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Crossing Paths With Ebola: English Teacher Volunteers In Liberia
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Rescuing Education: Students Help Girls in Africa Attend School
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Cultural Exchange: Students From Other Countries Call CV Home
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Gateway To Adulthood: Jobs Fuel Independence, Responsibility
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A Personal Story: Standing Up For Myself In The Face Of Bullying
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Leaving Halloween Behind: Are Teens Too Old To Trick-OrTreat?
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Best Buddies: Students Foster Memorable Friendships
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New Definition Of Learning: A Look Inside The Mosaic Collaborative
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Crossing Borders: Theater Class Creates With Peers in Russia
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Cultural Feast: Students Provide Tastes From Around The World
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New Culture: Upheaval On The Court Leads To New Coach, New Program
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Almost A Home Run: Softball Scores Best Season Yet
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The Same Team: Father Coaches Son on Soccer Field
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“When the coordinator visits us and brings us videos of the girls, or we Skype with them and see, hear their joy . . . Honestly, it’s so great, so great.”
French Honor Society co-president Gaby Rodriguez, on working to provide better education for teenaged girls in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
COMMUNITY “I’ve never received as much love and generosity from another culture like I experienced in Ukraine.” English teacher Kaitlyn Dawn Perham, who taught English and American culture in Ukraine for six months.
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“Getting a job is the most challenging, but also the most rewarding responsibility a high schooler can have.” Diego Hernandez, Junior
“We want to create a culture of hard work and a sense of collective responsibility. I believe that having success on the court requires being an all-around athlete.” Patrick Simpson, new varsity head basketball coach
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English teacher Robert Sutterer sits in a small class-
for Disease Control, 10,141 cases of Ebola have been con-
cracked and the yellow walls faded and scarred from age and use. He is in a small town in Liberia, with the organization Eternal Love Winning Africa, helping educators learn how to teach reading and writing. It is early July, just weeks before Ebola began to rapidly spread across West Africa into one of the worst outbreaks in history. “We were all pretty worried about our safety on the trip,” he said, “but we decided to take certain health precautions to ensure our well-being.” According to the Centers
of Nov. 4. Most of those cases have occurred in Liberia and neighboring countries such as Guinea. Four cases have been two Americans -- health worker Nancy Writebol -- who with Dr. Kent Brantly contracted Ebola and were transported back to worked in the same compound where Sutterer stayed. “When I arrived back in the was a shock to hear she had Ebola,” he said. “I was just talking to her a few days before English Teacher Robert Sutterer works with students in Liberia over the summer.
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about her work and thought all was well.” Both Writebol and Brantly recovered to full health. ville just east of the capital Monrovia, contained a small school, a few buildings and a hospital that was treating two Ebola patients when Sutterer “From the outside, you would have never known that there were Ebola patients in the hospital,” he said. shop, taught by Sutterer and another partner, came from organization aims to help educators develop their reading and writing skills. At this time, Ebola was beginning to spread. But with no Internet access or much cellular communication, Sutterer had little idea of the situation’s seriousness. about postponing the trip for safety reasons. But ultimately staff decided to take other precautions. If
they felt unwell, for instance, they would skip the session for that day and stay in their rooms washed their hands multiple times a day and carried hand sanitizer. Sutterer’s group refrained from hugging and shaking hands to help prevent the spread of germs. In what is a very close country, where people hug and kiss to say hello, the teachers would not partake in these actions. For Sutterer, not being able to embrace the Liberian culture as he had in the past was regretful. “I have friends that I have known for many years that currently live in Liberia, and they were disappointed when I told them I could not touch or go near them for the time I was there.” Despite that, everyone was still nice and friendly, he said. “It was a great experience to have been through because it helps us understand other cultures.”
