SPARTAN ACADEMY

n  “I slept. I also went to a sleepover, finished my projects, and watched movies. Oh, and went shopping.” – Seo Jung K.

n  “I went to Louisiana. My uncle’s getting married.  I also had a sleepover with my best friend.” – Malli S.

n  “I went to Atlanta for my sister’s volleyball tournament. We also had our family trip along the way.  We didn’t get to many places because of the weather.”- Ashwini J.

n  “Just hung out like I do every weekend, ‘cept this was longer.” – Blake S.

n   “I went to Chicago, and it was, like, AWESOME!” – Sandhya S.

A large percent of the student population replied that they stayed at home sleeping, watching television, or on the computer.  All this was possible from the lack of homework over the break. “Thank goodness, too! This is the first time I’ve never had anything to do. I even had items over winter break.” says a bystander. 

“Well, I think they’re making up for the ‘lack of homework’ by giving us double this week!” says another student. 

            Teachers and students are both gearing up for the fact that Spring break is the last break until School’s OUT!

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Mr. Mansfield, Ms. Sutton and Ms. Blassingame visited the middle school to share information about class selection on Wednesday.  Parents attended a meeting at the middle school on Thursday night.  The 9th grade students are looking forward to seeing the new 9th grade students in the fall.  An orientation is planned in late July.  The dates will appear on this blog and on the WSHS calendar wiz.

Go Spartans!

Spencer Bohren came to White Station on March 6, 2008 to teach CLUE and Honors English students.  What was he speaking about?  A song.  The song that traveled through many ages through the Civil War through the 80s right into our hands.  The song that broke many barriers, such as color and race.  With his many guitars and his voice, he told the story of this song.  A brief history of how it got started, a slave just looking for his girlfriend, to how Mr. Bohren found this song in an old record from a record store.  The song’s story is it evolved right into the culture that it was surrounded in, and this song was re-sung by artists such as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones.

            Only 9^th grade students were welcome to this “concert”.  The audience was treated to an extravaganza of music in history.  He gave two concerts, one in 2^nd period and one in 5^th period.  Both attracted students and teachers passing by.  The teacher’s advice?

            “Hurry and get a great seat!”

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The rugby team (girl’s and boy’s teams) will be  wearing their jerseys on Friday since they have matches on Saturday. Both teams play on Saturday at NAS Millington at the field on Hornet Rd.  Girls play at 11:00 and Boys play at 2:00.  Coach Brooks leads both teams.  Several Academy members are on the teams.

The White Station High School boys basketball team is going to the state tournament in Murphreesboro next Thursday.  The mighty Spartans defeated rivals Kirby and later Raleigh-Egypt to qualify for state competition.  The Academy is especially excited about the state tournament because two of our Academy members, Andre and Marvin, are frequent starters for the Spartans.  We’re proud of you Andre and Marvin.  Good luck in Murphreesboro next week.

Mr. Williams, 11th grade principal is trying to make arrangements for a bus to take Spartan students to the Thursday game.  If a bus is reserved, students will sign up to attend the game next week.  Details will be announced on Monday when the game time is known.  9th graders, let’s go and support our Spartans.