General Pride https://generalpride.ws The Student News Site of Washington School - MS Thu, 04 May 2017 19:50:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.2 1-20-17 https://generalpride.ws/699/photoandvideo/photo-of-the-week/1-20-17/ https://generalpride.ws/699/photoandvideo/photo-of-the-week/1-20-17/#respond Wed, 12 Apr 2017 19:16:07 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=699  This week’s photo of the week is taken by Grayce Redwine, a ninth grade journalism student. It was taken in her own backyard in Leland, Mississippi.

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13 New Books Coming Out 2017 https://generalpride.ws/694/lifestyle/13-new-books-coming-out-2017/ https://generalpride.ws/694/lifestyle/13-new-books-coming-out-2017/#respond Tue, 11 Apr 2017 19:54:07 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=694 1: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

According to barnsandnoble.com, Marin, college freshmen, decides rather than going home, she’ll stay in her empty dorm room in New York. Then her friend, Mabel, comes to town to try to persuade her to come back to their home in San Francisco.Their friendship helps her through the spiral of emotions that came after her caretaker grandfather passed away.

 

  1. Freeks by Amanda Hocking

According to Amazon.com, after traveling for the longest time with Gideon Davorin’s Traveling Carnival, Mara desires a normal life. A life without people with special powers, without the ability to read minds and to see the future. When one of the Carnival’s sideshow sets the camp in the small town of Caudry, Mara gets her chance, when she meets a local boy named Gabe. Soon, Mara realizes that there’s dark presence hovering around the town that is a threat to her friends and the ones she cares for. She now has to race the clock to save her friends from this evil force.

 

  1. Goodbye Days by Jeff Zentner

Carver Briggs’s world is turned upside down, when one text while driving results in a car crash that kills his three best friends. Filled with guilt and fearing prison, Carver seems like he has no one on his side. When his friends’ families start asking for a time to share memories and say their goodbyes, he feels even more worried and alone.

 

4.What to Say Next by Julie Buxbaum

This book is about an unlikely friendship. Popular girl, Kit Lowell, decides after her father’s death to sit somewhere new at lunch with the socially awkward, David Drucker. David’s blunt, Kit asks a lot of questions, and together the two of them take on the emotional rollercoaster challenge of finding out the mysteries of her father’s car accident.

 

5.House of Furies by Madeleine Roux

Louisa Ditton is lucky to find work at Coldthistle House after escaping her deranged high school that specializes in punishment. She soon discovers that Coldthistle will not be an ordinary job. With bosses determined to serve out harsh punishment as they seem fit, Louisa finds solace in her one, charismatic friend, Lee. She’s determined to protect him from the evils within the household.

 

  1. Poison’s Kiss by Breeana Shields

Marinda has been a lethal assassin for as long as she can remember. She’s one of the best because of her ability to kill with one kiss. Never give a second thought to what she does, she takes life after life. Until, one day she is assigned to kill a boy who doesn’t deserve to die.

 

  1. A Good Idea by Cristina Moracho

Fin and Betty have been friends through it all. After Fin’s move out of their town, they started making plans for college. New York University is in their sights and they can’t wait to be roommates. The, Betty goes missing and all their plans are thrown out the window. When Betty’s ex-boyfriend confession of drowning her isn’t accepted, Fin is suspicious. Fin discovers the truth and heads back to her and Betty’s hometown to get revenge for her friend.

 

  1. The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti

Teenage misfit, Hawthorn Creely, throws herself into the middle of the missing persons investigation of Lizzie Lovett, who strangely disappeared while camping with her boyfriend. When she has a crazy theory about what happened to Lizzie, Hawthorn can’t help but interfere. She’ll do anything to prove it, even if that means making what once was Lizzie’s life, hers.  

  1. Carve the Mark by Veronica Roth

Everyone is born with a power that is meant to help the future. When two teens find their abilities leave them vulnerable to others’ control, they must decide whether to side with the empire and their corrupt leaders, or to help their own future.

 

  1. Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare

Emma Carstairs has avenged her parents. She thought she’d be at peace, but she is anything but calm. She’s torn between her attraction for her parabatai, Julian, and her desire to protect him from the harsh consequences of parabatai relationships. To make matters worse, she has begun dating his brother, Mark. This is the second installment of the Dark Artifices series.

  1. Camp So-and-So by Mary McCoy

Twenty-five girls receive a letter inviting them to a lakeside retreat in the Starveling Mountains that promises fun activities such as volleyball, rock-climbing, and Shakespeare beneath the stars. Even though at the time of the letters’ mailing, the camp does not exist.

 

  1. The Whole Thing Together by Ann Brashares

Sasha and Ray have both gone to the summer beach house since they were young. They’ve never met and only have two things in common, half-siblings and the beach house. Sasha’s dad was married to Ray’s mom and after a nasty divorce, custody of the beach house is up in the air.

 

  1. The Careful Undressing of Love by Corey Ann Haydu

For as long as anyone could remember, the girls on Devonairre Street have been cursed. Anyone they love will die all too soon. After the death of Jack, the boy everyone loves, terror fills the minds of the Devonairre. Now the curse consumes them.

