1 September 2015 September 2015 2 News Editorial be excited! What classes did you Thompson and Myah Hidalgo Follow us on take? I’m sure there is one that are bringing us Op-Ed. We also grabs your interest. Do you have have a very talented group of instagram and twitter friends in any of your classes? staff reporters, ready to report Mrs. Gattie If not, I’m sure you can make anything they find interesting, Adviser @CHHS_TLB some! Join a club! It’s a great way including a new Choose Your to meet people and an amazing Own Adventure story found in By Jordan Pearson the Features section, and the re- Editor-in-Chief way to make your high school Jordan Pearson turn of the Op-Edible in the Op- years memorable. Editor-in-Chief Summer is over, and I am so If you aren’t sure, pick up Ed section. I, Jordan Pearson, happy about it. I’m sure my an issue of The Lightning Bolt, am incredibly excited to be the opinion is pretty unpopular but where we will talk about the ex- Editor-in-Chief! Kaitlyn o’gorman a new school year means new citing things happening around This year we are changing Senior News Editor possibilities, new opportunities, the school. We have an amazing things up a bit and offering a and new friends. Of course, I am staff this year, and we all can’t subscription for anyone who ashely ragonese probably just being nostalgic be- wait to share this newspaper wants one! It includes every is- cause this is the last high school with you. Kaitlyn O’Gorman sue of the newspaper for $20.00. Junior News Editor year that I am going to get. Se- and Ashley Ragonese are tack- It’s an automatic link between nior year is finally here for me ling the News section, while you and The Lightning Bolt! matthew sanders and I couldn’t be more excited! Hopefully, even though sum- Josef Jazvic and Raelyn Slaugh- Senior Sports Editor But if you are not a senior and ter take on Features. 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Junior Sports Editor Contents josef jazvic Senior Features Editor News Chancellor Wins Battle of the Bands ............................................................. pg. 5 Raelyn slaughter Sports Junior Features Editor Athletic Profile: Day in the Life of Savannah Cook ................................... pg. 7 Rachel thompson Op-Ed Senior Op-Ed Edit Me and Earl Steps Up Cancer Movie Game ............................................... pg. 9 Myah hidalgo Features Junior Op-Ed Editor New Teachers ..................................................................................................... pg. 10 laura sullivan Social Media on the cover Find Rodney The Journalism students at Chancellor High School publish The Light- ning Bolt, the only official newspaper on campus. The purpose of the newspaper is to factually inform and entertain its readers. As an estab- Rodney is hidden somewhere in this newspaper! 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News 3 September 2015 news section South Fall Movie Line-Up Carolina A lot is offered at theaters for all movie-lovers Shooting By Ashley Ragonese By Myah Hildago Junior News Layout Editoy to stop the madness that is oc- do they see the horrific sights, curring. but the man and his wife begin Junior Op-Ed Layout Editor Goosebumps may be a perfect to see strange things happening Now that the blockbusters of On Wednesday June 17th a movie to see for all the lovers with their daughter. Audiences the summer have had their time deplorable event occurred at of the Goosebumps children’s will definitely be horrified after to shine, it’s time to start getting Emanuel African Methodist horror stories. The main char- viewing the true paranormal ac- ready for the soon-to-be crowd Episcopal Church in Charles- acter Zack moves to a new town tivity that takes place. pleasers of the fall! ton, South Carolina. This shock- with his mom and meets his The Peanuts Movie will stroll The Perfect Guy directed by ing act of inexcusable violence new neighbor Hannah along it’s way to theaters on Novem- David M. Rosenthal premiered resulted in the deaths of nine with her father who is played ber 6th. This quirky adaptation on September 11th starring ac- people during a bible study by Jack Black. When Zack and of the comic is about the be- tors and actresses such as Sanaa and prayer group. The shooter, a friend stumble across some loved Charlie Brown moving to Lathan, Michael Ealy, Morris Dylann Roof is charged with Goosebumps books they realize a new place. He wants to change Chestnut, and Charles S. Dut- manslaughter, and his sentence a shocking and spooky secret. himself to become a winner. ton. This thriller is about a lob- has yet to be announced. Roof Visit your theater on October Through his goals of becoming byist who sees a tough end to allegedly drove two hours to the 16th to see the adaptation of the well-liked we see all of Charlie her relationship. Soon after the the church, spent an hour lis- novels! Brown’s crazy antics, especially end to her previous relationship tening, and then went on a ram- Paranormal Activity: The when he meets a new girl who she quickly begins a passionate page about segregation in the Ghost Dimension will hit the- piques his interest. and romantic relationship with south. He then preceded to fire aters on October 23rd. If you’re Mocking Jay: Part Two will be a seemingly perfect man. To say shots into the crowd. ready for a scare this is defi- in theaters on November 20th. the least, audiences will begin to Many are calling this situa- nitely the right choice. The trail- Hunger Games fans will surely wonder, as the movie’s slogan tion a hate crime, based on his ers begin by showing a man and be pleased when they see the says, who they should trust and actions, as well as the conversa- his brother who is helping him second part of the third install- who they should fear. tion Roof had with friend Joseph with moving into a house in ment of the series by Suzanne Maze Runner: The Scorch Meek, who is also being charged which they find a ton of VHS Collins. Katniss returns but this Trials opened in theaters on for withholding information. tapes. When they choose to time she stands united with all September 18th. It is part of the Meek allowed Roof to sleep at play the VHS tapes they real- of the other districts in hopes to Maze Runner series written and his trailer and had a conversa- ize that the young girls in the take down the capital, especially created by James Dashner. This tion with him about him doing tape are responding to what President Snow.