BT Fashion!

By Banesa Paguada and Francesca

The New Era
7th Grade Rodley Velia A.K.A Rodnica
The day of Crazy Hat Day Rodley put on his hat and became Rodnica.When the hat is on he acts like a funny, loving girl with an attitude. He made the hat by gluing a weave to the outside of his hat.Then he added his sunglasses to the hat for more flavor.
“What’s up Girlfriend?” 7th grade “Rodnica Velia said.
Time to Be Green
7th Grade Aja Galanis
On spirit day, Aja was chosen for the BT Chronicles’ Best Spirit Day Girl Outfit.
Aja’s outfit was all green with a little jacket, t-shirt and long, skinny jeans. Aja all green outfit shows, she is helping our green earth environment. “Let’s be green,” 7th grade Aja Galanis said.


Flashy Blue
7th Grade Wesley Charles
Wesley was showing his village true spirit color, blue. He painted his face blue and flashed his V3 sign. Wesley added bands and a cool shirt with a little pop in it. Wesley also wanted to let other villages know that he got some blue swag on. “Wesley Got That Blue Swag,” 7th grader Wesley Charles said.


Reverse Day Mania
When Andrea was a Breakthrough student, she liked to dress-up. Andrea woke up and put on scattered clothes on her. Andrea’s style is:
-Boys Short
- Pink and Black Flats, Sneakers
- Black T-shirt with a bathing suit.

“Let’s go to the beach,” Program Assistant Andrea Fernandez said.

Spirit Day Starts BT Off Right!

By Pascal Dafinilas, Joshua Bonnery, Akeem Aglien
News Team Writers

During a pumped up spirit week, everyone got out of hand Wednesday for crazy hat day, and everyone dressed backwards on Thursday. Friday, all of the villages competed in a series of activities to determine the winner of Spirit Day.

Spirit Day included activities such as a spelling bee, a trivia challenge and a really big relay race that involved things like chewing crackers while whistling and chewing a piece of bubble gum and blowing a bubble with it.

Before Friday’s events, many people started making predictions on who would win the Most Spirited award, which would give that winning village an ice cream party.

Amelio Joseph was one of the people that made a prediction about spirit day.
“My view on Spirit day is that Village 5 will win. Village 5 will blow the roof off the place,” he said.

Amelio said he loves coming to Breakthrough everyday because he knows “there’s going to be excitement.”

Even after Amelio’s prediction didn’t come true on Friday, Amelio had only positive things to say about his village.
“I thought that Village 5 was going to win the Most Spirited but even though we loss I still think we’re the Most Spirited”

Ricardo also said he predicted his own village, Village 3, to win Most Spirited.
“I’m very excited about Spirit Week. I feel energized,” first-year Breakthrough student Ricardo Fortune said.

Before Spirit Day; Jori Opara from Village 1 said “I really like Breakthrough. I love it actually. I like the fact that Breakthrough is like a school but it’s not. It’s more fun!”

“Spirit day was very fun. I liked that each village had sportsmanship. Now that spirit day is over I think the rest of the summer will be great,” Jori said.

'BOOM BOOM'' OMG #35 ROLLINS COLLEGE WWIIIIDDDII SERAPHIN

By Wesley Charles
Culture Team Writer

Wideline Seraphin is 22 years old coming out of Rollins College Winter Park Florida. She played basketball three years for Rollins. When she was there, they won the Conference Title and went to regionals.

Casta was how Widdi heard about Breakthrough.
"Casta let me volunteer last year," Widdi said.
Widdi said she loves Breakthrough so far. "Everyday there is so much energy from every student," Widdi said.

Widdi may be an English teacher in the morning,but she teach Basketball in the afternoon for excel.
She makes her students run drills and makes them scrimmage and run plays.
Keytwan is 12 years old and is one of Widdi's student too. Keytwan said Widdi is a very good basketball player and likes her personality.

Deja is 12 years old and is one of Widdi's students. Deja said Widdi's class is ''ok,'' but she would prefer dancing with friends. ''I like to go out dancing and read''.

He the Man - Jamael Stewart

By Milton Canton
Features Writer

Jamael Stewart thought he would be a football coach all of his life, but then he became a site director at Breakthrough.

“I really like working with students,” Jamael said.

Jamael has been working at Breakthrough for four years. He started in January 2006.

One year he worked as a volunteer, one year as a site director, and two years as the director of the Breakthrough Miami Doctor’s Charter site.

“He caters to everyone’s needs” said Andrea Fernandez, a former Breakthrough scholar and current Program Assistant at Doctor’s.

Students, such as seventh grade Woody Jean-Louis, also think very highly of Jamael.
“He is a very talented man,” Woody said.

She's Making A Breakthrough

By Laurie Jean-Francois
Featurers writer

Soccer teacher Lisa Newton is trying out coaching for the first time.

Lisa has been playing soccer since a child but stopped during high school to participate in the extra-curricular activities.

“I wanted to try soccer (in my childhood) because I was very energetic and wanted to try it out,” Lisa said.

“My students really enjoy my classes because they’re fun and they learn a lot,” Lisa said.

Lisa enjoys watching her student’s progress in their studies.

Sadee Alt, a 6th grade student here at Doctor’s charter, said she likes Lisa’s class a whole lot.

“In Lisa’s class it’s really fun and cool,”Sadee said.

English teacher David Houston had only good things to say about Lisa.

“Lisa is really fun and all the teachers like to hang out with her,” David said.

Our First Superstar!

By Nicolette Hill
Features Writer
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On the second day of Breakthrough, the teachers chose the first superstar student of the summer.10-year-old Marlene Nazario wasn’t expecting to be picked.

“I was really surprised I didn’t know they were going to pick me,” Marlene said.

Widdi Seraphin, the teacher that announced the star and her village leader, said she picked her for a reason.

“On the first day she was really shy and quiet but later on during the day if we did an energizer she would jump in,” Widdi said.
Marlene likes it here at Breakthrough.

“Its really fun, very energetic all the teachers and kids are fun,” said Marlene.

She decided she wants to come back next year as a seventh grader.

Marlene’s favorite subject is math, but her favorite teacher is Jason who teaches 6th grade English.

Marlene collects stickers, rides her bike for fun and likes reading books about vampires.

“She’s a great friend. I think everyone should be her friend”12-year-old Diana Escobar said.