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High Life Friday, September 29, 2000 News C&: Teacher shortage cramps students, faculty The Grimsley Choral Department will host a Choral Coffeehouse on October 6. Members of the Choral Department and other Grimsley students will showcase their talents from 7-10 pm on the second floor of the Music Build ing. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $1.00. Food and cof fee will also be sold. Bring your family and friends to the annual tailgate party. The party will be held before the Grimsley/Page football game in the Robert R. Sawyer Gymna sium. The proceeds will benefit the PTSA’s projects throughout the year. Tickets can be pur chased at the main office. IVhirlie Spirit Days will be held the week of the Grimsley/Page game. Monday, October 8 will be GI Whilrlie day. Tuesday, October 9 will be Page Prep day. Wedenesday, October 9 is Blue and White Day. The game will be on Friday, October 13. Don’t miss out on the 2000-2001 Whirligig. Yearbooks will be on sale until mid-October during lunch periods. Each yearbook costs $35. The final phase of the yearbook sale will be during lunch in late October. They will then cost $45. No extra year books will be ordered in the spring. lire Homecoming football game will be October 27 versus North Forsyth. The Autumn Ball (for merly known as the Homecom ing dance) will be held from 8 pm-midnight, November 18, at Bryan Park. Beer tutoring will be available once again this year. Students are to report to the Futures Cen ter on Thursdays from 3:30-4:30. Most of the tutors are seniors who are capable of offering as sistance in any subject area, in cluding foreign language. If stu dents have questions, they may see Ms. Manning or Carter Stroupe. Summer Opportunities Night is October 23. Sophomores, juniorsand their parents are in vited to a session at 7 pm in the media center. This program will focus on summer programs available to high school stu dents. Grimsley Whirlies who shop at Harris Teeter, remember the number 1128. Just give the cash ier your VIC card and the num ber. For the rest of the year the school will earn a 2% rebate from any purchase. By Lauren Marker Reporter Overcrowded classes. Sched uling conflicts. Changing teach ers. Readjusting to a new sched ule. Sound stressful? Try being in one of two different classes, being taught by the same teacher, at the same time, and in the same room. This is exactly the case for Ms. Morgan. Initially, Ms. Mor gan was supposed to teach five classes of Fundamentals of Tech nology. However, the sudden resignation of the teacher who was to conduct the Science and Engineering Technology course brought Ms. Morgan to volun teer to undertake the task of teaching both courses. She will continue to do so until Mrs. Teague can find another teacher. Having taught many of the students last year, Ms. Morgan did not want them to have a dif ferent substitute everyday and fall behind. It was such a sudden resignation that there would not have even been a substitute on the first day of school. “I’m the most logical person to do it,” said Ms. Morgan. The Science and Engineering Technology course is made up of one Level II class, which consists of students that continued on from last year. It is taught second period. Ms. Morgan also teaches four Level I classes. Her day starts by teaching one of these Level I classes first period. The day con tinues for Ms. Morgan with teach ing both courses second through fourth and sixth period. Funda mentals of Technology is taught by itself fifth period. Ms. Morgan says, “I don’t have a planning pe riod, is what it amounts to. I teach all day long.” Teaching two courses at once sounds like a daunting task, but Ms. Morgan has handled the task by teaching “common threads” that is required for both courses. The subjects pertinent to both courses include safety. In addition to this, the courses are partially self- directed, with the kids work ing at modular stations at times. This is where the students are in teracting with computers, instead of directly with the teacher. The teacher, of course, is there work ing as a facilitator. “I feel like this has not been a negative situation for the students because they’re on task with their course blue print,” says Ms. Morgan, who feels certain a new teacher will ar rive sooner or later. Originally a business teacher, Ms. Morgan became certified to teach technology due to the short age and demand for these certified specialists. There is such a short age that the need for teachers to conduct these work force devel opment courses is felt statewide. Ms. Morgan also teaches adult education courses and serves on the advisory board for NC A & T State University. The Board is working towards increasing the number of students going into technology education, which ap plies technology to four areas: manufacturing, communications, construction, and transportation. Ms. Morgan said, “It’s been a very busy school opening but my energy level seems to be enhanced by my desire to see the students be able to progress in their course work in an interim situation.” Editor’s Note At the time of publishing, the new Engineering teacher is Mr. Phillips. Hebrew class offers unique opportunity By Tim Norton Reporter A unique foreign language class is available to students with thou sands of years of history and cul ture behind it; Oy Vey! It’s Hebrew. During the summer before last school year, the Hebrew class was dissolved because its teacher, Mrs. Kaplan, resigned her position. This hole in the Hebrew students’ schedule was filled with other classes such as Latin. With the “When one knows more Hebrew, one feels connected to services at their syna gogue. It also pro vides a sense of com munity.” -Mrs.Yardenay, Hebrew teacher addition of Mrs. Yardenay, a new face to our Grimsley faculty, the Hebrew program has taken on a luster in the eyes of students. Ben Brownlow, a freshman, said, “Eve been interested in Hebrew...it seemed like something different.” And this is one of many reasons why he and other students are opening up to the Hebrew program. Mrs. Yardenay has a long his tory v/ith the Hebrew language and culture. Born and raised in Israel, she learned to speak the lan guage at an early age. After at tending college in Israel, Mrs. Yardenay’s endeavors brought her to Greensboro to teach at B’nai Shalom, a local Jewish elementary and middle school. Beth Hinson, a senior, said, “Some people in the school had Mrs. Yardenay at B’nai Shalom.” This is one reason so many students are enrolling in the program. A Hebrew program at Grimsley is quite appropriate considering the large Jewish community in the area. Mrs. Yardenay said, “When one knows more Hebrew, one feels connected to services at their syna gogue. It also provides a sense of community.” Although many students in the class are Jewish, there are many who are not. Other students take the class simply to get into Grimsley. Hinson said, “A lot of out-of-district people take Hebrew because it is only offered at Grimsley.” The Hebrew program is now attracting many students from other districts to Grimsley, Jewish and non-Jewish alike, such as Brownlow, who lives in the Ragsdale district. Even with the addition of Mrs. Yardenay to the faculty, the He brew program is still taking its first baby steps. Hebrew I is taught dur ing second period in Room 210, while Hebrew II, III, IV, and V are combined into one class which is taught during first period, in Room 207. One would imagine it’s hard “I’ve been interested in Hebrew...it seemed like something different.” -Ben Brownlow, freshman to teach four levels of Hebrew in one class, but Mrs. Yardenay avoids this problem by assigning work to each student individually. With the resignation of Mrs. Kaplan and displacement of many Hebrew students, the v/ay to He brew education has been a turbu lent one. Fortunately, with the ad dition of Mrs. Yardenay to the Grimsley staff, that way has been smoothed out for many hopeful students wishing to make Hebrew a part of their Grimsley experience. Bruner photo Ms. Yardenay helps one of her students while he works on an assignment for her Hebrew class. Ms. Yardenay is a native of Israel and is fluent in Hebrew. AU TUNE Jim Inman nm Manager Tune-Up • Brakes • General Auto Repair "Ask Us About Our Fleet Program" 1707-A Battleground Ave. Greensboro, NC 27408 (336) 273-3553
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