The Roar AP testing around the corner

The Roar
The Grizzlies’ voice at Loyalton High School
Apr. 17, 2015
Vol. 15
Issue 15
AP testing around the corner
By Aeris Elder
Roar Reporter
Many Loyalton students and their
teachers are making final pushes in preparation for Advanced
Placement testing, which is set for
the first full two weeks of May.
The College Board, which is the
organization that administers the
SAT and PSAT programs, also administers the AP exams.
The name Advanced Placement
refers to the possibility that students taking the tests could receive advanced placement when
they enter college, because many
universities offer units to students
who pass the exams. Some stu-
dents even enter college as sophomores because of all the credits
they have acquired.
AP testing is only for students
taking AP classes or those making special requests. The AP tests
are very challenging, as the course
material is intended to be college
level.
Only one sophomore here at LHS
is taking the AP tests; the rest are
juniors and seniors. The AP exams
will be held here at LHS in either
the gym or library, as follows: May
4, AP Chemistry; May 5, AP Calculus AB; May 7, AP Spanish Language; May 8, AP U.S. History and
AP Studio Art 2D; May 12, AP Government; and May 13, AP English
Language.
After that there will also be late
testing for those who have conflicts with testing dates because of
sports contests and other limited
situations.
The results of the test are on a
five-point scale: 1 to 5, with 3 and
above passing. Public universities
in California will typically give college units for students with scores
of 3, 4 and 5 on AP exams – often
from 6 to 8 units for each course
because students are taking yearlong classes and have many hours
dedicated to their studies.
Students taking AP courses at
Loyalton High get an extra grade
point for any grade that is a C
or better. That means that an A
counts as 5 grade points toward
overall GPA.
The tests also show that students
are ready for college.
Some 22 LHS students are taking
a total of 42 tests. One of those
tests is actually an art portfolio
rather than the typical exam, for
which students will put together
a selection of many pieces of art
that are submitted online.
Tests are mandatory for students
taking an AP course in the SierraPlumas Joint Unified School District, which is paying for students’
AP exam fees this year for the first
time. This is saving students more
than $80 for each test.
Writing conference beneficial
and enjoyable for Roar editors
By Gis Driscoll
Features Editor
Two weeks ago seniors Bella
Campbell and Cheyenne L:ittle attended a professional writers conference along with teacher Janet
McHenry from Mar. 27-31 at the
Mt. Hermon Conference Center in
the Santa Cruz Mountains.
The conference was recommended to the two seniors by McHenry,
who attended the conference for
15 years straight and had gained
many writing skills from the classes there. The conference offered
classes that ranged from fiction to
non fiction and gave the attendees a wide choice of classes to
choose from.
Both Campbell and Little took a
science fiction and fantasy class
that they attended each day there
and learned about the viewpoints
of characters and how to create a
world. They learned all of the details that are needed in writing a
story, such as clothing, religion
and languages. They also took a
character motives writing class
and a critique class. In the critique
class the objective was to write
the first page of their story and
then the rest of the class would
critique it while they critiqued another classmate’s paper.
One advantage of that particular writers conference, McHenry
said, “is the opportunity to meet
with magazine and book editors
and publishers, as well as literary
agents, all of whom are looking
for the next up-and-coming writer
that will have a string of best sellers.”
Along with their conference,
McHenry took Campbell and
Little to visit the University of
California,Berkeley, on their way
there for Campbell, who was accepted to the college. The students also got to visit the beach
and the Santa Cruz Boardwalk.
On the trip back the group also
visited Sacramento State and UC
Davis.
Campbell and Little both found
the experience very helpful for
their writing pursuits and learned Bella Campbell, Janet McHenry and Cheyenne Little at Mount Hermon after the conference.
a lot from the conference.
Opinions and Editorials
Start college planning
in freshman year
By Bella Campbell
Co-editor-in-chief
If you plan on attending college,
preparations are not something
that can be put off until senior
year. A lot goes into the process
long before twelfth grade, especially if you don’t want to feel the
extra pressure of scrambling to
make things work your last year.
