Chess | Creative Leisure Time | Drawing | Enterprise | Environmental | Farkle
FCA | FCS | Girls | Guitar | Habitudes | Home Ec | International | Jazz Band | Jr. Beta
Learning Games | Media Center | Millionaire Reading | Orff | Outdoor Leadership
Peer Helpers | Ping Pong | Reading Rocks | Science Olympiad | Spanish | Soccer
Spirit | Student Council | Trail to Eagle | Weight Lifting | Yearbook | 6A Study
6A Reading / Study Club | 6B Reading | 7th Grade Game | 7B Reading | 8B Social | 8C Math Support
Mission/Purpose: To afford students with an interest in the anime culture a chance to meet and share ideas and materials with each other.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Friday, rm. 712.
Faculty Advisor: Lynn McKibbin (Math Connections) and Shawn Stewart (Team 8B)
Activities:
Activities are primarily student-run with sponsor guidance and supervision. Students share upcoming events in the anime world such as new games, videos, movies being released and participate in book discussions. A small library of anime books is kept by members for sharing. Opportunities for students to learn to draw anime will be available.
Mission/Purpose: The Academic Team encourages students, knowledgeable in a variety of topics, to compete against other middle school students in a quiz bowl format. Students in 6th through 8th grade are eligible.
Meetings: Warrior time Fridays and on Thursday afternoon after school from 3:45 to 4:45 PM.
Faculty Advisor: Jeanne Abraham and Nancy Graham
Activities: The team attends five competitions (October thru December) with 21 other schools who are members of the Griffin RESA district.
Mission/Purpose:
The Board Game Club is an organization for 6th graders in which students use strategy and logic while engaging in competition.
Meetings: Friday Warrior Time, rms. 606 & 607 & 6th grade pod
Faculty Advisor: Susan Witmer (6C) , Beth Loftin (6C) and Bo Hill (6C)
Activities: Activities will include trying a variety of strategies while playing chess, checkers, Monopoly, Life, and Scrabble.
Mission/Purpose: To afford adolescent, female students the opportunity to meet and share ideas and concerns which are important to this age group.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Fridays, Room 730
Faculty Sponsor: Loree Cannington (Team 7B)
Activities: Activities are primarily student run with sponsor guidance and supervision. Students are given the opportunity to share breakfast while talking about issues such as fashion, cooking, crafts, books, girl drama, boys, school related issues, parents. Students are given a nurturing environment where they feel safe asking questions that relate to female adolescence.
Mission/Purpose: Builder's Club is an international student-led organization providing its members with opportunities to perform service, build character, and develop leadership skills.
Meetings: Friday Warrior Time, rm. 811.
Faculty Advisor: Salli Rees and Kelly Lambert (Team 8A)
Mission/Purpose:
The Chess Club provides a relaxed environment for students to play chess with their peers, as well as the opportunity to learn from each other and participate in tournament practice.
Meetings: Mondays after school in the media center from 3:45-4:45
Faculty Advisor: Kim Makins (Team 7A) and Shawn Stewart (Team 8B)
Mission/Purpose: To expose students to various types of non-electronic indoor leisure activities, that they can engage in individually or with a small group.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Friday, Rooms 733 and 735.
Faculty Sponsor: Mr. D. Colson (Speech) and Ms. D. Ansah-Walker (Sp Ed)
Activities: Activities are primarily student-run with sponsor guidance and supervision. These activities will help foster the skill to entertain themselves without relying on others. They will also strengthen creativity, mind-building, and fine motor skills. Such activities will include, but are not limited to, puzzles, art, and board games.
Purpose:
The Drawing Club is designed to give prospective young artists many benefits.
Some of these benefits include the following advantages:
1. An outlet for creative expression.
2. An opportunity to take Art Class when it is not available on the student's schedule.
3. Basic instruction in drawing.
4. A chance to get to know students and teachers with similar interests and abilities.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Fridays, Art room, rm. 231.
Faculty Advisors: Victoria Perez and Lucy Hamilton
Activities: Contour drawing, Sketching, Shading for value, Line drawing, Still life drawing, Figure drawing, Outdoor nature drawing, Home practice, Seeing examples of genre, and countless other activities.
Mission/Purpose: To provide a place for students to prepare for upcoming tests and quizzes.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Fridays, room 741.
Faculty Advisor: Tammy Pakulski
Activities: Studying for tests/quizzes.
Mission/Purpose:
To encourage awareness of our environment and to facilitate recycling at J.C. Booth Middle School.
Meetings: Fridays Warrior Time & after school occasionally; rm. 241
Faculty Advisor: Cathy Hubble (Team 6B), Ellen Burrell (Conn)
Activities: Activities include conducting recycling projects and encouraging awareness of environmental issues.
Mission/Purpose: to promote positive social interaction through game playing and to enhance strategic thinking.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Friday, rm. 745.
