Gra nger High School
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Granger Lingo Jackie Salm For all you new students at Granger High School, there are some things you need to know before the start of the school year. When listening to the announcements, you might hear “Dance on Saturday night in Stonehenge!” The first thing going through your mind is, “What’s Stonehenge?” Stonehenge is what the faculty and students of Granger High School call the cafeteria. Next to the cafeteria is the school library. The library is a great place to go after school and study. A popular meeting place for assemblies and school activities is the Lancer. The Lancer was given to the school in 1970 as a class gift. The Lancer is located in the main entrance by the front office. It’s hard to remember your way around school when you first come. Just remember 200’s upstairs, 100’s downstairs, 1-16 in the Math and English building, 600’s are the relocatibles, and the 300’s are the shop classes out in the shop building. Some halls have names. The science hall includes classrooms 102-104 and continues upstairs with 203-204. The art hall is by the counseling center, rooms 109-110, and our pottery room,123, is by the dance class room. Most history classes are located upstairs as well as the language classes. Down the hall from the main office is the counseling center, one door down from the counseling center is the attendance office, and next to the attendance office is the career center. In the career center you can learn about college, scholarships, and goals you can set for the future. Remember to always be on time for your classes. In Jr. High when you were late for class you would be put in detention. Here if you are late you will get a ticket for being in the hall after the bell. Eddie is ruthless; if your tickets don’t get paid, you don’t walk at graduation. For all juniors and seniors, welcome back! And to the class of 2010, welcome to Granger High School!!!!!
August 2007
Katie Rubio As the new school year starts, lots of clubs, teams, and organizations do, too. There’s more like a thousand you can join: MESA, FBLA, DECA, LAT, Yearbook, Journalism, Football, AVID, Wrestling, it goes on forever. Not to mention you can start your own club with the help of a teacher. You need at least six students to join, an advisor, and bylaws for the team. If you want more info on making a club or a team go to room 216 and Mr. Carlisle will help you. Most Athletic or competition teams require certain grade point average or tryouts before you can actually be on the team. Most of the tryouts are before the old school year comes to an end because you have summer time training and conditioning. Other clubs and organizations have requirements too, but most don’t as long as you’re willing to do the work--then you’re all good. Joining a club, team, or organization takes a lot of responsibility and hard work, you have to be able to handle it. It’s an opportunity to make new friends, learn new things, and do something that you like to do in your spare time. Some other teams and clubs include Wrestling, AVID, Cross Country, and LAT. Wrestling starts November 5th they need all sizes so come try out! They even had a summer camp set up for last summer that was worth 300 dollars but was free for Granger students . They
also have practices after school once the season starts. If you want to compete you must have 2.0 GPA with no F’s. For more Wrestling info see Mr. Hansen. If you didn’t already know, AVID stands for Advancement via Individual Determination. This club/class helps to motivate students to go to college. You have to have a 2.2 – 3.5 GPA to apply or have a reason for which you want to go to college. You must apply to join usually when you register for your new classes or at the semester. You can pick up an application or ask more questions from any of the AVID teachers: Mrs. Biggar, Mrs. Atkin, Ms. Todorachko, Mr. Johnson, or Mr. Hansen. They do a lot of fun things like go on college tours, and service projects, so go check it out. Well if you like running but not all the time, then Cross Country may be for you. Anyone can join both boys and girls are welcome and it’s a no cut team. They only have five competitive meets (one once a week) it’s a lot of fun and starts in August. They take anyone at anytime so come out and talk to Mrs. Paskins. LAT stands for Lancer Action Team; this is a group of 30 selected students that help organize school service projects and assemblies. You have to have strong values and obey school policies to join. Most of the students on LAT
get their names put in and that’s how they are chosen. “Listen up and get involved, if you’re interested come talk to me,” Says Mrs. Paskins. There are still a lot of other clubs and teams at Granger we can go on and on about but here we just named a few. Just listen up and look around because there are lots of clubs and teams looking for you, you just have to pay attention.
INSIDE LEADERS pg. 4 This year is going to be fantastic with our 200708 SBO’s. Discover who these amazing girls are.
CHEERS pg. 5 Now you can know the words and sing your heart out at assemblies and games.
CONCERTS pg. 6 Find out when your new favorite bands are playing, or just find a group to enjoy over the weekend.
CALI TOUR pg. 7 Some students went all the way to California to visit colleges and universities.
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