Welcome to the Olathe South magazine

1. Welcome to the Olathe South magazine Peshawar, Pakistan Olathe, Kansas Francestown, New Hampshire

2. Table of Contents Editorial Current Events Arts Sports Lifestyle Community Service

3. Editorial Dear Readers, In the United States life is anything but boring! As American teens our lives revolve around school, family, friends, and work. Amongst all of this, fashion, food, hanging out, and fun are key elements in our daily lives. In our magazine major components of American culture will be highlighted, including details on our lifestyles, popular sports, arts, community service projects, and upcoming events. We are enjoying working with other classes. We are learning so much about other cultures and enjoy looking at the similarities and differences between Americans and other teens from different countries. Enjoy the magazine and we hope that you are learning about different cultures as much as we are! Later lovelies! <3 Kristin Editor

4. Current Events

5. SPRING BREAK AT O.S.! After Christmas break students start counting down the days till spring break. One student went to California to visit family, also she crossed the border and went to Mexico to visit museums. She also went to a crazy beach which looked like a circus was going on. Another student went to Chicago to check out and tour some colleges. She also went there for fun and to enjoy the city life. Our teacher and her family went down south Georgia. She ate some boiled peanuts which is what the south is famous for. She also saw some antebellum houses which are really pretty and popular in the south. Spring break is a great and well deserved break.

6. Prom • An upcoming event at our school is the prom. Which is a very special dance. It is open to seniors and juniors. Seniors get one free ticket, and juniors pay $30 per ticket. • This is a very elaborate dance; students rent limos, and spend a lot of money on dresses and tuxedos. • Before the dance many students go out to eat at a variety of restaurants. After there is an after prom party at the school, which includes games and food for the students late into the night.

7. Journey to France • From March 11-19, 2006 the French class went to France. • They embarked on a journey to the Louvre (museum). • They went to the glorious Eiffel Tower. • They also saw some amazing castles like the Chanceau. • Shopping was a free time activity. • The cafes were great dining facilities. • Written by Brandon

8. Arts

9. Olathe South Plays and Musicals • Olathe South High School puts on a few musicals every school year. This year at Olathe South the play included “Peter Pan” and the musical, “Little Shop of Horrors.” • Olathe South also has a thespian group and drama club which put on smaller plays throughout the year. Some of these plays included “The Foreigner,” “Alice in Wonderland,” and “Oedipus Rex.”

10. Olathe South and Music • Olathe South offers several choir classes, band classes, orchestra classes, and other music related classes. • Throughout the school year, several choir, band, and orchestra competitions occur. • The Olathe South High School band, The Falcon Regiment, plays at football, basketball, and other sports event during the season. • Olathe South students partake in their own individual musical tastes by creating local bands. Many students are members of these bands. The bands are usually students playing instruments such as the guitar, bass guitar, drums, and vocals.

11. Olathe South has numerous visual art classes such as Drawing, Painting, Ceramics, Photography, Jewelry Making, Portfolio, and Photojournalism. The Portfolio class helps students prepare an art portfolio for college applications. This class also embarks on two annual trips. The first trip is a one day outing in the beginning of October to The Plaza in Kansas City to paint the scenery or skyline. Later in the spring, this class joins other local high school Portfolio classes to visit Chicago for a day. Here, they tour the Chicago Art Museum and several other artistic “hot spots.” If painting or sculpting isn’t your forte, Olathe South’s photography classes are some of the best. The Olathe South photojournalism class goes to all of the high school sporting events, musical events, theatre productions, and other student activities to photograph them for the school’s yearbook and newspapers. Olathe South Visual Arts

12. Plays in Kansas City • These two productions are a few of the plays that you can watch at a local theatre in Kansas City. A few of the theatres found in Kansas City are: • Lyric Theater • Uptown Theatre • Starlight Theatre • Unicorn Theatre

13. The Music of Kansas City • Kansas City is well known for its ballet, symphony, and lyric opera. There is always an opportunity to attend performances, and these musical groups also try to incorporate the community in their productions.

14. Visual Arts in the Kansas City Area • We have a very unique blend of visual art galleries. One of Kansas City’s trademarks is its jazz. There is also a wide variety of art found in Kansas City such as: • Nelson-Atkins museum of art • Toy and miniature museum • Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage museum American Jazz Museum Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

15. Southside Sports By: Brittany, Kayla, and Kelli

16. Fall Sports

17. Football -Lots of competition in our city. -Undefeated until we lost the last game of the season. -Starts in summer and ends in November -There are 3 separate teams: Sophmore, Junior Varsity, and Varsity

18. Volleyball Volleyball -6A state champs. -League champs for Junior Varsity and Sophmore -Varsity Coach Talcott, Junior Varsity Coach Bench and Sophmore Coach Chrysler -Season starts in August and ends in October

19. Winter Sports

20. Girls Basketball -Starts mid October and goes to mid March -Practice everyday from 3 to 5:30 -3 teams; Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Sophmore -Head Coach, Mr. Ingram -End with state tournament