Faculty Advisor: Kathie Lanman and Beth Parton
Mission/Purpose:
The FCA is an organization established and run by student athletes interested in developing and demonstrating a commitment to Christianity through Integrity, Serving, Teamwork and Excellence.
Meetings: Friday Warrior Time, rm 810
Organization Monitors: Dave Edinger (Tm 8A) and Mark Ruck (Tm 7B)
Mission/Purpose:
The FCS is an organization established and run by students interested in developing and demonstrating a commitment to Christianity through Integrity, Serving, Teamwork and Excellence.
Meetings: Warrior Time on Friday, Room 740 (West Wing).
Organization Monitors: Cindy Williams, Lynda Manwaring, Gwenna Fritsche
Mission/Purpose: Girls Club promotes a healthy, confident, and academically focused image of girlhood.
Meetings: Warrior Time every Friday in the Cafeteria
Faculty Advisors: Sgt. Kay Crider and Jennifer Couch
Activities: Personal Safety, Nutrition, Healthy Body Image, Study Skills, and Healthy Friendships are understood through role playing and small and large group discussions.
Mission/Purpose: The Booth Middle School Club exists to allow students at Booth to play guitar with others and learn basic skills.Certain music selections learned will be performed in an end of the year concert.
Meetings: 7:30-8:15 AM every Thursday, Acoustic- Room 710 (Middle Pod), Electric- Warrior Cafe
Sponsors: Noelle Henkel (Tm 8B), Dave Archbold (parent volunteer)
Activities: Basic Chords, Learning music, Preparation for an end of the year concert.
Mission/Purpose:
To teach students the importance of positive habits and attitudes that will allow for overall growth in the realm of character and leadership skills.
Meetings: Warrior time, Fridays, health trailer
Faculty Sponsor: David Munoz (Gym)
Activities: The concept is based around images that form leadership habits and attitudes to achieve success in life. Students reflect on images and reflect on their personal life and how they can achieve. Also, students use various activities to create an environment for discussion of everyday difficulties and challenges.
Mission/Purpose:
Students learn basic kitchen safety and cooking techniques to prepare food items. The food items are sold to raise money for Partnership Walk and Relay for Life.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Friday, Home Ec Room
Faculty Sponsor: Julie Barry (FCS connections) and Susan Adams (Tm 8C)
Activities:
Activities are primarily student-run with sponsor guidance and supervision. Cooking and baking are the main activities in our club. Students learn to follow directions, work as a team, follow kitchen safety as well as learn how important it is to help others in our community.
Mission/Purpose: The International Club has been formed to facilitate the understanding and appreciation of the diverse cultures in this community.
Meetings: Friday Warrior Time, room 804.
Faculty advisor: Dr. Mary Ann P. Browning
Activities: Members of the club will have guest speakers, share ethnic food and crafts, and gain a better perspective of the cultural attributes of many nations. The students will share games, postage stamps, photographs, and coins from all over the world. Members of the organization will also share multi-cultural awareness and appreciation with the student body of J. C. Booth Middle School. If there is sufficient interest and support among the members, there may be field trips to special events in the vicinity. If there is sufficient support, they can publish a cookbook and/or sponsor multi-cultural celebrations at Booth.
Mission/Purpose: This band is for students with an advanced playing ability on their instrument that wish to explore and perform different genres of jazz.
Meetings: Fridays 8am through Warrior Time, band room
Faculty advisor: Robert Burton
Mission/Purpose: Beta Club is an academic leadership organization living by the motto, "let us lead by serving others." Invitation is based on semester averages in all subject areas of 90 or above as well as upstanding character. Members are invited twice yearly.
Meetings:
General membership meetings are held the second Tuesday of the month at 7:45 AM in the Media Center. Officer meetings are held the first Tuesday of the month at 7:45 AM in Ms. Roth’s room.
Faculty Advisors: Vanessa Roth & Holly Moseley (Tm 6B)
Membership Criteria: (see the Student Handbook in the Agenda)
Beta
Club Constitution and By-Laws
Mission/Purpose:
The purpose of this club is to improve student learning strategies and skills through their participation in high interest learning games.
Meetings: Fridays Warrior Time; rm. 610
Faculty Advisor: Cynthia Smith (Tm 6B) and Dawn Caldwell (Tm 6A)
Activities: The Learning Games Club is an organization in which students use strategy and logic while engaging in competitive games.
Mission/Purpose:
Students will learn about the general operation and maintenance of an active and vigorous Middle School Media Center. They will be given opportunities to perform a variety of different library tasks. Students will work with the Media Staff and with other students participating in the club.
Meetings:
Warrior Time, every Friday, Media Center
Faculty Sponsor:
Nan Carey (Media Spec), Ad Taylor (Media Parapro)
Activities:
Students will perform simple but important library tasks. Students will be divided into working groups that shelve books, help to process books, deliver laminating, and move and organize materials. Students will also be involved in helping the Media Staff to implement large changes such as replacing date due slips in all the library books.
