St Joseph Notre Dame High School - Reflections Yearbook (Alameda, CA)

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Frosh Miriam Borelli practices her life-saving techniques learned in a special CPR course during P.E Seniors Rosette Gray and Janell Brown present a puppet show of one of the “Canterbury Tales. reative class projects What do students and teachers do to break up the monoto- nous daily routine of stuffy classrooms conjugating past per- fect verbs and solving quadratic equations? They come up with special projects which make learning fun. One special assignment took place in Madame Susan Abra- mi’s French I class. Students created commercials to promote original products. Some advertised laundry detergent, other peddled dijon mustard and expensive perfumes, while others tried to sell computer equipment—all in French, of course. The French III class performed skits about what they planned to do after high school. They also attended the play “The Little Prince,” which they read in class afterward. Mrs. Mary Ann Luedtke’s Senior English classes were studying the origins of literature. To make Chaucer’s “Canter- bury Tales” come alive, the classes performed different skits Special Projects Academics 54 and puppet shows. “It was difficult to put together a presenta- tion, but after it was finished I knew a lot more,” said Paul Gomez. Coach Frank LaPorte’s U.S. History classes had a chance to demonstrate superior knowledge when they played “Col- lege Bowl.” Freshman P.E. classes this year had lessons in Cardio-Pul- minary Resuscitation (CPR), and every student who passed the exam received a certificate. “It is really helpful to know CPR because you could save someone's life in case of an emergen- cy,” said Liz Tapado. Who know what could be next? Binomial Bingo? Geomet- ric Jeopardy? SJND students and teachers can think of any- thing!

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Monica Murchison, Sophomore, gets her Junior Maggie Doyle is transforming lin Clay DOx ready for firing im intO a plate which wil her elective art class Soph Robert Rowley really gets into his work! He was working ona small clay figure As Bruce Lee in this pantomin Manny Casey is able to fight and « whole gang Fine Arts Academics

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1s John Molinari and Steve Lubeck practi Emergency on campus? Dial F-R-O-S-H!! I re nch Il Students see T i e Little Prince They are Sunny Choi, Jasper Lee, Maurice White-Kelly, Grace Ebron, Hiraneory Ar- rona, Changelle Thomas, Sally Haims, Lisa Lomba, Matt Campbell, Mai Vu, Lucie Wang and Jeff Mihaly. Special Projects Academics SD