Opinion – North Star

Time Management as a High School Student and Part-Time Employee

January 14, 2020

No student has fully mastered being a full-time student and a part-time employee. Everybody handles different levels of stress and strain in different ways. Juniors are generally around sixteen to seventeen years old, and many...

The Dapper Doughnut

Maleah Evans, Reporter

December 18, 2019

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Finals! How do we prepare?

Grace Claudio and Wendy Martinez

December 18, 2019

Finals are next week on December 18 and 19 and you need to be prepared. So here are some things you need to do for preparations. Prepare for all the teachers cramming what we have been learning for months into an hour long test....

Preparation for finals

Alyssa Goerzen, Writer

December 18, 2019

Many students are feeling stress in the last few weeks before Winter and Summer vacation. The reason for their school-related anxiety is finals, a test that is taken once a semester for all of high school. Finals can come either...

Call Of Duty Mobile New Game Mode

Aidan Jones and Joseph Cardona

December 6, 2019

In the very popular mobile game "Call Of Duty Mobile," the creators TiMi Studios and Tencent games introduced a new zombies game mode like the console games have. The game mode is a survival type game. There are 3 modes Survival,...

Quick Tips for Finals: how to make the most out the the time you have to Study.

Ellie Stockwell, Reporter

December 4, 2019

At one point in your Education, you're eventually going to come across the dreaded finals week- that week where your stress levels are sky high and your grades are on the verge of being demolished, based on how well you do. So...

Was Disney+ Worth the Hype?

Christian Onesto, Ivan Gallegos, and Joaquin Chavira

November 21, 2019

Disney+ launched on November 12. Disney+ cost $7 a month which includes movies and shows from Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and 20th Century Fox. It is half the price of Netflix and HBO. It was blowing up ...

TikTok 💃🏽

Alexa Almeda and Raul Reyes

November 21, 2019

Adolescents…. a time for teens to enjoy their young lives and go out with friends. However when they do go out with friends they are stuck on their phones; texting, taking snapchats, and filming TikTok’s. What is TikTok? Ti...

Airpods 1 vs 2 vs Pro

Raul Reyes, Reporter

October 31, 2019

Apple just released the new Airpods Pro, and the world is going crazy about them. They are not called Airpods 3- they are called Airpods Pro. The Airpods 1 and 2 are similar. The major difference is that the 2nd generation has wireless c...

Self-Esteem at North High

Ellie Steinwell, Writer

October 29, 2019

Whether it be about body image or grades in school, or how well you interact with others, student's tend to have pressure on them to conform to whatever society thrusts upon them. With pressure comes issues with standing up...

Do the Healthy Items in Vending Machines Help?

Maleah Evans, Reporter

October 29, 2019

In 2010, as a cause of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act (HHFKA), passed by the U.S Congress, schools established nutrition standards for all foods that are sold in schools to promote a healthy environment. These requirements ...

Saint Frances film review

Alyssa Goerzen, Writer

October 25, 2019

Last weekend, several North High students went to volunteer at the Tallgrass Film Festival. In between our shifts, we had the opportunity to watch the short films that were playing at the Orpheum. One of the short films that were...