North Fort Myers High School - Lance Yearbook (North Fort Myers, FL)

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Filming o show, Don Londis odjusts his comero to moke Red Knights lookjust right. l Members of the Knight T.V. prepore onorher progrom for their fellow Knights. Lights - Comero - Action Two minutes to oir time. Sound ex- citing? It wos o term used by the students in o closs of T.V. Productions ot North during seventh period this yeor. This hos been the first closs thot offered doily honds-on work with television comeros ond equip- ment. The course deolt with the concept of informing ond entertoining. Every morning, North High students turned to chonnel 2 to heor the lotest in locol, notionol, ond world news events. Even better, they Ieorned of Red Knight News through commentory ond interviews of the K-T.V. production stoff. The morning news consisted of the lunch menu, birthdoys, club onnouncements, ond speciol doily schedules. lmportont Knight T.V. news interruptions sometimes occurred dur- ing the course of the doy with informotion, sporting events, compus crime stop, or ex- tro curriculor octivities. Another unique ideo for the crew to film wos on ort show of their very own. The K- T.V. members hod Red Knights contribute their ort work: drowings, pointings, ond pottery, ond set them up os on ort show for television. Students toking the course hod the op- portunities to leorn to work with modern comero ond sound equipment. The pro- duction crew hod o choce of jobs, comero crew member, interviewer, news com- mentotor, or reporter. First hond ex- perience wos the best osset to the whole where instructor Mr. in. Although l knew we oll Ieorned the of filming together. The script wos written from interviews ond information prepored for reporting by the newscosters. The stoge wos set, the comeros were reody, ond the reporters were on the scene trocking down hot ospects for new stories. The lights begon to dim, os everybody scurried into ploce, ond the producer sold K-T.V. toke one! The ideol course become on enjoyoble odventure for oll of the devoted creotors of the new oddition to North High. As they soy in T.V., the show must go on. group, ond thot's Johnny Pore come whot l wos doing, vorious techniques

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Effectively Communicoting Although English moy not be o fovorite course for mony Red Knights, it is o course required for oll four yeors of study here ot North Fort Myers High School. Over the post twenty-five yeors our English curriculum olso went through numerous chonges. In the eorly yeors of North High bosic full yeor courses were of- fered. This wos in keeping with the trend for oll subject oreos. Very few elective courses were offered. However, in the seventies, o reversol in educotionol philosophy wos prevolent. lnsteod of the full yeor bosic courses, the trend went to numerous one semester courses, with severol electives. At one time, over Twenty-One semester courses in English were offered in one yeor. As with mony things in life, cycles ore completed ond so, it's back to the bosics once ogoin in high school curriculum. Red Knights hove found thot olthough the subject moteriol moy be chonged dur- ing eoch of his four yeors of English closses, the bosic objectives remoin the some. Eoch yeor students reod literoture ond then onolyzed ond criticolly evoluoted it. During the ninth grode yeor the literory selections included o potpourri of short stories, poetry, novels, essoys, ond ploys. ln the tenth grcide yeor the course included selec- tions from mojor literory periods ond representotive ciuthors from Europe, Africo, Asio, ond the Americos. English 11 wos Americon literoture, while English 12 wos British literoture, both of which were fought in chronologicol order. Writing skills were o consistent pOrT of the four-yeor English progrom. In the freshmon yeor Red Knights leorned the bosics in grommor ond composition, while in the lost three yeors they used those skills to develop o writing style. Eoch student hod his writing folder in which his weekly ossign- ment wos recorded ond kept os port of the Stote Writing Enhoncement Progrcim. ln oddition to the improvement of writing skills, English students olso perfected their orol communicotion skills eoch yeor. This speech troining wos written into the North High yeorly English closs becouse of the speech requirement being dropped by the county. ln order to write ond to oppreciote literoture, students hod to be oble to reod ond comprehend the literoture. Thus, English Instructor Mrs. Lindo Fowler reviews with her closs before o test. English students find it necessory to request their teocher Mrs, Shirley Gebhord's ossistonce on o research poper. ..,,,....,. . . development of reoding skills were in- tegroted into the courses eoch of the four yeors. Red Knights were not without the choice of o few electives in English. Some students enrolled in journolism closses ond, with the help of Mr. Alon Corowoy, published our superb newspoper Knight Life. Other students took creotive writing ond yeor- book ond published our superior Lonce '85, Both North publicotions hove olwoys received excellent rotings eoch yeor. Remediol closses were importont to mony students. Some were full yeor courses becouse they foiled the Stote Stu- dent Assessment Test ond needed exten- sive remediotion in oll English skills. Other students were moln streamed in one or two skills. Mrs. Lindo Fowler, North's English remediotion teocher, feels thot this stote progrom hos been highly successful here cit North. Without it, mony Red Knights would foil to groduote eoch yeor, As with oll North's previous yeors, this school yeor of our Silver Anniversory, Red Knights were treoted to superior troining in English skills by o competent, professionol English foculty. English

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