Students observe basic skills meeting by school papers
Student press teams from Aiken County covered a school meeting explaining Basic Skills Assessment results. Participants discuss editing duties, beats, wire service terms, and how to assign stories as they gain newsroom experience.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Caren Hall
South Airica
Aiken High
Sarah Okeson
Sarah
Lou Grant
Caren
Wire Service
Gary
Kelly Green
Midland Valley
Terry Bishop
Kennedy Middle School
Sandra Phillips
Silver Bluff
Paw Print
Little Joe Rossis
Billie Newmans
Aiken County
School News Submissions Guidance For Aiken Standard
Readers are invited to send school or club activity information to Greg Wilson at the Aiken Standard Box 456, Aiken 29601. Submissions must reach the office by noon Tuesday for Thursday publication.
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Greg Wilson
Aiken Standard
Aiken
Blind professor joins USC Aiken faculty
Jerry Whittle, newly arrived in Aiken to teach English at USC Aiken, is blind but active. He pursued study in Shakespeare on blindness, writes fiction with a braille writer, and relies on a reader for grading while embracing local support from Memorial Baptist, USC Aiken students, and friends.
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Aiken
Jerry Whittle
Whittle
Usc-Aiken
Pickens County
Clemson University
University of Tennessee
Karen
Iran
Columbia
The
Federation For the Blind
Earlene
Charles Gardner
Midland Technical Center
Gardner
Knoxville
Faulkner
Memorial Baptist
Sien Blind
USC
Completing Light Novel Heavy Work in Alaska
The narrator says today is a big life moment as they finish reading Warm Bodies In the Yukon a playful trashy romance set in the Alaska wilderness. They note slow reading pace since a long vacation in 1979 and list minimalistic book rules about portability and practicality.
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Yukon
Alaska
Warm Bodies In the Yukon column anecdote
Erma Bombeck parodies readers fate with a reader finishing a steamy novel only to misread the plot. The narrator recalls reading Warm Bodies In the Yukon and jokes about loving the ending while another woman only saw the movie.
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Lynne Katonak
Gary Byrd
North Augusta Junior High
Sting
North Augusta High
Silver Bluff High
South Aiken High
Midland Valley High
Bles
Erma Bombeck
Beth
Brad Stuart
Brad
Long Island
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