girls' softball team starts off a new spring season

By Lucy Chapman

On Mar. 11, the League Academy girls' softball team has their first away game against Ralph Chandler Middle School.

The girls are preparing for the game by doing many drills. Some of the drills are throwing drills, batting drills, ground drills, defense drills, and many more. They practice Monday through Thursday.

7th grade player Meghan Waugh says, “My favorite position in softball is 1st, and I only bring a glove to practice.” 1st base players field ground balls which then relies upon the pitcher to cover first base to receive the ball to complete the out. Waugh also says, “I don’t know if we’ll have a good chance of winning this year. It’s hard to tell.”

The girls on the softball team are building a team-friendly relationship. They are working together and trying their best at practice to get better at softball. They cheer each other on to boost spirits.

Make sure to join the girls at their first game to cheer them on! They could use everyone's support. The tickets cost $3, and the game starts at 5:30 p.m. on Mar. 11.

7th Grade Intermediate Drama Class performs The Redemption of Gertie Greene

By: Lilly Baker

She may be one person on the outside, but completely different on the inside. “The Redemption of Gertie Greene” by Taryn Temple was performed by Mrs. Swartzel’s 6th period drama class on Tuesday, April 9 at 6:30 p.m. It was held in the auditorium to entertain anyone and everyone who wanted to come. Tickets were $3.

Teagan Prickett, who played Anna the super nerd, says when she is practicing, “When I play Anna I feel like she has some of the same characteristics as me, except for her knowledge. But she is very weird like me. I do feel like I figured out her personality and who she is.” She also said, “I definitely love drama, but I'm taking Spanish two next year instead. But I love the teacher and would love to audition for drama outside of school soon.” Mrs. Swartzel also says, ”It took a while until they enjoyed it and I learned a lot from them in this particular class. Also, once they new there character, they knew exactly how to play their part and what to do.”

For the rest of the year, Mrs. Swartzel’s 7th grade drama class will be performing single monologues and group skits to finish out the year.

7th Graders attend Field Trip to Roper Mountain Science Center

By: Shundrea Wilson and Nevaeh Johnson

On March 28th 7-4 went to Roper Mountain Science Center and 7-3 went March 29th. 7th graders went there to learn more about economics, the ecosystem, and how dry ice can be used for different things.

7th grader Quintasia Carson said, ̈One thing that was important to me was how the solid turned into gas and how the carbon dioxide yellow balloon folded when it got up in the nitrogen gas and then how the lady rolled it back into the ball that was very unique.” She also enjoyed ̈How the dry ice chemically changed the color that was in the beaker.” One thing Carson learned was that dry ice could chemically change food color. Carson also enjoyed her trip she thought it was a very good experience. Carson stated that “Yes I would I really like the dry ice and I love when we were in the planetarium and we rode the roller coaster it was fun!”

The next person we interviewed was 7th grader Mercedes Santelini she said ̈It was really organized and had a lot of things to entertain the 7th graders and I loved the dry ice. Santelini also stated “My favorite part was when we were in the auditorium and then the balloon had popped and fire came out of it.” Santelini also said “ I learned more about nitrogen and dry ice.” the last statement she made was “Yes I would go again but the only thing they need to do is let us do more of the examples/ activity.”

The last person we interviewed was Lilly Baker 7th grader. She stated “ I really like how the dry ice made the food coloring in the beakers change different colors because of the chemical change.” Baker also said, “ If I could come back I would not come back because it wasn't really hands on learning you was mainly sitting down and watching someone do all the work instead of getting volunteers from the audience.” Baker last statement was “ The most important thing to me was to go there and learn something new but I didn't learn anything new.”

March 28-29th the 7th graders at League went to Roper Mountain Science Center to learn more about economics and the ecosystem. From the responses you have read would you want to go to that field trip or no?

Mrs. White teaches students how to do CPR

By Mercedes Santerini

Mrs. White taught CPR in her class room on March 27–28 to teach students how to save peoples' lives.

Mrs. White played a video for them to watch on how to do CPR. She got CPR dummies so they could do CPR on them. They used a fake AED on the CPR dummies. They put their hands on the dummies chest and started to push down at a beat. They said you have to push down 2 inches. They practiced this the whole period in her classroom.

Mrs. White says,” she feels like the kids know what to do now in a stressful life threatening situation.” Mrs. White also says,” I find it to be valuable because adults are not always the closest to the victim and also empowers kids to know how to react in a stressful environment.” Mrs. Whites favorite part was,” the click.”

