World best teacher

Ms. Yocum teaches Freshmen English, journalism, web design, photography, has a freshman orientation class and still finds the time to help the Drama department become a better class. Ms. Yocum is a great teacher who dedicates her time toward her students, shows that she loves her job even though sometimes there are hard days, but overall every day she tries to teach us life lessons that, telling us that we have to go to the right path to achieve goals in our lives.

Delilah was asked what she would like to say to Ms. Yocum and she said, “I would like to tell her that it takes a lot of hard work and dedication and we are all so proud of her for taking on the responsibility of this class. She's shaped us all into the person we are today and we are all like family because of her. She is hard on us but we all know it’s because she believes that we can do amazing things. And we are all glad to return for another year of drama next year with her”.

Ms. Yocum was new to East Nicolaus four years ago and she was told she was responsible for the Drama class, she accepted, she started form the bottom and worked to the top. Every year she changes the setting making you go back in time, makes you feel like you were part of the last century. Not only has she helped drama, but she has helped the journalism class to achieve, thanks to Ms. Yocum the Journalism class got to be recognized in the Appeal democrat newspaper. Isabella McNicol says, “She is always willing to help people, she wrote me a really sweet letter of recommendation”. With the help of Ms. Yocum she made students become actors, helped to get them out of their shells.

 The whole drama class would like to thank you for your time and dedication, thank you for not giving up on us, we love you Ms. Yocum!