Trojan Times
April Edition
It's Poetry Month
From Creative Solutions
World Creativity and Innovation Week programs are sponsored each year in Michigan City and across northwest Indiana by The Center for Creative Solutions ( https://www.centerforcreativesolutions.com/ }.
This year we are proud to host our 4th annual Poetry Showcase.
Thank you for supporting Ashley and encouraging her creative spirit. We look forward to hearing from more of your students in the future.
Bill Halliar
And here is that winning poem...
Some more poems from our Times Staff
A Spring Verse by Jazmyn Dennis
April showers bring May flowers
The rain helps them grow,
They present themselves in different colors
Pink, red, or yellow,
So if you see one in the ground
Remember it like so,
“April showers bring May flowers
The rain helped them grow”
Second Place by Megan Hartley
I hate the number two,
because that is all I will ever be.
Since elementary walking on the side of the grass,
walking behind a pair of joint arms.
Alone in the back seat of a car.
Silenced during conversations with others.
“Well I-“ I would say for the first time
“Well I-” I would try again.
I thought third times a charm.
“Well I-” I began and no one glances my way.
I envy forever friendships,
like the ones you see in books and tv-shows.
I realize I’ll never have that.
Would someone be willing to die for me?
I can barely convince someone to hang out.
I idealize romance and love, in hopes it will one day to fill this void in my heart and this voice in my head telling me in will never be enough.
I want to be liked.
I want to be loved.
I want everyone to stop leaving.
I want to be seen.
I want to be heard.
I want to be in someone’s world where I’m not second place.
I want to be enough.
BACON BY AVA CHIESI
The pig sleeps soundly, unaware of what tomorrow brings, For tomorrow he takes his final breath,
But for tonight he may sleep, sleep in blissful ignorance.
Career Day at CHS
The Man of Many Voices
By Jazmyn Dennis
Mel Blanc is probably one of America's greatest voice-over artists. He has created more than 400 unique voices for some popular radio, TV, movie, and cartoon characters. You may not know him by name, but you have definitely heard him before. Whether it be on the radio or in a cartoon, you have heard his voice at least once.
Mel Blanc, full name Melvin Jerome Blanc, was born on May 30 in 1908 and lived in San Francisco, California. At an early age, Blanc became interested in music. He soon became proficient on bass, violin, and sousaphone. His professional life as a radio musician began in the late 1920s, and in 1933 Blanc and his wife co-hosted a radio show for Portland, Oregon. He did freelance work at Los Angeles radio stations in the 1930s and joined the animation unit at Warner Bros. studios in 1937. Schlesinger’s unit at Warner Bros. produced the popular and enduringly influential Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoon shorts. The first character that Blanc voiced was a drunken bull in the 1937 short Picador Porky.
After 50+ years in show business, Mel Blanc provided voices for almost 3,000 cartoons for various studios. He is most associated with his work at Warner Bros. studio. He came up with voices for an estimated 90% of the Warner characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, Sylvester, Foghorn Leghorn, and the Road Runner. He also hosted his own show in the late 1940s.
In the 1950s and 60s Mel Blanc continued his work for Warner and provided voices for TV cartoons, most notably that of Barney Rubble in The Flintstones. He opened a voice-over artist school with his son in the 1970s. Blanc’s last major assignment was to provide voices for his most familiar characters in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?. That’s Not All, Folks: My Life in the Golden Age of Cartoons and Radio, Blanc’s autobiography, went out the same year in 1988.
Mel Blanc passed away on July 10, 1989 from heart disease and emphysema in Los Angeles, California. Since his passing, there have been other actors that have assumed the voices of the Looney Tunes characters, but none have been able to match Blanc’s amazing comic timing and sense of ridiculousness, not to mention the many distinctions he brought to the characters.
Banana Bread is Good!
By Ava Chiesi
Banana Bread is a common treat that has been around since the 1870s. With its use of overripe bananas and simple ingredients, it quickly became popular during the Great Depression. This got me thinking, how exactly do you make this iconic food? This is honestly a very simple, and delicious, dish to make. For starters…
You Will Need:
A medium to large bowl
A fork
8x4 inch loaf pan
2-3 bananas
⅓ cup melted butter along with a bit of extra solid butter
½ tsp baking soda
Salt
A little over ¾ cup of sugar
1 egg
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 ½ cups flour
Baking Instructions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit
Take your bananas, put them in the bowl and mash them thoroughly with your fork
Add your ⅓ cup of melted butter and stir
Add your ½ tsp baking soda
Add 1 small pinch of salt and stir
Add a little bit over ¾ cup of sugar
Add one egg
Add 1 tsp of vanilla extract and mix
Add 1 ½ cup of flour and mix
Butter loaf pan WELL and pour the batter in
Bake for 50 minutes to an hour or wait till tester comes out clean
Serving/ De-panning
Let cool for a few minutes (Please don't burn yourselves!!)
Use butter knife to wedge the edges lose and remove it from the pan
Let it cool completely and slice after
E A T !
What is Nothing?
By Abi Carper
CMS Benefit was a Blast!
Photos Courtesy of Isabel Durnkin
CMS Sports Report April
Chesterton Middle School
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