Washington High School - Memory Lane Yearbook (South Bend, IN)

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' Entertainment leads to learninG Cartoons and movies are not only a means of enjoyment anymore, but a means of learning and understand- ing. Some government teachers use political cartoons to help students comprehend more and make it easier to understand what ' s being taught. Students take the cartoons from the newspaper and analyze them to what is happening in today ' s world. In this way, students can voice their own opinions about politics. In addition, the use of movies and filmstrips in social studies classes helps students expand on what is be- ing taught. For example, it is much easier and more entertaining to watch a movie about World War II than to read about it in the dry lan- guage of a text book. Through these entertainment programs class be- comes more interesting to the stu- dents and they become more eager to grow academically. « Heather Woods explains her political car- toon to the class. Mr. Killeen ' s history class previews another film strip. QQ Breaking The Mold O Social Studies

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More than memorizatioN The bell sounds and the hour finally ends. All too often stu- dents stumble out amazed at how one person could lecture for 45 minutes straight and yet only a few words or sentences were retained. When viewing world problems there is a dif- ferent approach taken. An hour of lecturing wouldn ' t teach as much as a mock murder trial or group discussions on discrimi- nation, which was the type of teaching method used in the Current Problems class. Even though the class is deemed current problems , the prob- lem itself wasn ' t the main topic, but rather teaching students how to tell whether or not it really was a problem, and from that point, how it could be dealt with. At times the class was frantic and loud with everyone wanting to voice an opinion. Yet, it became more than a place to memorize, it became a place to learn. Becky Walters and Lisa King debate their stands on racial violence. t 4ikKim Wozniak listens attentively to Mrs. Green s lecture. Salvador Lopez ponders a problem in a Cur- rent Problems class. t 30 Social Studies Breaking The Mold