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New teaching librarian joins staff

Wagner brings experience as librarian, archivist, instructor This year Minnehaha is welcoming many new faces, one of them being Dora Wagner, a new librarian. Wagner will work in the library with Robyn Westrem, a librarian and English department chair, and with...

Brave New World

Brave New World reveals important issues in modern day society Genetic modification, government corruption, substance abuse ... sounds familiar, right? Aldous Huxley's Brave New World is a modern classic novel -- perpetually relevant -- delving into important issues...

Historical fiction connects the past and present

"Chamberlain closed his eyes and saw it again. It was the most beautiful thing he had ever seen. No book or music would have that beauty. He did not understand it: a mile of men flowing slowly, steadily, inevitably up the long green ground, dying all the while, coming...

Minnehaha sophomores compare The Lord of the Flies to the movie Mean Girls

"I think [watching Mean Girls in English class] is a great idea. It's funny, and then it also shows...how girls act, [not realistically], but it's enhanced. It's really entertaining," said sophomore Lily Kline, a student in Robyn Westrem's Honors English 10. For the...
The art of tyranny

The art of tyranny

The musings of dictators reveal manipulative minds, disjointed insanity Hitler. Mussolini. Stalin. Mao. Saddam. Men...