Mrs. White helped a lot with the CPR. The CPR unit only lasted two days and now is finished.

students and teachers attend League Academy book fair

By Lucy Chapman and English Rabideaux

Students and teachers went to the League Academy Book Fair from March 22-29. This book fair runs twice a year to fund money for new books for the library.

League Academy librarian Regina Joseph says, “Grenade by Alan Gratz, Zelda by Ackira Himekawa, and PS I Still Love You by Jenny Han are the best selling books at the book fair.” She also said that she was inspired to do the fair because it is fun, exciting, engaging, and helps fund money for new books in the library. The book fair is it not only a way to raise money, but it kicks up the excitement in the school. Joseph says, “Just about the whole school attends this amazing book fair, and everyone enjoys it.”

Make sure to visit the book fair next time! Help fund books for the library and find the newest books there!

students stay after school to watch the princess bride in the auditorium

By Ava Ramon and Quintasia Carson

On Feb.15 students gathered in the auditorium to watch The Princess Bride after school. Tickets for entry were free, but students had to pay for concessions, like drinks and snacks. The movie was a huge success with a big turn out. The movie took a lot of planning and organizing.

Ms. Payne and Mrs. Mackenzie, 7th grade teachers, helped with organizing the movie night. They helped with screening and playing the movie. They and a lot more staff worked hard and did a lot of organizing in order to make the movie night happen.

Students enjoyed the movie, too. Jaden Thompson, a 7th grader, said that she enjoyed going to the movie last Friday and that she hopes the school will do more movie nights like this. Students seem to really enjoy going to movie nights like this with their friends.

“I like going to events and stuff like that when I can. My friends and I will go together when we can, and they're usually really fun,” Thompson said.

There have been other movie nights like this before. Hopefully there will be more soon and more events like this that will be fun for both teachers and students.

Aiden Sellers puts on a Valentine's Day show for 7-3

By Mercedes Santerini

7th grader Aiden Sellers made a Valentine’s Day play at League Academy on Feb. 14. This is was for entertainment for the students for Valentine’s Day to get the students excited for the day.

Aiden Sellers picked people to volunteer in his show. He was doing this to see how strong people's friendships are for the play. How they showed this is that they threw a ball back and forth to each other and if they caught it they have a strong friendship but if not they did not have a strong friendship. This is what they mostly did the whole play.

Aiden Sellers says that his favorite part is ”going to all the classrooms and going to entertain the students in all the classes.” Sellers also says, “I had a good Valentine’s Day.” He was wearing a lot of colors on Valentine’s Day for his show.

His next show will be in March. It will be at League Academy.

Sixth graders give their honest opinions on their first semester at league

By Nevaeh Johnson

Now that League Academy 6th graders have experienced their first semester, they have had time to form their own opinions about League.

Jaslyn Valentine said that her experience here is going good so far. It's very fun and entertaining. She also said that her Favorite thing about League is "the teachers because they really help you. I feel like it really helps better people's education and it make Related Arts really fun."

Cody Tucker said that his favorite subject is “Social Studies, because I like the past history and the wars and things like that.” He said that his Related Arts are Theatre and Creative Writing. Cody said that “the teachers help you if you're struggling. They support and help me. The arts program has given me a good experience and has Advanced Tech.”

These League Academy 6th graders gave their full, honest opinions. Hopefully they will enjoy the rest of their year at League.

The history of easter

By Charlie Bell and Curtis McCarley

Easter is a Christian holiday but why do we celebrate it? Well it celebrates the belief that Jesus came back to life after crucifixion in Jerusalem. This year's Easter is on 2019 occurs on Sunday, April 21. However, Easter falls on a different date each year. That's all obvious but why a bunny that hides eggs? First we need to know about the eggs but originally eating eggs was not allowed by church leaders during the week leading up to Easter (known as Holy Week).

That's why we hide eggs. But the bunny’s story is different. the Easter Bunny is thought to have become common in the 19th Century. Rabbits usually give birth to a big litter of babies (called kittens), so they became a symbol of new life so Legend has it that the Easter bunny lays, decorates and hides eggs as they are also a symbol of new life. www.bbc.co.uk says” This is why some children might enjoy Easter egg hunts as part of the festival.” In Switzerland, Easter eggs are delivered by a cuckoo and in parts of Germany by a fox. The Easter Bunny doesn't do all the work.

