Walnut High School - Cayuse Yearbook (Walnut, CA)

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Any way ;ou sax; it Ca va devenir mieux Va a estar mejor Es geht besser sein Va estare pui bene It ' s going to be better Changes and additions in the Lan- guage Studies division went a long way toward malting things better. In the area of personnel, Ken Klotzle, Kelly Bruce, Janet Cook and Judy Kollar were added to the divi- sion in the English area. Jim Stratton returned from teaching at Cal State Fuller- ton to head the foreign lan- guage and English depart- ments and to supervise the library, audio visual, text- books, school publicity, and State Compensatory Educa- tion. The English classes were also improved upon. Parts from three electives of Myth- ology, Creative Writing, and Dramatic Literature were combined to form the second semester of both English 3 and English 4, pre- viously semester courses Composition ▲ BUSILY SCRIBBLING DOWN NOTES. Suzanne Powell finishes on time Taking notes was a daily thing lor most students. P- AFTER A LONG PERIOD ' S REST, Grace Yoshi zumi jumps wide awake. Many students have had the experience of falling asleep m class. 3 and Composition 4. During the summer, English teachers attended the California Literature Pro- ject workshop and a workshop on the Irvine Writing Project in order to incor- porate new methods into their class lessons. New teaching methods including the ▲ TURNING THE PAGE WITH A SMILE, Katie Ca lana becomes involved in her book. In some classes students had to bring a book to read. In Language, Better ' is the ke to success inductive method, where students try to figure out rules themselves, were also added to the foreign language les- sons. This allowed students to better understand what they were learning. Last year, I had trouble with French; it went in one ear and out the other, said Marni St. John, second year French student. This year I feel more confident about French and possibly going to France and commu- nicating with the people. The dean system gives more time for organizing course and class materials, said Stratton. Improve- ments were able to be made because the new system al- lows for a sharing of ideas that work well. Good strate- gies for certain subjects work well and were able to better the education process in Language Studies. story by Jennifer Jackson: layout by Kevin Thomas: photos by Jack Elliot, f 158 Academics Language Studies

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■4 IN MORE DEPTH, dean of Language Studies Jim Stratton makes his lecture more interesting. Teachers tried to interest students with hand ges- tures. ▼ LISTENING INTENTLY TO STUDENT DIMITRI THOMAS, Bill Diskin prepares to give an answer. Diskin taught 2 classes besides being a dean ties and a break to ' an of -some Dean System Academics 157

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Language The combina- tion of the three electives in English will give the stu- dents a wider variety of knowledge. — Ken Klotzle Studies Language Studies Academics 159