Miami Killian Senior High School - Catamount Yearbook (Miami, FL)

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64 JI 4, ' V , mi 4 'fl mini' an 4 . fl V, . 54' ,, Z' 'D' v ORAL INTERPRETATION Creative Techniques Studied In Oral Interpretation Class Under the direction of Mr. Maurice Raboid, Oral and Visual Interpretation classes sought to broad- en the teenage mind to the art world. Reading poetry to appropriate music, reading drama with open emotion, writing creatively and reading it, and translating meanings in works by professional playwriters and authors gave students a knowledge of literature and the arts, and at the same time provided them with practice in interpre- tation. Movie making techniques constituted the ma- jority ot material taught in Visual Interpretation. Students learned to recognize artistic devices in motion pictures and saw how those devices added to or detracted from the etfect conveyed by the movie and the message it was presenting. Cleftj To be excused or not to be excused wondered Bar- bara Garcia as Mr. Maurice Raboid tried to interpret her intentions in oral interpretation class. Cbelowj Libby Harris stared into a blank world and tried to give it meaning as classmates and teacher watched as others did their work. . 5. f,

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CREATIVE WRITING 'X TIMING WAS NEEDED IN RADIO SCRIPTS AND STAR MCKOWN SAID HER SCRIPT INTO THE RECORDER WHILE KENNY COOKE MONITORED. Creative Writing Opened Ave To Individual Self-expression The nucleus of the Literary Society was found in Mrs. Charlotte NaIl's creative writing class. The course was designed to give gifted students the op- portunity to express themselves and have their works published in the school magazine, OMNI. Future satirists, humorists, non-fiction, fiction, writers, and poets tested their skills and imagination during the hour class. Their critics were their class- mates and their final test was the publisher. The school's first literary magazine was edited and published by the class in order to give the entire stu- dent body the opportunity to have its work published. A majority of the material came from the creative writing independent study students who worked in- dividually in solitude on poems and short stories. In class, the student's interests were stimulated by records, group readings, and self-satisfaction. Creative writing offered students a chance to write humorously for Mrs. Charlotte Nalls. 32

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JOURNALISM . inaugurat V-+ wMrw'kMwmV .2 Q WMV' W , f cfm ,W r.r f. s,. ,gwpaaa , W H , .1 J . , f 2 ' I vi' I ,,,,, ' ' , ' in f f f 'mf 7' -':.5,f'3,l3 Qiliif, rr iff MQ 'fi',7'f, sim My W 'X V ' ' . 7 'W . ' f i ! if .. , , . N ,,,,, - ' , m Business contracts, the lifelines of the publication staffs, were All capital letters count one and a half units, except . . . memorized Jim Shaver as he tried to find a magic formula for headline counting. 34 Practice Readied Journalism Pupils for Real Publication Practice makes perfect and through textbook study of the finer points of writing and through actual news copy writing, Journalism I students prepared to put out an issue of the Cougar's Roar . In February, their efforts were culmi- nated and published as the sixth issue of the school's award winning newspaper. The Miami Herald hosted a field trip taken by all the journalism classes where students in- tending to go into the communications field had a preview of what they were going to get in- volved in. The tour explored the Herald's many departments from the photography room to the teletype office and the area occupied by the presses. Marshall McLuhan and his philosophies entered often into the journalistic study of the mass media and its effects on society. Next year the students will graduate to staff produc- tion and work on publishing the newspaper and yearbook. Most journalism students vouched for the fact that though the texts which were pro- vided helped, experience was the best teacher. often explained to Ellen Taylor by Mrs. Melodie Womble, adviser. if ,H.-.1- Future journalists Toni Haxton, Jane Blanton, and Cathy Cornelius realized the intracacies of pasting together a newspaper front page for the printer.