Pinellas Park High School - Occurrences Yearbook (Largo, FL)

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Curriculum, the reoson 2500 peo- ple were colled students, wos the structure for the modern educotionol process. lt wos the reoson for students to cotch up on leorning by l'Booking it Up. But leorning didn't olwoys require Booking it Up. Medio students utilized oudio visuol equipment, dromo students produced ploys in the ouditorium, ond biology students took field trips for reseorch. Reseorch wos olso necessory in plonning o six course schedule. Individuol projects were o port of mony courses ond provided o necessory outlet for creotivity ond self expression. Poige Vecchitto worked on o poin- ting of o leopord in Miss Liz l4ershow's Pointing l closs. Severol courses were designed to encouroge teom effort ond produce o product, The Blue Stors Bond wos one of these, Mr, Robert Smith guided the bond through on overture during the bonds concert seoson. Industriol oriented courses often mode it possible for students to opply their work experience directly to jobs outside the school, Wood Shop wos one of these. Jerry Johnson goined experience moking o wood woll cloth using o tri squore to cut the wood. Lob courses provided on opportunity for students to execute skills l e o r n e d through 162 fCUllRlCULUM DIWSION QQ Closses from physicol educotion to photogrophy, AP. History to onotomy ond physiology, ond drivers' educotion to drofting were offered. Decisions, decisions. Students leorned to occept responsibility through moking these decisions. Once curriculum choices were mode, there wos no turning bock. Guidonce counselors did not reschedule unless o problem in level plocement existed. Regordless of level plocement or COUFSGS Cl'lOSGI l, GVGFY Sl'Udel'TT GX' book work. Potti Conzio, Michelle Wolker, ond Michelle Lochner porticipoted in o cooking lob in their Food ond Nutrition closs to moke coromel popcorn boils for the foculty ond stoff holidoy open house. 3539 ttttf perienced homework ond exoms. Students dreoded homework like the plogue, ond exoms were the ultimote survivol test. Curriculum wos often like medicine - it sometimes tosted bod, but in the long run mode students stronger. Curriculum wos o key to the future, cr foundotion builder. It wos knowledge ond know-how ond gove students purpose ond priorities. O O

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ln the heot of the spotlight Dozzling oudiences with sound, hor- mony ond dromotic expression were the ombitions of the Performing Arts Deportment. The musicol side of the deportment com- menced with beginning bond, which serv- ed os o stepping stone for students who were interested in leorning how to ploy on instrument or odvoncing on to the Blue Stors. The Blue Stors provided lively enter- toinment during holftime of the footboll gomes, ploced first in the Cleorwoter Christmos Porode, morched in the St, Petersburg Festivol of Stotes Porode in the spring, ond hod the privilege of troveling to Tennessee for the grond notionol chom- pionships of the Morching Bonds of Americo. Adding visuol flore to the bond wos the color guord which consisted of flog ond rifle beorers. Performing ot school oc- tivities of on entertoining noture wos the Stoge Bond, ojozz oriented bond. Storting off the chorol focet of the Perfor- ming Arts Deportment is beginning Mixed Choir. This course wos offered to ninth ond tenth groders interested in obtoining bosic vocol skills. The Girls Choir ond the Concert Choir performed ot vorious concerts throughout the yeor including the bionnuol All County Concert in December ond the Spring concert ot Wolf Disney World, After ocquiring the experience of Concert Choir, quolified juniors ond seniors hod the oppor- tunity to be one of 16 chosen for the Children of Liberty. The theotricol ospect of the deportment wos represented through the mony levels of dromo closses. Bosic octing techniques were introduced to the novice octors of beginning dromo closses one ond two. Chorocterizotion, evoluotion of group per- formonces ond reseorch in selected oreos of theotre were mojor foctors in the in- termediote dromo closses. Concentrotion wos ploced on individuol octing vio the public performonce in the odvonced dromo closses of seven ond eight. Once students ottoined these gools, they were given the opportunity to groce the stoge with their performonces in T.V., the one oct competition ploy, individuol competi- tion such os monologues, duet musicol, ond the evening of one octs presented to the school ot the end of the yeor. 1611! AUDITORIUM ond A WING THE SOUND OF MUSIC wos restricted to A wing, students often heord the high soprano voices in n by wings when the Concert Choir procticed. DON'T STOP THE MUSIC, wos o rule of the Blue Bond, becouse they ployed regulorly during period. The musicions procticed long hours ond reworded with mony owords in competition.