EDITOR: RACHEL COMANDE The Shield ST. CATHERINE’S NEWSPAPER, GRADES 9-12 FEBRUARY 15, 2019 National olic S th c k Honor h e Mix a D e ODGEBALL o it Up Society C o We had a NHS Wseating chart By: Rachel Comande so we can meet l new people and Tuesday, January 22 was the Induction s socialize. Ceremony for the National Honor Society Rob Surette - This Disney (NHS). It spoke about the importance of employee came to the qualities that NHS values; Scholarship, demonstrate his Service, Leadership, and Character. It was inspiration and large an enjoyable ceremony where everyone By: portrait paintings could gather together and celebrate the Dodgeball - The accomplishments of all of these amazing Grace tournament was freshman vs. juniors and sophomores vs. students. The Shield would like to extend a Szczerba seniors. The juniors won first place sincere congratulations to the members of and the seniors played the faculty. NHS - both returning members and newly Taste of Saint Cats - Many students pre- inducted ones. ordered a kewpees burger, an O&H donut, a taco, or some Wells Brothers pizza for lunch to support the local businesses. Pancake Breakfast - Students went down to the cafeteria for a nice New Inductees Returning Members breakfast of pancakes and juice. Kelsey Carrington Molly Brown Isabelle Cartagena Quinn Cafferty Abigail Cook Emma Coady Zachary Cotter Rachel Comande Michael De Guire Samantha De Guire Samuel French Abigial Delsman Traykiese Gillentine Hailey Fee Peyton Johnson Carley Garofalo Annemarie Letsch Ashley Gerber Katherine Liapis Ashley Gorman Keyaira Marshall Emily Hollow Erin McCauley Luke Letsch Alexis Monosa Robert Liapis Brock Naidl Adam May TASTE OF ST. Emily Poisl Jenna Perez CAT’S Natalia Reyes Noah Rodriguez David Sosa Noah Rogers Marcelo Sosa Elizabeth Schauer Leah Topp Shannon Stulo Jillian Tringali Nathaniel Weiglein Jordan Tucker Sophie Wentorf PANCAKE BREAKFAST The Shield 2/15/19 Issue 1 BY TAYLOR GALASZEWSKI BY ANNA Quotes CHRISTINA “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about the things Poll STARSZAK that matter” ~Martin Luther King Jr. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE PART OF “The only person you are destined to become is the person you WINTER? decide to be” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to Snow do” ~Swati Sharma Cold Weather “Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you Fire Places Hot Cocoa have to look a little harder.” ~Anonymous Blankets Fuzzy Socks Snow Days Other Angie Thomas Karen Rose Mhairi McFarlane Anissa Gray WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE CLASS? BY EMMA Spanish/Chinese Book List SCOTT Social Studies Art/Choir English Avery Flynn Lisa Kleypas Math Meet Study Hall WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE COLOR? THE Science Staff G: MY FAVORITE COLOR IS MINT GREEN. Other Kiara Wilson & K: MY FAVORITE COLORS ARE PURPLE & PINK. 90 Grace Szczerba RESPONSES WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL? K: MY FAVORITE SUBJECT IS GEO G: MY FAVORITE SUBJECT AT SCHOOL IS THE Movies ENGINEERNG CLASS. WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES? IN THEATERS G: I LIKE LISTENING AND WATCHING MUSICALS. K: I LIKE LISTENING TO MUSIC AND PLAYING FORTNITE. • Alita: Battle Angel (Feb 15th) • Isn’t it Romantic (Feb 15th) newspaper staff • How to Train Your Dragon: The Adviser Rachel Comande* un F Michael De Guire Hidden World (Feb 22) F a Sam De Guire BY: TAYLOR GALASZEWSKI c Mrs. Aguila* | t Abbie Determan • A Madea Family Funeral (March 1) s Taylor Galaszewski* Deondre LeClair* • The Kid Who Would Be King (March 1) • In 1994, a man was arrested because he was Stephanie Manley dressed as the Grim Reaper and just stood and Joe Paiga * indicates Layout • Captain Marvel (March 8) Staff Editor stared into the windows of a home for the elderly. Sarah Stone* Grace Szczerba • A stamp that you lick gives you 0.1 calorie. Emma Scott* • Every year, Americans create around 1/5 of the Ms. Petzke Cullen Sheppard world’s trash. Anna-Christina Starszak* Kiara Wilson • The average healthy person can differentiate Emily Winkler between 500 shades of grey. Source: https://short-funny.com/fun-facts-2.php The Shield 2/15/19 Issue 2 B GAME LIST Y : T BY: DEONDRE APP OF THE AYLOR • Jump Force (Feb 12th) PC PS4 XB1 LECLAIR AND • Steins; Gate Elite (Feb 19th) PC PS4 