So, it is even important for freshmen to start thinking about what
they might like to do after high
school -- and then create yearly
The Grizzlies’ Roar
Staff
Editors-inCheif
Bella Campbell
and Cheyenne
Little
Features
Editor
Gus Driscoll
Roar
Reporters
Madison Hood
James Morrison
Aeris Elder
Sports
Reporters
Chase Grandi
Kennedy Hood
Photo-
grapher
Abby Campbell
Advisor
Janet McHenry
The Grizzlies’ Roar is
a publication of
Loyalton High School
P.O. Box 37
Loyalton, CA 96118
LHS Roar Blog
http://lhsroar.wordpress.
com/home/
class schedules that will help
them reach those plans.
One of the most important things
that most students don’t think
twice about is the simple graduation requirements of Loyalton
High School. Speaking from personal experience, I emphasize that
you need to make sure you have
met those requirements and the
sooner the better. You can have
the best transcript—take all those
AP classes—but if you’re missing
a semester of Physical Education,
you had better think fast and fix it.
The second thing is making sure
you meet the basic A-G requirements for the two public four-year
college systems -- the Universities
of California and the California
State Universities.
Ensure that you’ll have the required four years of English, three
years of math, two years of lab
science, one year of visual or performing art, one year of a college
preparatory course and the two
years of foreign language.
The PSAT can be taken freshman
through junior year and is great
for getting the feel of the SAT in
a real, timed setting. Students
should take the PSAT the fall of the
sophomore year, if not freshman,
and then again in the fall of their
junior year, when there is the possibility for winning scholarships
through the National Merit Scholarship program. An SAT study
guide from the College Board is
a helpful tool with information
about the test, sample questions,
and practice tests.
Students should start seriously
looking into colleges their junior
year so that trips to visit campuses
can be planned. Even if you don’t
know where you want to go or
what you want to major in, visiting
campuses can be eye-opening.
This way you’ll know what you like
aesthetically at least. Maybe you
find out you like a campus with
fewer students and situated away
from the city. Maybe you want to
be in the heart of downtown. It
makes a difference, and the earlier you learn what you want, the
easier the applying process will
be your senior year. You can encourage your parents to stop by
college campuses when visiting
family or taking vacations.
Visit college fairs. There will generally be many different colleges
from all over the U.S. there. For
some who might not be able to
visit colleges out of state or who
want more information on colleges on the East Coast, this is an
opportunity that isn’t expensive.
Sign up to take the SAT in the
spring of your junior year. If you
don’t, you will be up against a time
crunch to retake it if you don’t like
your scores in the fall. If you want
to go to a four year college, you
have to take the SAT.
The ACT should also be taken.
Some students feel they do better
overall on the ACT than the SAT.
Where as the SAT stresses reasoning, the ACT tests facts and information. Some colleges and universities, and some majors, look
more closely at ACT scores than
SAT.
The fall of your senior year is when
students finalize their college applications and start on scholarship
applications, although there are
several scholarship opportunities
open to juniors and underclassmen. One way to check for these
opportunities is to go to the LHS
website, the graduation tab, senior year 101, and “scholarships,
grants” which is updated regularly
by Janet McHenry.
McHenry also has a blog that
helps seniors navigate their senior
year:
SeniorYear101blog.wordpress.com.
Four-year planning this year is
scheduled for April 18 and 19.
Each student and at least one parent must attend a four-year planning session to meet with an LHS
teacher to go over your college
or career-related plans and then
make a four-year plan that will
lead you toward your goals.
In the Hallways
Random
opinions
in the hall
Question:
What are your plans
for the future?
Senior
Go to college
and be
successful.
Morgan
Bowling
Junior
To be rich.
Luke
Campbell
Sophomore
Go to a fouryear college
and get a
master’s in
something.
Tristan Studer
Freshman
Go to college
to become a
teacher.
Phoebe
Griffin
8th
Go to college,
get money, be
happy.
Matthew
Graves
7th
To go to
Feather River
College!
Emma
Whitley
Dear
Gabby,
An Advice Column
Dear Gabby,
Why do trees lose their leaves?
-Curious George
Dear Curious George,
Trees lose their leaves because of
how nature works. For example
when trees lose all their leaves
for a while, this is called abscission. In tropical and subtropical
areas trees lose their leaves in the
dry season or in other seasons
depending on how much rainfall
they get.
Dear Gabby,
What is more important— a wellpaying job or a job that makes
you happy?
