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San Dieguito Academy Newspaper

The Mustang

San Dieguito Academy Newspaper

The Mustang

Elise Gout

Elise Gout, Editor In Chief/Features Editor

All content by Elise Gout
Senior Samantha Steinberg, Junior Will Fletcher, and Junior Jessica Morilack right before they auditioned at Thespicon.

Thespians Win Big at Annual “Thespicon” Event

By Elise Gout, Editor in Chief
April 1, 2015

Three groups of students from SDA’s drama club, Thespian Troupe #2196, won their individual events at the California State Thespian Festival this past weekend. The students had the opportunity to perform...

SDA Copes with Student’s Death this Week

By Elise Gout, Editor in Chief/Features Editor
March 6, 2015

Students and staff have been coping with the loss of a freshman student this week. In first period on Wednesday morning, teachers informed classes of the student’s suicide and of the help available...

CCA Writing Conference

CCA Writing Conference

By Kate Sequeira and Elise Gout
February 27, 2015

High school students had the opportunity to visit Canyon Crest Academy on Feb. 21 to attend a free writers’ conference put together by the school’s Creative Writing Club.  More than 20 authors held...

“The Mouse That Roared” Preview

By Elise Gout, Editor In Chief/Features Editor
January 7, 2015

SDA’s Drama Production class is wasting no time in starting off 2015 with its production of “The Mouse That Roared,” set to open this Thursday with subsequent shows this Friday and Saturday. “The...

Community Day Pushed Back

By Elise Gout, Editor in Chief/Features Editor
December 9, 2014

SDA Community Day, originally scheduled for Dec. 16, will now take place this coming February to give the organizers more time to prepare. Senior Kate Shapiro, one of the leads in planning the event,...

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[Photo] Today at SDA: Blue Ribbon Day

By Caroline Daniel, Online Editor
November 18, 2014

Girls Volleyball Faces Off League Rival

Girls Volleyball Faces Off League Rival

By Elise Gout, Editor in Chief/Features Editor
October 20, 2014

This past Friday, on Oct. 17, the Girls Varsity Volleyball team lost their home game against league rival Del Norte, a hard-fought three sets to zero. The Mustangs were spurred on by a fairly large student...

S.O.S. College is Coming

S.O.S. College is Coming

By Elise Gout, Editor in Chief/Features Editor
September 18, 2014

I am a victim of college spam. When it comes to mail, I always used to be pretty old-fashioned. I believed in the traditionalism of handwriting letters, the sincerity behind thank you cards. Then I...

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Today at SDA: Paint a Teacher Day

By Elise Gout, Assistant Features Editor
March 6, 2014

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Fresh Faces

Claire Brady Can you describe your rock climbing? How often do you do it for? Where do you do it? I rock climb at minimum twice a week, but usually more. I have had weeks were I climb every single...

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Today at SDA: Grapes of Wrath

By Elise Gout, Staff Writer
February 3, 2014

After finishing Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath, teacher Justin Conn's AP English class  had the opportunity of Skyping with Frank Galati, accredited for adapting the novel into the screenplay, as well as...

Bridge Breaking

By Elise Gout, Staff Writer
January 17, 2014

Numbers were shouted out like bids at an auction. Students gathered, many sitting, too nervous to stand. Junior Samantha Steinberg bit her lip and clasped her hands together at her chest, wincing periodically...

Poetry Slam

Writers Welcome

By Elise Gout, Health Editor
November 20, 2013

Creativity surrounded the air around a single mike stand, a girl gripping white papers in jittering hands. One short pause, a breath, and so she began, reading at this year’s first poetry slam. Put...

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New Teachers Q&A 2013

Elizabeth Anglin- Anglin grew up in San Diego where she attended University [Cathedral Catholic] High School. She studied environmental studies at UC Santa Barbara before earning her teaching credentials...

18th Annual Los Angeles Book Festival

By Elise Gout, Staff Writer
May 1, 2013

Tens of thousands of people from across the country traveled to USC for the 18th annual Los Angeles Book Festival on April 20th and 21st. Sponsored by The Los Angeles Times, this free, two-day event celebrates...

Writing Conference at CCA

By Elise Gout, Staff Writer
February 28, 2013

Broken glass. Bloody smiles. Binding darkness. The images that were described flashed by one after the other. “Take this room and turn it into something terrifying,” he had told the kids. Towering...

“The Tiger’s Wife” Book Signing

By Elise Gout, Staff Writer
February 2, 2012

Dozens of people all share the tight space of Warwick’s bookstore in La Jolla. Chairs have been set up, but as there are not nearly enough for everyone, people huddle by the alcoves and compete for space...

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