Whiting High School - Reflector Yearbook (Whiting, IN)

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LEARNING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND Did you know that this year you sat through 175 hours of Social Studies or History classes? And you’ll have to sit through over 700 hours of Social Studies classes by the time you graduate! For a freshman, this probably seems impossible. But then again, if you are a senior, you'll have already taken: Careers, Civics, World History, U.S. History, Government, Economics and maybe even Sociology. And if you stayed awake and paid attention to all the film strips, movies, and guest speakers, then at the end of the year you should be an expert on everything from Christopher Columbus to today’s economic news. Planning a map for her economics paper is E. Rodriguez. T. Butler takes a break from typing her government assignment to smile for the camera. K. Render and S. Wright listen attentively to a guest speaker in careers class. 8

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THE LANGUAGE AND THE PEOPLE Marking the stress on some words is a puzzled C. Buranowsky. D. Miles skillfully diagrams a very difficult sentence. Speaking, listening, reading, and writing are all in a day’s work in an English class at Whiting. Without these skills one can not get very far in life. Freshman year students learn the basic principles of grammar; nouns, verbs, and adjectives from Mrs. Hanis. The following year Mrs. DePeugh develops speaking skills by way of oral presentations such as book reviews and pantomimes. Literature is most heavily emphasized junior year with Miss Wozniak. This involves reading and learning about American authors. Senior year, Mr. Ulrich helps students understand some of the many complex pieces of literature such as Shakespeare. Most of these students are required to accomplish the task of writing a term paper. Also seniors learn rhetoric punctuation and capitalization. Most importantly, students learn the language and the people. 7 G. Harding looks elsewhere for help as Miss Ba-miagis explains his assignment.

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FUTURE THROUGH SOCIAL STUDIES S. Jancho shows C. Anderson how to find a good book for their social studies report. Searching through a career guide and deciding their future are S. Wood and E. Perez Scanning the newspaper and looking for a minute for economics class are B. Bailey and J. Flores.