People Issue: ESL Students share journeys to make Holmes their home

  In the most recent edition of the Gavel, the People Issue, we covered a group of students that have come from different backgrounds all over the world to call Holmes home.  These ESL students interviewed each other and wrote news stories about one another based on their lives before and after coming to America….Continue Reading People Issue: ESL Students share journeys to make Holmes their home

Book Review: Asylum

Asylum by Madeleine Roux is a horror fiction book. Dan Crawford, a junior in high school, decides to attend a college camp during the summer in the New Hampshire College. The dorm in which the students  will be residing was an old sanatorium (also known as an asylum) used for the criminally insane that had been…Continue Reading Book Review: Asylum

Making Moves: Vegan, chess-player, and advanced student, Schuessler fueled by big ideas

By Lizbeth Perez, Staff Writer It would just be a house if there was no family. Families can create an environment of comfort, unconditional love, a judgement free zone, and they can have more of an influence on a person’s life than anything else. For some, family is their source of motivation. Junior Ryan Schuessler…Continue Reading Making Moves: Vegan, chess-player, and advanced student, Schuessler fueled by big ideas

AVID program shapes students for better futures

By Dezaray Villarreal Victoria prepares for her AVID class, as she pulls out her binder she thinks to herself,  “Can I really get into college?”, “Will I be able to afford this?”, “How am I going to do this?”. These types of questions are ones that every student that aspires to go to college thinks and…Continue Reading AVID program shapes students for better futures

Garcia deals with grief over tragic family death

Her grandmother enters her room one night, tears falling down her face, as she tells her that her cousin passed away. In that moment, she couldn’t believe what she was hearing. She lays on her bed, in shock, thinking to herself, who could’ve done something so horrible to her cousin. For sophomore Amber Garcia, that…Continue Reading Garcia deals with grief over tragic family death

Local Venues provide off-campus activities for students into music

In between classes and at lunch, you might hear a conversation like this: “Dude, did you go to the football game last night? It was so intense!” “No, I went to this show and got to meet this cool band that performed.” Many students would rather go to a music show than a school event because…Continue Reading Local Venues provide off-campus activities for students into music