kulvicki's Humanities classes worked and laughed as they put on a play for the school dealing with research on the 194O's. Clifton Shirley, Susan Morrison Benesch, Luanne O'Brien were routine ot there was that seniors, for more take. We courses, or easy credit' the first AISD school which offered a Potter's Wheel course. Mark Bolles took advantage of the new class and wound up with a first-place ribbon in Potters Wheel ceramics. Foreign language courses were both fun and educational for students who learned about through language Mayo Mrs. Welsher's the day Spain won from France. A real from both Spanish hungry