-Confused
Dear Confused,
Most career problems begin with
picking the wrong job the first
time. You might think you are
good at picking jobs but only five
percent of people pick the right
job on the first time, so don’t feel
bad if you don’t get you first job
right. Try to find out what it is you
really want to do, and what would
make you happy. It depends
mostly on your lifestyle. If your
lifestyle costs $10,000 a month,
then you should consider pursuing a career that pays better but
if your lifestyle cost about $4,000
a month, then you have a bigger
range of jobs to choose from.
Dear Gabby,
What is the percentage of obesity
in America?
-Oddly Obese
Dear Oddly Obese,
About 69 percent of American
adults are considered overweight.
More than one in twenty (6.3
percent) have extreme obesity.
About one-third of children and
adolescents ages six to nineteen
are considered to be overweight
or obese.
Nine FFA students
to attend conference
By James Morrison
Roar Reporter
Future Farmers of America members will be leaving for the California State FFA Conference in
Fresno today and will not be returning until Tuesday. Nine students from Loyalton FFA are going to attend the California State
Confrence and out of those nine,
one will be competing, one will be
singing in the state choir, two will
be on press corps, another two
will be voting delegates and the
last three will be going to attend
and support the others. Bret Colberg will be going to compete in
extemperaneous public speaking.
He has been to multiple competitions to earn this spot at the state
level. Sage Sayers will be going a
day earlier than everyone else to
practice singing in the state FFA
choir. Andrew Kielak and Sam
Hall will be going on Press Corps,
which is great because itwill be
their second year in a row that
they have been selected. The Press
Corps reports in media sources on
the various confrence activities.
Sami Guidotti and Bryant Doyle
will be voting delegates.
Matthew Nolasco, Hayden Ketchum
and Allie Davis will all be going to
attend and support the other FFA
members.
Senior variety show
planned for next week
By Cheyenne Little
Co-editor-in-chief
The Senior Variety Show is
scheduled to take place Friday,
April 24. The variety show helps
support the senior class’ senior
trip and decorations and staging
for graduation. It is a tradition at
Loyalton High School and is one
of the largest class fundraisers of
the year.
This year the show will have a
dinner from 5 to 6 p.m.; the variety show will follow from 6:30
to 8:30 p.m. The dinner will consist of meat, two side dishes and
bread.
Ticket prices will cost $10 for dinner and show. Just an adult show
ticket costs $7, and just a student
show ticket costs $5.
The show consists of three sections. In the first section seniors
will perform different skits. The
second section is a live auction
where seniors will be bring antiques and homemade goods
that the audience will bid on. The
third section will be a talent portion.
Seniors are actively working to
create what will hopefully be a
fun-filled night.
Students from 7th to 12th grade
will be able to participate in the
talent portion of the show. This
is the first year that any class has
allowed participation from other
grades. Those who want to participate are asked to contact senior
class president Cheyenne Little.
These talents can range from
musical to comical, but must be
school appropriate. No lip-syncing
will be allowed.
To buy tickets contact a senior.
All dinner tickets need to be purchased by April 22.
Students receive help from student tutors during CSF tutoring on
Wednesdays after school.
Opinions and Editorials
Start college planning
in freshman year
By Bella Campbell
Co-editor-in-chief
If you plan on attending college,
preparations are not something
that can be put off until senior
year. A lot goes into the process
long before twelfth grade, especially if you don’t want to feel the
extra pressure of scrambling to
make things work your last year.
So, it is even important for freshmen to start thinking about what
they might like to do after high
school -- and then create yearly
The Grizzlies’ Roar
Staff
Editors-inCheif
Bella Campbell
and Cheyenne
Little
Features
Editor
Gus Driscoll
Roar
Reporters
Madison Hood
James Morrison
Aeris Elder
Sports
Reporters
Chase Grandi
Kennedy Hood
Photo-
grapher
Abby Campbell
Advisor
Janet McHenry
The Grizzlies’ Roar is
a publication of
Loyalton High School
P.O. Box 37
Loyalton, CA 96118
LHS Roar Blog
http://lhsroar.wordpress.
com/home/
class schedules that will help
them reach those plans.
