Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer

Seventh graders at SJHS skipped school on February 5th and spend a day acting as an adult for Job Shadow Day.  Job Shadow Day is a day where the seventh graders spend a day with someone who has a job and learns about that job.

Ms. Josie Jarvis, CTE teacher at Springville Junior High, said, “Job Shadow Day is really beneficial because students get the opportunity to spend the whole day observing a specific job that they may be interested in. We want students to get thinking about a career path, so they can explore different paths before they head down a certain career path.”

Some students that went on their Job Shadow expedition had an interest in the job. Sarah Muir, a seventh grader who went to a massage clinic with her grandmother, was one of these students who had an interest in the job. “I really enjoyed it, I learned a lot and I’ve wanted to be a massage therapist for a long time,” she explained.

Other students discovered that they had no interest in the job they shadowed. Courtney O’Halloran, another seventh grader, enjoyed her experience at the BYU bookstore, but didn’t have an interest in perusing it as a career. “I had a lot of fun, but I want to be a chemist when I grow up.”

Lots of students at Springville Junior High participated in Job Shadow Day. Ms. Jarvis said that about 98% of her students were gone on Job Shadow Day.

For some students, finding and keeping a job isn’t something they’re particularly concerned about, seeing as their only in seventh grade. But as time goes by, it tends to speed up and the time flies by. Now is the time for students at Springville Junior High to be thinking about a career path they want to take.

Mr. Robbins reading to his students.

Sarah Jensen
SJHS Staff Writer

Did you ever write an autobiography? The students in Mr. Steven Robbins’ class are writing one right now. Mr. Robbins has been teaching English and doing these autobiographies since 1990.  However, he took eight years off to teach Geography. “My favorite thing about having my students write these essays is watching students get into writing them,” said Mr. Robbins.

Mr. Robbins teaches seventh-grade English. Haylee Duncan, a seventh grader at SJHS in Mr. Robbins’ class, said, “In class we read, do journal entries, he reads to us, and lots more!” There are seven chapters in the autobiography. The first chapter is called “What about Grandma and Grandpa?” The first chapter is about the students’ grandparents. The students have about two to three weeks to write an at least one full page typed or one-half very neatly written single-spaced pages. Mr. Robbins gives the students a guide so they are not writing it all on their own. The guide helps them to make sure they have everything they need.

Chapter two is called “How My Parents Met.” The students in Mr. Robbins’ class have not gotten this assignment yet, however, it will be assigned to them soon. This essay needs to include when and how they became engaged, when and where they were married, who performed the marriage, about the reception and more. “The parents essay will be due sometime in January,” said Mr. Robbins.

Following chapters focus on later parts of the students’ lives.  The last chapter is called “Who am I?”  This essay need to have the students describe themselves and include their feelings about life, values, hopes, goals, things most important to them.

There is another part it is not a whole essay, it is an epilogue. It needs to be hand written and should be addressed to future generations. Include the students’ plans for the future and it needs to be signed and dated at the end. Mr. Robbins’s classes are going to write an interesting autobiography. Mr. Robbins hopes they enjoy writing it.

Seventh graders in Ms. Neeley’s English class sharing their poetry.

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer

When most students think of English, they think of reading books, writing essays, and doing reports. However, in Ms. Rachel Neeley’s class, poetry is their focus right now.

“I love poetry; it’s like the artistic side to English,” Celeborn Stringham, a seventh grade student in Ms. Neeley’s class, explained.

“I love teaching poetry.” Ms. Neeley explained, “It allows students to be creative, poetry is also lots of fun because it’s a very different type of writing. I hope that students learn how to use figurative language effectively in their writing. I also hope that students gain an appreciation for poetry.”

Students in Ms. Neeley’s class write poetry and then turn it into her for her edit and advice. She explained that reading the poems her students write was her favorite part of the poetry unit. “I’m always so impressed with that my students write,” she explained.

Not everyone is good at the same things. Some students prefer other language arts activities, while others love writing poetry. “Teaching poetry allows some students to shine.” Ms. Neeley said, “It’s fun to try new things, even if you’re not good at them.”

The journalism class taking a break from writing articles in the library computer lab.  Left to right:  Spencer Duncan, Jack Setzer, Hayde Blanco, Sarah Jensen, Katya Wagstaff, Ms. Miley, Kaleb Barnum, Cody Woolsey, Andrew Garza, Christopher Taylor and Jacob DeRosia.

