Hmong New Year Celebrated

The Hmong students of Luther Burbank came to school Friday dressed in their ceremonial outfits and during fourth period did their annual ball toss, a way for a boy to get acquainted with a girl. Watch the video below:

Get Schooled.Com

by:Temiracle Harris and Danielle Hunt

Get Schooled is basically a  website for schools to compete against each other to earn money for their school and win a concert for the whole school while at the same time learn more about college.

Luther Burbank is currently tied with Sac High for first place in our region. So, it is important that all Burbank students log in to get. schooled and earn points for their school.

This week's winners are Sharm Kojol,Dexter Niskala,Jose Hernandez and Julia Vang.


All Seniors VERY IMPORTANT WE GET 30 POINTS FOR EVERY 130 ENTRIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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If you are ready to start your college search you have come to the right place! We're happy to partner with applyful to help you discover, collect and share college knowledge! Find the best schools to your liking. When you're active on Applyful you're earning get schooled points and it helps your school.



SO HURRY AND EARN POINTS WE ONLY HAVE TWO WEEKS TO GO WE ARE CATCHING UP!!!!!!

Noguchi Will Be Interim Superintendent

By: Divya Chand & Salmaan Khan

Sara Noguchi 

When current Sacramento City School District superintendent Jonathan Raymond resigns at the end of the current year, Sara Noguchi will serve as an interim superintendent.

Noguchi currently serves as one of the three Area Assistant Superintendents and oversees 21 schools, including the seven superintendents priority schools. She previously served as director of Secondary Education for the Elk Grove Unified School District, where she worked for 17 years in a variety of positions, including math teacher and principal of James Rutter Middle School.

She holds a doctorate in education from the University of the Pacific. Her doctoral studies focused on the professional development needs of middle and high school principals.

Outgoing superintendent Raymond said this about Noguchi:

"Sara will continue to move the district forward for the benefit of he students and families we serve.  I also have every confidence in her ability to lead the process of finding the right permanent superintendent."

Reminders for seniors

Seniors don't forget that you must submit your college application by November 30th.

You will need to provide your SSN number to your counselor starting the week of December 2nd. your counselor will explain more to you after Thanksgiving break.

Update: Disaster in the Philippines

By: Divya Chand 


As most of you know, the southern part of the Philippines was hit hard by a typhoon.  The typhoon wiped out cities and the death toll is overwhelming.

Luther Burbank teacher, Ms. Mestidio, a native Filipino, wants to send a box home with relief goods. She is asking everyone to help out.

Things needed:

Blankets

Clothes

Shoes

Towels

Underwear

Canned goods - those that can be opened without the use of a can opener.

Rice 

Toiletries 

Light jackets 

Socks 

Basic Medicines and medical stuff - gauze, antibiotic ointments, pain relievers...

She is NOT accepting monetary donations. If you plan to donate this way, please go directly to Red Cross.

For more information: See Ms.Mestidio's in room  (F9.5).

Titans Fear the Beard

In LBHS some of the teachers participated in "Fear the Beard". What we mean by "Fear the Beard" is that the teachers wouldn't shave until Titans win the football championship this fall.
Several male teachers talked about this with the Titan Ledger.

Luther Burbank Health Ambassadors Internship

Want to help your community live healthier lives? Join the Health Ambassadors Internship. as a part of this organization you will mentor elementary and middle school students,and create healthy living campaigns.

You will also hold food-tasting demonstrations, learn how to garden and take trips to local organic farms and gardens. This organization is held every Tuesday from 3:00 to 4:30 and Thursday 2:30 to 4:00 starting Dec. 3rd.

Want to join? Sign-up after school in room B10 on Tuesday 11/19 or Thursday 11/21.

Health Corps logo

Put on by partnership of: The Center sacramento chinese community service center, The Change Game, People Reaching Out, and Health Corps.

Kathy Yang, Burbank Alumni

 By: Divya Chand & Salmaan Khan


Q. What are you doing now?
 A. College student at Sac State and a part time teacher at Burbank.

Q. When did you graduated from high school?
A. In 2011

Q. What are you studying now?
A. Education literature

Kathy Yang 

Tiger on Campus!

Escaped tiger hiding from the hot sun.

Tiger escaped its enclosure from a nearby zoo and took shelter in a High School.

It was said that the tiger cage was unlocked and it supposedly took to the streets of Sacramento where he was found in Luther Burbank High School.

