Memorial High School - Reata Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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,S Ft w 5 ffis it as M xeif' ively listening to Sophomore BretlVon Blon is Mrs. Sally Leonard. :ly Tickle and Bret MCDougle show two different sides of English: curios- IT7 . 65iS5Zf2i3?'sa is5555E3553257SZiS95EEQi5SWQQHEQTGSSSLSEGSEQZEEQESQEHQE A Separate Peace has some funny moments as Sophomore Melissa Heller reads dur- ing Class. While the rest of the Class talks, Freshman Debbie Cross reads her literature book. Xmifft a43lSQwl.qW1sl5Wit,Ewi SFBKENEW WMM 4U s- w ENGLBH 167

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Enhanced with literary masterpieces by the likes of William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens, the first two years of English gave students a taste of Western and American literature. The switch from junior high to high school had brought about a marked change in English curriculum. Students had begun to move on to a wider variety of assignments and were given a considerable amount of independence compared to the previous years. Besides required reading, freshmen and sophomores confronted five paragraph papers and, of course, grammar. Freshmen found out what a topic sentence was and when to use one and sophomores learned to write and speak grammatically. Romeo and Iuliet catered to freshman romanticists. Test grades proved how much was really known about the Shakespearean classic play. First year English students tried out their V newly acquired skill at writing five paragraph papers to describe the characters A and symbolism prevalent in A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens and the never ending mythological stories. Sophomore Richard Cole impresses his English class with an oral report. 166 ENGUSH Confronting the basics Freshmen worked at increasing their vocabularies. Weekly lists and tests helped to accomplish this goal. Spelling and grammar occupied sophomores time when they were not busy discussing lulius Caesar or any other famous work. A Separate Peace, by lohn Knowles, was probably the most realistic story read by the sophomores, The similarities students discovered between themselves and the lives of the characters helped bridge the understanding from worksheets to tests. Students spent a great deal of time going over the basics of the English language during second year English classes. Preparation for the coming years of English would off in the run ya. 555 ite? tw? ggi Ei? is ai at it E i . if it :xii Je Z? Trying to smother a laugh, Sophomore Tim Chapin A last minute check over his English test to correct errors insures an A for Sophomore Walter Kiley 2tQ51ftEBll!l5Ql2i5l2lll?lSl'?aQi6'SiiI9lil!5?S9i9LP51E?I?iBi?iSEQ?w QEWSEQiiQiW5QSQS!35? NG will5i?iiEYiiQFZ'fSi?!SS?Yfe!?tsiS'a2TWa??tii22E2M4l?'2St?.5lQ

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168 Huck Finn vs. Hamle ggi . sz WwN' dW The Manual of Form is a source ofhumor during English for Senior Brian McKenna QEQLSW Q Ei QE Senior Tammy Nelson demonstrates hieroglyphics lo her English Class, ilu it NIST -'NPS 5 RMU! gg Www Struinmlng a tunz, for his English class is Senior Frank Pietrowski, Death Be Not Proud is read by Senior Shelia Adair during Comparative Novels. -ENGLISH