SJHS News

Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer
Over the past few weeks, students in Mrs. Mary Rice’s honors English class have been working hard to create there very own renditions of a “Faustian Bargain.”
In the story Dr. Faustus a very intelligent scholar sells his soul to the devil and in return, the devil grants the man his every wish [...]

NCTE Publicity
Mary Rice of Springville Junior High was recently appointed to serve as State Coordinator of the Achievement Awards in Writing Program for the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE).
The NCTE Achievement Awards in Writing competition is open to juniors in high school and recognizes writing excellence based on the students’ samples of their [...]

Bailey Penrose reading War of the Worlds in Mrs. Rice’s 8th grade English class.
Christopher Taylor
SJHS Staff Writer
Out of all the different genres in reading, science fiction is one of the largest. Stories from this genre can contain anything from time travel and stories about the future to alien invaders.  Many of these stories were inspired [...]

Morgan Bowser
SJHS Staff Writer
What is it that girls can’t wait for any longer? It’s New Moon. Many girls have been anticipating the release of New Moon, the second of four movies in the Twilight Saga.
Mrs. Mary Rice, an English teacher at SJHS, said she got into the series when a friend told her that Stephanie [...]

Mrs. Rice’s students prepare for a group discussion.
Hayde Blanco
SJHS Staff Writer
Do you remember those essays you had to do when you were in school? Well writing here at Springville Junior High isn’t too hard to find. Especially for those students who would like to have a better understanding and were brave enough to take Honors [...]

Mrs. Rice teaching her sixth period class.
Jose Martinez
SJHS Staff Writer
For years, many families from Latin America have arrived to the U.S. searching for work, education, and freedom from oppression, poverty, and at times Communism in the case of Cuba. So many are not able to speak English, but at Springville Junior High School, English and [...]

Jacob Simmons
SJHS Staff Writer
At Springville Junior High School, room 54 is full of astute thinkers reading advanced books. The eighth grade students of Mrs. Mary Rice’s class have been reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Masque of the Red Death” and “The Black Cat.”
“We used this text as an opportunity to learn vocabulary and also to [...]

Mr. Mikesell is one of the English teachers who supervises the after school writing lab at Springville Junior High.
Cody Woolsey
SJHS Staff Writer
Most students at Springville Junior High have not yet heard of the important news – there is an after school writing lab for students. Students can use this writing lab to finish assignments on [...]

SJHS student Delon Lier shows off the origami airplane he made in math.
KresLynn Knouse
SJHS Staff Writer
Although end of level testing has been winding down, classes have not stopped just yet. Every teacher at Springville Junior High has been coming up with creative ideas on how to end the year with some interesting assignments.
Mrs. Corrin Gleave, [...]

Madie Dockstader
SJHS Staff Writer
To improve mobility for Springville and Mapleton, the Utah Department of Transportation is expanding 400 South in Springville from I-15 to Main Street. Construction began in the summer of 2008 and the major construction activities will be complete, and the roadway will open in the fall of this year. The whole project [...]

Jantzen Dalley
SJHS Staff Writer
Honors English is a more advanced English class in which students are prepared to expand their thinking in new ways.
To qualify for Honors English, you need to be recommended by your English teacher, a community member that is not a relative, and a current honors student. Mrs. Mary Rice, Honors English teacher [...]

Ria Swapp
SJHS Staff Writer
When trying to pick out a good teacher, you may ask yourself: what has this person done to help me learn? Well, with Mrs. Mary Rice of Springville Junior High, you should be able to answer that question easily.
Mrs. Rice and her nearly six years of teaching at SJHS has given many [...]

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KresLynn Knouse
SJHS Staff Writer
For some students at Springville Junior High, bringing a USB drive to school has become routine. USB drives are a convenient way to transport material from one place to another, but this convenience has also recently proved to cause an epidemic.
“The virus was most likely caused by students bringing USB drives to [...]

Kara Dunn
SJHS Staff Writer
Schools around the US have put together a competition in which students who wish to participate may take part in the school’s mock trial team. According to Mrs. Rice, one of the teachers involved in the mock trial, ever since 1980, a volunteer attorney writes out a legal case involving issues that [...]

Brooke Caswell
SJHS Staff Writer
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to speak English as a second language? It is difficult to communicate with the teachers and learn the information presented in class for those students who speak other languages. This year Ms. Josie Jarvis, Mrs. Lise Carpenter and Mr. Trent Mikesell, teachers at [...]