Rancho High School - El Sol Yearbook (Las Vegas, NV)

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'F' 1' 9 1' X .a Creative Writing trips really give a lift from regular school activities. downto business. Sally Gillitzer prepares a speech. .. Vi we M English uses basics English is the study of our language, sentence structure, poetry, and creative writing. The English program at Rancho is getting back to basics, which has educational opportunities in better communications for students. Teachers provided an emphasis on using proper gram- mar, writing, spelling, and vocabulary. The classes available were English Literature, American Literature, World Literature, Iournal- ism, Publications, Themes in Literature, Lin- guistics and Composition, Reading, and Speech. The chairman of the department was Robert Ellsworth. A new teacher was added, Anthony Collis, who taught American Literature. English Department 211

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Arts program eign language in getting a job. 1 play their talent. Celebration's drummer Steve Garrett practices vigorously before the assembly. offers ariet This year's main goal of the foreign language department was to stress the importance of for- Another important department was Perform- ing Arts. Its main purpose was to teach students to be able to speak up for themselves and to dis- Drum major Tom Thompson receives trophy for participating in Halftime Band Review from Governor O'Ca1Iahan. Performing Arts and Foreign Languages 213