Eye of the Tiger (Issue 2, Volume 19)

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Senior’s room clutters up with luxurious lego creations Page 5

Mai Nguyen and Kira Runkle debate RHS’ graduation time Page 7

The EOT staff presents their guide for celebrating the spooky season Page 10

Junior Joe Brijs and Cole Errecart dominate the varsity football team Page 12

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OCTOBER 14, 2019 ISSUE 2, VOLUME 19

District planning to demolish small gym BY LIZZIE PELZMAN

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PLACING THE FINAL BEAM

After construction of the new gym is completed in 2020, RJUHSD plans to demolish the current small gym and build a two-story classroom building in its place, similar to the current 900’s buildings. At the September 24 board meeting, the district set the demolition as the second highest priority item for the construction projects that use the remainder of Measure D funds, right behind snack bar and playing field bathroom renovations across the district. This classroom building will allow the district to remove some portable classrooms, which the district currently leases for over $100,000 a year, according to assistant super-

LIZZIE PELZMAN EYE OF THE TIGER

The final beam of the new auxiliary gym was placed on the construction project last Wednesday. Several administrators, including principal Nicholas Richter and assistant principal Jason Wilson, signed the beam before the construction team set the beam in place. Auxiliary gym construction will now move onto the next phase of the project, which is expected to complete next spring.

RCSD eliminates letter grades Students graded on scale from “beginning” to “mastery” BY NATHAN PIEDAD

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Roseville High School expanded its math credit recovery this year, offering more in-school credit recovery courses for IM1 and IM2 and introducing for the first time in-school credit recovery for IM3. Last year was the first year RHS offered in-school credit recovery courses as an alternative to the after-school program offered through Independence High School. Each math credit recovery class holds a little over 20 students per period, mostly composed of seniors. Independence High School teacher Tom Moorehead believes that this will give students more access to the help they need to un-

RJUHSD sets graduation schedule at Placer Valley Event Center

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NATHAN PIEDAD EYE OF THE TIGER

Above, the administration building of Buljan Middle School, a feeder school for Roseville High. Students at Buljan will now be graded on a scale of “beginning”, “approaching”, “proficient” and “mastery” rather than a letter-based system.

of skills for each subject, emphasizing feedback on “learning behaviors” with a more concise summary of each student’s performance and activity in class.

This means that middle school students coming to RHS will have no experience with the letter-grading system, which creates heavier distinctions between

grades as it relies on homework grades and an overall average grade for each  RCSD | Page 2

Math credit recovery options expand BY ISABELLA FULLI

 GYM | Page 2

BY DANIELLE BENNETT

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This year, middle schools in the Roseville City School District – the feeder district for many RJUHSD high schools, including Roseville High School – are not employing the traditional grading system using letters, a scale from A to F that distinguishes a student’s overall performance in a subject. Instead, a new policy is in place that bases a student’s grade on certain areas of achievement. Four levels will be used for grading – “Beginning”, “Approaching”, “Proficient”, and “Mastery,” – in specific categories

intendent of business services Joe Landon. The portables are currently located atop land that used to host tennis courts and parking. After the building is completed, the current plan is to turn this land back into tennis courts and parking. “It gives us a lot more options as with the campus there’s really not a whole lot of space to make new parking or do [any of] that,” Landon said. “And there’s just a benefit to having a classroom building where all the teachers are in the same building as opposed to broken up in a lot of different portables.” According to Principal Nicholas Richter, the planning stage for demolishing the small gym will begin after construction on the new auxil-

derstand the material. “The concept is very similar [to after-school recovery]. It’s the same,” Moorehead said. “The big advantage on site is that the students meet with their teacher every day, where credit recovery here at Independence, you only meet once a week.” Last spring, over 100 juniors and seniors signed up for in-class IM2 credit recovery as an alternative to the after school program. However, more students signed up this year than the in-school offerings could accommodate. As a result, counselors gave seniors priority over juniors so seniors can pass the course and graduate. Juniors who did not make it into in-class recovery were dispersed  CRED | Page 3

LAUREN JEFFERIES EYE OF THE TIGER

Above, students enrolled in Michelle Walton’s integrated math credit recovery course work in class. This is the first year RHS is offering in-school credit recovery classes for IM3, but due to limited class space, seniors were given priority enrollment.

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Roseville High School seniors will graduate at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, May 29 in the Placer Valley Event Center. RJUHSD released the times for each of its five comprehensive sites’ graduations earlier this month. Other dates and times include Thursday graduations for Granite Bay at 3:00 p.m. and Antelope at 7:00 p.m. The remaining schools graduate on Friday, with Oakmont walking the stage at 3:00 and Woodcreek wrapping things up at 7:00. Teams from each site collaborated to determine the order for schools’ graduations. The Roseville High School team included site administration, and according to principal Nicholas Richter, went with a morning graduation so students can celebrate on campus after the ceremony, and a Friday graduation so students can attend the Sober Grad activities that were scheduled for 9:00 p.m. Friday night. In addition, Roseville, Woodcreek and Oakmont High School all receive students from the feeder middle schools in Roseville City School District. RCSD holds its middle school promotion on Thursday, so the teams set these schools’ graduations for Friday so families that have middle and high school students can attend both events. With RHS’ graduation time, Richter said he hopes to get students involved in planning an oncampus celebration following the morning ceremony. “We recognized that our students really might want to do something on campus,” Richter said. “So we went with the early one, so we have the option of coming back to cam GRAD | Page 3

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