Month: January 2016

Jan 2016

Students Exercise Their Journalistic Chops

The Patriot Times is hot off the presses! This student-written school newspaper is a combined effort of the La Paloma Academy Lakeside Newspaper Club and the Central campus’ after-school writing and poetry club, Sin Fronteras. Their hard work resulted in a paper featuring the latest news for fellow students and parents, plus original poetry selections, and comics.

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Jan 2016

Thesaurus: Lexicon. Onomasticon. Reference book. Storehouse of Words.

People love to celebrate … everything. On January 18, Thesaurus Day is a celebration of the power of words. This date is the birthdate of Peter Mark Roget, who is best known for creating Roget’s Thesaurus. His name is so synonymous with this type of reference book that the publisher trademarked it. The original version of his Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases, Classified, and Arranged so as to Facilitate the Expression of Ideas was published in 1852 and contained 15,000 words; it has grown with each subsequent version. Roget’s was also the first book of this type that arranged synonymies in topical order, and it is this feature that many credit with the success of his thesaurus over others.

Jan 2016

Welcome 2016

Students at Tucson charter school, La Paloma Academy, learn about and are encouraged to embody the Six Pillars of Character:

  • Trustworthiness: able to be relied on as honest or truthful
  • Respect: a feeling of deep admiration for someone or something elicited by their abilities, qualities, or achievements; due regard for the feelings, wishes, rights, or traditions of others
  • Responsibility: the state or fact of being accountable or to blame for something; the opportunity or ability to act independently and make decisions without authorization; a thing that one is required to do as part of a job, role, or legal obligation; a moral obligation to behave correctly toward or in respect of
  • Fairness: impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination
  • Caring: (adj.) displaying kindness and concern for others; (n.) the work or practice of looking after those unable to care for themselves, especially sick and elderly people
  • Citizenship: the character of an individual viewed as a member of society; behavior in terms of the duties, obligations, and functions of a citizen*