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  • Eugenia Elgorria

    For many years, our high school has had a solid French program. This year Eugenia Elgorria plans to continue with the tradition by providing students with vast opportunities to keep growing their interest for the french language and culture. This is her 18th year teaching with a Master’s degree in marketing, international business, spanish literature and linguistics with two credentials for French and Spanish. From biking to attending family events Ms. Elgorria plans to have a great time teaching the french language and culture. The Poly pride has surprised Ms. Elgorria by sharing positive attitude, respect and lots of kindness.

  • Just Do It.

    By: Jeremiah Jones

    My opinion on the Nike commercial starring Colin Kaepernick was dope, especially with everything that happened with Kaepernick when he protested. Him doing the Nike commercial was a good look on Nike as well as Kaepernick. If you haven’t seen the commercial it is about never giving up & just doin’ it.  It started off with a skateboarder falling off a rail, then a child with no legs on a wrestling mat, to a black boy who couldn’t be older than 10 years old running down a dirt road with a young shadowboxing woman wearing hijab, and lastly a Pop Warner football game and a blond girl playing high school football against boys.

    Everything they showed in the commercial symbolizes “don’t give up” , don’t worry about what people think. This commercial in my opinion, represents a lot of people that have opinions like Kaepernick and give praise to Nike for giving him this spotlight to speak his mind. However, some people didn’t like what Nike did.  They started to burn their merchandise and stop supporting them just because of this commercial. Long story short, he wanted to make a powerful point and message, and he did. The video ended with him saying, “It’s only crazy until you do it. Just do it.” So the message of today is “JUST DO IT”.

     

    By: John Dy

    The Nike product-burning is moronic for a number of reasons.

    People can feel how they want to feel about the ad and Kaepernick kneeling during the national anthem. Some feel it’s disrespectful to the country or to the troops, sure. Whatever. People care about their country and don’t want it to be disrespected; alright, that’s fair. Be upset about it and voice your opinion; that’s what the first amendment is for. But burning Nike’s products and putting the videos up on the internet is just idiotic. The controversy they’re stirring up is just giving Nike more publicity, free advertising. Their sales have gone up 31% since the Kaepernick ad aired, despite all the outrage and protesters. The shoe-burning ain’t doing squat to stop Nike. And why now do they wanna protest Nike? They could tolerate the 5 year old Chinese kids working the sweatshops, but now that Nike puts some football player in an ad, this is the time to protest? Inconceivable. And burning the shoes can’t be good for their air. Burning all that rubber and other toxic materials is spitting in the face of Mother Earth, slowly killing our home, their home.

  • Margo Adkins-Jackson

    After traveling around the world from home town San Diego to South Korea, Australia, England, Thailand, Singapore, and over 38 States in the United States Dr. Margo Adkins-Jackson has made a stop at Long Beach Polytechnic High School this year as an Assistant Principal. The USC alumni, previously was at Wilson High School counseling and supporting students academically, emotionally, and socially as an Assistant Principal. As the new school year begins Dr. Jackson is here to help students attain,decide, and achieve their future goals like entering the workforce, the military, or going to college. To the Poly family, she is here to help anyone in anything.

  • Jason West

    This year Poly High School has hired Jason West as the Advanced Placement coordinator to aid teachers and students on their AP journey. Jason West has opened his room,132, for all AP students who are in need of guidance, those who wish to sign up for tutoring sessions, or need help organizing study groups. West has an entire cart full of supplies available to help AP students during the entire AP process from homework to getting the results back. Previously, he was a T.V. comedian writer for famous shows such as Family Guy and American Dad, until twelve years ago when he discovered a passion for teaching students. If you ever need a helpful hand or a nice cup of tea, bring a mug and come talk to the new AP Coordinator.

  • The “Dedicated to You” Dance Show a Success!

    The Dedicated to You spring dance show took place on both the 19th and 20th of April 2018. The show was in the Poly High School Auditorium and lasted for two hours. This spring show consisted of all dance levels and classes.

