Clarke ChronicleVolume 2 Issue 1 March 2017

Upcoming Events

March 13 Make Up Monday 3-4 pm Drama Rehearsal 3 pm

March 14Sharp Survey 9:15 amScience Assist 2:40 History Help 2:45-3:45

Index

Page 2 Sports

Page 3 Opinion

Page 4 News

March 168th grade talent show

March 17-26Spring Break (no school)

March 27-31Election Week

March 27Student Faculty Basketball Game

Kick Butts DayMESA Meeting 2:45 pmDrama Rehearsal 3 pm

March 28Science Assist 2:40 pmHistory Help 2:45-3:45 pm

March 30Civics Test (8th Grade)Drama Rehearsal 3 pm

March 31Civics Test (8th Grade)

April 3-5Drama Dress Rehersal 6 pm

April 6,7,8,10,11Clarke N. Johnsen Drama Presents Alice in Wonderland Nightly 6 pm

Foreign Figures Headlines Red Ribbon Week at CNJJHS

Madison OlsonStaff Writer

On Friday October 14, 2016 Clarke N. Johnsen Junior High School hosted an assembly based on anti-bully-ing. Th e assembly took place at the end of “Red Ribbon Week,” a way to encourage kids not to do drugs. Th e assembly began at about 1:40 pm and went to the end of the school day (2:40 pm). Th e school day was cut short, students weren’t complain-ing. Th e assembly occurred in the gym. Th e students sat on the ground and in the bleachers. Normally. Th e 950+ students would not sit on the ground, but they needed the audience to be on one side of the gym. Th e main purpose of the assem-bly was to persuade kids not to bully, how to recognize it if they see if they see it happening, and who they should talk to. One of the speakers at the assembly was named Ben Kjar. Kjar has Crouzon syndrome. A condition in which the skull permanently fuses together. Making it unable to grow normally. Kjar told about how he was bullied a lot as a

child which resulted in a loss of self-confi dence and self-esteem. He also spoke about treating yourself kind, an important habit to gain. Kjar also helped infl uence students to react diff erently when and if they are ever bullied. Kjar told the students about how important it is to react in a positive way. “React like a victor, not a victim,” he said.Reacting like a champion is much better than reacting like a victim. It benefi ts you as a person and the people around you as well. Pam Hayes, a supporter of stand4kind.com also came and spoke to the students as well. She in-formed the students about the “Acts of Kindness” program. Students were asked to visit stand4kind.com and report an act of kindness. Meaning they en-ter something that they or someone else did that was

kind. Entries earned students fun prizes. Th en it came, the moment that the students had been waiting for. A live performance from Foreign Figures, an alternative pop band from Orem, Utah. With Eric Michels on vocals, Seth Dun-shee on bass, Jonny Tanner on guitar, and Steve Michels on drums. Foreign Figures formed in July of 2014 and have released two albums of original music along with an amazing cover of “Hello” by Adele. Th e released their debut album, “Come Alive” in early 2015. Th ey also released “Para-digm” in April of 2016. Producing music is their full time job. Th ey have shared the stage with X Ambassadors, American

Authors, and Smallpools. Th ey kicked off their perfor-mance with their song, “Vertigo” and they even played their cover of “Hello.” During the cover students pulled their phones out and waved them around. Towards the end they asked the students to stand up and jump. You can download their songs on iTunes, Spotify, and Google Play. Or you can visit their website (foreignfi gures.com) to listen to their songs for free and learn more about them as well as watch their music videos. Overall, it seems that the students of Clarke N. Johnsen Jr. High School really enjoyed it.

Inspirational Assembly provides the exclama-tion point to end the

week

Students express them-selves through themed

dress up daysKayla HulseStaff Writer

Red Ribbon Week is a week meant to raise awareness for teen suicide, lower drug usage and chances smoking addictions in our generation as we grow older. Talking about drugs and smoking and how bad they will hopefully encour-age kids to stay away from them while they’re young and help them to stay away from them as they grow older. Talking about teen suicides is important because it can teach us how to recognize when someone is depressed, and can convince someone who is depresses to talk to someone if they have a problem now or in the future. During Red Ribbon week schools oft en do diff erent activities to promote Red Ribbon week. Some schools have each student take a piece of red ribbon or plastic and tie it to the fence creating a saying “NO DRUGS”, “DRUG FREE”, “SMOKE FREE” etc. Holding an assembly on the fi rst, last -or both- days of the week is common and almost every school in our district does it. A few schools take it a step farther and does other activities like; reading the book “Red Ribbon”, having some teachers wear red ribbons around their necks, a day where students are supposed to wear red and many other fun activities. Red Ribbon Week was October 10th to October 14th for the Tooele School District. All schools had some sort of fun activity throughout the week. Clarke Johnsen Junior High School (CJJHS) is one school that does diff erent actives. Monday’s theme was Run Away from Drugs CJJHS had students wear hats and running clothes for the 5k they had during the last hour of the school day. Tuesday’s theme was Wake Up to a Drugs Free Day CJJHS had a PJ day for students and staff . Wednesday’s theme was Build Your Character-Stay Away from Drugs they dress that day was dress as your favorite book or movie character. Th ursday’s theme was Match your Friends-Don’t do Drugs in order the match their friends the students twinned with their friends by dressing alike. Fri-day’s theme was Stand Together-Don’t Do Drugs the student body and staff mostly wore Green and Blue

New Recruits at CNJJHS

Mrs. Darling is she, a Math Master she isLainee Stewart

Staff Writer Rebecca Anne Darling is a 7th grade math teacher at Clarke N. Johnsen Jr. High School. Th is is her fi rst year teaching at CNJJHS and her fi rst year teaching Jr. High. She previously taught 4th and 6th grade at Overlake Elementary School. She is enjoying the new change to Clarke. Mrs. Darling was born November 2, 1971 making her 45 years old. She has four children and loves all of them dearly. She is married to Mr. Dar-ling and has a wonderful life. Mrs. Daring said “Th ey are truly wonderful children”. Mrs. Darling was born in Salt Lake City, Utah. She has lived in Utah, Virginia, Southern and Northern California. She attended 27 diff erent schools in 13 years. Th is was all before she graduated high school. She made a lot of new friends over the years, and she was

always the new girl at school. Mrs. Darling says teaching junior high is way better than elemen-tary. She only has to teach math. Math is her favorite subject. When she taught elementary school she had to teach every subject, but now she doesn’t need to teach anything else. Elementary was way harder because she had to handle one set of kids every day for 6 and half hours non-stop. Plus, elementary kids are really immature, they are so little and tell on kids about ev-erything. Not that Jr. High kids are much better, but they do understand things better. Mrs. Darling’s favorite book is Th e Divergent Series. She said “I love how the author ended the series”. Her favorite movie is Th e Wizard of Oz. She said “Th e book is good too, but I love the movie the best.”

