photos Learning through PARTICIPATION OPEN TALKS PROMOTE EXPRESSION OF HONEST REACTIONS No one sat daydreaming in Phillips Armtrong's American Cultures II classes because everyone feared "the hot seat." No, it wasn't an electric chair or even a chair in the gas chambers. It was merely a seat in the front of the room where the student who participated the least during the previous week had to sit and answer questions asked by Mr. Armstrong. "I had to do something to get the students to participate," he explained, "otherwise how would I determine if students are too shy to speak or if they simply don't know or care about what is going on?" Accounting students took part in a simulated business mini course the fourth quarter. The project took six weeks for Accounting II classes and three weeks for Accounting I to complete. "It was so hard and time consuming," said Madonna Michaels, sophomore, "that Mr. Barhight had to let some of us come in at seven every morning so we could get help in finding our errors." The age old dispute of "jocks vs pukes" was the topic of a heated discussion in Ray Erb's third period sociology class. "You obviously have different values and opinions," said Mr. Erb, as he singled out one of the so called pukes. "I can tell by the way you dress." This comment was meant to start a series of open talks on the subject of prejudice and stereotypes. There were many other discussions throughout the year on anything from baseball to marriage since one day a week was set aside to discover the thoughts and feelings of one's contemporaries. Several of Allen Dangler's problems of democracy students attended a township commissioner's meeting as a part of their unit in local government. "Happily Never After" was the title of the comedy play Mrs. Cathy Roberts' drama classes put on for the fourth graders at the George D. Steckel Elementary Building. Many interested freshmen recreated replicas of past revolutionary occurrences in Thomas Szabo's American Cultures I class. Gina Kalamar, Veronica Kukitz, and Jeff Zellner display a bicentennial bulletin board, a complicated log cabin, and the Liberty Bell. Other projects ranged from reports and posters to an unusual board elevation of the United States with the war battles plotted on it done by Thomas Woods. 134