The Lebanon Athletic Department will be teaming up with Methodist Sports Medicine to offer Sports Physicals May 13th, 2015 from 6:30-8:00 pm at Lebanon High School. The cost of the physical is $35.00 (Please make checks payable to Lebanon Athletic Department) and a portion of the fee from every physical administered will go back to the Lebanon Athletic Department to help meet the needs of student athletes. This physical will be completed on the appropriate IHSAA form and will be good for the 2015-2016 school year. No preregistration is necessary. Please mark your calendars and save the date.

Lawyers: Harrison Love and Kye Zimmerman, Judge: Jon Lockhart, Witness: Abby Rose

Lawyers: RJ Rollins Genna Steffy

The Korematsu vs. United States Supreme Court trial was brought to life by Lebanon Middle School's 7th grade students in both Mrs. Cross and Mr. Fisher's Language Arts classes.

Students played an active role preparing for and participating in this mock trial. Select students were appointed roles such as: lawyers for the defense and the prosecution, judge, bailiff, news reporters, historic witnesses, jury members, and of course the defendant. The trial took place in each class period, allowing every student the opportunity to reenact a role that fit him or her best.

Lawyers researched the case, prepared opening statements, and confidently delivered a variety of questions for their own witnesses and for the cross examination of witnesses. Witnesses prepared statements so they could play the part. The judge, having studied the objection process, boldly sustained or overruled objections, the bailiff practiced his/her lines to swear in the witnesses, and news reporters conducted interviews while managing the camera. Jury members researched the historic account of the trial, took notes throughout the trial, and assumed the civic responsibility of making a fair and just verdict. Students were given a challenging task and eagerly took ownership in their learning - taking pride in their roles and even suited up for the trial - suit jackets, gavel and all!

These middle school students learned the value of preparing to succeed. Harrison Love mentioned, "You need the facts before you do anything. You have to be prepared." Drew Davidson commented, "I learned trials can be intense, but I enjoyed when I went up to the stand." Juliana Garcia noticed and enjoyed "how everyone was trying to be serious" even though each class had its own set of laughs throughout each trial. Seth Grow admitted, "Being on the stand had my adrenaline pumping! I also learned an injustice was done."

The mock trial served as a holistic assessment after 7th grade students studied their way through Jeanne Wakatsuki's memoir, Farewell to Manzanar. They learned about the effects of Pearl Harbor, the challenges Japanese Americans faced while living in the internment camps during WWII, and the author's purpose for writing her memoir after nearly twenty years of privately holding onto her memories.

Fred Korematsu's case was mentioned in the memoir and was one of three trials for Japanese Americans who avoided the internment camps. Students connected the lessons learned in the memoir with Korematsu's case and had to form their own opinions. Even though the Supreme Court ruled Korematsu guilty in 1944, most students agreed with the ruling of innocent as decided when the case was reopened and overturned in 1983. A vital lesson was learned throughout this unit; as stated by Abby Rose, "What I learned from the mock trial is that it doesn't matter what color you are, the only thing that matters is that you're equal."

Judge: Christopher Parker, Bailiff: Peighton Kern-Wilson, Witness: Elizabeth Kincaid

Judge: Conor Peters, Witness: Abi Richardson, Lawyer: Dylan South, Reporter: Jayden Fearrin

AVID and NJHS Visit Purdue University

 

The Lebanon Middle School AVID and NJHS (National Junior Honor Society) took a trip to Purdue University to get a glimpse of college life. They were able to tour the campus and even spend a bit of time with some former LMS/LHS students. The campus bookstore invited them back anytime!

Success Of Students

Success Of Students (SOS) mentor, Rita Bradley, and mentee, Kelsey Stogsdill, spoke to the local chapter of Kappa Kappa Kappa this month. Tri-Kappa is a local philanthropic organization. The SOS program received a $3,000 grant from them, which allowed the group to attend Bradford Woods the past two years. While at Bradford Woods they received leadership and team building training. The pair spoke and shared pictures about the trip and expressed thanks for the grant which allowed them to go. While there they also shared the relationship they have developed through the SOS mentoring program.

AVID Community Service Projects

Last August the AVID 12 (Advancement via Independent Determination) students were given the task to develop and organize community service projects and recruit AVID 9-11 students to help them complete the projects. The students researched organizations and ideas and then developed a plan for the service project and for recruitment. Since January, 60 LHS AVID students have worked with eight organizations locally and globally to volunteer over 200 hours of community service. Thank you to The Caring Center, Clinton County Humane Society, CrownPointe Senior Living, Shalom House, LHS Best Buddies, Thirst Project, Lebanon Middle School Tutoring, and Boone County Pork Producers for allowing us to work with their organizations and individuals in completing the community service projects. Good job, LHS AVID Students!