Her favorite types of books and movies are science fi ction and fantasy. If Mrs. Darling could be any super hero or villain she said she would like to be Poison Ivy because she could control plants and make them do whatev-er she wants. She said “I could grow them and make more oxygen for the world.” Also if Mrs. Darling wasn’t a teacher she would be a Soft ware Programmer because she loves computers and video games. Her favorite video games are actually Super Mario Bros. and Mine Craft . But she loves all of the video games out there. Mrs. Darling’s favorite phone app is Pokémon Go. “With great power comes great responsibility”-Uncle Ben Spiderman. Mrs. Darling says this quote a lot. Is someone ever had a problem Mrs. Dar-ling is the one to talk to if you didn’t want to make anything a big deal. Someone

could just go and talk to her. She is a very kind person and would be there for you. Mrs. Darling has helped a lot of people threw hard things. Mrs. Darling is very wise. Just like her favorite character Yoda. She has Yodas all over her classroom. Her students in the past have given her Yodas and everything. She has all diff erent sizes and types of Yodas. She is a huge Star Wars fan too. In Mrs. Darling free time, she loves to go to plays. She also likes to play with her dog Jasmine. Her favorite social media site is Facebook. She is keeping it old school. Her favorite riddle is A Girl with A Curl. Mrs. Darling has early morning tutoring every day before school in room 24. Her classroom is in the math hall. Her tutoring session is very helpful because she will answer anyone’s questions. She is a wonderful teacher at CNJJHS.

Owen PashleyStaff Writer

On December 2nd history was made. For the very fi rst time in the history of Clarke N. Johnsen Jr. High, the students won the annual teachers versus students volleyball game. Every year the teachers have beaten the students. Every single time, for ten years. “It felt good [to win] because the teachers beat the students last year,” said boys team member Kyle Burila. “We had the better team.” Hadlee Hardman agreed, saying “I think our serving is better and also our technique is better.” Hardman added that she thought the teachers had “good team skills” and suggested that the students needed improvement in that area. Keep in mind the score keep-ers never reset the score board. Th ree out of the four matches that were played were a loss for the student teams. In the fi rst round it looked like the students might have a good chance at winning this year. Th e boy students and the boy teachers looked fairly evenly matched. Th e teachers barely came out on top with a score of 16-14. In the second round it was a disappointing loss for the girls student team. Th e fi nal score was 32-26 with the teachers once again coming out on the top. Th e girls team suff ered a 4 point loss to the teachers. While the boys in the third round tried to make up for the loss, they just could not. Just narrowly being winning by 3 points making the overall score 45-42. Th ings looked grim for the students, but they just would not give up. While the players were confi dent, some of the crowd was worried that the teachers would win for eleventh time in a row. All that changed however in the fourth and fi nal match. Th e fi nal match was very tense for all in the game and for those in the crowd. As soon as one team would get a point, the other would almost always get one as well. Teachers get a few points, 50-49 then the students, 51-52. In the end

Students earn fi rst win to break

the streak

Jonny Tanner (guitarist) shows off his guitar as Eric (lead singer) and Steve Michels (drums) look on.

Motivational speaker Ben Kjar speaks to CNJJHS students. Students get a drink aft er running the 5 K during Red Ribbon Week.

Mrs. Donohue shows off her her perfect jumpshot as Mrs. Darling waits her turn. Mrs. Kirby handled the emcee duties and the students cheered them on during the opening assembly.

Page 2 Sports Clarke Chronicle

And They’re Off!

Tyler MabeyStaff Writer

The Clarke N. Johnsen Cross Country team did very well this season. This is because the cross country team started the season by smoking the other competitors. In the first 4 meets to start the season -- the girls won 4 out of 4 and the boys 3 out of 4. The reason why they creamed their competitors is that they really push themselves, and they try their hardest to win. They are cross country runners who really take it to the next step in running. They are a new and improved team because of their need for speed and their determination; that is what this team is about. This is really good for the cross country team because their determination is sure to strike some fear into their com-petitors. You might be wondering who could be teaching these running legends. It is the cross country coach Ms. Carter. Coach Carter has been doing this for 2 years. As with any sport, and being a part of a team, there are perks, like the team’s a weekly pasta party on Mondays. However besides that being on a team means you are needed, and depended on. You also get to do what you enjoy, and be with the people who love doing the same thing. They do this on every Monday and Thursday during the season. These practices it helps them prepare for their

races. They races are all held on Tuesdays. Coach Carter’s says that she loves seeing the kid’s progress and reach their poten-tial. And this is exactly what the coach wants from the kids. The best part of all is when the coach “sees them light up when they’ve realized the distance they’ve conquered.” Coach Carter plans on getting the team to continue their distance strength and endurance. This takes a lot of practice and

After School Athletics

Connor SpindlerStaff Writer

Intramurals are back at Clarke N. Johnsen Jr. High this year. Students are playing a lot of fun games and activities such as flag football and ultimate Frisbee. Students have also learned how to play boomerang, and have been playing that the last few weeks. Intramurals are every Monday and Thursday from 2:40 to 3:40. Parents should plan to pick students up at 4:00 in front of the school. If you have any questions, ask Mr. Vickers in the gym or Mr. Westhora in room number 25. A very popular sport that students have been playing is flag football. First, Mr. Vickers will splits students up into four color categories, red, green, blue and yellow. Students then go outside to play. Once you get outside, you put your team color flags on and start to pick your po-sitions. You will play three games against the opposing teams. It is a lot like normal football, but there are some different rules, such as no physical blocking, no tackling, and you cannot run the foot-ball…only passing is allowed. Another sport that students have here at CNJJHS intramurals, is ultimate Frisbee. This is another really fun option that students have. This sport is not as popular as flag football, but it is still really fun. First, you break up into two teams, then you start playing. You play by passing the Frisbee to each of your teammates until you get into the goal. Once you catch a pass from a teammate, you are not allowed to run, you need to

find another open teammate to pass it to. This activity does not have a lot of players, so there is plenty of room to play ultimate Frisbee. It offers great exercise, strategy and fun for all. A new sport that has been introduced and played a lot lately, is boomerang. Boomerang is a lot like dodgeball, but it is “free for all.” You play by throwing balls at everyone that you see. You cannot run with the ball, but you can bounce it off of the wall and move to where the ball moves. This is a very popular sport as well here at Clarke N. Johnsen. If you like dodgeball, this is the sport for you. Mr. Vickers said, “We would like for people to come, we have lots of fun activities for all of the students.” Mr. Westhora added, “We have some fun activities that keep you in shape. We don’t have as many people as we started with, so come join.” They are lots of fun, and want our students to be involved in lots of activities at CNJJHS. Students are so lucky to have programs like this at Clarke N. Johnsen Jr. High. So, if you are a sports lover, would like to get involved in school activities, would like to stay in shape, or would like to meet or be with friends, intramurals is the place for you. Students have all kinds of fun sports and activities for everyone to play. They have been losing a few stu-dents from intramurals, so please come join the fun.