     

    “The Dedicated to You spring dance show was a really fun experience.” Said proud PACE junior and dance team member, Sandra Rosas “Each dance was choreographed in a special way for a special someone. Before certain dances, the choreographers explained to the audience who their dance was dedicated to,” Sandra, personally took part in several of the choreographed dances.

     

    “I’m in tech, which is dance 7-8 and we performed about 4 songs. We also  performed Snap your fingers, which is a jazz song. It was a lot of fun, it took all of us about a month and two weeks to practice and perfect it.” Said junior Jessica Perez ”It was my first time ever performing so I was a little nervous, but practice makes perfect! I was a little sad when it was over, because it was a lot of fun performing with the other girls. Since I’m taking more AP classes, I unfortunately, won’t take dance again next year, but it was super fun,” She broke down the process of the dance and show as a whole as well as sharing her thoughts on dance class in general.

     

    “By the end, everyone was happy the show was such a success! I was so happy to dance alongside my friends, especially my senior friends. It was sort of a way to say goodbye before they graduate. It was also a great way to end off the year before the senior show,” said Sandra for the end of the dance show. The next upcoming show will be the Senior show with open auditions in about six weeks.

  • Is A Rivalry Blooming?

     

    Long Beach Poly’s softball team faces the Millikan Ram on May 3. Poly’s team lost against the Millikan Rams by a score of 15-3 on April 10. Last year, the Jackrabbits were able to defeat the Rams once and the Rams were also able to take a victory as well. These back and forth victories have created a potential rivalry between both teams, making this upcoming game very interesting for the Jackrabbits.

    This season has been very tumultuous for Jackrabbits, but Coach Elizabeth Sanches is both proud of and thankful for all of her athletes. Coach Sanches says, “I have a great group of girls, they have an accumulative GPA of over 3.5, they get their job done both in the classroom and on the field, and work very hard.” Coach Sanches is also very cognizant of her team’s needs. With 19 players of the roster she makes sure to, “manipulate the line up to get as many girls in as I can each game.”

    Coach Sanches is also bringing a new culture to the team. She wants to team to have a strong “fellowship”. “To celebrate the seniors on the team and the sport they all love to play.”

  • Moore League More Streaks

    On Friday, April 20th our girls swim team won against one of our biggest rivals; Wilson High School. Fernanda Garcia said, “Going into the meet it was super intense. Me being a freshman and all you hear the stories of the rival between Poly and Wilson.” Fernanda explains that she was scared but overcame her fears because her team’s goal was to do their best.

    They started off the meet with an amazing fr/soph medley relay. Freshman Aaron P. started the meet off with an impressive time of 26 seconds on the first event (Medley Relay).

    Anja Oca said, “I was so happy for our fr/soph team, I want all our girls to do great, but there was this one freshman, they call her ‘Aaron P.’ she really pulled ahead at the last second and was able to out touch the Wilson girl.” She explains that this was a great start and it really helped pump all the girls up and “raise the hype” of the crowd.

    Poly ended up taking the lead and won 105-51. Georgia Buffington said, “I was really proud of us, our girls for having an awesome meet. We put our all into it, won by a lot, and we kept our sportsmanship, so did Wilson.” This was the first year Poly’s girls JV team has ever beat Wilson making it another memorable meet.

    Moore League will be on Thursday, May 3 and our scholars and champions seemed to be ready. “I’m really excited for Moore League, I think we are going to do really great with our strong team. The good thing is we have wiggle room for the different events. Hopefully I reach my goal of winning the 100 free.”

    Tides are running high as Poly Swim approaches the Moore League Championship. Yesterday the girls held their own in prelims against a “very determined Wilson team,” said Kalani Caldwell, head coach of girls swim. They are “sitting in a good spot to win Moore League,” which would make it the “first time in history that Poly has won 3 years in a row.” All-star swimmers like senior Anja Oca are hoping to break Moore League records this year. Yesterday she broke the meet record with a 100 Fly time of 56.42. For non-swimmers, that means that she swam 100 meters in well under a minute. She is hoping to cut that time by more than a second for the finals. Other swimmers, like sophomore Erin Babbit, have shown amazing improvement on the road to Moore League. In prelims she dropped a whopping 7 seconds in her 200 IM and 5 seconds in the 500 Free to place in finals for both events. Quoting Kalani, “Those are the hardest events to swim!”. Boys Swim is not doing too shabby either. Swimmers like Christopher Correa, with a 50 Free time on a mere 21.91 seconds, show that there is a lot of potential for Poly to reel in a historic Moore League victory. Last year Poly Swim was the first Moore League boys team to beat Wilson in a dual meet since 1972, but were unable to secure the Moore League victory. WIth the progress our boys team has been making over the past few years, it is a definite possibility that they will be able to defeat Wilson and end their 44 year winning streak!Isabel 

