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HI-LIFETHE
The Student Newspaper of Henderson High School January 15, 2015Issue 3 Volume 85
In this issue:
story on page
Stuff to do in Henderson
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Important Dates
January16thBand All-Region
Clinic & Concert
18thMLK HolidayNo School
29-30thChoir Solo &Ensemble
See “Exchange Students” on p. 4
Left: FFA Officers are Katelyn Gensley, Drew Deorge, Savannah Gholson, Max Prior, Riley Wilkerson, Taylin Antonick, Kameron Smiley, Madison Moore, Jack Slack and Caroline Rains. Not pictured: Jack Galyean photo by Alisha McGee
International students share HHS experience
David Eubanks,
Amanda Willis,
Meet Dom Zhao
Meet Justine HiguetFebruary5-6thBand Solo &Ensemble
New foreign exchange students talk about backgrounds plus their journey to America
Juniors Taylin An-tonick and Riley Wilk-erson competed Nov. 10 in the Future Farmer’s Association Leadership Development Events (FFA LDE) competition at Waskom High School.
Antonick advanced to state in the Job Interview event and placed in the top 20 out of 597 people.
“I was shocked when I found out,” Antonick said. “There were out-standing competitors
entered in the contest who had previously gone to state, so I didn’t think I would do so well my first year.”
A d d i -t iona l ly, Antonick participat-ed in the Creed Speaking event, which required her to memorize the FFA creed then recite it to judges and answer questions related to agriculture.
In the the Job Inter-view event, she was re-quired to write a resume and cover letter which
were sent to t he super-intendent of the compe-tition. Addi-tionally, she
was interviewed by an employer of a chosen job.
“She’s worked real-ly hard,” agriculture teacher Matthew Perry
said. “We’re very proud of her.”
Antonick won first place in the District Creed Speaking event, the District Job Inter-view and the Area Job Interview. She won third in Area Creed Speaking.
“The competition is so helpful in getting people prepared for later in life when they want an ac-tual job,” Antonick said. “It’s a great opportunity to take a part in.”
Amanda Willis, Junior advances to state in FFA leadership events
FFA contest datesJanuary
Longview District Convention
12thFt. Worth Show15th
February20-27th
26-28th
“It’s a great opportunity to take a part in.”
-junior Taylin Antonick
Houston Show18th
2ndArea 6 Horse
Judging11th
Dom is from Changsha, the capital city of the Hunan province. Besides being a government city, there are many monuments and attractions for it’s 7,044,118 citizens to visit.
Guelff, Belgium
Justine is from Guelff, a small town in the Luxembourg province of southern Belgium. It near the border of the tiny country of Luxembourg. The scenery around the town is dottted with trees and hills in the surrounding countryside.
Junior Dom Zhao is participat-ing in a foreign exchange pro-gram and arrived in Henderson about nine weeks ago.
“It’s a whole new life,” Zhao said. “It stills feels unsafe -- I’m not talking about the people here or about money -- I just simply feel a little bit strange. It’s both a challenge and opportunity.”
Zhao is originally from Chang-sha, China.
“Changsha is beautiful. It is an entertainment city like Las Ve-gas, but it also has an old culture with its own characteristics. The weather is similar to here, but it
rains most of the time during the summer.”
The school Zhao attends in China has eight class periods a day that are 45 minutes each. They also have two-to-three more self-study classes at night that require students to stay in the classroom.
“In China, we spend most of our time in school,” Zhao said. “There, I live in school and go to bed at 10:30 at night and get up at 6:30 in the morning.
Senior Justine Higuet came from a small village in Belgium as part of the foreign exchange program. She has been in Hen-derson with her host mom for almost six and a half months.
“I like it very much here be-cause because the people are very friendly and generous,” Higuet said. “As my host mom says, everything in Texas is big-ger and better.”
Justine has had many new ex-periences in Texas, many of them she has liked.
“I’m very excited to celebrate Christmas here and learn some
new traditions and eat new food,” Higuet said. “I was also very excited for Thanksgiving since it was my first; I loved it.”
Justine is very happy stay-ing in her host family. She lives with a woman named Dalia Workins.
“I live with her only,” Higuet said. “She has two dogs and she is just so so nice with me.”
Justine goes back to Belgium on June 28, 2016. She hopes to go back with new experiences and many memories.