Teen Leadership Organizes Fundraiser

By Olivia White

Each year, towards the end of the year, all the teen leadership classes at League Academy brainstorm and organize a class service project. This year, 7th grade students in 1st period teen leadership decided to host a holiday movie as a part of their service project. They began to plan the holiday movie that will be shown one day after school. They decided to sell concessions to raise a little money, but hadn’t decided what to put the money towards. A few weeks after they started planning their project, student Lily Burgess and former student Josh Burgess were involved in a fatal car accident and Josh did not live. The students in the teen leadership had the idea to use the funds from concessions as well as take donations for the Burgess family to help pay for hospital and funeral costs.

The holiday movie was shown Friday, Dec. 14 in the League auditorium. The movie that was shown is Home Alone, a holiday classic. Many concessions such as chips, soda, candy, and donuts were sold for $1. And here’s the catch: admittance was free! On the Thursday before the movie and the day of the movie, teen leadership students were signing people up to attend the movie. The students who sign up received movie passes which would admit them in to the movie.

Because of limited space, only the first 300 students who signed up were admitted into the auditorium. After school on Friday students came down to the auditorium where they were checked in by teen leadership students. Other teen leadership students were collecting donations, helping make cards, selling concessions and helping run the movie. The students wanted to raise as much money as they could for the Burgess family, so many people who knew the Burgesses or just wanted to be supportive signed up for the holiday movie on Friday. After the movie students began to leave and the teen leadership students cleaned up and counted money. At the end of the night, the amount 0f money raised was finally determined. It was over $1,000! Every penny of the proceeds will be going to the Burgess family. The Teen Leadership class thanks everyone who helped out or just attended the movie. Overall, the fundraiser was a success!

Josh Lives on in the hearts of Many

By Loren Humphries

Joshua “Josh” Burgess, a 17-year-old, lost his life in a car accident. His sister, Lily Burgess is a student at League Academy and was with Josh Burgess at the time of the car accident. “Me and Josh had our moments. Like, I would say 'I hate you' and all, but deep inside I know I didn’t mean it at all,” Lily Burgess said. Lily Burgess’s parents Bonnie Burgess and Dan Burgess raised Lily Burgess and Josh Burgess to be Christians, and so they believe that he’s no longer in pain and in a better place than with them. “There's a reason why God took him from us. We might never know, but there was a reason,” Dan Burgess says. Burgess wrote a note for her brother for when he went to college.

There were many people at Josh Burgess’s funeral. Friends, family, Josh’s football team, and League Academy’s basketball team. There were many tears shed and many laughter as everyone remembered what he had done good and bad. When everyone had said their final goodbyes, everyone felt more at ease as the sun began shining through the cold, dark clouds. They said that Joshua Burgess was watching his little sister and everyone he loved from above.

Veterans invited to League Academy

By Olivia White and Libby Sheppard

On Nov. 9, students at League Academy observed Veterans Day. Veterans Day is on Nov. 11 every year. Since Veterans Day was on a Sunday this year, League celebrated the Friday before by hosting a Veterans Breakfast.

Students could invite family members or friends who are military veterans or active service members to a delicious breakfast in the Media Center. The League staff and PTA generously brought in muffins, fruit, drinks, Chick-fil-a, and more for the students and service men and women to enjoy.

Veterans socialized and learned each other's stories. Even Mrs. Anderson’s dad, Mr. Jack Key, attended the Veterans Breakfast. He was a 1st Lieutenant in the Army. “Well I think remembering that this country didn’t just happen, that it had to be founded, is important,” said Key. The veterans at the breakfast all thought it was very important to implement Veterans Day at school.

“I think it’s important to educate everyone on history—where we came from, and I think it’s also important to thank the previous generation, you know, soldiers,” said 7th grader John Serpa.

Veterans Day is celebrated all through America each year. WWI ended on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, which is when we celebrate Veterans Day.

League students Donate to the food drive for families in need

By Will Maness and Frank Baxley

From Nov. 7-19 League Academy is doing a food drive. League has a backpack program to send out food. The food donated goes to families in need.

The one in charge of the food drive is Mrs. Wilhoit, the 6th grade school counselor. This is Mrs. Wilhoit´s first year doing the food drive, but she says her favorite part so far is “just having so many people involved for a good cause.¨

Each grade level has a different type of food to bring. 6th grade has breakfast. Some breakfast items would be small cereal boxes, granola bars, and Poptarts. 7th grade has snacks. Some snack items would be applesauce, trail mix, or dried fruit. 8th grade has lunch. Some lunch items would be Easy Mac, ramen, or chicken noodle soup.

