Trojan Times Dec 2018 -Mar 2019
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Volume 1, Issue 3 Trojan Times Dec 2018 -Mar 2019 INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Tips for Passing Second Semester Girls Basketball 2 by Devin Mitchell Yondr Pouches 2 Senior Year 4 appropriate to get at The second semester is Snow Days 6 finally here and maybe least 8-12 hours of sleep. you didn't do so well or Sleeping allows your Staff Interviews 7 completely failed the brain to rest and sort all Job Shadows 9 first semester. Don’t of the information you’ve worry, these tips might gathered in one day. Birthdays 12 help you out to pass if Staying awake for long you decide to actually periods of time can affect use them. how you function during your daily life, that’s why the class and want to First, DO THE WORK it’s important to stay well teach you the subject so WHEN IT'S GIVEN TO rested. you understand it fully. YOU!!! This is most Sometimes you may important step. Make The third and final step is need tutoring and that’s sure you immediately do simple, get help. I cannot fine, it doesn’t mean the work and you won´t stress this step enough. you’re not as smart as TROJAN need to worry about If there is a subject everyone else. It just finishing it later and you’re completely means that subject isn’t TIMES forgetting to turn it in terrible at, swallow your your strongest and you STAFF: later. It's always better to pride and get help. If you need to work on it more. turn in work as soon as find the right teacher, • Telliono Brookins you finish it. he/she will explain how Remember that school, to solve the problem and life as a whole, is as • Michielia Boone The second step, go to you’re on or teach you hard as you make it. sleep on time. You step by step until you • Michiele Boone function better when you know exactly what you’re go to bed at a decent doing. Teachers actually • Senethea Frazier time. You can't focus well want to watch you pass when you're tired so it’s • My’Eisha Lee After-school Tutoring by Diamond Walker • Devin Mitchell Students, if you are failing Ms. Baker is there to Tutoring takes place in • Diamond Walker or in need of extra help in assist students on the media center after • Advisor: Ms. Baker any of your core subject Thursday. school at 2:50 pm to classes, after school 3:50 pm. You will need tutoring is available every Ms. Knieper is available to sign in and out at Monday, Wednesday, on Monday. If you need the entrance to the and Thursday. math help, Ms. Ahlers is media center. available on Wednesday. Page 2 Volume 1, Issue 3 Girls Basketball Season by My’Eisha Lee The girls basketball season was After becoming a leader of the really appreciated it. The team amazing. The Lady Trojans team, it was mandatory for tried and fought hard. Some played very well but not as senior My’Eisha Lee to be a games they won and some well as they should have. The good role model. She did her games they lost, but overall it season brought smiles and best to show sportsmanship and was a fun season. tears, especially for the six to be supportive of her senior girls on the team. They teammates. Let’s give a big shout out to the came to fight, but not every six senior girls for a good season game went as planned. The The team had a lot of help in on the Saginaw High Lady teams they played were good the gym from Tim Prince, a SHS Trojans Varsity Girls Team: but not invincible. The Lady alumni. Coach Prince showed Detriona Whitley, My’Eisha Lee, Trojans all tried their best and the players a lot of key pointers Aliyah Perry, Ta’Marya Lain, Asia tried to make their coach and some players even admit he Greene, and Shavonne Barnes. happy. taught them so much more than they already knew. The players Yondr Pouches by Senethea Frazier and Devin Mitchell As of Wednesday February, 20th scores, and maybe even to Hight says, “A student must be Yondr pouches have been in improve behavior. interested and willing to really place at Saginaw High, Arthur pay attention and absorb Hill, SASA, and Zilwaukee. The People have become so information.” Yondr pouch is a magnetically attached to their phones that locked pouch that locks the most people can’t live or The effectiveness of the students phone away for the function properly without them. pouches remains to be seen, but school day and can be unlocked Academic Interventionist Mrs. hopefully students will see the at the door after school ends. Green, says “I think the pouches advantages of having some time are great, because phones are a away from their devices. If you lose or damage your major distraction.” pouch, there is a $20 fee in or- der to get a new one. Tenth grader Marquay Farris believes otherwise, he said “I The company ¨Yondr” was don’t like the pouches because founded in 2014 by Graham we can’t listen to music, and Dugoni. Comedians, musicians, music helps me focus.” On the court houses, and even schools other hand, sophomore Antia have started using the pouches Johnson says that not having it to help avoid the distraction for a few hours isn’t a big deal that phones can be. The pouch for her. is designed to get people to ¨live in the moment.¨ As for the dis- Geometry teacher Mr.Holzhei trict, it’s to cut down on phone says that the Yondr pouches will usage among the student body force students to focus more. and to increase grades, test Conversely, history teacher Mr. Trojan Times Page 3 SAT Info by Devin Mitchell Taking the SAT is very You earn points for your correct because of how it is important, because the SAT answers so it’s important to never worded so read the helps determine what colleges leave a question blank, especially question carefully. you’re able to get into and some on the multiple choice portion. scholarships that you will be One senior said of his SAT eligible for. The higher your It’s important to take this test experience last year, “I score the better of a chance you seriously. It requires a serious kept stopping and have of getting into a decent amount of time and energy. It’s rereading and falling college, if community colleges very important to get extra asleep”. Make sure this or trades schools aren’t your studying in, a full 12 hours of doesn’t happen to you by thing. sleep, and a nice breakfast in the being rested and in the morning. Keeping calm can also right frame of mind. Score The SAT is a huge part of your increase your chances of scoring high and happy testing! high school career, that is taken high on the SAT. in April of your junior year. The test contains four multiple Look at the questions and answer choice tests (two math tests, a the ones you know first. Some of reading test, a grammar test) the questions may seem difficult and an essay portion. Winter Music Program by Devin Mitchell and Diamond Walker The Saginaw High School Music Mrs. Hillman, the new choir Department hosted is winter teacher, did an outstanding concert on December 20th. The job getting the choir ready. band played several Christmas favorites including Jingle Bells, Up The Christmas song on the Rooftop, and Feliz Navidad. selections includedRide On The band also performed some King Jesus by Moses Hogan, traditional marching band music Melodies from Heaven by played so the audience Kirk Franklin, Silent Night, experienced the best of both and This Christmas by Chris worlds. Brown. The program closed with a The Saginaw High Soul Choir performance by past brought energy to the auditorium Saginaw High’s choir alumni with several rousing numbers. and present choir students. The solo vocalists included Together both groups joined Hurlette Reed, Destiny Keller, and sang Silent Night. Amaya Jackson, Andrew Walker and Dyterrius Ford. Trojan Times Page 4 Tips for Senior Year by My’Eisha Lee Being a senior is not what become more focused on what scholarships are due. If you miss everyone makes it out to be. My you have going on with colleges a deadline, you miss out on first semester of senior year and the SAT. Those things money! wasn’t bad but it wasn’t easy determine where you will be in either. One thing you will have the long run after college. If you One last tip is to make sure your to do is work for what you want did not do well on your SAT grades are passing. Once exams being a senior. This year is junior year, you will need to come and you fail, it will be hard nothing like the previous years retake it so you will have a to recover to get back on track you have experienced. better chance at being accepted to graduate. You also don’t by more colleges. want to scramble to try to take One tip for senior year first Plato classes to recover your semester is to make sure you Scholarships are something you credits either. stay on top of everything that should be looking at as well. The you are assigned. You don’t Senior Seminar Classroom will Just stay on track and stay want to be left behind when it’s have scholarships listed, but you focused so your senior year will time to order those CAPS & need to pay attention to what’s be less stressful.