Beyond the Calling
Beyond the Calling, a hip-hop group that was actually formed at Evangel Christian School over two years ago, ministered at our High School Chapel. Melanie Chong and Luis Alers are alumni and Joaquin Pardo and Ryan Diaz are in 12th grade at ECS. This group has written several songs such as, “Ain’t Ashamed,” “Ain’t My Home,” “Spiritual Love” and “Slave to Righteousness”.
Beyond the Calling’s purpose and mission is to get the Message out to all – through the Word and Music. They feel that there are two callings. The one that God has for His children as well as the calling the World offers. They feel they need to live beyond the calling of the world, hence the name of their group and the focus of their ministry.
God really used this group to minister to our students and to challenge them to live above the world.
Beyond The Calling is scheduled to release their debut album Spring 2010.
Graphing Equations
In 10th grade we are working on graphing equations and understanding connections between exponents and real life. We will take a test over chapter 8 on Nov. 10th.
Mr. Boyd
Student Government
What an exciting election we had for this year’s Student Government race!
The candidates were extremely creative and strategic in their campaigning techniques. Some students had clever posters, others provided voters with lollipops with campaign slogans and some just spoke to fellow students on a one to one basis asking for support.
On Election Day – Friday, October 23rd, candidates had the opportunity to give their speeches. Most made promises to make Evangel Christian School a better place for its students
After hearing all the speeches from candidates, students were able to vote, and after tallying all the ballots, the students of Evangel Christian School voted in Jonathan Bonifas as their President, Guillermo Rosario as the Vice President, Sean Villalba and Ryan Diaz as their Co-Treasurers and Ashley Perez as Secretary.
Next week the Student Government officers will go around classrooms to vote in two class representatives from each class.
We are looking forward to this government’s leadership and positive impact in our school!
Check out Galleries for some great pics!
Advanced Spanish
We continue to review the material from the year before. We went over the different kinds of stores and shopping in Spanish. We have stopped to go over the hobbies and games in Spanish and are now learning the future tense. We spent a period of class just playing and using the language to communicate with each other. This was a lot of fun. We are now back to work and are learning about the future tense of regular verbs and the comparisons and superlatives in Spanish.
Ms. Rivera
Enrichment Class
Researching, writing, and thinking… oh my. Every class is learning a lot of information about each groups “technology.” The students will be researching their technology in the areas of history and current technology. The groups will be writing interesting paragraphs to further finish their projects. After that, the teams will continue on to the areas of breakthroughs and consequences. Each student is thinking of ways to further their project into a thing worthy of each persons ability. Here’s a fun and easy riddle: What is it that someone has to take before you can get it? … The answer is: Your picture.
Dustin Penland
Geometry
Currently the Sophomores are designing stained glass windows using lines. They studied Frank Lloyd Wright’s stained glass designs using geometric shapes and are now designing their own. They realize that geometry is not just for the classroom.
Mrs. Wong
Geometry
Geometry Class is entering into a unit on Parallel and Perpendicular Lines. Students will work on activities that will allow them to draw and identify different types of lines. The students will be engaged in word problems that will demonstrate how parallel and perpendicular lines can ne used in driving, maps, and carpentry.
Mrs. Christian
Future Scientist
This week in lab we conducted an experiment on Weathering and Erosion. We took a small in-house field trip to the elementary school playground to observe how air, water and ice have affected the grounds. Students became scientist for the moment and experienced first hand some of the techniques used in the field. They were able to differentiate between physical and chemical erosion and the textbook became alive. Finally, after the observations were made some took turns sliding down the kiddy slide.
Mrs. Alvarado
Advanced Spanish
This Spanish class is a continuation of the ninth grade curriculum, ¡Buen Viaje! from Glencoe. Most of the students speak or are familiar with the language and so most of the class is conducted in Spanish. We started with reviewing what had been taught before. The class has reviewed traveling by train, how to order and handle oneself in a restaurant, and the technology used for communication. The students did a project where they had to write a story and illustrate it with all the things reviewed in class.
Miss Rivera
God Hates Pride
Students have been learning how God chooses the sometimes unpopular choice in people to do His work. They have seen through the life of Jacob and Esau how most people would have chosen Esau but God chose Jacob because He sees the inner man. We’ve also taken it a step further in what God hates. The perfect example of this is the pride of Satan. This caused him as well as many other angels to fall. In class we are having many great discussions and students are very interested in this topic.
Mrs. Racoma