Bloomington High School South, The Gothic, 1999, Page 37

Description:	MATT GIBSONMATT GIBSONTired of holding her head up,junior Jennifer Axsom restsduring second period chemistryclass taught by Ms. LauraDomanski, science. She used herfree time In class to relax andwork on homework.During third block BritishLiterature class, seniors JacobKerr, Ashley Cain and AlexMelloan-Ruiz act out a scene fromDavid Copperfield. Mrs. PhyllisClapacs, English, assigned DavidCopperfield as one of the manystories read during the semester.from A to ZAVERYTHATCHERAdvanced Jazz BandTeacherMr. Robert Dubinski, fine artsScheduleTraditionalWhat makes jazz band interesting?The big bands are practically deadnow, and the only place you have them isin public schools. So we are almost tryingto keep an art form alive through ourband, Dubinski said.What is your favorite part about the class?I like the class because Mr. Dubinskiis really into the music, and he loves whathe is doing, sophomore Todd Masonsaid.ACP American HistoryTeacherMr. Jim Flannery, social studiesScheduleTraditionalWhat do you do with the class to make itinteresting?We try to do some activities where(the students) will do their own researchon historical events and present them tothe class. We did a simulation of theRevolutionary War and they were givenoriginal documents from the war. Then Iasked them to make sense out of it,Flannery said.What is the most challenging part of theclass?Trying to make sense of how historyflows and connects; understanding causeand effect. You are presented with lots offacts and concepts and you have toconstruct a definition of history foryourself, junior David Bercovici said.Autobody RepairTeacherMr. Butch DennisonScheduleTraditionalWhat is your favorite part about the class?I like painting the car fenders becauseits fun and easy to do, junior MichaelFreeman said.Before the class started, what part of itwere you looking forward to the most?I was looking forward to just gettingthe chance to work on the cars and paintthem, junior Alvin Sanders said.We were writing short stories in junior English class,and a girl turned in a wonderful short story. It was oneI knew well as it had been written by William Monroe,called The Open Window. And when confronted,she denied it even when I showed her the real storyshe had copied from.Mrs. Carla Gardner, EnglishwI had a student whose test was always gradedwrong, so the first two or three times I gave themcredit. I made a copy of their test before I passed itback. I found out that they had been changing theiranswers after the tests were returned. Needless tosay, they were caught and received a zero,Mr. Tom Petry, mathematicsEyes in Disguisetrial & errorCheatingf)
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