Discovery Digest - Volume 1 | Issue 3

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October 15th brings new additions to ongoing media.

MinecraftLiveandtheseason 3premiereofTheOwlHouse occurred.

OnOctober15th, 2022,twobig developmentsin preexistingmedia occurred:thepremiereof TheOwlHouseseason three,andanother iterationinaseriesof MinecraftLive livestreams.

Mojang’s MinecraftLive, streamedon Youtube on Oct.15,2022,isa semi-annualeventheldby Mojangtoannounceany newson Minecraft andits spin-offs.Themostrecent MinecraftLive

Someofthesefeatures includedrideablecamels thatcouldseattwoplayers anddashoversmallgaps (suchasthosecreatedby ravines).Therewasalso theadditionofbamboo buildingblocks,whichcan beusedliketypical Minecraftwoodblocksto makestairs,fences,and slabs.Abambooraftwas alsopresented,speculated tobeabletomovepandas, whichwereunabletobe transportedbefore.

Anotherfeatureadded camefromthisyear'sMob Vote.

playerstovoteonwhich newcreatureshouldbe addedtoMinecraftinthe nextupdate.

This MinecraftLive,the MobVotecontestants weretheSniffer,Tuff Golem,andRascal. TheSnifferisan“ancient mob”thathatchesfrom eggsfoundunderwater, anditsmainallureisbeing abletosniffplantsandfind newseeds;ifitwas selected,itwouldalsoadd anewplanttothegame, connectedtotheseseeds. TheTuffGolemcouldhold itemsandmovearound, serving

Principal Aaron Smith working on Documentary

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Mr. Smith’s Loretta Lynn documentary wishes to encapsulate the love between Lynn and her best friend.

Aaron Smith, PrincipalofDiscoveryHigh School (DHS), has had a loveforLorettaLynnsince childhood. Within his in-progress documentary, he tells the platonic love story of Lynn and Tim Cobb, her exclusive designer, stylist museum curator, roommate and bestfriend.

Lynn was a American singer songwriter whose careerspansover60years, with her first album being releasedin1966, YouAin’t Woman Enough, and her mostrecentconcertbeing inAugustof2021.

Lynn was born in the AppalachianMountains,in a small coal mining community with her 7 siblings.Shebegansinging in church as a child and marriedwhenshewas16. Soonafter,

her and her husband moved to Custer, WA to get away from the Appalachians.

In the late 1950s, she sung at bars and formed her first band, Loretta&theTrailblazers. In January 1960, she got her first record deal with Zero Record. Her career took off from there, starring as a singer in the GrandOleOpry.Later,the documentary The Coal Miner’s Daughter was writtenabouther,

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Camas School District dress codes create student controversy

DHS students concernedare fours worth the effort?

toitbeingtoodarktofit with Disney’s branding.

Thisdevelopmenthinted towards Disney aiming for a younger audience, but it also meant that there will be less animation that interests teenagersandadults.

The Owl House getting cancelled could be a good thing, as it shows that animations with more mature narratives are wanted by the community, and allows new studios to create animated shows and movies with those less-restrictive boundaries in mind. If Disney is striving to be strictly for younger audiences, then that meansthattherewillbe more chances for other studiostothrive.

Seasonthreewillconsist of three 44 minute episodes, wrapping up theentirestory. ∎

new camel mob being introduced.

On Oct. 15 2022, the same day of the Minecraft Live event, The Owl House season three premiered on Disney, though it was most accessible on YouTube

TheOwlHouse isashow by Dana Terrace, which was canceled before its secondseasonhadeven finishedairing.

The show follows a girl named Luz who was seen as different, so in retaliation, her mother sent her to a summer camp.Alongherway,Luz finds a portal to the demonrealm,whereshe spends the majority of the show in. Many people believe that Disney hadcancelled The Owl House due to its LGBTQ+representation, but Terrace explained TheOwlHouse duetoits LGBTQ+representation, but Terrace explained thatitwascanceleddue

The newest snapshot was playable by Minecraft: Java Edition users on Wednesday, October19th.

