Round Rock High School - Dragon Yearbook (Round Rock, TX)

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AP courses give students head start on college credits For new college students, getting all the asic credits in math, history, English, etc., in be very time consuming. Many Round Rock seniors and juniors orked to earn some of those credits in high :hool by enrolling in Advanced Placement nurses. Round Rock High offered students a mance to place out of college courses in nglish, calculus, and American History. Advanced Placement curriculum was very different from ordinary classes. Think- ing, rather than simply practicing mechanical skills, was heavily stressed. AP students in all areas spent less time working from a book than everyday classes, and many times they wrote research papers and book analyses. As Marcia Hilsabeck, AP English teacher, pointed out, her class was not a course in basics, it was a course in how to think. Getting into an advanced course was not as simple as just signing up with the counselors. To enter the English courses, a student must qualify for either the Talented and Gifted or the Honors program, plus he or she had to write an audition paper for Hilsabeck. Less stringent qualifications were required to join the other AP courses. After qualifying for one of the classes, students spent the year preparing for the College Board standard exam given in May. Henry Heisch, AP physics teacher, tells students Brian Lewis and Mlke Dahle, seniors, about the uses of Geiger counters. Shirley Kinningham, AP calculus teacher, answers a student's question on differentiation. Jim Ferrero Tiger Flores Carol Gaitian Taffie Gann Patricia Flynn Jeffery Fowler Pamela Gardner Karen Gaynor Jennifer Gill Eddie Girvan Theresa Glenn Orlanda Gonzales Marilyn Fowler Linda Fulton George Eric Gifford I? Miguel Gonzalez Marianne Gordey Seniors 137