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p. 3 Teachers’ ba^l habits p, 4-5 Music Extravaganza p. 7 NFL comes to Charlotte p. 3 Boots in style High Life ^ GRIMSLEY HIGH SCHOOL Friday, December 3,1993 GRIMSLEY HIGH LIFE VOLUME LXX, NUMBER 3 New, revised SAT prepared for spring debut By Ethan Pell In the fall of 1990, the College Board announced that it was about to change the SAT. This announcement came after three years of intense research and evaluation. This extensive review of the puipose, con tent, and format of College Board admis sions tests was triggered by changes in edu cation, advances in learning and ciniicu- lum theory. Also, new approaches to test design, and a desire to see if the tests might be made more useful to students, schools, and colleges have been added. SAT-1 or Scholastic Assessment Test (the new name) will continue to test stu dents’ verbal and mathematical reasoning abilities. However, the SAT-1 will include longer reading passages that measure criti cal reading skills and knowledge of vocabu lary in context. It will continue to ask ques tions about sentences and analogies, but drop questions about antonyms. Critical reading questions will make up at least half of the new verbal test, and more than three-fourths of verbal testing time will be spent on reading passages and questions. Such questions will assess a student’s abil ity to interpret, synthesize, analyze, and evaluate a test. These changes should bring the verbal test into closer alignment with current pro fessional thinking about how reading abil ity develops and how it is to be assessed. The SAT-1 test of mathematical reason ing will continue to focus on the domains of arithmetic, algebra and geometry, and will emphasize mathematical understand ing and problem solving rather than occu pational skills. The new test will include more data interpretation and applied math ematics questions oriented to problem solv ing in practical, real-life situations. Some questions will ask students to pro duce their own answers rather than select answers from printed choices. Although none of the questions will require calcula tors to solve, students will be permitted to use calculators which will be a change that reflects the recommendation of mathema Honor Society welcomes fall Torchlight inductees By Rebecca Green “Character, scholarship, leadership, and service are cardinal qualities worthy of encouragement in all schools.” This is a quote from the National Honor Society Charter. Torchlight, Grimsley’s chapter of the National Honor Society, hon ors students who possess such qualities here at Grimsley. Torchlight is the oldest chap ter in North Carolina. The NHS charter is sued to Greensboro High School on No vember 1,1922, is the seventy-third in the coxmtry. Considering that there are now more than 20,300 chapters of NHS, the low charter number has great meaning. Students apply for the Society in the spring of their junior year or the fall of then- senior year, A committee of teachers and administrators reviews the applications and selects those students who have the quali ties stated in the charter. On November 17, twenty-one seniors were inducted into the Society. The in duction ceremony was led by the officers who spoke on knowledge, character, schol arship, service and leadership. The induct ees took the NHS oath and enjoyed a re ception with their parents. Heather Brown said, “I think being inducted into National Honor Society is a big honor and makes me proud of my success over the past four years.” Congratulations to the fall induct ees! 1993 NHS Fall Inductees Heather Brown Brian Mascia Myra Scott Jordanna Ghalnick Joe McCullough Ashlyn Smith Matt Curlee Daniel Newman Josh Steadman Heather Gonsal ves Bryan Page Kathryn Taylor Laurel Hansen Michael Parsons Stephanie Weikel Alicia Kaplan Chan Reiser Eddie Yu Jaya Kasibhatla Heather Schafer TusharZaver ticians, teachers, and students. Some think the breaks are too short. Sophomore David Bindley says, “I believe that the breaks in between the second and fourth sections are not long enough and there should be more of them.” The entire SAT-1 will be the same length as the current SAT -three hours- with the "The old SAT takes entirely too long." -Laurel Hansen, senior thirty minutes currently devoted to the TSWE divided between math and verbal. The TSWE will be dropped. The SAT-1 will be administered for the first time in March 1994. There will be three math sections. The first is a straight forward, thirty minute section of twenty- five multiple choice questions presented in order of difficulty just like the current SAT. The second section is also a thirty minute section of twenty-five questions but with a new twist. There will be fifteen quantita tive comparison, the last ten questions in this section are now student produced re sponses or “grid-in” questions. The third section will be only fifteen minutes long and there are ten questions, all multiple choice. The verbal part of the new SAT will have three sections, two thirty minute sections of thirty and thirty-five questions respectively and one fifteen minute section of thirteen questions which are all dev^oted to critical thinking. “I think that the SAT (old version) takes entirely too long, given that only four of the six sections tested are used to compute your score,” senior Lau rel Hansen said. Overall, there are fewer questions with the same amount of time on the new test. The Educational Testing Service, the people who write the SAT questions, tell us that the new tests are more reasoning oriented but they really don’t document how or why. While some format changes have been made, the skills they test really haven’t changed. Although the new SAT offers many changes it still is the same test. 'mi- iiiiiilliib. WiJil) 1 wS I Milii Grimsley members of Seiwr Girl Scout Troop 111 make histoiy by buBding flie Gold House. See article, page 2. NAFTA becomes reality for America By Susan Barham On November 17, the House of Repre sentatives passed the North American Free Trade Agreement. NAFTA only involves the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Its purpose is to eliminate most, if not all, tar iffs (border taxes) on products being shipped from one of these three countries to another. For example, if the U.S. ships a product to Mexico, then Mexico cannot charge a tax. There are both pros and cons to NAFTA. Without tariffs, more U.S. products will be sold in Mexico which means more Ameri can jobs. However, U.S. corporations may move their plants to Mexico, for cheaper labor costs, and then ship their products back to the U.S., which means fewer American jobs. Economists predict xm- skilled jobs used in labor intensive indus try (greater number of people than ma chines) will be moved to Mexico. Jobs re quiring skilled labor and high technology will remain in the U.S. and export their products.
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