See “Exchange Students” on p. 4
20thCheerleader
Tryouts
March2ndHHS Job
Fair
FFA picture goes here
National FFA Week
San Antonio Show
March
A&M Judging Clinic
April
InformationExtraChangsha, China
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Page 2 Opinion January 15, 2016
The Hi-Life Adviser: Alisha McGee.
The Hi-Life is printed by the Henderson Daily News.
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“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a
government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” -Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States, 1743-1826
The Student Newspaper of Henderson High SchoolP.O. Box 728 • Henderson, Texas 75653
[email protected]. 85, No. 3 Jan. 15, 2016
Emily Glasgow
Amanda Willis
Tristan Bennett
Allison Leadon
David Eubanks
Zeb Linebarger
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Reality TV is taking up too much of your time
David Eubanks, Staff Reporter A daughter and her mother make
dinner together has her brother gets home from riding bikes outside. The husband pulls up from work and gets a plate to eat. The family of four sit down in front of the TV to turn on Fox reality TV channel and wish they were the families on the screen. Too many people do this and it is a problem.
The first reality television show to air in America was a show called “An American Family.” The show aired in 1973 on PBS and was 12 episodes long. The series started a chain of many popular reality shows to come in the years ahead. Drama, relation-ships and mischief are just some of the main segments featured in a lot of the shows, and people love it.
Americans spend around 1/3 of
their time watching TV and 67% of that time is spent on reality shows. Now-a-days, people huddle around their TV to watch “Keeping up with the Kardashians” or “The Real House-wives.” Some people think their lives are entertaining enough and have to watch these kinds of shows to make it more interesting. The whole mental-ity behind this is simple: your life is boring, watch mine.
Reality TV can be fun and enter-taining, but too many people watch it to make their life seem more interest-ing, and that shouldn’t have to be the case. Anyone can go out and make their life interesting by doing some-thing they love or taking up a hobby. You don’t need reality TV shows when you can make your own reality.
Emily Glasgow, Staff Reporter Freshmen are overloaded with
homework during their first year of high school. The homework load in middle school is a lot less than in high school.
Upperclassmen have useful tips, in-formation and study habits that fresh-men can use to help with their pre-AP classes. The only upper-level class available to eighth graders is Algebra I. The underclassmen have the op-portunity to take pre-AP biology with Mrs. Clifton, and she gives students incentives to study more and gives study tips and helpful hints that might not be available with other teachers. Some teachers pack on homework and do not take into consideration that students may have after-school activities such as church functions, extracurricular practices, siblings to help take care of, chores or jobs.
Studies show that students receive three times as much homework than is recommended by National Educa-tion Association. Experts suggest that teachers should assign an hour and a half of homework a day to freshmen,
an hour and 40 minutes to sopho-mores, and hour and 50 minutes to juniors, and two hours to seniors.
Some may say that the teachers are coddling students by giving make-up tests, offer tutoring, incentives like mole/bacteria bucks or offering bonus points. Others say that middle school is too easy and high school teachers should not have to lower their stan-dards to accommodate for the slow pace the freshman have acquired. However, some students do learn at a slower pace and require teachers to tutor them to help the student catch up to the class.
Having too much homework the first year of high school can become stressful with trying to keep grades up and learning new material. Students stumble and freak out at a low grade and then teachers wonder why stu-dents are dropping out of upper level classes. Teachers should give fresh-man the chance to catch up to the speed of high school teaching before overloading them with homework.
High school homework outweighs middle school
Question: Do you joke about what your going to get for Christmas? If so, what is the joke about?
Answer: I gave my par-ents soaps and perfumes for Christmas joking with them by saying they stink.
Question: What is your favorite family Christmas tradition?
Answer: Playing games like Taboo or charades.
Question: What is the one thing that you wanted most as a five year old?
Answer: Roller skates!
Question: How do you open presents?
A n s wer : I op en t he wrapped ones on Christ-mas Eve then when “Santa” comes he doesn’t wrap the presents.
Holiday QuestionsStudents, teacher discuss holiday traditions, memories
Junior Nathaniel Boutin
English Teacher Cindi Rains
Freshman Kourtland Jackson
Sophomore Jayden Gaddy
Tristan Bennett, Staff Reporter
Principal Terry Everitt answers questions about hall lockers
Tristan’s Take:It would convenient if students could use the lockers. Having lockers
would allow students to have a storage solution for extra items required by their classes.
