Volume 2, Issue 2

January 25th, 2012

Phoenix High Flyer Special Edition: Students Speak

My A+ Opinion! 1

Shopping & Saving Money 2

Movie Review: Semi-Pro 3

Graduation Interview 3

Internet@FHU 4

Codex of Will 5

Student Artwork 5

INSIDE THIS ISSUE:

My Opinion!

I am new to this

school and this is my

first year being introduced to

Union’s A+ program! I feel

that it is a great learning tool.

My first week here I heard a

lot of complaints about it, like

people being upset they can’t

use the internet for their test.

To me, it wouldn’t make sense

to need the internet when the

answers for everything are

right in front of you. This

program gives you

every piece of infor-

mation you will need

to pass every course.

Using it myself, I feel

Do you feel successful using the A+ program?

Yes — Alex Enloe/ new student

Yes — Apples make me feel good. An apple a day keeps the principle away. - Josh Tucker/ new student

Yes — Janay Peete/ student since the beginning of the school year.

What is one thing you do not like about the program?

You have to take notes. - Alex Enloe

There are way too many notes. –Josh Tucker

Your teacher has to reset your test. -Janay Peete

Not accurate, pretests don’t give you right or wrong answers. – Bryan Legge

Do you take notes in all your classes?

Not in all of them, mainly in history

- Alex Enloe

No! – Josh Tucker

Yes –Janay Peete

Most of them – Bryan Legge

I have had nothing but good re-

sults. This program will not let you

fail. You have to pass each lesson

with a 70 or higher and that is a C.

You get as many tries as you need

to pass. You can use the lesson

while taking your pre-test, which

gets you properly prepared

for the real test. Me, per-

sonally I take as many

notes as I can. Taking full

advantage of this oppor-

tunity (which many people

don’t seem to get) is the

best way to go. You get to

work at your own pace, which

also gives you a greater ad-

vantage. As long as you take

notes and do the work, you

can make up as many credits

as you need to. I learned that

your success at this school is

solely based on your motiva-

tion. If you do the work, you

get the points. I am interested

in hearing more of the stu-

dent’s opinions on this pro-

gram. (See boxes to hear stu-

dent onions.)

- article by Illysa Baker

If there was one thing you could change about the program what would it be?

Letting us use the internet –Alex Enloe

Less notes – Josh Tucker

More write ups for inappropriate behavior.

– Janay Peete

Make things how they use to be and more modern. – Bryan Legge

Editor and Layout: Blane Northrop

P A G E 2 P H O EN I X H I G H FL Y ER

Shopping and Saving Money By Kelly Van Pelt & Jessica Podgorski

These days, kids go crazy

with shopping, especially

girls. According to million-

looks.com, women spend

about 48 hours and 51

minutes window shopping

every year! Also, women

who shop at least two times

a week are in a lot better

moods than women who

shop only on the weekend.

The mall is the main place

where shopping is popular.

A lot of kids at our school

have part time jobs, so we

asked some students where

they find deals and save

money. After interviewing

some students, Ashley Leib-

brand and Katherine Slack,

both said they shop every 2

weeks after getting paid.

After interviewing

Shaquille Ranch he finds

deals at the Galleria and

also shops once every two

weeks. We decided to in-

terview a couple more peo-

ple to understand how they

shop. Nora Muehlbauer

says if you are trying to not

spend as much money

while shopping, go to the

cheaper stores, and look

around before you make up

your mind on what to buy.

She says Charlotte Russe

and Wet Seal are where she

finds the most for her mon-

ey, while getting cute

clothes and accessories.

Finding these deals, Nora

looks for sale signs around

the mall, and advertise-

ment on television. Nora

looks for deals everywhere,

but only finds them at a few

stores she likes. Nora rec-

ommends when looking for

deals, look for the signs.

She also attempts to look

for deals everywhere but

buys what she thinks is

best for her money. Inter-

viewing Whit-

ney Ramierez,

Whitney says

to not spend

so much mon-

ey and to limit

yourself. She

recommends

to only bring a

certain

amount of

money so you

don’t go over-

board. Rue 21

has the best deals for her

budget. So the next time

you go shopping, make sure

you: take your time, think

about what you want for

sure, shop at cheaper

stores or look for sales, and

set a limit on the amount

you want to spend. If you

do all these things, you will

find the best deals.

Movie Review: Semi-Pro

V O LU M E 2, IS S UE 2 P A G E 3

The graph above shows the most popular stores at Francis Howell Union.

