Ms. Shery Kearney's AP Lang students created mind maps as their end of the year projects in order to help them study for the AP Lang exam. Mind Maps are projects that demonstrate a connection of ideas...

Graphic arts and production students designed maps as their latest project. Students created original maps of a real or make-believe places and published their creations in the program Adobe InDesign. Students labeled ...

Art Club took a field trip to the High Museum in downtown Atlanta on Saturday, Mar. 5. The club toured the Basquiat, Iris van Herpen and Muniz exhibits, then left the museum and ate pizza and calzones...

Ms. Connie Bryant's Latin III students studied the Roman politician Cicero and translated part of his speech to present in front of the class. Cicero's speech covers the conspiracy of a different Roman...

Kiwanis International held the Kiwanis District Art Competition at The Bridge on Monday, Mar. 14 . The Kiwanis District Art Competition is an art and talent competition for students of Fayette County and...

Ms. Carissa Green's visual arts students created portraits of themselves as their latest project. Students took pictures of themselves and went through the process of translating the image to paper. Students...

Graphic arts and design students senior Emily Ward, senior Tim Tice, and junior Veronica Lyons did screen printing for their next project grade. The screen printing process includes creating the design,...

Fayette County received a brief snow fall on Saturday,  Jan. 23. The snow only lasted until midday, but students enjoyed it while it lasted. Junior Kristin Carver, who moved here from Florida, said...

Ms. Shery Kearney added a new instructional feature to her class for her AP Lang students this semester.  Every Monday her students participate in Meditation Monday, a period of time at the beginning...

Latin Club members may receive their club t-shirts throughout the week of January 4. Students can pick up their shirts from Ms. Connie Bryant's classroom. All students who receive shirts must have placed...

Ms. Lauren Bozone's graphic design classes, consisting of students from all grade and skill levels, are working with rubber block art. In block art, rubber blocks are carved to produce a variety of patterns...

The junior class will revive their Balfour class rings Wednesday Dec. 9. Rings will be available during lunch in the lobby in the same place the Balfour table has been set up in previous months.  Students...

The Signet Classic's Twentieth Annual Student Scholarship Essay Contest  sponsored by Read Penguin is a contest that requires juniors or seniors to write an essay about a book of Signet Classic's choice....

Senior and junior girls played flag football while the guys dressed up as cheerleaders in this year's annual Homecoming Powder Puff game. Elizabeth QuarlesElizabeth Quarles Elizabeth Quarles Elizabeth...

AP Lang students and AP Lit students from Ms. Shery Kearney, Ms. Maggie Walls and Ms. Andrea Lakly's classes were given the opportunity to attend the play "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next" at Alliance...

The National Art Society and Art Club offer service projects related to student art work. Students must complete ten hours of service work per year as part of their duty. Projects Art Club participate...

Graphics arts teacher Ms. Lauren Bozone visited Chicago over the summer and came back with a challenging question for her students: What is beauty? The question comes from Mathew Hoffman's "You are Beautiful"...

The Harlem Globetrotters played against the Generals at Phillips Arena in Atlanta on Saturday, Mar. 7.

The informational meeting regarding tryouts will be this Thursday at 6:00p.m. in Mrs. Yarbrough's room number 116.2. The Chiefettes Dance Team will be holding tryouts from Mar. 23 through 26. Students...

Billy Joel played live at Phillips Arena on Feb. 28. Gavin Degraw was the opening performer.

Beta club members are available before school every day in the media center to tutor students who are struggling in academic subjects.

Latin Club will meet in the Senior Cafeteria at 8:00 a.m. Jan. 16. Yearbook staff will be taking photos so students should remember to wear their Latin Club t-shirts.

Next year an AP art history class will be offered as an elective for sophomores, juniors and seniors. The class will be taught by Ms. Faubel, an English teacher, who studied art history in college as an...

Black Veil Brides and Falling in Reverse performed on Dec. 3 at the Tabernacle. Click here to check out live footage of Falling in Reverse

Over the last few decades, the TV industry has put out dozens of television episodes that feature a cast of characters celebrating Thanksgiving. In the process, the TV industry has covered almost every...

Taylor Swift recently released her new record "1989." The record strayed from the pop country sound her music has followed up until now. Her new record is much more pop than country, competing more with...

Coffee and Conversation with Mrs. Fine and Mrs. Glover will be held in the media center. It will run from 6:30 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. on the November 4. Junior and sophomore parent meetings will be held...

Mary Lambert's song "Secrets" was recently released. The song follows a similar message as the other "body love" songs that have come out this year. "Body love" songs are basically songs that promote being...

This year the Yearbook staff is using a new website to collect student photos called Replay it. Students must simply send in appropriate photos to the website in order for  them to go into the yearbook....

 All 10th grade students will take the PSAT for free on Wednesday, October 15.  Any 9th or 11th grade student who would like to take the test can sign up. The cost is $20 and registration will be the...

This week is Spirit Week at MHS. Monday is All American Day, Tuesday is Tacky Twin Day, Wednesday is Character Day,   Thursday is Decades Day and Friday is Color Day. Colors for classes are White for...

Latin club's first meeting will be this Friday between 8:00 and 8:20 a.m in the senior cafeteria. Students interested in joining should pay $15 to Mrs. Bryant before Friday.

MHS participates in the yearly field trip to our nation's capital with the Close Up Foundation. Trip participants will spend time with our 3rd district representative, Lynn Westmoreland, and with one or...

Alice Cooper joined Mötley Crüe on Mötley's Farewell tour on Saturday August 16. The band performed after The Raskins and entertained viewers for an hour. Songs they played included "I’m Eighteen"...

The rock band Mötley Crüe began their last tour this summer before retirement. They came to Alpharetta on August 16. The band toured with The Raskins and Alice Cooper. For a final farewell, the band...

Students must recover all core course and elective credit previously failed in order to receive full graduation credit. All math courses need to be revered before moving on to the next course. The state...