If we can’t use the lockers, removing them would make passing periods easier.
How long have the lockers at HHS been out of use?
“I am not really sure. I came back to HHS to teach and coach. We were not using them when I returned to HHS.”a
Q
What events caused the permanent closure of the lockers?
“After the attacks at Columbine High School, a movement begain to stop using lockers. I was not here at the time, but I can only assume it was a school safety measure.”
Qa
Is there a possibility of reopening the lockers for student use?
“That is not something that I have given much thought about. I am will-ing to study the issue. One of the reasons that schools stop using lockers was when the availability came of having a set of textbooks at home and a classroom set. In theory, there was no reason to have a locker. Many teachers now require binders and they make the backpacks heavy. I picked up my son’s backpack at home the other day and I couldn’t believe he carried that around all day. My greatest fear in using lockers is an increase in students being tardy to class. I was a student here at HHS from 1987-1991 and we used lockers but our classes were organized by grades. We now organize our halls by subject.”
Qa
Is there any possibility of removing the lockers to increase hall space or utilize wall space?
Hopefully one day we can have them removed if we are not going to use them. We have had some discussions in the past about removing the lockers. We keep coming back to a common theme which is the fear of the unknown. We are not exactly sure what is behind the lockers. When removing the lockers you will have to do some floor repair. Matching the flooring can be difficult. While removing the lockers seems easy, it has the possibility of running into an expensive project. No one wants them out more than me, but it is not the highest priority on my facility needs list.
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Staff writer interviews principal about lockers, then provides his opinion on the subject
January 15, 2016 Features Page 3
Hometown HappeningsPlaces, activities to enjoy around Henderson
Opened in 2015, the frisbee golf course is stationed at Lake Forest Park . Wit h a course offering nine holes around the park, this course is sure to provide lakeside entertainment for the whole family.
Six miles west of Henderson on Highway 64, the Gaston Museum shows people a glimpse of the common East Texas oilfield worker in the 1930’s and 1940’s and tells about the average living conditions of the people who made the oil boom possible. The museum is open on Thursday and Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tickets are $3 for adults and $2 for seniors.
Featuring 1.8 miles of walking trails, a splashpad for children, tennis courts, a skating park, a lighted softball field, a farmers market, and more, Fair Pa rk ha s de f i n i te ly m a d e i t s p r e s e n c e known in recent years. The American Electric Power Foundation (AEP) presented a check for $90,372 to the City of Henderson for the park’s recent renovations.
MoJo e ’s h a s b e e n open for six and a half years and is located on the square downtown. They serve hot and cold beverages, sandwiches and various types of baked goods. Every first and third Tuesday of the month, MoJoe’s holds an open mic night and has live music every Saturday night. Hours are 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Friday, and 8 a.m. to 11 a.m. on Saturday.
Does a safari adventure only 40 minutes away from Henderson sound impossible? With the Cherokee Trace Drive-Through located in Ponta near New Summerfield, it becomes possible . Although hours vary through the year, you’ll st i l l get to see many animals including kangaroos, camels, alligators, blackbucks, bison, emus and more.
Frisbee Golf at Lake Forest Park
MoJoe’s Coffee Cafe Drive-Through Safari
Gaston Museum
photo by David Eubanks
Fair Park
photo by David Eubanks
photo by David Eubanks
courtesy photo
David Eubanks, Staff Reporter
Drivers EducationHenderson Driving School
Address: 1910 FM 3135 Henderson, TX 75654
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Before Thanksgiving break, journalism teacher Alisha McGee had her journalism students interview a person they know in preparation for the Great Thanksgiving Listen. By using t h e m o b i l e StoryCorps app pa r t ic ipa nt s can upload their recordings to the StoryCorps a r c h i ve . O n N o v . 17, a r epor ter for the Associated P r e s s ( A P ) , Dave Dishneau, c a l l e d f r e s h m a n A n n a b b e l l e Tipps, who is a student in McGee’s journalism class, about her practice interview with her mom.
“He told me that he had been scrolling through dif ferent interviews when he came across
mine and found it interesting,” Tipps said. “He asked me things about why I chose to interview my mom, how I picked what questions
to ask her how the experience affected m e a n d a b o u t t he Stor y Cor ps p r o g r a m i n genera l ,” T ipps said.
