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-Spotlights
-Debate
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Gazette
April 2015- Issue 8
Medieval Feast
Katie Mudd
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n Friday, March 20th and Saturday,
March 21st the Hoquiam High School
Band and Choir put on a production of
“The Emperor’s New Clothes” at their very
first Medieval Feast. The Medieval Feast
was a very fun fundraiser, meant to bring
in a lot of money for the Band and Choir
spring trip to Eastern Washington and
Upcoming
then to Silverwood, Idaho. People who
Events:
bought
April 27, 2015
tickets
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
entered
a new
Soccer @ Tenino (gate
world as
charge)
Medieval
April 28, 2015
Times
12 Week Grades
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Golf took over.
Once
vs. Aberdeen
they were
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM BB
vs. Montesano - Varsity/ seated
the guests
JV
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM FP vs. met
lords and
Montesano
ladies,
April 29, 2015
the Fairy
8:00 AM - 1:00 PM Team
GodWednesday
mother,
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM Soc- jesters, the King, the Queen, and of course
cer vs Forks
the Prince and the Princesses. Anybody
April 30, 2015
who did not take part in the performance
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Golf was a peddler, server, part of the kitchen
vs LaCenter
crew, or a wizard.
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM Track Everyone who had anything to do
@ Aberdeen
with this fundraiser were equally import4:00 PM - 5:00 PM BB
ant as anyone else. Peddlers sold silverware
vs. Montesano - JV
to people who didn’t bring their own. Servers brought out the feast to the guests. The
kitchen crew made sure all the food was
ready for the servers to take. Wizards made
special drinks for the guests that wanted
anything besides apple juice. Jesters walked
around and told jokes to the people. Lastly, lords and ladies, the Fairy Godmother,
one jester, the Queen, the King, the Prince
and princesses, and the Court Harold
were all part of the production that the
guests watched while they ate their feast.
At the end of the Saturday Feast,
the choir and band gave away a goat. This
was another fundraiser called Goat Insurance.
For this
fundraiser a choir
or band
member put
someone’s
name
into a
drawing
for a goat.
A lot of
people
didn’t
want a
goat, so
in order
to take your name out of the drawing you
had to pay five dollars. Some people really
wanted the goat so they added their name
into a drawing five more times for five dollars. Saturday evening someone went home
with a new pet goat.
This fundraiser was a lot of fun, and
the music department says it was a huge
success. The medieval feast is now going to
be a tradition for Hoquiam High School. If
you want to take part with these fundraisers you can always join band or choir, or of
course you can come support the music department by showing up to the fundraisers.
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Prom Preparation
Teacher Spotlight
Mikayla Evans
Jeff Capoeman
rom is something every junior and senior looks
forward to; it’s one of the biggest and most talked
about event of the year. Who’s going to be on court?
What’s everyone’s dress going to look like? Not only
do girls start preparing a month before the dance,
but you can almost guarantee they know exactly what
dress they’re going to wear before they even get a date.
This year prom is on May 9th at the Aberdeen
Eagles, with the theme “A Touch of Class.” It will begin at nine o’clock and everyone will be encouraged
to wear a formal dress or a suit and tie. Tickets will
be around 30 dollars for couples and even cheaper for singles. There will also be a DJ there to play
all the music you love to dance to. The Hoquiam
High Leadership Class has put together this dance
and made it the best they could so that every junior
and senior could come out and enjoy it. So, make
sure you all come out and make it worth their time!
Mr. Jones in
high school.
Nice hair, Mr.
Jones!
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any of you students and faculty, along with 21
other years of students and faculty (how long
he has been teaching here) know Mr. Jones as the
math teacher at Hoquiam High School. He is also
an alumni of Hoquiam High School and Western
Washington University. He is a great math teacher
with an abundance of stories that are fun to listen
to; stories of when school was actually fun. One particular story is his favorite high school story, one
that he even remembers the exact day of. June 6th,
1986 during 2nd period (his senior year at Hoquiam
High School), he says that he “evacuated the English
building” by putting butyric acid in the heating system. Butyric acid smells awful for those of you who
do not know. Mr. Jones still has the exact same jar
that he used for the prank he pulled his senior year!
