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Schuylerville Senior High School students have a broad range of interests, which is Here are some of the most popular clubs.
Environmental Club
Open to students in grades 9-12
Advisor: Mrs.Flores
The High School Environmental Club is open to all students interested in increasing environmental awareness throughout the school. Activities include:recycling,environmental competitions, volunteering for green schools and outdoor events.
Freshman Class
Open to students in grades 910
Advisor: Mr.Winslow
The Freshman Class participates in several activities throughout the year to raise money for the class account. The class officers meet once a month to discuss business that affects the entire class. All members of the Freshman Class are encouraged to participate in some type of community service during the year.
Literary Magazine
Open to students in grades 10—12
Advisor: Mr. Sgambati
Members of the Literary Magazine collect, edit(编辑)and often contribute to the body of student work. Literary Magazine meetings will also give students the opportunity to share and receive feedback on the creative pieces that they're working on, as well as the chance to learn about writing practices and strategies.
Mock Trial Team
Open to students in grades 1l—12
Advisor: Mrs. Lewis
Mock Trial is an after-school activity that helps students develop useful knowledge about the law. Students play all the roles and use general rules of evidence and fact explanations in a school court(法庭). They will work with a real lawyer and an advisor to further understand the court process.
If you wanted to make a Disney-style animation of, say, Reggie, a spirited rabbit, planning to save his forest, you'd have a lead animator draw the extremes of the action: Reggie looking intensely focused, and then proudly announcing, "There's a new hero in the forest! "Then you'd bring in an in-betweener - that is, the animator who draws all the comprehensive frames that bridge the major actions.
In-betweeners don't get the glory, but without them cartoons would hop from one emotional peak to another, missing connective grace. Burny Mattinson (1935 2023) started his career at the Walt Disney Company in the mail room, and, even though he had no formal training in animation, he was given a swing at in-betweening just six months later.
His first big assignment was to in-between the wagging of a dog's tail. Disney animation was famous for its silky elegance, owing in no small part to the skill of its in-betweeners, and, thanks to Mattinson, the tail practically glided from side to side.
Mattinson had wanted to be an animator ever since his mother had taken him to see" Pinocchio" at a theatre when he was six. In a bold move, Mattinson showed up at the Disney Studios gate with his portfolio (作品) as soon as he finished high school. The magical part of this story is that, instead of shooing him away, the security guard liked his drawings and called the head of personnel to take a look.
Thus, Mattinson became a messenger at Disney, beginning a career that would eventually make him the employee with the longest service at the company. He had joined the company at a golden moment. Listing the films that he worked on is a little like listing the entire output of the Walt Disney Company over the past six decades: Sleeping Beauty, "The Lion King," and on and on.
Mattinson was, perhaps, one of the last of an almost extinct genotype - the happy company man, the lifer. He never had an employer besides Disney. When asked what Mattinson enjoyed doing outside of his life at Disney, his son said, "He just loved his work."
The idea that we can have it all and do it all is not new. This myth has been spread for so long, I believe virtually everyone alive today is infected with it. It is sold in advertising. It is included in university applications that require dozens of extracurricular activities.
What is new is how especially damaging this myth is today, in a time when choice and expectations have increased exponentially. It results in stressed people trying to stuff more activities into their already over-scheduled lives.
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple "first" things. People routinely try to do just that. This gave the impression of many things being the priority but actually meant nothing was.
When we don't purposefully and deliberately choose where to focus our energies and time, other people will choose for us, and before long we'll have lost sight of everything that is meaningful and important.
Once an Australian nurse named Bronnie Ware, who cared for people in the last twelve weeks of their lives, recorded their most often discussed regrets. At the top of the list: "I wish I'd had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me." Instead of reacting to the social pressure pulling you to go in a million directions, you will learn a way to focus on what is absolutely essential by getting rid of everything else completely.