Thornridge High School - Piper Yearbook (Dolton, IL)

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Music: days are a goooi idea because They give you a view of whai ii was reaiiy iike back Then. -- Lloyd Brooks A8 Required Courses P 'Q Eg Lisa Castaneda benches some Tall iron in her weighfiifiing class. Baskoiball ls a popular sport in ali gym ciasses, 2 1,

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Curriculum improved American law - 2nd semester Teochers were consTonTly looking for woys To chonge The curriculum in order for sTudenTs To improve dnd beT- Ter undersTond whoT wos being ToughT. The Sociol STudles DepdrTmenT chonged iTs bosic philosophy To whoT should every sTudenT know obouT so- cidl sludies? l'Sociol sTudies is olmosT Timeless. There's dlwoys been on inTer- esT. We Tried To offer d wide vorieTy of closses so sTudenTs could choose whol inTeresTed Them, sToTed Mr. Don Vo- lisko, deporTmenT cholrmon, Perhops The biggesT chonge wos The oddiTion of o new junior or senior elec- Tive, Americon Low, o second semes- Ter course where o combinoTion of low ond governmenT wos ToughT. From world hisTory To The behoviorol sciences, sTudenTs were given on op- porTunlTy To grow in o personol os well os on ocddemic woy. We were com- Seniors Tony Denys, Brion MognoviTe, ond Tim Ponozzo disecT o cow's knee in onoTomy. miTTed To keeping The courses chol- lenging. l Tried To geT sTudenTs To see ThoT lifesTyles of Todoy ore reldTed To The posT, sold Mr. John lvllkenos, U.S. hisTory ond sociology Teocher. The Science DepdrTmenT odded five new compuTers. l hod Two permo- nenT compuTers in my room ond leorned new woys To collecl ond ond- lyze doTo, sToTed Mrs. KoThy Kreidler, chemlslry Teocher. Along wiTh The compuTers, onoTomy ond physiology closses received new bioelecTronics producTs ThoT inTer- foced wiTh Them. These producTs meosured blood pressure, pulse, ond gove on elecTrocordiogrom prinTouT on The compuTer, commenTed Mr. Rich Wilkinson, biology Teocher. AnoTher oddiTion wos ThoT of o weoTher sToTion, locoTed nexT To The elecTronic messoge boord in C-D breezewoy, The chonges in These deporTmenTs enobled sTudenTs To leorn more effi- clenTly. Mark Carey reviews informoTion for o geogro- phy TesT. Mlss Margaret Werling ossisfs freshmon Tonio Nlicholski wiTh her homework. Required Courses A7

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' - - Nc choices offered :uv-or S ss Fx 4 :Qs K, Rss I T is if M, 'x s-six A 5 a ss ,z 3 9' elif' .. sis? Required classes specified STudenTs usually had a choice when iT came To The required classes. For example, many sTudenTs opTed for Hu- maniTies insTead of English To fulfill Their English crediT, buT when iT came To P.E.. speech, U.S. hisTory, and healTh, There was no alTernaTive. Speech was a class Taken by all freshmen in eiTher The isT or 2nd se- mesTer. STudenTs wroTe Their own es- says and presenTed Them To The class regularly. This was designed To Take The fear away from public speaking. STudenTs also had a mock Trial where They used courTroom sTraTegy To de- Termine The guilT of a defendenf. AnoTher required course was U.S. his- Tory. The goal of The class was To pre- pare The sTudenTs for The consTiTuTion TesT, a requiremenT for graduaiion. A feaTure of Mr, John ivlikenas' classes were The music days when he played music and dressed up in The fashion of Mr. John lviikenas shows Raquel Washingfon an animal Trap. an era. l Think The music days are a good idea because They give you a view of whaT iT was really like back Then, sTaTed Lloyd Brooks. A change came To The healTh classes in ThaT ii became a require- menT for freshmen insiead of sopho- mores. ivlr. Richard Keller, assisTanT prin- cipal, commenTed on The change, The healTh classes were moved To The freshman level so ThaT sophomores would have aT leasT one semesTer of Qvm- Gym was anoTher required class. iT offered a break in The day for sTudenTs To relax and have fun. One of The re- quiremenis was swimming for all fresh- men. There were Three differenf levels so ThaT everyone could learn as much as possible. When juniors and seniors were given a choice of which pro- grams They wanTed, mosT Took weighfliffing. volleyball, qnd baskeT- ball. The goal of all sTudenTs was To meeT The requiremenfs and To advance scholasTlcally. Senior Gordon Collins clemonsTraTes The proper podium Technique To a freshman class. The skeletal sysTem is discussed by Mario Rich- man and Jason Riggins. Required Courses