Monday, January 22nd
Hello Pumas. This is No Place For Hate’s Racial Awareness Week. I am Caley from No Place for Hate and we want to raise awareness of people with different races and backgrounds.
Today I want to talk about racial stereotypes. A stereotype is an assumption about what someone will do or how they will behave based on what social groups they belong to, such as race. Stereotypes are dangerous as they can lead to prejudice and implicit bias, including racial stereotypes of white people, black people, or any other race; gender stereotypes; or other stereotypes based on characteristics people can’t control. Stereotypes may not be intended to be negative, but they can come off offensive. Stereotypes can be very inaccurate, because it is judging someone based on their looks. We want you not to think that people of a certain race all meet certain criteria and not stereotype people, no matter if these stereotypes are positive, neutral, or negative.
Thank you for listening to our announcement and remember that you matter.
Attention members of SAGA club. Our meeting will be moved to tomorrow, Tuesday, January 23 instead of Wednesday. Can't wait to see you!
The cast list is posted on the call board and on Mrs. Enley's website for Dear Edwina. Congratulations to all who auditioned! We have a very talented group of students here at Powell and this is going to be a great show! Please plan to attend our first rehearsal this Thursday after school if you made it in the show!
Magic: The Gathering Club will meet in Mrs.Blake's room after school today. All experience levels and decks are welcome!
Student Council reps, we will have our next meeting this Wednesday at 8:45 in room 3040.
Congratulations to the 2 Powell students whose poems were recently selected to be published in “A Celebration of Poets” from the Creative Communication Fall 2023 Writing Contest! Only a select number of entries submitted from across the nation are invited to be published in their poetry anthology.
Congratulations to the following Pumas:
Cleo Hebener-Moyer for her poem “Where I’m From”
T. Landgren for her poems “The Comfort of the Beach” and “The Golden Fall”
Congratulations to these and all of our Puma writers who entered the contest!
If YOU are a writer who would like to consider entering your writing in contests or submitting it for possible publication, Creative Communication’s current Poetry Contest deadline is April 4, 2024. Please see Mrs. Jordan for more information.
We are so proud of all of our Puma authors!