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El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

The Student News Site of Monta Vista High School

El Estoque

Unifying freshman Literature curriculum

Unifying freshman Literature curriculum

Amita Mahajan October 26, 2015
Freshman Literature teachers work together to align the material they teach
Religion and tradition: Students and teachers discuss biblical allusions in literary courses

Religion and tradition: Students and teachers discuss biblical allusions in literary courses

Miloni Vora October 23, 2015
Sophomore Rasul Safa and literature teachers Scott Catrette and Monica Jariwala discuss Christianity as the primary source of religious references in Lit class
La Pluma releases its first issue of the year

La Pluma releases its first issue of the year

Aditi Desai December 13, 2014
A look into La Pluma’s first issue and its club awareness in the MVHS community
At City Lights bookstore in San Francisco, employees are passionate about preserving the paper book. Books have an incredible historical value, and you cant ever forget that bookstores build a sense of community, employee Zoe Burke said.

E-books negatively impact the way we absorb information

Kristin Chang January 16, 2014
The War on (Paper) books
Teacher Stacey Cler on knitting through life’s rough patches

Teacher Stacey Cler on knitting through life’s rough patches

Anjali Bhat January 19, 2013

Literature teacher Stacey Cler develops a creative passion and finds knitting to have therapeutic effects.   1. When and how did you first start knitting? I first started to knit when...

Changes for the American Studies family

Changes for the American Studies family

Sara Yang August 27, 2010

Increased student interest results in a second American Studies course section   With 690 total students, the class of 2012 tips the scales as the largest class this school has ever...

Déjà vu

Déjà vu

Karishma Mehrotra March 16, 2010

"The Odyssey", a tangle of Greek adventures, was a play of precision and perfection  It's déjà vu to the extreme. Little snippets of the freshman Literature and Writing class flow back...

Outside the box

Outside the box

Tiffany Lau November 6, 2009

Unlike the usual literature class, Humanities goes outside of Cupertino to learn Most literature classes watch a movie based on the book they have been reading. But on Nov. 5, the two Humanities classes...

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