Graph created by Kelly Van Pelt

I watched the movie Semi-Pro

with Will Ferrell. It’s set during

1976 in Flint, Michigan. Ferrell

plays Jackie Moon, a basketball

player, also the team leader and

coach. His minor league team is

in last place and with a few fans in

the seats, Moon decides to be

funny and entertaining, to bring

more people to the games. Moon

really wants to merge with the

NBA, so he makes a trade to get

Clarence Brown from the cham-

pion Celtics. Brown becomes the

Tropics’ best player but is con-

ceited and doesn’t play like a

team player. When Moon realizes

that a merger with the NBA is not

possible he pulls the team togeth-

er to achieve the impossible. Can

dreams come true in Flint? if you

are in the mood for a comedy,

this would be a good movie for

you. I thought it was funny and

you can rent it at your local

Blockbuster or Red Box.

I did an interview about gradu-ation to a few kids about these following questions: Are you graduating this year? What are you doing after graduation? What is your greatest chal-lenge between now and May? Nora Muehlbauer said yes, she’s graduating this year and is planning on going to beauty school and then maybe com-munity college. In order to achieve this she needs to come to school. Nick Rozier said yes, he’s graduating and that he’s planning on going to community college. In order to achieve this goal he has to ob-tain all of his credits. Jake Crawford also said yes, he’s graduating and that he’s going to be chillin after he gradu-ates. In order to achieve his goal he also has to obtain all of his credits. So to everyone else who’s gradating this year if you have been playing around this year, now’s the time to crack down and get where you need to be, because gradua-tion is just around the corner.

By Shaun Patek

Graduation

Interview

By Shaquille Ranch

It’s a new year at Francis

Howell Union, and with that

being said there are new

changes, one of those being

the internet use policies. I

interviewed a few people

and got their opinion on the

changes, one from an ad-

ministrator and two from

students.

When I interviewed Dr.

Worley, I asked her the fol-

lowing questions:

Does the internet being

blocked help or hurt the

school? Do you think we

will get the internet back at

some point?

Dr. Worley replied with, “I

think it’s good and helps the

school. Students need to

work on FHSD curriculum

instead of being on

Youtube, Answers, or

Ask.com. We need to keep

the integrity of our program

intact.” The internet being

blocked has helped because

students are more motivated

to work, because tempta-

tions of being distracted are

lessened. She thinks that we

will get the internet back

eventually but as of now

things have gotten a little

out of hand.

I also interviewed Matt

Internet@FHU Written by Tom Brown

might be able to get their

privileges back.”

Garrett Kifer: “It has its ups

and downs. It’s good be-

cause more kids are less dis-

tracted from doing their

work but it’s bad because

less kids are showing up due

to lack of motivation. “ Gar-

rett also felt it probably

helps because it makes the

school image more positive,

but he thinks the attendance

suffers. “If kids are ahead

or at least on track, I don’t

see why kids can’t goof off

a little on the internet.” I

think whether we get it back

or not, teachers will just

have to suck up and deal

with it because students are

gonna use it anyway.”

Students and staff really

don’t agree on anything

with the new internet policy.

With all of this controversy,

it’s shaping up to be a hectic

semester.

Bruce and Garrett Kifer

with the same questions.

Their thoughts on this were

a little different... First I’ll

start off with Matt.

Matt: “I think shutting the

internet off was a bad idea.

Because whenever we had

the internet I would watch

music videos and take a

break after finishing my

tests. Other students ruined

it for the honest people that

weren’t cheating or looking

up inappropriate content.”

“I think it hurts the school,

because now people are

more focused on the nega-

tives of the school instead of

doing work.” Matt felt that

internet restrictions should

be done on a student to stu-

dent basis instead of a

school wide punishment.” In

closing, Matt suggested

“With good behavior, kids

I have a lot of worries, being judged is the least of them.

If the walls could talk, I would probably not speak to them.

They say “grow up” well, I‟m Peter Pan.

But my Wendy had to leave for France.

Don‟t get mad at me if I just leave the dance „cause it got awkward.

I felt my heart hurt. Loves artwork.

O0000...Dream in the day time and I scheme when its play time.

Love ain‟t clockwork, but to find it takes time.

House full of mirrors, heart full on spirit.

Mind full of lyrics. Celebrities seen.

Magazine subscriptions, caffeine addictions. Pay no attention...X2

Artwork submitted by Martin Alvarado