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3-9-17 https://generalpride.ws/688/photoandvideo/photo-of-the-week/3-9-17/ https://generalpride.ws/688/photoandvideo/photo-of-the-week/3-9-17/#comments Fri, 07 Apr 2017 19:48:27 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=688  This week feature photo is of Washington School baseball pitcher, Austin Kelly, taken by Chaslyn Haynes.

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Beauty and the Beast Movie Review https://generalpride.ws/683/opinion/beauty-and-the-beast-movie-review/ https://generalpride.ws/683/opinion/beauty-and-the-beast-movie-review/#respond Thu, 06 Apr 2017 19:54:53 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=683 Disney is known by practically every child on earth for its way of making dreams come true. It has brought us princesses, talking toy cowboys, and enchanting characters like Dumbo. Recently, Disney has come out with another movie.

Twenty-six years ago, the classic fairytale, Beauty and the Beast, was made into a cartoon. Now they have made what every girl has been waiting for. The live action Belle. You heard me right.

 

Belle, played by Emma Watson, is this sweet, passionate bookworm who searches for adventure. I’ve always loved Emma Watson so, when I heard she was going to be Belle I was so excited! Her dad was being held captive by a beast, who seemingly has no heart or pity. He wouldn’t give Belle her father back unless she took his place. Belle, being selfless, took the deal and saved her father from a life of imprisonment. As a little girl, I wanted to be just like Belle and admired how wonderful her personality was. She gave up everything just for one person.

 

Magical characters like a talking teapot and a goofy, bitter clock began becoming friends with Belle and tried to make her feel at home. They gave her a room in hopes of easing her mind.
Overall, this movie was very well directed and featured strong characters that made you want to be them. Young kids of all ages should see this movie because of just how important it is to not judge a book by it’s cover. Belle got to know this beast who later became a great person with a kind heart.

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The truth about grieving https://generalpride.ws/670/lifestyle/the-truth-about-grieving/ https://generalpride.ws/670/lifestyle/the-truth-about-grieving/#respond Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:36:06 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=670 Two things never fail to occur in a person’s life; love and death. It should be basic human right to experience these because they both incite strong emotions that one might never feel otherwise. With love, the pain of death is amplified and the hurt is stronger. With death, the love of people around you reaches out like a safety net, never failing to catch you. Each of these emotions are so tightly woven together, they’re almost inseparable. But, grief is becoming more rushed. Society is pushing the grieving period to a mere two weeks. They regulate how to grieve, and we’re left wondering, can there be a right way?

 

All it takes is one Google search of the word grief to find dozens of articles about what grief means and that every person grieving has to go through five stages. My hope is that these were written with the best intentions, not to make a person who just lost someone feel as if they have to move quickly from stage to stage before they can let go of their misery. I pray that there was no part of their minds that said they should create these science papers filled with facts supporting their idea of the correct way to grieve to push people into rushing through their pain quickly and efficiently. They say to take a few days off from work, and then back to hustle and bustle of everyday life.

 

Maybe these scientists are right, that to move on from your sorrow, there are certain emotions you need to feel. But what they’ll never be able to explain is the most efficient way to grieve. How can they predict or explain the easiest way to cope with loss, when each loss is so heartbreakingly unique. There’s no quick and easy cosmetic fix for pain someone grieving feels.

 

The truth, I believe, about grief is that there is no truth. No formula, no list of stages, no doctor, psychiatrist who can regulate what’s normal or what needs to occur because there is no such thing as a normal death. Every person is so different and touches life in a different way, there is no way to judge how the loss of them will affect people.
My advice to everyone is dealing with a loss, don’t try to find that formula or article, just grieve. It will shape you into a stronger version of yourself and the brokenness that follows death is worth loving, and living, for.

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All you need to know about Mrs. Warren’s book https://generalpride.ws/668/news/all-you-need-to-know-about-mrs-warrens-book/ https://generalpride.ws/668/news/all-you-need-to-know-about-mrs-warrens-book/#respond Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:30:15 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=668 Courtney Warren is the High School Spanish 1 and 2 teacher here at Washington School, who is writing a children’s book.

Warren has been writing since she was a kid. Her main inspiration that made her want to write is her mom. Her mom used to start a sentence, and she would have to end it. Her first writing was poetry, which she said was very bad.

The book is about a little girl who meets Emmett Till’s ghost right after he dies. She started the book when she was in her second year of grad school. The story started by Warren writing a short story for her Magical Realism Class at Hollins University. The assignment was to have  a main character who was dead. That summer she found out her voice was regional (southern) so she had to write like that. 

To graduate, she had to have a thesis, which, at first, was about aliens. She kept having this feeling that she needed to ditch the aliens and write about Emmett Till, which she did not want to do. She knows now that the feeling was God. 

Warren has a firm belief that everyone can write.

“I think that you can learn to be writer, but I do think that sometimes God will give you a story,” said Warren.

