This is a Drawing of Fannie Lou Hamer, an African American Civil Rights activist in the 1960s, who may be best remembered for her effort to bring hundreds of college students of all backgrounds, races and creeds to help with African American voter registration, according to womenhistory.org.
The artist, Conwell Middle Magnet Student N. Holland said that she made this depiction of Fannie Lou Hamer because, according to Ms. C. Green, special education assistant, N. Holland was asked to draw the image of the Civil Rights activist as they were reading a book about her in class.
Edited by J. Boggs-Mendaloski -61 CCB Staff and Posted by CCB Staff
6ABC reporter Matteo Iadonisi (left) talks with Conwell Middle Magnet Teacher Mr. Posnan about the Media Lab Fundraising efforts. – All Photos in this article by I. Speier – 61 – CCB Reporter.
Conwell Middle Magnet School is full STEAM ahead as thousands of dollars in donations have come in to help build a brand-new media lab. The donation efforts were led by Mr. Posnan, Conwell 5th-and 6th-grade Science teacher, to help the school’s Journalism and Media Arts program. The program will help kids reach their goal of being a writer or journalist.
The program will help kids publish their stories or drawings and more, so they can make kids’ dreams come true like they do here on the ConwellCougars.Blog.
“And they want kids to be good writers,” said 6ABC reporter Matteo Iadonisi. “They also would like a good life for the kids that like writing.
Mr. Iadonisi came to visit Mr. Posnan’s classroom to report on the media lab fundraising back in January. At the time of this publication, there was over $22,000 in donations.
“It’s nice how much people care about the media lab,” Mr. Iadonisi said.
According to Mr. Posnan, they’re going to buy iPads, green screens, video equipment, sound studio furnishings, editing software, etc. Right now, the school is trying to find a good, quiet and spaced room.
“Each day, they persevere. Each day, they walk through a million reasons to give up, yet each day, they persist,” said Mr. Posnan
Students at Conwell are excited for the opportunity to get their voices heard.
“I think that this is a really great thing, A. Rodriguez-61 said. “I think it will really help with students’ problems and it will probably help them with their future jobs.”
Editor’s note:
Click this link for more information about the Conwell Middle Magnet School’s Media Lab Fundraiser.
Conwell Middle Magnet Students with more than 90-percent attendance recently earned free dress-down passes. – Photo by J. Boggs-Mendaloski-CCB Editorial Staff
The Attendance Dress Down event has passed for the Conwell Cougars! According to Conwell Middle Magnet School counselor, Mr. Ford, this event was for selected students who had accomplished 90% or more attendance.
These students had the ability to dress down for free for 3 days. This event showed how most students stay in school and their determination to have a good attendance. Mr. Ford, o handed out the certificates to all the students who reached this goal.
“Being here is half the battle,” said Mr. Ford.
“Being here is half the battle.” – Mr Ford, Conwell Middle Magnet School Counselor
Mr. Ford holds up the coveted attendance incentive pass. Photo by J. Boggs-Mendaloski-61 – CCB Staff
The trailer begins with Shuri holding the mask of her fallen brother T-Challah (Chadwick Boseman).
All the Wakandians are marching while wearing white, their color of mourning as seen in the 2018 film, Black Panther. Remora, knowing how hard it is, decides to hold Shuri’s hand to comfort her while she is walking down. Next we see the Wakandians marching while two statues one of the two being Bashinga the first Black Planther and the other one being his wife and I believe the statues represent the Black Panther going from male to female, after a long period of time.
Next we see Namor painting a god. The god I believe he is painting is the feathered serpent from Mayan Mythology. This shows that Namor is a follower of the feathered serpent, probably the avatar of this god as well, like how the Black Panther is an avatar of the Panther God which took gods that I didn’t think was in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (616) but I guess they are. Next we see Shuri making a Wakandian salute with her tattoo, which if you look closer you can see that the tattoo is really Vibranium atoms.
Then we hear Namor saying “Only the most broken people can make great leaders” pointing to him and Shuri. We also see a mural of T-Challah (Chadwick Boseman) and the mural says “The king lives in the black panther that is forever in us, rest with the ancestors” then we see Namors kingdom and we get a closer look at Namors helmet and we see that his helmet is a feathered serpent which is more evidence that Namor is the avatar of the feathered serpent.
Then we hear MBaku saying “His people do not call him general or king they call him the feathered serpent” and that quote is even more evidence that Namor is the avatar of the feathered serpent. Then we see the new Black Panther with the same dots on her face and forehead as Shuri, possibly confirming Shuri is the new Black Panther. This paragraph is my trailer breakdown of black Panther: Wakanda Forever.
