Sylvania Northview High School - Wyandotte Yearbook (Sylvania, OH)

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I O C K Flirtin' with X disaster Every year many seniors take advantage of the priv- iledge of leaving school before seventh period. This is something many students have looked forward to, but there are exceptions to every rule. Approximately 50 seniors and several juniors were enrolled in anatomy, Biology ll and physics. Although science has proved disasterous for some students, these few juniors and seniors have stayed extra hours to further their scien- tific studies in these college level courses. As compared to previous years the enrollment in anatomy decreased from two classes of 20 or more students to one class of 18. According to anatomy instructor Mr. jerry Webb, the process of self- scheduling may have played a part in the enrollment because students chose commoms as an easy alterna- tive. Anatomy, although offered to juniors, consisted of mostly seniors. juniors wishing to take the class must have taken chemistry, although chemistry was not a prerequisite for seniors. This was intended to push juniors into taking chemistry, which may be of more practical use than anatomy. The actual study in anatomy began with the pri- mary tissues of animals and worked through the human systems. Dissection also accompanied the lectures, a cat was the largest animal the students worked on. Outside the classroom field trips were taken to the Medical College of Ohio and Flower Hospital. Physics was also offered to both seniors and juniors, but again the class was made up largely of seniors. Offered two periods a day, the physics classes were quite large. Mr. Bob Berning, physics teacher, felt this was due to the fact that few teachers were willing to teach senior classes in the afternoon. The class period was mainly lecture and the students concentrated on solving problems. Mr. Berning added that a student passing physics at Northview would have little trouble passing a college physics course. Physics is not always all work, roast- ing marshmallows over Fisher burners provided a nice break. Biology Il is a course designed to pick up where Biology l left off by going into indepth treatment ofthe biological processes. This course, open to seniors and juniors, had a small class size of nine. According to instructor Mr. Gary Kocher, few students signed up for the class because of the degree of difficulty and conflicts with band members since Biology ll is offered only during fifth period. Because of the small number of students, the Biology ll atmosphere is much more relaxed than that of the Biology I class, although the textbook used is of a much higher level than that of Biology I or BSCS. All of these advanced science courses offer college level activities to science minded students, however, these students must be willing to put in many extra hours of study. More importantly, these students have made the decision to give up free time in order to advance in these scientific areas.

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