Tuesday, February 15, 2022

Tuesday, February 15, 2022


  • Today's black History Month moment is brought to you by Ariana T.

    Do you know who Harriet Tubman was? Harriet Tubman 1820-1931 she was actually named Araminta Ross but she adopted her mother’s name Harriet and changed her last name to Tubman when she married her husband John Tubman in 1844. In 1849, Tubman escaped to Philadelphia, only to return to Maryland to rescue her family soon after. Slowly, one group at a time, she brought relatives with her out of the state, and eventually guided dozens of other enslaved people to freedom. Traveling by night and in extreme secrecy, Tubman (or "Moses", as she was called) never lost a passenger as a “conductor’ on the Underground Railroad. After the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was passed, she helped guide fugitives farther north into Canada, and helped newly freed enslaved people find work. Tubman met John Brown in 1858, and helped him plan and recruit supporters for his 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry. 

    When the Civil War began, Tubman worked for the Union Army, first as a cook and nurse, and then as an armed scout and spy. She was the first woman to lead an armed expedition in the war, she guided the raid at Combahee Ferry, which liberated more than 700 enslaved people. After the war, she retired to the family home on property she had purchased in 1859 in Auburn, New York, where she cared for her aging parents. She was active in the women's suffrage movement until illness overtook her, and she had to be admitted to a home for elderly African Americans that she had helped to establish years earlier.  She was an abolitionist and activist and became an icon of courage and freedom. She died on March 25th, 1931.

    The movement to replace Andrew Jackson on the $20 with Harriet Tubman was halted by a former president but is back on track under the current administration.

    Ariana Texidor


  • We will be running a special schedule Weds (2/16) for course registration:
  • Special Early Release Schedule for 2/16/22

    A

    9:00-9:45 (45 mins)

    Advisory for Course Registration

    9:50-10:15 (25 mins)

    B

    10:20-11:00 (40 mins)

    C

    11:05-11:35 (30 min)

    11:35-12:05 (30 min)

    12:05-12:35 (30 min)

    *60 min class/30 min lunch

    D

    12:40-1:20 (40 mins)


  • At 37 years in a row and counting, the Theater Company's annual Student-Written Play Festival will be welcoming 10-minute and 1-minute play submissions for a deadline in mid-March.  We'd love to see your scripts!  Come to a brief info meeting this THURSDAY, February 17 from 3:45-4:00 in the auditorium.  Anyone can apply!  See Mr. Bechtold with questions.
  • The International Students Club is offering high school students an opportunity to be peer-tutors for ARHS students who are learning English! Depending on the student, you might be practicing conversational English with them or tutoring math/science topics. Please email Rebekah Hong at hongr@arps.org if you’re interested
  • Want to watch a classic French movie and support the French Club? The French club will be showing “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg” on Thursday, February 17th at 7:00 pm in the auditorium. The tickets will be sold at the door and they will be $1.00 for students and $2.00 for general admission. Donations are encouraged. “Les Parapluies de Cherbourg” is a fun musical for everyone to watch, so come and bring your friends!
  • Schools for Africa is a club that meets every other Wednesday afterschool. We talk about different ways to raise money to help Africa build more schools. We have raised lots of money in different ways: like bake sales, Man Pageant, Duck race and our letter campaign but we are still trying to get some new ideas for fundraising.  All the money that we have made goes straight to our Schools for Africa funds account. Did you know that around 2010~2011 Schools for Africa raised about $20,000 which led us to our goal to build a School in Cameroon! Also in 2017, ARHS donated $9,000 to build a water system for the primary school in Nketiosh, Cameroon. Our goal is to raise a lot more so we can keep building more schools in Africa!