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By Meglin Bodner The upcoming musical at BHS is Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida. It starts out in a museum’s Egyptian exhibit where two people glance at each other and form a connection. Then, the statue of a female Pharaoh awakens and transports the audience to ancient Egypt where Egyptian soldiers and their captain, Radames (Noah Perito), are returning from a mission to conquer
Make sure you pick up our own copy of the Calliope next week! Calliope is the school’s literary magazine made up of artwork, poems, short stories and other types of writing from the students of BHS. This is a sneak peak of the new magazine coming out; the cover was created by BHS student Ziqi Wang. You can get your own copy of the magazine
by Editor-in-Chief Marisa Kaplita This past Tuesday on February 14th during period six 15 BHSers battled it out on the stage; Aria Jones, Henry Jin, Ben Shao, Christina Smith, Chrissy Beaulac, Kaity Robbins, Pompeo Mazella, Brianna DeNegris, Jennifer Lassen, Rachel Hanchuruck, Michelle Caron, Meglin Bodner, Jenny Flynn, Bryanna Willaby, and Ziqi Wang were all participators of the Poetry Out Loud Competition. For this competition all the students picked a poem from a list on this website: http://www.poetryoutloud.org/ ranging from different writers, lengths and
Come support the school’s Amnesty Club, by coming to their movie night this Wednesday, Feb 15th, at 5:30 pm in the F-wing Lecture Hall. You’ll get to watch the amazing Freedom Writers while snacking on Chinese Food. President Kelly Du says,”This movie night is just a great opportunity for everyone to come together and raise some money for Amnesty. It’s all for a great cause
by Nina Mariotti Attention all love birds! Valentine ’s Day is right around the corner. Are you looking for a way to show someone special that you care about them? Send them a singing valentine! As tradition, the BHS Music Maker’s choir will be going around to class rooms and singing songs to a person of your choice. The songs include Kiss the Girl, I
by Meglin Bodner It is that time again – when the cast for an unknown play assembles and rehearsals are attended up until opening day. This year, the fall play is a Shakespearean comedy called Twelfth Night. The main character Viola, played by Katrice Kemble, gets shipwrecked on the Illyrian shore. Assuming that her twin brother Sebastian (Dan Lalor) is dead, Viola disguises herself as
Photo Credit: Emily McColl ’13 The Tree Lighting has been a Branford tradition for many years and it would not be as great as it is without the participation from the students at BHS. The Interact Club was featured in the parade with with their Harry Potter themed float; complete with Hogwarts castle and all! The woodtect classes even constructed one of the floats used
The rain that came that morning made most people skeptical that the game would still be on, but Zeus must of had other plans for these high schoolers, because by that afternoon the rain was gone and the Senior and Junior girls were ready to take it all to the field on November 23, where they battled it out for the PowderPuff championship. As they played on
The Student Council surprised students during lunch with a FLASH MOB to help kick off spirit week! The dance was lead by juniors Kailey Hassan-Wolff and Briana Williams, both student council members, and were later joined with over 15 other classmates to dance to Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO. Photo credit: John McColl and Morgan Reed
by Meglin Bodner On November 18, make sure to wear any argyle clothing you own. Not sure what it is? Argyle is a diamond-shaped pattern of two or more colors. Everyone who wears argyle clothing on Friday is doing a great deed. Putting $1 into one of the donation boxes for wearing argyle allows the Branford Soup Kitchen to feed those who are hungry. There