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ALEXANDRA HULIT For two Saturdays this fall, about 10 students from the French Honor Society held a garage sale in Castle Rock, selling enough toys, clothes, baked goods and other items to raise more than $150 -two teenaged girls to attend high school in the Democratic The honor society sent the money to the Muanjadi teen girls in the central African
these girls for many years, and seeing the success and outcomes of our work is great,” - The French Honor Society sponsored these two girls, paying for their high school education. Below, honor society students pose at their garage sale to raise money. Courtesy photos ident of the French Honor see if we could bring one of our them and see, hear their joy raised enough money this lic of the Congo are married off -
French National Week, a bake The Muanjadi Organization
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college and wants to be a math teacher,” said French teacher Anne Damanti, the honor soci“For our future goals, we wanted to send more girls to school,” said Rodriguez, “and
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RESCUING EDUCATION CV students make school a reality for girls in Congo
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CULTURAL EXCHANGE 13 foreign exchange students make Castle View home
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Back row, from left: Juuliana Ylisaukko Oja, Rodion Kosmin, Alex Garcia, Einar Scavenius, Samuel Banas, Oscar Valiente, Cristina Luque and Daniel Sara . Front row, from left: Francesca Ruehl, Benedikte Thorsen, Diego Fernandez, Liliana Schiopu and Lilya Teslenko. Photo by The Vieo yearbook
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English teacher Kaitlyndawn Perham lived in Ukraine. Science teacher Jennifer Popham lived in China and West Africa. Spanish teacher Mary White recently moved from Spain. They are just three of the many teachers at Castle View who have brought their experiences of living in foreign lands to their classrooms. That experience enriches classrooms, Principal Jim Calhoun said. “It expands not only the teacher’s horizon,” he said, “but also the student’s horizon with the knowledge they learn.” Perham, a Peace Corps worker, lived in Ukraine for six months and returned to the U.S. in March. She taught English as a Foreign Language, American culture classes, HIV/ AIDS education and held a monthly English club. Perham found American culture to be much different from the way of living in Ukraine. “The food in Ukraine is home-grown in gardens and backyards, so it is healthier “There are very few fast-food chains, so their opinion of fast food is that it doesn’t taste
good.” She noticed students in Ukraine take education seriously. “They go to classes during the day,” Perham said, “and then usually have two to three hours of individual tutoring with teachers after school. Their work ethic and respect for teachers is amazing.” Popham and her brother were born and adopted in Taiwan, a small island country just east of China, where she lived with her American family until they moved to California when But in 2006, Popham moved to Africa to teach. “When I was a little girl, I knew people that worked in Africa,” she said. “I wanted to help.” She taught science, math, and English in three West African countries -- Guinea, Mali and Burkina Faso -- for two years. Afterwards, she spent six years in mainland China as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English as well, before moving to rural China as a teacher-coach for the organization, “Teach for China.” Popham returned to the United States this year.
“I came back, looking for community,” she said. “I made friends where I lived, but language can be a barrier to making close connections.” Popham learned to appreciate things Americans take for granted, such as electricity and toilets. “The U.S. has a lot of luxury items like hot showers, electricity, nutritional food and running water,” Popham said. “When I lived in Africa, I had to walk a mile to get water from a well and used candles as light. In China, I had to take bucket baths and often, while visiting schools, used outdoor latrines. Many rural schools in China Teachers and students use outdoor pits or troughs.” White taught English in Seville, Spain, for three teaching in a public school, but worked in an English academy for two years afterwards. White likes Spain’s social life. “Everyone meets outside -- at a bar, restaurant, in a plaza or park -- and the home is more of a private place,” she said. “There are bars everywhere and they’re different
from how we picture a typical bar. You can get breakfast, lunch or dinner there, have coffee, or just meet for a drink.” Even though they’ve moved back to the States for now, the teachers still have countries they want to explore. Perham would love to return to Ukraine at some point. “People in Ukraine are so welcoming and generous, they would literally give someone the clothes off their backs, the money in their pockets and the food off their table,” Perham said. “I’ve never received as much love and generosity from another culture like I experienced in Ukraine.” “I would love to go to South America, maybe Chile or Argentina,” White said. “Culturally, they are both very different from Spain, so I would love to experience that and get to know South America.” Popham would like an even bigger adventure. “Even though it is not a country, I have always wanted to try working in Antarctica,” she said. “I think it would be interesting to live in the isolation of snow for several months doing research.”