Students can turn in their food items into their C3 teachers. The C3 class on each team who collects the most food gets donuts from the PTA. The grade level with the most food gets an extra day of outside time.

By Olivia White and Lilybelle Butler

Oct. 23-26 was Red Ribbon Week. There was a theme for each day of the week, which students and staff members could dress a certain way to support Red Ribbon Week.

The events at League started on Tuesday, when students and staff members could wear a hat to say “Put a cap on drugs.” League Academy is trying to encourage students to not do drugs in a fun way, which is why they said, “Put a cap on drugs,” since that was a little thing students could catch onto. They allowed students to wear hats or “caps” to represent that those students don’t want drugs to be used.

The next day, Wednesday, was dedicated to wearing patriotic things. “Stay united against drugs,” is what the patriotic wear represented. This, once again, was a little catchy thing that encouraged students to stay away from drugs. “I wanted to represent my country and stand against drugs,” said Jules King. Many other students would reply with the same thing. This is exactly the kind of answers League hoped for, with standing against drugs and representing their country.

Thursday’s theme was crazy socks. Students and staff wore crazy socks to “Sock it to drugs”. The theme was created to show that drugs are not good. Students wore crazy socks to promote that theme in a more interesting and fun way that students and staff members would enjoy doing. Crazy socks were seen all throughout the school!

Friday was the last day of Red Ribbon Week. The theme for Friday was “Paws-itivley proud to be drug free.” On that day, students were encouraged to wear League gear. Students and staff were not only supporting a drug-free community, but we were also supporting our school.

The main focus of Red Ribbon Week is to encourage students to stay away from drugs, and also to support bullying awareness and getting rid of bullying. All through the week, along with our “No Drugs” theme, League was supporting Anti-Bullying efforts. On the first day of Red Ribbon Week, students were given slips of red paper with a pledge to stay drug free. Students signed the papers, and they were made into paper chains that were hung in the hallway. The school also collected wet wipes and paper towels to donate to an animal shelter to support wiping out drugs. Red Ribbon Week is a week where students can celebrate being drug free and wiping out bullying.

julie valentine center speaks to

6th grade

By Loren Humphries and Kinge Brannon

Oct. 28-29 the Julie Valentine Center taught 6th graders what sexual harassment is and how to stop it.

During the speech, the kids realized what sexual harassment is and what it isn’t. These kids also learned how to stop sexual harassment from happening to themselves, others, and how to help. One thing the students learned was if they felt like they were sexually harassed they could either tell a trusted adult, parent, or guardian.

These new middle schoolers learned what the difference was in sexual harassment was to just harassment. They learned about many different types of sexual harassment.

Lauren Wilhoit, 6th grade school counselor, said, “It is our hope that 6th grade students participate in this presentation and that they will be able to prevent harmful situations, and be able to recognize sexual harassment and know how to get help.”

Chorus students performed Spring concert

By: Lilly Baker

Mrs. Kerr’s chorus classes performed on Monday, May 6 at League Academy. Tickets were $3. The performance ran from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. by the 6th, 7th, and 8th grade classes.

7th grade Intermediate Chorus student, Georgia Harper, Says,”The thing I enjoy most about chores is the sound of all the individual voices coming together to form one“ Some of the songs that they sang were Shallow and Tribute to Queen. They also sang with advanced 8th grade and beginner 6th grade. The 7th grade intermediate class and the 8th grade advanced class sang some festive songs as well that included, Joshua’s Battle, Psallite, and the Riversong.

There are two solo part that were sung for the song Shallow in the 7th grade Intermediate Chorus class. For the song Shallow, Camilo Vasquez and Scout Carter had sung solos on Monday night for everyone to hear.

Preparation for seventh grade Intermediate drama show

By: Eva Thurman

The League Academy Drama performance will be held on Tuesday, Apr. 9. The students have two weeks to practice and prepare for the show. They have to prepare their outfit, get into their character, and memorize their lines in time for the show.

The informance for the two plays is on Apr. 4. The drama students are practicing blocking and memorizing their lines. Blocking is learning where to go and what to do up on stage.

League Academy 7th grader and drama member English Rabideaux said, “I am still concerned that I won’t memorize my lines in time for the play, but I am also excited for the big performance. We have worked hard and we always say hard work pays off.” The drama classes still have some preparation to do before the play.

