tiger times The Voice of Dewey Elementary School • Evanston, IL • Winter 2019 Amazing Women Who Changed Dewey Chess Team Rocks! You may have noticed all the shiny trophies on the book shelves in the school library? Many the World of those are from years of Dewey Tigers Chess Team competing in tournaments. Chess is By Kamila Johnson a game that requires players to think ahead several moves in advance and strategize how to force the opponent’s king into an inescapable position or a checkmate. It’s fun, strategic and requires concentration. creative set. Audiences in Mexico didn’t just like it, they loved it!! In 1954, her group got This year, the Dewey Tigers Chess Team consisted of 46 players meeting weekly to learn the onto T.V. - so that meant that every week she game, including how the pieces move and the strategies to take on their opponents. There are would need to make a new dance for around chess tournaments and (although it is not a requirement) about half of the team chooses to 60 weeks. In 1959 they were officially called participate, matching up with students from other Evanston area schools. At a tournament a ‘Ballet Folklórico’. Soon they had more than student will play up to 5 matches and gather a ranking or points to win ribbons and trophies. 50 dancers. They were so popular that they performed at the Pan American Games in The Tigers are poised to bring home another school trophy at the year-end Championship Chicago. She choreographed more 40 ballets on April 6th – Go Dewey Tigers! that she performed around the world. She did a lot of research to capture the unique Consider joining the Dewey Tigers Chess Team next year – you’ll become a fierce chess footwork and skirt movements. A few critics player and have loads of fun doing it. criticized her for using ‘danzas’ in show busi- ness, though Amalia knew that she wasn’t. She died on November 5, 2000, at the age FRIDA KAHLO, Painter of 83. Frida Kahlo is from Mexico, and she is a painter. Frida was born on July 6, 1907. Frida was diagnosed with polio at an early age and she disguised her deformity with long skirts, called Tehuana. At age eighteen Frida got into a bus accident. Frida had a long recovery. While she was in the hospital her mother made Frida a painting easel that hung over her bed. While she was healing Frida met Diego Rivera, and in 1929 they got married. Together they traveled around the world. Many of Frida’s paintings are self-portraits which explained how she felt and about real parts of her life. Frida died on July 13, 1954, at age 47. Frida’s death was very tragic, and we will always remember her. Students who participated in the February tournament at King Arts School include: YAYOI KUSAMA, Artist Ethan Greyz, Nate Westover, Lyla Katz, Samanaa Manur, Wayra Sheridan, Kennedy Liddell, TINA ALLEN, Sculptor Yayoi was born on March 22, 1929. For Eilidh Davis, Ludo Rossi, Vikram Kelly, Levi Katz, Andy Isaac, Pietro Rossi, Onyx Lo, Tina Allen was born on December 9, 1949, Yayoi she always found art was a way to Alan (Ernesto) Bautista, Pradyumna Manur, and Ty Nedoss. in the USA. She is known for her sculpting. express oneself, though her parents did not Her brother-in-law was Donald Johnson. want her to do art as a career. Yayoi didn’t Donald has three children named Christina listen. Later she had finally convinced her Lavers, Brooke Johnson, and Michael family to let her start studying traditional Johnson. Michael’s wife is Monica Mendoza. art. She started to grow out of the Conser- Their children are Kamila (!), Malik, and vative style of art, and became particularly Julian Johnson. Tina has made many important interested in Abstract Expressionism type sculptures around the world. Tina has made of art in the western part of the world. In most of her sculptures of important people in 1958 she decided to move to New York City, African American history, such as Frederick where she started to work on her paintings, Douglass, and Sojourner Truth. She sadly sculptures, and short films. A lot of her died September 9, 2008, at the age of 57. most famous work was her art events and performances that she conducted around the AMALIA HERNÁNDEZ, Dancer city. Almost all of Yayoi’s work has a unique Amalia was born on September 19, 1917, twist of bright polka dots and patterns. in Mexico. Amalia had always had a passion Yayoi is now known for creating hundreds for dance. She was so into dance that her of paintings around the world. Her canvases parents made her a dancing studio in their match her paintings. Her dots are a symbol own house! Amalia started studying tradi- of existence: For her, the thousands of dots tional ballet. In college her practice paid in her paintings represent people. She used off: she trained in