NS MONTH TAYLOR GALASZEWSKI G • Trials Rising (Feb 26th) PC PS4 XB1 NS ALASZEWSKI • Total War: Three Kingdoms (March 7th) PC RATING 4 out “GO Music” of 5 Platform: IOS, Android Stars BY: MICHAEL DE GUIRE GO Music is an app that allows you to listen to your music with “beautiful background skins” and Game review share your music with friends and family. This app also allows you to equalize your music and get that just perfect audio that we all would love to have. The equalizer provides a variety of different tones such as Normal, Classical, Dance, Flat, Folk, Heavy Metal, Hip Hop, Jazz, Pop and Rock. This allows you to finally get that perfect music sound that we all love, or even just mess around and find that perfect sound. In this game review, it’s not really a game review, but a review This app is connected to YouTube of the new gaming club! Most of you know about the club that was and SoundCloud for easy music recently created, the Gaming Club, which is also the Esports team searches. Playing this music is made for our school. There are 3 games our school currently is a part easy by their playlist feature. This of and they are Rocket League, League of Legends, and Super feature allows you to edit what Smash Bros Ultimate. We all know what Smash Bros is, most you are listening to in order for your of us anyways, but League of Legends is a game of team playlist to be perfect your way, not based strategy where you try to destroy enemy points only in sound quality, but also in the while defending your own. Rocket League is about order that makes the most sense to cars playing soccer…that’s it, cars playing soccer. you. This app is not to be used as a I hope that our gaming club goes well in this music downloader. season and everyone does great! Music 1. “Sunflower” - Post Malone and Swae Lee 2. “Without Me” - Halsey 3. “Thank U, Next” - Ariana Grande 4. “Sicko Mode” - Travis Scott 5. “High Hopes” - Panic! At the Disco B 6. “Happier” - Marshmello Y : T and Bastille AYLOR 7. “Girls Like You” - Maroon 5 ft. Cardi B G 8. “Drip Too Hard” - Lil Baby and ALASZEWSKI Gunna 9. “Eastside” - Benny Blanco, Halsey and Khalid 10. “ZEZE” - Kodak Black ft. Travis Scott and Offset https://www.billboard.com/charts The Shield 2/15/19 Issue 3 Armando Gomez helped Happy BY: DEONDRE LECLAIR Creative Writing Birthday! BY: EMMA SCOTT Happy 18th Birthday Pedro S. 2/1 Quinn C. 3/7 Chris K!! ~From They are in your head Haley K. 2/2 Emma S. 3/8 the group and They are all you see Abigail M. 2/3 Olivia A. 3/10 Hakeem Diana B. 2/5 Owen A. 3/10 Happy Birthday Their voices are the only ones you hear Jennifer G. 2/6 Norberto R. 3/11 Paloma!!! Wish No matter what you do they won’t go away Alex R. 2/7 Ashanti M. 3/15 you the best :) Your hand moves faster and faster, Christopher K. 2/7 Edward F. 3/18 ~Jazz David B. 2/7 Jovanna H. 3/18 As the danger increases Aleksander H. 2/8 Grant W. 3/19 No matter how much you wanted to get rid Emily M. 2/10 Keenan C. 3/19 Happy of them, Lauren E. 2/10 Vincenzo R. 3/19 Birthday Big Tim you cry over their deaths Amari W. 2/11 Nikola S. 3/20 ~qwanzo Adrian G. 2/12 Sophie W. 3/20 You are sad and disappointed when you flip Happy Devin R. 2/12 Keegan K. 3/22 Birthday Livy!!! the last page, Molly O. 2/12 Michael L. 3/23 ~Your When you realise you finished the great book Ashley W. 2/13 Alex M. 3/24 annoying Kyle G. 2/13 Robert L. 3/24 brother you were lost in Timothy C. 2/13 Angeline N. 3/25 Happy 18 birthday Jackson B. 2/16 James F. 3/26 Sophie! Juan C. 2/16 Cordell C. 3/27 ~your friends Sanaya D. 2/17 Sariyah C. 3/28 Grace S. 2/18 Sophia H. 3/28 It tries to get you Kiara W. 2/18 Abigail C. 3/29 Happy To pull you under and away Abigail D. 2/19 Hailey F. 3/29 Birthday Emma! You will always escape at the last moment. Kathryn S. 2/19 Quin S. 3/29 ~Brenda Kyle M. 2/19 Samantha D. 3/30 It swirls calmly around you Sadie G. 2/21 Happy 15th Occasionally revealing its various creatures Nathaniel W. 2/22 APPY Birthday APPY H It will never cease to amaze you. Angel A. 2/23 H IRTHDAY David! Have IRTHDAY B B RACE AND a great day! It has many different moods Trenten P. 2/24 EONDRE OU G D ! Y IARA OU ~your friends ARE SO FUN TO K ! Y Adrien H. 2/25 ROCK Some days it looks angry and mean HAVE ON STAFF ! Araseli S. 2/26 ! ~MRS. A ~MRS. A SAM, I CAN’T Others friendly and inviting Victavian T. 2/27 BELIEVE THAT Raul B.