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Sophomore Jill Sutherland can’t wait for the North Meadows extension, which runs from Santa Fe Drive to Castle View’s back parking lot, to be completed. She thinks it will reduce her commute time from Sedalia by 10 minutes or more. “I think the new extension will help and make my life much easier,” she said. But parent Amy Gutschick, who lives right behind the extension and across from the school, worries the extension
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and safety she and her family enjoy. “People from Denver and other big cities will have easier access to the Meadows, which will bring in a lot of other people from different areas,” Gutschick said. “Even though they have made efforts to keep the Meadows the same, I do not think that According to senior construction inspector Kevin Smith, the $60 million project is scheduled to be completed in December 2015. The construction broke ground in October 2013 and has
been at the top of the town’s priority list from day one. It will extend from Castle View to Santa Fe and then to I-25. housing division, located south of Castle Rock Middle School, that will consist of 137 homes and take up 13.5 acres of open space. A little under a year ago, Principal James Calhoun bought a house in the development. “It is nice I can live so close that I can walk to school if need be,” he said. “The construction around the Meadows is for the best. When we can get out of the Meadows thanking the community for the work being done.” But Gutschick isn’t so sure. She likes the privacy she has in her backyard. She has planted trees to make sure that privacy is sustained and she is happy the town has constructed a new wall to block out sound. “The new wall is nice to have,” she said, “but I wish it didn’t have to be right in my backyard.” Sutherland, however, is looking forward to a shortened commute. “There have been many times when shaving a few minutes off of my commute would’ve helped,” she said. “I have to ride 20 minutes every day just to get to school. There and back makes 40 minutes of being in the car and I would love to use my time for other things.”
JOBS FUEL INDEPENDENCE, RESPONSIBILITY ALEC HERNANDEZ At the end of each school day, Diego Hernandez gets into his Chevy S-10 and drives to Aspen View Academy where, as an after-school care teacher, he spends the afternoon pushing kids on swings and helping them make bead bracelets. Madison Malsch travels to Castle Pines Orthodontics where she helps analyze patient X-Rays and organize their charts. A passion for the environment has driven Chelsea Taylor to pursue a career protecting the natural world. Working at Douglas County Open Space allows her to do just this, visiting private lands and investigating for non-native plants. “Working is the gateway into adulthood,” said Taylor, a senior. “It adolescence.” pay their own bills, buy their own food or purchase a vehicle on their own. “I wanted to get a job so I could pay for myself and to stop relying on my parents for money,” said Walker, a senior.
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“Getting a job is the most challenging, but also the most rewarding responsibility a high schooler can have,” said Hernandez, a junior. “Not only does it make you an adult, but it allows freedom, independence and the ability to do whatever you want with your own money.” Students are a vital component of the workforce, making up 21.1 percent of it, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics the most popular job in the United States is retail, employing more than 4 million Americans. This is also true for students. According to Pam Ridler, president of the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce, the majority of students work in either service or retail industries. For students, working means independence. “Getting a job is more than just working and earning money,” Walker said. “It’s a right of passage; it’s when you truly know what it’s like to be an adult.”
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At left, Josh Walker works at Villa Pizza in the food court at The Outlets. Here, he scoops mac-and-cheese for a customer, but he also rings up their orders. Below left, Ray Brett works as a busser at Siena at the Courtyard in downtown Castle Rock. He cleans and sets tables for the restaurant, after school. Lids is a hat store at The Outlets, and Patrick hats that will be for sale. Photos by Heather Monks
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When is it time for teens to leave Halloween behind? This year, freshman Corrina Farho dressed up as an old woman, met friends and mapped out the route that guaranteed the most candy. “High schoolers should go trick-or-treating because you get free candy,” Farho said. “Why wouldn’t that be fun?” Although trick-or-treating is associated mostly with young children, it isn’t uncommon to see teenagers getting in on the candy-crunching action. But what teens themselves think about that depends on who you ask. “It’s really weird,” said junior Noah Defreitas. “I think it’s weird when a 16-year-old goes to a house begging for candy. Costume parties are acceptable, though.” Sophomore Ethan Walker, however, disagrees. High schoolers trick-or-treating is perfectly acceptable, he said. “It keeps them from doing other bad things. But I think I’ll stop this year and help out at the door.” Other students have opinions as well. “I don’t necessarily think high schoolers should go trick-or-treating,” junior Gaby Rodriguez said. “But I also don’t think they shouldn’t. It’s their choice, and if they want candy and that lively childhood experience then they should go.” Teachers also have ideas about the tradition. Emily Cave, an English and Humanities teacher, remembers dressing up as Alice-in-Wonderland and a gumball machine to trick-or-treat in high school, and she didn’t believe it was out of the ordinary. However, she did add she and her friends “didn’t do anything weird, though -- we just got candy and left.” This year, Cave dressed up as Rosie the Riveter for school. “I chose the costume because it was cheap, easy, comfortable, and girl-power friendly. And no, I did not go trick-or-treating because I am almost 30 years old,” Cave said, “I’m too old to go trick-ortreating.”