LHS Hosts Leadership Camp for LMS

2014 JTLC

IUPUI Visit

On Friday, March 27, students from the LHS AVID 9-11 and Graduation Coach programs traveled to IUPUI's campus in Indianapolis. Students attended a presentation on IUPUI's admission process, the academic and extracurricular atmosphere, and the excitement of campus life. In addition, students were given a walking tour of the campus and ate lunch in the Tower Dining Hall before returning to LHS.

Sophomore Haley Richardson commented afterwards, "I have been on 3 other college visits. None of them have really had much of an interest to me and some of them I did not really have a good experience at. As soon as I saw the campus of IUPUI I loved it. I loved the way the classrooms were set up and thought it was great that there was such a wide variety of students. Overall the campus and the visit was awesome."

Next year students will have the opportunity to visit one private one public university/college, which will make this the seventh post-secondary study trip for 2015-2016 AVID 11 students.   

 

Quiz Bowl

On April 15, LHS World Language students participated in the Foreign Language Quiz Bowl at Sheridan High School. They did a fantastic job representing LHS, bringing home three championship trophies and winning several category certificates. Winners were:

French Level A (Fr.I & II)

Culture Winners 

     Thomas Engels, Brady Krueger, Megan Lucas, & Bailie Woods

Grammar Winners

     Rocio Bautista, Courtney Davis, Kory Ohlemacher, & Anna Waggoner

French Level B (Fr. III & IV)

Overall Champions & Winners of all three categories (Culture, Grammar, and Vocab) 

     Lidaou Edjeou, Hannah Juday, Sophie Morgan, & Sascha Nixon

Spanish Level A (Sp.I & II)

Overall Champions and Grammar Winners 

     Morgan Martin, Kiera Crow, Teresa Perez, & Ryan Nunley

Spanish Level B (Sp.III & IV)

Overall Champions and Winners of Culture and Vocabulary 

     Kyla Donner and Clay Marshall

LHS Promotes Literacy at Local Park

Lebanon High School has entered into a partnership with the Lebanon Parks Department to stock a free library box located in Abner Longley Park. The purpose of the free library box is to provide an opportunity for citizens of all ages to find enjoyment in reading. There are no strings attached, so anyone can grab a book from the library box, or offer one of their own to place in the box. Lebanon High School students will be checking on the library box every few weeks to make sure that there is a good supply of literature. The Beard family has volunteered to stock and manage the library box during the summer months! The library box is located at the south entrance to the park near the apartments. Make sure to check it out and select or donate a book while you are there!

LHS Choir Awarded Gold Rating

The Lebanon High School Concert Choir and Madrigals (choir) combined their efforts and competed at the ISSMA contest on Saturday, April 18, 2015 at Lafayette Jefferson High School. The competition consisted of singing three challenging songs as well as sight singing three musical pieces. The LHS choirs competed collectively in the most challenging Group. They received a Gold rating for Group I which is the highest rating awarded by the judges. Mrs. Graybiel, LHS Choir Director, stated "I am very proud of this group's dedication and determination."

LHS Life Skills

Bully Awareness

The LHS Best Buddies Chapter combined Bully Awareness and Disability Awareness for a month full of insightful activities. They started the month with a Spread the Word to End the Word pledges and signing during lunch, shared new slides each week during lunch explaining the Life Skills student's interests, activities and accomplishments and had a Spin the Wheel for Candy Event where they shared statistics about bullying in schools.

The LHS Life Skills class spent several hours during March stuffing Easter eggs for the Parks Department. They stuffed a total of 4400 eggs for their annual Easter Egg Hunt.

LHS and Special Olympics

The Boone County Bad News Bombers a Special Olympic Basketball Team with players from the LHS Life Skills Class as well as LHS Life Skills Alumni won Silver at their State Competition on Saturday March the 28th. LHS is also planning on participating in a unified team for track this that will compete in May.

LHS Agri-Science Fair

This semester, the Lebanon Agriculture Department kicked off their first Agri-Science Fair within the Advanced Life Science Foods, Advanced Life Science Animals and Horticulture courses. The purpose of the Agri-Science Fair was for the students to learn more about how the nature of science is vital to understanding the scientific content. In order to develop an Agri-Science project, students had to focus on an important agricultural/scientific issue, question, or principle and complete a written report and display.

Juniors Sandra Malagon and Jessica Mars, ALS Food Science

Juniors Mariah Allen and Kylee Reed, ALS Animals