American Government Classes Write Letters

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By: Kayla Howe


Jeff Patton’s senior Government/Economics classes just finished writing a letter to any one of our three Congressmen. In the prompt, Patton provided his students with a fictional amendment. The students were to decide and convince one of the congressmen to vote for or against the amendment. The amendment concerned punishments for all violent crimes. It would be a letter that would not be sent. By using a stack of information that Patton printed off from the internet, and also from the American Government textbook, this was to teach about the government and civil liberties – rights of an accused person. The rubric was based on order, organization, vocabulary, creativity, and took three days to complete. As a result, the final product had to be two pages hand-written. Patton says that several letters were excellent and that the class will continue to do more writings. The goal will be to show improvement with each additional project. "Incorporating writing is varied way to teach the class important lessons," Patton concluded.

BHS Holds Beauty Review

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By: Ann-Claire Mullen

Bruce High School Annual Staff hosted the BHS Beauty Review that began at 1:00 p.m. for K-4 and ended with 5th through 11th grade competitions. The Beauty Review winners for the 2007-2008 year were Gemi Moore and Jayline Cruthirds, Sarah Erwin and Cole Brassfield, Caitlyn Burt and Brylee Poteete, Janna Turner and Braiden Lee, Sydney Stephan and Cameron Clarke, Juliana Cain and Kenston Wright, Haley Hubbard and Hunter Owens, Elizabeth Whitten, Myranda Bennett and Devin Davis, Ashley Hubbard and Ted Esom, T’Ericka Thornton and Keron Bell, Ann-Claire Mullen and Curtis Lyons, and Diana Landeverde and Jacob Samuel.
For the afternoon competitions, Leah Malone was the emcee, and the entertainers for this event were Linda Ann Ward, Stephanie Hill, Janae Harrelson, Elizabeth Hathorne, Satrina Massey, and Lyrix.
Later that evening the Senior Pageant took place. The winners for the night were Leanna King and John Mark Busby. The beauties and beaux were Allie Hillhouse, Hannah Odom, Beverly Cole, Jennifer Smith, Jayla Hubbard, Kenosha Tillman, Preston Quillen, Briceson Donahue, Zach Brower, Chance Inman, J. Robertson, and DeClinton Glaspie.
"All the hard work and preparations paid off. The Beauty Review was a huge success! We raised allot of money toward the production costs of the year book," stated Sandy Aron.