By: Mallory St. Claire <mstclaire@hilite.org> Sometime in my hectic summer flurry, I was carted off by the family to a weeklong vacation in the Virgin Islands. More specifically, we beached ourselves on the island of St. Croix. I can’t complain. I was out on the beach everyday sipping virgin piña coladas and staring out at [...]
Continue reading …By: Meher Hamad <mhamad@hilite.org> AP Biology teacher Thomas Maxam has more hobbies than you can imagine one person to have. He collects vintage motorcycles, races motorboats, bikes on both dirt trails and roads and flies remote control airplanes to name a few. If that isn’t cool enough, Maxam rides a motorcycle to school almost every [...]
Continue reading …By: Maria Lamagna <mlamagna@hilite.org> Future lawyers, doctors, artists or businesspeople beware. If you read The Essential 55 by award-winning teacher Ron Clark, you may want to become one yourself. The book is a manual of sorts, a list of 55 expectations that Clark has for the students in his fifth-grade classes. Each rule is explained [...]
Continue reading …By: Min Qiao <mqiao@hilite.org> At some point in our lives, all of us have been faced with ethical dilemmas where we have to choose between doing the right thing and compromising our morals to gain the upper hand. “Emperor’s Club” is a movie based on Ethan Canin’s short story “The Palace Thief” that conveys the [...]
Continue reading …Find out more about the National Merit Semifinalists and read their bios. By: Jaclyn Chen <jchen@hilite.org> After scoring well on the PSAT sophomore year, senior Kelsey Collins said she decided to take the exam a bit more seriously her junior year. She said she took a practice test and got a good night’s rest. Her [...]
Continue reading …By: Michael Wang <mwang@hilite.org> I still remember clearly my sixth grade social studies teacher who taught in an abstract random way. The problem was I know with absolute certainty that I am a concrete sequential student. I was extremely out of my comfort zone during the first several weeks, because he would let us have [...]
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