Whether your whole family has been a die hard Broncos fan for as long as you can remember, or you lived in Seattle for 10 years, this year’s Super Bowl was a big deal. Many people around the country placed votes or bets on who would win. Mr. Shields’ eighth grade history class is one of the many groups of people doing that.
On January 23, Chris Crowe, the author of the book Mississippi Trial 1955, came to Ms. Dunn’s English classroom to visit her ninth graders.
Ms. Dunn’s ninth grade English class read Crowe’s books Mississippi Trial 1955, and Getting Away With Murder. Both books are about the murder of a 14 year old boy, Emmett Till, that helped ignite the Civil Rights Movement.According to Cortez Nelson, a ninth grade student in Ms. Dunn’s class, Chris Crowe talked about his book Mississippi Trial. Ms. Dunn said he had a powerpoint presentation ready and at the end he “opened it up for questions.”
Did you know that a class of seventh graders have started their own businesses, right here in school?
At the end of January Mr. Taylor’s CTE class started a new project: making pin-on buttons. The students worked together in groups and got to design their own buttons. Then they went to Mr. Rencher’s CTE class to “sell” the buttons to the kids. According to Mr. Taylor, the purpose of the buttons was, “to give an opportunity to show kids what real-life business is like.”
Do you enjoy basketball? Well, our school has their own boys Freshman basketball team! They have had about 14 home and away games this season. There are thirteen boys total on the team, and Ryan Jenkins is this year’s captain.
Both the boys and girls basketball teams participated in the regional tournaments. They all enjoy playing basketball, and say tournaments are fun. Charlie Fry, a member of the SJHS freshman team, said, “Our season didn’t go like we wanted, and practices were difficult.” They had a lot of practices and worked very hard.
Basketball! Here are SJHS we have a girls basketball team. If you have not gone to see them play they are amazing! They recently participated in a region tournament where they represented the SJHS Freshman girls basketball team. Maddy Hargett, an athlete on the girls team, said, “My favorite part of this season was beating Spanish Fork… twice.” These girl have worked very hard this season.
Alexa Whitlock, another member of the team, said, “My favorite part of practice is the ones when we don’t have to run suicides.”
Mr. Booth, the SJHS band teacher, organizes a jazz band every year, composed mainly of students from his ninth grade band class.
After trying out, the students start meeting Wednesday mornings and Tuesdays after school. Mr. Booth thinks it is a great way for his students to learn a wide variety of musical styles.
The students in the jazz band are excited for this year’s concert. “It’s fun,” said Elizabeth Setzer, a ninth grade student playing keyboard for the jazz band, “but it does take practice.” Another jazz band student, Jack Layton, said that being in jazz band is a good way for him to broaden his perspective.
Some of you may be asking “What is peer tutoring?” Peer tutoring is a semester long class where you help students here at SJHS who are struggling academically or have a difficult time being in a regular class. You go with a student to a class and help them with their work.
Mrs. Hunsaker, the peer tutor teacher at SJHS, said, “Peer tutors are like extra hands and brains. Since every kid is at a different level, I can’t work with every kid all the time, so the tutors are a really big help then.”
Everyone at SJHS is getting ready for the new school, coming to us next year! To commemorate moving to a new school, we have put together a time capsule, to be opened 20 years from now!
Over the summer Mr. Rencher, a CTE teacher at SJHS, spent lots of time in his classroom making our time capsule. He said that he made it from old doors that were in the basement of the school. The whole capsule is made of items from the school, except for the rope that holds it up.
