2017-2018 Edition
Jehiel Regis
Writer
Knightly News
East Early Is Winning, and We Need Your Help!
As I am writing this article, East Early has about 108,089 words mastered, while Buckingham has only 105,914 words mastered. Nearly a difference of 2,000! They took us over while we’re relaxing on Spring Break! Mr. Price even worried that East Early would take over Buckingham while we have our time off from school. Surely, no one wants to see him get all boiled up because we didn’t do anything to win this challenge.
It’s time for us to catch up to them and master more words, or else they’ll win this championship! Unfortunately, many students in this school aren’t motivated enough to master some words on Vocabulary.com. I, the author of this article, have done so much Vocab for this championship, along with many of my fellow students. I have 7,608,425 points in Vocabulary.com so far, and while I continue to do Vocab, I have many other things to do. Junior year is the most stressful year I have dealt with. I have to take the SAT, along with the California Standardized Tests, and of course, final exams. Therefore, I ask every student in Buckingham to master some words, whether they’re juniors or not. We gotta do something that will make us proud to be Buckinghamers, and winning this Vocab Bowl is our chance.
Writer
Knightly News
East Early Is Winning, and We Need Your Help!
As I am writing this article, East Early has about 108,089 words mastered, while Buckingham has only 105,914 words mastered. Nearly a difference of 2,000! They took us over while we’re relaxing on Spring Break! Mr. Price even worried that East Early would take over Buckingham while we have our time off from school. Surely, no one wants to see him get all boiled up because we didn’t do anything to win this challenge.
It’s time for us to catch up to them and master more words, or else they’ll win this championship! Unfortunately, many students in this school aren’t motivated enough to master some words on Vocabulary.com. I, the author of this article, have done so much Vocab for this championship, along with many of my fellow students. I have 7,608,425 points in Vocabulary.com so far, and while I continue to do Vocab, I have many other things to do. Junior year is the most stressful year I have dealt with. I have to take the SAT, along with the California Standardized Tests, and of course, final exams. Therefore, I ask every student in Buckingham to master some words, whether they’re juniors or not. We gotta do something that will make us proud to be Buckinghamers, and winning this Vocab Bowl is our chance.
Cailey Tennyson
Writer
Knightly News
Hair Spray Opening Night
This evening, I had the pleasure of watching Hairspray put on by our very own Drama Department, Ms. Wright, and Mrs. Goree. After last year's showing of Little Shop of Horrors, I was very excited to attend this year’s show. Since, it was the first night, there were a few slight errors, but the amazing cast easily improvised and made it seem flawless. Overall, the show was quite enjoyable and often I found myself laughing. The crowd seemed to be going crazy throughout the entire show, with yells, laughter, and a few cheers. One of my favorite aspects of the show was the costumes. Each individual cast member looked amazing. Although all of the musical numbers were amazing, “The Big Dollhouse” stood out to me the most. The cast creatively used the metal bar props to create interesting visuals. The roles were well cast and all of the actors and actresses did amazing jobs. Corey Doucette as Edna was brilliant. Corey had the crowd in uproars of laughter, especially in the final scene. I would be interested to go again just to see what he adds the character. Miranda Brownlee was outstanding as the main character Tracy Turnblad, and her vocals were spot on all night. I would recommend this show to anyone who wants to laugh and truly enjoy their night
Writer
Knightly News
Hair Spray Opening Night
This evening, I had the pleasure of watching Hairspray put on by our very own Drama Department, Ms. Wright, and Mrs. Goree. After last year's showing of Little Shop of Horrors, I was very excited to attend this year’s show. Since, it was the first night, there were a few slight errors, but the amazing cast easily improvised and made it seem flawless. Overall, the show was quite enjoyable and often I found myself laughing. The crowd seemed to be going crazy throughout the entire show, with yells, laughter, and a few cheers. One of my favorite aspects of the show was the costumes. Each individual cast member looked amazing. Although all of the musical numbers were amazing, “The Big Dollhouse” stood out to me the most. The cast creatively used the metal bar props to create interesting visuals. The roles were well cast and all of the actors and actresses did amazing jobs. Corey Doucette as Edna was brilliant. Corey had the crowd in uproars of laughter, especially in the final scene. I would be interested to go again just to see what he adds the character. Miranda Brownlee was outstanding as the main character Tracy Turnblad, and her vocals were spot on all night. I would recommend this show to anyone who wants to laugh and truly enjoy their night
Isaiah Mercado
Writer
Knightly News
New Year's Resolutions
When a new year comes along people often make new plans for the future. New Year’s Resolutions are a regularly planned opportunity for a person to make changes to better themselves for the upcoming year. Shocking is that only 8% of people actually keep their resolutions all year. The whole resolutions are pretty useless when majority of people give up their next of kin and move on with their lives. We have asked ourselves what are resolutions would be and have a hard time coming up with results, so we decided to ask the teachers of Buckingham Magnet High School their resolutions to get a better idea.
