San Pasqual High School - Golden Legend Yearbook (Escondido, CA)

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Science Department Offers A Wide Range Of Studies The Science Department boasts a wide range of studies Everything from science fairs and weird experiments to recycling and dissecting give the science classes a new perspective on the physical and mental world around them. fPictured: Dominique Kitchenl biology, chemistry, physics physiology, and psychologyi Ac ademics Individual Attention Is Giv In Special Education SPHS rounds out its wide range of academics the Special Education classes. There were t general areas covered: handicapped rem classes for those students who needed more skills and and the resource classes for stud with average IQ's who were mainstreamed in r lar classes. In the handicapped classes, Mrs. Stevens of her students, I try to teach skills, like cooking, handling money, shop riding city buses, and keeping jobs either on c pus or in the community. Most students are f approximately six years, depending on their gress. The remedial and resource classes are r for mainstreaming students who need help in cific areas of learning. The goal of the Specia classes is to help students reach their potentia job-ready, and have a good self-esteem. As a project this year, students volunteered to sp time with these special students, giving up lun or free time to see intramural sports, play gai or just sit and talk. CPictured KL to RJ: Ms. I4 and Robert Aikmanl

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Communicative Arts Gives Hands On Experience Yearbook newspaper journalism photography library science and Drama I and II are offered at SPHS in the area of Communicative Arts. Students learned basic skills like stage direction and layout design and short-cuts like interviewing correctly and the Dewy Decimal System. They discovered nothing takes the place of actually experiencing the perfect shot or meeting goals under pressure. By the time a project is completed the students have learned how to reach out and touch someone else. fPictured QL to RJ: Kerry Panno' Brian Rundlett and Anna Alcalaj Culture Days Acqualnt Us With Other Lifestyles Language courses helped students meet prerequi- sites for college and graduation. SPHS offers Spanish, French, and German. These classes are enhanced by clubs and activities such as culture days fleft, Frau Squires, students enjoy some Ger- man specialties and end up engaged in a little American horse-playll. These culture days, focus- ing on their individual countries and menus for the day, included everything from real excargot and eclairs to stroganoff and German chocolate cake with cherries to enchiladas and taco salads. Senora Mojica's class even made video reports on Spanish speaking countries like Belize on tapes. CPictured QL to RJ: Robert Spice and Gene White- ley-Rossl Among the wide variety of art classes at SPHS is Cermaics drawing commercial art regular art and painting. Many students use these courses to either bring out their talents or to just get away from a routine and be creative. Contests outside activities clubs and challenges make them a refreshing change from a tough schedule. Many of their works were displayed in the library and entered into the annual art fair in the Escondido Mall QPictured: Mark Hughesl Art Allows Us To Be Creative Academics

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fomputers Help Us Set New lorizons For The Future omputers seem to be taking over our society by lips and discs. All over the campus, new ones ere introduced this year Clike SAM, our truant 'ficerJ, and a new wing, with real windows, was lded for classes. There, students discovered new iallenges and set new horizons for the future. ne pet project was an arrangement of video, com- iterized Christmas cards, complete with carols 1d moving figures, put on display in our library. lictured: Rachel Fredenburgl Our Business Department prepares students and give them the skills necessary to go into a business related career. A variety of classes such as typing skills are offered. They help to teach not only the basic mechanical skills but also social arts and how to interact with the professional world. Some students this year were able to take the new con- sumer education mastery test and get out of the required semester of filling out tax returns. CPic- tured: Kim Krugl stenography, accounting, business law, arid office i y E Career Skills Are Offered By The Business Department Academics