Spanish Club Visits Don Quixote
Albert Ramos
Scroll Staff Reporter
Spanish Club wil visit the Los Angeles Theater Center to see the performing art production of Don Quixote, sponsored by the Bilingual Arts Foundation. Don Quixote is a classical Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes that involves fantasy and imagination. Spanish Club, its first excursion of the year, visits the performing act on Friday, October 27 from 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM. The club will provide bus transportation for those who have registered with Spanish Club. The bus leaves at 7:00 PM and returns approximately around midnight. For those who wish to go on their own account, the Theater Center is located at 514 South Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles. The production will be held in Theater Room Three of the Theater Center. For those already a member of Spanish Club, the trip fee is twelve dollars and those who are not members have to pay fifteen dollars. In this version of Don Quixote, a Spanish gentleman with the dreams of being an actor, finds and enlists some gitanos, merchants and parishioners of a 16 century market. Through participation, he creates an adventure with his superior fantasies and creative imagination to make him be the biggest of all dreamers. Patricia DeLaunay will translate the Spanish play to English, making it possible for English speakers to attend the play. Mari Sandoval is in charge of Choreography of the production, cinematography is Estela Scarlata, and light production is Robert Fromer. Custom arrangement is by Carlos Brown, music interpreter is by Ted Owens. The cast consist of Spanish speaking actors only.

BGHS Takes 20:1 Initiative This Year
Jennifer Lopez
Editor-in-Chief
Initiative 20:1, enables all Freshmen English classes to have twenty students per teacher. A district and school committee will be in charge of the program and its efficiency. Janet Johnson, assistant vice-principal of curriculum, is a member of the district committee. A school committee is in progress and is yet to be firmly established; if there are those who would like to participate in the committee the school wishes that you contact Principal Joe Torres or Johnson. Parents are welcome to participate, as well as citizens of both Commerce and Bell Gardens. The school committee deals with the following aspects: facilities, training, and timelines. The purpose of the program is to have a smaller student-teacher ratio. The program was first piloted two years ago. Last year, nineteen freshman English classes were 20:1. Experimentation was in part due to the lack of space and resources needed to implement it from the start. Now Bell Gardens High School has extended the program because the bungalows have increased the available space needed. Initiative 20:1 was also able to be extended because of the state grant given to the district as aid. Although grants do not pay the full cost of the program it does take some of the burden off the district. Linda Moran would like the program to be extended to mathematics and provide the opportunity for more student-teacher interaction. Although she doubts that the program will be extended she hopes for the best in the coming years. The success grammar schools had with this initiative is hoped to be repeated. Moran hopes that students who are lost and otherwise unknown will have an opportunity to be identified early by the teacher and assisted. Teachers were instructed in the beginning to give their students a test in reading and grammar in order to view their weaknesses and know what to stress. In the future they will be further assessed to know how or if they are improving. Testing will be a measurement for the success of the initiative.