  • The Signs as Flowers

    Aries: Ivy

    Taurus: Orchid

    Gemini: Roses

    Cancer: Hibiscus

    Leo: Sunflower

    Virgo: Violets

    Libra: Marigold

    Scorpio: Poppies

    Sagittarius: Dandelion

    Capricorn: Lotus flower

    Aquarius: Water Lilies

    Pisces: Hydrangea

  • A Storm is Blowing into Poly’s Playhouse

    Thursday, May 3 at 6:30pm and Friday, May 4 at 3:00 pm and 6:30pm Poly theatre will presenting their version of William Shakespeare’s romantic comedy The Tempest.

        Students from all grades practiced for months to perfect this timeless classic. The story follows Ferdinand and a group of men lost at sea who end up washed up on an island. The island is already inhabited by Miranda and her father Prospero, who once was Duke of Milan is now the magical ruler of the island.

        The performances will cost $3 for ASB members and PARTS students $5 for students and $10 for adults.

  • Play It Again, Poly

      Poly High’s Piano Recital took place during April 24, 25, and the 26. Students played pieces recognizable to all audiences like Dreaming of You. They also played classic romantic pieces such as Valse Romantique, performed by Megan Heng. The song was originally written in 1890 as a solo piece by French composer, Claude Debussy. Melissa Martinez played Renesmee’s Lullaby, which was originally written by Carter Burwell for the score of The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn part II.

     

        Junior Anahi Vega played Mia and Sebastian’s Theme from “La La Land”. After playing the piano for nearly 3 years, Vega is able to pick up and memorize music quickly, “It took me about a month to memorize this piece. I still messed up, but it was okay.”

     

        Although memorizing sheet music is a skill Vega posses, but after all her performances, Vega still at times, lets her nerves get the better of her. “I actually hit the note I was messing up on, but I need to work on my stage fright. I look at the audience sometimes and just stop.”

    This program in a way told a story, “It started kind of sad, then went to a weird place, but it ended on a happy note.”

     

        Junior, Maya Cheav, began playing piano 9 years ago when her mother brought home a old piano from work one day. She considers music as a pastime and not her career path. She doesn’t think much about the memorization of music, although she agrees it is key when learning the piano,  “ With sheet music, it depends on the song, anywhere from a few days to a few weeks.” Cheav recently started playing Jazz and now can tell the similarities between the two styles and embrace their differences. “I’m in Jazz as well so I know how to work with the whole team instead of just solo. Classical music is about sheet music, Jazz is more about expressing yourself, both are nice in different ways.”

  • Frozen Spaghetti

    The sunset is the warning call for my supper

    I had been yearning for it all these hours

    Mum had just gone shopping

    I wonder what is in place of those frozen chimichangas

    Could that possibly be frozen spaghetti?

    Oh, why yes it is!

    I can already feel the steam

    The delicious smell of garlic tomato sauce irks my stomach to a growling

    I cannot wait five more seconds

    Ripping the hot tray out of the microwave

    The whole house is filled with the aroma of my favorite meal

    Carefully I pull back the plastic wrap

    I am not interested in cancer

  • Jeremiah Jams

    A list of songs for the summer recommendations (Hip-Hop/Rap)

    1. – Summertime in the LBC by The Dove Shack
    2. – Congratulations by Post Malone
    3. – Stir Fry by Migos
    4. – Look Alive by BloccBoy JB Ft. Drake
    5. – Pull Up by IAMJYOUNGIN
    6. – Kings Dead by Jay Rock, Kendrick Lamar, Future, James Blake