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Class cancellations for 2010-2011 school year
March 16, 2010
Filed under Fort Report
AP Environmental Science, AP Physics C, AP Physics B, AP Biology, AP Chemistry, and AP Statistics – these are the Advanced Placement classes that Fort Dorchester will no longer offer next year. This leaves IB Biology SL as the only remaining advanced science class and IB Mathematics SL, IB Math... Read more »
Coffee House Theatre
March 9, 2010
Filed under Fort Report
Saturday, March 13, 2010, at 7:00 p.m., Fort Dorchester Patriot Players Present Coffee House Theatre in the Fort Dorchester High School auditorium. Coffee House Theatre is students who perform monologues and skits of their choosing. This year, Coffee House Theatre is free to anyone, while snacks and... Read more »
SIC petitions for sidewalk extension
March 1, 2010 • David Salkowski and Paige Hadler
Filed under Featured, Fort Report
The dubious conditions for pedestrians immediately around Fort Dorchester has led the school to pursue sidewalk improvements in the area. The School Improvement Council (SIC) hopes to do so by enlisting support from parents, teachers, and students. While the issue of safety for walkers culminated in... Read more »
Senior Breakfast
February 25, 2010 • Paige Hardy
Filed under Fort Report
Seniors, it is time for another senior event. This Friday, February 26, Fort Dorchester High School will be having their annual senior breakfast at Shoney’s. The Shoney’s is on Rivers Ave. and will start at 6:00. For those that do not know exactly where Shoney’s is located on Rivers,... Read more »
Prom Updates
February 10, 2010 • Paige Hardy
Filed under Fort Report
Fort Dorchester Prom will be coming up in May. The date is set to be May 8th, and it is going to be on one of Charleston’s landmarks, The Yorktown. For those who do not know what Yorktown is, it is an aircraft carrier on 40 Patriots Point Road, Mount Pleasant. All we know so far is that there... Read more »
FBLA
February 9, 2010 • Marcus Backman
Filed under Fort Report
Over the past weekend, the students in Future Business Leaders of America at the Fort participated in district competitions at Stratford High School. Some of the events involved in this competition were taking business tests, business presentations, and business interviews. Schools from all over were... Read more »
Teacher of the Year
February 5, 2010
Filed under Fort Report
This is an interview with Mrs. Laura Knotts, Teacher of The Year for the 2009-2010 School Year. pp_flashembed( 'powerpress_player_1357', {src: 'http://www.fdhsnews.com/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/FlowPlayerClassic.swf', width: 320, height: 24, wmode: 'transparent' }, {config: { autoPlay: false,... Read more »
To Wish in 2010
January 17, 2010
Filed under Fort Report, Uncategorized
If you could make any future year better with a resolution you make in the present, would you do it? Freshman Tasha Townsel made one resolution without a moment’s hesitation. This was “to bring world peace;” “to put an end to all wars and reunite the world”. Tasha will make... Read more »
Levels of Lockdown
January 15, 2010 • David Salkowski
Filed under Fort Report
The morning of Thursday, January 14 Fort Dorchester had a lockdown drill. The morning of Friday, January 15, the school went into administrative lockdown. This was not a drill. While many rumors surfaced about the cause of the lockdown, Principal Jim Atkinson issued a statement saying that it was... Read more »
A Thousand Cranes
January 5, 2010
Filed under Arts & Entertainment, Fort Report
FDHS Theater Arts Patriot Players Presents A Thousand Cranes. This is a children’s theater production by Kathryn Schultz Miller. In A Thousand Cranes, we follow a little girl, Sadako, throughout a few months of her life. We see how she lives her life in a hospital fighting through her illness... Read more »