One of the most important things
that most students don’t think
twice about is the simple graduation requirements of Loyalton
High School. Speaking from personal experience, I emphasize that
you need to make sure you have
met those requirements and the
sooner the better. You can have
the best transcript—take all those
AP classes—but if you’re missing
a semester of Physical Education,
you had better think fast and fix it.
The second thing is making sure
you meet the basic A-G requirements for the two public four-year
college systems -- the Universities
of California and the California
State Universities.
Ensure that you’ll have the required four years of English, three
years of math, two years of lab
science, one year of visual or performing art, one year of a college
preparatory course and the two
years of foreign language.
The PSAT can be taken freshman
through junior year and is great
for getting the feel of the SAT in
a real, timed setting. Students
should take the PSAT the fall of the
sophomore year, if not freshman,
and then again in the fall of their
junior year, when there is the possibility for winning scholarships
through the National Merit Scholarship program. An SAT study
guide from the College Board is
a helpful tool with information
about the test, sample questions,
and practice tests.
Students should start seriously
looking into colleges their junior
year so that trips to visit campuses
can be planned. Even if you don’t
know where you want to go or
what you want to major in, visiting
campuses can be eye-opening.
This way you’ll know what you like
aesthetically at least. Maybe you
find out you like a campus with
fewer students and situated away
from the city. Maybe you want to
be in the heart of downtown. It
makes a difference, and the earlier you learn what you want, the
easier the applying process will
be your senior year. You can encourage your parents to stop by
college campuses when visiting
family or taking vacations.
Visit college fairs. There will generally be many different colleges
from all over the U.S. there. For
some who might not be able to
visit colleges out of state or who
want more information on colleges on the East Coast, this is an
opportunity that isn’t expensive.
Sign up to take the SAT in the
spring of your junior year. If you
don’t, you will be up against a time
crunch to retake it if you don’t like
your scores in the fall. If you want
to go to a four year college, you
have to take the SAT.
The ACT should also be taken.
Some students feel they do better
overall on the ACT than the SAT.
Where as the SAT stresses reasoning, the ACT tests facts and information. Some colleges and universities, and some majors, look
more closely at ACT scores than
SAT.
The fall of your senior year is when
students finalize their college applications and start on scholarship
applications, although there are
several scholarship opportunities
open to juniors and underclassmen. One way to check for these
opportunities is to go to the LHS
website, the graduation tab, senior year 101, and “scholarships,
grants” which is updated regularly
by Janet McHenry.
McHenry also has a blog that
helps seniors navigate their senior
year:
SeniorYear101blog.wordpress.com.
Four-year planning this year is
scheduled for April 18 and 19.
Each student and at least one parent must attend a four-year planning session to meet with an LHS
teacher to go over your college
or career-related plans and then
make a four-year plan that will
lead you toward your goals.
In the Hallways
Random
opinions
in the hall
Question:
What are your plans
for the future?
Senior
Go to college
and be
successful.
Morgan
Bowling
Junior
To be rich.
Luke
Campbell
Sophomore
Go to a fouryear college
and get a
master’s in
something.
Tristan Studer
Freshman
Go to college
to become a
teacher.
Phoebe
Griffin
8th
Go to college,
get money, be
happy.
Matthew
Graves
7th
To go to
Feather River
College!
Emma
Whitley
Dear
Gabby,
An Advice Column
Dear Gabby,
Why do trees lose their leaves?
-Curious George
Dear Curious George,
Trees lose their leaves because of
how nature works. For example
when trees lose all their leaves
for a while, this is called abscission. In tropical and subtropical
areas trees lose their leaves in the
dry season or in other seasons
depending on how much rainfall
they get.
Dear Gabby,
What is more important— a wellpaying job or a job that makes
you happy?
-Confused
Dear Confused,
Most career problems begin with
picking the wrong job the first
time. You might think you are
good at picking jobs but only five
percent of people pick the right
job on the first time, so don’t feel
bad if you don’t get you first job
right. Try to find out what it is you
really want to do, and what would
make you happy. It depends
mostly on your lifestyle. If your
lifestyle costs $10,000 a month,
then you should consider pursuing a career that pays better but
if your lifestyle cost about $4,000
a month, then you have a bigger
range of jobs to choose from.
Dear Gabby,
What is the percentage of obesity
in America?
