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The Student News Site of Alief Kerr High School

Kerronicle
The Student News Site of Alief Kerr High School

Kerronicle
All content by Khoa Nguyen
TASTY TREATS On Friday, April 28, 2023, the class of 2025 along with a collaboration with Desi Club, is selling fried Oreos. Students can buy either 2 for $4, 3 for $5, or 5 for $8. Having to juggle both food frenzy and Class Wars, class of 2025 officer Meerab Arif is very ecstatic to start selling for their final food frenzy of the year, “We’re very excited to end our food frenzy and we figured why not go all out with something crazy like deep fried Oreos,” Arif said. “But alongside food frenzy plans, we’re also making plans for Class Wards and while I can disclose anything currently, I can only say that we are planning the class social to decorate the class shirts with co’ 24 & 26, and it’s going to be super fun!”

Class of 2025 Sells Fried Oreos to Raise Money

Written by Khoa Nguyen
May 13, 2023
‘A’ FOR EXCELLENCE On Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023, sophomore Mai Nguyen prepares to take her AP Psychology test. As it is her first AP test, she's very hesitant and quite nervous. And as she reviews former testing material she tries her hardest to do her very best. “I’m not thinking that I’ll get a high score but what I can do is try my best and just do what I can,” Nguyen said.

10 Questions with Mai Nguyen

Written by Khoa Nguyen
May 13, 2023
TIME TO COMPREHEND The English II EOC is administered to sophomores on Wednesday, April 19, 2023. Han Vu, a sophomore, completes practice assignments on "IXL" provided by her English teacher, Nakethia Alexander, as she adjusts to the new changes placed on the EOC, "The assignments are a lot, but I think they're quite helpful," said Vu. "The majority of the work involves grammar and vocabulary, but some of it also involves composition. So far, I feel reasonably well-prepared."

Sophomores take the English II EOC

Written by Khoa Nguyen
April 23, 2023
The Class of 2025 holds a formal meeting with its officers on Friday, April 14, 2023, to talk about the Class Wars shirts. The officers consider a variety of designs before settling on one that would work for the entire sophomore class. Working on the shirt design, Class of 2025 officer, Loreal Long is excited to see the outcome of the final product, "While we're still debating, we've set on a design we think everyone would love, not just for class wars but also as a regular ty-shirt as well," Long said. "The design itself is a tiger holding a baseball bat, wearing a bandanna, and a fire effect behind it."

Class of 2025 Prepares for Class Wars

Written by Khoa Nguyen
April 23, 2023
GLORY DAY The complete chorale gave a performance for UIL on Tuesday, April 11, 2023 at Westbury Church in Katy, Texas. Both the tenor-bass and soprano-altos performed, each of which included a different song selection, and both received a score of 1 for their sight-reading and performances. After working hard for many weeks, either in class or after school, they were successful and received a trophy to mark their achievement. “I honestly liked it quite a bit, it was fun because not only did we get to skip school, we got to hang out and make music in such a big area.” Nguyen said. “Being in choir makes me appreciate being in choir because it challenges my musical ability. I love making music with the rest of the choir members because whenever it's done right, it sounds amazing with every different voice.”

Choir Chorale Performs for UIL

Written by Khoa Nguyen
April 13, 2023
10 Questions with Manar Al-Gburi

10 Questions with Manar Al-Gburi

Written by Khoa Nguyen
April 13, 2023
ASSESSING THE FUTURE Jenny Nguyen, a sophomore who had attended Kerr for two years, found it difficult to find the right drive to continue her studies there. She discovers additional opportunities that could make her enjoy her time in school. She gradually comes to the realization that Kerr stresses her out because of its competitive nature. She thinks she would feel better about her situation if she left Kerr and went to a less competitive school, like Hastings.

10 Questions with Jenny Nguyen

Written by Khoa Nguyen
March 30, 2023
THINKING ADVANCED The officers of the class of 2025 are planning a meeting for Thursday, March 30, 2023, on Wednesday, March 29, 2023, to make a final decision regarding their April class mixer. Although many suggestions were made, it proved challenging to come up with one winning concept for their mixer because everyone had so many options. Isabella Le, the class officer, expressed her confidence in the mixer after their meeting: "I feel like it is a good idea for our class to get together and participate in activities that will engage in class bonding."

