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Author Archives: Steven Zou
Apr
9
2012
Summer Reading Challange came with a Blast
An orphaned boy living on dirty streets. A surprise terrorist attack. An out of control government. A drug chef’s girl that has to take care of her family. A real life evil dictator. A famous boxer. An immortal human that saves humanity. These are some of the things students at CHS will be reading about [...]
Charles Dickens Classic Classic book Clayton High School Clayton High School Libary Contemporary Fiction Cory Doctorow Daniel Woodrell David Remnick Dystopian Emily Grady Great Expectations In the Time of the Butterflies John Burroughs Julia Alvarez King of the world: Muhammad Ali and the Rise of an American Hero Little Brother Mary Insistute County Day School MICDS Non-Fiction Pip Reading Ideas for Summer Rebecca Skloot Ree Dolly Saint Louis County Libary slcl slcl.org Slideshow Steven Zou Summer fun reading Summer good reads The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks Winter's Bone World Literature Young Adult Fiction
Dec
14
2011
Emerson Award for Darlene Castelli
It is a special honor for a teacher to be nominated for an award. It is even more special to win an award. For Darlene Castelli, the recipient of the Emerson Excellence in Teaching Award, this is her special moment. Castelli has taught at CHS for four years as a reading specialist, 11 years in [...]
Apr
13
2011
Filling in the blanks: Rebecca Taylor
I became a teacher because… I got really lucky. My mother was a teacher, and I never really thought about it, but I am very fortunate because I really like teenagers. I also really like reading and writing and really like being at Clayton High School. I am just really lucky. I thought of being [...]
Mar
16
2011
In the Saddle
Most people have heard of horseback riding or just seen it on the Olympics. Well, substitute coordinator Meg Flach and English teacher Deana Tennill not only ride horses, they race them. But they have gone in separate ways as Flach mainly focuses on English horse riding while Tennill focuses on western cowboy horseracing and doing [...]
Most people in America have to wait nine months to get a new addition to their family, but business teacher Marci Boland added someone to her family in just a matter of days. She got a better deal by taking a foreign exchange student in to her family. Last summer, Boland received an email about [...]
I became a teacher because… When I went to college, I went to be an engineer because when I was I high school, any girls who were good at math and science went to engineering school. I spent all my time tutoring people in the engineering school in physics and calculus, and everybody kept saying [...]
Nov
26
2010
Top Ten Holiday Movies
The winter holiday season can be a time of gift giving, family gathering and also movie watching. People in America have their favorite movies for the holiday, but here are the top ten holiday movies chosen by CHS students in a recent poll. 1: Home Alone On the top of the list is “Home Alone.” [...]
Oct
18
2010
Harry Potter Club
About two years ago, the popular Harry Potter Club was disbanded. All hope was lost since no one wanted to be in charge of it. Recently, Junior Maria Massad has brought the Harry Potter Club back to life. Massad, the president of the club, restarted the club for many reasons. “I have always been passionate [...]
After a long and eager year of waiting, the third and final book of the “Hunger Games” series, “Mocking Jay”, was released at midnight Aug. 24, 2010. According to “USA Today,” Collins’s “Hunger Games” series is set in a future dictatorship in North America, where there are districts instead of states. Every year, each district [...]
