Overland High School - Trail Yearbook (Aurora, CO)

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Y classes. But teachers keep their students awake with , , ts tttt if innovative teaching techniques and crazy questions. Freud, at 7:30 in the moming? No way! From psychology to Drivers' Education to chemistry, students had to get their bodies to school and actually sit through these classes. Although stu- dents were there physically, few were there mentally. Many students said that first period classes were the hardest because they weren'treally awake that early. Sr. Patti Coulter said, I would come to school more often if first hour started at 10:00 or ll:00. When students stumbled into their first hour class they mentally were not ready to learn. The incoherent state of their minds was famously known as the school daze. There were varied thoughts about having first hour classes and having first hour off. Sr. Vinh Nguyen, who had a first period class, said, I might as well get it over with when l'm tired. Jr. Mike Laurienti, who had first free, didn't like it as he said, I might as well get credit for sleeping through a first hour class and save my free period for later. Another drawback to having it off was there were no parking places left at the end of first so students had to park at Prairie. Many teachers had a hard time with this period, too. Mrs. Beth Baker said that going to first hour was a shock to the body. Therefore, she said, I try to be a little bit more gentle to the stu- dentsf' In order to keep her students awake she tried a new game in her Chemistry class called Chem craps. This was a different version of the game used by some of the math teachers. It worked well during first because it kept everyone involved because there was no option to sit out. In order to check if his psychology students were awake, Mr. Bill Bliss would occasionally ask them, Are you with us? He also sometimes gave his class unusual activities to do. Sr. Angie Blanchard said, Once we had to take a test to see if we were neurotic-I came out semi-neurotic. Academics ELECT! Bio T114 Wake up and smell the formaldehyde, it's time for AP Biology. However, this class wasn't your normal first hour class since Mr. Bob Alexander started at seven a.m. on certain days for labs that took an hour and a half. But he occasionally gave them a Friday off. First wasn't the only period they had to devote to the class. Field trips such as going to Humana Hospital and the Fo- rensics unit at the Aurora Police Depart- ment were some after school activities. Jr. Tae-Hui Kim said, You can actually experience what you're learning, and that helps to grasp the concepts better. Genetics was one of the areas that the class spent time studying. They fol- lowed the genes and noted the carried traits of intermixed fruit flies. VES 165 eware, the 're testin for drugs in our blood. rs. Kee ohnson and yan Reese leam how to do the test at the fo- rensics unit at the Aurora police department while on an AP Biology field trip. ima 5 li if r i A . I V V V gy A ..,.i -lf .. ,. no QVVE ' U ' 5 minupg to Pre? Spangh 3 worktgaeairfui to be gawen to the Spotltflfw . ffrortl S1155 - 5 gf cotlf-90' afiizisiotfntiiiitfilifcfzwiofgfujpedod' MSBQL, wen . C J5 - ylfmstfgfl-H can and pfepare tl 5 Cjourraridf from 0, QwHe11Hf0up ' p Tift may ' . . course 'Malin dw K risttw and efttfwnw F' f . , ET - Ftarflm Cftemtim rw grtisitlg W 'Wm 25, Mau aposwf wfgv of dw pefwtfw ta in tfw fwfogwf y , Nolan ' routine L0 55 KW i at Training an Original aefvblfeg eCi0ra0Hrt1PH anffpedacingy the entire CD1-95' . if pe Umm i t T f , viife0wPe'fan g,,. . I, f Kelly Griesentr

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iping the sleep from his eyes, Sr. Rob Mead struggles to stay awake in class. Many students suffered from this problem in their early moming classes, although teachers tried to keep them awake with work, quizzes, and tests. ' 1 , 9 Tcm Lundin Layout: There u Seaman C NMA Q.. JN- ,,. . X Kelly Gnescrner t s tune to go driving or is tt'7 Sr Javier De La Garza only gets to drive the simulators this time for his first period drivers educa tion class Other than drivtng the range students only drove one time on the roads ettmg a charge from first hour auto me chanics Sr. Scott Baker Jr. Taunya Kelley and Sr. TC Dominquez work on one of the cars in the shop. Even cheerleaders leamed how to fix their cars. COPY: Tum 5 m and mod Tm' '