however the students finally won with a score of 55-54. The entire crowd went ballistic. The student teams were ecstatic about their win. However, the celebration was short lived. Mr. Vickers broke the hearts of many stu-dents, especially the student teams, when he said, “To win in volleyball, it must be by two points.”There was a deathly silence. Only a second after that almost unearthly silence, pandemonium broke out. Students wept, stood speechless, the teachers cheered, and some students cried out in anger, some used quite colorful language. Only to those who knew the game very well,

Anna BarelaStaff Writer

Hiking usually refers to a long walk taken up in mountains, but no hike was quite like this one. Clarke N. Johnsen took the 8th grade outdoor survival boys on a hike, for them to have the experience of being in situations where they might need to react quickly in nature. The hike took place on Tuesday, October 4th and the boys left the school around 8:30. There had been a weather warning a few days before the hike had taken place, teachers informed students to dress warm and take coats. Not all were dressed appropriately for the weather conditions, but there was no turning back at that point. Shortly after 8:30 they were on their way to Middle Canyon Trail, the trail they would be hiking up. The trail alone was quite mud-dy. When they started up the trail, they had to level it out by using shovels. After, they pruned the trees (cut off branches)

that were in the way of the trail. They cut the branches with loppers, which basically are really big scissors. The boys then came across a stream of water and built a bridge over it using rocks. When close to reaching the top of the trail some of the students created a fire using matches. Other students touched a bee’s nest and nearly got stung. This hike definitely wasn’t a normal one. When they finally reached the top of the trail, they sat and had lunch. The boys and one of the teachers who went with them, Mr. Christensen, had a discussion about how the hike went and so forth. After, the discussion they had pizza. And started to head down the trail again. It took the boys about 5 hours to complete the whole course, and they arrived back at school around 2:30. The boys really seemed to like the experience. They got to spend the whole day with friends and got to do something outside of school. Everyone

A Long Walk in the Woods

had a great time, including the teachers who went and everyone seemed to get something valuable out of it. It was an opportunity for students to talk to others and make friends. Everyone got to par-ticipate by helping and showing how they could be useful. Weston Thompson stated, “I had a great experience.” Some students who went on the hike said the trail was very pretty, with all the fall colors starting to show. Others liked how much they could interact in the activity. All seemed to really like how “hands on” the activity was. They would recommend it to other students. Mostly everyone said they would do that kind of school activity again. Some students stated, the only thing that was a downfall of the whole day was the weather and for that reason they started a fire to keep themselves warm. Altogether, it was a really cool experience and they were lucky they were the ones able to go.

VolleyballContinued from page 1

Monster Mash Ends with an InfectionMonster Mash

Dallin Evans Staff Writer

In October the school had a Tracks to Achievements or T2A activity in the gym. It had music and a dancing circle. But there was something wrong with the Monster Mash, many kids did not partic-ipate in the dancing, because most of the people were boys, and boys just don’t like to dance. They do not want to be made fun of by their fellow peers, and boys hate los-ing a shred of dignity. Inside the dance circle there was only two seventh graders, two eighth graders, and one teacher who were con-stantly participating in a dance off. Once in a while someone would throw in a dab or two but that was it. Everyone went into a circle and the two opponents would show off their best dance moves. But the four students were girls so this proves that guys dislike dancing. The opponents were dancing to some of the most popular songs. But none of the people heard the monster mash song, because they didn’t pay it. Some people were cold because the gyms temperature was low for the people who take gym. People where spread out into places along the bleachers. They had their own territory. Next to the entrance was a DJ booth it has speakers that can make your ears ring. The music flew through the whole room. Most of the people stayed away so there ears did not ring, but the boys who enjoy video games were all on the bleachers. The DJ had a normal play list and people said it was most enjoyable.

InfectionEmma Randall

Staff Writer Infection is a game of zombies vs. humans played amongst the Clarke N. Johnsen students and staff every year. This game is a tradition and previous students from the school could probably tell you a bit about their experiences with it. It was even played at Stansbury High School for a couple of years. Although some people don’t like the game, others really enjoy it and love the tradition. One previous student, Tayli Randall says, “I did it as a seventh grader and enjoyed it but some other students didn’t follow all of the rules, making it less enjoyable for me. As an eighth grader I didn’t play because of rule breakers and cost.” So, as you can tell a few

students broke the rules. Breaking rules is something that people shouldn’t do; it’s disrespectful to other players and causes them to have less fun. Also a former student, Tyler Randall, says, “kids cheat like no other.” Although there are some students who decide to break the rules, the majority of the students do not. The rules are simple and are there for good reason. One rule that seems to play a big part in Infection, is the use of flashlights. Former student, Tayli Randall, says, “One of the most fun things while playing the game, was to see how many people went “all out” for the game. You would see people walking down the halls covered in flashlights. There was anything

this verdict was not much of a surprise. Soon, a sort of sudden death round started. To win the game, the teams would have to get ahead of the other team by two points. After that the game will end with a victor. The female teams had the weight of the world on their shoulders. In the beginning, nobody was quite sure who was going to pull out on top. The teachers were a relentless machine. The students, not about to let the teachers outdo them again, pressed hard and out-scored the teachers in the final volleys. In the end the score was 59-57. The students had finally won! Once again, pandemoni-um wreaked havoc on the gym. After 10 years the students won the annual teach-ers versus students volleyball game.

running, and going a little further each time. Carter says one of the hardest things on being a coach is “seeing kids get hurt”. For example if a runner does something to their legs or feet or if they pull a muscle or a tendon, it gets pretty rough and the reason why is that it ends their journey. There have been runners who have had to take a break from running and many other things because they’re hurt. Even with injuries, the hardest thing for a coach is probably when the runners think they can’t do it or when they realize how far the distance is, and want to give up. For those who are doubting themselves just think of what one of our cross country runners Braydon Griffith uses to help him, “It might be hard to get through the run but I tell myself there is a great reward at the end,” said Griffith. And more inspiration from Kaemon Dix, “As long as you try hard and never give up you can always make it to the end”. Well said by both of them and that’s the attitude it takes to complete any goal. The cross country team ran past their rivals and go strong through the finish line.

