Get your own Free Home PageThe new school year at Smith brings about great change.
For instance, this year Smith has several new classes offered.These new classes give students new options for a career without having to travel to other schools to take them.
Drama is one of the new classes offered at Smith this year. Though it has been offered at Weaver Educational Center for a number of years, Smith finally has a teacher and enough student interest to offer it here. Cindy Vaughn, who has taught English for two years,has accepted the duty of being Smith's Drama teacher. Her class may open doors for tomorrow's stars.
Another class that has been long overlooked at Smith is Speech and Debate. This class helps students with public speaking and expressing their opinions in an argumentive fashion. Jason Baldwin heads these future leaders in the right direction by helping them with their speaking skills. Baldwin plans to have his students take part in rhetorical competition. He also offers a Speech and Debate Club that meets on Wednesdays.
Sports medicine is another class offered in past years but due to lack of interest it has not been offered recently. This year enough interest was expressed to compose a class. Hank Bullard teaches his students about common sports injuries and how to treat them. The class also has an interactive perspective to it. The student have to be a trainer for one sport each season for one day a week.This is a way the students can get a hands-on outlook on what they have learned.
Business law is another new class offered this year.In this class students review laws and discuss previous court cases.It helps them better understand our judical system. Tasha Montague, a first-year teacher who did her student teaching at Smith last spring, teaches in hopes that these students may possibly follow a career in law.
Another new class is Wordsmith. This class helps young writers better their editorial skills and get a taste of being on a news magazine. David Bulla, a former sportswriter for the Greensboro News & Record and the former sports editor of the Winston-Salem Chronicle, is the teacher of WordSmith (and the advisor of the Journalism Club, which is for all those who can�t take the class but still want to contribute to the news magazine). Students produce both a print and on-line news magazine for the Smith community. Readers from from such diverse places as Kyoto, Japan, Seattle, New Jersey, California, Washington, D.C., Florida and Indianapolis have read WordSmith over the Internet.
Journalism students are learning to write news stories, to edit, to write headlines, to proofread and to lay out the magazine. They are also learning the joys of selling advertising.
All the new classes offered at Smith are a welcomed change and can broaden the minds of students. Next year these classes will have no lack of student interest and perhaps other courses will become available at Smith.
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