Walnut High School - Cayuse Yearbook (Walnut, CA)

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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

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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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POPTS, Lepo its and more reports T RESEARCHING A TERM PAPER, Rene Ortega lis tens to a fellow student. It was usual to see friend; helping eacti other out on projects- Another day, another report. Oh, help me please! I don ' t think I can stand to write a ten page report by next Friday. I shouldn ' t have put it off again. How can anyone, anywhere write a ten page report on just one subject? I don ' t think I ' ll be able to survive it this time around. I think maybe I should go into my bedroom and hibernate for the rest of the school year. Whether they were term papers, 5- paragraph essays or book reports, one thing was definite — they were here to stay. story by Jennifer Jackson and Dena Hara: layout by Kevin Thomas: ptiotos by Jack Elliot and Allen Odermatt. f Term papers may be difficult and time consuming, but it is important for college, said Comp IV teacher Jim Po- lite. The term paper Is meant to be a writing exercise. It also is a skill needed for college. The goal of a term paper is to re- search a subject or person in depth and either to prove your opinion or to get the important facts of the person you ' re researching. It allows us, the students, to express our own opinions and back them up with proof, said sen- ior Daryl Walker. Students learned term papers in Comp. IV, but some teachers used term papers in other high school subjects. Al Rampershad assigned a term paper to his Civics Honors class on the contro- versy of certain politics; Janet Beneda assigned a term paper for her U.S. His- tory classes. ► EXPLAINING HOW TO 00 ONE OF HIS RE- PORTS, Dan Priest is getting discouraged. Re- ports were assigned in book report and term pa- per form. ▼ BENT OVER HIS WORK. James Dey tries to get as much done as possible. Students spent long hours researching term papers in the library. A FLIPPING THROUGH PAGES IN A REFERENCE BOOK, Kurt Hasten attempts to finish his report Staying up late the night before a report was due happened a lot in the first semester. 160 Reports Academics