The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!

MISCELLANEOUS
Come to the Bay Area Top 8 Track & Field Meet on Friday and Saturday. Four National Leaders will be in attendance.

Cheerleading tryouts will be held in May. Anyone who wishes to try out must have and maintain a 2.0 GPA with no Fs.

By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

Amid a tsunami of Jane Austen-based books, "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" has a unique twist: romance novel and horror flick.

Most people are aware of the original "Pride and Prejudice" either through school reading lists or recent movies. It is a classic tale of the English class, good breeding and husband-hunting centering on the Bennet family of five daughters — Jane, Elizabeth, Kitty, Mary and Lydia.


Fewer people may be aficionados of the zombie genre. A zombie is an animated corpse. Here, zombies are ravenous brain-munching, rotting "Unmentionables" that travel in packs, attack coaches, milkmaids, kitchen staffs, and the occasional aristocratic ball room.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

All students will perform at grade level in core academic subjects according to the new District Goal formally approved Tuesday night by the Board of Education.

The Board also approved two Superintendent’s Goals: 1) to create a set of Planning Policies, including vision, philosophy, District goals and comprehensive plans; and 2) to create a Comprehensive Planning Framework including a systemic theory of action to guide all District work in answering three questions regarding student performance:
• Where are we?
• Where do we need to be?
• What will get us there?

By Jessica Stewart, Courier Editor-in-Chief

”Standing, she scanned the ruined lawns, the sagging fences, the sad old barn that stood soot gray and scarred from weather. There had been chickens once--or so she’d been told--a couple of pretty horses, tidy fields of crops, a small, thriving grove of fruit trees. She wanted to believe--maybe needed to believe--she could bring all that back. That by the next spring, and all the springs after, she could stand here and look at the budding, the blooming, the business of what had been her grandmother’s.

Of what was now hers.”

Unfortunately, bringing her grandmother’s house back to life will also bring back to life a hatred that has been buried for decades. This is a fantastic book. Nora Roberts does a beautiful job of combining romance and mystery, reality and imagination, character development and plot. It is the perfect length, not so short that it skimps on details and not so long that it bores the reader. It has a satisfying conclusion that ties up all of the loose ends. I was not left wanting more of the story, but I was definitely left wanting more of Roberts’s books.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

Full-day kindergarten, successfully implemented at four New Haven Unified School District elementary schools during the past two years, will be in place at Searles Elementary in 2009-10, Superintendent Kari McVeigh announced today.

Acting on studies showing that full-day kindergarten can lead to increased student achievement and accelerated behavioral and social development, the District instituted full-day kindergarten as a pilot program at Pioneer Elementary in 2007-08. Three other schools – Alvarado Elementary, Hillview Crest Elementary and Kitayama Elementary – implemented it in 2008-09.

From wikipedia:
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (April 22 in Richmond, Virginia , 1873-November 21, 1945 in Richmond, Virginia) was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia.

Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. Her own education had been rudimentary, a fact Glasgow compensated for by reading widely. Today, her novels are regarded as more than just depictions of life in the Southern United States.

Read The Ancient Law by Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, free from Google Books.