Come support League Academy drama. The performance is on Apr. 9. It costs three dollars to get in. The performance includes the plays “Step into Stories” and “Gertie Green”.

Mrs. Swartzel posts the new gertie green cast list

By Charlie Bell

Last week the cast list was released by Mrs. Swartzel for the spring show Gertie Green for 7th grade Intermediate Drama to perform. This performance will be in April in the League Academy auditorium. This play is about a new student who has bullied and hurt a handful of people. The only safe place is drama class, until the teacher moved her into drama class. Her name is Gertie Green.

Gertie Green camps in the bathroom for all of lunch and even the teachers are scared of her. I do not want to spoil it, but there are some people who feel bad for her. Mrs. Swartzel the drama teacher says, “This is a play about assumptions—students' assumptions about teachers, teachers make assumptions about students, and worst of all students make assumptions about students.” Mrs. Swartzel is not exactly sure when the play will be except that it’s in April. Mrs. Swartzel put the cast list on her classroom door for kids to walk up and look at it.

LA news crew tells about spring semester show

By English Rabideaux

The League Academy spring semester news crew began airing their daily news show on Feb. 7.

This news show gives the morning full of upcoming events and lots of important info. Such as the lunch for the day or wear shorts for $1 on Friday. This news show is very important.

7th grader Sam Gosnell is taking this new class, and she loves it! “My job is an anchor. You must be energetic and must like to talk on camera to do this job!” said Sam. Sam also said, “It was hard at first, but Mr. Mednick really did show them how to do it. The media is really cool to work with, and this is the perfect place for me.” Sam said that she loves to do this League Academy show! Make sure to cheer them on as they progress at this news show. They would really appreciate. So make sure to tune in!

League music classes prepare for Disney trip

By Shundrea A. Wilson

On Mar. 21 League Band Wind Ensemble, Advance and Intermediate Chorus, and 7th and 8th grade String are going to Disney for concert festive to compete with groups all around the world the group that’s furthest from Greenville will be Hawaii.

League Band, Strings, and Chorus will be going to Disney on Mar. 21 and will be coming back on Mar. 24 they will stay there for four days and three nights. If students wanted to go they would have to pay $550. The music 7th grade Strings students will be playing “Gavotte”, “India Summer”, and “Dramatic Essay”.

The reason Mrs. Leonard picked the music was because she liked it and it is very different from any other music her 7th grade ever played. It's showing what 7th grade Strings is capable of. It took her very long to plan Disney and book everything. She started planning last year and during the summer. So the 7th and 8th grade would be able to go blow the judges away when they play their unique music. Mrs. Leonard feels very confident about Disney. She loves it. Mrs. Leonard said, “When I was younger I wanted to be Tinkerbell, but then someone else got the job, and I was very sad about that.”

League academy soccer team drills and practices

By Thomas Willmot

John Serpa, from the League Academy soccer team, had a few things to say about the season. “Well what we do for practice is striker drills, running push-ups, and all-around regular workouts.” He also says he plays striker positions. “Also I do all of the striker drills.” He says practices "are going great. We are developing teamwork. We work together great.”

In addition John also said this: “I think we have a good shot at winning the tournament. I also like the flow of the group.” According to John he says that they have a scrimmage somewhere in March. Also says that they are doing the scrimmages first so they can scout out the competition so they know what to be prepared for.

League plays basketball at home against Blue Ridge

By Eva Thurman

On Mar. 11 League Academy girl’s soccer team will be having its first game against Ralph Chandler Middle School. For two weeks now the team has been practicing for its first game which will be played at Ralph Chandler Middle School.

Tryouts for the 2019 girls soccer team were at the beginning of February. The team has been practicing outside on the field almost every day since tryouts. The girls have been doing shooting, running, and dribbling drills.

League Academy 7th grader and girl’s soccer team player Georgia Vogt said, “Yes, I have played soccer before.” She played soccer for two years in Colorado. Vogt also said that there are a lot of returning and experienced players on the team.

Come support the League Academy girl’s soccer team. They will be playing against Ralph Chandler Middle School at 5:30 p.m. and the boy’s soccer team will be playing at 7 p.m.

The girls' soccer team is kicking off a new season

By Jack Hinds and Grayson Shelton

On Dec. 17, both the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams battled for their wins to show spirit for League Academy. Blue Ridge Middle School ended up winning both of the games.