from head lamps and hand held lights, to people with five of the finger lights sold at school.” The flashlights were com-monly used because when pointed at a zombie, they could not flip your bracelet or in other words they couldn’t “attack” you. One of the other things used to stay alive were these special cards used to survive a zombie attack. When a zombie attacked a person, that person would give the zombie the card making the attack invalid. The only disadvantage to these cards, and the reason why they weren’t more commonly used was the cost. You had to buy these from the school. THE SUDDEN DEATH ROUND…sounds scary, right? The final round of the infection game is always the sudden death round. Earlier in the game you were only allowed to play the

game throughout the halls, in the sudden death round the game is played outside. During the sudden death round you lose all your protection, hence the name “sudden death”. Flashlights no longer work, and those special cards became a waste of money. Every zombie that wants to participate, which is most of the people playing at this point, along with the few survivors, go outside. Any student, or staff, not participating is inside enjoying some Halloween music and socializing at the Halloween dance. The sudden death round ends fairly quick and everyone other than the winners is left wondering for at least a day, about who won the game. You never can predict the outcome of infection.

The boys Outdoor Survival class poses for a picture after completing their hike up the Middle Canyon Trail.

Students take an impromptu Zumba class during Red Ribbon Week.

Students pose for a scary picture with the ghoulish props during the Monster Mash assembly.

Teachers congratulate students after gettimg their first win in the volleyball game.

Chloe Castillo tries to steal the ball from Preston Johnson as teammates Kate Merrit and Epa Tia look on.The girls Cross Country team led by Elena Allen and Eliza Beazer leave the starting line

during the cross country meet held at Clarke N. Johnsen Junior High.

Elias Nelson and Jacob Cook lead the boys cross country team from the starting lined during the cross country meet at Clarke N. Johnsen Junior High.

Page 3 Opinion Clarke Chronicle

The Most Relaxing Period of the DayDylan SlaughStaff Writer

Lunch is a period many look forward to. It’s a break from school and you get to eat and relax. In addition you can drink your juice with sweet potato juice! Yes sweet potato juice is the main ingredient for the fruit punch juice. This means that if you get the fruit punch juice you are drinking mostly sweet potato juice. You will most likely be getting this juice with your lunch because they try to save the other juices for breakfast. That is not only hidden secret though. The Domino’s pizza is not actually Domino’s pizza. Even though it literally says “Domino’s pizza” on the box, it isn’t actually the same pizza you get if you order Domino’s pizza at home. The reason for this is that the regular Domino’s pizza does not meet the nutritional standards required for school lunches. What they will do is give Domino’s Pizza the recipe so what you’re eating is not Domino’s pizza but only prepared in the Domi-no’s kitchen. Never the less some students are enjoying lunch Ethan Wilden said “I’ve been getting school lunch ever since fourth grade and I think it’s great.” One lunch lady said “My favorite thing about being a lunch lady is the people I work with they are like family and I love work-ing for the kids there at an age where they are maturing and I can tell when one will help our country.” In fact the school has made a great effort in to make lunch more enjoyable and have been doing games for entertainment. Whether or not you are enjoying the games might rely on whether or not you participate in them. Another thing the school is doing is making an effort on the Tuesday announce-

Lunch at Clarke N. Johnsen Junior High

Making New Friends gets easier at Mix it Up Day

Emma RandallStaff Writer

Mix it up day is a day to sit with someone new who share one of your interests. People sat at the table with their fa-vorite subject and ate lunch with new people. You could sit at the science, math, CTE, English, history, music, or gym table. Meet new people while you’re at it. More than half the school just sat with their friends which wasn’t the point. Student Julia Mangum says, “I sat at the music table because it is my favorite subject … I like to sing and I play an instru-ment”. Maybe you met Julia Mangum at the music table. While you most likely have many friends this is how you meet more exquisite and interesting people. It is very sad that some people didn’t participate in this school wide activity. Do you ever wonder why people are shy? They’re just not used to people. Some people don’t like talking and like corners. Well mix it up day is a day to come out of your shell and make new friends to be with. Some people don’t appreci-ate the things there given like awesome people for awesome friends. And even though some people get woozy around large amounts of people we all have had good times together with-out even realizing it like the “Water Day” and when “Foreign Figures” came and the ”Halloween Bash”, those were great times. Good times, bad times we’re all one school, one state, one county. We are all one big family, if your friend meets someone new you usually become friends with them to. Mix it up day is a day to do exactly that. No one can make you do this but you could have made friends that you can trust. While teachers patrolled the lunch room the people sitting at different tables was very noticeable. Do you ever wonder what influences you to sit a different table? Well if everybody else does something you want to do it too, it’s just logic. Future student, Elias Randall says, “I can’t wait to do mix it up day it sounds really fun. I would love to meet new people.” Even a nine year old is ready to participate in school activities at Clarke N. Johnsen Jr. High. Mix it Up day was a great chance to be able to sit with new people and make new friends. Hopefully those of you who participate had a great time making new friends and meeting new fun people.

ments to say what the lunch menu for the week will be. Of course everyone knows Tuesday is always pizza day. What many students may not have noticed was that on Monday it is always Asian food. Of course you will only find that in the main line though. The main line is almost always the longest line. The salad and grill lines are mostly of about the same size, and much shorter than the main line. The main line usually has more food as compared with salad and grill line. Another issue with the main line is that the line can be so long some students finish their food and line up for “seconds” before some students get their first meal. If you are one of the unlucky few though that are at the back of the line you should not worry about getting “butted” or in line by the people lining up for “seconds” because

the lunch ladies make sure everyone has had a first serving before anyone can get “seconds”. This rule applies to the other lines as well. If you are in the salad line waiting for “seconds” and someone in the main line has not received their first serving of food you will not be allowed to get “seconds”. The lunch room does this so that if they run out of food in the main line they can take food from the salad or grill line to serve the main line students so everyone gets food. One of the biggest complaints that students make about the lunch room: those who don’t arrive early enough often get served food they didn’t want lunchroom ran out of the dish that they wanted. These unlucky people have to choose a new dish. So now let’s settle back in the lunch room, drink our sweet potato juice and eat our not so Domino’s pizza.

