Northwest High School - Silvertip Yearbook (Wichita, KS)

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f ...va -I ' ,U f.frw.- - -- .. , - LW as In the course of everyday activities, the washing and folding of clothes is just one of many duties that must be performed at home. This activity is just one of several taught to Sophomore Andrew Butler and junior Steve Leach in the EMI-I program. Grace Blum Billie Bryant Sue Cantrell . i Y joe DcSpain Wanda Ecker Karen Fields as Nancy Hancock by Linda Loveless 1 jeff Schwab, Aide ' if W is . E 136 ' Special Services W M . f' .Sw M., 21 2 W 17 f . Wgfw 'M V f,,..,,., 7 Reading books written in English helps Sophomore Hanh Nguyen get a better understanding of the new language she is having to learn.

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'lf Refreshing Senior Rick Suarez's memory of the day's exercise, Gregjones explains the assignment one more time. Trips, speakers enrich SS classes Social Studies was a department which offered varied courses from psychology to government to U.S. and world history. Students had a broad choice of courses to receive social studies credit. As part ofa unit in U.S. History, three Northwest students participated in the Close-Up Foundation in Washington, D.C. The program was an excellent op- portunity for students to get involved with and it gave them a chance to see first-hand the complications of running a country, said Cheryl McGilbray, history teacher and trip sponsor. While in the nation's capitol Donna Bolden, Barbara Bosken and Kelli Brown attended many seminars, met Senators and Con- gressemen, made many tours including the Capitol, jefferson Memorial, Lincoln Monument and White House. This was the first time a group from Northwest has participated in the program. Psychology classes went on several field trips and had many speakers come to their classroom. A mock airplane crash landing took place and many Northwest students, along with students from other schools, participated in the crash and rescue mission. The purpose of the crash was to see how Wichita and Sedgwick County emergency units would do if such an incident should occur and it helped prepare them for an incident of this magnitude. The social studies curriculum was one which took a creative teacher to vary techniques once in a while. Students could become bored and begin to slack off if nothing is there to offer them a new and different challenge. Teachers in this department most often succeeded in varying the class from time to time and found it very rewarding to keep the at- tention and interest of various students. To add variety, speakers were often in- vited in the classroom to speak to the students on many different topics. Representatives from oil companies, local businesses and agencies, and the City Commission were a few such speakers. Members from the voter registration agency came to register eligi- ble seniors for the November election. Students took field trips to the Halstead hospital and local mortuaries. y 'il' Social Studies - 135

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ABOVE: ESL class time is spent learning the English Language with the use of such sources as textbooks and dictionaries. Seniors Bau Tran and Phuong Huynh spend a few minutes studying for tomorrow's assignment. BELOW: Studying the world globe can be used for many lessons than just learning where countries are located. Nancy Hancock takes a few moments out of class to explain longitude and latitude lines to junior Steve Leach and Sophomore Andrew Butler. is laqflp l E L, lab, O I Z aid special needs Career Lab, English as a Second Language, LD and EMH classes offer a special service to students at Northwest. Assisting all students with information about potential career choices was the chief objective of the career lab. Through the year the lab was open to all students. Each sophomore English class spent ap- proximately five hours in the career lab researching jobs and persuing post high school information. The careeri lab is not designed to make students ldecide their careers at that very moment, but hopefully to help students get a head start and interest in a few careers, said Wanda Ecker, career lab instructor. information for approximately 30.000 occupations were available in the career lab to be researched by students. The use of computers came in handy as over 785 of the 50,000 jobs were filed on com- puters. All career lab information was updated every six to eight months so that accurate information was available Speaking the English language has become an expected language foij many students. But to those who did not grow up in an English culture, the difference in language provided barriers. For Grace Blum, English as a second language teacher, her main objective in teaching English to students whose native language was not English was to teach it as any other foreign language. English as a second language is just the same class as Latin, French and Spanish, stated Blum. The only difference is these students need to learn the language because where they live now calls flpr it. Students in her class were primarily Viet- namese and each student was put on dif- ferent learning levels ranging from how well they could speak English to how much English they could understand. Students that needed helpi with reading or math skills could find that assistance along with listening oristudy- ing skills in the Learning Disabilities resource room. The facility was well- equipped and students made rapid pro- gress in their specialized area. W In the Emotionally Mentally Han- dicapped class, students learned English, history, math and science. However, most of the emphasis was placed on home living and vocational skills. The students learned to sew and cook, along with general household duties., We have an alternative way of learnirtg were we learn the same as other students, but using an approach that works for us, said Nancy Hancock, EMH teacher. 'k Special Services ' 137