err rire See he ee | wi . ‘ ON SBA ee LE Lee aioe hk a x, an sein NEW APPROACH to social science at Skeena Secondary involves do-it-yourself Projects for students, In pictures above (from left) Sherri Thomas with her own illustrations of native A group of students at Skeena ; Secondary are planning a revol- | their teacher, Ed Kenney. ution, They’re going through the nic- ; Terrace High School, eties of the chop-chop guillotine | tion, risings of workers and pea- effectiveness of fuzz on the face | the past three years, for a Castro-style uprising, i Give years ahead Styling-from our = ¢ of the world’s finest self-winding — watches. LAGY BUCOVA “KY _ Beauty ing found watch. 17 jewets. Seli-winding. Yellow or white DATE RING “LLY Tels time and date. 17 jewels, Waterproof”, Sett-winding. Yeltew, me HEIRESS OF TIME “C” = 79.95 i The all-around watch, ee 17 jcwels, Waterproof’. mM ‘Tells time and date, . Seif-winding, Luminous, CLIPFER “G" The complete watch. : 17 jewels. 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They have the full support of ; It’s all part of a new approach ; to teaching social sclence at the Kenney, who heads the social approach of the French revolu- | sciences department at Skeena, has refined his do-it-yourself Sants in Russia in 1917, and the | approach toteaching socials over “The old approach used to be .| tive Indian right onthe line, And ; to pour it into the kids from text i books,’? Kenney said, “Now we make them find out for them. selves,’" . . The revolution assignment won't’ cause any uprisings in downtown streets but it will give Students a much more compre- hensive approach to history, and modern life, than the old-style memorizing of dates and names to be recalled at. exam time and forgotten the day after. Exams haven't been aban- doned, But students are graded on a year-round basis on their research and’ completed. assign- ments, , Some of the assignments (see Photographs) are very impres- sive, Like Sherri Thomas's re. search into Indian hunting cus- toms in British Columbia, ilius. trated by herself, Or Marilyn Ruge’s palnstaking research into the architecture of the Bastille and her reconstruc. tion of it — in sugar cubes, Kenney’s classroom could al-- most double as a museum of social science with students’ pro- iects on all walls, - Kenney, with social science teachers Walter Trkla and Sat. wand Singh, Isn't just confining social science to students as. signments, In place of the admittedly dull texibooks, he is marshalling a research centre of film strips, slides, artwork, Film and over. head projectors are putting soc. jal sciences into far sharper fo. eus than the texts, , The texts, naturally, are still used, but by students doing re. search, “We're using an environment- al approach,’’ Kenney said, “We'll use film strips, tape. our hands on to involve the kids in a project,” . . Kenney said his method wasto give the students a problem to solve themselves, “We're trying to involve them in the process of research,” he said, Topics would stimulate an adult class. Subjects like the French-Canada problem, ethnic groups, revolution, - : The problems of Indians also made some stimulating class dis- cussion, In one Grade 11 bull session they Jaid the question of the Na~ a native youngster put the ques. tion of the white man right back tothem, - : For the record, Caucasians were labelled as “‘stingy. and honest.’ tee et ve're trying to dois to make students think and teach them how to organize their mat- recorders, anything we can lay |- "TERRACE HERALD, TERRACE, B.C, ‘JAYCEES TO SPONSOR LIGHT-UP The Terrace unit of the Junior Chamber of Commerce will pro- mote a Christmas light-up con= test in Terrace this year, Jaycee chairman of the con- test, Alvin Hamm, said that the Jayeee’s will promote the con- test to “encourage the citizens of the Terrace area to help beau- tify the area. ‘Anything that is done to de= corate a home will be a defin« ite contribution,’ Hamm said, Entry forms and copies of fice, Entry deadline date is Dec. 15, Entries will be judged on the basis of artistic merit, original~ ity, lighting techniques, and in- genuity, . - Prizes will be contributed by local Terrace businesses, truck in big storm ’ John Smyth, a Terrace Log- ging contractor, wrote off one late model pickup truck after it was hit by three trees In a mat- ter of a few minutes in Thurs- day’s wind storm, Smyth was travelling up a log- ging road in the Rosswood ree gion about 27 miles from Ter race when a tree fell on the hood of his pickup, “T got out to removethat ane,” he said, “‘and then I heard the crack of another one breaking, I moved down beside the truck to protect myself and a third the regulations may, be obtatned |. at the Terrace B.C. Hydro Of- | Trees crush, ‘Jand Mrs, Ralph Seinen, who spent ‘13% months in this wheelchatr in "| the “Children's Hospital in Van- ‘orlal Hospital for a year and a -! Cheryl Seinen, age 9 years, a Hospital during the past year, Ld Campaign Chery? Seinen, daughter of Mr.’ couver, has set aside her crut- ches and is back in Grade 4 at Centennial Christlan School .in Terrace, ve ee Cheryl has’ a chronic disease, infection of the bone, She was a patient in and out of Mills Mem- half before she was taken to the Crippled Children’s Hospital. Although Cheryl’s parents Were able to send her down, there are many who could not afford this, This is why the March of Dimes collections are made, Cheryl is well againand happy, one fell which totally destroyed And thanks to the special treat= Terrace patient. at Children’s opens for crippled children ment and attention given her in the erippled children’s hospital,- is home again, . Bill Sturby, local chairman of ; the Crippled Children’s Hospital March of. Dimes campaign — ‘sponsored here by the Loyal| | Order of the Moose —~ reports the three-day house-to-house can-- .vass starts today, (Wed. Dee, 1) Thirty-two ‘cans for contribu-j tions’? were last week placed In downtown stores and businesses, Patients in the wards at Chil- dren’s Hospital in Vancouver dur- ing the past 18 months include: Terrace 16; Kitimat 3; Smithers 9; Burns Lake 5; New Hazelton Labatt’s: the true-blue beer, ‘This advertisement ts net published or displayed by the . Liquor Control Board or by the Government of British Collmbia . Puisenen BEER. Lf , CF _ st ° “ MEATTSRST the truck and the equipinent-in the back of the pickup.” : Smyth . sald at least 20 trees fell and 12 of them on the road within a short time, ; He estimated the winds in ex. cess of 80 miles per hour, at 7:45 in the morning when the of the road by Friday. . PRINCE GEORGE, B.C, (CP): — A team of experienced bush. men are blazing an 40-mile trail! from Prince George to Quesnel, but’ the project has been delayed hecause of injuries suffered in a car accident by D'Arcy Burk,: erial,'" the primo’ mover of the idea, “INTRODUCTORY | Meet our new 5 piece band _ 'SKOGLUND HOTSPRINGS SMORGASBORD| The THUNDERBOLTS” lay A Soup aa eae ne $4.50 includes cover charge... © . i Smyth was on his way to work | trees started falling but he said they ‘had managed ‘to clear mosty. BUSHMEN : ia +a . ‘ FRIDAY, DEC. 20 2 and Hazelton 2, 1: CONFECTIC 7 (locaten DIRECTLY BEHIND THEATRE). | STORE HOURS -- 10 AM. 10: P:-M.0 - LAZELLE- AVE. ~» ACCESS FROM. 1 COFFEE and DONUTS and BALOONS 2 KIDDIES... “NEED SOMETHINK FOR. YOUR XMAS OR NEW YEARS PARTY? SEE.US