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

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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

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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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Molding his sculpture, sophomore David Ehets adds detail to his creation. Displaying his artistic abili- ty, senior Jorge Baquero molds a masterpiece in his art class. Preparing for the Homecom- ing Dance, junior Denise No- ble paints a palm tree for the year ' s theme, Almost Paradise. This year, a major ange took place within i Social Studies depart- mt. AP History, an nors class for the llege-bound students, is not only for seniors, t for juniors, also. AP story helped its students alyze and understand ! world of yesterday and lay. Steve Romine ted, Honors classes Iped me raise my grade iint average. Also, they gave me college credit. Through the many varieties of electives of- fered by the Social Studies department, such as Law Studies, Sociology, and Psychology, students were able to gain and under- stand more knowledge of the past, present, and future. For those who were ar- tistically inclined, the Art department offered many interesting classes, such as Ceramics, 2D and 3D Design, Fibers, Drawing, and Painting, and Creative Photography. These courses enabled students to further their artistic ability and explore the depths of the imagination and creativity. Not only having a good sense of art, but also hav- ing dedication and lots of patience and pride en- abled the art students to bring home special proj- ects or their masterpieces were displayed in cases held throughout the year. Even though the neighboring wings of M and N seemed to possess their own disposition, they w ere only a hop, skip, and jump from one another. Not only in distance, but also in the fact that they each expressed and analyzed man ' s environ- ment and culture. f CURRICULUM 175