Northside High School - Bruin Yearbook (Fort Smith, AR)

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'Z As Mrs. Ann Goswick goes over the daily assignment with her Honors Math Analysis class, students follow along in their hooks. All honors courses had heavier weighted grades with an A being worth 5.0 points, a B 4.0 points and a C 3.0 points on the honor roll. . 1' , W Pt In a sophomore Honors English class, students studied formll vocabu- lary, sentence structure and longer themes.

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Qcademics 1 6:00 . . . trying to get out of a nice comfortable bed . . . 6:30 . . . forcing down cereal that is supposed to give a little snap, crackle and pop to the mom- ing . . . 7:00 . . . brushing teeth and mak- ing sure clothes match . . . 8:00 . . . leav- ing home . . . 8:25 . .. trying to beat the bell to class. Although only a room with four walls, the classroom was a place for mem- ories. Who could forget those butterflies that felt more like woodpeckers doing somersaults in the stomach just before that oral report? . . . or . . . cramming for tests . . . writing book reports . . . reading assignments that kept us from getting our recommended eight hours of sleep . . . the panic of a forgotten test . . . the thrill of receiving a passing grade on a test we thought we flunked . . . the fear caused by report card day? ,kv-1 . , . 5,29 ki ' x S 4 '1 Jig LEFT: Academics is not all readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic for Regina Gramlich as she works on making a pot in crafts class. RIGHT: Laying out a pattern on a cedar board, Jerry Parsons starts a project in wood- working. A-xl

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