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Students, English teacher evaluate the role of technology in literacy

Keira Kress and Abigail Lee • March 21, 2025

Belevie. Beleve. Beli. Believe. Autocorrect will take over before the backspace is even pressed. The tool has taken over the keyboard, with red and blue underlines correcting mistakes before anyone can...

AI like ChatGPT comes with benefits, drawbacks

Jenny Li • March 7, 2023

ChatGPT, a natural language processing tool driven by AI technology, launched on Nov. 30, 2022. This technology allows you to have human-like conversations and much more with a chatbot, leading to...

Short Story Playlist: Long Story Short [MUSE]

Grace Xu • May 18, 2021

Someone, somewhere, has designated May as "Get Caught Reading Month." This fact is mostly an excuse for me to once again indulge in my not-so-secret plan to turn MUSE into a reading blog, but since it's...

Staff Editorial: CHS has replaced English 11 with variety of new English course options, providing students with opportunities

HiLite Staff • January 11, 2021

The English course options for upperclassmen have undergone several major changes, as English 11 has been removed, new core classes have been added, and several English classes that were previously electives...

CHS English department expands 2021-2022 course options for juniors and seniors, plans to diversify curriculum

Ally Horwitz • November 15, 2020

Next school year, 2021-2022, CHS will offer new courses focused on specific areas of literature for incoming juniors and seniors. In every course, the English department will change its curriculum for...

School board approves English department’s proposed new courses for next year

Archit Kalra • October 28, 2020

The English department’s proposed new courses for the 2021-2022 school year were approved on Monday by the school board, as per English department chairperson Kimberly Walker. According to Walker, the...

English Department’s proposed curriculum changes for 2021-2022 school year now pending school board approval

Archit Kalra • October 8, 2020

The school board will now consider the English Department’s proposed changes to the curriculum covered in various classes for next year, as per Kimberly Walker, the English Department chair. “The...

English Department to modify curriculum due to new situations posed by virtual, hybrid learning environments

Archit Kalra • September 16, 2020

English teachers will collaborate to modify the curriculum covered in each class this year, as per English teacher Christine Ellis. “The new school policies have made it more difficult to form relationships...

Student poets, English teacher strive to make poetry more accessible

Sam Hawkins • March 20, 2020

For any student of Jason ElRite, ninth grade English teacher, poetry is a regular part of his routine. Every week, he gives his students a prompt, on which they must base a poem. At the beginning of the...

CHS removes communication course graduation requirement beginning 2020-2021 school year

Rhea Acharya • February 21, 2020

CHS will drop the current speech and debate graduation requirement beginning next school year, according to Assistant Principal Valerie Piehl. Piehl said this requirement has...

Next year’s English curriculum to incoporate more freedom of choice in literature

Kassandra Darnell • February 21, 2020

Starting in the 2020-21 school year, the school board plans to implement a more diverse English curriculum throughout the district. This curriculum will expand the type of literature students...

With World Humanitarian Day on Aug. 19, students reflect on experiences helping communities in need

Natalie Khamis • August 13, 2019

Once a week throughout his sophomore year, senior William “Will” Pugh would set aside his homework for an hour or two and log onto his computer. A few moments later, a group of excited children from...

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