By: Julia Kill
BENSON, MN – Benson high school students ranging from freshmen to seniors all have to take finals at the end of each semester. Many teachers range the test from five to eight percent of their semester grade, this test does not affect their quarter grade. Many students have been procrastinating on studying for all their finals.
“ Throughout the year I forgot I had to take finals at the end of each semester and it started to stress me out” says Brady DeHaan
By: Julia Kill
BENSON, MN – Have people told you that your Junior year is the hardest? Coming from these juniors from Benson High School, you get a look on what it’s like as a junior in Benson. Juniors had a tough year full of tests. Starting with the ASVAB test following with the ACT test which took them four hours to complete. Some juniors had to take the AccuPlacer test to be able to take college courses. Other juniors had to retake the AccuPlacer test and had to go all the way to Ridgewater College just to do so. Along with the semester finals they also had to take, their year was filled with test taking.
“ I procrastinated this whole year and I regret it because I could’ve done better” sated junior Lauren Wrobleski
By: Dylan Stewart
On Monday may 13 Tianna Michell and Sarah Brandt started a clothes exchange/ giveaway for people in need of clothes for the up and coming summer it ended on wednesday may 15. They collected shorts, t-shirts, sweatshirts, socks mostly anything you can name and more. The clothes exchange was open to everybody in the school and they could walk in at anytime and take whatever you wanted. The clothes exchange ended on the 15th and then the rest of the left over clothes where donated.
By: Dylan Stewart
The teacher hand poster project was intended for teachers that are being cut or retiring, and is meant to give the teacher a little memento of all the student and all the thanks they had given them for being there and helping them thru the holes and traps of highschool. We asked student to write kind gestures or memories with that certain teacher. All the teachers on the list include Mrs. Ahrndt, Mrs. Loan, Mrs. Davis, Mrs. Mikkelsen, Beth Buyck the School nurse, Don Bremer, Joan knutson and finally Peggy Bausman.
The teacher hand poster project was created my Teja Hodge and Dylan Stewart for a final in Restorative Justice. We Hope that when the teachers get there posters they will love and cherish them when they are gone, they will all be missed by many and will alway be teachers in are hearts.
By: Julia Kill
BENSON, MN – Benson High School Seniors’ last day of high school was May 16. The seniors decided to pull a prank on the younger classmen. Seniors tied zip ties to each car tire, so when the student will drive they’ll hear a “POP.” The seniors didn’t do it to all cars but to majority.
“I was scared that it would pop my tire so I had Carlos Gondor cut them off for me.” says junior Brianna Schriener.
What will be the prank for next year? Class of 2020, do you have it in mind?
BY: ADDISON DOSCHER
May 19th marks the next class of Benson High School Alumni. 53 Benson Seniors graduated this sunday at 2:00 p.m. in the Main gym of the School. Addison Doscher and Olivia Hoffman made use of the new scoreboard by putting all of the 53 senior photos up while each one of them walked up onto the stage and received their diplomas.
The two speakers for the class of 2019 where Matilyn Short, and Matthew Ebnet. Matilyn touched on a lot of good memories and Matthew touched on how graduating is just one chapter that is closing while another door opens.
Out of 53 seniors, 44 of them were honor grads. This senior group is very academic and the participation rates are very high. Congrats to the new graduates of Benson High School!
BY: ADDISON DOSCHER
Has it already been a school year? Well, you know what that means! The Chippewa Yearbook Staff is proud to announce that THE YEARBOOK IS HERE! For the past 9 months, the yearbook staff has been hard at work making this book everything you have hoped for. They captured the essence of the school year in a short 100 pages.
The class consisted of 11 students 1st semester and 4 students 2nd semester. With this years book, it was very organic and had a lot of movement and color within. Every water color in the book was handmade by students of last year’s yearbook class. In Living Color is a direct analogy to benson high school, whoever we are, where ever we came from, we each are diverse and different from each other bringing our own “color” to the painting (Benson High School).
BY: ADDISON DOSCHER
On Monday, May 6th The Benson High School Varsity & Concert Bands, along with the Concert Choir Held their Last concert of the year. This may concert wasn’t just the seniors last one, it was also Mrs. Mikkelson’s. Mrs. Mikkelson has been teaching in Benson for the past 36 years, she has done so much for not just the school but for the community as a whole.
In addition to it being Mrs. Mikkelson’s and the Seniors last concert, it also was the awards and recognition ceremony. Among some of the recipients of the awards were, Gracie Lenz- Band directors award, Brenna Knutson- Choir Directors Award & Barry Jungwirth scholarship, Devon Liles- Music Boosters Scholarship, Jonas Habben- Arion award, Albert Lokken Music Scholarship & John Philip Sousa Award, and Addison Doscher- Arion Award & Kelly Svor Fuhrman Music Scholarship.
With the Scholarship winners announced, Students were recognized for their contribution to the Jazz bands, percussion ensemble, Chamber Choir, Girls Choir, and Solo & Ensemble Contests.
BY: ADDISON DOSCHER
In Mr. Ricard’s first hour College Macroeconomics class, their final was all about automobiles. Mr. Ricard thought it was best to teach the kids in the class how to change a tire, know how to jump start a dead car with jumper cables, and just know some quick facts about cars, and car safety.
The class headed outside to his truck last wednesday and Mr. Ricard showed them everything that any freshman at college should know about their cars. Anna Samuelson, a student in the class said “ It was fun to learn about just some simple things about working a car. I knew some stuff but it was nice to learn more about jumpstarting a car and changing a tire”.
BY:ADDISON DOSCHER
The end of the school year marks the beginning of the Benson High School Marching Band season. Every two years Mr. Duncan will choose new music and come up with new choreography. For the next two years, The two selections are “Paint it Black” by The Rolling Stones and “White Rabbit” by Jefferson Airplane. The Drumline and Flagline have started their early morning practices a month ago. The reason why they need to practice more is because they have to learn the new cadence marching and just get a feel for the music and what it all sounds like. Zoe Doscher, The lead snare for this summer’s marching band season says “ The music is very interesting because it is a lot of syncopation and triplets so it will be a bit more challenging to march to but I think we will sound great.”
The marching band is slowly losing student participation due to the fact of being a large time commitment at the beginning of the summer, but, the band will still go on. The Benson High School Marching Band’s first parade will be the Benson Memorial day parade, their first competitive parade will be held in Windom Minnesota on Saturday, June 8th.
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