Humanities teacher Emily Cave dresses up as Rosie the Riveter this year since Halloween fell on a school day. She gave up trick-or-treating long ago,
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1. From left: Junior Sarah Walker; senior Abby Lewis, president of the Best Buddies Program; junior Tommy Rose; junior Zach Hoffmann; and senior Torrey Rickey. 2. From left: Senior Analisse Frederick and senior Brenden VanBruwaene. 3. From left: Senior Alyssa Winkle and junior Shea Ross. 4. From left: Freshman Danny Hendrickson and senior Abby Lewis.
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establish “a global volunteer movement that creates opportunities for one-to-one friendships, integrated employment and leadership development for people with intellectual and developmental country and aims to include students with disabilities in everything a typical student does. skills, so the hope is they will be able to learn those skills as well as become more widely accepted. “There’s nothing that can teach them those (social) skills other than being immersed in it,” special needs teacher Stephanie Hill said. The program “gives them a chance to experience friendship and experience just doing the things that typical kids do . . . .” There are two kinds of buddies -- a one-on-one peer and an associate peer, who helps to fundraise and plan events. Buddies are required to make contact through phone calls, texts and email four times a month and must have face-to-face contact twice a month. “I’m really excited to see the social skills gain and I’m also just
excited to see their quality of life increase because it’s harder for them to make friends than it is for us,” Hill said. “I’m also really excited to how the peers grow because these kids change lives. It’s amazing the effect that they have on their typical peers and the effect that their typical peers have on them.” Senior Abby Lewis, president of Best Buddies, can attest to that. “They have taught me how to be kind,” said Lewis, mentioning how her friend junior Sarah Walker, is always friendly, loving and kind. “I am always trying to be like her more in that way, to always be friendly even when things aren’t going your way,” Lewis said. Junior Madisen Frederick became involved with the program at Castle View when she saw a poster on a wall. But she and her sister, who have a cousin with Down syndrome, actually were in the process of starting a Best Buddies program at her sister’s former school in Washington. “I’ve always kind of had a special place in my heart for these people,” Frederick said. Dalton Blu-baugh is a junior who is more than 6 feet tall, with a soft voice and lots of energy. And he’s excited to go see the movie “Big Hero Six” with his buddy, Frederick. “I’m gonna have another friend,” Blu-baugh said. Added Frederick: “I think it’s going to affect both of us, to make a more deeper and personal connection, just because we have a whole year to spend with this person and, hopefully, more years in the future.” To become involved in Best Buddies, contact Abby Lewis at 303-885-9007 or Lewisam@s.dcsdk12.org
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Senior Torrey Rickey is excited to play sports and eat pizza with junior Lainey Schmidt. And Schmidt is just as excited to help enrich Rickey’s school experience as part of the school’s new Best Buddies program, which pairs students with intellectual disabilities with peers in extracurricular and out-of-school activities. “The program is to help with one-on-one relationships . . . ,” Schmidt said. “We hope it will help Torrey and all the other kids involved to get the personal friendship relationships.” Schmidt and Rickey, who is in the special needs program, have already decided to be buddies. They’ve known each other since elementary school -- they even have the same birthday. Rickey also sparked Schmidt’s interest in learning sign language because he is hard of hearing. Buddies such as Schmidt and Rickey have already started
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When sophomore Lauren Osborne goes to school, she creates her own schedule. And it’s different every single day. One day, she might decide to start with math. The next, she might decide to work on a project on heroes in feminism. From noon to two, she might allot some time for chemistry. She picks her lunchtime, her advisement teacher, and the way she learns. The only commonality about her day: It’s completely unstructured. “I get really stressed out in regular classrooms and it (Mosaic) has gotten a lot more organized compared to the beginning of the year,” Osborne said. “I’m hoping it will stand out in college applications.” nition of education. This system of learning, called the Mosaic Collaborative, is anything but traditional. CVMosaic.org states “the Mosaic Collaborative is free of many of the constraints and false divisions of time and content.” The
There’s a lot of work freedom.” Not all students are as enthusiastic as Ormand. Although freshman Mary Cartwright believes the second opinion from group work is great, she has concerns. “I’m worried about not being able to know my grades,” she said.
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Working on: “I’m working on scheduling when the Japanese exchange students will come in to tour Mosaic.” (The Japanese students visited Castle View at the end of October.)
