May, 2012 - Tucson Unified School District

The Trojan Pride Wind Ensemble enjoyed a fabulous field trip to the Musical
Instrument Museum in Phoenix. It was fascinating to see all the instruments
from different countries, as well as the Arizona Centennial exhibit. In the “Experience”
room, students enjoyed playing many different instruments and experimenting
with a theremin and Nickelodeon player pianos.
The Trojan Pride Marching Band is anxiously awaiting arrival of NEW band
uniforms! The uniform design is spectacular!
Ms. Jill Bastin - The last quarter has been a busy one. The Clay/Ceramic classes
have been working hard on final projects. The projects are very exciting and
the students’ choice. Each student has designed and constructed her own final project using the knowledge
and skills she has been learning all year. Guitars, teapots, cakes, bears, and cartoon characters are all
among the outstanding final projects. The Beginning Art classes are working on weaving projects as we
end the year. It has been a great year for the art classes.
Mrs. Mary-Claire Ketchum - Crafts classes have been involved in a variety of projects implementing a range
of techniques and materials including hand sewn, bound books. The fabric book covers were decorated
with student designed stamps.
Digital Photography/Printmaking students concluded their work with the “Three Me’s!” project. Based
on traditional triptychs, their finished work implemented an array of
information about the student artists with their self-portrait photograph as the central piece of the triptych.
The two side panels included a favorite quote, the student’s birth date and anticipated Graduation
date, self-descriptive words and their autograph.
Advanced Art students explored a mixed media project for their final project “What About Me?” Their work
represented vocabulary, images, memories, and plans for their future visually in hand drawn collage form.
- Mary-Claire Ketchum, Art Dept. Chair
TU notes with sadness that Ms. Ketchum has retired and will be having fun at
home with a brand new printing press. We love you and will miss you, MC!
Michael McGlynn,
Math Dept. Chair
From the Math Department
Mathematics is a sequential subject. The first year of Algebra is very important
as most of the other math classes use the knowledge gained from Algebra 1 as
their foundation. It is for this reason that we require that a student pass Algebra
1 before going on to Algebra 2 or Precalculus.
Next year the class of 2013 must have 4 years of Math credits to graduate. I
would like to recommend the course “Financial Algebra.”. This course will deal
with much of the math that you will encounter in “real life,”, things like loans,
banking, and taxes.
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