Warwick Junior High School - Cavalier Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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One way to learn is to make things , like charts and posters and similar projects. And it ' s more fun when they are displayed so others may also visualize, for example, prism , or the hypotenuse law . In the picture below, students in a math class are deep in the throes of an all-important TEST. Some pull hair, some sleep, some scratch, some give up, and some just dream that they aren ' t really there at all. But grades come out, just the same. 81

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Students demonstrate use of compass, protractor, Real objects of mathematics, like solids, and the ruler, at the chalkboard. old abacus, help students get the idea. No matter what gadgets or gimmicks are devised to aid in the instruction of mathematics, probably nothing will ever completely replace the practice, under supervision, done at the board . Below, Jimmy Boon, Jimmy Goalder, David Edge, and Michael Smith ponder problems in an Algebra II class. 80

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The English Teachers Seated, left to right: Mrs. Williams, Mrs. Weaver, Mrs. Morgan, and Miss Fivel. Standing: Mr. Gray, Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Carter, Miss Rice, Mrs. Smith, and Mr. Petty. Miss Gillespie was absent when the picture was taken. 3fiird Period: Snglisd English, of course, is one of the courses in school which every student is required to study. Bas- ically, this involves our eighth graders and ninth graders in work with grammar and literature. Butwe learn ina numberof different ways, as the b OV I S3W I Celt pictures illustrate. A lot of reading and writing is required in these classes; sometimes we diagram sentences to show their structure and understand the parts of speech; sometime we act out stories we have read; the school has a special reading laboratory that ' s fun to use and helps improve reading; we get a chance to speak before a group; and we learn techniques of discussion on panels and in debate. street 82