Rugged Magazine Spring 2024

Rugged

The Literary Arts Magazine of Bishop Dunne Catholic School

Spring2024

Rugged is the literary arts magazine of Bishop Dunne Catholic School, a digital publication of student work.

The first issue of Rugged came out in spring 2012. Today, the creative work of Bishop Dunne students continues to shine. This issue features several entries from the 2024 Bishop Dunne Literary Festival art contest. This year’s featured author, Mr. Gene Luen Yang, is an award-winning graphic novelist. Students were invited to submit a piece illustrating a quotation from one of Mr.Yang’s works:“Sometimes, a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.” (The Shadow Hero)

Students in Dr. Jason Walker’s English IV class studied The Sound and the Fury this semester. One of their projects over that novel was to illustrate a theme in a poster or a mosaic. Some of their work is here.

Thank you to the students who have worked hard and to their teachers, who support their creative work every day.

We hope you enjoy it.

INTHISISSUE

Student artists created graphic novel pages or comic panels as part of the 2024 Literary Festivalartcontest.

Seniors tackled The Sound and the Fury and illustrated themes from the novel in posters and evidencemosaics.

This year’s literary festival included, for the first time, an art contest. Students created works illustrating a quotation from one of Gene Yang’s works, The Shadow Hero: “Sometimes a fight you cannot win is still worth fighting.”

In the high school category, 9th grader Ellie Di Le won first place (facing page).

10th grader Morgan Thomas won second place, and 9th grader Jackson Armour won third place (following pages).

ELLIE (DI) LE

MORGAN THOMAS

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JACKSON ARMOUR

CARMELO LEGRONE

7th grader Carmelo LeGrone’s anime-style artwork won first place in the 2024 Literary Festival art contest (middle school division).

Facing page: winning piece

Above: another piece by Carmelo

Christian Chenier, 7th Grade

Front panel 3rd Place Tie

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Back panel 3rd Place Tie

Christian Chenier, 7th Grade

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Tatianna Allen, 8th Grade

Charlie Smades, 7th Grade

3rd Place Tie

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Alyssa Lopez, 7th Grade

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Jianna Rodriguez, 7th Grade

Alexis Mendoza, 7th Grade

Chase Hopkins, 7th Grade

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Zach Murphy, 6th Grade

WILLIAMFAULKNER’S

THE SOUND AND THE FURY

The Sound and the Fury is Faulkner’s best-known work and one of the most challenging novels of the 20th century. Dr. Jason Walker’s seniors rose to that challenge, reading and analyzing this complex work. For one assignment on the novel, students could choose to create a poster illustrating a theme and answering questions on that theme from the novel, or they could create an evidence mosaic that had to include at least eight sections. The following are some of those projects

MOSAIC

ALEX REAL, SENIOR

POSTER

JAZMINE SALAZAR, SENIOR

MOSAIC

GABRIELLE GREEN, SENIOR

POSTER

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ARIANA ROJAS, SENIOR

POSTER

ALEINA MENDOZA, SENIOR

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Mission Statement

Bishop Dunne Catholic School empowers each student to explore, inquire, lead, and serve through a college preparatory education in a joyful community of faith.

Bishop Dunne Library: A Message from the Librarian

The Bishop Dunne Library is a place for students to explore and discover the joys of reading, as well as a place to learn the skills to navigate a constantly changing, technologically sophisticated environment. My mission as the librarian is to help students become lifelong learners, equipped with the tools to navigate, evaluate, analyze, and understand the wealth of information they will encounter throughout their lives.

Rugged began as a platform for students to share their creative work. Like many of the books that are available to students in the library,

these works are often not directly connected to an assignment or to a course; they may sometimes be far from typical classwork.

But learning is not confined to the school walls. Reading, writing, and creating are joyful enterprises that we encourage in every part of our students’ lives.

It is a pleasure to share their work. I hope you enjoy it.

Melanie M. Gibson School Librarian Editor of Rugged