Other than being a funny jolly ole’ teacher,
Mr. Jones is a married man with three kids. Along
with the house full of kids, he keeps three cats,
one dog, one Beta fish, two guinea pigs, one Russian tortoise, and one hermit crab! He says he sadly claims the job of feeding all those mouths early in the morning before work. Not only does he
have a collection of pets and kids, he also keeps an
amazing collection of bikes which you may have
seen in pep rallies. Mr. Jones claims that he has a
collection of around 50 bikes all together. Out of
these his favorite ones are his 1983 Mongoose, and
his Terrible One(brand name not a terrible bike).
Mr. Jones is a talented teacher who has a knack
for bringing humor and a little bit of fun into a classroom. This is desperately needed while enduring the
long year of that oh so dreary and dreadful Geometry.
Anybody that had his class knows that in there, it is a
fun learning environment. Mr. Jones is a reminder of
relaxation in this school system to give a break from
all the stress of tests, grades, and all other small matters of school. When, and if you have his class, enjoy
it because it is hard to come across a class like this.
Student on the Job
Katie Mudd
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n this edition of Student on the Job, Sarah Schmidt
was interviewed. Sarah just recently started working
at Galway Bay in Ocean Shores. She works as a waitress;
taking orders, cleaning tables and serving food. Sarah
loves her job and there is nothing she would change
about it.
Sarah works full time in the summer, and part
time during the school year. Thus meaning that during
the school year she works on the weekends and after
school when available. Her favorite part about her job
is how nice the people are, especially the boss. Her least
favorite part is walking with drinks on a tray, because
Sarah Schmidt
she always drops them.
At Galway Bay, there are some celebrations that
take place. Most recently they celebrated St. Patrick’s
Day, by singing and having traditional Irish food. SarKatie Mudd
ah claims that it was a lot of fun.
n this edition of Student Spotlight, the Gazette is
Sarah loves her job at Galway Bay, she even rates
proud to present Aaron Wogoman! Aaron is a
it an 11/10. She claims there is nothing wrong with her
freshman who moved to Hoquiam from Springfield,
job and she hopes she works there for a long time.
Missouri during the summer. Aaron and his family
moved here because they really had no where else to
go, so why not move to Hoquiam? Although he liked
Springfield, Aaron really likes living in Hoquiam.
Even though Aaron doesn’t have many hobbies, he loves skateboarding, even though he has only
been skateboarding for about six months. His favorite
trick that he can do is called a Varial Kickflip, which is
when you Ollie, and use your feet to cause the board
to spin 180 degrees backside and do a Kickflip at the
same time, while keeping your body facing the same
direction. Aaron’ s favorite food is ice cream, and his
is favorite drink is the energy drink Rockstar.
Aaron lives with his parents and his brother. He is the youngest at 15 years old, and his older
brother, Joseph, is 17. When asked who Aaron’s favorite superhero was, he said Deadpool, who is actually
an anti-hero. Turquoise is Aaron’s favorite color, beAaron Wogoman
cause it is a mixture of blue and green.
Aaron Wogoman is a pretty rad kid, and you
should all get to know him!
Student Spotlight
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Movie Review
Nick Jones
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n 1950 a very popular animated film by Disney called
“Cinderella” was created. It was based on Brother
Grimm’s “Grimm’s Fairy Tales” written in 1812 (not
to be confused with Charles Perrault’s “Pentamerone”
which had a very similar tale). Due to the popularity of the animated Cinderella movie, a live action
version was on high demand, so Disney delivered.
The new live action Cinderella starts off with a
little girl named Ella living a happy life with her family in a medieval fantasy world. One tragic day, her
mother suddenly collapsed onto the floor. They took
her to a doctor, but there was nothing he could do,
she didn’t have much longer to live. Ella had to say
goodbye to her mother at a very young age. Before
her mother died, she told Ella, “Have courage and be
kind, above all else.” After her mother passed, it was
only her and her wealthy father. One day, her father
meets a grieving widow at a party and takes a liking to her. Although it was difficult for Ella to admit
it, she was okay with him marrying her as long as it
made him happy. Not long later, her father brought
his new wife and her two daughters to live with him
in their big house. Once again, everything was happy,
her father was happy and his new wife and daughters
seemed to like Ella. However, one day Ella’s father
took a long business trip to a faraway land. Unfortunately, he had fallen ill, and never returned home.
