Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Left: Mrs. Aimee Simpson reinforces the importance ot homework by checking in Lucretia Brown's Spanish workbook. Below: Rich Whittington opted to take German IV through independent study to get more specialized help from Mrs. Barbara Hodson. Bottom: Errors are more easily found when Lloyd Brooks writes his French homework on the board. ii sse f W rs 3 st.. ...ii T if 1 'N---...S Travel to new land continued popularity uten Tag. ! Hola ! Bon Jour. How many ways can one say hello? This was only the first thing learned when a foreign language class was taken. With one of the languages offered - German, Spanish, or French, a student could spend 50 minutes in another country. A new year brought some changes to the department that helped to expand the stu- dents' knowledge of a foreign language. A new book, which stressed dialogue and vocabu- lary more, was given to first year students. Teachers used the language lab more frequently to train students to listen and under- stand details of everyday con- versation. The fact that I can communicate with non-Eng- lish speaking people makes a foreign language special to me. l would expect to gain a bilingual tongue which may be helpful to my future career, said senior Monica Sadler. Spanish lll corresponded with high school students in Spain. This was just another wa y the department worked to bring the students closer to understanding a foreign lan- guage. One thing that didn't change was the interest in for- eign language classes. Since highly selective universities stress taking a foreign lan- guage, many students have opted to take it, said Miss Karen Vogel, department chairman. What's so hard about learn- ing English? lt's not that sim- ple when it is not one's native language. ln the English as a Second Language program most of the students started out speaking very little Eng- lish, but through the determi- nation and guidance of Miss Charlene Hairston, some came out speaking as well as a native. No matter what foreign lan- guage was taken, a student also learned how to say good- bye. Auf Wiedersehen. Adios. Au Revoir! Foreign Language Department 55

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X a.... Left: Dave Duoat and Roger Donley try to concentrate on the concept of antidertvatives in Calculus. Below Lett: Karen Wilk shares her winning design in the string all contest held in Mrs. Bakers Algebra I class with Jenny Blink. Below: Mr. Jerome Steffe, Math De- partment chairman, talks over math with Sharon Brown. .-09' 7'7- -'F Higher-le vel electives taken after 2 years here's a math test to- day? l should have studied instead of watching TV! Why did l take this extra year of math? Students were still required to take two years in order to graduate, but many students elected to take higher math in order to satisfy college re- quirements. The math courses that were offered ranged from Basic Math to Calculus. Career Math, offered again after a 3-year absence, cov- ered the basic techniques that were needed for later life. The class covered basic math to advanced algebra. 'tl feel the class helped the students en- rich their mathematic ability, stated Mr. George Silagyi, math teacher. Calculus remained the high- est math class offered. Most of the top students of the senior class took the class in order to get ready for college calculus. The class also prepared stu- dents for advanced placement tests for college credits. l feel the class challenged me to really bear down and study in order to get a good grade, stated Rich Whittington, sen- lor. Whether it was adding 2 + 2, finding the slope of a line, solving matrices, or finding an- tiderivatives, math remained one of the most challenging classes of the day. Math Department 57 4