Richmond Heights High School - Yearbook (Richmond Heights, OH)

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Sports Shorts. Reading brief anecdotes of lives of sports legends is a small part of the Sports Literature class. Taught by Mr. William Schneider, this mini-course is very popular, and usually is overflowing with names at sign-up time. Idle Banter. With friends close at hand, mani- freshman English students chat before the star of class. With English being required all fou [ years of high school for any college entrance, small English class is rarely seen. academic alternatives Either Study with Others or Alone Either raise your hand or be quiet, is a familiar phrase stated by a teacher in a large class. This problem is very common because of the large number of students in the class. Many of the students like to respond to the questions, so shouting them out is the best way to be heard first. Biology teacher Andrew Grant com- mented, Teaching classes with a large amount of students are harder. There are many more interruptions and problems to deal with. Students become bored and have the tendency to become rowdy and uncontrollable. One advantage, however, being in a class of this size is that you get various view points and ideas from the students as Senior Marilyn Wason explains. This advantage provides a different outlook on responses to stories or psychological the- ories. Hearing students ' comments enables them to have a well-rounded discussion on the material. Teachers also have an advantage in teaching a larger class. If the majority of students are flunking, the teacher knows he must change the way of teaching the course. In smaller classes since there are fewer people, it is hard to tell if the teacher is getting through to everyone. — R.S. Basic Science. Most students in their first year at Richmond Hts. choose to take Earth Science, taught by Miss Roberts. This class provides the stepping stone for more complex sciences to be taken in the following years. Grande Class. Spanish I is the choice of man freshmen who are taking their first year of foreign language. Mr. Noreika, who also teaches Spanish 2, 3, and 4, gives the students a gooc idea of the Spanish Culture. 46 Large Classes

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' The individual attention helps with jthe understanding of the material RICHMOND SAMPLER Not Horsing Around One of the talents many people would like to pos- sess is the art of drawing. Senior Laura Favetti dis- plays her talent by sketch- ing a picture of a horse on a cliff. Laura has been interest- ed in art ever since she was in Kindergarten. High school art classes gave her the chance to develop her artistic skills. In order to create a well-developed and detailed finished product, a person must take his time and pa- tience, explains Laura. The best part of drawing is receiving compliments on the picture and knowing that you did it yourself. HOPING FOR EASTER Why is Senior Andrea Tyree playing with a bottle of glue? She is making an Easter basket for the Easter holi- days. Andrea and Josie Bellia made Easter baskets out of or- dinary yarn and glue. After the baskets were completed, flowers were placed inside of them. I enjoyed making the Easter baskets, quotes Andrea. Some of the Easter bas kets were shown in the library display case. Andrea made several baskets. The Easter baskets were very good and showed good craftsmanship and design. An- drea and other students spent 10 to 12 days on the project. CREATIVE PROJECTS Small Classes 45

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Many different views are presented in the Larger classes J RICHMOND SAMPLER Valentine ' s Day Gift c fs ■f Josie Bellia makes Valentines Day cookies as Sophomore Nancy Smolkin watches. Nancy is the new kid on the block. Teachers placed orders with Josie for the Valentines Day cookies. She baked them to the teachers ' satisfaction. Whatever the buyers wanted was written on the cookies by Josie Bellia. It was fun baking the cookies, said Josie. Josie baked the cookies during her home economics period. Josie decorated the cookies with white icing and red trim. She wrote either notes or names on the cookies. Josie hopes her cookies were a hit. Label Her Thirfty Why would Vita Gregorc spend extra time saving la- bels for a doll? To Vita this was not extra time wasted. Vita saved labels from various types of canned goods. After saving the la- bels which she needed, she mailed them to the company. Vita saved the la- bels as a class participation project. The entire General Busi- ness class did this project so they could be the lucky winner of a doll similar to Vita ' s. This is not the only class room project in this class. They also save labels and coupons for other items and food. Saving these stickers sure was fun, concluded Vita. CREATIVE PROJECTS Large Classes 47