Stratford High School - Mnemosyne Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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:ig-' ,,, ,V r ,Q 1',,ii 1,3 I , an 5 J XJ To liven up their English class, Jun- iors Deanna Hagedorn, Brad Todes and Jodi Smith presented a mock game of To Tell the Truth The stu- dents competed to see who gave the Freshmen Clay Griffin and Wade Neaman read silently the Hounds of best imitation ol Clifton Fadiman, a lit- erary .critic who appeared in a movie the class had seen. After asking the panel questions, the class chose Brad as the panelist most like Fadiman. Baskerville during Ms. McCarty's English l class. After reading The Great Gatsby, the book. Junior Ed Gabrielson por- Mrs. Deborah Culver's third period trays the main character, Jay Gatsby. English class acted out scenes from 'WM ,f,f....,v,iiW, , Vt aw V5 1 I I qu A Keir' 1-E , at Z' P1 r W 55... . v 'X' K, 1 QQ ,, wi

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an was still separated from his fellow man So he combined all the languages to form one unique and complicated B II language called .............. , f, M W it , ff! f W I' ff MMM Junior Rhett Rushing questions a Freshmen Leslie Lenser and Erica panel in Mrs. Deborah Culver's Eng- Garrison listen to Mrs. Bowers as she lish Ill class on the parallels in The Great Gatsby and the novel's effect on American literature. The class pre- sented panels on various novels they had read. 70 english Where can you see Romeo and Juliet, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Scarlet Letter, and A Farewell to Arms for free? Nowhere but the Stratford English Department. According to Department Head Mrs. June Hatfield, these movies highlighted the year for freshmen and juniors. The main topic of study forjuniors, however, was the ism's - from Puritanism to Realism and Nationalism, said Mrs. Hatfield. Following a study of Huckleberry Finn, said Mrs. Deborah Culver, junior English teacher, students developed projects and presented them according to their own talents. These projects included everything from fun games to satirical movies. For sophomores, the major topic taught was the beloved concept of five paragraph papers, said Mrs. Hatfield. Science fiction and non-fiction were stressed at this level. We did some reports explains sentence formation in their fifth period English lclass. I I when we read non-fiction, commented Sophomore Mimi Baumann. A lot of the books were ones you would never think of reading, and the reports made you want to go read them. Instead of regular English classes, seniors could take quarter electives in grammar, creative writing, and comparative novels. These courses could also be taken in addition to regular English classes. I really enjoyed reading Dante 's Inferno, commented Senior Jean Breaux. An Italian writer wrote his concept of hell. Jean also enjoyed the on your own unit at the end of the year. Students selected countries and read a certain amount of literature from that country. You made your own deadlines, explained Jean, and you had to stick to them. English, Mrs. Hatfield concluded, enables the individual to understand himself and the world he must live in. Z s 3

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nd nowthat man has his languages, he can put them into use by writing about the daily gxgezgffelhis form of writing j U u If n H 5 m was P .. j y,,v'5?g.? .rf-'- 'r!f News writing, headlining, feature writing, and editorial writing - that's what journalism is all about according to Ms. Peggy Schneider, journalism teacher. We studied how the yearbook was made, how to write stories, and advertising, explained Junior Nikki Naparst, Journalism I QJD student. Junior Bill Halsell, also a JI student, commented that he enjoyed working on advertising most. We recreated a taste test to see people's reactions to products on the market. I liked the layout part best, remarked Senior Paula Urech, JI student. Paula added that she took JI because she was kind of interested in writingg however, her real interests lie in photography, mainIy. Ms. Schneider can be kind of strange at times, but Looking at one of the many Hodges and Sophomore Suzanne While studying advertising in Jour- exchange newspapers in Room 335, Ouinn, check out the football players nalism l, teacher Peggy Schneider Journalism I students, Junior Laura in addition to their assigned work. conducts her own Pepsi taste test with Junior Doug Schlacter and Soph- she taught me a lot, and she knows what she's talking about, Bill commented. Nikki chose to take JI because she was interested in it and thought it might be an , interesting career. l l wanted to be introduced to it, she explained. I like to be creative. The classes' activities included among other things, a trip to the Chronicle and the Alley, an advertising agency, and in March, a trip to Austin with the JIl's, according to Ms. Schneider. JlI is the newspaper or yearbook, she explained. They are a really intelligent group, exclaimed Ms. Schneider in reference to her Jl's, and I look forward to having them on my publications staff. Bill concluded that JI made him appreciate all the work that goes into producing a newspaper. omores David Ashton and Cindy Davis. Actually the class was split fairly equally between Shasta, Pepsi and Coke, said Ms. Schneider.