If you are trying to survive the strange environment of high school academics, you have to be able to write an essay. The essay is generally a multi-paragraph writing assignment that teachers assign to allow students to explore their literary horizons through edits, revisions, critical thinking, sweat, and blood. In order to write an...
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Thursday, March 7th at 2:30 in the Little Theater, Dr. Nurenberg, an English teacher at CCHS, presented a Reuttgers Seminar on the secret history of the SATs. The title was “Will this be on the Test? The secret history of the SATS” or as he wanted to name it, “How a bunch of White guys from...
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In classrooms all over CCHS, students are peering over each other’s shoulders and glancing under tables, but this time, it’s not at phones or hand-passed notes. They are watching the Rubik’s Cube. These colored cube puzzles are appearing everywhere in the halls and the classrooms, both during and after school. There seem to be many sources...
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What position do you play? What do you do in that position? I play cornerback on defense. My first responsibility is to watch for a pass, whether I’m covering a zone or man to man. When there is a running play, I am supposed to make sure the man with the ball does not get...
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As fall approaches, there are certain characteristics that everyone looks for: the drifting, crinkled bronze leaves and the crisp apples and pears, for instance. October is an especially anticipated month, as its end brings copious amounts of decorated pumpkins and candy wrappers. However, this year, Carlisle decided to change the day of Halloween to...
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Have you seen students wandering the halls with meter sticks? Roaming outside studying the building? These kids are most likely in an engineering class, part of CCHS’s brand new engineering program. Students who complete the program receive an engineering certificate, which indicates that a student has taken a minimum of five electives in the...
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As people are getting settled into the new school year, many students are slowly noticing the absence of the daily announcements. But soon, instead of announcements, there will be a new medium of communicating student information. Hopefully near the end of October, Mr. Sapp and CC News Club are looking to produce the first...
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