Sweeny High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Sweeny, TX)

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Laneuaee ff Classes Create Own Experience to Communicate New Idea Language Arts courses in 1982 took some new twists that plunged students into unexplored areas of creativity and learning. Introducing an honors English program in the fall had both students and teachers wondering what to expect, but the learning tree has grown some new branches for kids to climb. Honors classes gave advanced students an opportunity to participate rather than just sit and listen. The result was a gallery of events like dress-up days, show- and-tell exhibits and let's eat likethe Greeks dinners. A new speech club helped generate more interest in verbal communication and inter-school competitive events. And with a new need to accomodate non-English speaking students, SISD responded wi Minerva Sanchez' class English i a Second Language . Over students district wide learned the of bilingual communication in Mi Sanchez new course. Underneath all the new, howevi a mainstream of tradition language art academics kept 61 kids busily learning how to bett communicate. Main StreetfSWeeny, Texas :-MIN' A i:.wL Y ll W' ' wwf' mf, it ' .ir ' M U g i an ii if a 445 ,zu vs - W + vw 45

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,ao M IDUTBS I Classes 8:Academics 735 AN INVESTIGATIVE LOOK INTO - TI-IE INSTRUCTIONAL FACILI- TIES AND ACTIVITIES OF SWEENY I-IIGI-I SCI-IOOL. 1

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1 S s ,,. X . .. -Q TOP LEFT: Diplaying ribbons won in speech- related contests, the newly organized Speech Club was sponsored by Mrs. Barbara Murphy. FRONT ROW: Karla Heyn, Jan Bryson, Christi Jammer, Donna Grantham, Julie Sharp. BACK ROW: Thurman McLaren, Ellen Swan, Matthew Lowery, Mollie Hinkle, Kathy Lavallias, Chris Ottis, Tammy Wyatt, Nancy McNeill, Christy Gay, Brad Burt, Ann Bryson, Preston Wiginton. MIDDLE LEFT: For non-English speaking students Laticia Lopez, Martha, Adrian and Tito Romero, Mrs. Minerva Sanchez translates school subjects into meaningful language experiences in the new curriculum addition, English as a Second Language. BELOWLEFT: An authentic Greek mealis served in Mrs. Sally Knight's Honors English class as part ofa fall culture study. Students were assigned individual projects to show how Greek culture has influenced modern American life. Mrs. Knight serves Greek salad to Blake Simpson, Ronda Richmond, Connie Cummings and Joan Dobias as visiting English l instructor, Mr. Fred McDonald samples the foreign aroma. BELOW: Characters from the Canterbury Tales came alive in English IV class as students dressedin costumes depicting the literary period. Grace Upham became a nun, Kirk Johnson poses as a yeomang Brian Jammer as a priest,' and Connie Lindsey as the miller. th NX Recapturing a bit of Sweeny history, junior Honors English Chris Ottis and Heather Heffernan help collect artifacts for a display presented at the central administration building in The students of Mrs. Bobbie Gaspard uncovered a genuine can, old quilts, butter churns, old clothing and a wealth of local N-F 91