We are able to receive better information from our elders or try to make sense of the knowledge.
Buckingham Charter High History teacher Mr.Buescher’s resolution was to “steal Mr.Rowe’s baby”.Hopefully Mr.Buescher was kidding about the resolution or else we will have a problem afoot in every math classroom.
Buckingham Charter High Math teacher Mr.Rowe had this to say to our question “(he is) walking 2 and half miles(from his home), three times a week”.Mr. Rowe seems to have taken a healthier alternative to a new year’s resolution than theft.
Well the teachers at Buckingham Charter have shared their knowledge on how to make a proper new year’s resolution, hopefully one of them doesn’t occur.
New Year’s Resolutions are suppose to be a extra ability to make oneself better for the new year, but it can be taken too serious at times. The year has barley began and the time to make a resolution is still early. Students at buckingham don’t sweat on trying to make yourself better than last year, just improve. The Valentine's day is coming soon and students might try to please a special someone. Maybe a resolution should be to take any opportunity life throws at yourself.
Writer
Knightly News
New Year's Resolutions
When a new year comes along people often make new plans for the future. New Year’s Resolutions are a regularly planned opportunity for a person to make changes to better themselves for the upcoming year. Shocking is that only 8% of people actually keep their resolutions all year. The whole resolutions are pretty useless when majority of people give up their next of kin and move on with their lives. We have asked ourselves what are resolutions would be and have a hard time coming up with results, so we decided to ask the teachers of Buckingham Magnet High School their resolutions to get a better idea.
We are able to receive better information from our elders or try to make sense of the knowledge.
Buckingham Charter High History teacher Mr.Buescher’s resolution was to “steal Mr.Rowe’s baby”.Hopefully Mr.Buescher was kidding about the resolution or else we will have a problem afoot in every math classroom.
Buckingham Charter High Math teacher Mr.Rowe had this to say to our question “(he is) walking 2 and half miles(from his home), three times a week”.Mr. Rowe seems to have taken a healthier alternative to a new year’s resolution than theft.
Well the teachers at Buckingham Charter have shared their knowledge on how to make a proper new year’s resolution, hopefully one of them doesn’t occur.
New Year’s Resolutions are suppose to be a extra ability to make oneself better for the new year, but it can be taken too serious at times. The year has barley began and the time to make a resolution is still early. Students at buckingham don’t sweat on trying to make yourself better than last year, just improve. The Valentine's day is coming soon and students might try to please a special someone. Maybe a resolution should be to take any opportunity life throws at yourself.
Cece Ochoa
Knightly News
Breaking Down the Walls
On Thursday November 30th, sophomores and juniors took part in an all day event called “Breaking Down the Walls”. It was designed to make Buckingham less “cliquey” and encourage meeting and talking to new people.
The day started off with a bunch of us somewhat complaining about how cold it was and wondering what was going on. When we got in we were given a name tag and the speaker, Dean, gave a quick overview of what was going to happen during the day.
The day would focus on three things: respect, fun, and stories. We would learn how to show respect and what habits some of us would need to break. But this wasn’t just a ‘sit in a chair and listen to the person talking’ assembly, it was something where we the students would have to be actively involved whether we wanted to or not.
The first exercise we did involved getting into two large circle, an inner and outer circle. The inner circle would walk in the opposite direction of the outer circle, meaning that you would end up talking to someone new every time you took a step.
We got to know some people we may have never seen before and all about their life, from what their favorite movie was, to what they were like as a little kid, and their daily routine. Eventually we got to an exercise where we sat and just talked to the same partner for awhile. We talked about our families and things on each others bucket list. Some students even stood up and shared what they learned to everyone.
Right before lunch we got into smaller groups and played several games. These were the groups we ate lunch with, and while it was a bit awkward at times, it was something that got everyone out of their comfort zones.
Another thing we did was something called crossing the line.
Everyone stood against the walls in the gym while Dean read out questions. Some questions were not that deep such as, “Are sports important in your life?”, if they were then you would step out and cross the line. Eventually the questions got deep, they dealt with things you would usually not talk about even to your friends. They were personal, and often times we would get surprised at who crossed the line.
