Plainfield High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Plainfield, IN)

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if I- A . 9 , wi' 'FQ Q I t '1ls,.,,.,.iI3 'r 'iT.1g seniors stud krinhopism This year a new club found its way to PHS. Sponsored by Mr. Davis, the History Club explored the Wright Patterson Air Force Museum in Ohio, organized the sack race at Field Day and sold brownies. The busy members also gave pre- sentations to the Hendricks County Historical Society on the USS Con- stitution and on the Mormons. Due to the combined efforts of the His- torical Society and the History Club, Ir. Lisa Devore attended a historical tour in Carmi, Illinois. l found out how many troops Outland has, sopli. Bob Edwards tolls classmate lim Stew- art in the t'Dangerous Parallel game. Prayer in public schools is the topic under dis- cussion by Dave Lowry in government, ln deep concentration. jrs. jeff Puckett and Marilyn Howard utilize the history I, area for U, S. History. SOCIAL STUDIES 25

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Concerned with his Econ grade. sr, Gary Unger goes over a test with Mr. Banning. Redesigning Plainfield, American problems students find coloring maps helpful in arrang- ing the town. Krinhopism is a way of life. ac- cording to seniors who studied gov- ernment with the king of trivia. This college prep course concentrated on the acquiring of concepts in the art of living, and late in the semester. panel groups presented court cases for discussion. Using packets in both U. S. and World History. students could pro- ceed at their own rates. In addition, assimilation games such as the Red- wood Controversy and Dangerous Parallel brought current events into focus. for sophomores. Psychology classes visited the open concept at Van Buren in an ef- fort to study child behavior. The So- ciology classes spent two weeks studying careers, both in and out of the classroom. 24 SOCIAL STUDIES HISTORY CLUB: Front row: Mr. Davis. Shadwiclf, Steve Lewman, Marcia Miller, Marl-1 Iivvaltl, Ed Goth, pres., Eva Lowery, Lisa Devoreg 3rd row: lon Albright, Chris sec,-treas, Cincla Telferf 2nd row, Mike Hardin, Phillip Ewald, Mil-ze Deliaun.

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modern languages stress communication, cultur In most respects the modern lan- guages at PHS, concentrating on communication and culture, were taught similarly. Learning the sounds of their second languages, students spent much of their time memorizing dialogues and vocabu- lary lists and struggling with the in- comprehensible verb endings. As Latin was phased out, students were delighted to find German being offered in its place. Consequently it was necessary to form four first year classes. In addition to perfecting their gutteral sounds for the t'Frau, students had word bees and wrote studies of famous German people. Paris est . . soph. Debbie Riddle teaches the class some geography of France. Standing on chairs, soph. jeff Roberts and jr. Mitch Vogel stretch to hang another pifiata for the Spanish Christmas party. Eagerly planning their trip to Mexico, jrs. Cinda Telfer, Peggy Morris, Eva Lowery, Linda Montgomery, Michele Hagan, Kathi Mitchell, and sr. Linda Riddle look over li- brary material on Mexico. Trois heurs et demie soph. Dan O'Hcrn tells soph. Coleen Phillips the time during a French drill. Listening and readin , first year German stu g . dents are introduced to the language lab and its value to developing a good accent. 26 LANGUAGE