Today is Friday, May 18, 2012
Today is Friday, May 18, 2012
Every year, students in Film Analysis are assigned to make their own films with a couple of their classmates. They are given no guidelines whatsoever; they are told to use their creativity and the skills they had learned in class.
By the time you read this, I will be eighteen, which is a Very Important Age. Technically, I’ll be an adult.
From electrical engineering to political science, seniors going to universities in the fall will study topics across the spectrum of the liberal arts.
Freshman Charles Lien pores over his Calculus BC AP textbook and scans each page of the chapter on integrals, picking up some small details.
In the 10th annual Poetry Slam Competition, poets from all backgrounds and ages joined together to perform for a crowded audience of LAHS students. While the milestone competition did include many new additions, including a jazz trio, poets still delivered the trademark originality and honesty of expression of slam poetry that has made the performance a success for the past decade.
Alta Vista High School invited the Santa Clara County poet laureate Sally Ashton to speak today, February 7. This honor is given to an exemplary poet in the Santa Clara County district every two years, as the applicants are judged by the Ats Council of Silicon Valley.
Ten years ago, the school was a different place. There were fewer students, fewer buildings and fewer resources to go around. Various classrooms were under construction.
Most students have left the campus by 6:30 p.m., but one group has just arrived and is prepared to stay for hours. The mock trial team, composed of a group of students who are interested in trials, court cases and law is advised by history teachers April Fritz and Deedee Pearce.
Many students have used (and been distracted by) applications like Angry Birds, Words with Friends and Temple Run. Meanwhile, some of their classmates are creating the applications that they purchase from the App Store.
For Hardy Jones, a retired orthopedic surgeon, sculpting and surgery are closely related.