lorem ipsumVolume 3 Volume #3, Ississue #, dateVolume 3 ue 2 MAGNET ATTRACTION Magnet Fieldtrip UPCOMING EVENTS by Karen Araujo o Freshman Team Building: 10/22 o Parent Conference: 10/22, 5-7pm o Homecoming Game and Parade: 10/23 o Homecoming: 10/24 o “He Named Me Malala” Fieldtrip: 10/28-10/29 o Magnet Picnic: 11/10 On October 29th and 30th, Magnet will be taking a field trip to the AMC Theaters down in Burbank to watch o Barnes and Noble Book fair a documentary titled, “He Named me Malala.” This will be &Poetry Reading: 11/14 a two-day event: on the 29th, freshman and sophomores will be attending and on the 30th, it will be for juniors and seniors. Malala Yousafzai is a young, Pakistani schoolgirl who stood up against the Taliban for girls’ education. A Taliban gunman was targeting Malala due to her choices and actions. They shot her in the head and left her wounded on the bus. Our students will explore the events that led to this event and the impact it had on society, thereafter. lorem ipsum Volume #3, 2Volume 3 issue #, dateIssue 2 Beware The SAT! by Miriam Garcia One of the most critical tests is upon arrival and in a new style. The Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) is a standardized test widely used for college admissions in the United States. The SAT has been redesigned and is going to be administered in March of 2016. The test is broken down into four parts: Reading, Writing and Language, Math and now an optional Essay. The test is currently scaled between 400-1600 points and there’s no more penalization for guessing. Additionally, there is not anymore “difficult” vocabulary that’s needed to be remembered. The test is predicted to be three hours and 50 minutes long (including the essay) or three hours (excluding the essay). Another modification is that each question now has only four answers to choose from. Unfortunately, the new SAT may cause many issues for the Class of 2016. According to college sources, many schools nationwide will not be accepting current SAT scores. As a result, seniors will have to spend an additional $60 to retake the 2016 SAT for college admissions. Concurrently, there are other schools that will take current SAT scores– the classes of 2016 and 2017 will qualify. However, the 2018 and preceding classes will have to submit the new form of SAT scores. If any seniors or juniors still need to register, you can register at www.collegeboard.org and all the dates for the test will be listed online. Magnet Picnic Barnes and Noble Book by Karen Araujo Fair and Poetry Reading If weather permits, on Tuesday, November 10, Fundraiser Magnet will be holding their second annual Magnet by Miguel Lopez picnic. During fourth period, parents will serve up hot dogs as students frequent the company of their It’s that time of the year again! Our annual teachers and friends on the school’s playing field Barnes & Noble Book fair and Poetry Reading behind the football field, better known as the “arm- Fundraiser is just around the corner. Saturday, pit.” Wear your tennis shoes and get ready to play November 14, come share your poems, show your support, and do a little shopping. The poetry reading games, and have fun with your Magnet family! will begin promptly at 11 am on the second floor of the Barnes and Noble at the Americana, and Magnet will Parent volunteers are welcome, so feel free to receive 15% of all proceeds during the hours of 11am invite your parents to help with food preparation. and 2pm. 2 lorem ipsumVolume 3 VoluVolume 3 me #3, Ississue #, dateue 2 San Fernando Magnet High School & Poetry Reading Saturday, November 14, 2015 11 am Barnes and Noble, Americana The Americana at Brand 210 Americana Way, Glendale, CA 91210 across from Glendale Galleria Don’t forget to mention you are with San Fernando High School. A portion of all purchases made at Barnes& Noble and Barnes & Noble Café will go back to our school! *Save your receipts! Extra-Credit from ALL Magnet Teachers with proof of purchase 3 lorem ipsum Volume #3, Ississue #, dateVolume 3 ue 2 Fear The Walking Academic Dead Probation by Brianna Villegas by Monica Ramirez and Bridget Serrato In Magnet, failing is not an option. Magnet students are expected to pass every class with a C or better. However, life happens and students fall behind. Therefore, in order to make certain that students succeed, Magnet places its students on academic probation if they are getting a D or F in any of their classes at the 10-week progress report. With Academic Probation, students are required to receive mandatory tutoring, ten hours per class failed. This gives students the opportunity to Fear the Walking Dead is a spin-off series of AMC’s The Walking