Working on: “I’m working on my topic proposal for a project where you pick something to teach other people in a TED talk.”
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website describes how the lack of basic school dictations allows students to discover their own thirst for knowledge. Essentially, Mosaic works like this: Each day, 110 freshmen and sophomore students -- who volunteered to pilot the program this year -- create their own individualized approach to learning. Teachers, rather than telling the students what do, focus on guiding them. The reaction to this experimental education correlates directly to feedback from the students. Britain Ormand, a freshman, heard about Mosaic from his friends and decided to join. “They said it was a lot of hands-on learning. It sounded cool,”
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Above, sophomore Lauher project on bacteria growth. At left, teacher Christina Classen wraps up a seminar. These mini-classes are held throughout the day to learn new skills.
work in Mosaic. “I work a lot better with noise around me because awkward silences distract me,” she said. Mosaic was the brainchild of English teacher Michael Schneider full-time teachers and seven part-time teachers. Some of the parttime teachers offer expertise in electives that include art, Spanish and American Sign Language. “It has all been teacher created, from the beginning, from day one,” Schneider said about the process of Mosaic. “Make no mistake, the most critical component of the Mosaic teachers was that this was not mandated top-down. This wasn’t a principal or a district administrator saying this is what we’re going to do.” Art teacher Amanda Kerr also has put countless effort into the dynamics of this new system.
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“I wanted to capture the creative ability of our students in a more authentic way,” Kerr said. “It’s gotten more organized since the beginning of the year. We knew it was going to be messy and loud and creative, but we wanted it because once we get through that mess, we get an organized chaos that we need.” The challenges of Mosaic are too complex and personal to identify, Schneider said. As for successes, “We just had 15 or so kids present to an external partner who asked our kids to do some fairly critical and real work for his company. I would consider students presenting to an authentic audience real work. It was a pretty solid highlight.” At the end of the day, Lauren Osborne considers her student-developed schedule a success. “I feel like I learned a lot in the one day where I control my learning compared to all of last year,” she said. “I’m looking forward to expanding my horizons as a student. Overall, Mosaic is a fantastic experience and I love what I’m doing.”
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Working on: “I’m working on Project Citizen. It’s about identifying a problem and trying to come up with a sustainable solution. So we’re trying to fix the problem of how prisons are getting more money than the education system in Colorado.”
Working on: “I’m working on some math and biology. I’m also working on fear, a short film project we get to create, where people learn what fear is and why we have it.”
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At right, freshmen Amber Steyn and Jack Oliver share their fear stories with each other. The stories focus on learning about the science of fear. Below, students work on independent projects, collaborating with each other to gain different opinions and views.
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SYDNEY DEAN Jacob Wolfe placed his favorite purple polka dot tie in the box. Alex Prehm contributed a toy plane. crown. When CV’s Production Ensemble class decided the box contained enough artifacts to describe its members, culture and country, it mailed it to a theater class in The Anglo American School in St. Petersburg, Russia. artifacts that represent them, is on its way here. For most kids, stepping out of the Castle Rock bubble can be a bit of a challenge. But for students in Production Ensemble, experiencing a different
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CV theater class reaches out to peers in Russia to create a play
teacher at CV, has begun a project with one of his classes known as “The Twinning Project.” Basically, the Production Ensemble class is exchanging artifacts with the class from Russia. And from these artifacts, each class will envision a theme and create a play. “It involves not only our work, but those of others,” Wolfe, a junior, said. “The fact that we’re able to communicate and formulate an entire show halfway across the world -- I’m excited for it to turn out.” The class wrote down 10 ideas for the theme and narrowed it down to “Borders,” because students thought this theme would create the most interesting material. Students will use materials in the boxes to create monologues, take photos,
write stories and interact with each other through Skype and Instagram. Meeks has been involved in the school’s theater program since she was a freshman. “I personally think that the project is a great idea because Castle View theater company has never done anything like this,” the junior said. DeYoung is hoping the project will not only spark creativity, but broaden students’ views of the world. He hopes they get more of a real-world experience, and a bigger understanding of how the world is shaped. “Another goal is for students to actually create a piece of theater, an original piece of theater,” DeYoung said. “And, lastly, to make contact with somebody across the seas and actually connect with them.” The project has been in the making for quite awhile, according to DeYoung. The person teaching the class in Russia is a close personal friend, Aaron Hoose. DeYoung and Hoose have known each other for about 14 years. They were close friends in undergraduate school at The University of Northern Iowa. DeYoung heard about the twinning project in graduate school, began to research it, then wrote his thesis on the idea. “And then I just talked to him (Hoose), to see if he wanted to get involved,” De Young said, “and he said, ‘Yeah!’ ” Prehm is glad he did. A senior with a longtime passion for theater, he has thoroughly enjoyed the project so far. “I think it’s really cool,” Prehm said. “It’s giving us an international perspective.”
