Pembroke High School - Corsair Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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■ ■ ■ ENGLISH OFFERS A VARIETY OF SUBJECTS 26 IOIUM i i M that icy plunge, Mr Before taking VI ike Paul wonders if the annual eally worth it,

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STUDENTS REGISTER VIA ARENA fter running the fifty yard dash down :he hall, fighting over your place in line, ind having your feet stepped on serveral :imes, you finally make it. Then you ' ealize that you have forgotten your slip )f paper that tells you what English class ou wanted to take and certifies your jligibilty to take that class. After this Jiscouraging discovery, your long fight jack upstairs begins. The nine weeks English system to many tudents is a disappointment in many ways . The teachers try to make the class- es interesting but with only nine short weeks find it hard to cover the subjects well enough to satisfy the students. The nine weeks classes does give the students some freedom. They get to choose from courses like You Talk Funny , Canterbury Tales , Act- ing , and even courses like Super- natural . They also provide fora change of scenery as one student put it. Something new in Humanities class, Yoga, is demostrated by Barbara Rose and Robert Harl«

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Working together, Barbara Leith, Udom Jinavorn, and P.J. Waldman figure out a rather rough assign- ment for Vocabulary class. What you wanted to do in later life had something to do with your English se- lections . Some students wanted to become English majors and chose to double up while others preferred to major in Dra- matics and took courses offered in that field. Most students, however, just stayed with the regular English classes, choos- ing whatever they wanted to take or need- ed for graduation . AND A VARIETY OF PROBLEMS 27