March 2016

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Clark Street students read Great World Texts

More than 1,200 Wisconsin high school students - from areas as diverse as Middleton, Bonduel, Janesville, and the Milwaukee Public School system - are in the process of reading a book that many Americans have never heard of: the classic novel of sixteenth-century China, Wu Cheng’en’s Journey to the West.

Locally, students at Clark Street Community School, the Middleon-Cross Plains Area School District’s groundbreaking charter school, are taking part in the program. They even went on their own journey (to the east, to China Town in Chicago) as part of their studies.

Thanks to a major grant awarded by the Wisconsin Humanities Council to UW-Madison’s Center for the Humanities, UW-Madison faculty, graduate students and staff will join students in their classrooms to engage in the collaborative study of world literature over the course of the coming year.

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'What Lights Up Sparks': Conversation With a Rhodes Scholar

Colin Higgins, a University of Wisconsin-Madison student and Middleton native, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in November and will go on to Oxford University in the fall to continue his studies. 

Despite an outstanding collegiate career, triple majoring with comprehensive honors in environmental studies, geography and history and pursuing a Master of Public Affairs degree at the Robert M. La Follette School of Public Affairs, Higgins says he wasn’t the greatest student or even very interested in school until a few key teachers and courses at Middleton High School (MHS) changed his perspective.  

Higgins says it wasn’t until the end of his sophomore year at MHS that “things sort of flipped.”  He recalls his tenth grade English class with Ryan Haugen reading classics such as 1984, Brave New World, and Catcher in the Rye sparking an interest in literature. 

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Craig ends Middleton's season

 

Live by the three, die by the three.

That adage rang true for the second-seeded Middleton Cardinals girls’ basketball team Thursday night.

The Cardinals missed 16 consecutive three-point attempts to open the game and not even a furious second-half rally could undo the damage.

Janesville Craig’s Delaney Schoenenberger finished with a game-high 30 points and Anne Schumacher chipped in with 17 points as the third-seeded Cougars pulled away for a 74-57 victory over Middleton in a WIAA Division 1 sectional semifinal at Madison La Follette High School.

“It was an uphill battle all the way tonight,” Middleton coach Jeff Kind admitted.

Middleton, which defeated Craig twice during the regular season, finished the year 21-4. The Cougars (19-6) advanced to meet top-seeded Verona (22-3) in a sectional final on Saturday at Janesville Parker at 1 p.m.

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Eady, Murphy named all-Big 8

Middleton junior forward Tyree Eady and junior guard Storm Murphy were both named first-team all-Big Eight Conference Monday night. The duo helped lead the Cardinals to a share of their first conference title since 2001.

Madison East senior wing Deang Deang was named the conference’s Player of the Year, while Sun Prairie’s Jeff Boos was the Coach of the Year. Madison Memorial junior center Chris Knight and Sun Prairie point guard Sam Kerr were also named first-team all-league.

Eady leads the Big Eight Conference in scoring at 20.7 points per game. Eady has scored in double figures in all 22 of Middleton’s games and has scored 20 points, or more, in 13 games. Eady is also averaging 5.2 rebounds, 3.2 steals and 1.8 assists per game.

Murphy is second on the Cardinals and sixth in the league in scoring (17.9). He also averages 4.3 assists, 2.0 steals, 3.3 rebounds and shoots 82.0% from the free throw line.

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