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by Published on 04-25-2012 02:34 AM
[Note to my readers: I realize that by the time this article goes into print, those of you who would care enough to see the movie have already seen it. However, my hometown is stuck in a bizarre time warp where the haircuts are suspended in the 1980’s and the movies are always two weeks to a month behind in coming to the local theatre. Forgive me. Operating under the assumption that anyone who cares has either read the book or seen the movie, this article is chock-full of spoilers. Again, forgive me.]
When I last discussed The Hunger Games, I trashed the novel. I expressed my distaste for the inconsistent and unlikeable characters (with hilarious names), the incredibly dull storytelling, and the overall boorishly simplistic style. ...by Published on 04-25-2012 02:34 AM
Meet Bethany Lee the news section editor! This fifteen-year-old Californian lives in the heart of the heart of the Silicon Valley and has been taking TPS classes for one third of her life. Her four classes with TPS this year are AP Calculus AB/BC, AP English Language & Composition, Advanced Chemistry, and Chinese 2. Bethany enjoys reading all kinds of books including classics, fantasy, and mysteries, but she does not have a favorite book. Instead she says every time she reads or rereads a book she has a new favorite!
When you talk with Bethany two of the things that stand out are her love for music, her love for Christ, and how she has combined these passions. Because Bethany started playing piano at age four and then added ...by Published on 04-25-2012 02:34 AM
Let’s go back to the early 1900’s. During this period of time, child labor was a common occurrence. Many children quit school in their teens to work long, strenuous hours for meager pay in an effort to support their families. Quite often the conditions of the workplace in which these children labored were extremely dangerous, exposing them to chemical and biological hazards. Jacqueline Davies does an excellent job of recounting these horrors in her historical fiction novel, Lost. Davies combines two true events of the early 1900’s with an excellently interpreted fictionalization of what life was like for a young girl during this time in history.
Essie is sixteen years old and works at the Triangle Shirtwaist factory. Her mother, ...by Published on 04-25-2012 02:34 AM
"This Autobiography's Title is False." While Jordan Bakke might have given the autobiography of his life that name, this spotlight article's title will (hopefully) not be the same, as it is in fact about the aforementioned Jordan. He has resided in the sunny state of California for all 19 of his years and is currently studying Biology and math at UCLA.
Jordan shares an interesting perspective on the value of his classes having specifically been online. While most alumni agree that having online classes offered them a unique approach to learning, Jordan says, "TPS would have benefitted [him] equally had it been a brick and mortar school near [his] house offering the same classes taught by the same teachers." ...by Published on 04-25-2012 02:34 AM
Mrs. Crosby, a skilled math teacher, said that in order to take Functions Statistics Trigonometry, students “need to have taken our Advanced Algebra course or an Algebra II course and the supplies they need are a graphing calculator, our text, [and] a notebook.” Usually, sophomores or older take this class. The course teaches “relationships between advanced function equations, graphs and their properties… Trigonometric functions which relate lengths of segments and angles in triangles and circles and can be extended to rotated quadratic relations and vectors, parametric and polar forms…look at data analysis in statistics and how that can be applied to functions.” This means that during class, students do math involving lines, shapes, and statistics. ...
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