Drama Production: Hi-Tops - Hesperia

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VOLUME 2
In the News Today:
ISSUE 10
M AY 1 6 T H
Drama Production: Hi-Tops
Tonight, the secondary students
are attending the Spring Dance
held in the chapel. For this
dance, the young ladies have the
opportunity to ask the young men
to go with them as their date.
The high school
drama team
worked hard to
make Hi-Tops
possible.
Points of Interest:
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May 16th– Secondary
Spring Dance
May 19-24th– Senior Trip
to New York
May 20th– J.H. Choir
Spring Concert
May 21st– Spanish II trip
to Olvera St. and
Hollywood
May 22– Patriot Coffee
May 25th– No School
Inside This Issue:
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Page 2: Secondary
Amazing Race
Nixon Library Fieldtrip
Page 3: H.S. Play
Student Poll
Page 4: Basketball
Student Poll
5th Grade Fun Day
By: Kat Svastits
On May 1st, 2nd,
and 4th, the HCS drama department put on
a spectacular play
called Hi-Tops. The
play was about peer
pressure and learning
how to avoid the
temptations of cheating on tests, doing
drugs, and drinking
alcohol and instead
learning to use selfcontrol and love people for who they are.
Mrs. Caylor, the HCS
drama teacher, spent
hours with the entire
class perfecting this
production and making the audience
laugh non-stop.
The cast was so
happy to perform
their first musical.
Amarae Vick, a junior, said, “It was so
much fun. We all got
a lot closer as we
practiced and performed together.” She
played an awesome
back-up dancer and
singer.
From April 29th
through May 2nd, the
cast had Play Week.
The drama students
had no class all week
to practice for the
play.
On Friday,
May 2nd, they had nap
day! The students got
to sleep for part of the
day for their hard
work put into the first
performance
on
Thursday
night.
“Friday was my favorite day,” said
Elaina Hays, a sophomore who volunteered to be in the
play. “We were all
pretty winded and it
was nice to rest and
get ready for the performance that night
without any stress.”
She also played an
excellent
back-up
dancer and singer.
The whole cast
had to stay after
school Thursday and
Friday. It took them
hours to get all the
hair and make up
done, but when they
got it done, it was
like they were back in
the ’80s! A lot
of the teachers
and
students
and their families came to all
three
performances
and
they loved it.
The play was
great because it had
a different twist
from the other plays
that the school has
put on because it
incorporated
a
Christian message
into a musical play.”
This play was more
original; it put everything that teens go
through during high
school into a fun
’80s musical, reaching teens, parents,
and teachers.
The HCS drama
department had a
blast putting on the
production Hi-Tops,
and the cast greatly
thanks Mrs. Caylor
for her amazing
work.
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8th Grade Students Go to Washington, D.C.
By: Alexis Rascon
In the first week of April, the 8th
grade class traveled to Washington, D.C.,
this being the second HCS class trip to
America’s capital.
Mrs. Tipton, the seventh and
eighth grade history teacher, attended this
trip not only to assist her class but also to
know how to better prepare next year’s
eighth grade students for the trip. She
likes this trip for “every place we went to
was educational,” and the thing that she
enjoyed most was the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Mr. Dupree,
the high school history and economics
teacher, attended the trip as well with his
8th grade son, Dawson.
Dave Ley, the senior pastor at
Hesperia Community Church, and his
wife are the two people who plan this
event. They chose to plan the trip in April
because “April is the only time that it is
not too hot or too cold,” and the cherry
trees blossom. It is considered the most
beautiful time of the year in Washington,
D.C.
The group stayed in Washington, D.C. for six days. The three favorite
parts of the trip were the Holocaust Museum, the dinner cruise, and the Pentagon.
The Holocaust Museum was
“emotional and practically everyone was
crying,” said Jaycee Vick. They started
the tour with an information card about a
victim of the Holocaust and learned
the person’s fate by the end of the
tour. They also talked with a Holocaust survivor who was born in
Poland, lived in the ghettos, and
was taken to a concentration camp.
Macey Norton said, “It made a lot
of us rethink our life. We take a lot
of things for granted.”
The second highlight of
the trip was the dinner cruise on the
Potomac River. On the two-decked
ship, they ate dinner and had a
dance party.
The third highlight was
the tour of the Pentagon. Dawson
Dupree said, “It was the main thing
I was looking forward to.” They
had two hilarious tour guides, one a
Navy veteran and one an Air Force
veteran. They visited a 9/11 memorial for the people who died at the
Pentagon, and they saw for themselves where the building had to be
rebuilt because of the plane crash.
Besides these favorite
events, they also toured the White
House, the capitol, and many memorials such as the Lincoln Memorial and
the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
The students were exhausted by the
time they returned home and very
thankful for their experiences.
The eighth grade students stand
in front of the Capitol with their
tour guide.
Seniors Go To the Nixon Library
By: Faron Shroeder
On April 16th the senior class
went on a trip to the Nixon Library in
Yorba Linda. The library, which opened
last year on August 21st, is on nine acres
of land and is only fifteen minutes from
Disneyland. Anyone who enters the library starts in the auditorium, progresses
through the exhibits, and can step into
Army One, the helicopter used by Presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and
Ford, or Nixon’s childhood house. The
main objective of this trip for the senior
economics class was to get a better understanding of the life of Nixon, who was
president of the United States in 1969 to
1974. David “Jun” Hwang said, “I
learned about the biography of Nixon.”