The people who crossed the line ranged from someone’s very best friend, to that person you may have never payed much attention to.
It showed that none of us really know what might be going on in someone’s life and to not prejudge them.
It’s pretty safe to say that almost every single person in that room was in tears by the end. Everyone had been affected by the activity whether or not they crossed the line.
Afterwards we were given the opportunity to appreciate someone in the room or apologize to someone in the room. Many people took this chance and it was incredibly touching.
The very last thing we did was to write messages of appreciation to whoever we wanted to. We wrote these on sticky labels to stick them on people. While this may have been something so minor at face value, it was very uplifting to read some of these notes of encouragement.
Some things I personally took away from this day was to try talking to everyone in an uplifting way, no one knows what someone is going through that day and we all have the power to make their day worse or make it so much better. Everyone has a story that not everyone may know and it is important to treat everyone with kindness, any little thing will help. The final message that really struck me was to let those whom we may care about know we care about them before it is too late.
“Breaking Down the Walls” was an incredible event that truly made an impact on everyone who took part in it.
Cece Ochoa, Knightly News
Knightly News
Breaking Down the Walls
On Thursday November 30th, sophomores and juniors took part in an all day event called “Breaking Down the Walls”. It was designed to make Buckingham less “cliquey” and encourage meeting and talking to new people.
The day started off with a bunch of us somewhat complaining about how cold it was and wondering what was going on. When we got in we were given a name tag and the speaker, Dean, gave a quick overview of what was going to happen during the day.
The day would focus on three things: respect, fun, and stories. We would learn how to show respect and what habits some of us would need to break. But this wasn’t just a ‘sit in a chair and listen to the person talking’ assembly, it was something where we the students would have to be actively involved whether we wanted to or not.
The first exercise we did involved getting into two large circle, an inner and outer circle. The inner circle would walk in the opposite direction of the outer circle, meaning that you would end up talking to someone new every time you took a step.
We got to know some people we may have never seen before and all about their life, from what their favorite movie was, to what they were like as a little kid, and their daily routine. Eventually we got to an exercise where we sat and just talked to the same partner for awhile. We talked about our families and things on each others bucket list. Some students even stood up and shared what they learned to everyone.
Right before lunch we got into smaller groups and played several games. These were the groups we ate lunch with, and while it was a bit awkward at times, it was something that got everyone out of their comfort zones.
Another thing we did was something called crossing the line.
Everyone stood against the walls in the gym while Dean read out questions. Some questions were not that deep such as, “Are sports important in your life?”, if they were then you would step out and cross the line. Eventually the questions got deep, they dealt with things you would usually not talk about even to your friends. They were personal, and often times we would get surprised at who crossed the line.
The people who crossed the line ranged from someone’s very best friend, to that person you may have never payed much attention to.
It showed that none of us really know what might be going on in someone’s life and to not prejudge them.
It’s pretty safe to say that almost every single person in that room was in tears by the end. Everyone had been affected by the activity whether or not they crossed the line.
Afterwards we were given the opportunity to appreciate someone in the room or apologize to someone in the room. Many people took this chance and it was incredibly touching.
The very last thing we did was to write messages of appreciation to whoever we wanted to. We wrote these on sticky labels to stick them on people. While this may have been something so minor at face value, it was very uplifting to read some of these notes of encouragement.
Some things I personally took away from this day was to try talking to everyone in an uplifting way, no one knows what someone is going through that day and we all have the power to make their day worse or make it so much better. Everyone has a story that not everyone may know and it is important to treat everyone with kindness, any little thing will help. The final message that really struck me was to let those whom we may care about know we care about them before it is too late.
“Breaking Down the Walls” was an incredible event that truly made an impact on everyone who took part in it.
Cece Ochoa, Knightly News
Cece Ochoa
Knightly News
Fall Sports Recap
It was an incredible season for our Volleyball, Cross Country, and Flag Football teams. Goals were met, expectations were surpassed, and Buckingham "firsts" were made.
At the annual Fall Sports Banquet, individual student-athletes were recognized for their outstanding performances. From the volleyball team, Emily Hansen received the 1st Team SMAL All-League award, Alyssa Bell received 2nd Team SMAL All-League award, and Najae Reynolds and Jenny LeCheminant received SMAL Honorable Mention awards. The Most Inspirational award went to Maci Ferrante, AnnaGrace Bilek received Most Improved, Offensive Player of the Year was given to Reagan Peters, and Makayla Arndt earned the Defensive Player of the Year. Our Volleyball team clinched their goal of making it to the CIF SJS Playoffs so it was truly was an amazing season for the entire team!
