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•Op homores Will Palmer and Dan Cornwell engage
1 a debate about lowering the drinking age. Students
'racticed the Lincoln-Douglas stlyle of debating, in
•hich two people debate a topic one on one, w ith
•ne person arguing the affirmative side and another
upporting the negative side. photo by Paul Waters

Jniors Eth an Graumann and Scott jess ick use laptops
J create sentence outlines in their English 11 class.
he class was required to use these outlines to w rite
-persuasive paper on a controversia l issue of their
hoice . photo by Sarah Cushman

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En glish classes encouraged creativity and preparation for the future.
Adjectives, prepositions, da ngling modi- En gli sh classes involve d fa r more than just
fi ers-while the fundamentals of grammar resea rch and speeches. Reading ass igned
might not appeal to most students, the novels, short stori es, and poetry was es-
wide variety of Engli sh classes did, and se ntial for cl ass.
they helped prepa re students for life after "Books in Engli sh are ve ry vari ed. Th ey
high sc hool as well. ca n focus on everything from the hypocri sy
For those in te reste d in studying a specific of the Puritans to the Vi etnamese wa r-
type of literature, classes such as W orld fro nt," so ph omore Brandon Nguyen sa id,
Literature and Shakes pea re were offered. desc ri bin g so me of the required reading for
However, many students chose an En gli sh Honors En gli sh 10.
class based on their future pl ans. Creati vity was also ce ntral to Engli sh and
"I'm majoring in En gli sh next yea r, and was n't lost in the ava lanche of resea rch pa-
I wanted a class that woul d pre pare me pers, vocabulary tests, and literary analysis.
for coll ege," se ni or Kaitlin Mazour sa id "When you're in a group in En gli sh and
about her AP Literature and Composition talk to peopl e, you ca n get new ideas that
class . "We've come to understand litera- insp ire you to be creative," fres hman Lizzy
ture through disc ussions and group analys is Hanks sa id.
rather than pointless bu sywork ." En gli sh cl asses all owed students to be
Discuss ions and prese ntations were key creative while preparing them for commu-
to success in all En gli sh classes. However, ni cation in the future.

Freshman Michael
Clouse plays a vo-
ca bulary review game
. Sophomore Ti ffany Boutcher works on creating an w ith freshman Dustin
:lvertising poster in English 1 0. Projects like these Vanvugt. W eekl y
1ixed persuasive writing and crea tive skills. vocabulary tests
. Capturing the moment for his Intra to Ph oto- introduced students
'urnalism class is sophomore Mitch Raznick. "My to new concepts and
ream is to one day be a photographer for National empowered them to
.eog raphic magazine," Ra znick sa id. photos by Alex strengthen th eir writ-
iza and Katie Lawlor. ing. photo by Sarah
CushmCJn

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