Asa Carter We should be proud of our band majors. If you do not know they are a very important piece to the big band puzzle. Aubree Wiggins and Alex Beebe Are our band majors for the our band. Aubree has been playing music for almost Eight years .Alex has been playing the trombone and tuba for eight years as well. Aubree plays the flute; she has been playing the flute since the 5th grade and also plays the piccolo since last year. When she played for her solo ensemble she got a distinguished for her performance. Alex says “Being a drum major is a fun combination of waving my arms around like a moron and balancing on dangerously-high podiums. While it requires a large amount of responsibility, the greatest challenge is not imagining myself playing whack a mole while conducting. Aubree and Alex love to be the band majors for the band. Aubree and Alex are leaders for the band and stand in front of the audience and conduct music that they love. Alex says “there are many leaders in the band room, but a drum-major takes on responsibility completely different than playing an instrument out on the field. Conducting, running drills, getting music together and showing a great example for the band are just some of the aspects of being a Drum major.” Aubree will be attending the University of Louisville and studying Music Therapy to use music to help special needs. Music is a great part of everyone's life and influences us in many ways. Music has influenced Aubree to pursue something most people wouldn't do. Alex will be going to JB Speed Engineering School at UofL, “But I plan on playing in the marching band there and eventually being a drum major.” That's why we should congratulate Aubree and Alex for their leadership and performance over the years.
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Monet Carroll Our Drama Club, here at Jeffersontown High School, performed the Breakfast Club. The Breakfast Club is about five high school students, Andrew Clark (Dylan Williams), John Bender (Dustin Gibson), Allison Reynolds (Mary Taylor and Savannah Everett), Brian Johnson (Thomas Farless), and Claire Standish (Rebecca Laird), who meet in detention one day. The principal, played by Kenneth Brown, wants them to write an essay, and they think they’re in for a boring 8 hours. At first, they argue and fight, but after smoking some marijuana they pour their hearts out to each other. They discuss their fears, their secrets, their emotions, and their problems. The play was March 31st , April 1st, and, April 2nd. After performing another great play, A Raisin in the Sun last year, after a few years of not performing any plays. The Drama club has stepped up with a great, new appearance. They worked very hard to perform this play with Ms. Bowen’s guidance. Great job to the drama club, you guys did an excellent job! Eddy Graham Jeffersontown High School will be hosting the 2016 Skills USA competition, displaying the talents of our trade programs and competing with other students from around the district. The competition will recognize Welding, Machine Tool, CADD, and our Robotics Team. Rommie Kader, from the welding program says, “I am pretty excited to see what we can accomplish. We’ve worked hard all year and it’s no surprise that we are ready for this, which we are.” And he couldn’t be anymore correct. In fact, every class has taken on special precautions to make sure the Chargers come out on top. “This is the best group of kids this welding program has seen in years, in my opinion”, says Jerry Burke, welding instructor. Baxter Meurer from the Machine Tool program seems to have a brighter look for the competition as well. “Totally gonna do awesome. We’re J-town”, he says. Hopes could not be higher for our performance. The competition will display every skill in every trade skill- from welds to manufactured parts to robotics. If you are involved in any of our big trades, you know the seriousness taken to be the very best in JCPS. Every day is filled with the effort of those who want to build a greater future for us all. Go Chargers!
Click on READ MORE to see the winners! Karissa Hunt Congratulations to J-town’s Future Problem Solving Team for placing 3rd in District Governor's Cup and 2nd in Regional Governor's Cup. This is J-town’s first year having a Future Problem Solving Team and Mrs. Mulder’s first time sponsoring. The Problem Solvers are met with an issue, like natural disasters or disappearing languages, and are expected to come up with a solution and action plan in a two hour time span. It is a very particular and long process. They have to think up 16 challenges and 16 possible solutions before picking the best one and making a plan. Janae Boyd, Andrew Puckett, Alex Beebe, and Melanie Brown competed in Districts and Andrensia Flowers contributed by putting together a presentation for the team. “Four very different students came together to make tinfoil beards and stupid skits while eating oranges,” says a source who wishes to remain anonymous. J-town was only beat by St. X and Mercy who have been competing for many years. Overall, we are quite proud of our thinking Chargers! Malachai Laws Social media over the summer has been booming with celebrity drama to new movies coming out. Almost everyone was talking about something over the internet, and I am here to tell you what the people were talking about.