For Your Listening Pleasure

ChorusJulia Mangum

Staff Writer Chorus is a place where you get to sing your heart out to a great song, especially when it’s Christmas time. The chorus class has done two performances so far this year. One was near the begin-ning of the school year, and the other was near Christmas. There were many more people at the Christmas performance than the earlier one. The performances were in the Clarke N. Johnsen Jr High lunchroom. The later performance was on the evening of the 15th of December. The perfor-mance was before Christmas break which starts on the 22nd of December. The Christmas performance was at most an hour which is enough time to at least stop by and listen to a song or two even if you have somewhere else to be, and it is also short enough that you don’t get bored. Student Emma Randall, who is in the 7th grade girls’ chorus class, says, “Chorus is a fun and exciting, eventful class, it is my very favorite class and I think my singing has improved since I took this class.” She also said “The teacher, Mrs. Jorgensen, is funny. She is very good at singing and she is a very good teacher.” If you are new to CNJJHS and you want to join Chorus, there are more than just one class offered. There is the 7th grade girls’ chorus and then there is more than one 8th grade class with a mix of both girls and boy singers in the chorus group. There is not currently a group for 7th grade boys. The chorus classroom is located in the music hallway right next to the gym. The classroom is almost half the size of the gym. Chorus classes begin with a bell ringer. Students listen to music and take notes on the instruments they hear and what the music makes them see or feel. Next, students warm up by singing tongue twisters and short songs to get their voices ready. Then students learn or practice the songs for the next perfor-mance. The classes are all focused on being ready for these concerts. The next concert is on March 8th. Hope to see you there.

Beginning Band MusiciansTyler MabeyStaff Writer

The beginning band students, a comKjaration of students from grades 5-7, performed a concert on November 9th. The song that they played at the concert was called “Castles and Kings”. The beginning band consists of a mix of instruments: trumpet, trombone, saxophone, clarinet, flute, and percussion, each one adding its uniqueness to the variety of sounds heard during their songs. All the parents and family members were really impressed considering that most of the students had been practicing for only two months. Most of the students were nervous beforehand, however, it certainly

didn’t show in their performance. The band member’s dress attire at the concert was white shirts and black pants. It made them look sharp and professional. They may be a beginning class now, but they’re gearing up to perform in front of greats like electronic music impresario and classically trained violinist, Lindsey Stirling. The beginning band students meet before school on Mondays, Tues-days, and Thursdays at 7:45 am, and practice for about an hour. After practice, the elementary students are bused to their respective schools that start at 9:00 am. During practice they are learning many songs like “Old McDonald had a Farm”, “Mary had a Little Lamb”, and currently learning “Kjargo”, “Star Search”, “Erie Canal Capers” and “Jingle Bells” for the holidays. “ Ashley Mabey, a band member who plays the flute, said her favorite thing in band is, “playing songs that are simple and well-known.” She also enjoys playing the big giant sheet music, like the one they played at the concert, “Castles and Kings”. As much as she is enjoying playing in the band, she doesn’t like when the students “have to replay the songs over and over again.” Ashley also says, “It is really hard getting up early in the morning.” But they do get a break on Wednesdays and Fridays. The teacher who is teaching these musicians is Mrs. Natalie Snyder. Mrs. Snyder has been teaching band for 17 years. She has been teaching at Clarke N Johnsen since it opened and has taught the early morning program the whole time. Mrs. Snyder said, “The biggest challenge teaching music is teaching all of the different instruments in the same class. Sometimes I have 9 different instru-ments to teach in one class.” According to Mrs. Snyder, her biggest reward in teach-ing is “watching the students learn to enjoy music. My favorite moment is when it ‘clicks’ and the students understand what I am teaching. Our students here are amazing and I love to see them grow and learn.” The students seem to really enjoy having her as their teacher, and because of their enthusiasm they may become the next generation’s performers. Their next concert will be in February and will be full of songs they’ve been working on for the last few months. It will be neat to see how much they’ve improved and how much more confident they are performing in front of large audiences. Who knows how many in those audiences they will inspire along the way.

Orchestra ConcertMadison Olson

Staff Writer On Thursday November 10,

Clarke N. Johnsen Jr. High hosted their very first orchestra concert this year. Participating were groups ranging from Elementary students all the way up to the advanced class. The concert was held in the gym because all the students and their instruments could not fit on the cafetori-um stage. Friends and family came to support the orchestra students. There was quite a large crowd and many people were standing instead of sitting. The concert started at 7:00 pm and lasted about 45 minutes. It was under an hour and still a good length.Mrs. Dvorachek, the orchestra teacher, lead the music. She teaches all of the classes, including the early orchestra class that is offered to the elementary students. Mrs. Dvorachek has a calendar up for stu-dents and parents on her website if they want to know when the next concert is. Mrs. Dvorachek said, “I am very proud of these students they have worked very hard,” at the end of the concert. Concert attendees sat on the bleachers and in rows of chairs in front of one side of the bleachers. The orchestra students sat in the middle of the gym with their instruments and instrument stands. Each group played about three songs. The songs were, unfortunately, not announced and there was not a program or list that told the names and composers of the various songs. There were many different types of instruments that they played. Including violin, viola, cello, and bass. The students are able to or purchase rent their instruments. Orchestra concerts are a way for students to show their talents to their friends and family, as well as helping them feel accomplished. There are three orchestra concerts this year, one Novem-ber 10th, one on February 9th, and one May 18th. Each one of the concerts is on a Thursday at 7:00 pm. Orchestra classes performed in order from elementary beginning, beginning, intermediate, and advanced. Most of the students in the advanced class have been taking orchestra since they were in elementary school. Alexis Berry, a seventh-grade beginning orchestra student, who started playing the viola this year, said “I decided to sign up for orchestra because there were no ‘strings’ attached.” She wanted to play the cello but she figured the viola would be easier to manage. “My friend Rachel also started playing the violin this year so I decided I wanted to play the viola,” stated Alexis. The students may choose or-chestra as an elective at the beginning of the year. In 7th and 8th grade, orchestra is a full year class, not a half year class. The concert was an overall success and upcoming concerts will be most definitely as well.

