November 2013

Red Ribbon Week is a time for students to dress up at school, participate in fun games, and also learn about the dangers of drugs and alcohol.  Red Ribbon Week usually takes place in the last few weeks of October.  Red Ribbon Week for Springville Junior High was October 7th, 8th, and 9th.  

Schools across the nation participate in Red Ribbon Week in memory of Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent Enrique “Kiki” Camarena who was working undercover in Mexico for four years on a big drug bust.  He was soon caught and killed by a drug cartel that found out he was working with the DEA.  His family donned red ribbons in his memory, and thus Red Ribbon Week was born.

We have a new honors English teacher this year at SJHS. Ms. Neeley, the English and creative writing teacher, has taken on another challenge. She is teaching honors English and according to some of her students she is doing a great job! Ceci Sumsion, a ninth grade girl in honors English, said that she likes Ms. Neeley’s class because you can learn new techniques. Stanton Woods, a ninth grade boy in honors english, said that he likes Ms. Neeley’s class because it feels more involved. Ms. Neeley said, “I am having so much fun teaching honors English. It is fun to teach ninth graders and the students in my class are so smart and willing to do hard work. It is awesome.”       

Mrs. Droz, the eighth grade counselor and an advisor in HOPE Squad, has been helping students for a whole decade at the end of this school year.  As a counselor she says she is very busy.  But what does she do?

It’s that time of year again when Mr. Hatfield, a science teacher, throws eggs off the school roof.       

Yes, the science elective teacher dropped eggs off the roof, but not any eggs, eggs in little parachutes or covered in bubble wrap. Some kids covered their eggs in bubble wrap, others used plastic bag parachutes, and some just put them in a ziplock to see them explode.Every year Mr. Hatfield has his class make different strange devices to protect their egg when it is dropped. Mr. Hatfield enjoys letting kids try new things, and says it helps students learn the relationship between force, mass, and acceleration. 

Many of you know Ms. Dunn as a seventh grade and ninth grade english teacher, or even a journalism teacher, but do you really know her?  What her favorites are? What she likes to do in her freetime? What type of music she likes to listen to?         

“Ms. Dunn is fun and easy going. We get along great, and besides that Ms. Dunn is the best teacher and everyone should know her,” says Clara Brotherson, a ninth grade girl at our school.  

Cortez Nelson, another ninth grade student at our school, said, “Ms. Dunn teaches very well, and she is a very exciting teacher!”