Cross Country had an absolutely astonishing season. The girls team won the SMAL League meet, making them the 2017-2018 League Champions for three straight years! At that race, Tatum Wurzbach placed first, Natalie Mifflin placed second, Alexis Monk placed third, and Cameron Duncan placed third for the boys. The Cross Country team also made a Buckingham first happen by Tatum Wurzbach qualifying for the CIF XC State Championships! (Read the Reporter's article here).
Flag Football also accomplished their first win ever! Michael Zaldivar talked about how the season went with me. "The season went better than last year, and for what I was told, our teamwork was a lot better as well," he said. Michael's standout moment from this season was "I think it was our first win. It made us all realize it was possible to win as long as we tried hard enough. I chose to play Flag Football because I had been on a previous football team, but didn't have as good as an experience as I did this time. One thing everyone did as a team was go to In-N-Out after every game, and just hang out and talk. We would also hang out off the field at school." When asked if he would be playing next year, he said, "As much as I loved Flag Football, I want to try everything. So I think I may go with another sport to try.".
Congratulations to all the Fall sports teams for all their incredible achievements! Can't wait until next season and Goooooo Knights!!!
Cece Ochoa, Knightly News
Knightly News
Fall Sports Recap
It was an incredible season for our Volleyball, Cross Country, and Flag Football teams. Goals were met, expectations were surpassed, and Buckingham "firsts" were made.
At the annual Fall Sports Banquet, individual student-athletes were recognized for their outstanding performances. From the volleyball team, Emily Hansen received the 1st Team SMAL All-League award, Alyssa Bell received 2nd Team SMAL All-League award, and Najae Reynolds and Jenny LeCheminant received SMAL Honorable Mention awards. The Most Inspirational award went to Maci Ferrante, AnnaGrace Bilek received Most Improved, Offensive Player of the Year was given to Reagan Peters, and Makayla Arndt earned the Defensive Player of the Year. Our Volleyball team clinched their goal of making it to the CIF SJS Playoffs so it was truly was an amazing season for the entire team!
Cross Country had an absolutely astonishing season. The girls team won the SMAL League meet, making them the 2017-2018 League Champions for three straight years! At that race, Tatum Wurzbach placed first, Natalie Mifflin placed second, Alexis Monk placed third, and Cameron Duncan placed third for the boys. The Cross Country team also made a Buckingham first happen by Tatum Wurzbach qualifying for the CIF XC State Championships! (Read the Reporter's article here).
Flag Football also accomplished their first win ever! Michael Zaldivar talked about how the season went with me. "The season went better than last year, and for what I was told, our teamwork was a lot better as well," he said. Michael's standout moment from this season was "I think it was our first win. It made us all realize it was possible to win as long as we tried hard enough. I chose to play Flag Football because I had been on a previous football team, but didn't have as good as an experience as I did this time. One thing everyone did as a team was go to In-N-Out after every game, and just hang out and talk. We would also hang out off the field at school." When asked if he would be playing next year, he said, "As much as I loved Flag Football, I want to try everything. So I think I may go with another sport to try.".
Congratulations to all the Fall sports teams for all their incredible achievements! Can't wait until next season and Goooooo Knights!!!
Cece Ochoa, Knightly News
Isaiah Mercado
Knightly News
Vocabulary.com: Useful or waste of time?
Vocabulary is important to any job no matter the requirement. Vocabulary.com was created by Michael Freedman, Marc Tinkler, and Georgia Scurletis; their goal was to make the world have better vocabulary. Vocabulary has been made to help students strengthen their skills at writing and learning. Vocabulary.com’s recent test of wits is a competition known as “Vocabulary Bowl” where schools compete to find out who can learn and master the most words in a certain amount of time. Any school can compete, but is it truly beneficial to a student’s vocabulary or is it just there to make a statement of who is the smarter school? We have interviewed students at Buckingham Charter High School to get their feedback on the issue.
Vocab is simple to teach, but can be simple to use as well? Junior student, Carson Snyder, commented on the topic saying “It’s useful. I don’t mind using it in some situations”.Interesting that Vocabulary.com can help broaden a student's vocabulary.
