Wilbur D Mills High School - Comet Yearbook (Little Rock, AR)

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In Order to Enjoy English - Get Involved K l ll Stall f my English teacher is understanding and easy to talk to, the class is 1000!0 more enjoy- able to me and is a lot more fun to be in. It is much easier to learn if a class is interesting, you would be surprised at the difference that it makes, said Diane Clark. It doesn't matter if you have regular or AP English, the challenge is still great. Some teachers emphasize the teaching of grammar and spelling while others stress the importance of writing essays and compo- sitions. Sometimes they even throw in a few novels just for good measure. Because I spend so much time in the library, l feel like l deserve my own table! said Matt Pinker- ton. Extra credit is a good, reason to go to the library. Many teachers give extra credit for book reports or term papers and the li- brary is a great source of information. At UALR on Thursday nights educa- tional films were shown and as a bonus to those who went, some teachers gave extra credit points. However not every teach- er gives extra credit so there are those students who didn't get the privi- lege of that something ex- Ira. Extra credit is a chance to make up a grade you might have missed, so it's really not fair that some teachers donft give extra credit, said Kristy Hen- son. There are many differ- ent types of languages. They have existed in some form or another since the beginning of time. ln much the same way, there are several different types of English, written English, spoken English, body En- glish, and most important, Mills English. Extra time in the library pays off with ex- tra credit. This is also a great way to practice for Trivial Pursuit! 68 Academics Brian Linn

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Dead - line Means World War III on the Galaxy Staff Chad Pifcr 1 Org. Editor s you walk into the English wing, you hear numerous voices yelling: Do your page design, write your story, set this copy and turn in all photo requests - NOW! You would think that World War Ill is taking place, but this is only the dreaded dead -line of the Galaxy staff. The one thing that I hate about deadlines is that for twenty-nine days out of the month people are friendly, but when deadline comes around, they transform into mon- sters, Kevin Coker said. The Galaxy paper staff faced many problems this year: Mrs. Wilcox on ma- ternity leave for six weeks, a smaller staff than before, and the printer was moved from McClellan to jack- sonville. A lot of our problems were due to consolidation which caused our printer to be moved. Mrs. Wil- cox's maternity leave caused us to be without our advisor for six weeks, Lori Pennington said. This year the Galaxy has sixteen members, which is less than in years past. The staff consists of fourteen seniors, one junior, and one sophomore. There is an advantage of having so many Seniors on staff because we've worked with each other for two years, Suzanne Melton said. Even though the Galaxy staff was experienced, the Galaxy faced criticism ev- ery month when the paper was distributed. We know the mistakes that we make on the pa- per. No one criticizes the paper as much as we do in a group together. We are our worst critics, jennifer jones said. Searching for mistakes, Kevin Coker proofreads his story so he can turn it in to be typeset on the computer before going to the printer. 70 Academics Editor Lori Pennington searches for story assignments so that she can make the new story assignments for the next paper. iv is 'L