Dead. It premiered on August improve their grades and their knowledge about the 23, 2015 with almost 13 million views worldwide. subject they are struggling in. So far, holding Fear the Walking Dead aim to explain the beginning students accountable has shown to work, nearly 90% of the zombie apocalypse and how the characters percent of those students who attend tutoring pass slowly realize that the end is near. The series, so far, the class he or she was failing. is very slow, but it’s understandable because it’s still If a student fails to show up to tutoring developing. Despite its slow start, it begins to pick Magnet coordinator, Violet Mardirosian, meets with up in episode three where we see society breaking down. For example, people start rioting, breaking both the student and his or her parent(s). into buildings, and tipping over police cars. In the show, the characters take on stereotypical roles that are commonly seen during a zombie apocalypse: Travis Manawa as the leader, Nick Clark as the druggy, and Alicia Clark as the sensitive jerk. These characters are very distasteful, but hopefully this will change with time. However, people are already comparing the main series with the spin-off series by claiming that the spin-off might not live up to the praise of the highly reputable original series, the Walking Dead. Feelings of disappointment are clear with the declining ratings of the show as each episode goes on. Nonetheless, it is enthralling to see what may be when the world is descended into disarray, and all that is left in the world are the few survivors among the many zombies. If not for anything else, this spin-off serves to teach its audience how to survive the zombie apocalypse. 4 lorem ipsum Volume #3, Ississue #, dateVolume 3 ue 2 Democratic Debate by Aracely Chavez On Wednesday, October 14, 2015, the Therefore, implying unafraid–to resort to war. Democratic Debate took place at the Wynn in Las Moreover, the candidates didn’t adhere to the Vegas. The presidential hopefuls– Hilary Clinton, straw-man fallacy. Instead of attacking each other Bernie Sanders, Martin O’Malley, Jim Webb, and personally, the Democrats resorted to critiquing Lincoln Chafee–all gathered before CNN to and refuting each other’s ideas. This was evident answer viewers’ questions and to discuss issues when Clinton’s controversial emails were brought affecting the U.S. Such as issues included Foreign up. Instead of the others using this subject against Policy, the economy, racial issues, climate her, her opponents tried to shut the issue down by change, and privacy. As Hilary Clinton pointed stating how everyone is tired of hearing about out at one time during the debate, “We agree on those emails, and they successfully did. the issues, disagree on the means.” For instance, Sanders proposed that a carbon tax be imposed to Despite there being five candidates who are deter companies from releasing harmful carbon supposed to be debating, only three–Clinton, emissions into the atmosphere, while O’Malley Sanders, and O’Malley–appeared to be debating, aims to have the U.S. relying on 100 percent while the rest–Webb and Chafee–were practically clean energy by 2050. nonexistent. Although Webb made a point, in the few times, he was addressed, that the host Although there was disagreement, no wouldn’t ask him to speak during the discussion, contempt or disrespect was shared among the he could’ve made valid pointsC onsectetuerand expressed :his candidates. This was refreshing and surprising opinion. Instead, he threw a tantrum and wasted considering the ill-natured Republican debate the the time given to complain about how he wasn’t U.S. witnessed less than a month before with the called on. Because of this and other reason– such racist, gender, and religious attacks that the as the candidates being clear and constantly Republicans threw at each other. As a result, refuting–the winners were Clinton and Sanders there were a number of positive occurrences that because they responded to criticism in a civil and made the Democrats’ debate a success, primarily disarming manner, and they made clear standing gender attacks weren’t made. Despite Clinton points on all the topics. being the only female among the other potential male presidents, her opponents didn’t degrade her for being female. Additionally, Clinton defied her gender stereotype that women were afraid of and tried to prevent war. In fact, the other male candidates accused her of being too-quick- 5 lorem ipsum Volume # , Ississue #, dateVolume 3 ue 2 Honorable Students JOHN PAUL VILLALVAZO PAULINA MARTINEZ by Karen Araujo by Justin Esquivias John Paul Villalvazo is an 11th grade Magnet student.