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Employee of the Month
Employee of the Month
Ms. Schulz
Ms. Schulz
By: Stella Bock and Autumn Meadows
Ms. Schulz, a pre-calculus teacher, earned employee of the month for December.
Ms. Schulz is a 10-12 pre- calculus teacher, here at Poston Butte. Ms. Schulz is originally from Dallas, Texas but moved to Arizona later. She graduated in 2020 with a 4.0 GPA; Graduating with this grade point average is one of the things she is most proud of in her life.
Other than being a hard working student and teacher, she loves games whether virtual or on a real field. Ms. Schulz is a gamer. “My two favorite games would have to be Minecraft and Mario,” she stated. Along with gaming, she plays the trumpet and even supports sports events at Poston. she’s a true member of the Bronco Nation.
“A day without a friend is like a pot with a single drop in it.” Winnie the Pooh; this is what it would be like without Ms. Schulz. She loves her coworkers and loves her students just as much. Usually when we ask the question what would you do if you weren’t doing what you do now, it’s usually something far from what they do now. When asked what she would do if she wasn’t teaching, Ms. Schulz said that she’d tutor. Growth is something Ms. Schulz surrounds herself with, and this is one of the reasons she is such a great teacher.
Spider-Man : No Way Home Review (Spoiler Free)
Spider-Man : No Way Home Review (Spoiler Free)
By: Stella Bock
Spider-Man: No Way Home was by far one of the best movies that came out in December of last year. It was beautifully written and thought through, and it gives Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse a run for its money. The action, conflict, and, of course, drama were the highlights of this movie.
The movie picks up right where it ended in Spider-Man: Far From Home, with Spider-man/Peter Parker’s (played by Tom Holland) identity being revealed by Mysterio. This causes Peter Parker's life to take a turn for the worst, with some citizens seeing Parker as a hero and others like J. Jonah Jameson (played by J.K. Simmons) seeing him as a “menace”. Due to this downhill spiral, his friends and family are no longer safe, and he seeks the help of Doctor Strange (played by Benedict Cumberbatch). Peter Parker asks Doctor Strange to help him and cast a spell that will restore his identity, but things get out of hand when the spell breaks and opens the multiverse. This causes villains from the other universes into his universe. To restore his universe, Peter has to team up with old and new friends to set things right.
This movie was so well done, but it’s absolutely filled to the brim with spoilers. It's hard but there will be no spoilers in this article, just general ideas and points. The conflict of the story is deep. It doesn’t just run outside of Peter Parker with the villains, but Peter is battling inside too. Struggling to keep himself, his friends like Michelle “MJ” Jones (played by Zendaya) and Ned Leeds (played by Jacob Batalon) and his Aunt May (played by Marisa Tomei) safe, but Peter Parker is also struggling to find who he wants to be, and what he wants his life to be like.
This adventure our favorite trio goes on is the biggest so far, challenging their friendship and trust in each other. You see the bonds of Peter, MJ, and Ned grow from close friends into family. They go through laughs and cries together.
The whole idea of the film is brilliant. The storytelling is so thought through that the whole time you are on the edge of your seat. If you have seen any of the other Spider-Man movies or comics they connect certain points in those classic parts of our spider friend’s life. Out of all the previous Spider-Man movies Tom Holland's Spider-Man/Peter Parker is by far the most emotionally intelligent one and my favorite Spider-Man. The movie is full of laughs, deep scenes, action scenes, crys, and bittersweet moments just like any other well-written Marvel movie. This is the best Tom Holland Spider-Man movie so far and I can’t wait to see where they will take it.
Make sure you stay for the credits for a really catchy song and Marvel’s little secrets at the end—Marvel loves their secret teasers. Spider-Man: No Way Home is not a movie you want to miss out on. I hope you enjoy the movie as much as I did.
Book Review
Book Review
By Farrah Muhammad
Never Saw Me Coming by Vera Kurian
Social psychologist, Vera Kurian, presents her debut novel Never Saw Me Coming that follows 7 psychopaths who are enticed by a full-ride scholarship to attend the fictitious D.C. college, John Adams University, under the condition that they participate in the university's clinical study on psychopathy. When one of the study’s participants is found dead and the others are being targeted, readers are taken through multiple perspectives as the three main characters: Chloe, Andre, and Charles struggle with their natural distrust of one another while teaming up to achieve their mutual goal; finding the killer.
Throughout this novel, the clinical study on psychopaths headed by Dr. Wyman examines common misconceptions on mental health and personality disorders. This provided very insightful commentary on the stereotypes that surround individuals with personality disorders and introduced a commonly unexplored yet well informed perspective.
The switch between each character's point of view toyed with the way biases and past experiences made them each uniquely unreliable narrators, while also employing the classic dramatic irony where readers possess more knowledge than the characters themselves.
However, at many points the lack of transition and explicit labels when chapters changed POV created some confusion. Additionally, the author used the characters' inner monologues to touch on certain social issues such as frat culture, racism, etc but because we got to know some many characters in a short amount of time, these subplots fell short and left me wishing there was more space for each character’s individual struggles.
Overall, Never Saw Me Coming is a very exciting young adult novel. Anyone who likes murder mysteries or is need of a light transition into reading would certainly enjoy this page turner by Vera Kurian.
Overall Rating: 7.5/10
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