Fall Band ConcertKayla Hulse Staff Writer

Clarke N Johnsen Junior High held its Fall Band Concert on Wednesday, November 19, 2016. It began at 7:00 pm and the performances lasted about 45 minutes. All four band levels per-formed, and the Stansbury High School Marching Band and Color Guard had a special appearance. Mrs. Natalie Snyder, the CNJJHS band teacher, directed the concert. Snyder would like to thank the CNJJHS administration, custodians, staff, faculty, and parents for their continued support of these programs. The Elementary Band performed first with 63 students. Their song was "Castles and Kings" by Randy Navarre. The most popular instrument in this level is the trumpet with 17 players. The clarinet is not far behind with 15 players. Eight for the flute, seven for the trombone, six for the alto saxophone, and three for the percussion instruments. Next the Junior High Beginning Band with 50 students. They had three different songs "Variants on a Celtic Tune" by Douglas Wagner, "Slides Rule!" by Mike Hannickel, and "Inception" by Joseph Compello. The two most popular instru-ments are the trumpet with 12 players, and the clarinet with 11. There are also five percussion instrument players, four trombones, three alto saxophones, two baritone, two French horns, and one tuba. The flute has ten players. Sienna Garcia, a Beginning band student said "I play the flute because it's fun and new." Then the Elementary and Junior High Band performed with 50 students. They had two songs "Freaky Fantasy" by Mike Hannickel and "Valor" by Larry Clark. The two most liked instruments are the flute with 13 players, and the trumpet with 11. There are seven percussion instrument players, six alto saxophones, five clarinets, two tenor saxophones, two French horns, two trom-bones, one baritone, and one bassoon. The last of the bands to perform was the Advanced Band. Their three songs were "Ghost in the Attic" by Rib Grice, "Coun-try Wildflowers" by Larry Daehn, and "Lassus Trombone" by Andrew Balent. The flute and the trumpet both had six players. The clarinet and percussion instruments have four players, and the French horn has three. The trombone, baritone, and tenor saxophone all have two players. The bass clarinet and alto saxophone both have one player. The Stansbury High School Marching Band and Color Guard performed after all the bands as a special appearance. The SHS Color Guard performed along to the Marching Band's music. In total they played three songs. "The Marching Band and Color Guard was my favorite part," stated Nathan Hulse a member of the audience.

Alyssa TrimbleStaff Writer

Bullying is a serious problem. We need to stop it. And maybe you don’t bully. But if you stand by and watch. You are part of the problem. Mr. Snyder says helping stu-dent deal with bullies “is my favorite part of pride [class],” he also states that “Only seeing the students once a week” is the worst part of pride. This truly shows that bullying is important. And we need to stop it. There are so many ways to hurt people’s feelings. And we don’t notice we are doing half of them. Let’s help others to feel welcome and happy at our school. Here are five ways we bully people and don’t realize it could hurt someone’s feelings. Number one. Name calling. Wow isn’t fun to mess around and call others names. You didn’t mean them it was only a joke. But are they really jokes? Is it funny to call your friend fat. No its not. Calling people fat ugly stupid joke or not is bullying. It can seriously hurt someone’s feelings! Number two. Shoving. Pushing or friendly shoving is ok right? I don’t know what happens if you push your friend down in a crowded hall. They could get trampled on or they could fall wrong and break their arm.it is not safe to shove one another. Number three. Throwing calculators, pencils, paper balls, etc. tossing objects at your friends is already disrespectful. But when it hits the teacher, now it’s bad. It is extremely disre-spectful to through stuff around the class room interrupting class. But when you hit someone. It’s just plain rude. What hap-pens if you hit someone in the eye? That’s going to hurt. A lot.it is so disrespectful to pass notes and throw things. Four. Rumors. Spreading rumors. I know what you are thinking. Everybody knows this. Well do you know what are rumors and what aren’t. Telling others that this person dating this person with no proof. Rumors. Saying this person is cheating on this person. Ru-mors. Even this person hates this person. Rumors. It not okay to lie about other people. Five. Pranks. I know pranks are playful funny jokes. Most of the time. Leaving a note like meet me hear in some ones locker then not showing up. So rude. Guys do we really do this this? It is so rude. Sometimes we make crappy decisions. And sometimes it hurts others feelings. We can be bullies and not know it. We honestly need to think before we act. Because you may hurt someone by simply saying “you’re fat’ as a joke. Which isn’t funny in the first place. So please next time you tease a friend think before talking! Cause do you honestly want to hurt your friend or any other student feel-ings? I hope not. I hope you understand this and know it is very rude.

Clarke Chronicle StaffAdvisor

Mr. AlvordStaff WritersAnna BarelaDallin EvansHayley Evans

Nathaniel FinaiBrookelle Garrad

Kayla HulseTyler Mabey

Julia MangumNeveah Marshall

Taya MartinezKate McCubbins

Nolee McManigalMadison Olson

Owen PashleyEmma Randall

Tatem RoyleDylan SlaughDyson Smith

Connor SpindlerLainee StewartAlyssa Trimble

My Take on Bullying

Students enjoy their lunch in the cafetorium at Clarke N. Johnsen Junior High.

(L to R) Elena Allen, Molly Ricks, and Breanna Young play flute during the Christmas Assembly just prior to winter break.

The combined choir class perform during the Christmas Assembly just prior to winter break as Mrs. Jorgenson (not pictured) directs them.

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Library Resources Upgrade your Reading Book Fair Bonanza

Hayley EvansStaff Writer

What’s new about the CNJJH library? When you walk into CNJJH (Clark N. Johnsen Junior High), you will find the library across from the math hallway. Before you walk in the door, take a look up and you will see a quote that says: “Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body,” by: Sir Richard Steel, Writer. This quote shows how import-ant reading is for your mind. Reading is like exercise for your brain. When you walk into the library, you see computers and a lot of books that you can use to check out to read for fun or to help with homework. The library is open all throughout the

school day. From September 27, 2016 through September 30, 2016, CNJJH had a book fair in the library. You could find books, pens, pencils, posters, diaries, and little knick-knacks. There was even a big jar of candy that you could win if you guessed the closest how many pieces were in the jar. Something cool that students at CNJJH might not know about are the e-books and audio books that you can check out in the library. An e-book is an electronic version of a book that you read on your device. An audio book is a recording of a book that you can listen to. I talked to Mrs. Kirby, the librarian, and she said that we have over 400 e-books and 100 audio books for students to check out and read or listen to.

If you want to check out an e-book or audio book, you can download the app on your IOS, Android, Nook, HD, HDT, Kindle Fire HD and Windows/Mac device. The app is called “Destiny Dis-cover.” After you download it, you choose Utah, and then find Clark N. Johnsen Jr. High. It will ask for your user name and password. Mrs. Kirby said that you need to come to her and ask for the user name and password. You need an internet con-nection to download the books, but after you download the books, you can read or listen to them anywhere. Mrs. Kirby said “you can even read them when you’re camping.”

“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.” -Sir Rich-

ard Steel Mrs. Kirby said that another cool thing about e-books and audio books is when you check them out, you don’t have to worry about losing your books or turning them in late. It will turn itself in for you. You can have them for two weeks or you can turn it in earlier if you’re done with it. You may have heard over the announcements that if you check out an audio book, you can buy earphones for $1.00. If you want to check out the audio books, you can find them by the librari-an’s desk. If you’ve never been to the library yet, go there sometime and see what it has to offer. ”The library has so many awesome books,” said Nolee McManigal. Mrs. Kirby is always there to help with any questions you have.