The school was on lock down for one and a half hour for Animal Control to escort the tiger back to the zoo where it belongs. 

Tiger and students were not harmed.

(not really, this is a photoshop project by Chee Xiong)

Movie Review: Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs 2

By : Alisia Baca And David Coleman 

      

Cloudy with the Chance of Meatballs 2 is about an inventor Flint Lockwood's genius is finnaly being recognized as he's invited by his idol Chester V to join the live corp company, where the best and brightest inventors in the world create stuff for his betterment of mankind. Flint's dream is to be recognize as a great inventor , till everything starts to changes , he invents a device where water turns into food by a touch of a button is still operating and now creating food - animals!!!! his hands are in his faith. he sends his friends on a dangerously delicious mission, battling cheese spiders and other food created TO SAVE THE WORLD!!!!     

The Critics Said it was not Clever or inventive as it's Predecessor , it compensates with enough dazzling visuals to keep younger viewers entertainment. It's more of a kids movie then adult movie.   

Editorial: Why Students Don't Like Math

By: Divya Chand & Salmaan Khan

Students don't like math because you have to use your brain a lot. It's hard. Some students like math, some don't. Math is like solving a puzzle. Students get confused by looking at the problem. In math you have to memorize the formula and steps.

Some students don't like to solve problems. Some people like to solve problem. If you make one mistake you will get a wrong answer. Everybody uses math everyday ex: time,counting, and etc....

Students don't want to deal with numbers and equations.It's a set of symbols and concepts that relate and work together. Only in math you can solve things in different ways. There are a lot of methods to solving problems.

So, really, math isn't that bad. Learn it.

             

Disaster in The Philippines

As most of you know, the southern part of the Philippines was hit hard by a typhoon.  The typhoon wiped out cities and the death toll is overwhelming.

Luther Burbank teacher, Ms. Mestidio, a native Filipino, wants to send a box home with relief goods. She is asking everyone to help out.

Things needed:
Blankets
Clothes
Shoes
Towels
Underwear
Canned goods - those that can be opened without the use of a can opener.
Rice 
Toiletries 
Light jackets 
Socks 
Basic Medicines and medical stuff - gauze, antibiotic ointments, pain relievers...

Please drop them off in Ms. Mestidio's room (F9.5) this week.

She is NOT accepting monetary donations. If you plan to donate this way, please go directly to Red Cross.

She appreciates the help...

They  collected $88.78. Last week they send 4 boxes. Ends on 20th or 21st.

What I'm Thankful For?

by Yessenia Sanchez


If your Catholic or into your own religion or possibly forced to pray , or what have you , you may understand how to be thankful and show it within others. Theses things are taught or learned by parents, siblings, family members, and friends. There is  a saying that everyone knows and many people say "You don't know what you have, until you lose it", I personally like to add in at the end "so be thankful that you have it now than realize it at the end."

I'm thankful that I have a family because many children don't grow up with one, I'm thankful that I have a home to go to, have a bed to lay on, have 3 meals a day to eat. I'm thankful that I have all the things that many children and kids can't have or don't have. I'm also thankful for life and love, because without these two things I wouldn't have been here today, writing in this blog, going to school and enjoying every moment of it, because before you know it it can all be gone.

I'm going to graduate the year 2015, that's in two years and one more school year from now. My high school moments are almost going to be over in just two years! So I have to make the best of it because coming back to theses moments are hard and I have to make them as memorable as possible. Having free access to education from kindergarden to 12th grade is amazing and being able to make friends every new school year is something to be truly thankful for.

A Collage: Wildlife Around Burbank

By: Shafay

     I am very thankful to Mr.Hull and my friend,  named Shy Boy,  because they helped to create a beautiful picture. It's kind of difficult to make a collage. It took me like three hours to create this collage. The more difficult part is to cut out each photo.  It took me like 20 minutes apiece.

But I'm so happy that I learned how to create a photo collage. The thing I learned in this process is its about mind then, hand. You don't have to be good artist to create a photo collage,  you just need to have a smart mind.

Editorial: Mr.Hull's Newspaper class is Important

  By: Daveana Owens

Mr. Hull's after school class Newspaper should be really important to our school. We provide good information whether it is about movies or just about school activities. It is also a good and fun place to be if you are interested in journalism.

