Our drama and film history teacher sure does have a passion for his career! Mr. Allred has done an amazing job with helping our theater students reach their full potential and introducing to the wonderful world of plays and cinemas. Sitting in during class there were many great points to his ways of teaching. There were so many imaginative lessons that really engaged the students interest when he taught his drama classes.
Is technology hurting or saving you? According to Webmd.com,” seasonal depression is still a mystery to some scientists, but researchers agree that seasonal affective disorder is affected by the amount of light that people see.” Technology has caught up to this horrible seasonal disease. Costco is now selling something called a “Happy Light”. All you do is keep it in your room and look at the special light every morning. Light therapy may only work for some people, but that is only one of many ways you can beat the winter blues.
The girls basketball team of Payson High gave it their all on the 9th of January, kicking off big plays to come for the year of 2016. While they did try their best, unfortunately, Springville took home the win. With a respectable score of 56 to 23, Springville was surely a tough competitor. But our team will learn from this experience, and further improve their skills to be victorious again.
A catcher gives a sign to the pitcher to direct them; football players huddle up after every play; lights of ambulances, firetrucks, and police cars ring throughout the cities--and even more than that--each and every one of you pull out your phone to text people constantly throughout the day. These are things that affect all of you every single day, but are you aware that all of those things come from deaf culture? So many things throughout each of our days are influenced by the deaf culture, yet nobody really acknowledges the deaf culture.
As the title tells Mrs. Walker loves Star Wars. She's also one of the most popular Honors English teachers. She laughs and jokes but she always makes class interesting. While in her class she finds a way to capture everyone's attention. Whether it be having the students read aloud, allowing them to have accents, or just making their own suggestions known. Mrs. Walker capturers their attention by making the subject more appealing or funny in some way. She is known to have strict deadlines but most of her students like the amount of strictness.
The PHS swim team had a meet against Salem and Spanish Fork on the 15th of December. In the Women's 200 Medley Relay Payson took first and fourth. In the Men’s 200 Medley Relay, Payson took second and fifth. In the Women’s 200 Free 15 & Over, Payson took third and fourth. In the Men’s 200 Free 15 & Over, Payson took second, sixth, and ninth. In the Men’s 200 IM 15 & Over, Payson took first. In the Women’s 50 Free 15 & Over, Payson took first, second, and eighth. In the Men’s 50 Free 15 & Over, Payson took third.
On Thursday, December 10, the boys wrestling team took on Maple Mountain. The wrestling match was very intense, and had the student section going crazy. This was a white out dual and many of the students showed their support by wearing white. The Lion’s took a hard loss with the score being 48-19. The Payson wrestlers who had victories were Tyler Manookin at 160 winning by 6-1 decision, Chayce Loveless at 182 winning by major decision, and both Adam Marck at 195, and freshman, Brock Loveless, pinning their opponent.
On November 23, 2015 students in Mrs. Searle’s Digital Media class went on an adventure to Adobe in Lehi. Adobe not only helps businesses by providing design software but also does helps them analysis their business with what people are looking for when they visit their website. For example, when you visit their website and you’re using an iPhone and look at something Adobe Analytics can see that you used an iPhone to looked at the website and Adobe helps to make your experience better while on the website.