Chelsea Ricks
SJHS Staff Writer

Ms. Tiffanie Miley teaches seventh grade Language Arts, Reading for Enjoyment, and the Journalism class at SJHS; she is a very busy teacher! Ms. Miley decided to become teacher because of her good teachers in high school. She enjoyed to reading so decided to teach English. She loves coming to work everyday, and considers herself lucky to have a job she enjoys.

This is Ms. Miley’s eleventh year at SJHS, and she chose to teach here because, “There are so many good kids at the junior high!” Morgan Bowser, a student in Ms. Miley’s class, thinks that she is a nice teacher and is very patient. Max Schreiner, another student that has Ms. Miley, thinks she has “good teaching strategies and she also is very helpful.”

Ms. Miley likes teaching Language Arts because, “We get to read fun books together and the seventh graders are very easy to like.” Ms. Miley helps her students learn reading strategies and better writing techniques.

She enjoys journalism because the students are very “self motivated.” In journalism the students write about things that are going on at our school, Springville Junior High. If the article, meets all of the expectations the students ave the opportunity to be published in the Springville Herald Newspaper.

The Reading for Enjoyment class reads their own books. They then discuss the different books they are reading and what they enjoy about them. Ms. Miley, with all those classes, is a great teacher in all of them!

Mr. Miksell teaching his 7th grade English class.

Christopher Taylor
SJHS Staff Writer

Have you ever found it hard to tell someone that you appreciate them?  Seventh grade students in Mr. Trent Mikesell’s class at Springville Junior High recently did this by writing character sketches.  According to Mr. Mikesell, kids chose someone they admire, usually in their family, and wrote about their “appearance, actions, thoughts and feelings, even their speech.” They typed them in the computer lab. They printed the character sketches out and gave them to the person they wrote about.

Many students enjoyed this activity, and are excited to see the person when they get their character sketch.  Sean Tedrow, a student in Mr. Mikesell’s class, wrote about his brother Chandler. He said, “I wrote about him because he is my favorite brother, and he’s awesome!” He thinks his brother will be very excited to read his character sketch.  According to Caitlin Dinkel, another seventh grade student in Mr. Mikesell’s class, all the people who get character sketches will be happy to see that the authors appreciate them.  As a bonus, the authors will become better at describing people when they write.

Mr. Dahl teaching his seventh grade science class.

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Cody Woolsey
SJHS Staff Writer

Mr. Sam Dahl is the newest, and maybe the most unique science teacher here at Springville Junior High. He started teaching this year and students are already buzzing about him. “He understands us,” says Kallie Whitby, a seventh grader at Springville Junior High, “He knows how to teach us right.” This is only one of the many testimonials of what a great teacher Mr. Dahl is.

Mr. Dahl says his favorite part of teaching is “Making my students lives completely miserable! Nothing brings me more pleasure than when I hear my students say ‘Mr. Dahl you are the meanest teacher in the world,’” although he is kidding, this quote tells a lot about his teaching style, and how he likes to joke around and have fun.

His students say he is one of the coolest, laid back, fun teachers at Springville Junior High. Comments about him range from “he is the best!” to “you rock Mr. Dahl!” For a new teacher who has only been teaching for 21 days, he has already taken on an incredible reputation at Springville Junior High.

“I realized at a very young age that if I could gain a position of power and authority over other people, I could work my way up the ladder until I eventually ruled the entire world. So teaching is just the beginning for me,” explained Mr. Dahl, and again he was of course kidding.

According to his students, he teaches his subject very well and keeps things entertaining for the kids, but he also knows that the kids must learn and makes them take notes. Here’s what Sarah Muir, a seventh grader at Springville Junior High, thinks about Mr. Dahl’s teaching method: “He helps me get science in a fun way, and he just ROCKS!”

Mr. Dahl has already adopted quite a reputation here at Springville Junior High. Maybe he actually might fulfill his lifelong dream and take over the world!

New seventh graders Camilla Dunn, Peggy Sorenson and Sean Tedrow

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Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer

With the new school year starting to pick up speed, Springville Junior High is excited to get to know and teach the new seventh graders. The new seventh graders are also excited to get to know the school a little better and begin their classes. “It’s kind of scary, but fun because you get to try something new!” Peggy Sorenson, a seventh grader at Springville Junior High, explained.

Mr. Shaun Blakey, the seventh grade counselor at SJHS, told us what he thought about getting to work with the new seventh graders. “I’m looking forward to getting to know them this year, and the next two years.” He went onto say, “I expect great things from this group. They are helpful and seem to really look out for one another.”

“Everyone seems really friendly,” Camilla Dunn, another seventh grade student at Springville Junior High, said. The new seventh graders are all very excited to spend the next three years of their life in halls and classrooms here at Springville Junior High and Springville Junior High faculty and students are excited to have them with us.