-Oddly Obese
Dear Oddly Obese,
About 69 percent of American
adults are considered overweight.
More than one in twenty (6.3
percent) have extreme obesity.
About one-third of children and
adolescents ages six to nineteen
are considered to be overweight
or obese.
Nine FFA students
to attend conference
By James Morrison
Roar Reporter
Future Farmers of America members will be leaving for the California State FFA Conference in
Fresno today and will not be returning until Tuesday. Nine students from Loyalton FFA are going to attend the California State
Confrence and out of those nine,
one will be competing, one will be
singing in the state choir, two will
be on press corps, another two
will be voting delegates and the
last three will be going to attend
and support the others. Bret Colberg will be going to compete in
extemperaneous public speaking.
He has been to multiple competitions to earn this spot at the state
level. Sage Sayers will be going a
day earlier than everyone else to
practice singing in the state FFA
choir. Andrew Kielak and Sam
Hall will be going on Press Corps,
which is great because itwill be
their second year in a row that
they have been selected. The Press
Corps reports in media sources on
the various confrence activities.
Sami Guidotti and Bryant Doyle
will be voting delegates.
Matthew Nolasco, Hayden Ketchum
and Allie Davis will all be going to
attend and support the other FFA
members.
Senior variety show
planned for next week
By Cheyenne Little
Co-editor-in-chief
The Senior Variety Show is
scheduled to take place Friday,
April 24. The variety show helps
support the senior class’ senior
trip and decorations and staging
for graduation. It is a tradition at
Loyalton High School and is one
of the largest class fundraisers of
the year.
This year the show will have a
dinner from 5 to 6 p.m.; the variety show will follow from 6:30
to 8:30 p.m. The dinner will consist of meat, two side dishes and
bread.
Ticket prices will cost $10 for dinner and show. Just an adult show
ticket costs $7, and just a student
show ticket costs $5.
The show consists of three sections. In the first section seniors
will perform different skits. The
second section is a live auction
where seniors will be bring antiques and homemade goods
that the audience will bid on. The
third section will be a talent portion.
Seniors are actively working to
create what will hopefully be a
fun-filled night.
Students from 7th to 12th grade
will be able to participate in the
talent portion of the show. This
is the first year that any class has
allowed participation from other
grades. Those who want to participate are asked to contact senior
class president Cheyenne Little.
These talents can range from
musical to comical, but must be
school appropriate. No lip-syncing
will be allowed.
To buy tickets contact a senior.
All dinner tickets need to be purchased by April 22.
Students receive help from student tutors during CSF tutoring on
Wednesdays after school.
Sports Roar
Track off to a good start
By Chase Grandi
Sports Reporter
Loyalton High has 16 athletes on
the JV and varsity track team this
year.
For the first track meet of the
year, the track team went to University Prep High School track
meet in Redding on Mar. 26. The
varsity boys placed second out of
9 teams. UPrep beat the Grizzlies
out for first place by 42 points
The junior varsity boys got second place in the meet out of 7
teams. The UPrep school took first
by outscoring Loyalton JV boys by
106.5 points.
The varsity girls took fourth place
in this meet out of 8 teams.
For the JV girls team there is only
Madeline Williams, who placed
seventh out of 8 teams.
In the Burt Williams Classic track
meet on March 28, the varsity
boys got twelfth out of 17 teams.
The varsity boys made 12 points.
The Loyalton JV boys got tenth
place out of the 19 teams that
were there.
The varsity girls placed seventh
out of 17 with 20 points. Loyalton
did not have a JV girls team for the
Burt Williams Classic.
LHS was one of nine schools participating in the Mid-Valley League
and Friends track meet Wednesday at Red Bluff High School.
Boys and girls varsity took third
place out of nine teams. Boys junior varsity took first out of nine
teams.
For the varsity girls, Junior Ken-
nedy Hood got first place in the
100 meters and the 200 meters.
Sami Guidotti got fourth in discus
and Madeline Williams won third
in 1600 meters.
For the JV boys Jose Carrillo and
Ezra Eberhart competed in the
100 meters and won second and
third. Nathan Hughes was the
only JV participant in the 800 meters and won first place. Tristan
Studer won second place in the
3200 meters.