In the class, Mr. Hull introduced all of his students to our online newspaper, the Titan Ledger. Where we get to post everything we find interesting or what he tells us to review and inform others. We inform not just only our school but other people all around the world. Everything we post it will be read by anybody who comes upon our newspaper. It's not as easy as people think it is. We really have to be focused on certain things. We really have to watch the news a lot which is a part of journalism. Knowing the facts and to be ready to tell the world about it.
   
     

Health Corps Cooking Club

Monday,  November  4, 2013                                                                                       By: Jana Lee

 The Health Corps Cooking Club today made a quesadilla with corn,mozzarella, mild taco seasoning, salt, chili powder, diced onions and tortilla. The students in the cooking club were quite verbal that the quesadilla was good and healthy. The cooking club also made kale chips. The ingredients were fresh kale, seasoning salt, vinegar and chili powder. The students then tossed the ingredients together, put it on a pan and then they baked it at 350 degrees for 10 minutes.

The Quesadilla and Kale chips can easily be made at home by using fresh, local ingredients!

What I Am Thankful For

By: Salmaan Khan

I am thankful for my family. When I need help they are there for me. When I don't know something they tell me. They help me in my homework, online classes, etc..

Mom and Dad gave me whatever I want by showing my school work. My grades have always been good.

 I am thankful for my teachers they help me to learn. Every day I learn new things. I am thankful for what I am today. I am also thankful for having such a great family.

Titan Tennis Doubles Struggle At Conference Meet

Maisy Vue puts all of her five-foot-one-inch frame into every serve and every ground stroke she hits on the tennis court. Her two older sisters were also tennis players in high school so she had a little bit of family history when it came to playing the sport at Luther Burbank High School.

But on Oct. 31, Vue, the school’s number one singles player, teamed up with teammate Girlmu Vue in the Metro Conference’s super doubles competition at the Natomas Racquet Club and found out real quick playing the doubles game is a whole lot different than singles. 

Burbank tennis player Girlmu Vue

“It was a whole lot more competitive than singles,” Vue said. “When you are up close to the net you’re trying to hit it hard at them. When you’re on the baseline, you’re just trying to get the ball over the net.”

The Vues were dispatched quickly from the event, 8-1, by the number two doubles team from Kennedy, Anstonia Ma and Shannon Lee.

Maisy wishes she and Girlmu could have hung around and played a bit longer on that cool fall morning, but just getting the opportunity to play tennis was fine, she said.

“It’s a different experience, but worth it,” she said.

Later on, though, Maisy was awarded an All-Conference Player patch. She made the quarterfinals of the singles tournament a couple days earlier, thus she qualified for the honor, the only Burbank player to earn the award.

She was grinning ear-to-ear as she brought her patch back to school. A senior, her competitive tennis career was now over. An excellent student in the classroom she’ll go to college.

“Tennis from now on will be a hobby,” she said.

The event was a fun thing to be a part of for her, Girlmu and the number two Burbank doubles duo of Pang Ying and Patricia Ojeda. All the girls seemed to giggle with each other every time a shot went awry, even pounded accidently over the tall fences surrounding the Racquet  Club.

Not a word of trash talking, typical now-a-days in most high school sports, was heard anywhere. No haranguing of officials, either. In fact, there were none. The players, themselves, called balls knocked out of bounds. They almost never argued with each other on those types of calls.

During breaks in the matches, a friendly word is exchanged with each other. They all have one thing in common and that is tennis.

Unlike the more experienced, more tennis-savvy players on the McClatchy and Kennedy teams, many schools like Burbank, Florin and Valley (Sacramento and Johnson, two other Metro Conference schools, don’t field tennis teams) struggle a bit to field players with much experience in the sport. Maisy has played for four years. Her Titan teammates have less experience.

On Thursday, all those schools’ doubles teams were out after the first round. McClatchy’s girls, many of who play year-round and take personal lessons, placed three doubles squads in the semi-finals.

By finishing that high at the conference meet, it assured all of them a spot in the Sac-Joaquin Section’s Division II Individual Tennis Championships Nov. 7 and 8 at the Johnson Ranch Racquet Club in Roseville.

Valley’s Rachel Cuellar and Chienne Vang did find a way to defeat a pair from Rosemont in the opening round and took Ma and Lee pretty deep into the quarter-final match before losing, 6-6 (5-7), 2-6.

