By Katheline Rodriguez
The bell rings and teens start making their way to their classes, Mike Tinoco starts greeting students as they walk through the door. Rather then jumping straight into class work, we start with our principles of a warrior scholar which emphasizes self love and love for others, self discipline and fighting for what's right.
Yerba Buena High School had a journalism class going way back to at least the 1990s. In 1995, the school’s newspaper was called The Aztec Chronicle; it's so interesting to see how topics that they talked about back in the day still have relevance to today's important topics. Things such as sexual abuse, gender discrimination and black history month.
Fast forward Journalism class had finally made a come back after a long period time, the first paperback was published in February 2015. The first sets of stories that was published were about the journalisms return, The blood drive at Yerba Buena HS, YB sports, Racism and cyber bullying.
Ashley Torres, a former student of Yerba Buena High School, she attended journalism class for all for years of high school.
Ashley Torres was apart of the first year of journalism when it was brought back.
The bell rings and teens start making their way to their classes, Mike Tinoco starts greeting students as they walk through the door. Rather then jumping straight into class work, we start with our principles of a warrior scholar which emphasizes self love and love for others, self discipline and fighting for what's right.
Yerba Buena High School had a journalism class going way back to at least the 1990s. In 1995, the school’s newspaper was called The Aztec Chronicle; it's so interesting to see how topics that they talked about back in the day still have relevance to today's important topics. Things such as sexual abuse, gender discrimination and black history month.
Fast forward Journalism class had finally made a come back after a long period time, the first paperback was published in February 2015. The first sets of stories that was published were about the journalisms return, The blood drive at Yerba Buena HS, YB sports, Racism and cyber bullying.
Ashley Torres, a former student of Yerba Buena High School, she attended journalism class for all for years of high school.
Ashley Torres was apart of the first year of journalism when it was brought back.
She mentions that “Being in the journalism class helped me get out of my shell and helped me become more confident, I was also able to develop my communication skills”.
In her senior year she was editor in chief and she states that “ I felt as if my voice was finally heard and i also helped my classmates to make sure their voices were heard as well”.
Gianna, an editor in chief currently for The Warrior Times, has been in the journalism class since her junior year.
She mentions “before I entered the journalism class I was very unaware of what I wanted to do after high school; journalism helped me realize my passion for writing and now I’m going after my dream of becoming a journalist”. She also mentions that she feels a sense of peace when in class.
Mike Tinoco, teacher of the journalism class, mentions that "Teaching the journalism class has been a very rewarding experience. Over the past few years, the class has really evolved; it went from [us] printing a physical, tangible product, where each page had a specific focus, to where now it's much more fluid, and there's the website that is maintained by the students.”
In today’s journalism class we upload our stories onto our website called The Warrior Times. We talk about real-world issues and problems that are happening, and we also talk about personal stories that connect to what's going on in the world today.
The stories that we write about today include topics such as dealing with an incarcerated loved one, school shootings, and natural disasters.
Yerba Buena High School has been labeled “Ghetto” but people don't think of the students actually attending the school. Most people think that there is lots of gangs and violence and a bunch of graffiti, but that was the older generation of YB. This generation of students' hopes and dreams are being shared; they have a voice and they need to be heard.
In her senior year she was editor in chief and she states that “ I felt as if my voice was finally heard and i also helped my classmates to make sure their voices were heard as well”.
Gianna, an editor in chief currently for The Warrior Times, has been in the journalism class since her junior year.
She mentions “before I entered the journalism class I was very unaware of what I wanted to do after high school; journalism helped me realize my passion for writing and now I’m going after my dream of becoming a journalist”. She also mentions that she feels a sense of peace when in class.
Mike Tinoco, teacher of the journalism class, mentions that "Teaching the journalism class has been a very rewarding experience. Over the past few years, the class has really evolved; it went from [us] printing a physical, tangible product, where each page had a specific focus, to where now it's much more fluid, and there's the website that is maintained by the students.”
In today’s journalism class we upload our stories onto our website called The Warrior Times. We talk about real-world issues and problems that are happening, and we also talk about personal stories that connect to what's going on in the world today.
The stories that we write about today include topics such as dealing with an incarcerated loved one, school shootings, and natural disasters.
Yerba Buena High School has been labeled “Ghetto” but people don't think of the students actually attending the school. Most people think that there is lots of gangs and violence and a bunch of graffiti, but that was the older generation of YB. This generation of students' hopes and dreams are being shared; they have a voice and they need to be heard.