Junior student, Miseal Olmedo, stated that “Vocabulary.com has help me learn new words. It also helps when I read a novel and thanks to vocabulary.com has made it easy to understand difficult words or information”. This is great to hear about a large variety of topics than just social conversations coming from vocabulary.com.
Junior student, Lincoln Kallas, spoke on the issue expressing “It’s very useful and helps me when I read books to understand words not used often”. Looks like Vocabulary.com is pretty helpful with students, but how did one teacher find this ground breaking site?
Vocabulary is a teacher’s best tool in teaching students on how to form sentences and paragraphs, but what if teaching is not enough what are the alternates. We interviewed the main teacher of the school to understand the “hype” for the Vocabulary bowl’s success.
Buckingham English 11 teacher Ryan Price (AKA Larry Lexicon) told us about how how he started using the site “When my AP student’s took a test and failed, I wondered why they bombed. I took the test myself and it was pretty hard due to these tough vocab terms, so I decided to look up a website and that’s where I found vocab.com”. Incredible Mr. Price went the extra mile to help out his student’s improve on their vocab.
We also wanted to know what was Mr. Price’s end game on vocab and he had this to say “Student’s vocabulary is fixed when their twenty-five and they're not going to learn any more after that time. So I want my students to know vocab when they take the SAT, so when the time comes they are fully prepared.” Teachers can do a lot of work to help their students, but going out of their way to fix a minor mistake and prepare them for the next step is fantastic.
So the question remains is Vocabulary.com is useful or pointless? That question can be answered by a giant yes by students and teachers. Its great to keep education interesting and have a Vocabulary bowl to show off who is the best school out there. Vocab can be a chore to some students, but if an competition like a vocab bowl can spark excitement in students then it’s a success. Also go Buckingham on the Vocabulary Bowl!!!
Isaiah Mercado, Knightly News
Knightly News
Vocabulary.com: Useful or waste of time?
Vocabulary is important to any job no matter the requirement. Vocabulary.com was created by Michael Freedman, Marc Tinkler, and Georgia Scurletis; their goal was to make the world have better vocabulary. Vocabulary has been made to help students strengthen their skills at writing and learning. Vocabulary.com’s recent test of wits is a competition known as “Vocabulary Bowl” where schools compete to find out who can learn and master the most words in a certain amount of time. Any school can compete, but is it truly beneficial to a student’s vocabulary or is it just there to make a statement of who is the smarter school? We have interviewed students at Buckingham Charter High School to get their feedback on the issue.
Vocab is simple to teach, but can be simple to use as well? Junior student, Carson Snyder, commented on the topic saying “It’s useful. I don’t mind using it in some situations”.Interesting that Vocabulary.com can help broaden a student's vocabulary.
Junior student, Miseal Olmedo, stated that “Vocabulary.com has help me learn new words. It also helps when I read a novel and thanks to vocabulary.com has made it easy to understand difficult words or information”. This is great to hear about a large variety of topics than just social conversations coming from vocabulary.com.
Junior student, Lincoln Kallas, spoke on the issue expressing “It’s very useful and helps me when I read books to understand words not used often”. Looks like Vocabulary.com is pretty helpful with students, but how did one teacher find this ground breaking site?
Vocabulary is a teacher’s best tool in teaching students on how to form sentences and paragraphs, but what if teaching is not enough what are the alternates. We interviewed the main teacher of the school to understand the “hype” for the Vocabulary bowl’s success.
Buckingham English 11 teacher Ryan Price (AKA Larry Lexicon) told us about how how he started using the site “When my AP student’s took a test and failed, I wondered why they bombed. I took the test myself and it was pretty hard due to these tough vocab terms, so I decided to look up a website and that’s where I found vocab.com”. Incredible Mr. Price went the extra mile to help out his student’s improve on their vocab.
We also wanted to know what was Mr. Price’s end game on vocab and he had this to say “Student’s vocabulary is fixed when their twenty-five and they're not going to learn any more after that time. So I want my students to know vocab when they take the SAT, so when the time comes they are fully prepared.” Teachers can do a lot of work to help their students, but going out of their way to fix a minor mistake and prepare them for the next step is fantastic.
So the question remains is Vocabulary.com is useful or pointless? That question can be answered by a giant yes by students and teachers. Its great to keep education interesting and have a Vocabulary bowl to show off who is the best school out there. Vocab can be a chore to some students, but if an competition like a vocab bowl can spark excitement in students then it’s a success. Also go Buckingham on the Vocabulary Bowl!!!
Isaiah Mercado, Knightly News