The girls’ basketball team, led by Ms. Riddle, played their game at 5:30 p.m. and the game was close until the very end. Ella Rose Edwards, one of the girl basketball players, scored nine points, which was the most on the girl’s team. The ending score for the girls’ game was 31-24. The boys’ game wasn’t as close as the girls’ game though. The score of the boys' game was 51-29. Coming from Libby Sheppard, a League Academy 7th grader who had watched the boys’ game,”I think the game would have been better if the refs would have called it even.”

So, all in all Blue Ridge won both of the basketball games on Dec. 17. The next League basketball games will be away at Penny Fisher on Dec. 20.

BOTH Boys and girls basketball teamS take A loss

By Libby Sheppard

The boys and girls basketball team sadly lost against Fisher on Nov. 29. The girls played first at 5:30, and the boys next at 7:00.

The girls lost with a close game of 31-32. Qnique Chambers, Ella Rose Edwards, and Lilly Jo Wise all scored our first points. All the lady bulldogs and League Academy students were cheering the whole entire game.

The boys lost a tough game 16-35. Alijah Ferguson lead us with our first 8 points. There was a special appearance of Arty the bulldog during the boys halftime.

The boys and girls will play next on Monday, Dec. 3. They will play Hughes at Hughes. Come support!

basketball season is starting

By Jack Hinds and Marek Jopek

All of the tryouts are over and the basketball season is just about to start. All of the students on the boys’ basketball season are very excited for their first game. It is time to get rolling down the court to start the basketball season.

The students on the boys’ basketball team have their first pregame on Friday to really start off their season. But, the team needs to train first so they can get ready. First, before the team starts practicing, the do warm-ups. The warm-ups that the boys do are high knees, burpees, and sprints. Then, the drills they do are layups, three on three, five on five, and AD shooting. Cayden Powers says, “Basketball is amazing and fun.”

Tons of teachers and students are very excited for the basketball season to start. Come to both of the teams games to show off our school’s bulldog pride.

Greenville High D-Team is UNDEFEATED

By Libby Sheppard

This year, Greenville High was lucky enough to acquire a D-Team. There were many boys on this team from different schools, but there were some from League! Those special boys, Zavion Bryson, Noah Hutcherson, Bruce Knauber, Camren Roberts, Lathan Sellers, Rush Sheppard, Zane Spence, Oliver Way, and Jonah Weeke, got to experience quite the year with amazing coaches. These coaches led them through this year even though the team faced injuries. This year they managed to be undefeated!

“I think the players were motivated internally. For the young men who have been a part of our program before, they wanted to show how good they were compared to the competition. We had a fair number of new players, 8th graders. I think they were excited about getting connected to Greenville High, since that's where they'll go to school next year.” Joey Espinosa stated. The coaches weren’t the only thing notavating the boys, they also had there own self. If they put there mind to it the coaches would do the best they could to help the player fulfill their dream. The players had a very good bond with the other players and the coaches. The players work really well together on the field.

If you would like to participate in the Greenville High D-Team next year, either contact, redraideryouthsports@gmail.com or visit this website, https://www.cityyouthsports.org/contact-us/. All the Greenville High D-Team coaches look forward to see all the new Raiders next year!

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By Lilly Baker

Science classes on team 7-4 will start a SmartARTS project with Mrs. Jess Stone after Spring Break. It will last about three weeks on and off. In the science classrooms, each student will be making tiny ecosystems. They will be doing their project during the unit of ecology. They will be making these projects, not only to learn about ecology, but to show their smarts creatively.

Thinking that test and projects are both equally helpful, 7th grade science teacher, Mrs. McCarrell, states that “ For some students it’s easier taking test or it’s easier making projects. It depends on the student. Some are good at tests and some aren't. Some love to make projects and some don’t. For me, I like both”. Thinking that test should be band, 7th grader Grace Taylor thinks, “ Projects are easier because it gives students a way to show their creativity. Taking test, you just memorize stuff that isn’t useful, then you forget it. But I think I will learn a lot from this project and you will need to know the material if you want to pass the class.”

Almost every 7th grade can agree that projects are easier. For starting the project, they will be using and needing a lot of materials. Some of those include, grass, trees, sand, rocks, clay, animals, things like that. Jess Stone will be helping them with the clay and putting it all together. Mrs. McCarrell and Miss Taylor think that projects are more interactive and they get better grades because it is “Way more fun!”

