Pleasant Grove High School - Grove Yearbook (Texarkana, TX)

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Breoking The Monotony .X I Creotive clossroom projects odd interest it Q To the everydoy educotionol routine rom Jello paramecium to wave raps, stu- dents spent classtime working on vanous types of projects. This was only one of the ways teachers and students leamed creatively and it paid off - academics were fun, at least part of the time. The English department created many new projects, including the infamous Senior Scrap- books. Although these collections of memora- bilia were occasionally under close scrutiny by the administration, they were one of the most popular senior assignments. Senior English classes constructed the scrapbooks from me- mentos that had been collected from activities, and included items such as candlewax from the homecoming ceremonies and dead duck heads from hunting expeditions. The scrapbooks are going to be neat to ' look back on, said Paige Henson. lt's some- thing that will always remind the seniors of what happened during the year. Another popular project took place in physics class, where stu- dents wrote and performed a wave rap using physics concepts and their ovm creativity. During the physics rap, we not only sung, but we also leamed various types of wave mo- tions and how they move, said Tricia Brackeen. Research was a project word that brought hor- ror to English students, but this year seniors ap- proached the problem of doing research papers with a slightly different attitude. Instead of put- ting it off until the last few weeks, seniors opted to get papers out of the way early. Todd Martin oo- - 00 so no -Q-..f---Q-V-M..--...Q-'p-W-w. -X Sponsor: WELLS DISCOUNT SHOES sr BOOTS The Name Says lt All - 39 K-Mart Plaza explained, ul think that research papers are not nearly as hard or as much work as people think they are. Students complain about them more than they actually work on them. Of course, the new before-Christmas deadline did not keep some students from complaining or from tuming their papers in to Mrs. Ables late. And juniors and sopho- mores still had to wait it out until the last six weeks to do their research. But before research could be done, junior English students were assigned Family Folklore Albums. ul realized sometime ago that there were many stories and customs in each family that were not being passed down, said English teacher Karen Hundley. The purpose ofthe albums is to get students to leam about their families and the specialness of each family. Juniors collected photographs, a family tree, letters, and recipes, and writings about their special family cus- tom in an album and then shared with their class about their family. But all the projects weren't in English classes. For in- stance, Cathy Halterbaum's honor biology class played with Jello. Students examined different kinds of cells and then made these cells with Jello and fmit. However, the fun part was eating their paramecium creations. Students in Personal Business Management took part in another project that actually helped them understand the business world. Mrs. Beth Sullivan's students per- formed job interviews and recorded them on videotape to cntique later. Whatever the class, projects helped relieve the mo- notony of taking notes and, in some cases, brought out the creativity in otherwise bored students. . fm... . MOVING TO THE BEAT OF THE PHYSICS RAP, Dylan Lewis STEPHANIE FORAND AND GARY EARLY SEEM to be enjoying them- and Gregg Knaupe strut their stuff as the Blues Brothers. selves in Mrs. Halterbaum's 1st period class, designing their own par- amecium cells out of Jello. Proj 9