Spring 2007

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Spring 2007 Issue

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The Falcon Chronicle

Exchange teacher Ying Xia Peterson is offering an 8 week course here at Bow High which started on March 6^th and will run through May 1^st on Conversational Chinese for Beginners.

                 The class features the official language of China; Mandarin as well as Chinese writing techniques. Students are also learning about some basic aspects of Chinese culture, such as cooking and even a few Chinese children songs.

                 However, applicants must be aware that this class is not worth any credits.

Dean of Humanities Robin Steiner said the class is an enrichment course.

The conversational Chinese class is held on Tuesdays from 9:15 to 11 in the Bow High Computer Lab. The teacher, Ying Xia Peterson will also not be present at every one of these meetings.

She will probably be there the first day but, all other classes will be held online.

                 Only nine applicants were accepted into this eight week online Chinese course.

Steiner said she made the announcement first to the World Studies classes, as it ties into what they study in that class. It might sound strange to some students to offer a class without it carrying a credit.

 

This was certainly the case for Bow High freshman Atticus Swett who at first had great interest in the class said, “I think it’s a very useful language especially, in today’s business world.”

When Swett learned the class was not for a credit he said, “It would be a great experience but, without a credit I don’t think I’d have the time.”

However, some students at Bow High School do have the time for this class. One of those students is Sophomore Portia Corsetti.

When asked why she wanted to take this Conversational Chinese Course she said, “I plan to major in international relations and so I am inundating myself in as many cultures as possible.”                Portia said she would probably take a full year course of Chinese if it fits into her curricular schedule here at Bow High School.

This online conversational Chinese course is also more than just an enrichment class. This class is part of an effort to gauge the student body’s interest in the Chinese language and depending on the success of the class a full year Chinese course may be offered in the future.

This Chinese language enrichment course is also an attempt to start an exchange program with Chinese students.

New course, new culture

Chinese language brought to BHS

By:  Alex Violo

Here at Bow High School there is an issue with time, so much so it’s almost like we are in our own time zone. Not long ago school clocks were set about five minutes fast. Now, after the clocks have been moved ahead one hour, the clocks at BHS seem to be set to the proper time.

According to Assistant Principal Gay Longnecker, every time change the main system controlling class bells is corrected to normal Eastern Standard Time. Yet, as time passes, the clocks seem to move ahead.

“It’s something cosmic, it’s bigger than I am, I am forced now to bow down to its force,” Longnecker said.

School students and teachers alike need to adapt their daily schedules around the difference. To some the difference in time poses more issues than others. 

“It throws everything off,” Guidance counselor Colleen DesRuisseaux said. “It’s 7:25 AM in real life but it’s 7:30 at BHS.”

For DesRuisseaux the time difference means getting her kids off to daycare and getting out the door well before 7 a.m.

Many myths are circulating about reasons for Bow standard time. Some say the school changes the time for a matter of prestige.

  “We want to feel special,” Senior Jon Dugas said.

One student said he believes we are trying to create our own nation-state.

“We will slowly get faster and faster. We are just trying to separate from the union.” Senior Zakk Wedemeyer.

By:  Nathan  Burbank

Tick-Tock for Bow High 

Bow School District Superintendent Kathy Holt will pass her position on to Dean Cascadden.

Holt will leave the district June 30 to become the part-time Superintendent of Alton School District.

Holt said she has many memories from working in Bow.

“It’s been awesome,” Holt said. “This is a great district.”

Principal John House-Myers said Holt will be missed.

 

Cascadden to head district

 

By:  Elle Bascom and Kelly Ryan

He also said  he has been “grateful for the opportunity to work with gifted educators like Ms. Holt.”

“Holt has made a positive impact on student individuals and in the Bow Community,” House-Myers said.

House-Myers said, “Welcomes Cascadden with enthusiasm and wishes him the best in his endeavors with our schools.”

Cascadden comes to Bow from White Mountains Regional School District.

Members of the Bow Fire and Police Department lend a hand at the Seatbelt

Challenge last Wednesday.                                                             Photo by; Craig Beaulac