Jantzen Dalley
SJHS Staff Writer

The time is coming up again when school ends, and the sixth grade graduates of elementary school get registered and prepare for a whole different school experience than they had had before.

In an interview, Josh Dalley, a sixth grade soon-to-be graduate of Art City Elementary commented on how he felt about attending Springville Junior High next year, “I’m not really nervous to go to a new school next year, I just think it will take a little work getting used to the bigger school and having different class periods throughout the day.”
When asked if he is more excited about attending Springville Junior High than staying in elementary school, Josh said, “ I am more excited to attend SJHS, because it will be fun going to a new school, and having different classes throughout the day and not just one teacher.”

Keegan Taylor, an eighth grade student at Springville, also commented on the new seventh graders, “ I always like it when new seventh graders come in, because I like meeting the new kids, and making friends with them.”

Good luck to the new seventh graders next year!

Autumn Hathaway
SJHS Staff Writer

Seventh graders here at Springville Junior High are all pumped up to be becoming eighth graders next year as the year comes to a close.  At SJHS, the seventh graders are known as the “sevvies”, or in other words, the new kids at the school.  So as you could probably imagine that most of them are excited to be moving up a step higher in junior high.

Stacia Davenport, a seventh grader at SJHS, stated, “I’m looking forward to making a lot of new friends, and I’m excited for some new classes to be opening up to us!”

Eighth graders have more elective classes to choose from, such as foods, sewing, and Spanish.  They have a lot more choices in what they think they’ll be interested in the future.

Mr. Trent Mikesell, a seventh and eighth grade English teacher, stated, “Seventh grade is a really fun grade to teach.  Seventh graders have a lot of energy and most seem to enjoy school, so I will miss my classes and students; they are all outstanding in their own way.”

As you can tell, everyone is excited for another year to be over and done with.  As we all prepare for a new school year seventh and eighth graders alike are all getting pumped up to be moving to another grade, at the same school, and with different classes.

by Ethan Trunnell
SJHS Staff Writer

The seventh graders are the school’s new generation of SJHS Knights. They are not to go unnoticed in the halls after school. What is the personality of this mass of 307 students?

I interviewed seventh graders from three of the schools contributing to the population about their favorite parts of the day, as well as what their favorite classes are, and what they like about elementary more than junior high.

Science, technology, cooking, sewing, and English are all big on Cooper Fullmer’s agenda. Though he will be unable to accomplish all of this in his seventh grade year, he is looking forward to his eighth and ninth grade year with much enthusiasm.

What do these new kids think of their classes? “I like being able to learn things I hadn’t been able to before,” says Julian Sad, a seventh grader from Cherry Creek Elementary.

Many seventh graders miss elementary but are happy with the new changes. “I wish we still had recess,” says Hunter Hamberlin, a former Brookside Tiger.

Many kids like the transition more than others such as Cooper Fullmer who calls it “just better.”

Where did they all come from is a question commonly asked by the older students at SJHS. These kids came from four different schools and the last tally not including those students, who have moved, is as follows: Art City provides the bulk with 102 students. Brookside provides 85. Westside totals at 84. Cherry Creek adds 42, for a grand total of 307. This does not include those students who have moved since the beginning of the school year

These seventh graders are a big part of our school, and we would like to thank them for helping with the great atmosphere at SJHS.

by M. Dayton
SJHS Staff Writer

It’s a new year at the junior high filled with new faces. This year, like every year before, 6th graders flock from different elementary schools and from different walks of life and come together to form what the junior high 8th and 9th graders call the “seveys,” or in adult lingo, kids going into 7th grade. Their first year in junior high is crucial to how the rest of their junior high years go. According to 7th graders Max Schreiner, Aspen Miller, Griffin Park and Courtney Taylor, it’s going pretty good!

When asked what they liked about being in the seventh grade, Courtney Taylor responded right away, “Being with my friends.” Along with being with friends a definite plus of being in junior high are lockers, more lunch choices, more electives and a wide variety of teachers. Students are grateful for a change of scenery and a new beat to march to, especially because of the increased amount of freedom, and according to Aspen Miller, more interesting subjects.

Although they love it at the junior high there are a few minor complaints voiced. For instance, sports enthusiast Griffin Park wishes that they had practice for sports teams during school so after school was freed up for other things. Along with this complaint comes a small objection from Max Schreiner; when asked what he didn’t like about the junior high he simply replied “being called a sevey.” Unfortunately this is a nickname that has been around as long as dirt and will probably be around a lot longer. So with no further ado, the junior high gives a big Springville Knights welcome to the seveys!