This left Ella alone with her step mother and
step sisters. Once her father died, her step mother and
two step sisters began to rule over her and treat her
like a common servant. Ella hated them for the way
they treated her, but she had to do her best to follow
her mother’s last words, “Have Courage and be kind.”
She put up with them, no matter how horrible they
treated her. One day, Ella slept by the burning embers
in her stove to keep warm. When she woke up she had
a bunch of cinder (charcoal/coal) on her face, because
of this her step sisters began to call her “Cinderella.”
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One day, Cinderella felt more upset than usual, and
ran off into the woods on a horse, where she met a
handsome man, who would change her life for the
better.
Overall, the live action Cinderella movie was
rather entertaining. Unlike the animated film, the live
action movie focused a little more on Cinderella’s past,
which gave the audience a better understanding to the
story. Cinderella also had great casting, good music,
and great effects. This movie would be best rated at a
8/10. It’s definitely worth the watch.
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Is the Use of Standardized Tests Improving Education in America?
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Counter Point:
Point:
Anna Totten
Katie Mudd
think required standardized testing is ridiculous. Why? They don’t improve student achievement, they’re an unreliable source to measure a student’s performance, it puts stress on both students
and teachers, and it narrows the curriculum taught.
Once the No Child Left Behind was passed
in 2002 the United States went from being 18th in
the world in math to only being 31st in 2009, with
a similar drop in science and no change in reading.
Clearly there hasn’t been an improvement. Students
do not enjoy taking these tests, a lot of the time they
just want to get it done, or they actually try and what
they learned was just temporary, not long term.
The teachers have to teach the students what is
on the test, not only is it new and the teachers have never
taught it, but they also are pushed to teach the curriculum on the test. That puts stress on teachers. School
is now focused on English, science and math because
of these standardized tests. What happened to history?
The teachers aren’t the only ones who have
stress put on them. These students are being told
that the standardized testing is really important,
and it’s important to pass. Although the students
still have to do their regular class assignments,
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very student takes tests, whether it be vocabulary
tests in their English class or a map test in their history class. When you get to be in fourth grade you are
required to take a standardized test to show how your
progress has been over the course of the school year.
The real question is, are these tests really necessary?
A lot of people would say no, because “it
stresses students out” or maybe even
“that these
tests are a waste of time.” Honestly I would tell you
yes, these tests are necessary, for the improvement in
students’ academics. These tests are made to measure
the progress a student has made over the course of the
school year. Also it shows if the teachers in your school
have been giving you the necessary criteria needed
to pass these tests. After taking these tests machines
grade them and the teachers get your results back. If
90% of the students got the same question wrong, it
would give teachers an idea of how much time they
need to spend going over that particular subject.
People always claim that these tests are way too
stressful, but test taking is a normal thing for all students.
Do you get stressed out when you have to take a vocabulary test? What about a math test? Most people would
answer no, because you take these types of tests every
Cont. on pg. 6
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Counter Point:
Cont. from pg. 5
regular class testing, and homework for the class. It
might not seem like a lot, but once you get into junior high and high school, that’s six different classes
you have to do that for, that really stresses out a kid.
Standardized testing are really not needed,
also they’re more of a debacle than an advantage.
Spring Recipe
Anna Totten
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his edition’s recipe is Chocolate Covered Peanut
Pie; it tastes as good as it sounds. To start off
you’re going to need ingredients of course.
You’ll need:
1 ½ cups of crushed Oreo cookies
1 cup peanut butter
¼ pound cream cheese
¾ cup powdered sugar
2 tablespoons milk
2 tablespoons chopped peanuts
2 ¾ cups heavy cream
6 ounces semi-sweet chocolate chopped
Point:
week, so why would you stress over a test that is just
the small tests you take thrown into one big test? Also,
it doesn’t impact your grade, so there is no stress there.
I speak for a lot of people when I say “My parents make sure my grades are good, but they don’t
understand that I’m failing a class due to an assignment that I handed in but it hasn’t been graded yet.”
Standardized testing is a way to show your parents
that you aren’t a slacker like they thought you were.
Parents can reflect off of your test score and your
grades to show that you know what you’re doing. If
you aren’t getting a great grade in one class, but you
excel at that portion of the test, your parents may
believe what you have been saying this whole time.
In conclusion, I believe that standardized testing has improved education in America.
