Overland High School - Trail Yearbook (Aurora, CO)

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LUV: .www , Q QW ores, resrs, and homeworls. These were some of rhe rhings ihar srudenrs visual- ized when rhey rhoughr aoour class. While some classes were boring, orher managed ro hold srudenrs' inreresr while rhey were learning. Some srudenrs in psychology were hypnorized when rhey were visired oy a hypnorisr. Marriage and Family Living held mocls weddings. You and rhe Law had mocls rrials. Se- monrics classes speni class rime learning oy parriciparion, for example, rhey spenr parr of a class period urilizing non-yeroal communicarion. Then rhere were rhe more gruesome class acriyiries, The oiology classes dissecred eyeryrhing from earih- worms ro cars, Alrhough some classes were prerry much nores and lecrures, orhers were full of acriviiies rhar made learning , Uffbq' I I k LW Ugfm , P,Q!lDf9,n ' JLfb,g,P1 . - i L ZJACKJIXLSI' rm wma c ,Qoxyleb Jpilflncaff avid eftfufw Jawa , lwcdwf fl 9 Jie Cv ' , fun, 9' 3 i I v' ' ar! Ur i fy Whar a way ro srudy lirerarurel Mrs. Denise Sobiech's World Lir class learned aoour Chaucer by dressing in iflrh cenrury clorhes Academics Division VX. A change from lecrures on early American lirerarurel Jrs. David Tolson, Tom lmber, and Poul Velosquez acr our rhe rescue from James Fenimore Coopers The Deerslayer Morno As his classmares lools on, Sr. Ray Merenstein dissecrs a car. AP Biology was only one of the many classes rhar had acriyiries as well as lecrures

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'-9 . M 1 Il 7 . f X More Than Mere Words he one class fhar everyone was required ro false all four years of high school was English. Since fhere were so many sfudenfs folsing Eng' lish, fhere were many reachers who specialized in rhis suojecr. English reachers roughr in areas of specialization ranging from American lirerorure ro semanfics, which helped fhe sfudenfs wirh rheir classes. Even classes rhar were required could be raughr imaginafiyely, Mrs. Sheryl Foster made beef srew for her occelerared junior English classes while reaching ooouf America as o melf- ing por, Mrs. Denise Sobiech, a semanrics reacher, had her sfudenrs research fheir names in greof derail. I-ler class also worleed wirh red flag words, or words which are considered 'ldirfy and usually crude. They olso had ro inyenr and marlser fheir own producfs. Miss Kathy Kramer's mass media class also parricipafed in an unusual acriyiry, For an enrire weel-2 she gof her srudenrs hoolsed on soap operas, so rhar rhey could learn more ooour whor goes on behind fhe scenes. The English classes were nor fhe only ones fhaf mode learning fun, The foreign language classes also used many differenr merhods of learning. A good example was fhe German classes who pur on Olsroberfesr ro malse mone ey for fheir exchange program, which sends srudenrs ro Germany ro learn more abour rheir woy of life. ln fhe spring, foreign language sruf denrs were freafed ro lnrernarionol Week, an opporfunify ro be exposed TO several differenf culfures. Weddings were one of fhe more popular acriyiries in rhe foreign Ionguage classes. lnfclass weddings were held in Spanish, German, ond Larin, 1 ,, f . oil As if in a foiryrole, Gerrnon srudenrs, Soph. Mike Gibbons Jr. Robert Medina discusses his progress in his English class and Jr. Karin Sigdestad, perform a German wedding as ir Wlih Mr. COFIOS Cuoron. An lleam reacher, Cuaron would oe celebrared in rhor counrry Many foreign lan guage closses parricipored in weddings. helped many srudenrs in rheir classes Academics