For the varsity boys Winston
Reugebrink won second in both
shot put and discus. Gus Driscoll
was the only participant in the
400 meters. Jesus Guerrero won
second in the 110m Hurdles.
Loyalton did very well, Gressell
seemed pleased with the results.
Many wins for baseball
but losses for softball
By Kennedy Hood
Sports Reporter
Baseball has gone 5-4 in the past
three weeks.
The team played Hayfork in a
double-header on Mar. 27.
The boys won both of the games,
10-8, and 13-1.
In the first game the boys managed to take the lead early in the
first inning and didn’t allow Hayfork to score until the third inning.
Hayfork started to catch up to the
Grizzlies in the fourth inning, scoring five runs to the boys’ two runs,
but the Grizz pulled away for the
lead in the fifth and final inning.
The lead scorer for Loyalton was
Bowdy Griffin, scoring three runs
throughout the game.
In the second game the boys
managed to keep the Timberjacks
from not scoring in all but the first
inning. The Grizzlies started the
game off with a high intensity and
managed to ten-run the Timberjacks.
The Grizz then lost 5-4 against
Chester on Apr. 4.
The boys had a frustrating start to
the game, which led to a struggle
with the strike zone. The Grizzlies
lost this game in the fourth and
fifth innings when Chester scored
two runs in both innings. Logan
Gavin was the lead scorer for this
game, with two runs throughout
the game. Coach Ben Roberti said
he was confident for the home
opener, which will be against
Chester.
The boys then travelled to the
Greenville Tournament, in which
they placed second.
The boys first went to play Maxwell and lost 10-0.
The Grizzlies struggled from the
beginning of the game and were
unable to pick up the slack that
they had created in the first innings. Maxwell was able to extend
it’s lead in the fourth and fifth
inning, scoring five runs in the
fourth inning and three runs in the
fifth innings.
The next game of the tournament was a game against Whittell,
which the Grizz won 9-5. In the
first inning Tyler Lake hit a home
run with two other players on
base. The Grizz took the lead in the
beginning of the game by scoring
three runs in the first inning and
two runs in the second inning. The
lead scorers for this game were
Griffin and Beto Lopez, both scoring two runs.
The Grizzlies then beat Biggs 4-3.
The boys took the lead in the first
inning, scoring three runs. Biggs
started to catch up in the fourth
inning, scoring two runs to the
Grizzlies’ one run. While the boys
won this game, Coach Roberti said
that the boys struggled to reach
their full potential in this game.
In the final game of the tournament the boys beat Fall River, 9-0.
The boys took the lead in the
second inning and extended their
lead in the fourth and fifth inning. The lead scorer of this game
was Lopez making it home twice
throughout the game.
The boys lost to American Christian Academy in an away double
header, 9 to 0 and 14 to 0.
The Grizzlies struggled to keep
up with ACA as ACA pulled farther
ahead. Lake said that the field that
they played on was made of turf,
which caused the boys to become
incredibly hot on the field.
Softball
The Lady Grizz lost to Core Butte
Grizzlies’
Schedules
Track
4/24 Burney Spring Classic
Burney
5/7 Quincy Meet
Quincy
5/8 Dave Allen Twilight
Invitational
Mt. Shasta
Baseball
4/27 Portola @ Loyalton
Time: 4:00
5/1 Big Valley @ Loyalton
Time 2:00
5/5 Loyalton @ Portola
Time: 4:00
5/7 Greenville @ Loyalton
Time: 2:00
Softball
4/24 Loyalton @ Herlong
Time: 2:00
4/27 Portola @ Loyalton
Time: 4:00
5/5 Loyalton @ Portola
Time: 4:00
5/7 Greenville @ Loyalton
Time: 2:00
in a double-header Thursday at
home, 12-1 and 18-3.
The Grizz struggled to hit the
strike zone in both of their games,
which led to a lack of strikeouts.
The Lady Grizz also struggled to
get on base to get into scoring
position.
In the first game Allie Davis
pitched with Sage Sayers catching, Morgan Bowling played first
base, Kylie McGee played second
base, Hayden Ketchum played
short stop and Mandy Truhett
played third base.
In the second game Madison
Hood pitched with Sayers catching; Bowling played first, McGee
played second, Ketchum played
at short stop and Truhett played
third.