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At left, a student offers madeto-order carnitas for his presentation at Taste of the World. Above, Madyson Ince was proud of the tres leches cake she made from scratch. At left, the Japanese club gave away traditional Japanese food. Photos by Heather Monks
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OUR VIEW EMBRACE THE PRESENT
The future is an ever-present factor in life. It remains there, perhaps giving us hope, or perhaps coldly taunting us with its unattainability or promises of what could be. We’re all in desperate need of a breath of fresh air. This breath of fresh air comes in the form of one simple task -- living in the present. It’s a crazy thought, right? When all anyone ever seems to talk about is where we’re going after high school, the future constantly hangs in our thoughts. But what’s really important is
making sure we’d be happy with our state of being if a car ran over us tomorrow. We don’t want to leave this place without ever getting to the future we were so focused on. We want to leave it knowing we spent as much time as possible doing what made us happy. It’s a simple idea that needs to be more universally accepted, especially among our age group. We’re given many reasons to put off our happiness until later, but what’s the point of being here if you’re wasting time thinking about a future we can’t con-
trol that much? If we’re always running as fast as we can, we’re never going to see the world clearly. We’re programmed to prioritize our future over everything else -- but this gets in the way stepping back and looking at your surroundings. So stop and take a look around every once in a while. It might help you realize that life is beautiful in the moment - and that at the end of the day, everything will be OK.
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I remember with complete clarity the day ISIS hit the news: It was mid-June, when the militant group seized Mosul, a large, Sunni-majority JETT GOLDSMITH city in Northern Iraq that had previously served as a focal point for United States military policy during our country’s 2003 incursion into Iraq. Within hours, major television channels were running continuous coverage on this mysterious new militant group out of Iraq, and news websites and publications soon
familiar to even high school students. Foley ed by ISIS, and his death only further drew public attention towards ISIS’ actions. The lack of awareness regarding ISIS from many of my peers was particularly painful. Why shouldn’t we all know? ISIS is a major factor in the world, and its actions affect hundreds of thousands of lives. More importantly, why do we only seem to care about what directly affects us in life? since at least 2012. The group controlled almost the entire northern section of Syria, and all its oil wells and natural resources. -
mid-2013. But for the majority of the public, ISIS only began in the last few months -- since who aren’t more than cursorily aware of This is representative of a larger mindset among my generation. Many of us go about our young lives with a sort of tunnel vision, not caring about what’s happening in the world, whether it’s a major news event or knowing the name of Russia’s sitting president -- Vladimir Putin, if you didn’t know. be more worldly than previous generations. The world itself is more interconnected. In an instant, you can connect to people thousands of miles away. People in New York or Kansas can easily communicate with people
are more engaged, and much more keen to everything going on around us. Only a decade ago, students from limited backgrounds had almost no possibility of achieving unique opportunities or bettering their lives aside from what was already present around them. Now, they have the their own, and mold their own future from that world. We’re unique, and better for it. But we also have trouble caring.
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the inherent apathy of youth with the numerous things we’re expected to care about -- family, grades, sports, extracurriculars, college and our local community. interest in global events, especially when there’s little chance
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the Northeast.” But New Hampshire had good elements, too. Ever heard of “fall in New England?” No, it’s not actually an event, but rather the most beautiful display of color and warmth I have ever seen. New Hampshire had so many trees, I could barely see the sky. And in September, the leaves would change from
a yellow so bright they could’ve been picked from the sun. There were so many apple orchards, we’d spend an entire day at one, sitting on a hayride, picking apples until our arms ached, and buying cider donuts that were so good, people would line up halfway through the parking lot. would sit in my old room with its beautiful bay into the woods behind our house. But those are pages from my old life. Colorado is so much more interesting. There are cowboys out here -- actual cowboys. I’ve heard snow melts quickly. And I don’t think I’ll ever run out of things to do with two rec centers, outlets, a large library and a downtown to explore. I absolutely adore seeing the sunny sky every day, and on those rare rainy ones, the memories of my old home hover warmly. But they say home is where the heart is. And I’m pretty sure my heart moved with me to Colorado.
