News from April 2009

Review: Hannah Montana: The Movie

Imagine a life full of free expensive gifts, celebrity best friends, adoring fans, daily nationwide attention, touring, and glamor where people want to meet you, be friends with you, and be you. Then, imagine a completely different life with schoolwork, friends you can trust, family support with you all the time, and most importantly - dreams.
Not [...]

Teens face the ultimate challenge

At the beginning of the 2008-2009 school year, it became mandatory for any student who wanted to drive on the Citrus High campus to complete the Teen Driver Challenge.
The Teen Driver Challenge is a driving safety course that teaches teen drivers how to react in emergency situations.
Citrus High’s resource officer, Dave Vincent, explained it is a three hour class held each [...]

America’s pasttime kicks off

The 2009 major league baseball season started all around the league Monday, April 7 with games played on the East coast to the West coast.
The first game of the season was on Sunday night, when the Atlanta Braves played in Philadelphia against the Phillies.
The Braves has been having hitting trouble, but on April 6 were creaming the ball out of [...]

Underage and unemployed

In 2009, the unemployment rate has been at its highest rate in 16 years. Adults not being able to find a job is extremely frustrating for them, but a teenager not being able to find a job is scarier, for they are the future, and if they’re not capable of getting a job , it leaves [...]

Show me the money

Scholarships are sums of money or other forms of aid granted to a student because of merit or need, to pursue his or her studies. But what does that mean for Citrus High students?
Many students apply for scholarships every year. These students have to meet certain qualifications for all the different scholarships they apply for. Some [...]

A growing trend in education

If a students have little time or need more credits, online classes are for them.
The Florida virtual online school is a great new opportunity for students, who can start taking classes as soon as they want and even get enough credits to graduate early.
To get started in this program, students need to set up an appointment with [...]

North Carolina rolls to the national title

This year’s championship game was a blowout that the Michigan State Spartans would like to forget.
It was a blowout that many people thought that Michigan State was going to win. North Carolina defied the odds by beating the team that was playing in its homestate by a score of 72-89.
North Carolina went on to an early lead, and [...]

Fishy business

Mr. Gene Trescott’s Biology class is anything but ordinary. On any given day, students can be seen playing with hamsters, feeding iguanas, or measuring the rate at which their angelfish are breeding.
However, on Monda, April 6, Trescott’s class had some speical guests to help them out.
Trescott, who raises his own catfish right outside of his classroom, invited [...]

Tests, trials, and proofs

Students at Citrus High are tired of taking the regular tests, so some students in Ms. Victoria Joseph’s Geometry Honors classes are doing skits and trials as alternative projects.
Ms. Joseph’s Geometry Honors classes were given the choice to work in groups of two or three on skits from a book or a trial.
The trial has a set problem, and the [...]

World Baseball Classic in review