Class of 2025 Plans for Spring Mixer

Written by Khoa Nguyen
March 30, 2023
PREP TIME’S OVER In order to prepare for the SAT, Austin Nguyen struggled to acquire everything he needed to. He worked on both his strong skills, like math, as well as his weaker ones, like English reading and writing. While he is somewhat worried about his performance, he is also optimistic and convinced that he will be able to achieve a high SAT score.

10 Questions with Austin Nguyen

Written by Khoa Nguyen
March 3, 2023
Food Frenzy Comes and Serves

Food Frenzy Comes and Serves

Written by Khoa Nguyen
February 22, 2023
UPCOMING DAYS The sophomore class held a required meeting at the library on Wednesday, February 15, 2023 for the first 15 minutes of the first, second, and fourth periods. In which Denae Aquil, a counselor and staff member, presented a session on graduation requirements as well as the differences between AP and dual credit courses. Guillermo Palacios, a sophomore, has made a few changes to his junior calendar in light of what he learned from the lecture. “This will affect my Junior schedule as depending on what classes I decided to take during my junior will depend on what extra curricucurricular I can do,” Palacios said. “But I still want to be able to take the classes I won't forensic science.”

Sophomores have a Mandatory Seminar

Written by Khoa Nguyen
February 20, 2023
There were employment offers for the summer on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, and one of those job offers was for a part-time life guard position. Bella Le, a sophomore, believes she doesn't meet the requirements even if she is interested in working over the summer. “I’m quite interested in the summer job or working in general because it’s a good way to spend summer and earn money at the same time,” said Le. “But sadly I don’t think I can do the job since I’m 15.”

In Search Of Summer Jobs

Written by Khoa Nguyen
February 13, 2023
POSSIBLY UPGRADING Juniors and sophomores had the option to take a seminar for dual credit from Monday, January 29, to Tuesday, January 30, 2023. In which they discovered the drawbacks and benefits of enrolling in a dual credit course as well as its prerequisites and exclusions. Rebekah Draper, a sophomore student, considers pursuing dual credit classes to avoid the time-consuming coursework of AP classes, despite the fact that it may seem frightening and unquestionably simple. "I'm considering taking dual credit since I see it is as a chance to save money and earn broth college and high school credit, while having the bonus of it being online," Draper said.

Understanding Dual Credit

Written by Khoa Nguyen
February 3, 2023
Shared Together, NHS gathered on January 23, 2023, for a meeting where they began preparing the Valentine's Day carnations. The carnations are intended to symbolize the love in Kerr's life and to convey the students' spirit. Long sheets of construction paper were folded, cut into hearts, and written on with a portion for the giver and a portion for the recipient to make the carnations. “I enjoy the amount of volunteer work I can do by being in NHS,” said senior and NHS member Briana Hard. “I’m able to do a lot of volunteer work and help others which makes me feel like I’m doing something important.”

NHS Works On Valentine’s Day Carnations

Written by Khoa Nguyen
January 26, 2023
Sarah Tahtouh is a sophomore at Kerr High School.  She is the historian and one of the founding officers of Kerr Desi Club, along with Meerab Arif. She is currently one of the main characters in Cadre's new show, "Orange," which involves the desi culture.

[Photo] 10 Questions With Sarah Tahtouh

Written by Meerab Arif, Designer
January 26, 2023
Quite Elementary, On Wednesday, January 18, 2023, Kerr Pals member junior Jennifer Nguyen and sophomore Manar Al-Gburi volunteer to help a kindergarten class. And while nervous at first, after students started reaching out for help, Nguyen was excited to be able help and came right away. Assisting the student reminded her why she liked to be in Kerr Pals so much. “ A student called me President Jefferson instead of my name, which was pretty funny,” Nguyen said.

Volunteering For Kerr Pals

Written by Khoa Nguyen
January 20, 2023
STARTING OFF FULL For Food Frenzy on Friday, January 6, 2023, the front of the school sold breakfast burritos for $3 and donuts for $2. Although they had trouble selling the last of their things, the sophomore class was still able to do well in terms of sales. The event itself provided many happy consumers and even greater support for the class of 2025. "I really enjoyed Food Frenzy, especially with Alumni Day and the food trucks.” said sophomore Faye Kappo. “The warm break burritos were unquestionably my favorite because they gave me a chance to eat and get ready for the day.”