SURVIVING SENIORITIS
Some people really enjoy high school. But, honestly, I cant wait for it to end. Not because “I hate this place!” or school or anything like that, but because when high school ends my life will begin. I’ll graduate and, for
to do for the rest of my life and start doing it. So, yes, the rumors are true: I MEGAN KEMPER have been infected with Senioritis. It’s horrible, and the only cure is graduation in about six months. I don’t know how long I’ll make it. The symptoms have affected my motivation and time management. I am late to class. I forget about homework. And I quite often leave to get coffee. It’s challenging be motivated to keep going and working when you feel stuck. It’s suffocating. It’s like being in an exhausting rut. Wake up, get ready, go to school, go to work, go to bed -- and then repeat. Everyone tells me high school is the easiest time of my life, so
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affecting our personal lives. But we owe it to ourselves, at least if not to care about global events, then to understand and be aware of them. Whether it be more regional events such as elections, local news or legislation, or broader events such as West Africa’s Ebola outbreak and Vladimir Putin’s continuous encroachment on Ukrainian territory, an active knowledge affects many personal factors: how we’re perceived, how we perceive the world and others around us, and our ability to make informed decisions. As a generation unique in every single way, we deserve to be unique, as well, in our awareness.
Imagine a life without ranches, trains blaring late into the night, sunshine almost every day and prairie dogs. That was my life before I moved to Colorado 2 ½ months ago. ALEXANDRA HULIT I like to describe my experiences as similar to pioneers trekking across the country a couple of hundred years ago. But instead of a wagon that looks like a loaf of Wonder Bread, we were in a cruddy Budget truck that broke down in a cloud of smelly diesel smoke in the middle of an Iowa country road. Instead of dirt roads, we drove on asphalt highways through Chicago during rush hour and almost ran into a Jersey barrier. Moving across the country is not something that should be taken lightly. Back in a small, small town known as Boscawen, N.H., I lived a different life. People used the term “wicked” instead of “very” or “extremely” -- it’s a Boston thing. Speaking of Boston, my grandmother has a heavy Bostononian accent, so she says “peppa” instead of pepper and “cah” instead of car. Signs outside of Boston say “Use yah blinkah!” It rained almost every day. Just check the Weather Channel: “Another rainy weekend in
enjoy it. But I don’t want easy. I want a challenge, and I want to begin reaching my goals, which don’t just include getting straight A’s. I want to get a degree in psychology and then use that degree. I want to travel around the world doing missionary work. I want to make my own living. I want to get married and start a family -which I know is years down the road, but to me so exciting to look forward to after high school. I want to start pursuing my passions. I don’t want to just survive and do what I need to do to get by -- I want to live. I know life isn’t easy and I don’t need to be reminded of that. But just because it’s hard doesn’t mean I don’t look it in the eye with the biggest -- and When I graduate, I get to fall on my face over and over again. But I also get to keep on getting up and brushing it off. I get to chologist in a time when psychology is one of the worst career paths. Then I get to possibly have my heart broken over and over It may sound dreadful to you. But I’m so excited, I know I’ll
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Senior Kelsy Arbogast, iTunes
Sophmore Lexi Kagen, SoundCloud
Sophomore Mark Olsen, iTunes
Senior Max Sibert, SoundCloud
Senior Elyssa Taylor, iTunes
WHAT’S ON YOUR PLAYLIST?
