Weequahic High School - Legend Yearbook (Newark, NJ)

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Math = Success Minimum basic skills: seems to be the center of concern for the Mathematics Department this year. It’s more than just back to basics. It’s communication, records, feedback, individualized teaching, and followups. Students are still required to take a Mathematics exam their junior year to qualify them for graduation and, if required, Mathematics Review for those who need additional instruction. Amidst all this remedial work, courses like Advanced Placement Math (MAP), trigonometry, and geometry are still managing to survive in the curriculum. These are your basic college prep courses. Tutoring is a vital part of the Compensatory Education program in the Math Department and usually accompanies courses like General Math and Pre-Algebra. Consumer Math is a practical elective offered to grades ten through twelve. In this course, the student learns how to manage money, how to work percentages, discounts, mark-ups, mark-downs, budgeting, banking, and investing. Certainly in this age of the calculator, the study of Mathematics is holding its own.

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ENGLISH = SUCCESS In mastering English, one becomes skilled in the areas of verbal and written communication. Here at Weequahic High School, the English courses are structured to meet the diversified needs of our students. This task is accomplished through the careful planning and presentation of course objectives, proficiency expectations and meaningful units. In addition to our regular English courses, the curriculum includes: Journalism, Speech, Drama, Creative Writing and Honors English. One of the most diversified levels of instruction takes place during the senior year, in which our instructors are preparing students for college and the work world. In addition to the study of literary masterpieces, and a strong emphasis on the basic skills, a standard item is the compilation of a formal research paper of the graduating senior class. The teachers of the English Department believe that if every student can leave Weequahic High School with skills that relate to each of his goals, our objectives have been accomplished. 12

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MUSIC = SUCCESS Most of the students of Weequahic High School possess a high level of innate talent and many of the students harbor a sharp artistic sensitivity. In the Music Department we seek to direct the students to first develop an awareness of their talent, sensitivity and potential. Secondly, after the students become aware of their individuality, the emphasis is put on nurturing the individual to grow intellectually and independently through critical thinking and self-evaluation. The third phase is to motivate the students to continue, at some level, an interest and or direct participation in musical performance. To ahcieve our goals the Music Department offer a music major program as well as diverse music classes such as Music Workshop I and II, Chorus, Advanced Mixed Chorus; instruction in instruments (strings, brass, woodwinds and percussion). Marching band and Jazz Band. 14