Just a heads up; you never know when you’ll get pied
December 13, 2010 • By Ariel Courtright
Filed under 2010-2011
“Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around” –Helen Peters With all the hard work teachers do everyday to help students with all their needs it only seems right to show them how much students are grateful for everything they do. Why not show them how grateful we are by shoving... Read more »
Geezers versus whippersnappers
December 10, 2010 • By Danielle Alvarez
Filed under 2010-2011
The Student-versus-Staff Basketball Game fundraiser event, for Covenant House in Anchorage went extremely well. The teachers really put up a good fight. At the end of the first period the score was 29 to 20 with the students in the lead. Even though the students were ahead the faculty was only nine... Read more »
Poetry Out Loud 2010: Open Competition
December 9, 2010 • Pegasus Staff
Filed under 2010-2011
On Thursday, December 2, Chugiak High School held it’s open competition for the Poetry Out Loud competition. The four finalists from this competition (Shealyn Golden, Sijo Smith, Maegan Lange, and Rachel Shercliffe) will be advancing to the next level of the competition in January. The contest,... Read more »
Small donations can help
December 6, 2010 • By Nataliya Uhrynchuk
Filed under 2010-2011
Do you believe wishes can come true? I do, but sometimes we need to give a little to get a little. We all wish to make a difference in someone’s life, to better something or someone, to put forth our best effort to make the world a somewhat, better place. The question is, how do we begin? Since... Read more »
Listen to this, Ep. 3
December 3, 2010 • By Saige Thomas
Filed under 2010-2011
This is the third episode of a podcast hosted by Saige that hopes to expose CHS students to a wide variety of musical artists and genres. This podcast also serves as an example of Fair Use of copyrighted material, since the podcast never plays more than 10% of any given song and the artist is always... Read more »
Listen to this, Ep. 3
December 3, 2010
Filed under 2010-2011
Twenty-ninth annual National Russian Essay Contest
December 2, 2010 • By Valerie Eckberg-Brown, Russian Teacher
Filed under 2010-2011
Twenty CHS students competed in the Twenty-Ninth Annual National Russian Essay Contest on November 17, 2010. The secret topic (only revealed at the start of the given two-hour writing session) for this year was “Why travel?” We want to thank all supporters of the Russian program with our fundraising... Read more »
Lunch with a hero of Chernobyl
December 2, 2010 • By Valerie Ekberg-Brown, CHS Russian Teacher and School Business Partnership Coordinator
Filed under 2010-2011
Thanks to the Anchorage School District’s School Business Partnership with the Alaska World Affairs Council (AWAC), 14 students taking Russian were able to attend a luncheon at the Hilton, where Dr. Evgeny Velikov was giving a presentation. These AWAC luncheons with international and local speakers... Read more »
Chugiak’s 2010 Russian Scholar Laureate
December 2, 2010 • By Valerie Ekberg-Brown,
Russian Teacher
Filed under 2010-2011
Congratulations to Dave Donnally! Dave was selected as Chugiak’s 2010 Russian Scholar Laureate. For the past two years Dave has participated in the Olympiada Spoken Contest of Russian and in the spring of last school year he earned a bronze 3rd place medal for his combined scores of oral speech,... Read more »
Movie Chat: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part I
December 2, 2010 • By Mina Sayer
Filed under 2010-2011
Harry Potter (played by Daniel Radcliffe) is back for part one of his last adventure, and it is darker then ever. This movie is based upon the last of the seven books in the series written by J.K. Rowling, and is darker than any before it, the slogan being “No Where is Safe”. Lord Voldemort is... Read more »
