Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Fm always searching la in- corporale The most appro- priale ideas in The 'leaching s of English. -- lvlrs. Maureen NlcSherry is W ,r f r Ha ar., fs, AA Required Courses Four years of English musi be Taken in order To graduafe. Mr. David Konkol Teaches juniors American Literature. LaTonya Harris, senior, completes an exercise in her English class. O

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Swim! M fam ' iT seems for every Tosk There hos been o guide book. Wold-This is The Stu- dents' Survival Guide To Academics. The moTeriols ore Q15 Or- gonlzer -- To wriTe down The porTles. Q25 Tope - To Tope your cheoT sheef To The bock of The girl in fronT of you. Q35 Wolkie-Tolkle WoTch - To communlcoTe wiTh The closs broln. Q45 Book bog - smoll enough To flT in your bock pockeT so iT goes undeTecTed by The guords. Q55 FooT sTool - o subsTiTuTe for The desk in fronT of you. Q65 Beeper - To reploce The losT minuTe bell. Q75 Alorm clock - To woke you ofTer The movie. Anyone con overcome The confllcTs of school wiTh These helpers. EiTher, one con use This helpful guide or sTudy, poy oTTenTion in closs, ond follow oll The rules. NAWll Hurry up ond wriTe me book! T'Don'T poss iT now- she's lookingl l-lurry up! Sound Tomilior? IT should To Those who commiT The sin of NOTE PASSlNC-Bl STu- denTs poss noTes becouse They wonT To Tell o friend obouT on evenT of The weekend or To moke plons for The upcoming week- end. The besT Time To poss o noTe is when The Teocher is wriTing on The boordf' sold Mike Erwin. sophmore. The orT of posslng o noTe ond noT geTTing coughT is one ThoT hos been mos- Tered by mosT sTudenTs. So however one posses noTes, jusT be sure ThoT iT doesn'T inTerTere or disrupf The Teocherg only wriTe Them in cose of emergen- cy- like The porTy on Fridoyl Senior Sean Berfon keeps busy on The oudio counsel during his Rodio ond TV closs. 'NX fm. c41uea'1Z0k12m6'v sand oocliheed . l go To boring geome- Try, Where ore you go- ing? Rodio ond TV. l con'T wolTl We're doing This cool ossignmenT where we hove our own TwenTy-min- uTe rodio show. Rodio ond TV wos jusT one of The 'Tfun closses of- fered. Eoch person hod Their own deflnlTlon of fun clossesg someTimes The closs lTself wos Tun, buT of- Ten Times The Teochers mode The closs. Lindo En- gelsbel, senior, sToTed. Mrs Boker mokes my TrigonomeTry closs reolly fun. MoTh wos never my sTrong subjecT unTll l wos lucky enough To geT Mrs. 9 Boker os o Teocherf' Joson Boker, sophomore, ThoughT Rodlo ond TV wos exciTing in iTself. l reolly goT info working wiTh The mike ond leorning how To cue up records, he sold. April Jones, junior, Took on inTeresTing closs wiTh on oTTenTion geTTing Teocher. Mr. GorTlond mode chemisTry fun wiTh his sound effecTs. Also l enjoyed mix- ing chemicofs ond sTuff like ThoT, she exploined. T'Fun ciosses were o woy noT only To leorn buT To hove o good Time. WheTher iT wos The Teoch- er or The closs lTself, inTer- esTing closses mode The clock go fosTer. You're on o beouTlTul, whiTe-sono beoch, woding in crysTol-cleor blue woTer wiTh The guy or girl of your dreoms. He or she opens his mouTh To soy someThlng ond you heor, WhoT is The on- swer To number fifTeen? in- sTeod of The 'Tl'm modly in love wiTh you ThoT you hod expecTed. Suddenly you're noT on The gorgeous beoch onymore, buT you're in Eng- lish closs ond your Teocher is looking sTroighT oT you woiT- ing for your onswer, excepT you don'T know The onswer, leT olone The duesTion she's osking. This is o clossic ex- omple of doydreoming. MosT of The Time my doy- dreoms cenfer oround life ofTer high school, how iT will be To live owoy from home ond oil The freedom ond re- sponsibillTies of living olone ond The porTies, sToTed Moureen Keone, senior. Doydreomlng is fun be- couse you creoTe The dreom in your heod wiThouT ony flows or discrepencles. iT is The illusion of compleTe hoppiness: everyThlng goes your woy. For whoTever reoson one doydreoms, The good Thing obouT iT is iT Tokes one lnTo Their own world, owoy from The reol world. Mini Mog 43

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Changes put on hold Committees study mandates Teachers were always looking for ways to improve the teaching curricu- lum. ln preparing for classes, require- ments, and prerequisites, the heads of departments had to keep in mind state and district demands. There were no major changes in the English Department, but the state was establishing more requirements in the area of testing and prerequisites, and committees were formed to study the new state mandates and future changes. These changes, however, would not affect anyone before the graduating year of 4992. Every semester students took an English class as this department re- quired four years of study. Before en- tering the elective program in the ju- nior year, students had to pass English l and ll. As head ofthe English Department, my teachers and l are very concerned Temperance Townsend. Nora Wyche. .lim Zackavec, and Sharon Tobecksen take Journal- ism l for English credit. 1 5 about the future of the students. l'm always searching to incorporate the most appropriate ideas in the teach- ing ot English, stated Mrs. Maureen lVlcSherry, department chairman. The Math Department made a few changes in the class curriculum. Alge- bra was offered as a two-year course: Algebra iA, 48, iC, and 'iD. This was just a trial program which might change again next year. Added to the Math Department were ten new computers. We're im- plementing computer applications in the math classes. Since computers are becoming such a prominent part of so- ciety, we're trying to tie the two to- gether, stated Mr. Jerome Steffe, de- partment chairman. There were no drastic changes in the area of classes. Those in the pre- sent graduating years were not af- fected, as any changes were in the committee stage and would aftect only those in the years to come. M 8 X, tr Valerian Bennett. freshman, works on a com- puter in his math class. Mr. Paul Skopp assists junior Andre Cleveland with his required math class. ' ..i 'A X Required Courses 45