Filipino Dance Club Teaches Tradition |
The Ken Song |
By Klyde Abiera
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By Amelia Kirkpatrick
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Filipino Dance Club teaches its students the traditional dances of Filipino dances, The dance club started in 2007 and has been going strong for 16 years. The primary purpose of FDC (Filipino Dance Club) was to expose more Filipino and Non-Filipino students to the traditional dances of the Filipino Culture. The experienced club members teach the recruits popular Filipino dances like Tinikling, Sayaw sa Bangko, Bulaklakan Dance, etc.
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Over the past couple months, people all over social media have been singing and dancing to the Ken Song. It’s the newest hit in cinema music since the Peaches Song from the Super Mario Bros Movie. The Ken Song, also titled I’m Just Ken, was presented in the Barbie movie that came out on July 21 of this year. While the Barbie movie itself was successful, the addition of giving Ryan Gosling a song, the actor who plays Ken, exceeded many people’s expectations. I’m Just Ken has already hit over 50 million streams on Spotify and over 3 million views on Youtube. It goes without saying that nobody thought this song would become big, yet it did and specifically amongst social media.
All over Tik Tok, Youtube, and even Instagram, the Ken song impacted many lives. It not only caught the musical interests of many, but influenced behaviors and emotions. Through personal discovery, I have witnessed Tik Toks where teenagers have danced and sung to the song. That’s not it though. These adolescents are in full costume, using their phone or filming device as if it were a professional camera, and using lights similar to those shown in movies. What I am saying is that these videos were thought through and filmed almost professionally. The Ken song has brought the creative sides out of people. Social media in general has allowed the Ken song to flourish. People are making their own adaptations to the song or producing entirely different and original lyrics of songs they’ve made themselves. The catchy song, that I admit has been stuck in my head for a few days, will forever be a monumental moment of the year. Especially towards the young audience. First Peaches and now I’m Just Ken. What else does the movie world have in store for us?! |
Study Methods
By Amelia Kirkpatrick
Now that it's been a couple months since school started, students have at least taken one quiz or unit test within their classes. It is time to get back into the routine of studying every night in order to earn good grades. There’s just one issue. A lot of students don’t know how to properly study. A lot of the time, studying is portrayed as rereading what you learned and creating flash cards. While that may help some students, it doesn’t always work for others. That is why I will be going through a bunch of different ways to study for students who need help preparing for their tests/quizzes.
The first method I will introduce is the note-taking method. Most of the time, students do not like taking notes, but they can be quite beneficial especially when trying to remember longer definitions for terms and concepts. What I believe helps the most is to rough draft your notes. This can happen at school or at home. Basically, the student should write what they are being taught right away on a piece of paper as best they can without making it perfect. It doesn’t matter how neat these notes are, as long as you jot the main points down. Next, students should rewrite these rough notes at home. When rewriting these notes, the student can choose how they want to format. They can draw things out and elaborate more on certain subjects of the entire topic. Personally, I like to add a lot of color within my notes. Color-coding and images help me visualize the information better in my brain. Of course, this might not work for everyone, so that is why I recommend writing notes the way students want to do it. Everyone is unique, so everybody’s way of note-taking will differ. Another method that a student can use to study is the read and question method. I said earlier that most students reread what they are learning, but if they want to retain the information in their heads better they should ask questions after. These questions can ask about anything, so long as it relates to the topic being studied. Students should create a bundle of questions to answer at the end of their readings in order to clarify what they are learning and to better understand the text. Students can also have family or friends ask them these questions. This helps them form sentences aloud for not only the questioner to hear but the student themselves as well. Hearing the answer(s) out loud helps boost verbal memory and get words or phrases into long-term memory. Meaning, a student will remember the word/phrase better if they repeated it out loud. Once again, this method isn’t for everyone, but if given a try it might be very useful especially in the long run. The last method I will mention is the Imagery method. This is where students associate words, phrases, concepts, pieces of information, and ideas into images. This allows a lot of free styling since the images can be whatever the student wants. It can be an exact image of what a word means (For example, apples are red or green. Then a student draws a red or green apple. This helps them know that apples can be a different color) or an image that means something similar to what a word or phrase means (For example, apples help with brain strength, so a student might draw out a brain and muscles. The image represents the function of an apple without including an apple in that image). Hopefully, this makes sense, but sometimes the imagery method and the different versions of it can be confusing. The only thing that is needed to know about this method is that it includes drawing images to help recall information better. Overall, there are many methods of studying a student can use. These were just a few examples. Trying to find that specific study habit may take some time, but once it's found students can hopefully retain information more easily and do well on their tests. Studying is hard, especially when the subject someone is learning just isn’t making sense. Hopefully these methods will help, and if not that’s okay too. Some things may not work for others. Below are a few links on more methods students can use to study! Feel free to take a look and try them out :) Explore the Best Study Methods 10 Effective Study Tips and Techniques 7 Best Study Methods |