Junior Noah Defreitas, iTunes
Senior Ray Brett, SoundCloud
Senior Helen Poore, SoundCloud
Players embrace early workouts, work ethic
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about 40 other hopeful basketball players -- at the same time every morning of the week. Oh, and Saturday, too -- from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. But he doesn’t mind. “I think in order to turn a program around, you need to take drastic steps,” Davis said, “and that’s what we’re doing with these off-season workouts.” In a different beginning to this year’s basketball season, which starts Dec. 1 against Northglenn High School, players have already spent months preparing for the season. The before-school workouts are new head varsity coach Patrick Simpson’s idea. “We want to create a culture of hard work and a sense of collective responsibility,” Simpson said. “I also believe that having success on the court requires being an all-around athlete.” He wants this year to be the breakout year for Castle View basketball, to create a culture that sends the team to the Final Four at CU-Boulder every year. He wants the players to work so hard that it’s not anything new or different -- it’s just something Castle View is known for. “We want to develop work ethic, not only for basketball on the court but for life after
high school,” Simpson said. Castle View’s basketball program has been on somewhat of a rollercoaster since down after last school year’s season because he wanted to spend more time with his family. Castle View hired Russ McKinstry as head coach, which was met with much excitement from players and the community because of his basketball coaching history in Colorado. During McKinstry’s 25-year coaching career, he has won 418 games and was named 4A coach of the year in 2012. But McKinstry unexpectedly left to take a job as athletic director at Monarch High School in Louisville. Incoming Humanities teacher Patrick Simpson ended up stepping into the empty shoes. “The transition from McKinstry to Simpson was very smooth actually,” athletic director Derek Cordes said. “He came with McKinstry to help out with coaching, so his players already knew him very well, if not better than McKinstry.” Simpson had been the girls’ and boys’ varsity head coach at Rampart High School in Colorado Springs. The girls and boys teams both advanced to the second round of playoffs. As assistant coach, Simpson had hoped to learn from an experienced coach like McKinstry. But when McKinstry left, he excitedly accepted the challenge.
NEW CULTURE
New coach Patrick Simpson leads a Saturday morning workout. Photo by Heather Monks
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CHANGES ON THE COURT LEAD TO NEW COACH,
“I believe the program can have a great season,” Simpson said. “But to accomplish that, hard work now is necessary.” The morning workouts consist of being on the court, the track and in the weight room. “My goal is to have the best record that Castle View has had,” said junior Jake Ellis, who is a guard, “and to make it to the Sweet 16.” Senior guard Jontrell Herman is looking ahead with excitement, too. “The culture that Simpson is building is good,” senior guard Jontrell Herman said. “It’s a new start, a new beginning. And go, Cats!”
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5:30 a.m. Monday. Caedon Davis, a senior varsity basketball player and one of the team’s captains, walks into the gym. He plays music as other boys shoot baskets. Then he leads stretches and, soon, practice starts.
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ALMOST A HOME RUN PLAYING FIELD
Not many sports make it deep in the playoffs at Castle View, but that’s just what the softball team did this year when it landed in the Elite Eight. “Everybody was so pumped to make it to that Saturday,” head coach Caley Mitchell said, “and it was just a good team win.” Despite the disappointing 2-1 loss in the eighth inning to Fossil Ridge High School in the
the season before it started because we had potential,” sophomore catcher Alexis Kagan said. “Even though our team was young, we played with each other during the summer, so that chemistry was already there.” It was a young team: Sophomores aren’t always known for fueling a varsity softball team, but six of the nine starters were sophomores. Still, the team
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looked back at its best season in school history with pride.
dominated, going 20-4 on the year, compared to last season’s 13-9 record. Last year, the team also made it to playThis year, players had more experience and knew what to expect as the season progressed to a bigger stage. “We just had a better team,” Mitchell said. But it was more than just talent. “We got along very well, played well together, we were good athletes,” said Mitchell, also named Continental League Coach of the Year. “Everyone was consistent, along with Savannah being that much better than last year. And Alexis Kagan did great behind the plate for us all year.” The team showed its talent throughout the season, winning the close games -- seven games were decided by 1 run. “Those games were always really stressful,” Mitchell said, “but we played great defense
and obviously had great pitching that kept us in close battles. And we managed to get by with some key wins.” The Sabercats headed into the state playoffs with Fossil Ridge was particularly disappointing because they defeated Fort Collins 9-0 during the season. “We could have had some have been a better game for us,” Mitchell said. “You never know what is going to happen from game to game. But we played well.” For pitcher Savannah Heebner, a senior who will be playing at the University of Houston next year, the run to state marked a great way to end her “I didn’t know what to expect with this season,” she said, “but I did not think we would make it as far as we did.”
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In photo at left, a CV player slides into third, beating the throw to the bag. Above, another Sabercat connects with the ball during an early season game. Photos by Heather Monks
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In top photo, pitcher Savvy Heebner, winds up against in an early season game. Her pitching skills helped the team get to state. Above, the team cheers for each other as their names are called before the start of a game.
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PLAYING ON THE SAME TEAM
Senior Tyler Burfeind runs onto the soccer
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Mark Burfeind coached his son, Tyler, this past soccer season. Soccer has helped bond the father-son team since Tyler was 4 years old. Photo by Heather Monks