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Expanding Our



                                                                   Horizons


                                               Ever  wonder  what  things  were  like  that the  goals  of  the  Social  Studies
                                           when  Cleopatra,  Christopher  Columbus,  Department were  to "Expose students
                                           George Washington, or even Martin Luther  to national and global concepts and give
                                           King were  around? Or  how about what the  them a broader perspective of not only
                                           inside of a  prison, court, or  funeral home  their country but the rest of the world
                                           look  like?  All  of these things were  covered  as  well."
                                           in this year's Social  Studies class.        Opportunity  for  getting  college
                                               The Law Studies class was  exposed to  credit was  available  through  an  Ad-
                                           what goes  on behind the doors of the state's  vanced  Placement  History  program,
                                           courts and prisons by taking field trips, and  and A.P. teacher, Terry Eicher, proudly
                                           Sociology  classes  found  out what life  in a  made  known  that seven  of  his  A.P.
                                           funeral home was  like.  (No pun intended.)  students from  last year  received  two
                                               Department Head Robin Wiar stated  semesters worth of college  credit.
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