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Cooking up changes in the grill https://generalpride.ws/666/news/cooking-up-changes-in-the-grill/ https://generalpride.ws/666/news/cooking-up-changes-in-the-grill/#comments Wed, 22 Mar 2017 16:18:42 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=666 Students have expressed many opinions about Washington School, but the main topic that is talked about is the grill.

Beverly Williams manages the grill and a lot of students had questions for her. Williams was very nice and open to changes being made based on the opinions of the student body. The rise in prices at Washington School has been a very big concern to everyone. She says that Washington did not increase the prices, but Sodexo owns the grill so they are in charge of all the prices in the grill.

Students have said that with the rise of prices there should be bigger portions, and she said she would see what they could do about bigger portions. She hopes that changes will be coming soon.

All year students have been wondering if the utensils are free, or if not what do they cost. Mrs. Beverly said that they are free if you purchase them with food, but they cost 25 cents if that is all you get from the grill. Two of the main complaints have been about the grill closing early, and the very small options of fresher options of  foods. “We’ll make sure they stay open until the bell rings.” said Mrs. Beverly about the grill closing early, and that she was unaware of that. She said that she wants to make everyone happy so changes will be coming soon.

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A Ray of Positivity https://generalpride.ws/664/news/a-ray-of-positivity/ https://generalpride.ws/664/news/a-ray-of-positivity/#respond Tue, 21 Mar 2017 20:00:23 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=664 This year at Washington School, we have a teacher with a new position and a new outlook on life.

William Ray has been a math teacher at Washington School for a couple years now, but he recently became the high school principal. Instead of being stressed or upset, he has a positive attitude thanks to a book he recently read.

About a month ago Ray’s wife told him about the book, “The Energy Bus: 10 Rules to Fuel your Life, Work, and Team with Positive Energy,” by Jon Gordon. The book is about a man named George who lives a negative life. His poor attitude starts to affect his marriage, job and just his life in general. He soon has a series of problems that lead him to take the bus to work — Joy’s bus. Joy is a woman who drives the bus and who tells him, along with the other people who ride the bus, the 10 rules to fuel your life, work, and team. George soon his lives his life by these rules, and his life, marriage, and work life become better.

Ray decided to implement this in his classroom because he believes morale was down at Washington School last year, and he wanted to change that.

“I heard negativity and decided to do something about it,” he said.

The math teacher and coach started listening to the audio book during his math classes and involved his classes.

Ray wants students to view problems as challenges, he said.

Since starting the Positivity Bus, Ray said he is less stressed, happier, and has more energy.

One thing Ray wants everyone to know is that, “The more you think about the problem the more bitter it makes you. The more you you think about the solution the better it makes you.”

 

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There’s no business like show business at WS https://generalpride.ws/661/news/theres-no-business-like-show-business-at-ws/ https://generalpride.ws/661/news/theres-no-business-like-show-business-at-ws/#respond Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:57:10 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=661 Among the many changes at Washington School is a new class called Media Production. Media Production is a new class that began with a donation from Steve Azar. He proposed beginning the class because he wanted to expose students to the music industry and audio production.

Bobby Whittington, band director and Bible teacher, directs the class. Mr. Whittington has always been interested in music and has been in studios helping with recording or production. Before coming to Washington School, he was a music director in a church which made him more interested in the technical part of the production process.

In the future he would like to post videos online, make a website, and involve the community in their activities. He hopes to take his classes to Delta Music Institute to work with the recording studios there.

Zach Dick and Brett Brown are among the ten students in the class. Brett Brown said he was influenced to start the class because his cousin is a producer in California. He wanted to see what that job is all about.

Zach Dick said he wanted to join Media Production “because of the new groundbreaking ideas they now have for that.”

Zach is also looking for a career in music production and maybe movie production. He wants to learn new techniques for filmmaking in the industry today.

Mr. Whittington said it’s a work in progress, but he invited the Washington School family to visit the studio anytime.

 

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Archery takes aim https://generalpride.ws/659/sports/archery-takes-aim/ https://generalpride.ws/659/sports/archery-takes-aim/#respond Tue, 21 Mar 2017 19:55:58 +0000 https://generalpride.ws/?p=659 Coach Phillip Wasson and Liz Clements started talking last year about a new archery team for Washington School. They realized it was a very fast-growing sport in the state and in the nation. So, Washington’s very own Debbie Harris, Liz Clements, Ryan Chun and Phillip Wasson got certified by the National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) and the plans went underway.

Mrs. Clements said she plans to begin practice after November.

“We need to have a meeting on rules and then after that just wait for the equipment,” she said.

The reason they decided to start this team was mainly because we live in the Delta and many people like to shoot.

The team is open to students in fourth to 12th grades; Wasson and Clements plan to host two qualifying tournaments before the state championship in April.

Mrs. Clements said the archery team can be another outlet for kids here at Washington.

“Kids who don’t like other sports can now get involved,” she said. “It also helps kids with focus and patience. It’s something you can do all your life.”

 

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