Santa Teresa High School - Compendium Yearbook (San Jose, CA)

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CONTENT AT WORK. Mary Norwood tries to look busy so no one will wake her up. Mary said. E pencil goes all right if 1 have a can of Jolt before going to da AcccrdmqJoJ r gray, Mary was one of his elite students, i Pho!o by Ralph Drendel. THE THREE STOOGES. Eric Varrelman, Mark Walker, and Mike Higgins amuse them- selves while doing class work. Mike said. 1 feel lucky that I got E period Inis year. Mark and Mike enjoyed sharing their first year of E | por.od together. Pholo by Ralph Drendel. . — HARD AT WORK. Sharon King and Shem Gra so work very hard studying for their iinal in E penod. Shem said, I'm glad 1 have E poriod. Otherwise, I'd miss two classes on days when the basketball game is played at another school. Photo bv Ralph Drendel. E Period 45

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in their E peri- od class, stu- dents exper- ience a 11 students who have E peri- .od enjoy getting out of school an hour early, but do I not like sacrificing an hour of sleep. They have to wake up any- time between 5:30 and 7 in order to get to school at 7:15. The benefit of this is that when students arrive for E period the parking lot is empty and the students can park where they want. The number of E period classes has been reduced since the number of students going to school this year is smaller than before. Troy Jensen enjoyed his first year of having an E period class instead of PE. He likes having PE fifth period, because it is warmer. Troy said, I think chemistry goes by faster since I'm not fully awake that early in the morning. Aaron Gillard has had E period PE for three years, but this year he has Spanish IV. Aaron thinks early PE is better, because he can not concen- trate on Spanish that early in the morning. Aaron said, “If I had a choice of which class I could have for E period, I would pick PE. Mike Ervin said, ‘T try to wake up at 6:30, but I normally sleep in until my mom wakes me up at 7. Mike would not trade his E period Chemis- try for an E period PE, because he likes to have the hard classes early in the day. His only class he gets home- work in is Chemistry so he does it during other classes. Jim Sagray has had an E period class almost every year. He said, This year's E period class is the best since I picked the students for the class. He thinks the bad things about E period are no one is awake, sometimes you go to school in the dark, students are tardy a lot, and I have to stay at school for 10 hours in order to help out troubled students. HAVE ANY VTVARIN? oy Jensen shows Mike Ervin the answer to a question on their class work in E period Chemistry. Troy says. I think Chemistry goes by faster, because I'm not awake yet. Both Troy and Mike played on the varsity football team. Photo by 4X Qxyuj. c| ( h Wvuo -D CLxOLr1 J'(( n -uob LjCru , L SVvgia-W '0 C{ {(k.c J)( (( 4jl m(t W UajJ t M p Af far ajJ -Hu. yrx.o dic( Lj i Umfb VVVLCun b. tiorKlS1 I j txj - -i tcJi' 4- [Jo ' UAJLn WOxX 3| d bjtru'Ax tyJJSL c ' ' jyOvXl- o . ptOiCt H din STUDIOUSLY WORKING. Shelly Benett ignores the camera while trying to finish a review sheet for her E period final. Shelly said. T like E period, but I just can't make it on time every day. Shelly was on the varsity tennis team. Photo by Ralph Dmndol. fat a Usu4-Vmul ' Utns svyuM VaJ LJd. JL JhtA Jl SumimtiA); Qjr d Asj ) j(Jc 2- U 4 C ULQl ' J SU Half asleep RUDE C UiX) x2cx cjtu AWAKENING Academics

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walk into class on Fri- day morn- ing, you be- come terror- strick- en. .... Academics —n— A WELCOME SIGHT Some students would be stoked if % Mrs. Donahue were at the front of all their classes on test day. “She is w easy to cheat in front of because she doesn't pay close attention. f states one of her students. Photo by Suzanne Nelson. I f aim 2 FATAL DISTRACTION ou have come to the realiza- tion that you have a test and you forgot to study. Your heart begins to beat with earth shattering thuds. What do you do? Who will you turn to? Well there are two things you can do. You can either take your chances and flirt with flunking, or you can cheat your way to a passing grade. Most people say that there is no way to cheat be- cause their teacher watches to much. Well, there are many techniques you can use to avoid the disaster of get- ting caught. “The best way to prepare yourself for the possibility that you might come to class unprepared some day, is to sit in the back of the class at the beginning of the year. Then when the occasion arises, you can try to sneak a peak at the answers on the paper of the most intelligent person sitting next to you, says an anony- mous cheater who has had much ex- perience at this art of deception. Another technique is an option that is pre meditated. This is often the choice of the student who remem- bers the upcoming test a few periods before he must take it. This is the “cheat sheet . This is more difficult to conceal, and is tangible evidence that can be found by the teacher. Also, this way you don't have to count on the fact that your neighbor knows any more than you do. Some students, in order to reduce their chances of getting caught, con- vince the person sitting in front of them to lean a certain way and shield them from the view of the teacher. Using this technique, some students have gone as far as putting their text books on their desk top and flipping through the pages for answers. Desperate. That is the word to de- scribe the feeling of being unpre- pared for a test. There is no student that likes this feeling and in some cases, experiencing this feeling once is enough to keep the student from ever putting themselves in that posi- tion again, some take longer, and some never learn; if you are smart, you will realize that having to resort to such extremes on tests, is not the way to get through high school. By Heather Coneley and Lance Pardue. THE MAN ABOVE During a Trig, test. Wayne Merritt keeps an eye out for anyone who might be frying lo cheat. Lara Brink says “It is impossible to cheat in Mr. Merritt's class be cause he watches for it. To cheat in this class one would have to be a truly cunning sort of person. Photo by Tanya Pino.