Sophomores Sell Food To Start the New Term

Written by Khoa Nguyen
January 14, 2023
BLINKING LIGHTS On Wednesday, December 14, 2022, Jazz Band were set to play in front of people in a hospital at 7AM. And while they were late, they were able to execute their show flawlessly and played u til the applauses overwhelmed the hospital. “While there were some complications and it sadly had to end so soon, I definitely enjoyed performing and it was quite a new experience for me,” said Riona Guice.

Jazz Band Performs in Service of Community

Written by Khoa Nguyen
December 14, 2022
BECAUSE THE STATE DEMANDS IT Jonathan Nguyen struggled during English II, as while he had gone over the old STAAR tests and analyzed its question he was still stressed and wasn't too condiment in his skills. He struggled on the writing portion of the test and feared that he may have messed up knowing that the writing portion was due 50% of the entire test. While he felt more relieved after taking the test, he is unsure of what score he may receive and whether he will feel even worse about how he took the test.

10 Questions with Jonathan Nguyen

Written by Khoa Nguyen
December 9, 2022
HARSH OR FAULTY PLAY On Wednesday, November 16, 2022, Kerr had recently suffered a flag football loss to AECHS. Even though they led at the half, they ultimately fell short by 5 points, losing by a score of 23 to 28. Since Kerr had the advantage and the referee kept extending time until AECHS scored a touchdown, many people thought that the game itself was flawed. "It was frustrating to see AECHS win since they kept adding time until they scored a touchdown," said Agha Mizra.

Kerr loses to AECHS

Written by Khoa Nguyen
November 30, 2022
REFINED PALATE Sophomore class officer, Meerab Arif, talks to her fellow officers on the future food frenzy, taking place on December 12. Their last idea, donuts, and coffee had completely sold out and now they wondered what else they could sell. Meerab suggests that they could do croissants or maybe even takoyaki, like the previous year. "We currently, don't have anything planned, but I'm confident that we'll be able to make sales like never before. and we're more prepared for the oncoming sales as we ran out of donuts last time, and didn't think about how fast they would sell out," Meerab Arif said.

Sophomore Class plans future Food Frenzy

Written by Khoa Nguyen
November 17, 2022
CRAZED FOR FOOD After the event of Food Frenzy, on Monday, October 31, 2022, Iqra Naveed10 sold donuts and coffee left and right with her other class officers. While the amount is disclosed, the sophomore class has made tons of profit and business, having sold out completely in their stocks. With quite a lot of moments before her prom, Naveed believes that at this pace they will be able to make more money in the future and make everything from their senior prom to future events similar to this and be able to hold field trips. "Our long-term goal for the Class of 2025, and high school in general, is to be able to make memorable memories and make our class one big family," said Naveed.

10 Question with Iqra Naveed

Written by Khoa Nguyen
November 9, 2022
SPIRIT FEST The Homecoming game, a flag football match between the sophomore and junior team and the freshmen and senior team, took place on Friday, October 21, 2022, the final day of spirit week, from 6:00 to 8:00. The actual game was frantic and thrilling. The freshman and senior squad had lost the comeback game against the sophomores and juniors, who had initially had the upper hand. And though they had suffered a loss, it didn't stop them from enjoying themselves and striving to defeat the freshman and senior class next year. "Although we lost, the main priority was to fun, which we achieved, and I feel really great about that," sophomore Thinh Tran said.

Sophomores, juniors run out of time in game

Written by Khoa Nguyen
October 27, 2022
Photo shows a student raising his arm to throw a football.

Football Makes Contact

Written by Khoa Nguyen
October 26, 2022
Sophomores Prepare for Homecoming

Sophomores Prepare for Homecoming

Written by Khoa Nguyen
September 28, 2022
Tom Lam is a class sponsor for the sophomores

Sophomore Class Making Plans

Written by Khoa Nguyen
August 31, 2022
Students for Humanity Planning Future

Students for Humanity Planning Future

Written by Khoa Nguyen, Yearbook - Content
August 24, 2022
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