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

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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

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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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Creating an abstract, Silk screening her picture, freshman Tanya Reagan junior Denise Noble creates puts on the finishing a work of art. touches. History in the making y whether American Institutions, World History, or Geography in ninth grade, American History or Ad- vanced American History in eleventh grade, and GPS or AP History in twelfth grade, each ol these classes helped students gain the knowledge of their heritage and government as well as the many other societies of the world. 174 CURRICULUM