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Contest By Y. Hiraldo – 61 – CCB Editor — With Graphic Arts by N. Champion – CCB Staff — With reporting by R. Rowan – 72 – CCB – Editor
The Conwell Cougars Blog will be holding another contest in honor of Black History Month, and we’re focusing it around the amazing bulletin board outside of Room 108, titled “Black History Month, Celebrating African American Greats” where students can match impressive historic facts with the correct African American figures.
In order to enter this contest, you must:
1. Read the bulletin board next to room 108
2. Match at least ONE fact from the Room 108 Bulletin Board article to the person!
3. First three students to comment the correct matches will win a CCB-Sponsored free pass to the next Cougar – Cash in or get their name automatically on the PRIZE WHEEL!!!
“You may not recognize some of these people,” Ms Clark said, explaining that she had chosen these individuals in order to increase their popularity. “ We want to spread a little light!”
Students can make their comments by scrolling to the bottom of this post under where it says: LEAVE A REPLY.
The deadline is Feb. 22 at 2:30 p.m.
See slideshow gallery above for more details on how to enter the contest!
Photo of Mr. Ford and the article’s author, R. Currid-72. Mr. Ford is the Conwell Middle Magnet School Counselor. Photo courtesy of Ms. Williams, Conwell SBTL.
This week is National Counselors Week. At Conwell Middle Magnet School we are celebrating our school’s counselor. Mr. Ford came to Conwell when the previous counselor was going out on sabbatical. Mr. Ford filled the spot in 2013 for half a year, and soon became our permanent counselor.
Before Mr. Ford was Conwell’s counselor, he said he was a teacher of Technology at an elementary school. In the second month of teaching, he thought he needed to help the kids more and soon he became a school counselor.
When Mr. Ford chose Conwell, he had many other choices. It turned out that Conwell was an easy choice for him.
When Mr. Ford was younger, he said that he was always good at school. However, he warned that students who think school is easy, and don’t need to give much effort, will need to give more effort at a Magnet school, such as Conwell Middle Magnet School.
“Work gets harder,” Mr. Ford said, “then you figure out smart people work hard.”
He went to all Philadelphia public schools, from second to 12th grade. At some point in high school decided to give himself a talk and said give it your best shot at the classroom and in sports and see what happens. It worked out that I was successful, got a college degree from West Chester University and the rest is history.
Editor’s note: Leave a comment here to say a quick word of thanks to Mr. Ford!
Video of CCB Reporter Y. Hiraldo’s – 61 interview with Conwell Middle Magnet School’s counselor Mr. Ford for National Counselors Week. – Video edit K. Velasquez – 83 – CCB Staff.
To hear Mr. Ford share a bit about his counseling philosophy through music, play the video above!
Graphic Image created by K. Velasquez 83 – Photo images all rights reserved.
The Wildcards
I’m gonna say it right now. All the National Football Conference wildcard games were awful aside from the Bengals and Jags games. We will be going over them.
Seahawks 23, 49ers 41
It was expected from the beginning that the Seahawks would lose this game, it’s just that we didn’t know it would turn out this way. Other than that I still have to congratulate the Seahawks for being the biggest underdogs this season and beating out the Broncos.
Cowboys 31, Buccaneers 14
Welp, now we were forced to hear the Cowboy fans yell out that their team is going to the big game. This is also probably Brady’s downfall as he’s played badly this year.
Vikings 24 Giants 31
I have nothing more to say but the Vikings were outliers. You may think they are good but they really haven’t been for the past 45 years.
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AFC WILDCARD
Im gonna enjoy writing about this
The AFC playoffs were a real definition of what a playoff game should be (besides some decisions) Starting off with the Bengals – Ravens game. Ravens took the lead 10-9 at the half and were jumping out to a good start in the game but then in the second half, the Bengals managed to tie the game at 17. The Ravens marched down the field but then out of nowhere, The running back Tyler Huntley fumbled the ball and was returned for a 98 yard touchdown which won the game for the Bengals. The rhythm for the Ravens this season is choking away games and it seems as if they just did their last choke, the season ending choke.
Next up was the Dolphins Bills game. After killing Tua Tagovailoa all season long with concussions they finally realized that he needs neurological help. So they started quarterback Skylar Thompson. And Thompson, forgot what a play clock was. They were several key moments ruined by the play clock and they lost 31-34.
