St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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Tronslotion call} for concentration, ord Jock and his classmates aro using the time allowed in their lotin II (lou to work on it. These Humanities students ore oil ottompting to state their views in one of the many discussions held in the Humanities doss. AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP FRIENDSHIPS ... 24

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TO DEVELOP CREATIVE ABILITIES . Student In Corole's Office Practice eloM are using the business machine to improve their accuracy and speed. Carole uses her Study Hall to work In llbrory on o book report for her English closs. 23 These enthusiastic art students are eagerly taking odvantage of o live model who is posing for them while they do their gesture drawings. This is the type of work that helps develop their creative abilities by toochlng them to restrict their art work.

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Senior Alon Zobel. David Hwokowo. Gary Word. Pool Werniek and h«'P tfudcnt underjtand tho principle which they ore learning by Jock RosmuHon work together to vcce fully conduct on experiment with putting them to practical use. the oid of a force apporotu in their Phyik clou. Experiment ore to Senior Jack Rasmussen begins his doy with the study of Physics, o science that explores energy and the nature of matter. In attempting to learn more about the nature of energy ond matter the students in Physics study mechanics, heat, electricity, magnetism, light and the structure of the atom. Second hour brings Jack back to the time of Roman togas and feasts in his Latin II class. Conjugating verbs, learning new vocabulary ond gaining on understanding of grammar constitute important factors in learning the old ond classic Latin language. Shokespeare's majestic characters come to life again in Jack's English class. Third hour is a time for reading and studying old and modern English literoture. It olso is a time for the necessary drill on grammar, vocabulary, spelling and writing skills. The Prince, Wealth of Notions, Antigone, The Age of Reason and Lycurgus and Numa ore just a few of the selections Jack and his classmates read and write papers on during his fourth hour Humanities doss. After everyone has read the selection and written their paper, the class discusses the work to pool their ideos on the author's meaning and purpose. Jack's fifth hour Social Science class is not only a time to learn about people and government, but it also teaches the responsibilities that every person should carry as a citizen of our state, country and os a citizen of the ever shrinking world. Sixth hour finds Jock confronted with the mathematical problems of Solid Geometry and Trigonometry. The first half of the year is utilized in the study of Solid Geometry which is tho mathematics of geometric figures in space, and the second half of the year consists of Trigonometry, the study of triangles. Jock tolect one of Ih« mony reference book which aro ovoiloble fo him. He will ute it to continue hi work on a government unit in hi Soclol Science do . 25