On Monday, the Valley squad kept up its improved play by winning its opening match of the Division II team playoffs. They defeated Patterson, 6-3. Tuesday, the Vikings played Bella Vista in the next round of the team championships.

While McClatchy, the Metro’s top seed in the Division II team championships, was outfitted in some of the finest in tennis gear and uniforms, the other schools seemed to just have something that appeared to match.

The girls didn’t seem to mind. They enjoyed opportunity to play on the picturesque courts of the Natomas club. Everyone walked away with smiles, and some Halloween candy bars.

Tennis is fun for them. 

Halloween Haunted House

The Key Club made a very scary Haunted House for the elementary school kid's at Bowling Green Elementary School and their progress was well as seen in the pictures below and it actually looked like it was a Haunted House in the graveyard with dead people and zombies, ghost and vampires.

It was an annual event in Luther Burbank High School and the young kids had lots of fun and enjoyed it very well.

Haunting Goblins in the Key Club Haunted House

Eeary lights, too

No haunted house is complete without
plenty of cobwebs

Titan ROTC Drill Result!

Hey Titans! Navy JROTC had an outstanding 25th Anniversary Titan Drill Meet last Saturday.

The Titan Battalion hosted 14 of the best drill team from all over California,Nevada and Oregon who came to Luther Burbank for competitive military drill. Our Titan Drill trams had their performance in several years bringing home trophies in the fallowing six categories.


 * 3rd place: In the category: 1st Year Color Guard Personnel Inspection: Led by 1st Guard Team Commander, Cadet Seaman Apprentice Kyleigh McCrary
* 3rd Place: In Armed Regulation Drill: Led by Armed Drill Team Commander, Cadet Whief Willie Lafradez
*2nd Place: IN Armed Personnel Inspection: Led by Armed Drill Team Commander, Cadet Chief Willie Lafradez
* 2nd Place: In Armed Exhibition Drill: Led by Armed Drill team Commander, Cadet Chief Willie Lafradez
* 2nd Place: In Varsity Color Guard Regulation Drill: Led by Color Guard Team Commander, Cadet Chief Jashneel Kumar
* 1st Place: In the Armed Drill Down Competition; competing against over 100 other cadets in highly disciplined drill, Cadet Petty Office First Class Lucky Hang was victories against an amazing field of competitions!

Bravo Zulu Titans! Thank you for all volunteers and supporters who came out to help make Titan 2013 an incredible success!

Cross Country News

                    Results of the Metro League Championships:


The JV girls were led by MVP Freshman Bobbie Ceasear who placed 14th against a strong fields. The JV boys were again led by Mathew DeGuzman 11th, William Hall 13th, Tut Chang 14th, Bryce Brewer & Darin Nguyen finished strong. The team placed 3rd overall.

The Varsity Girls were led by 10th place medalist VyVy Tran. VyVy also earned all - metro honors. Melissa Herrera medalist placing 19th, she also improved her time almost three minutes over the 5k hilly course.

The Varsity boys were led by Leo Castello 23rd , Dang Mia 24th, Victor Prieto 25th out of 52 runners. Nelson Aprego, Chue Lor & Aomir Ali finished close behind. The Team placed fifth over all.

                                               GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!

Opinions On The Cafeteria Food

by Yessenia Sanchez 

We have heard various opinions and some complaints about our cafeteria food, here are some comments that some students have told us.

Editorial:School Lunch

by: Danielle Hunt 

The school lunch here at Luther Burbank High School could be better than any other lunch served at middle school.

Because there is almost the exact same food as middle school and the kids can be really really tired of eating the exact same thing everyday. Having the exact same thing will make the students stop eating the school lunch.

This may not be true for some but most feel the same way. Now days the kids in this generation are usually picky about what they eat.

If the students do not eat they will not have as much focus as if they had a full stomach and on an empty stomach the students cant keep up with the rest of the class and get the grades needed.That's why the school needs to have better food so the students can stay awake. This is especially important to those who are athletes and need to stay awake to practice and not get distracted by their hunger and not feel so good and end up not playing the better part of the game.

As a result the school lunch should improve on their lunch choices.

Homecoming Rally

By:Ja'na Lee

This was the  Homecoming Rally on Oct. 18 and everybody was having fun. The entire student body was participating, representing their Small Learning Communities and their grade grousp like the Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and, of course SENIORS!!! This 2013 Homecoming rally was fun and enjoyable and we all had a great time.