Category: Social Justice
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The Wild Ride of a Middle School Softball Team
By Olimpia Kane ’16, Staff Writer This year’s Middle School softball team has a winning record of five wins and three losses. With twenty players in total, the roster holds mostly seventh graders, with four sixth graders and just two eighth graders. Last year, the team was undefeated; many of the key players graduated into…
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Buy Your Sunshine
By Anna Hope Emerson ’16, Middle School Editor Picture this: you are sitting in a beach chair, right by the side of a crystal blue pool, soaking up the warm sunlight. No distractions, no work, just relaxation. You are in one of the most beautiful vacation spots in the US: Florida. 34 Newark Academy Middle…
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Middle School Dancers Prepare for the Spring Concert
By Claudia Hyman ’15, Staff Writer There is lots of hustle and bustle in the halls of Newark Academy now that we have all come back refreshed and energized from our spring vacation. After school, most are heading out to their spring sport like lacrosse, softball, track etc, but some are heading to the dance…
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NA Investigates: China, Friend or Foe?
By Lynna Huo ’15, Staff Writer In the words of Charlotte Smith ’15, “China is like a big shark…and the United States is a fish swimming precariously alongside it.” When it comes to economic properity and expansion in the past decade, it is without a doubt that the People’s Republic of China is slowly but…
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Middle School Chorus Croons about Homework
By Andrew Huang ‘15, Staff Writer Since prehistoric times, people have used song to express themselves. Songs have been sung by all cultures around the world and fall into many different genres. On March 9th, the middle school chorus showed its passion for song in the NA middle school Choral Cabaret. The Choral Cabaret is…
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Travel Log – Spring Break 2011 – Mucho Machu Pichu
By Ankit Khosla ’16, Staff Writer As we looked down, we saw a death-defying drop down the side of a mountain. The side of the mountain went down until it reached the bottom where a small river was flowing. School was out, spring break was here, and twenty-one students and three chaperones were flying to…
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Now Playing: Jared Gilman ’17
By Matt Thekkethala ’15, Staff Writer We all, at one point, have dreamed of becoming a movie star. We’ve wished to wear fancy sunglasses, expensive and unique dresses, a distinct red carpet swagger, and of course, numerous adoring fans. One of us, a Newark Academy 6th grader, has accomplished this dream. Jared Gilman ’17 is…
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The Biggest “Bash” of the Year
By Kevin Mittal’15, Middle School Editor February, the middle school council had their largest event of the year. Winterfest, which is a social for students to play in the gym or swim in the pool attracted almost all of the students in the middle school. The day is usually spent with activities that make people…
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The Eighth Graders Fight Their Way through Romeo and Juliet
By Matt Thekkethala ‘15, Staff Writer Mercutio and Tybalt glared at each other, swords drawn – hatred festering within them. Romeo began to panic. Mercutio was his best friend, and Tybalt was Juliet’s cousin. “Gentle Mercutio, put thy rapier up!” he cried out, praying for the continued welfare of the two enemies. Romeo and Juliet,…
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The NA Middle School Swing
By Andrew Huang ‘15, Staff Writer According to the jazz great Wynton Marsalis, jazz is “music that swings”. On Tuesday February 22nd, seven select middle school jazz musicians showed their “swing” at the NJAJE (New Jersey Association for Jazz Education) Jazz Combo Festival at William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. The Middle School Jazz…