The complete archive of the seventh annual Poetry Slam

The complete archive of the seventh annual Poetry Slam

The archived footage of the Poetry Slam can be found here. The footage is set in a playlist fashion. Once the first video is complete, the next will load and play. To skip ahead to ...

The Final Words on Bullying

By Eva Sailly and Grace Freeman Continue reading if you have ever been made fun of.  Continue reading if you have ever been called a name. Continue reading if anyone has ever hurt your feelings, whether you admit it or not.  I bet all will read this next sentence because bullying comes in many different [...]

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News Hook

She walks down the hallway mostly keeping to herself. She used to like school and enjoyed talking to friends. She’s an ambitious teenager. Her dark blonde hair and simple clothes seem to have individuality embedded in the fabric. She is not afraid to be herself.She used to be proud of it. Now she’s getting punished [...]

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Cyberbullying

By Brooke Courtney and Atalie Black Thirteen-year-old Megan Meier received a MySpace message from a Josh Evans, asking her to add him as a friend. Meier got permission from her mother since she did not know him, and soon began chatting with him about everything. After a few months, Evans started saying rude things to [...]

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ELL Students Learning to Adjust

By Eva Sailly Freshman Eman Mohamed came from Sudan this February.  Her family was refugees because of the civil war occurring in the Darfur region of Sudan which first began in 2003.  Her family went to the UN in Jordan to seek refuge.  It took nine years of waiting to get the papers necessary to [...]

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My own Experience over Bullying

By: Arielle Jackson The rope, which was supposed to be in my garage, was gone when I got home. I began tearing my room apart, trying to find the rope, but still no luck. While I was trying to remember where I put it, I began to panic, not really able to breathe. So many [...]

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Magwire’s Experience of Bullying

By: Guin Ragan and Haena Lee He walks through our halls everyday. He is the man who yells at students for holding hands and expressing other forms of PDA at school. Drew Magwire is the Sociology teacher. “Magwire made everyone feel noticed,” senior Eric Harmon said. Many students are unaware that Magwire was bullied as [...]

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Teachers’ view on Bullying

By Marlee Bell and Gabby Lorino. Bullying happens around us, whether we see it or not.  In the school setting, the people with the most power to stop bullying are teachers. But what do they do about bullying? SMNW teachers don’t agree on the most effective methods of dealing with bullies, but they do share [...]

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Where it Begins

By Isabel Williams and Grace Freeman Deep breath. Look down. Don’t look anyone in the eye. Just blend in and you’ll be okay. If you mess up, it could cost you everything you’re worth. Don’t let them see you break. Keep on shuffling down the hallway.  Maybe sing a song in your head to try [...]

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