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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THE DAZE OF . . . 5...4...3...2...1...bleep...anotherfilm. It might be a five-minute short or a 30-minute documentary. It might be a film about the dissection of a frog or U.S. History in capsule. Films, filmstrips and slides enable students and teachers alike to see lands, customs and demonstrations that they other- wise might never see in their lifetimes. A picture is worth a thousand words might be something one of Mrs. Madeline Marquette's students might say. While visiting Europe, Mrs. Madeline Marquette and four Northside students recorded their visit on film strips, which she showed her classes. 9i ll K- Welcome to Northside. Fm sure this year will be a memo- rable one, but before I do anything I want to remind you of a few important rules in my classroom . . . Bang! Here we go! Hearing lectures about the trouble students can get into by chewing gum in class, the grading scale and the ifs, ands and buts of school existence are all a part of the first few weeks of school. Some teachers though donit use the straight forward approach but their own unique ways for instance, Mrs. Rhonda C-ray's use of her singing ability in lecturing on the nfunction of the conjunction or teaching all sophomore English classes lille N0l'tllSld8 Alma Mater . . . and Mr, Hilton Beaty,5 use of his poop sheet which contains all the events of the upcoming week. Also, all of the language courses took out time from the daily routine to sing songs in that language-like Mr. Bill Hitt's classes learning the pop tune Three Times A Lady in German. Lectures dealing with facts straight out of the book is not the way of Mr. Jerry Johnson, English teacher. He puts things in todayis terms to make it easier for students. In additon, he told his classes stories of his past experiences, adding a new reason for going to class. My , in While Mr. Jerry Moore shows a film in his World History class, stu dents learn about Egyptian culture. tl., or if .. Even though the first day of school brought excitement for Muajo Middleton, the thought of mother year was hard to wake up to while listening to s first-day lecture.