modern dance with a that idea in her most well known painting few European instructors and later she “infinity rooms”. Mirrored rooms create an Olivia Fisher, Kennedy Liddell, Wayra Sheridan, Samanaa Manur, and Sara Hunt became a choreographer. She thought dance illusion of looking into infinity. She deco- needed a twist--Amalia had gotten tired of rates her paintings with different objects. For the same old routines. She was inspired by example: shiny balls, decorated pumpkins, or old childhood memories of people dancing some more polka dots. Every wall creates a on the streets in Mexico. She decided to different, unique experience that no painting Please remove the staples and recycle combine the two dances together to make a had done before. In 1973, Yayoi returned to great performance. In 1942 she got a group Japan and had a very successful career. Now your Tiger Times. of eight dancers to perform in elaborate in her late eighties, she still lives on. costumes, with dramatic lights and a very In the News Our World....................... page 2 Creative Corner .............. page 9 Cultural Affairs ............... page 4 Profiles .......................... page 10 Science & Technology .... page 6 Fun Pages ...................... page 11 Sports ............................ page 8 Staff ............................... page 16 our world Global Warming D-day, a Summary By Albert Zhu and Thomas Simpson By Carter Dombeck Global Warming (Climate Change) is one of GREENHOUSE GASES It was mid 1944 and Germany knew an attack was coming. The Americans were planning the main reasons our Earth is warming up. Greenhouses Gases are the main causes of to attack Normandy in France. The Americans,British,and Canadians also knew a attack One of the main causes of Global Warming Global Warming. The Greenhouse Gases would be difficult because in 1942 the Canadians attacked a port by Germany and suffered is pollution. Carbon Dioxide(CO2) and a are Carbon Dioxide (CO2), Methane a lot of casualties. lot of other greenhouse gases are causing the (CH4), Nitrous Oxide (N2O), Water Greenhouse Effect. The Greenhouse Effect is Vapor (H2O), Ozone(it isn’t necessarily PLANNING TO ATTACK NORMANDY when sunlight comes in our atmosphere and bad because it protects the Earth from solar The Americans,British,and Canadians had a lot of plans. One of them was that, near a travels down to Earth. That sunlight bounces flares and solar radiation and it doesn’t British coast, the British would put fake boats made out of wood and dummies and pointed back to space but greenhouse gases in the contribute to global warming), Chlorofluo- them to a city (I don’t know what it was called) but when some Germans pilots saw the fake atmosphere traps the heat, therefore, keeping rocarbons (CFCs), and Hydrofluorocarbons army they thought that it was real and reported back to the Germans leader Adolf Hitler the warmth inside the atmosphere. This heat (includes HCFCs and HFCs). and Hitler put his troops near that city. also comes from the sunlight in our atmo- sphere which is absorbing infrared energy. THE GREENHOUSE EFFECT ATTACKING NORMANDY This raises the temperature of our planet. The Greenhouse Effect is pretty self-ex- The Americans, British, and the Canadians loaded around 10,000 men all together and set planatory because Greenhouse Gases are a destination for Normandy. Finally when they got to Normandy, the Americans attacked GLACIERS trapping sunlight and infrared energy. 2 beaches: Utah and Omaha; the British attacked Gold and Sword beaches; the Canadians Glaciers are melting due to Global Warm- Over time, the heat builds up and now it’s attacked Juno beach. The Germans defended the beach Omaha the most. Even when the ing. It is infusing our saltwater ocean with warming our planet. allies attacked Normandy the German leader still thought that there would be an attack by freshwater from the glacier and killing the city that he was defending and kept his men there. When the German leader sent his troops animals who need saltwater to survive. NATURAL DISASTERS there, the allies had already taken the area, and Germany would surrender in late 1945. That is called Freshwater Infusion. Glaciers Natural disasters are mostly created by melting are also affecting animals who live Global warming. They include Hurricanes, and depend on them to hunt. For example, Typhoons, Tornadoes, Wildfires, Tsunamis, Polar Bears sleep on glaciers made of ice etc. Recent hurricanes include Michael, and snow and since Polar Bears eat seals and Harvey, Jose, Maria, and Irma. Wildfires seals use breathing holes, Polar Bears lurk had been happening anywhere in the world by it and ambush the seals when they come but I’ll just say that wildfires in California up.