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Class ring delivery excites students

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By: Sidney Reynolds

Last Friday students eagerly waited in line to pick up their class rings that they ordered from Jostens. Jostens sales representative Mike Long and his wife, Jenna Long, enjoyed passing out the rings.

“The kids were very excited to get their rings and it’s always great to see the smile on their faces when they do,” said Mike Long.

Long also explained to the students that if their rings needed resized there would be no charge because of the warranty. Luckily there was only one student that needed their ring resized so far. Students were allowed to take their ring when they had paid the entire cost.

“I love the saxophone on mine. Now I have a memo from my high school years,” said junior Kaitlyn Seewer.

Some students have not completely paid or that paid in check had to wait until they paid completely or until the check cleared to get theirs. When the cost does clear, students rings will be available for pick up at the book store.

“I haven’t gotten my ring yet, but I saw it and I like it a lot more than I thought I would,” said sophomore Rebecca Lusren.

Some students’ parents are making them wait until their senior year to get their class ring.

“If I get it my senior year I’ll only get to wear it one semester, but I can’t wait until I do get it,” said sophomore Syliva Donovan.

Every class has a different feature each year but if you want to order your ring your junior or senior year you will still get the same features as the rest of your class.

“I was really, really excited to get it and I think I wear it later in life, too,” said sophomore Emily Naville.

Sophomore Kyle Beach paying for the rest of his class ring.
Sophomore Kyle Beach paying for the rest of his class ring.
Sophomore Maria Wimsatt's class ring.
Sophomore Maria Wimsatt’s class ring.
A overhead over of sophomore Harleigh Lang's class ring.
A overhead over of sophomore Harleigh Lang’s class ring.
A left side of sophomore Harleigh Lang's class ring.
A left side of sophomore Harleigh Lang’s class ring.
The right side Bethany Arteburn's class ring.
The right side Bethany Arteburn’s class ring.
Bethany Arteburn's class ring.
Bethany Arteburn’s class ring.
The right side of sophomore Harleigh Lang's class ring.
The right side of sophomore Harleigh Lang’s class ring.
News, Sidney Reynolds

New Voices Program comes to FC

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By Sidney Reynolds

On Oct. 16, sophomore English honor students started their first session of the New Voice Playwriting program. This is the first time at FC that English classes have gotten to take part in this program.  The New Voice project is a program helps develop students’ creative writing ability.

“I think it helped me become a better creative writer,” said sophomore Jacob Huntles.

Actors Theatre of Louisville sends trained instructors to teach students about play writing and help them write their own 10-minute play. At the end of the program some students will get the honor of having actors from Actors Theatre of Louisville to come and perform their play in front of the class.

“It was awesome. I feel so honored to be one of the first students at FC to be able to take part in this,” said sophomore Sylvia Donovan.

The two New Voice instructors that taught the classes were Keith McGill and Liz Fentress.

“It’s been a wonderful experience for me. I love that I helped create a play from nothing and got to watch it develop,” said Fentress.

The students started the first session with the discussion of every element that goes into a play.

“I really love how it was taught step by step so no one gets confused or lost,” said sophomore Harleigh Lang.

The students also wrote two monologues to help understand more about the purpose of monologues.  The first monologue was about an object to help them learn how to write a monologue. The second monologue was a character monologue and to help them get more in depth.

“It was fun to be creative and have people read mine,” said sophomore Caleb Combs.

At the third session students started to write the draft of their play.

“I had to write down a couple of ideas before I could really pick one,” said Donovan.

In the fifth session, students did a plot diagram of their play and then they started to write the first two pages of their ten page play.

“At first, I was overwhelmed because I’m not a very creative person so it was kind of scary for me at first,” said sophomore Kelsey Lengel.

On Oct. 30 students went over their first draft. They had the instructors, teachers, and peers edit their drafts.

Lang thought was really helpful to get feedback on my play from McGill, her english teacher Anne Martin, and her peers.

“It told me what was strong about my play and what I needed to change. I am also glad they were there to help me with formatting my play,” said Lang.

On Nov. 2 actors from Actors Theatre of Louisville came to perform the students’ plays.

“It was interesting to see professional actors perform plays that my peers wrote,” said Huntles.

Many students enjoyed watching the plays be performed, however when student’s own plays were performed, it made them nervous.

“It was kind of interesting but kind of awkward,” said sophomore Kayla Popson.

Sophomore honors English teacher Anne Martin enjoyed working with this program.

“It’s nice to have new voices in the room and many of the activities in the curriculums that allow students to see what good writers they are,” said Martin.

They also are hoping that next year actors from Louisville’s Actors Theatre will come and do the program again next year only for all sophomore English classes.

“There has been talk that they will try and get the same grant to be able to do all sophomore English classes next year,” said Martin.

Many students believe New Voices was a good program to participate in.

“I’m glad that I got to do it. It was so much fun and I think it helped my writing skills too.” said Lang.

Dazzlers, Sidney Reynolds, Sports

Dazzlers already preparing for nationals in the spring

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By Sidney Reynolds

Yells of encouragement ring throughout the gym as the Dazzlers start practicing their routine.

“We go over our routine a lot and I ask my teammates to watch.If they see something is wrong, they tell me how I can correct it,” said sophomore Kayleigh Brewer.

At practice it is common for the Dazzlers to support each other not only to make adancer better  but also to make the entire team stronger. To have a strong team everyone on it must be supportive of each other. It helps make the performance better and more enjoyable for the entire team.

For the Dazzlers, dancing helps them in more ways than just getting fit and having a hobby. “Dazzling is more than just dance. It teaches you life lessons. Also, you make friends you can hangout with outside of practice,” said senior Brooke Lentz.

The Dazzlers have been working hard to make sure their routine is perfect this year for nationals in  February. They have a year round season with practices four times a week for two and half hours long.

 “Practices are long and hard but are completely 100 percent worth it at the end of the day,” said sophomore Coral Portman.

Nationals are their biggest competition and is held in Disney World in Orlando, Florida. The Dazzlers will be there foran entire week.That is much longer than their normal competitions, which generally last around six hours.

“This early in the seasonwe are looking good, but we have to work todo before nationalsin February,” said Lentz.

 The Dazzlers have won in Orlando from 2003 to 2012. Last year they doubled titled in varsity pom and hip- hop at nationals.

“I don’t go into the season expecting to win nationals because I don’t want the girls to just think they will win every year. I want them to go into the season giving a 100 percent plus an extra 20 percent to be better then last year,” said coach Todd Sharp.

 This year the team is training to have an 11th consecutive win. “We had done what present Dazzlers, past Dazzlers, and Todd had pushed us for, our 10th consecutivewin in varsity pom,” said senior Regan Wimsatt.

They still have a while until nationals, but they will train for it at practices and performing at football games.  They also have many competitions between now and then they use to prepare for nationals. Their next performance is during halftime at the home game tonight. 

 “I can’t image dancing for anyone else because when we go to a competition I see the ways the other teams look at us and I am so proud to be a Floyd Central Dazzler,” said Portman.