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Curriculum

Welcomes

Change Explaining adverbs and adjectives to her Composi-
tion class is Eileen Johnson.
Relaxing while reading a novel for English is
Sophomore Angela Connor.
n the past years the English
I
requirements for freshmen and
sophomore had been virtually
unchanged throughout the years. How-
ever, changes finally came around for
this year's freshmen. A new program
called English 9 was developed to
replace the original Comp I and Novels
and Nonfiction classes previously
required by 9th grade students. An
English 9 teacher, Deb F1scher, com-
mented, "I like teaching the new class.
I think mixing literature a d grammar
helps to relieve some of the tedium. I
also think we are working with an
excellent curriculum here, and I love my
9th graders."
The biggest project this year was
the decision to make a change in the
Sophomore curriculum as was done to
the Freshmen. Sophomore Phil Long
stated, "I don't agree with these
changes, because when I was a freshman
I liked being able to chooae my own
classes and different teachers each
semester." In addition, Freshman
Shawn Stokes commented, "I don't like
not having as much choice as the
freshmens used to have."

Deb Fischer teaches her English 9 classes the
difference between direct and indirect objects.
Senior Rob Wingender and Junior June
Corrado try to locate assignment pages in their
Junior English class.