Month: June 2006

Being Responsible

By Matt Dols, Keri Hanson, and Morgan Dvorak BE THE BIGGER PERSONENFORCE THE SOBER DRIVERIN EVERY SITUATIONNEVER DRIVE DRUNKGET SOMEONE TO DRIVE THAT HASN’T DRANKREMEMBER THE LAWEVERYONE GETS CAUGHTSO DON’T BE STUPIDPASS THE KEYS ALONGOR YOU WILL DIENO ONE SHOULD DRINK AND DRIVESOBER IS THE ONLY WAYIF YOU WANT TO LIVE TO SEE ANOTHER DAYBE … [Read more…]

Impressions of Mini-School

By Molly Piotter Recently, we passed out a survey to a class of mainstream students. We found out that there are a lot of misconceptions and kids probably don’t know much about Mini-School. This might help clear things up. Mini-School is actually a program within the school that helps kids with individual learning issues. Mini-School … [Read more…]

Interview with Jen

By Monica Sheats Q: Where do you live?Minneapolis Q: Are you married?No—divorced. Q: Do you have any kids?Yes, one. Q: Boy or Girl? How old and what is her name?She’s a girl, fourteen, named Sarah. Q: What kind of music do you like?Everything, really. Alternative, mostly. My favorite band right now is The Decemberists. Q: … [Read more…]

How Mini-School Helped Me

By Renee Aymar I started at Minnetonka my freshman year and everything was going great; I had a lot of friends and my grades were good. About half way through the year, my grades started slipping because I didn’t understand what I was learning and I was not getting the help I needed to fix … [Read more…]

F. Scott Fitzgerald / J.J. Hill House Tour

By Erik Goderstad This year on March 10th, Jen’s English class took a tour through downtown St. Paul of many places F. Scott Fitzgerald lived, worked, and played. We took this trip to support our curriculum which currently includes The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, The trip was to see his boyhood home, workplace … [Read more…]

Loaves and Fishes

By Amanda Frederick Late in 2005, on a very cold December 1st, Mini-School students set out to earn volunteer hours for their 10th grade health class. Accompanied by Matt Mosuman, six students (Renee Aymar, Ryan S., Meghan H., Joe DiMiguel, Amanda Frederick, and Monica Sheats.) went to St, Matthews’s church in Minneapolis to volunteer for … [Read more…]

Family Egg Hunt

By Rosalind Turner On Saturday, April 8, I went to the Pillsbury Center in North Minneapolis with Ramona and another student Jaquon to help with a Family Egg Hunt. I went because of a service learning project for health class. The event went from 10 to 2:30. I had to hide eggs outside and inside … [Read more…]