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

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With time running out, junior Arwen Ehrsam hur- ries to finish her timed writing. Every second counts as this Spanish II class rushes to complete their assignment. ?Habla Espanol? I . P 1 1 • Parlez vous Frangais? I Languages 01 all nations DicesneLaune? - - Do you speak English? If a person understands one of these, they mus have taken a foreigr language. If they don ' understand any, they ani going to have somei problems. I Students in foreign language classes deali with writing, reading, and ' 172 CURRICULUM

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ikes both mind and strength trol to succeed in weight aing. Bill Milne, senior, ctices to achieve success. Trying to achieve his quota, junior Danny Carpenter helps senior Dave Forshee struggle through each sit-up. Aim, ready, shoot as the students aim for the bulls eye in archery. ss, students learned w to cope with Dblems. [n the Child Develop- mt section of J wing, idents were able to irn about child care d actually took care of ildren. Physical Education IS thought by many to a real boost to their eryday ordinary school life. Weight Training gave the more physically fit juniors and seniors a chance to get away from their school day pressure. Adaptive Physical Education benefited the impaired students. They participated and en- joyed some of the physical education the school had to offer. Drivers Education was definitely one of the most popular subjects offered to students. They learned proper driving techniques in the class room as well as on the range. Students were also required to drive on the road. Students thought it was so fun they would like to take it again! r CURRICULUM 171

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Proofreading junior Lisa Miller ' s paper, English teacher Mrs. Becky Dougherty checks for grammatical errors. Going over a homework assignment, this Spanish II class corrects their work. Grading an essay, English teacher Mrs. Susan Earley puts her knowledge to work. Teaching English, teacher Mr. Tom Alexander helps foreign students adjust to their new language. eaking their language as ill as the fun involved ith preparing and esenting their cultural periences. Of all the foreign iguages, Spanish was 3 most popular with idents. There were iny places where know- l Spanish was very sful, such as Mexico, r neighbor, and also th the tourists. Foreign languages can also help a person in the future because two years of a foreign language are required to get into most colleges. As Monica Sinclair stated, I took two years of Spanish because most colleges require it to enter and I thought it would help me in my future career. In the Language Arts department, the language may have not been the same, but each class dealt with learning the tech- niques of sentence struc- ture and diagraming, noun usage, and verb conjugation. Students were required to take an English class from the first day of their freshman year to the end of the first semester of their senior year. Some students even felt it necessary to take Language Arts electives and had a variety of literature courses to choose from, such as Humanities, Creative Writing, journalism 1-4, and Mass Media 1 or 2. Both K and L wings had something in common, the study of a language. CURRICULUM 173