Staples Players venture to the Big Apple for “To Kill A Mockingbird” on Broadway
February 25, 2019
The chances that you escaped the three glorious years of middle school without analyzing every page, paragraph and sentence of Harper Lee’s “To Kill A Mockingbird” are at an all-time low in this day and age. While many high schoolers haven’t scoured the pages of this moving tale in what seems ...
Esteemed author Harper Lee dies at 89
Jesse Levinson, Staff Writer
February 20, 2016
Harper Lee, renowned author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” and most recently, “Go Set a Watchman,” died at age 89 on the morning of Friday, Feb. 19. Many Staples students have expressed sentiments over the loss of such a highly-regarded author. “When I found out she passed I was re...
Harper Lee to release second novel
Julia Greenspan, Instagram Coordinator
February 5, 2015
“To Kill a Mockingbird” author Harper Lee, 88, announced on Tuesday Feb. 3 that she plans to publish her second book, “Go Set a Watchman,” in July 2015. Lee’s first and previously only novel, set in Macomb, Alabama, is narrated by 6-year-old Scout Finch over the span of three years. This...
Classic movies to watch in class
Jackie Cope, Opinions Editor
January 2, 2014
Slug-like students, drunk with exhaustion, trudge into a classroom that feels, to them, much more like a prison cell. Eyelids are heavy and “the excitement of learning” seems like more than an abstract concept, but a foreign entity all together. One more lecture about the Renaissance or the uses ...
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Lea Rivel '22, Web Arts Editor
In the midst of a pandemic when nearly everybody has a face covering, it can be easy for communities to feel detached. In order to help alleviate some of this disconnection, Sta...
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