7 new default skins will be added to the game, meaning they will be included as customizationoptionsin thegameonfirstlaunch and included in promotional material. Currently, we have the characters Steve and Alex,butthe7newones will be named Makena, Efe, Noor, Kai, Ari, Sunny,andZuri.

There was some speculation about new biomesbeingaddeddue to a 2018 Biome Vote, which was very similar to the Mob Vote but included ideas for many biome reworks. The ones that people thought could be included in this update were the badlands, desert, and savannah biomes; seeing as these couldberelatedtothe

asadecorativecreature that could bring movement to player’s builds.TheRascalwasa mobfoundincavesthat could be considered a naturally-spawning minigame.Ifyoufoundit 3 times in a game of hide-and-seek, it would give you a prize, adding some variety to player adventures.

In this Minecraft Live’s mob vote, the Sniffer won, with over half the totalvotes.

During Minecraft Live, Agnes Larsson, one of the lead developers for Minecraft, stated “so, [in] previous years, you have been abletoplay-testthenew featureslikemanymany months after live, but this year, we are very excited about this.you will be able to play-test the new features on Betas, snapshots and previewsjustafewdays fromnow[Oct.15].”

Two years after Smithwatchedthemovie, hewenttoaLorettaLynn concert and was once again annamered by her, withhisloveforherbeing aconstanteversince.

However, his main focus has been on the Loretta Lynndocumentary,hisfirst bigproject.Hisproduction company, Flying Biscuit Productions, was created by his friends Molly Mitchell-Mumma and DianeNymeyer.

Smith stated, “one time, we were driving down the road and there was a biscuit that was thrownoutthewindowat somebody,” hence christening the name FlyingBiscuit.

He had worked with Nymeyer and Mitchell-MummaatBlaine Middle School in Walken County, the same county Lynn had lived. They learnedtheyallhadanlove forLynn.

Smith spent six weeks on Lynn’s ranch, filming two weeks in the summer of 2019,then2020,andthen 2021.Mostdocumentaries can take up to 10 years, however, Smith expects a rough draft of the documentary to be completed this year. Editing it after the initial draftmaytakeoneortwo years.

Smith has had other previous documentary projects.

estartedhisdocumentary career making one for his friend, Adam, who was a bassoon player, about the overall process of making bassoonreeds.

By chance, Smith and Cobbhadbecamefriends at a concert, and in the last five years of Loretta Lynn’s shows Smith had the opportunity to hangout with Cobb and Lynn.

Smith had been thinking of creating a documentary for a while, he had taken some film classesandsoaskedCobb for his opinion on the idea:Cobbthoughtitwas a great one, and Loretta thought the same. Smith thought an overview of Loretta’s life had been well illustrated, having had multiple documentaries on it. So, Tim Cobb was to be the anchor, focusing on Tim until Loretta entered his life, then focusing on the friendshipbetweenthem. Loretta

being sparked by his sister, who was a beauty queen in many pageants. Cobbnoticedtheamount his mother was spending onhissister’sgowns,and saw it as an opportunity for a future where he would make and sell dressesasacareer.

Loretta Lynn had always been an influence within Smith’s life. When Lynn was 16, she had moved fromKentuckytooutside of Linden, Washington—Smith’s hometown—with her husband. Smith’s mother went to school with her eldestchild,sohegrewup hearing stories about Lynn’schildren.

Smithwastenwhen Coal Miner’s Daughter came out,andevenwenttothe movieintheaters.Onthe silver screen was a woman he had heard stories of, and songs of, referencing his hometown, and her life within it—he was starstruck.Hewatchedit overandoverasachild.

and over four million of her records have been sold as of October 20th, 2022. Smith calls her a trailblazer, being a country woman speaking on her emotions within relationships and throughout her life, and many of her songs write about her marriage with her drunkard husband.

