Lyman High School - Eagles Flight Yearbook (Lyman, WY)

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Tour guide. Showing the soenery of Mexico, Spanish Instructor Layne Pannenter points out Mayan ruins to his students. Sprechen sie Deutsch? Students in German I and II leam they can speak some German and at least recognize what the different words mean. Instructor Gary Poore greets students with guten tag which means hello or good day. Conjugemos. Like in English, verb tense is important in Spanish. Freshman Micki Stewart chalks up the verb to be able to. Bilingual. To leam a second language, Senior Jay Shurtleff listens to a lecture in German by Instmctor Gary Poore. - Academics Foreign Language

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4 aware , .' nf. W S Like this. Teacher assistance is an important part of leaming a foreign language. Instructor Layne Parrnenter helps Traci Platts com- plete a Spanish assignment. econd language enhances transcripts H ola, tu entiendes Espanol? Versteht ihr Deutsch? Some Lyman students do understand Spanish and German. German Instructor Gary Poore taught German for seven years. I like my first year students to acquire an appreciation of the country's lan- guage, customs, and people, he said. I also want them to get basic fluency and elementary reading and spelling skills. Junior Bryan Searle enrolled in German because he wanted to take a foreign language, and it was the only one he could fit in his schedule. Searle said, I took a little German beforel moved here and I took Span- ish. I didn't do very well. I thought I was going to get swamped, but I'm doing a lot better than I thought. The German exchange student helps the class a lot. She corrects the teacher, so we learn the right things, and you really get to hear how it soundsg it's like two teachers. The best thing I like about the class is you get to talk a different way, but the worst thing is home work, which we have every night. Exchange Student Tina Gebalt said, The students never ask me for help. I told them if they needed help, I would help themg I really would like to. She added, Most of the time Mr. Poore and I talk in English, but the students talk in German as much as possible. To improve the class, it would help if they practiced every- day for five minutes with simple con- versation. Then they would not be so scared. Poore said he would encourage people to take German to help ex- pand their minds. Spanish Instructor Layne Pannenter said a simple understand- ing ofthe language and enough back- ground for students to take Spanish in college were his biggest goals. Third year student Dana Vercimak said, It was hard to work out of the college notebook, but it will help us pass the AP college test. Foreign language was a lot of work, said Sophomore Lynae War- nick. I took Spanish because most colleges require a foreign language before they let you in. Parmenter used oral lessons and games to practice words or ideas that students had just leamed. He noted, After one year of Spanish, if you went to a Spanish speaking country, you would be totally confused at first. Then after a while, you would under- stand. This year a Span- ish club was organ- ized by the Spanish students. Parmenter said, We wanted a Spanish club to get all the students to- gether to do fun stuff. Also, to moti- vate students to take more than one year of Spanish. We organized the club so the Spanish- students could have a voice in Stu- dent Council. We needed to raise money so the third year Spanish stu- dents could take a trip to Mexico. We want the trip to be a tradition, said Spanish Club President Lynn Stewart. Annette Isom To improve the class, it would help pf they practiced everyday for five minutes with simple conversation. Layne Parmenter Well rounded. Cherlyn McDonalds' knowledge of Gennan makes her education more complete and helps her meet college entrance require- ments. Academics