MOUNT VERNON — Brook Hill moved to 2-0 with a 27-14 road win Saturday at Mount Vernon. The Guard trailed 14-13 at halftime but outscored Mt. Vernon 14-0 in the fourth quarter, thanks to a 26-yard touchdown run by Brooks Parham and 16-yard scoring run by Jermiah McGowen to emerge victorious. “I thought we started out slow […]
College Algebra students had their first test this week, and it looked a little different than usual. Instead of the entire test being on paper, students answered the first half of the questions on a Surface Pro Tablet. In an effort to expose students to hybrid and online courses, we Mrs. McEuen has specifically designed […]
Dr. Moon, the Orchestra Director at SFA and the conductor for the Longview Symphony came to The Brook Hill School on Wednesday to encourage our students to audition for the East Texas Youth Orchestra, (ETYO) that he also conducts. The ETYO is made up of two groups, a middle school and an upper school audition only […]
Pre-AP sophomores and AP juniors gave their first presentations in Dr. Brunson’s humanities classes this week. Juniors presented literary-critical analyses of Robinson Crusoe within his historical context as an entrepreneur and colonialist. Students not only read the novel, but researched and analyzed Crusoe within history. Students then wrote essays on a selected subject, and presented […]
AP Chemistry got to use some new technology this week as students were learning the relationship between concentration and the amount of light absorbed by a solution. We used a Vernier lab quest connected to a spectrophotometer to measure the absorbance values for samples of known concentration in order to generate a calibration curve. Then […]
Brook Hill overcame a lengthy weather delay and halftime deficit to overpower visiting Boca Raton (Florida) St. John Paull II and win the Second Annual Tyler Ford-Brook Hill American Warrior Bowl Saturday at Herrington Stadium. The Guard outscored SJP II 29-6 in the second half to win its season opener 48-27, defend the honor of the […]
Varsity Lady Guard Volleyball went undefeated Thursday in the Brownsboro Tourney. We defeated Mineola 25-17, 25-20 Standouts were Megan Priddy with 5 kills, Lauren Eden with 4 aces and 16 assists and Brianna Young with 13 digs We also defeated Kilgore 25-8, 25-20 Standouts were Maddie Anthony with 5 kills, Brianna young with 14 digs, […]
Brook Hill hosted it’s first ever cross country meet this past Saturday at the American Warrior Run and it was a huge success. Several runners from Brook Hill medaled, including Chasca Ortega (3rd place overall in Varsity Guys), Heather McLarry (4th place overall in Varsity Girls), Kayla Dahn (9th place overall in Middle School Girls), […]
We welcomed our friends from St John Paul II this afternoon as we begin the Tyler Ford Brook Hill American Warrior Bowl! These students have traveled all the way from Florida for the big game and we can’t wait to compete against them, honor veterans, and kick off the football season. Join us for all […]
Using a ferocious attack that produced 34 combined kills, the Brook Hill Lady Guard varsity overwhelmed Frankston to sweep their match, 25-20, 25-14, 25-15 on Tuesday at Herrington Gymnasium. The victory raised Brook Hill’s record to 12-4 on the season. Brook Hill survived an uneven first set in which the Lady Guard committed 10 hitting […]
The Brook Hill JV 1 volleyball team pulled out a hard-fought three set win over Frankston on Tuesday at Herrington Gymnasium. The Lady Guard won the first set 25-15 in comfortable fashion, but were pegged back in the second set by Frankston to fall short, 25-22. This set up a winner-take-all third set that Brook […]
The senior English classes found themselves in the museum during the first full week of school. To complement the students’ summer reading of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Mrs. Bynum gave a presentation about soldier gear, Huey helicopters, and the terrible weight of both the physical and emotional things the American soldiers carried during […]