Newcastle High School - Blue Racer Yearbook (Newcastle, OK)

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History: Indian Treaties, Jeopardy, Role Playing and Arguments. Do Grandma and Grandpa talk about the good old days? Taking a history class can help keep you up- to-date on the past and help you to converse about current events. Problems with Indians, land rushes, and becoming a state in 1907 were presented to the three Oklahoma History classes, consis- ting mostly of freshmen. Going beyond the state level of history into American History, more problems, famous men, important battles, and the Constitution were studied by role-playing, making projects, and giving reports. Nothing was old or boring in these two clas- ses;theydid something new and dif- Debating is heavy in American History as Lisa Babb and Lynda Crawford prove their point to Kevin Carrel. 18 HIST ORY

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Thecumculumofthese nine classes included such variations as making illustrated poetry notebooks, pre- senting cuttings from plays, writing creatively, studying grammar, prep- aring for ACT tests, and reading Shakespearean plays. Speech, which was offered as an elective, was returned to the curri- culum after an absence of two years. Stressing drama the first semester, the fourth and fifth hour classes pre- sented Sauce for the Goslings, Why Teachers Go Nuts, Teach- er's Pet, and Whodoneit? Second semester was filled with various speech contests and a trip to CSU to see a drama production. Eleven adventuresome students met the challenge of Spanish I be- cause it sounded like fun to be able to talk in a language other than Eng- lish . With emphasis on communica- tion, the class, taught by Mrs. Jean McBride, received new books at the first of the year and zoomed through them, learning the language by repe- tition. No memorization also was enforced by Mrs. McBride. Many book reports and speeches have been delivered from behind the old podium in the English room. Mrs. Retha Curtis is in a familiar position dur- ing English III. Teacher's Pet gets a good, thorough study by fifth-hour Speech class members. LANGUAGE DEPT . 17

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ferent the whole year. After mastering state and nation- al levels of history, students fur- thered their history knowledge by taking World History. The two clas- ses, open to sophomores, juniors, and seniors, travelled from the Pa- leolithic Era and touched on all the important dates in history up to the present day. Taking tests in Mr. Greg Pierson's classes was brain stretching, so Jeopardy was played to relax the class members. It also built up a little competition between the juniors and seniors. Discussing current events from the Daily Oklahoman, the POD class gave reports, made notebooks. and went on trips to see court ses- sions . The ten students and teacher, Mr. Jay Barnett, argued through the year on the issues of President Nixon, smoking, Watergate, foreign aid, social security, the Vietnam War, law enforcement, and Ann Lan- ders . Learn by your mistakes is a well-known phrase, yet over and over andoveragain, people make the same ones. Why take History? Other than the fact that Oklahoma and American History are required in order to grad- uate, there is always the chance of tel ling your grandkids about the good old days! Hard at work is Mrs. JoAnn Holy trying to get the lesson through to the juniors. Reading her Oklahoma History is Sherell Brown, while Frankie Wesnidge asks a ques- tion. HISTORY 19