S o o n a f t e r , D i s h n e a u w r o t e a s t o r y about the Great T h a n k s g i v i n g L i s ten and t he inter v iew w it h Tipps was included.
“It’s a little weird to be exposed like that,” Tipps said. “I
did not even realize it was a big deal when
it happened. I think it’s pretty cool that I get to help inform the public about StoryCorps.”
To read the AP story that features Annabelles interview, go to http://bit.ly/1R17VZ2.
We have more time to exercise than here, but we can’t choose our classes. All of the stu-dents stay in one class-room and the teachers come and go.”
Before coming to Henderson, Zhao spent time in San Fransisco.
“While in San Fran-sisco, I once forgot my security card to my room and was locked outside,” Zhao said. “It was sort of scary, but luckily my friend saved me.”
Zhao experienced his
first American holidays here, including Thanks-giving and Christmas. He said that most people in China do not celebrate Christmas and instead participate in the Spring Festival, which cele-brates the Chinese New Year.
“I enjoyed Christmas,” Zhao said. “It is just like the celebration of the New Year in China. It gave me a good feeling of home.”
Among many new things Zhao has expe-rienced and done here,
he also plays the piano in the jazz band.
“At first I thought I would take music theory here, but instead I go to jazz band,” Zhao said. “Jazz band is a whole new thing for me, but I found lots of interests there. It’s one of my fa-vorite things about be-ing here.”
Zhao will leave at the end of the school year .
“Henderson has gave me a perfect time,” Zhao said. “I will miss it when I leave.”
“I hope to return to my country bilingual, even if it’s not easy to learn English,” Higuet said. “I also hope to return in my country with a new mindset, new knowledge, new meetings and new ideas.”
Justine enjoys the foreign exchange program and highly recommends it
for anyone who can to give it a try.“I am living an amazing experience,”
Higuet said. “I want to share this information so people can know that if they have the same opportunity as me, to participate in an exchange program, do it.”
Exchange Students
Emma Baker, Brady Robertson and Andrew Blackmon made the all-state band last weekend. Students who qualified for alternates in the band were Sam Brown, Ryan Higgs, Cori Dorsey, Zach Powell, Jakeb Copeland and Mitch Dorsey.
Fifteen band students placed high enough for area honors at all-region tryouts and auditioned for the all-state band Jan 9. The Henderson High School Band had 85 band students win a total of 53 chairs in the All-Region band.
“We had more kids qualify for all-state band auditions this year than any previous year,” band director Tommy Moore said. It felt really good.”
Other students who earned a chance to audition for the all-state band are Katherine Cisneros, Jennifer Galvan, Joy Williams, Shaddai Avila, Sahvannah Shavers and Mason Nicholson.
“It felt really good because I was not expecting it,” sophomore Brady Robertson said.
Band members Matti Brigdes, Joe Higgins, Austin Lanicek, Mckinzie Turner and Annabelle Tipps march with the band during football season. photo by Brooke Crim
Dom Zhao shares about China Justin Higuet visits from Belgium
Dom Zhao, Justine Higuet share their experiences, cont’d from page 1
Band students earn state chairs
Annabelle Tipps
Journalism student included in AP story
Zeb Linebarger,
Zeb Linebarger, Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
The boys soccer team will compete today and to-morrow at Lobo Stadium in Longview. The team has played three games this season so far, and one was a scrimmage. Teammates look forward to a good season.
“I’m looking forward to a successful season with my team,” junior Bryan Guevara said. “I hope to accomplish some great things and make it to the playoffs.”
They are preparing to come together as a team.
“My technique in practice is to always put in as much effort as I can,” Guevara said. “It will help make my team better as a whole.”
The boys team consists of: Justin Rojas, Michael Gonza-lez, Carlos Orta, Jorge Guz-man, Juan Guzman, Dustin Gray, Hector Salazar, Or-
lando Rodriguez, Julio Cer-vantes, Brett Schweng, Erick Elizondo, Jonathan Ramirez, Guillermo Gallegos, Sterling Florey, Skylar Brune, Sergio Gonzalez, Bryan Guevara, David Hinojosa and Braulio Ramirez. The head coach for the boys team is Evan Dean.