Starting with movies. Insidious: Chapter 3 came out in June 5th was a pretty satisfying prequel sequel with tons of scream wrenching jumpscares and a well put plot. A young teenage girl named Quinn is trying to follow her dreams by acting, but is still trying to move on from her deceased mother. After trying to contact her mother by the psychic going wrong Quinn soon after gets hit by a car, crippling her in the process and with her being practically vulnerable the bad spirit take its chance to attack Quinn in any way possible. Jurassic World bringing adult nerds and their childhood memories to the movie theater for another blockbuster sequel that came out in June 12th. DNA from other dinosaurs that were still brought to life from mosquitos that were trapped in tree sap, the park opens back to the public and new technology. But that's not the only thing that is new and coming soon. Scientist come up with a hybrid dinosaur to give the park more thrill to the people, soon after a mistake with the false hybrid escape, the hybrid escapes with its cunning plan to head to where all of the people are. On its rampage through the park the park manager nephews are lost and she has to look for them. We the fans also get to see more of the island that we have never got to see in the other 3 films and seeing the old jurassic park. Celebrities are one thing we talk in our time, but celebrity drama is another thing that we will remember. From Miley Cyrus and Nicki Minaj to Drake and Meek Mill those were the two most talked about celebrity beef over the internet. Breaking down the Miley and Nicki drama, Miley in her interview on a tonight talk show, Miley was comparing Nicki to Iggy Azalea (Nicki`s enemy) and actually called her “trash.” So at the MTV Video Music Awards, Nicki obviously wanted to confront Miley by saying ““And now back to this b— that had a lot to say about me the other day in the press,” Minaj snapped. “Miley, what’s good?!” This spread across the internet quickly to where this scene is on pillows and shirts. Before the beef with Miley, Nicki was beefing with Taylor Swift. The MTV Video Music Awards announced the nominees for Video Of The Year, and with none of the nominees being any of Nicki's songs such as “Feeling Myself” or “Anaconda.” Nicki soon afterwards tweeted “If your video celebrates women with very slim bodies, you will be nominated for vid of the year” Seeming like Nicki was referring to Taylor Swift which in my opinion was probably toward Taylor (Music Video “Bad Blood” did mainly only have women). Karissa Hunt The Jeffersontown Ecology Club is a group of students who are attempting to make the planet a better place by starting locally at our school and within our community. They participated in local stream and river clean-ups and to kept own campus clean. Anyone can join and help Ecology Club make a difference in our world. Mrs. Lineberry has sponsored Ecology Club ever since she began teaching at J-town (7 years). “I love seeing kids outside of class, and helping the community.” The club finds some pretty interesting things on their cleanups, anything from hobos homes to um rather inappropriate things to write in a school newspaper. One of the more fun cleanups is the Living Lands and Waters Ohio Cleanup, ran by Chad Regracke. Students get to ride a barge and clean up and down the Ohio River. It has been an unforgettable year for the club as they also had an injury during the first cleanup at Charlie Vettiner Park. Jessica Bott, 11, cut her leg on a piece of glass. Thankfully, a heroic person was there to maintain pressure on the cut. Also everyone is president in Ecology Club and it's a fun way to hangout with friends while benefitting the earth. If you are all about the environment then go see Mrs. Lineberry and ask when the next cleanup is. Deshawna Burres The Jeffersontown High School band and ensemble performed on February 20, 2016 at Atherton High School. Mr.Stewart, the director of the J-town band, is proud to say that this year’s band solo and ensemble performance has had major improvement. Mr.Stewart had roughly 75% of his students earn distinguished and 100% earn proficient on their performance. The performance rates have changed tremendously; in 2015 there were only 72% distinguished, and the year before there were only 30% of band members proficient. The change of passing rates were due to a change in scoring and passing percentile. Before the February solo/ensemble performances, the students usually choose their music they will be performing around Thanksgiving break. From then on, they have to practice the music piece on their own, having no time during class most of the time. During the months of preparation some students would have private teachers that go over their performance piece with them, but most of the time it’s just the students’ responsibility to learn. Lately, the J-Town Band has been getting a lot of attention, and, needless to say, this recognition is long overdue.
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