Owen PashleyStaff Writer

Do you want to continue your favorite series? Maybe you want to start a brand new series or two. Perhaps you simply want a good book to just sit down and read. If so, you have a good opportunity coming up. You could go to the Scholastic Book Fair. During the previous Book Fair in September many students purchased books, bookmarks, erasers, pencils and so much more. You might have some ques-tions about what you can look forward for at the next Book Fair from March 6th through the 10th. Here could be a common question about your schools’ Book Fair. Will the book prices be reasonably priced? This is a big question and an important one as well. Now, it mostly depends on what you find to be, “reasonably priced”. Maybe ten dollars or above is too much for you, perhaps eight dollars is too expensive for others. For the most part hard cover books will be eight to thirteen dollars. Now remember, that does not mean that there will not be any hard cover books that are below not going to be below that price. Paperback books will generally cost less than most hard

cover books. Books that have 3D aspects will most likely cost a bit more that the average paperback book. Sometimes the book catalogs have featured toys with or without books accompanying it. The toys can range from book safes (A safe designed to trick your siblings that it is just a book) to a spy kit. There are a few books that specifically interested student will flock towards a bit quicker than other students. If you are a gamer you most likely at the very least considered purchasing the new book An Assassins’ Creed Series: Last Descendants. Fans of the Big Nate series also could have pondered buying a full color Big Nate: Say Good-Bye to Dork City. Fan of Star Wars? Check out the new Jedi Academy: A New Class. With new characters, new adventures and so much more. Internet meme enthusiasts would love to get Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book. Everyone’s favorite frustrated feline is back with another book. With more inspirational quotes from Grumpy Cat himself such as, “I love you as much as I love Mondays. I hate Mondays.” Be sure to come to the next Scholastic Book Fair in March for more wonderful books.

CNJJHS Students Provide HOPE for their PeersTatem RoyleStaff Writer

“Why sit in when you can stand out? Be yourself!” said Ellie Rogers, a member of the Clarke N Johnsen Junior

High Hope Squad.Ellie is a kind, positive, and trustworthy person. She got to have the chance and experience to be on the hope squad. Ellie talks about honesty, she is true to you. Ellie would never hurt your feelings, even if you hurt her feelings. What does

Hope Squad mean? Hold On Persuade Empower. “HOPE Squads are the eyes and ears of your school. They are comprised of students who are trained to watch for at-risk students–provide friendship, identify warning signs, and seek help from adults” (hope4utah.com).Members of the Hope Squad get training so they know what to do. The members have hope squad training every week during advisory or pride period. They get

to help people with their positive attitude, that’s why they got picked, to help the people who are in need of the help. “Peer-to-peer training is an integral component of many youth suicide-prevention programs. It trains the students to recognize warning signs in depressed or suicidal peers, and to empower them to report those signs to an adult” (hope4utah.com). The hope squad people aren’t the people with the jackets with the names on the back, those are the SBOs (Student Body Officers) so don’t get them mixed up (the SBOs can also help you out). If you ever need help or need to talk, hope squad can help you with almost anything to make everything negative about you and your problems, positive. The positive thing about hope squad is they’re helping you as well as themselves. Because they get to learn how to help themselves also, with anything that is happening at school or home. It might be tuff/hard for them, because it might be sad, or make them angry, or they might relate to what you’re saying. There’s probably thousands, maybe even millions who relate to you. So please don’t be scared to share/talk about it with the Hope Squad. If you need more informa-tion on the Hope Squad see a member, the advisors, or hope4utah.com.

Nolee McManigalStaff Writer

Recently our school has hon-ored the veterans that are in the students families. Military veterans have played a very important part in our country's history. From the Revolutionary War, Civil War, both World Wars up to the current conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, people who have served in these wars are considered combat veterans. Here at Clark N. Johnsen Junior High we hon-ored our veterans on Veterans Day. Mrs. Hitesman and Mrs. Kir-by offered students with military veterans in their family the opportunity to bring photographs to the CTE hall to honor their family. “I am happy we honored them”, said Tatem Royle. One particular World War II veteran, my grandfather, Private Elmer Lightfoot deserves to have his story told. During World War II he enlisted in the US Army infantry. Private Lightfoot left his wife and his two young children to join a cause that he thought was worth his sacrifice. In 1944 private Lightfoot left the United States for England. It's on June 6, 1944 Private Lightfoot landed on Normandy beach in France during the in-vasion of Operation Overlord, which was known as D-Day and the allied invasion to defeat the Germans. Private Lightfoot fought the Germans through France and into Belgium with the 2nd Battalion, 60th infantry 9th Infantry Division. On September 6th, 1944 while doing a reconnaissance of the Meuse Riv-er in Mesnil St. Blaise Belgium, Private Lightfoot and his company met German resistance while crossing the Meuse Riv-er. During the battle the German army counterattacked the 2nd Battalion 60th Infantry at the Meuse River with Tanks. During this battle Private Lightfoot was killed. Private Lightfoot was buried in Belgium (This information was record-ed by Lt. Fred Hadsel 2nd Information and Historical service, VII corps team during the battle). For years his family

never knew the exact location or had even seen a picture of his grave. Private Lightfoot’s daughter and his grandson would eventually find the location where he's buried through research. To this day his family honors his service and sacrifice that he gave for his country. During the first Persian Gulf War another veteran fought and deserves recognition. My dad, Corporal Michael McManigal served with the U.S. Army in Riyadh Saudi Arabia. Corporal Mc-Manigal was a Patriot Missile Crewman with the 2nd Battalion, 43rd air Defense artillery which was a Patriot Missile Unit assigned to protect the city of Riyadh from Iraqi Scud Missiles. While serving in Saudi Arabia, Corporal McManigal was injured, he was later flown to Landstuhl Germany for medical treatment. He was later flown to the United States where he had multiple surgeries to correct the injuries. Corporal McManigal’s story is only known to those who served with him and his family, like many veterans his story remain untold During the Afghanistan campaign a young Marine, my cousin by the name of Gabriel Bru left his family to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan. Lance Corporal Bru left his young children and wife once again to sacrifice for his coun-try. During his time in Afghan-istan he was injured during a mortar attack. Lance Corporal Bru would eventu-ally returned safely to his wife and family. Although Lance Corporal Bru is home he still has several unhealed scars and suffers from PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder).“I am thankful for Veterans,” said Hayley Evans. There are many veterans who deserve our thanks. Many of the stories are forgotten. Many of the sacrifices will never be known to anyone but them. It is important to try and preserve the stories and the memories and the sacrifice of those who have served our country. Clarke N. Johnsen is proud of our veter-ans, after all the school in named after a veteran.