League Academy Basketball Teams Play AT Ralph Chandler

By Loren Humphries

Ralph Chandler’s girls basketball team went against League Academy’s girls basketball team. League Academy’s girls basketball team had full control over the ball through the whole game. League girls won with the score thirty-three. Ralph Chandler girls lost with the total points of three. League’s girls made it swiftly and smoothly through the game taking full control even when they didn’t even have the ball. Ralph Chandler girls ran out of energy in the middle of the game. League’s girls won with their heads held high and proud of their victory.

Ralph Chandler’s boys team won with the points of thirty-five. League Academy’s boys team lost with the total points of thirty-four. The boy’s game ended with angry League Academy parents. The referees did not call all the fowls and were angering the crowd of parents and family members who came with League Academy. League students who came and parents alike screamed at the referees for not calling fowl. “You’re not doing your job correctly!” a parent yelled.

Questions such as “why aren’t they calling fowls?” were being asked by everyone. League tried their best and left the game with their heads held high for their close victory and the girl’s full win.

7th grade science classes dissecting frogs to learn about the human body

By Lilly Baker

This week on Thursday, Feb. 21 and Friday, Feb. 22, 74 science classes will be dissecting frogs in the science lab. They will be dissecting frogs for the human body unit all the 4 main systems! They will need to pin the frog down with T pins, the cut the frog in the opposite of the dorsal side.

Everyone will be in groups of four. They will have to take out each system and they will even try to inflate the lungs! All of the cutting open though, will be on Thursday. Mrs. McCarrell ( the 74 science teacher. ) says the most important part of dissecting frogs is, “It depends on who you ask and what your goal is. It’s good hands on learning, or you can trick people into loving science!”

The 4 main systems are the digestive system, respiratory system, cardiovascular system, and the excretory system (or the urinary system!). the tools they will be using are a scalpel, scissors, tweezers, a probe, and T pins to pin the frog down. For safety, they will need to wear goggles, an apron, and gloves. They just learned about a two-month long human body unit, including the human body project.

6th grade learns about DIFFERENT types of mushroom so they can learn more about plants

On April 10 a worker from Mountain Mushroom came to league academy to teach the 6-2 students about mushrooms.

Semaj~ said that her favorite thing about mountain mushroom was “ the examples of the mushrooms because they looked cool and she learned the different things a mushroom did in nature.” '' the words was the hardest part for me because they were a little hard to pronounce and i didn't know the definitions that well.”

Ramon~ said that “ we are learning about plants in science so that's why the worker came. “ he also said he liked the cool patterns on the mushrooms. “ there were different types of mushroom sizes somewhere big, small, and in the middle. Mr. whitner said that

“ I enjoyed doing the lab and learning about the mushrooms the only thing that was hard was how to pronounce the words.”

All in all the Mountain Mushroom learning experience was good and people really enjoyed it and said it was fun and they enjoyed the sokes person.

League ACADEMY goes to jUnior THESPIAN FESTIVAL

Seventh grade Intermediate drama and Theater 1 went to the Junior Thespian State Festival on Saturday. Drama Students represented League academy so well at the Junior Thespian State Festival on Saturday. We bring home 4 excellent ratings and Jollily Heise received a Superior scoring within a half point of a perfect score! They all did great and deserved recognition.

The Festival was at Florence Chapel Middle the workshops were in the elementary section. They had a bunch of work shops like improve to hip hop Hamilton they even had one were you could create a dress out of trash bags. Everyone had a lot of fun there and after they ate at a diner called the beacon. People worked so hard on their monologues that was held across the school in the middle school part.

League Academy will not be going back to the junior Thespian Festival next year. Because Mrs Swatzle felt like that the students could learn everything there at school.

by charlie bell

GTT attended a Field Trip to Bon Secours Wellness Arena

By Francis Baxley and Marek Jopek

On Nov. 28 GTT attended the STEM field trip at Bon Secours Wellness Arena. This field trip informed them on the extensive area of the STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) program. The field trip was sponsored by the Greenville Swamp Rabbits. The class rotated stations. For example they experienced virtual reality, simple circuits and bracelets. While doing the stations, they were learning about STEM.

In conclusion this field trip was a way to learn the areas of the STEM program (science, technology, engineering, math) and a way of building interested in the STEM fields. If you're already interested, apply for the GTT class and go on this trip for yourself or check out mn-stem.com for more information about the STEM program.