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The Jaguar Journal is the product of the SCCS Media Literacy class for the 2013-2014 school year comprised by students from ninth through twelfth grade: Gilberto Chavez, Francesca Colanzi, Alexandra Velasco
, Ana Reyes, Vanessa Luna, Tamara Marancenbaum, Fabiana Pena Feeney, Maria Fernanda Flores, Stephanie Vidovic, Rafael Sakuma and Rodrigo Adriazola with the help of Mr. Brody.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

Friendship Games 2013

The Friendship Games took place at our school this year. It lasted three days, and during that short time, we took pictures of the soccer and volleyball games. Also, the cheerleaders made an outstanding performance. With the photos we took, we made a quick video. We won first place on both boys and girls on soccer. We also won second place on both girls and boys volleyball game.

Friendship Games: Boys Soccer


This video features the SCCS Boys Varsity Soccer team during the 20013 Friendship Games. We played three games in the normal round and won them all. The first match was against the ACS Cougars and the result was 4-0 for the Jaguars. In the second game, the Jaguars defeated the CCS Calvert 4-1. The last game of the normal round was against the AISB Phoenix and the Jaguars won the game with a result of 4-0. The final game against the CCS Calvert ended with a final score of 3-2 with the Jaguars earning the title of Friendship Games soccer champions once again! 

Friday, November 22, 2013

Collage of SCCS Girls Soccer and Volleball Teams

Collage of SCCS Girls Soccer and Volleyball Teams by Rodrigo Adriazola

Glimpse of SCCS


Poem: To My Junior Class

To My Junior Class
Fabiana Peña Feeney

Temporarily we reside in a location unknown
Not wanting to be traced down.
Afraid of the brute reality that undeniably lies ahead
Lies ahead of me, ahead of us.
We have stood together hand in hand for thirteen years,
Or so it seems.
The day that we are forced to let go rapidly
scurries its way to our present
Like a bike with no breaks moving in a vertical manner
 down a steep jagged mountain.

What should I be?
Who should I work hard to become?
These questions become our tongue twisters
As we have a hard time verbalizing them
 But they appear to be comfortably living
as one of our permanent thoughts.
Am I good enough for this? How far?
How far can my middle finger reach when
 I stretch out my arm; it feels like it could just detach
from my shoulder and levitate high up and
never stop rising. But is it high enough?
Low enough that it means nothing at all?
No one will take it seriously, not even I, will believe my own finger?
And what happens when I fill in the first miniature
 bubble with that lead #2. What will happen then?
 Because of this bubble will my future in some way
make a shift? Will it change?

Our lives have been reduced to a series of questions.
Every sentence I write uncertainty of whether a
question mark should go at the end is present.
Some things I am sure of but more that I am not?
I keep repeating “One test does not define my life.”
but then again, how many do? At the end of this fourteen-year
odyssey numbers will stand firmly besides our names.
These numbers will be part of who we are.

The reality is, my dear juniors,
that the numbers that have been added, subtracted,
divided and multiplied through the years in our school
 will make a lot of decisions for us.
And that makes me uneasy…
someone, actually something; making decisions for us.
But these numbers are ours.
We made them and added them and everything in between.

 I know that I have to assume responsibility
and I will do just that
 but the nerves are talking, the uncertainty
and the million of questions on my mind.
My dear junior class, I am afraid
 we are all rabbits in a forest full of wild cats.
  We have nowhere to go just yet.
No one seems to understand us,
when we try to utter the wretched tongue twisters
 we work so hard to forget.



Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Friendship Games



             

                After 3 arduous days of playing and cheering, Friendship Games are over. After many years, it was finally our turn to host the games. Trying to overcome last year’s defeat as overall champions to AISB, the Jaguar athletes were more than motivated, they were hungry for victory. During the 3 days of competition, with the help of our marvelous supporters and the great effort from our athletes we were victorious. We won the overall champions cup with two first places in soccer and two second places in volleyball, having more points than our opponents. Way to go Jaguars!

Rafael Sakuma