Pleasant Lea Middle School - Flashback Yearbook (Lees Summit, MO)

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X Nsiussv X fx s E , E??Q1?'iQl:g if - f' Y' -, -.i-gif 1-'rr Cori Borszich ond Joy BdTTeen check The resulTs of Their experimenT. SCIENCE: WE CHALLENGE TOMORROW I enjoy hoving The loser in Science cldss Im inTeresTed in ThoT Brion HuTchin WiTh o Tough curriculum, mony of The science sTudenTs spenT The yeor developing o projecT for The Konsos CiTy Science Foir. in The yeors posT The sTudenTs from PLJH hod olwoys performed well oT This evenT ond This yeor wos no excepTion. Choosing Topics from ocid roin To grosshop- pers, pupils worked individuolly or in Teoms To compIeTe Their work by The firsT of Februory. Their chollenge wos To sTreTch Themselves, discover new informoTion ond prepore for The fuTure. This is whoT scienTisTs hove been doing for cenTuries ond The sTudenTs hod o firsT hond chonce To experience ThoT chol- Ienge. The uniTs in science included The sTudy of plonTs, onimols, chemisTry, meosuremenT, dnd osTrology jusT To nome o few. STudenTs enjoyed The honds-on ocTiviTies in which They porTicipoTed To visuolize The con- cepTs They were Ieorning from The books. Acodemicsf 19

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cis!-.lii Y- .W , .1 -,1.,,f- 1 ff -.:..,1:-ei NGUAGE ARTS The one Thing l really enjoyed This year in Language ArTs was when we made and Taped commercials ChrisTy Uhlenhake Language ArTs has become a de- parTmenT ThaT encouraged iTs sTu- denfs To parficipafe in many con- TesTs. Each conTesT broughT ouT The English skills learned by The sTudenTs and broughf The sTudenTs an awareness of Their skills and recogni- Tion for ouTsTanding performances in Those fields. Some of The conTesTs were The Spelling Bee, The Reading Week posTer ConTesT, The MS. Read-a-Thon, The Young Aufhors Convenfion and The Orafion con- Tesf. The popularify of The conTesTs was evidenT in The number of sTu- denfs who parficipafed in The meeTs and The seriousness in which The conTesTs were Taken. -.0-v .. The Language ArTs classes con- sisTed of The following uniTs: spelling, wrifing, grammar, compufers, sTudy skills, reading, liTeraTure, and ProjecT S.T.A.R. STudenTs were held ac- counTable for a masTery of selecfed secTions wifhin a uniT such as verbs or end puncTuaTion marks. This meanT ThaT for many sTudenTs exfra Time was spenT in sfudying for The TesTs To make ThaT accepfable score. Speakers were broughT in for special sfudies such as The holo- causT presenTers in The eighTh grade liTeraTure uniT. Videos and films ad- ded exciTemenT To The curriculum. A favorife of The eighTh graders was The Lady or The Tiger? and a fa- vorife of The sevenTh graders was 'ilvlurder in The Rue Morgue. Encouragemenf was also given To individuals who wished To enTer pub- lic wrifing conTesTs. STudenTs like Diane Burger received sTaTe recog- niTion for excellenf wriTing. The ACE classes achieved recognifion Through The FuTure Problem Solving Bowl.