CNJJHS Honors it’s Veterans

Brookelle GarrardStaff Writer

The Washington D.C. trip was amazing according to Mr. Gorringe one of our history teachers at Clarke N Johnsen Junior High. “My favorite part was the White house, there were amazing things inside like pitchers, vases, mirrors, and fancy furniture,” said Gorrin-ge. 10 kids from our school along with 25 kids from a school in Texas went on the D.C. trip this summer. Mr. Jensen led this year’s trip just as he has in the past. The students stayed in hotels, ate at restaurants and bought souvenirs along the way. According to Mr. Gorringe, the biggest challenge while in Washington besides watching a huge group of kids, was walking all day and not using any vehicles. The other fun activities were going to plays, the national’s capital, and seeing the statue of Abraham Lincoln. See Mr. Jensen if you are interested in going next time.

Washington D.C. or Bust

Kate McCubbinsStaff Writer

Some people may say that Clay Egan was inspiring; some may say that it he persevered even with the disability. Clay Egan loved to hunt and go fishing; he also did motocross on the weekends. The one thing he loved most was constructing things; he loved working with his hands. His lifetime goal was based on construction and working with his hands. He always wanted to have a company of his own. The thing you should know about Clay is that he was paralyzed from the chest down from an incident in 1994. Clay was on a mountain road in Eastern Utah and he was thrown off his motorcy-cle from two stray horses. It took one year of rehabilitation and a positive outlook on life to finally attain his life goal. In 2003 Clay started rock crawling and off-road racing and he is the first paralyzed man to be in those sports. Since he was paralyzed, he hasn’t wasted one moment of living life to the fullest. He was at the Legendary King of the Hammers off-road race in Johnson Valley when he crashed and it took two hours to get him up and going. He finished that race in less than ten hours, but that is not the point. The point is: he never gave up and he persevered through it. He got 8th place and 59 other racers were unsuccessful at completing the race. "It was the most physically, brutal race I have ever raced," Clay said. Since then the media started to love Clay, you can find him on a lot of T.V programs. He has also done some interviews and has been on commer-cials. One reason may be that he wrote a book called, “Over the Top.” The book is written from his life and hopes; they even have a screenplay of it called, “Push.” But interviews and books

aren’t the only things that are making him well-known it’s also giving inspirational speeches. He even gave one at Clark N. Johnsen Jr. High where he inspired kids to never give up. “He never stopped trying even if it was hard; it made me want to strive to not give up,” 8th grade student Tara Larsen said. He not only went to the Jr. High, but he also went to the high school as well. What Clay said can influence our lives as 7th graders or 8th graders, some of go through tough things in our lives and sometimes it lets us feel down. But if you listen to Clay and hear what he has to say and it can give a lot of people hope and maybe make their lives better.

Clay Egan: More than Human

Drama Club Now in Session

Dyson SmithStaff Writer

Mr. LeSueur is a 7th Grade Science teacher here at Clarke N. Johnsen Junior High. When asked where he would like to go on vacation LeSueur said, “I would go to either Japan or Hawaii because I lived in Japan for a while and Hawaii is a beautiful place.” If he could teach any lesson he wanted, he said he would do more dissection, and biology or show his students how to make ice cream with liquid nitrogen. Most of his students already know the main facts about Mr. LeSueur. Like how some of his hobbies are hiking and collecting bugs. At the beginning of the year, you could give him insects to add to his collection and get extra credit. On the topic of extra credit, if you participate in the science fair you can

get even more extra credit. He is just giving people extra credit left and right. There are even more ways to earn extra credit like on the review games-if your team wins you can get five extra points on any assignment, even a test. He also holds drawings. The more behaved you are in his class, the more likely you will win. The things you can win are candy or bonus coupons which are worth five points. One of the activities he did on Super Science Day was a diet Coke fountain of fizz and those stupid enough to chug the soda after the fizz cannon beware. For his last review game, his students answered a question for one or two points then tried to get a ball of tape into a box on the floor for an additional point. To sum things up, he is just a great teacher and a really fun guy.

Mr. LeSueur: A Man of Science

Taya MartinezStaff Writer

Clark N. Johnsen Jr high school has a club just for Drama. The first drama club meeting for the 2016-2017 school year, took place in the cafeteria September 19. There were approximately 80-100 students that showed up. That is about 10% of both the 7th and 8th grade class. The instructor of Drama club, Mrs. Wicker and her volunteer assistant Ms. Peterson, believe students miss the class taught last year and joined the club for a fill in as a class afterschool. Mrs. Wicker is a math teacher in room 29, and she is taking over lead

position of drama club now that Mrs. Cammack, former Drama teacher, left to teach at Grantsville Jr. High and High school. In the club Mrs. Wicker says, “We’re working on the basics of theatre right now. We’re also working on pantomime, developing character, and various forms of theatre.”

Pantomime is “a dramatic entertainment, originating in Roman mime, in which performers express meaning through ges-tures accompanied by music”, according to the Google Search definition. Helping Mrs. Wicker is Ms. Peterson who is found in in room 21 in the math hall. Ms. Peterson helps take roll, and helps not only students but also Mrs. Wickers. Every Tuesday she goes to the cafeteria straight after school to voluntarily help the club. Peterson says “I plan on learning so much by watching Mrs. Wicker.” She is also looking for talent in 8th grade to put students into the 8th grade talent

show at the end of March this year. Drama club takes place every Tuesday in the cafeteria. Plus, with the schedule in mind, the club will be did readers theatre on Aesop fables and plen-ty of more exciting, spectacular fairytales. The drama club will be putting on the musical, Alice in Wonderland. Most stu-dents in the club love or like the idea of

the group, since there is no longer a class.7th grader, Sienna Mableson, says “It was very fun, everyone was really nice, a lot of people came, and I’m pretty sure everyone had fun” Sienna also states “It is a fun experience and is a place where you can really let your feelings out”. Another 7th grader in the club, Alia Pitt, gets straight to the point exclaiming “It’s very, very, very fun!” Drama Club is one of the biggest clubs in the school and is hoping to expand to even more students. It takes place every Tuesday and for about 30-60 minutes. Most students love it, and teach-ers voluntarily do it.

Cierra Shipley talke to Nicole Crain and Mrs. Kirby in the Clarke N. Johnsen Library.

Mrs. Wicker shows some choreography to drama students Naomi Handley, Hannah Heyrend, and Brooke Bolinder for the upcoming production of Alice in Wonderland as Natalie Ogden, Tally Reynolds, and Kaylin Sargeant look oon.

Mr. Gorringe poses for a picture.

The Hope Squad learns how to help out their fellow students during Advisory class.