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The Hawkeye Issue III

The third issue of Brooke Point High School's news magazine!

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Katie<br />

Sam<br />

Katie<br />

Alex<br />

Josh<br />

Question of<br />

the Moment:<br />

Katie Young (10), Sam Williams (11), Alex Casiano (12), Josh Crowe (12)<br />

Yes of course!<br />

No, I dont like all the attention<br />

on me.<br />

Personal and heartfelt, really<br />

extravagant would be cute, but<br />

small and personal is good<br />

too.<br />

If I go, yes. I would have a<br />

poster and ask in the parking<br />

lot.<br />

No, its a pointless tradition and a<br />

waste of time. Everyone does the<br />

same thing. Its meaningless.<br />

Would you like a promposal?<br />

What would be your ideal<br />

promposal?<br />

Are you planning on<br />

promposing? How?<br />

By Cassidy Hoff and Emma McElwain<br />

BP<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hawkeye</strong><br />

BP<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hawkeye</strong><br />

BP<br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Hawkeye</strong><br />

By Grace Duckworth , Jane Pierce and Kayla Hilado<br />

A Sharp Mind:<br />

Ian Logan<br />

studyblue.com<br />

Battle of the Books!<br />

By Kassidy McCall, Sarah Moncure and Isabella Taffera<br />

On April 13 after school, our own<br />

Brooke Point Battle of the Books<br />

team will be competing to defend<br />

its title as the county champion.<br />

Battle of the Books is a county-wide<br />

competition, in which every school<br />

has a team.<br />

At the beginning of the school<br />

year, the teams are given a list of 10<br />

books and then must decide if the<br />

members should each read all ten or<br />

to specialize in a couple. <strong>The</strong>y have<br />

until competition day to learn those<br />

books inside and out. Advisor Dee<br />

Ryan says students receive “a deep<br />

knowledge of a book you wouldn’t<br />

get in, say, a book club.”<br />

Many sharp<br />

minds at Brooke<br />

Point pursue Independent<br />

Study to showcase their<br />

talents or focus on their<br />

passions. Independent<br />

Study is a class where selfmotivated<br />

students design<br />

their own curriculum in<br />

order to study a subject in<br />

a different way.<br />

One particular student<br />

is junior Ian Logan.<br />

Dewey Reynolds, the class<br />

advisor, has described<br />

Logan’s project as being<br />

unique, something he<br />

doesn’t see very often.<br />

Logan is studying the<br />

During the competition students<br />

are asked questions from one of<br />

three categories, Category one<br />

asks questions like, “in which<br />

book does… happen?” Category<br />

two consists of short answer<br />

questions. <strong>The</strong> final category has<br />

character-related questions.<br />

Senior Yessica Bonilla, a member<br />

since her freshman year, said,<br />

“Battle of the Books is just a<br />

group of people reading books,<br />

getting to know them really well<br />

and hoping that you know<br />

them better than everyone<br />

else in the county.”<br />

As previous champions<br />

recording and production<br />

of music by composing his<br />

own album. <strong>The</strong> album<br />

will feature eight tracks<br />

of the indie genre, and<br />

it is Logan’s goal to have<br />

it completed by the end<br />

of the year. He is unsure<br />

whether or not he will<br />

publicize the album on a<br />

music sharing platform,<br />

but keep an eye out for it!<br />

As for why Logan<br />

decided to take on<br />

independent study, he<br />

explained, “Ever since I<br />

heard about [Independent<br />

Study] in sophomore year,<br />

I’ve wanted to do it. Just<br />

because I want<br />

to go into music<br />

with more<br />

depth.”<br />

Logan<br />

believes that in<br />

the time that he<br />

has taken this<br />

class, he has<br />

learned time management<br />

as he has had to create his<br />

own lesson plans.<br />

Even with all the taxing<br />

work, Logan would still<br />

recommend the class<br />

for other students. He<br />

comments, “It’s a lot of<br />

fun and it lets you study<br />

whatever you want, which<br />

the Brooke Point team members<br />

are under a lot of pressure this<br />

year to retain their title.<br />

<strong>The</strong> event is surprisingly<br />

more competitive than<br />

most would think.<br />

Although winning leads<br />

to another trophy for<br />

the school, the team is<br />

more concerned with the<br />

bragging rights it brings<br />

against the other teams.<br />

is really big in high school.<br />

Through his work and<br />

studies, it is easy to tell<br />

that Ian Logan has a great<br />

love for music. On the<br />

proposition of pursuing<br />

music as a career, Logan<br />

reflects, “I hope to, but<br />

it depends on how it all<br />

works out.”<br />

11<br />

Photo by Kayla Hilado

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