Getting a step ahead
December 22, 2009 • Jessica Peterson
Opting to take college courses in high school is a good way to get a head start on college, and many students choose to take this option. Numerous students graduate from high school with a great deal of college credits; some are even classified as sophomores in college their first year on campus. Although... Read more »
Hands on experience with kids
December 22, 2009 • Amber Carey
Interested in working with young kids and want to see what skills it takes to do so?? I was and I decided to take Child Care Skills. While I was in that class, we got to go and do a hands on experience at Heights of Learning working with kids ages four to six. We had to... Read more »
Out of the ordinary English class
December 22, 2009 • Alyssa Hilderman
Some classes are expected to read books and just answer questions about what happened, but not Lon Dormer’s first hour Accelerated English class. Dormer allows his class to read on Tuesdays hoping that the students can get most of the chapters that were assigned read. Then on Thursdays the first half... Read more »
College planning
December 22, 2009 • Tyler Hayes
Do you know where you want to go to college? If not head down to the ACT Prep class and do some research. All of the ACT Prep students are working on a PowerPoint that consists of what college they want to attend, and a little bit of information about the college of their... Read more »
Coloring your final grade
December 22, 2009 • Breyana Miller
Drawing, coloring, and writing everything in Spanish. Does that sound like a pretty fun and easy assignment? Many Spanish two students were assigned by teacher Gabriel Berges to make a Spanish comic about anything they could possibly imagine. Story ideas ranged from alien creatures saving the day at... Read more »
Dance competition
December 22, 2009 • Shannon Meck
Winter formal, the dance where dreams come true, kind of. The dance contest was great; it was pretty much the main part of the dance because I won the dance –off, with the help of junior Ontario Wilkins when we danced to the song called “You’re a Jerk.”It is the easiest dance to learn; it’s... Read more »
Ladies on the field
December 22, 2009 • Erin Maxwell
“Go left, then go right, then go left again,” is what junior Connor Crimmins told his offensive players at the Powder Puff Tournament over the weekend. This tournament was a way to get some class competition going and the ladies of Shawnee Heights to get a taste of football. Some of the guys off... Read more »
A week without stress
December 21, 2009 • Kimberly Duncan
According to Elizabeth Scott, a psychologist at San Diego State University, we all experience stress in our lives and unfortunately, unmanaged stress can become overwhelming and strain our relationships, both at home and in the workplace. However, there are plenty of options to decrease this stress,... Read more »
Thanks for being there
December 21, 2009 • Haley Stirton
On Nov. 30, I thought my world was falling apart. I was at work when it all started. I was in the fight of my life with my boyfriend, and I was crying my eyes out. Being at work was the worst part because everyone there could see me. I probably would have fallen totally apart if it wasn’t for a guy... Read more »
Book of the ages
December 21, 2009 • Kelsea Watts
Since the beginning of time, it seems the book The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has been read in English classes around the nation. All though there is a big controversy about the racial profiling in the book, it has been a huge part of American literature for years. In English... Read more »