The James Logan Courier

By Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Writer

Some Logan students who are learning English as a second language are taking the California English Learner Test, or CELDT this month to have their fluency in their adopted language assessed.

CELDT covers listening, speaking, reading, and writing, and generally takes just over two hours.

By Ranjana Prasad, Restaurant Review Editor

Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation’s just released a new 3D cartoon movie, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. It was inspired by Ron and Judi Barrett’s children’s book, Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs.

It’s about a nerdy inventor, Flint Lockwood (voice of Bill Hader) who attempts to solve the world hunger problem by sending his latest invention into the sky. Sam Sparks, a very brainy weather girl (voice of Anna Faris) notice this invention of his stops the rain and turns it into food. The town Flint lives was pleased because lately all they were eating was canned sardines, and now everything they asked to eat was falling from the sky.

By Krislyn Perez, Courier Staff Writer

The James Logan Health Center hosted an open house last week celebrating 15 years of service on the James Logan campus. The Health Center has been serving the youth and community since it opened in 1994. It provides a variety of health care services to students, including pap smears, sports physicals, vision tests, hearing tests and much more for its patients. Patients of the Health Center receive these services for free.

By Brandie Moore, Courier Book Review Editor

The new hit series on The CW is Vampire Diaries. Only three episodes have aired, but it's captured the hearts of millions. This show is amazingly like Stephenie Meyer's Twilight, but better!

This T.V. show is based on the book, Vampire Diaries, that came out before Twilight so as similar as they are, L. J. Smith did not copy Meyer.

By Shamal Asnani, Courier Film Critic


The latest film to star Megan Fox, Jennifer’s Body, is a movie which incorporates a rare mixing of genres, horror and comedy. The movie follows Needy (Amanda Seyfried), who is an average, under the radar high school student. Despite her much less than noticed presence in her high school, she is best friends with her polar opposite, Jennifer (Megan Fox), who displays a very powerful presence in their school, primarily due to her beauty, which garners much attention from all the boys.

From wikipedia:
Lope K. Santos (September 25, 1879 – May 1, 1963) was a Tagalog language writer from the Philippines. Aside from being a writer, he was also a lawyer, politician, critic, labor leader and considered as "Father of the Philippine National Language and Grammar". He was a freemason.

In the field of literature
Santos was born in Pasig, Rizal, Philippines (now a part of Metro Manila) - as Lope C. Santos - to Ladislao Santos and Victoria Canseco, both natives of Rizal province. He used Kanseko instead of Canseco for his middle name to show his nationalism. During his time, the letter C had begun falling out of use in favor of the letter K in the Tagalog alphabet. Santos studied at Escuela Normal Superior de Maestros (Normal Superior School of Teachers) and Escuela de Derecho (Law School); and got his Bachelor of Arts degree in Colegio Filipino (Filipino College). He became an expert in dupluhan, a popular poetical debate competition in his time, which can be compared to balagtasan, a similar contest but with shorter discourse.

Read about Santos' novel, Banaag at Sikat, one of the first written in Tagalog, free from
Wikipedia.