The Lady Lions soccer team wil l compete in a Hallsville tournament to-day and tomorrow. The team has played three games this season. Seniors of the team hope to make it far in their last year.
“This is my last year, so I will play my hardest and give it my all,” senior Hanna Harrison said. “I hope my team will work hard to en-dure and become a better player for the team also.”
When on the field the team comes together as one.
“It’s important for the team to stay connected on the field,” junior Kennedy Cox said. “We have to focus to be successful.”
The girls team consists of: Hellen Serrano, Jaqui Gonzalez, Ana Asencio, Liz-mar Cibrian, Maddie Eby, Chelsea Delarosa, Ramsey Belcher, Diana Ayala, Rox-anna Salas, Valerie Rodri-guez, Cari Rodriguez, Perla Perez, Susanna Rojas, Han-na Harrison, Kennedy Cox, Lili Greer, Jailene Castaneda and Andrea Elizondo. The head coach for the team is Randy Hammontree.
“I appreciate our coach,” senior Roxanna Salas said. “He shows and gives as much effort as the team does.”
Every sports team has traditions and superstitions that they believe in. The Henderson boys basket-ball team is no exception; whether its pull-ing pranks or just spending t ime together as a team.
Varsity boys basketball play-ers have chosen the mohawk as their signature haircut this sea-son. Its not just Henderson that does this; both college and NBA bas-ketball players cut their hair the same way.
“The hair is something that just happened,” senior Tre Boone said.
Even though several
teams cut their hair the same, each team has other personal traditions that they do. The team listens to music togther.
“ We t h i n k t h a t i f w e change our pre-game rout ine then it will lead to us not playing our best,” junior Tariq Gray said.
V a r s i t y team members are Gray, Kevin Tutt, La’ Kend-
rick Van Zandt, Tre Boone, Tyrek Blanton, Treylun Blan-ton, Travis Hawkins, Austin Lee, Leon Coleman, Keive Rose and Kameron Smiley.
The Lions start district play tonight against Rusk at 5 p.m.
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Traditions leave basketball players with mohawks
Lions soccer moves forward to Lobo tournament
Zeb Linbarger,
Allison Leadon,
Junior Susana Rojas and senior Hellen Serrano lead the Lady Lions soccer team during the game against center. photo by Brooke Crim
2016 Guys Soccer ScheduleJanuary
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14-1619
21-232629
February15912192326
Longview Scrimmage (JV/V)Whitehouse (JV/V)Pine Tree (JV/V)
Longview Tournament JV/V)Palestine (JV/V)
Lufkin Tournament (V)Center (JV/V)
Pittsburg (JV/V)
Tenaha (JV)Robert E. Lee (JV)
Waskom (V)Kilgore (JV/V)Tatum (JV/V)Carthage (V)Waskom (V)
LongviewWhitehouse
HomeLongview
HomeLufkinCenterHome
HomeTylerHomeKilgoreHome
CarthageWaskom
When Who Where
“We think that if we change our pregame routine then it will
lead to us not playing our best.”--junior Tariq Gray
2016 Girls Soccer ScheduleWhen Who Where
NacogodochesHome
PalestineHudsonHallsville
JacksonvilleLongview
Home
PalestineHome
GladewaterHomeHome
Spring HillTatumHome
Waskom
Nacogdoches/Chapel Hill (V)Center Scrimage (JV/V)
Palestine Tournament (JV/V)Lufkin/Hudson (V)
Hallsville Tournament (JV/V)Jacksonville (JV/V)
Longview Tournament (V)Athens (JV/V)
Palestine (JV/V)Pleasant Grove (JV/V)
Gladewater (V)Waskom (JV)Kilgore (JV/V)
Spring Hill (JV/V)Tatum (V)
Carthage (V)Waskom (JV)
January25
7-912
14-1619
21-2326
February25991216192326
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Basketball Shirts on Sale!Long-sleeved and short-sleeved shirts available. Contact Tasha Fraser at [email protected] to order. Order deadline is Jan. 15.
Staff Reporter
Staff Reporter
Travis Hawkins, Trae Hall, Tariq Gray and La’Kendrick Vanzandt model their mohawks before their home game against Laneville Jan. 12. The varsity teams play in the new gym at the middle school. photo by Alisha McGee
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