March 2017

Brian Cervantes is 14 years old and was born on February 20th, 2003. He is currently in 8th grade. Brian is a very nice person liked by many, but he considers himself not known by many around the school. If you don’t hear Brian very often, it's probably because he is not very talkative and can be shy at some times.

His favorite animal is a dog, and he also has had a dog as a pet for 8 months. His dog's name is Nicky and is a chihuahua. Some fun things about Brian is that he likes the snow, likes to longboard, and his favorite season in summer. His favorite classes are math because he likes to solve problems, foods because he likes to cook, and health because the teacher is one of his favorites.

In Ms. Piña and Ms. Ottley’s 9th grade English classes, they've recently been learning about the civil rights movement and reading the book Mississippi Trial, 1955. Mississippi Trial is a historical fiction novel about the infamous murder case of young Chicago native Emmett Louis Till. These 9th grade students recently got the golden opportunity to meet with Chris Crowe, the author of Mississippi Trial. They got to listen to him speak about the history behind the book, the process of how he gathered information for it and created his fictional characters, and writing stories in general.  

For 21 years, Mrs Jackson has faithfully taught  as our math teacher at Springville Junior High School,

When asked “ Why did you become a math teacher ” she said that it was   always very fun and interesting for her and that she had a math teacher in elementary that let her work at her own pace and so she loved it and she wanted kids to be excited like her. She is originally from Indiana and therefore her favorite team is the Hoosiers. 3 things that many people probably don’t know about her are, that her husband is three years younger than her and she doesn’t like to read because it’s to hard to focus and she’s been to Mardi Gras.

            Korbin Steele is a 9th grader here at our school. He’s a swell guy to be around, he’s really nice and friendly. An interesting thing about Korbin is that he’s had type 1 diabetes for 13 years. He wouldn’t consider himself well known, and it depends on the day with whether or not he’s friendly.

Q: I have a lot of homework. How do I keep myself focused? How do I not fall too far behind and end up with missing assignments?

A: What I do to focus is put away my phone. That is my biggest distraction when I do my homework. Maybe have someone hide it from you. Also, get organized! If you can keep track of all your assignments it's easier to actually finish them. Last thing, make sure to turn in all your finished assignments. The sooner you turn them in the less likely you are to lose them.

Q: Do you ever doubt the existence of others than you?

        Springville Jr High is a great school, and it has amazing teachers in it. Junior high is grades 7-9 which is really awesome, there is so much activities in this school and so much amazing things and fun stuff like spin the wheel, track, and so many other things that are really fun.

Accreditation happens every 5 years; It recently happened at Springville Junior High.  We as a school scored at total of 314,  one of the highest scores in the state! The network average score is 278.94. Each school is graded on many categories some of them include: Teaching and Learning, leadership, and Resource Utilization.

Track is coming up, and it's a pretty simple thing to do. You run, you jump, and then you biff it because the hurdle was too high. It's coached by Mr. Hammon, the health teacher, and Mrs. Bodily, one of the math teachers. Diego Clark is one of Mr. Hammon’s students, and Mrs. Bodily is his advisory teacher, who has taken in the idea of going to the first track meet. Diego said, “I really want to go to track meet, because I have always thought it was fun to run, I think i’m really fast, albeit, I have a really weak amount of stamina. I also really want to go as Mr. Hammon is one of my favorite teachers, and he was one of the primary aspects that motivated me to join track, I also know Mrs.

If you are reading this, you probably have a decent idea of what SJHS’s journalism staff is.

But if you don't, read on, and maybe think about doing this class next year.

Journalism is a class you can take in eighth  and ninth  grade. Its purpose  is for students to post articles about current events, teacher spotlights, or even pieces on memes of 2016. It's a smaller class at an honors english level taught by Mrs. Piña.