Lynn states in her song Don’t Come Home A Drinking, “Leave a bottle or me behind, And don’t come home with drinking on your mind

No, don't’ come home with drinking on your mind,”

Cobb is known as Lynn’s exclusivedesigner,stylist, museumcurator,andbest friend. He was born in a small town in Arkansas. He found his love for fashion design as a child, potentially

Principal Aaron Smith Working on a Documentary Cont.

Loretta lynn performing

October

By Aliferia Gonzalez Even ABCNews partof moreminorcontroversy

On October 8th, 2022, Kanye West (now legallyYe)releasedaTweet thatexpressedhisdesireto go “death con 3 [sic] on JEWISH PEOPLE,” prompting a media storm filled with controversy and contempt for his actions; howevermany

news outlets are straying from calling his statements anti-semiticdirectly.

ABC News author Teddy Grant made a choice when constructing his article on West’s recent Twitter remarks, choosing to describe them as “highly offensive”—which is vague compared to a much more common term people are using to describe the incident: anti-semitic. The wordchoiceisnotexclusive to ABC news, with similar instances being present in popularnewscompaniesand websitessuchas Politico and EyewitnessNews. The vague allusionstothetweet

Camas School District dress codes create student controversy

and its consequences were lamented, not just for spelling out a problem with thespotlitsituation,butasa representationofthebigger media’s abrasion to stating concrete opinions on things likeracialissues.

In journalism, there are specificwaysarticlesshould be structured and completed, with a key and widespread principle being thatallarticlesshouldbegin withalede:ashortsummary of everything to come. The idea is for readers to view the sentence and receive a condensed summary of the articletocome,

prompting intrigue and supplementing those who circumstantially would not havereadtheentirearticle. When vague wording (like thoseexemplifiedinarticles about Kanye West’s controversialtweets)isused in them, it may misguide readers into opinions or perspectives,someofwhich couldnotberepresentative ofwhattheywouldthinkina better-specified context.

Associated Press (AP) publishedanamendmentto its stylebook in March of 2019; which many considered to be a direct attack on this issue, promptingheadlineslike

“It’s OK to call something racistwhenit’sracist”from journalism outlet Poynter. AP’snewguidelinesdetailed how those in journalistic writing positions should avoid phrases like “racially charged, racially divisive, racially tinged, or similar terms as euphemisms for racist and racism when the latter terms are truly applicable.”

In personal discussions Digest membersencountered withpeers,itwasproposed thatnewsoutletsmayavoid directly calling out antisemitism due to legal repercussions related to slanderorlibel. ∎

Camas High School (CHS) hasbeenstrugglingwiththe dresscodeandhowstudents feel about its intense enforcement. Unlike CHS, DiscoveryHighSchool(DHS) hasnotbeenverystrictwith thedresscode.Thishasled many students to ask: why are they treated so differently when the dresscodesarethesame?

Recently, there has been some debate between CHS andDHSaboutdresscodes and their enforcement. However,thedebate,aswell as the differences in dress codeseverityateachschool seemed illogical seeing as they had the same written guides.

DiscoveryDigest interviewed Grace Carolus, a CHS student, about her opinions ontheschools’dresscodes. “Theydresscodepeoplefor weirdreasonseven

if it's not weird or distracting.Ijustthinkthey go too far,” Carolus said, “there have been a lot of sexist comments that have beenreported,theydon'tdo anything about it… I don’t thinkit'sabadschool,they justneedtofocusonthings otherthansomeoneshowing theirstomach.”

Dress codes are a big probleminmanyschools,but the strictness of enforcement can vary greatly between different educational establishments, staff, or even student reports.It’sbeenconcerning CHS students that these dress code rules are being treateddifferentlybystaff

attheirschoolcomparedto thoseatDHS.

To the question, “Do you think your dress code is strict?'' a CHS student answered, “Yeah 100%, I mean we can't even show our shoulders… They [CHS] were lax about it last year butwegotanewprincipal.”