My reasoning is because if schools didn’t have this
tests we would not have a goal to work towards,
teachers wouldn’t know where they went wrong in
their curriculum and parents wouldn’t be able to
see the progress their children have been making.
11. Remove from the heat and cool for two minutes,
still stirring constantly.
12. Remove the pie from the pan and place on a wire
rack over a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
13. Pour the chocolate topping over the pie, covering
the top and sides completely.
14. Refrigerate pie for another two hours or until the
chocolate coating is set.
15. Enjoy your chocolate peanut butter pie!
1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. While it’s preheating, combine the crushed cookies
with ¼ cup of the peanut butter.
3. Combine the mixture thoroughly and press into a
nine inch round baking pan.
4. Bake the crust for 8 to 10 minutes.
5. While that’s going on you can get started on the
This recipe courtesy of cookingchanneltv.com
good part. In an electric mixer, whip the cream cheese
and sugar until smooth.
6. Add ¾ cup of peanut butter, milk and nuts and stir
for one minute.
7. Pour the mixture into a mixing bowl.
8. Mix two cups of the heavy cream and fold into the
peanut butter mixture.
9. Pour the filling into the prepared crust and refrigerate for two hours or until the pies in set.
10. In a sauce pan, over medium heat, melt the chocolate and ¾ cup of cream, stirring constantly until the chocolate is completely melted.
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Your Grizzly Prevention
Squad wants you to know...
WHAT ABOUT SMOKELESS (SPIT) TOBACCO?
THEY PUT WHAT IN A CIGARETTE?!
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here are over 4,000 chemicals in a single puff of
cigarette smoke, and 69 of them are known carcinogens -- meaning they are known to cause cancer.
Below is a list of just a few of the chemicals found in
tobacco products and second-had smoke.
Arsenic: used in rat poison and pesticides.
Acetone: found in vinegar, hair dye, and photo developing fluid.
Ammonia: a typical household cleaning fluid
Benzene: found in gasoline.
Butane: chemical found in light fluid, pesti
cides, and paint.
Cadmium: found in batteries and artist’s paints.
Carbon Monoxide: a poisonous gas found in car exhaust, as well as from other sources.
DDT: a chemical formerly used as an insecticide.
Formaldehyde: used to embalm dead bodies.
Hydrazine: used in rocket fuel.
Hydrogen Cyanide: used as a poison in gas chambers
and chemical weapons.
Lead: a toxic metal that used to be found in some
paints.
Naphthalene: used in mothballs and some paints.
Nitrobenzene: uses as a solvent in petroleum refining.
Phenol: used in disinfectants and plastics.
Polonium-210: a highly radioactive element.
Stearic Acid: found in candles.
Smokeless tobacco is NOT a safe alternative to cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco also contains many dangerous chemicals and can lead to cancer. Below is a list of
chemicals typically found in smokeless tobacco.
Polonium-210: a highly radioactive element.
N-Nitrosamines: found in pesticides and some cosmetics.
Formaldehyde: used to embalm dead bodies.
Cadmium: found in batteries and artist’s paints.
Cyanide: poison.
Arsenic: used in rat poison and pesticides.
Benzene: found in gasoline.
Lead: a toxic metal that used to be found in some paints.
Resources:
For more information on the dangers of tobacco,
please visit the following websites:
Smoke Free Washington – www.SmokeFreeWashington.com
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids – www.tobaccofreekids.org
Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Youth
Tobacco Prevention – www.cdc.gov/tobacco/youth/
index.htm
American Cancer Society – www.cancer.org
American Lung Association of Washington – www.
alaw.org
Washington State Quit Line – www.quitline.com
You can also contact the ESD 113 Student Assistance
Professional to learn more about services available at
your school:
Student Assistance Professional: Izzy Chavez
Phone: (360) 538-8443
Email: [email protected]
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CTE Student of the Month
Opal Jahner is the CTE Student of the Month for Mr.
Skolrood’s Commercial Art class. Opal works so hard
on her art that she has completed all of her semester
projects and is working on the next semester’s work.
She does a great job on her artwork and is motivated
to work on new techniques and mediums that make
her one of the best art students in her class. Keep up
the great work, Opal!
TAHOLAH MERCANTILE
360-276-4540
Hum-Dinger
burgers. fries. seafood. chicken.
corndogs. burritos. ice cream.
shakes. fast service!
(360) 533-2754
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