Seneca Valley High School - Aquilian Yearbook (Germantown, MD)

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Stacy Moore asks Krisy Pay, Can you find Carla's pulse? . . . helps keep the doctor away, or so they say. However, there are plenty of future doctors and nurses running around in health occupations. The students learn the basics such as making hospital beds, sponge baths, taking blood pres- sure, and reading thermometers. Then, they go beyond the basics and learn CPR. They practice the recessitation on the CPR dum- mies. The students also learn the Latin prefixes, suffixes, and root words for the medical terms that they need to know. Health occupations is certainly a worthwhile course, even if you are not planning to go into medi- cine. The class gives you skills that are worth alot no matter what profession you choose. , 'ip fi-M Carla Prince groans in mock agony as Krisy Pay and Stacy Moore take her bloodpressure. Lisa Burdette learns the art of giving a sponge bath. i Academics An Apple A Day -Q? , vwwfyaw Renee Maillet is making hospital corners.

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you could see it happening. i Learning And Understanding lt. fb, '41-ff ,af .Q ,A- . ' www-xsssgstwe Q . Mrs. Cox has some slightly ill onlookers as she holds up a leg bone. In order to enable us to under- stand certain sections better, Mrs Cox brought in a cow's heart lung, and leg from her local butcher. lt was much easier to under- stand inflation of the lung when After trying to cut the cow's knee ligaments, we had a better idea of the damage that occurs during a knee injury. It is easier to learn the path of blood through the heart and the sites of blockage of the arteries when you have a real heart to examine. I I Zh! .V . C , X Z Kim looks on with interest as Mrs. Cox demonstrates with the leg. The most important part in any body! Science

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How Many Languages Do You Speak? f 1 1. Mrs. Malitz assists several students with their Spanish. Seneca Valley's Foreign lan- guage department has, two parts to it, ESOL lEnglish for Speakers of Other Languagesl and regular for- iegn languages. ESOL is for non-English speak- ing students. They learn the lan- guage as well as the culture. This year ESOL represented nine dif- ferent languages. The other foriegn language classes are elective courses in which students learn the language and the culture of the various na- tions that speak the language they are studying. At the end of the year several select students travel to different countries to learn more about their culture and cus- toms. I. 2. Mr. Samuda's class celebrates the end of the nine weeks. ,.,, 5 ,. 1. 0, V. Q ....,.v.v,.f'-MW , v.' , f1 , dw! wwf. :lf ' J Q Mg . ff 1 ' 1- if-'r Vf ,, 3. Mrs. Sullivan works with some members of the ESOL class: Minh Vu, Bao Ly, Robert Melikian, Armine Abrahamian, Sanjay Patel, Rosa Yeh, and Mark Tsai. Academics