Mulvane High School - Wildcat Yearbook (Mulvane, KS)

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Language Arts Dr. Stanpole sat down next to me and put work that is placed on you in other classes. It is a his capablelooking hand on my leg. This is chance to stand up In front of people and be something I think boys of your generation are someone totally different than you really are. In going to see a lot of, he said quietly, and I will the class you act out scenes from everyday life have to tell you about it now. Your friend is dead and its pressures or you may act out Coal Dia- monds a play about four women and their prob- I did not cry then or ever, about Finny. I lems. Then the ABC ' s are, for you people who did did not cry even when I stood watching him being not take the class, spoken instead of the words lowered into his burial ground outside Boston. 1 and their stresses. However, after this year, dra- could not escape the feeling that this was my ma will no longer be a senior English elective, own funeral, and you do not cry in that case Just when you thought grammar was totally The book closes on A Seperate Peace and the useless In the world, we took creative writing and classroom walls once again move in on you. The found out our Tenses were all wrong and our heavy breathing of your english teacher burns Clauses were always getting us in trouble. The down the back of your neck as she motions for frustration of the red marks all over our grammar you to put the book away and get back to your mistakes was beginning to build and we thought diagraming of compound-complex sentences. we would never do anything right. Then, in our Grammar ranks right up there with your daily sadest moment, Mr. Mason would read the story vitamins and morning breath, but with out a ba- out loud and say that it was a quality story. The sic communication skill we would be nothing thrill of Friday rolled around and the excitement more than lost sheep. That is what our english began to build until you walked into creative writ- classes are for, but there is so much more than Ing class and found out about the dreaded week- just grammar. There is literature, drama, and ly nature walk. At this time we would seek out creative writing. Each one with its own special and find new life or something along that line in feeling we can take pride in. the streets near MtlS. Our Sophomore year in literature, Mr. Fry con- Then there were those people who did not try centrated on Romeo and Juliet, written by the the imaginative classes but struck to the tried great Shakespeare. The next year, as Juniors, we and true method of English IV and College Prep hit the American writers, both past and present, English. These were the people who found to such as Edgar Allen Poe and henry David Tho- keep their heads above the water, but were con- reau and ended with the author of A Seperate stantly being pulled down by the shear weight of Peace, John Knowles. Then in our greatest year, their homewor k. Only the occasional glimpse of as seniors, the great nobels were ours to pick. We a squirrel caught their attention and held it as read such works as Hermann Hesse ' s Demian, the secretly watched the wild animal until he was and J.D. Salinger ' s The Catcher in the Rye. out of site and the work was suddenly back in Then the term papers came and every student their laps, at one time or another was shuffling through the So, you see, English is as fun as you can make library in search of some unknown fact we could it. If you do not like sitting down and staring into use that nobody had heard of before. Working a literature or grammar book, try something dif- late into the night, we barely squeezed past the ferent that fits your style. When the years have deadline and on to our next assignment. past and the anger of the present toward your Drama class, a senior English credit, is a way teachers is gone, you can see the progress you that some students go to avoid the rush of home- have made not only in English, but in life Itself. Seniors, nick Fortin, Jill Garrison, Chanda Sizemore, James TacFiett, and Stacy Robinson watch the play Macbeth during College Prep. 26 English

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Princess Shelly Brown (Senior), Prince Paul McKee (Sophomore), and Queen Heather Bloomgren (Sophomore), discuss the fate of the dragon in the play. The Timid Dragon . Sir Eric Held (Seniors), dazzles understudy Leslie Tackett (Junior) as Junior, Melissa Persels looks on. Senior, David Terry convinces Junior, Qayra Mauney to buy herbs and potions for protection against the dragon. Drama 25

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' . • Mr. Fry checks over some papers in hopes of finding a few correct answers. Mrs. Thomason assists Stephanie Qraber, junior with a problem. Juniors, Jill Burdick, Karen Peyton, Kevin Dale, Jennifer Meek, Penny Kessler, Albert Wing, and Kim Millerskow discuss a literature story during Mrs. Thomasons ' English class. Juniors, Brit Robertson, Valerie Huslig, and Todd Thomas form a discussion group during English. Mr. Mason takes a break during his junior English class. English 27