21. Boys Basketball -Starts in mid November and ends at the end of March -Head Coach, Mr. McFall -Practice everyday 3:30 to 6:00 -3rd in state -3 Teams; Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Sohpmore

22. Spring Sports

23. Swimming -Starts in March and ends in May -Practice at Chisholm Trail Junior High -Head Coaches; Mrs. Shafer and Mr. Ingold -Many different events

24. Soccer -Head Coach, Stoskopf -22 girls on Varsity -Undefeated, state bound -3 teams; Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Sophmore -Practice 3-5:30 everyday -Upcoming tournaments Tuesday-Saturday

25. Baseball -Practice 3-6:00 -3 teams Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Sophmore -1st consulation game was March 27 and we lost

26. Softball -Head Coach, Mr. Allen -First game in March and ends in May -3 teams; Varsity, Junior Varsity, and Sophmore -Junior Varsity won their first game and so did Varsity

27. Track and Field -Running and Throwing events -Hurdles, Long Jump, High Jump, and Pole Vault -Long distance and sprints -Starts in March and ends in May with a state tournament -Practice everyday from 3-5:30

28. Southside Trophies

29. Lifestyles ByJordin, Kristen, and Cory

30. FASHION These are some of the newest fashions today in Olathe, Kansas. • Empire Dresses • Tunics • Blue Jeans (Pipe Leg) • Bermuda Shorts • Accessories and shirts with sequins and glitter effects.

31. FASHION • Espadrilles • Big Purses • Blazers • Chunky Glasses • Layered Clothing

32. FASHION • Flip Flops • Fitted Tees/ Screen Prints • Belt Buckles • Skater Shoes • Straight long brunette Hair

33. Every Day Life What we do on weekdays and weekends

34. School Day • A regular week would consist of 5 days Monday – Friday. We have 7 hours in a school day. Monday – Wednesday we start school at 8:00 a.m. and end at 3:00 and have 7 different classes for 1 hour. On Thursdays and Fridays our classes are 1 ½ hours long and we go to our odd classes on Friday and Even classes on Thursday and we have a 1 ½ hour study hall on Thursdays. At the end of the school day people have sports that they usually go to depending on what season it is and usually have that until 5:30.

35. Weekends • On the weekends a lot of people work at their jobs. • For entertainment we like to go to the movies, to the mall, go eat at the Plaza, and go to school dances.

36. Social groups At Olathe South there are many different types of lifestyles and groups that can be found. It’s not good to label someone but unfortunately that happens everywhere. Outside of school for example the group “Goths” are seen stereotypical as going home listening to dark music and writing poetry about death or suicide. The jocks after school continue to practice their chosen sport(s) and party. The nerds go home, read, do homework, watch the news, read some more, and finally go to bed. “Emo’s” as they are called are what everyone likes to call the “sad children” they like to listen to people singing about a lost girlfriend or how life doesn’t accept them or whatever, it is hard to tell what is going on with them. The most unfortunate would be the druggies because they spend their after school hours doing illicit activities that do nothing but lower brain cells and fries their brain. These are just a few of the social groups. Cory

37. Community Service By: Isabel, Kristin, and Jessica

38. Definition • Devotion of giving up your time to do things for others • It can be that they have to do free labor out of the goodness of their hearts and others may have to do it whether they want to or not • Makes a great impression on college applications

39. Who Performs Community Service? • Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts • Churches-Mission Trips • Various School Organizations- Student Volunteers, SASH, NHS • Habitat for Humanity • In New Hampshire, Nancy Gagnon’s class have an organization at their school called Interact

40. National Honors Society • You have to be invited to be in NHS and it is based on your grade point average • In order to be inducted, students have to complete at least 10 hours of service for their school and 10 hours of service out of school • Being a member looks good on college applications

41. SASH • Students Achieving Social Harmony • Participate in and introduce activities that celebrate diversity • At the beginning of May, they will be having a Holocaust Remembrance Day by showing a movie “Last Days” and inviting students from our school to watch. • SASH is also in charge of things like the school wide blood drive and will also be participating in an AIDS walk.

42. Student Volunteers • This is a course at our school where students leave for the last two hours of the school day to volunteer at different places • Many students volunteer at nearby elementary schools or junior highs

43. Habitat for Humanity • An organization that builds homes for those in need. The homes are built by volunteers. • They address the issues of poverty housing • They have built more than 200, 000 homes and helped more than 1 million people in 3,000 communities.

44. Hurricane Katrina • Several churches and universities organized trips to the Gulf Coast during spring break to help rebuild homes in the community. • Hurricane Katrina was a category 5 storm that hit the Gulf Coast on August 29, 2005. Whole towns were destroyed by this extremely destructive storm.

45. Where is Community Service Performed? • Churches • Mohammad Munir’s class performs community service at funerals and mosques during prayer in Pakistan • Schools • Libraries • Parks • Anywhere that needs an extra hand

46. Putting it all together….

47. Thank you for reading our magazine!