Safety Harbor Middle School - Reflections Yearbook (Safety Harbor, FL)

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Vocational classes prepare students for CAREER GOALS There are many courses that fall under the title of vocational electives. These include wood shop, power and transportation, home eco- nomics, agriculture and business and computers. Woodshop is one of the most popular electives. Students enjoy working with the machinery and creating projects to their personal tastes. During the prosess of making these projects, students 76 r Vocational familiarize themselves with various power tools and equiptment. Home economics is a three part class that in- cludes cooking, sewing and personal develop- ment. The teachers try to improve self-esteem and self-confidence by teach- ing leadership and inter- personal relationships. Students also enjoy mak- ing tasty foods in cooking and sewing stuffed toys in sewing. Above: Jamil Akram and Mi- chael Dunphy work on their projects during shop class. Right: Justin Moulton works on a transparent keychain. He en- joys making the various projects in shop class. Power and transporta- tion includes using power tools, the building of rockets, disassembling an engine and learning about mechanical tools and parts. Agriculture is the working with live ani- mals and farming. Stu- dents learn how to use the land to their advan- tage and how to interact with non-domestic ani- mals. Business and comput- ers is an introduction to basic computer programs and business manage- ment skills. American en- terprise is fluently ex- pressed throughout the course to make students more aware of the free enterprise system. In the vocational class- es students learn many of the necessary skills need- ed to pursue a career goal.

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No passport required IN THIS CLASS Three cultures are brought together under one roof at SHMS. Our English speaking stu- dents are being intro- duced to French and Spanish in our foreign language classes. One of the most valuable gifts that a person can possess is being able to speak more than one language. Mrs. Storrs-Morton teaches Spanish, and she uses a variety of activities when teaching this lan- guage to her students. These include telling time, learning months, numbers, dates, the al- phabet and the parts of speech. Mrs. Storrs- Morton chose to teach Spanish because I saw many problems when I was younger with people from Puerto Rico, Cuba and Mexico who knew only one language. I thought I could help many people by teaching them a language other than that of their native country. Mrs. Baker has been teaching French for four years and she chose that area because it was one of her favorite subjects. She teaches French culture, grammar and the rela- tionships between the children and their par- ents. Ali Garofalo listens to a Spanish tape as she does her worksheet. Foreign Language t 75

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Above: Jason Defazio and Jill Whitley concentrate on their typing in Mr. Morig's business class. Left: Jason Zaborske works diligently at the sewing machine creating his sewing project. Vocational 77