He especially enjoyed learning that Nixon
was a musician who played the violin,
piano, clarinet, and other instruments as
well.
While there, they walked around
the whole museum as a group, went inside the helicopter, and went inside Nixon’s childhood home. Nate Metz said,
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“We got to see it visually, which is the
best way to learn.” The students thought
that it was cool to be let inside the house
and see the room where he slept. Ally
Brown’s favorite part of the trip was
when “Steven and Jun were caught playing the piano that was around some of the
exhibits.”
On their way back they ate lunch
at Panda Express. Ally Brown’s parents
and Mr. Dupree drove the class there and
back.
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Raising Money for the School
By: Spencer Hamm
The Race for Education fundraiser happens
every year. Both the high
school and
the elementary participate, but it is
different for
the secondary students.
They have
t
h
e
“Amazing
Race”
instead of the
“Race
for
Education.”
The elementary students
have an hour
to see how
many laps they can run
around the track in an hour,
and their sponsors say that
they will pay a certain
amount of money for each
lap that the students run. The
secondary students compete
in a series of relay races and
small games to gain as many
points as possible. There are
69 students participated on 11 different
teams in the Amazing
Race for Education.
teams of 5 or 6, and in the
end the team with the most
points wins. There were
games like scooter racing,
ping pong rallies, and team
charades. The race was organized differently this year.
It did not matter how fast
students finished the games
because it was not timed.
This meant that students did
not have to run everywhere.
The games were based on a
point system. For example,
however many times students hit the ball over the
net is how many points they
got for that round.
Since most of the
students participate, the
school gets a lot of money
from the Amazing Race.
Before the race, students get
names of people that they
want to sponsor them. So far
the school has received
$13,140.50. This is a good
way for the school to make
money. As a bonus the students receive rewards like
getting free snack cards to
the Patriot Pantry and homework passes.
For secondary, the
team that won was the orange
team. The students on that
team were Zach Shilling, Mia
Williams, Brooke Johnson,
Stephanie Johnson, Allison
Johnson, and Esther Ley. For
winning, they get to exempt
from a final exam during the
last week of school. The second place team was Jared
Hays, Spencer Hamm, Nathanael Dupree, Dylan Brower,
Olivia Hough, Emilee Helm,
and Matthew Shaker. They
won an extra two dollars in
snack cards for the patriot pantry.
Students got rewards
based on how many sponsors
they had, too. The rewards are
free snack cards that are either
worth $1, $2, or $4. If students
turned even more names in,
they received either a day or a
week of Patriot dress.
Student Poll What is on your bucket list?
I want to go in a diving cage and see a
Great White shark. –David Flores
I want to do a color run.
–Brooke Johnson
I want to go sky diving.
–Alison Johnson
I want to visit Greece.
–Brad Leontas
I want to own my own car
shop. –Nate Metz
I want to travel the world.
– Alexis Rascon
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Jr. High Basketball Comes to an End
By: Jake Hooper
The boys and girls junior high basketball teams have
had another successful season.
They easily won all of their
league games on the way to
identical undefeated records. The
boys have gone undefeated for
three straight seasons now and
are the perennial powerhouse in
league. The girls dominated all
competition this year under the
first year coaching experience of
senior Olivia Hough.
The
The girls were 10-0 in
league and found the biggest challenge facing AAE. The team is led
by the three eight grade players, Elle
Leontas, Kali Klasa, and Vanessa
Copeland. The three varsity coaches
mentored Olivia throughout the season
and taught her valuable lessons. The
first playoff game on Thursday
May 1st against Loma Linda Academy and lost by seven points.
The boys were also 10-0
in league and held off AAE, their
biggest competition, twice. The
team was led by Quentin Wilson,
Hunter Dobyns and Spencer
Doherty. Coach Dobyns was their
head coach. Hunter said, “I know
that because we have the varsity
coach as our coach, we will get
better and be more successful.”
The boys all enjoyed the season
junior high boys basketball team scrimmage as they and improved their basketball skills to a
prepare for the playoffs.
new level. The boys also played their
first playoff game on Thursday May 1st
girls enjoyed the time they got to spend
against Bloomington Christian and lost
with her and said they learned a lot from by ten points. Both teams had great seaher. Taylor Clifton said, “My favorite
sons, and they hope to carry their skills
experience was playing against AAE and into next year and throughout their cabeating them.” The girls played their
reers at Hesperia Christian.
5th Grade Fun Day
By: Jake Hooper
On Friday April 11th, the 5th
grade class had a fun day. The class
took two tests in the morning and then
had the rest of the day to relax and
have fun. The class was allowed to
wear pajamas and bring their favorite
toy as long as it was not electronic.
The kids watched the movie Madagascar and played board games. They had
a pizza party and even had their allotted computer time in the computer lab.
The kids earned the free day by behaving well and doing well on tests. They
all had a great time and look forward to
doing it again.
The 5th grade class enjoyed a fun day as a
reward for good behavior and grades.
Student Poll: Favorite Clothing Stores
Pacsun:
14
Tilly’s:
19
Target:
4
American Eagle: Forever 21: Vans: H&M:
1
9
5
2
Urban Outfitters: Zumiez:
0
9
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