Now the Chargers and Jaguars game. You saw the famed defensive back Joey Bosa slamming his helmet. The Jaguars were being dominated. In the first quarter, 17-0. Second?, 27-7. The Jags were down by 20 points. They began a comeback, and after the 3rd quarter, needed only 10 points to tie up the game. But then, after a “missed call” Edge Rusher Joey Bosa was flagged for throwing his helmet twice. It motivated Coach Doug Pederson to go for two and it worked.
On the final drive The Jaguars officially have moved on after a walk off field to win the game 30-31.
NFC AND AFC DIVISIONAL ROUNDS
The divisional round was pretty bad with rebuilding teams entering in the round. The AFC and NFC first seed Eagles and Chiefs were able to play, and they played as well as you’d expect. The Eagles pounded the Giants 38-7 and showed their first blowout victory since Hurts got injured. However the Chiefs had to work for their win against the Jaguars and the Jags nearly came back and won the game. However the Chiefs then came out with the win 20-27.
The rest of the games weren’t all that great. I mean the Cowboys did lose to the 49ers 19-12 but then again quarterback Dak Prescott did not play to expectations with only 1 TD and 2 picks. The Bills tried their best against the Bengals but it wasn’t enough. They had everything locked down from the start, winning 27-10 and moving to the NFC Championship.
The NFC and AFC Championships
The 49ers quarterbacks uh… Its safe to say they were on life support when they had Brock Purdy. Mr. Irrelevant could only make the team relevant for so long.
The eagles would’ve rolled over the 49ers anyways. The 49ers could’ve brought up a chance if they had Purdy or Jimmy Garoppolo but still. The Eagles did a total Roll Over on the 49ers and destroyed them punching their ticket to the big game.
The Chiefs won due to Refball (Referees making horrible mistakes) plus the Bengals were doing a lot of trash talking. They were getting way too cocky, Eli Apple and other players talking trash, Arrowhead being called Burrowhead for the Quarterback Joe Burrow. And the biggest one of them all, Mayor of Cincinnati asking Burrow to take a paternity test to see if QB Patrick Mahomes is his son. That really put the nail in the coffin and Kansas City was not gonna take that level of disrespect. They would end up winning 20-23 en route to the Big Game against the Eagles.
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Super Bowl LVII
Both of the best teams from both divisions play out in todays big game. The Eagles and Chiefs are both extremely talented teams. Chiefs enter their 3rd super bowl in 4 years while the eagles were at one point 13-1 before Jalen Hurts got injured.
The amount of talent the Eagles have is astronomical with so many key factors. The O-Line is the most stacked in the NFL with most being people from the Super Bowl 52 Team. They also have the most stacked defense in the NFL. This Eagles defense had 70 sacks this year. Just two shy of the NFL record.
I mean, the Chiefs are good right? Well, really good. They are being coached by the great Andy Reid, a former Eagles head coach who took them to a Super Bowl XXXIX. Most of their weapons were lost in the Off season however they even added some pieces to the team.
However would it be worth it? All of these additions All of this trouble and revenge. Who will win it all?
FIND OUT NEXT IN SUPER Bowl LVII.
Super Bowl LVII will be played on February 12th at 6:30 PM
Editor’s Note: If you’re a student at Conwell Middle Magnet School and are interested in writing your own special interest column, please email Mr. Dungan at gdungan@philasd.org.
Dr. Childs points to her middle school self on in the Conwell Middle Magnet School Year Book. Photos are courtesy of Principal Green.
On Jan. 13, we had a very special visitor named Dr. Childs. A fun fact about her is that she graduated Conwell in 1975!
“You guys are wonderful,” Dr. Childs said. “I’m very excited to come back and see everyone grow from the last time I came.”
She is 65 years young, and she is currently a professor at a nearby university.
“I came to Conwell because when I come I never get disappointed from all of the new wonderful faces.”
While she walked the halls of Conwell Middle Magnet School, she recalled the legacy she left here so many years ago.
“I was one of the students who made the year books,” Dr. Childs said.
The new Conwell Student Council officers hosted Dr. Childs around the school.
“I love how you guys change up the place from the last time I came here,” Dr. Childs said.
Conwell Middle Magnet School Climate Manager Mr. Washington and members of the Conwell Student Council show Conwell Alumna Dr. Childs a copy of the yearbook she worked on in the Mid 1970s. – Graphic by M. Hernandez- 61 CCB Editorial Staff.
Editor’s Note:If you are a member of the Conwell Middle Magnet School Alumni and would like to visit, please contact the school by calling 215-400-7210.
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