Psychology students have been very seriously studying personality disorders and in particular dissociative personality disorder. The seniors have been watching the film Sybil. Students were well informed about the controversy that surrounds this disorder within the field. The classes also were informed about the oddity of the treatment method used to treat “Sybil”. We stop the film whenever there is a question or something needs to be discussed that we are viewing. This film requires a great deal of intellectual and emotional maturity on the part of the seniors. They have responded with interest, compassion and curiosity.

Introduction to Journalism:
The journalism students are watching the Disney musical Newsies which was inspired by an 1899 strike by children in New York City that impacted not only newspapers in the city, but the labor movement in America. We have studied the historical strike and identified the characters that are based on actual strike leaders of the time. We have also learned about the impact of Horace Greeley (Go West Young Man!), Joseph Pulitzer (Columbia School of Journalism & the Pulitzer Prize, as well as a national newspaper syndicate), and William Randolph Hearst’s newspaper chain including the Dallas paper.
Students also spend 10-15 minutes of the beginning of each period to read the Longview News Journal which we receive courtesy of the Newspapers in Education program.