February 2011 Chatterbox - Ruston High School

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Ruston High School February 14, 2011 Page 5
New Tech Presentations
submitted by Jonathan Craig
New Tech @ RHS Student Reporter
On Friday, January 21 st , the New Tech at Ruston Geometry students
presented their newly created websites. The websites were created to
help students who are struggling in geometry. Each website showed a
description of every single Geometry Grade Level Expectation (GLE) as
well as a video on each GLE. For each GLE, an interactive quiz and
practice problems were included. In attendance were many people from
the community, including an engineering professor, an engineer, and
several teachers. While the guests were at Ruston High, they received a
tour of the New Tech facility and had the opportunity to see the presentation
of the websites. Geometry teacher Mr. Savage says that he was very
pleased with the presentations and that they went smoothly.
In the New Tech Global Studies classes, students wrote a movie script depicting a modern day version of Edgar Allen Poe‘s The Cask of Amontillado. The purpose of the assignment
was to keep the overall storyline of the story but add a modern twist. The students also wrote a pitch telling why SONY Pictures should pick their movie. Each group
presented their pitch and read part of their script to the class, who then voted on the best film. The class was then given the chance to compete in the R-Squared Film Festival. The
winning group of the festival receives $200 and an iMac computer that would be used for the New Tech movie editing. Global Studies teacher Mrs. Goree says, ―I think that
many of the screen plays that we read had great potential of winning the film festival.‖
Freshman Academy:
Keep On Keeping On!
by Polly Michelle Gwan
Academics Reporter
A New Tech student pitches his own version
of The Cask of Amontillado under the
watchful eye of Mr. Savage and others.
KOM Resource Center
submitted by the KOM Council
People from the community came to watch
the students of New Tech present their
web-sites and movie scripts.
Freshman! The year is already halfway done and school seems to just keep getting more intense, but instead of giving up just keep on keeping on! Your teachers know that you
may be tired of doing the same routine every single day, but they know that if you just press on a little more you can succeed! So freshman, just push forward a little more effort,
and you can and will succeed!
KOMs are reminded that there is now a KOM Resource Center in the Freshman Academy Office on the 3 rd Floor. If
you need information about your freshmen, whether it concerns note cards, birthday cards, or anything else, you can
find it all here. Please make sure to keep up with your contact log sheets. These are due to Mrs. Thomason or your
KOM Council Member by Monday, April 4 th .
The upcoming meeting dates for February and March as listed in the chart below:
KOM MONDAY MEETING DATES FOR FEBRUARY AND MARCH
February 14
February 28
March 7
March 14
March 21
Meet with Freshmen
Meet with Freshmen
Cafeteria; no Freshmen
Meet with Freshmen
Meet with Freshmen