Plainfield High School - Silhouettes Yearbook (Plainfield, IN)

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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

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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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The French course of study in- cluded learning geography and how to tell time. Oral drills in the lan- guage lab and French slides pro- vided a break from daily routine. Writing their own conversations for Thanksgiving and having a pi- fiata party at Christmas were only a few of the unusual activities of the Spanish classes. Eleven students were given a chance to use their knowledge of the language when a group from PHS visited Mexico over Easter vacation.