Mariya Ostap, a CHS freshman,stated “it affects our learning experience because people can’texpressthemselveslike they normally would and some people don't have clothes that are “appropriate”for school, so it’skindofridiculousthatthis school focuses so much of theirattentiononclothes.”

An anonymous past CHS student expressed her opiniononthematter,stating “It [the dress code] wasn’t strict, but sometimes the teachers were annoying about it… they weren’t fair aboutit.”

Contradictory to that, AudreyMiller,aDHS

freshmansaidotherwise:

“I have never gotten dress codedatthisschool…Ithink it’s something that needs to befixedbecauseitistreated differently.”

Digest conductedresearchon dress codes in each school, andfound(tomany’sshock) bothtobethesameallalong. This created some controversybetweenteacher authority and students’ beliefs.

AlotofpeopleatDHShave talked about this topic in concern for their friends. Studentsexpressedthatthe vastdifferencesbetweenthe way both schools adress dresscodesis

something that should be changedoratleastlookedat.

Discovery Digest interviewed AveryPerry,DHSsenior.

“Ifthere'sgoingtobeadress code, all teachers should enforce it, not some,” Perry said,“Ithinkthedresscodeis not strict but into black and whitebecausesometeachers enforceitmorethanothers.”∎

Inktober

By: Haylee Kohler

The official 2022 Inktober is currently happening throughout the month of October, participate by doing one ink drawing per prompt.

Spooky season is upon us! Halloween is creeping around the corner this fall.

Artmaynotbethefirstthing onyourmindthisOctober,

but, since the first of this month,aspecialeventknown as Inktober is currently in motion.Thisactivityisopen for all artists to participate andshowofftheircreativity inonefullartpiecedonein completeink. Eachdayprovidesaprompt, ofwhichparticipatingartists will illustrate, repeating the cycleeachday.

Your piece will be dubbed complete at the end of October, when 31 prompts will have run out, becoming oneartpiece.JaxGoertzen,

an 11th grade student in StudioArtsOne,stated “Inktober is definitely a challenge but it's great practice and it's so interesting to see how everyone in my class improvestheirskillsoverthe courseofthismonth.” They explained the enjoymentineachclassand the time they spend on the activity. “I've been drawing sevendrawingsonceaweek, but you can also draw the prompts every day, or in another order,” said Goertzen.

Althoughthereisanintended order, Goertzen says, “I've beengoingoutoforderwith whatever prompt inspires me,howevermostpeoplego intheintendedorder.”

Youdon’thavetobeinStudio Arts One in order to participate. Although, if you’re interested, you can schedule the class for your nextsemester.“Thepurpose of Inktober is to showcase your artistic skills to others and get inspired by other peoples creations.” Says Goertzen.

“Everyone has different ideas,notwopeoplehavethe exactsameartevenfromthe sameprompt.”

Ms. Greenwood will be the teacherforStudioArtsOne, as soon as she’s back from maternityleave.

It’s not too late to catch up andcreateartthisOctober!

The prompts are posted in front of Ms. Greenwood’s class, so gather up some inkingmaterialsandletyour creativityout! ∎

LarkenGrimes&Sophia

Thank you for the engagement in this edition of the Discovery Digest, we would love to continue to see anonymous confessions coming in; so if you have something to get off your chest there are posters around the school with QR codes to scan and put your requests into. Find Avery Perry at lunch if you want a better chance to be in the next edition or a more personal and therefore context-rich way of presenting your potential addition to the Digest team. ∎

The Discovery Advice Column

I’m being followed by seventh graders, they tattle on me and call me names. It makes me mad.

Seventhgraders aredefinitelytheirown breedofhuman,ifthey're followingyouaroundyou shouldtakeitasa compliment,itmeans theythinkyou'recool andprobablyidolizeyou. Otherwise,justbe emotionlesswiththem. Blank-stareyourwayto victory(exceptthere’s nothingtovaliantlystand on,youjustdon’tget followedaroundby7th graders.)

The price for the fall dance is too high. Wehavehadafew commentsaboutthisand weunderstandthe concern,althoughthe priceneedstobetheway itissotheschoolcanhave danceslikethis.Thecost ofthedanceisnotcheap, soeverydollarcounts.

When I was younger I ran over my brother with my car. (It was a toy car) Ifeellikewe shouldstartoffbyasking ifyourbrotherisokay,but seeingasthisis anonymousIwouldadvise youtoapologizetoyour brotherifyouhaven’t already.Please,people,do notrunoveryoursiblings.

One time I ate a glow stick because I thought it would make me glow. Theonlyadvice wecangiveonthisis… pleasedonoteatglow sticks.Itwillnot,infact, makeyouglow.There’sa poisoncontrolcenter numberforifyoueverfind yourselfinthissituation. Shouldyoueatanother glowstickorwrongly consumeanyother chemicalhazard,please call(800)222-1222.

interviewed Kelsey Benton, the Spanish languageteacherforDHS.

“I think [standards-based grading] works best for what we’re doing at Discovery,” Benton said, “whenyoudoprojectson thesamescalethatwedo atDiscovery,ifyoudoA, B,C,D,grading,thereare very intense rubrics that you usually need that have a lot of little points thatstudentsneedtoget to receive a certain grade.”

The project based learning system almost exclusively deals with projects, and standard based grading tends to workbetterforthisstyle of learning. When asked aboutthis,Bentonstated that the standard based grading system is less complicated and easier than traditional grading methods.

Trying to get extra credit—whethergettinga 4onanassignment,oran A+—andgoingaboveand beyond with is likely to land you a better GPA, overall helping with educational career. But, students are finding that theimpactithasonyour day to day school life seems to be minimal, leadingsometosayfours arenotworthit. ∎

and has been through its fair share of student teachercontroversy.

At the end of the 2021-2022 school year, Wood recounted how students found themselves upset. Even thoughtheywereputting work in constantly throughout the school year,someoftheirpeers couldwaituntiltheendof it to complete many big assessments, taking advantage of the grade inflation and boosting their grades to almost matchthegradesofsome who had worked all throughouttheyear.

“it’s very confusing, and that’s coming from a person who has been in theprojectbasedlearning system since 6th grade.'' statedWood.

When Wood was asked about what the value of fourwasandwhetherthe input of the work vs. the gradewasactuallyworth it,shesaid,“Idon'tknow, cause it's been back and forth.Idon'tknowwhat's trueornotatthispoint.I mean, I thought it was worthitwhenIwentinto ninthgrade.”

To learn more about the subject, DiscoveryDigest

Is a Four Worth It?

1, 2, 3, 4?

at Discovery High School, who has gone to both Odyssey Middle School and DHS for the past 6 going on 7 years, stated “I see a lot of pros and a lot of cons kinda with the whole system… I feel like standard based grading is a little bit more in a nature, I should say, forgiving.”

Whiledetailingthepros andconsofthesystem, Woodremarked, “theA,B,system [traditionalgradingscale] isdefinitelyformoreofa streamlineapproach.”

Thestandards-based gradingsystemhasbeen criticizedalotinthepast,

afourisconsideredtobe aboveandbeyond,having adeeperunderstandingof thesubjectthanexpected.

Time and time again, observers (involved or uninvolved with DHS) continue to have questions:butwhatdoesa deeper understanding mean?IsafourjustanA+? Is trying to achieve this extracreditevenworthit? To answer these questions: DiscoveryDigest interviewed a few students and teachers to seewhattheythinkabout the standards-based grading system’s highest scoreoffour. Erika Wood, asenior

ByBeckGummer

Isitworthittogoforthe topgradepossible,orwill asimple3suffice?

Discovery High School (DHS) uses the standards-based grading system, contrary to most otherschoolsthroughout America and the Camas School District (CSD). Separated from the traditional letter-based grading system, the standards-based grading style aims to present a fairer grading system based off mastery of a subject instead of point totals. While Discovery HighSchooltranslatesa3 toanA, ∎