Mission/Purpose:
To afford students the opportunity to engage in silent sustained reading and to aid them in achieving the state-wide initiative of reading 25 books per year (with the idea that students who achieve this goal have been exposed to a million words), as well as the opportunity for independent and small group study/review of curriculum material including lexicon and stem vocabulary.
Meetings:
Warrior Time, Fridays
2 locations: Parten room 709 and Henkel room 710 (alternating Fridays) Bremer room 807
Faculty Sponsors: Courtney Bremer, Noelle Henkel, and Ginny Parten
Activities: Silent sustained reading, independent and teacher assisted study/review in all curriculum areas and independent and teacher assisted study/review of lexicon and stem vocabulary
Mission/Purpose:
To afford students with an interest in percussion instruments a chance to meet and play Orff instruments.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Friday, rm. 239.
Faculty Sponsor: Rachel Green (chorus connections)
Activities: Activities include playing instruments, reading music, and working together to make an ensemble. Students will learn names of instruments and how to play them. They will practice individually and together as a team. Students will help one another to solve technique problems.
Mission/Purpose: Outdoor Leadership Club available strictly to 8th grade students taking the class Project Adventure to the next level. Students will take on a larger role in the club by demonstrating and exercising leadership skills on their peers.
Meetings: Fridays, Warrior Time, PA Course
Faculty advisors: AlexMull/ Kappy Combs (PE)
Activities: 8th grade students will be asked to choose games, high elements, and possibly excursions of their interest guiding their peers through trials and obstacles. Students will be expected to lead club members reinforcing rules and leadership techniques to help the group reach a common goal. Each leader will assess the group they led while also assessed by their peers on their communication, positive outlook and team work. Furthermore, Outdoor Leadership Club will help students grow and mature as an individual and group. Project Adventure: Low Elements, High Elements, Knot Tying, Belaying, Setting up Elements
Mission/Purpose: The Peer Helper Program provides our students many opportunities to work together to enrich the lives of others. Students apply for membership and are selected based on interviews and the application.
Meetings: Members will meet periodically for training and support. Members work individually and in small groups during Warrior Time and as called on.
Faculty Advisor: Lynda Manwaring, Terese Benefield and Kristin Cristelli (Counselors)
Activities: The three major facets of the program include our Ambassador Program, J.C. Booth Warrior Blazers; our Peer Tutoring Program, involving Beta Club Student; and our Peer Mediation Program which provides students with more positive methods of resolving conflict.
Mission/Purpose: To learn the rules for and to play Ping Pong.
Meetings: Fridays mornings during Warrior Time - West Wing gallery
Faculty Advisor: Dan Hossbach
Activities: Learn rules and play Ping Pong.
Mission/Purpose: To provide an opportunity for 7th grade students to receive assistance in successfully meeting their reading and academic goals.
Meetings: Fridays Warrior Time; rm. 757
Faculty Advisor: David Morrison and Ruth Keenan (Tm 7A)
Activities: Quiet reading, AR testing, assisted reading of books on tape, and other related activities.
Mission/Purpose: The purpose is to advance and develop science education offering a competitive science program to interested students. Mentoring for students in various disciplines will be organized, and competition dates will be set with the Georgia Science Olympiad Organization.
Meetings: Meets daily before and after school in room 741.
Faculty Advisors: Tammy Pakulski, Matt Jackson, Bo Hill (teachers), Jere Key, Mary Wilde, Dr. Kenya Anders, Dr. David Anders, David Worley, Bernadett Worley(community coaches)
Activities: Learn science related information ands skills in order to compete individually and as a team member at Invitational, Regional, State Meet, and National Tournament
Mission/Purpose: The mission of the Spanish Club is to promote the learning of the Spanish language and to foster an appreciation for and understanding of Hispanic culture.
Meetings: Friday Warrior Time, rm 803. Occasionally activities will be planned for after school.
Faculty advisors: Sra. Johns (8A) and Mrs. Molpus (Conn.)
Activities: Students will be learning basic Spanish phrases by watching videos and working with students who are in the Spanish I class. We will celebrate Hispanic holidays such as Day of the Dead, Christmas, Cinco de Mayo. We will have at least one movie afternoon. We will be learning some Latin dances and may have a dance contest.
Mission/Purpose: The Soccer Club creates an opportunity for students to learn the rules of soccer and to play soccer.
Meetings: Friday Warrior Time weekly, football field bleacher
Faculty Advisor: Matt Jackson (Tm 7B), Brenda Prebor (Tm 7A)
Activities: Playing soccer, kicking ball, passing ball, general soccer skills, scrimmaging, competitive game formats, discussions, sports videos and other indoor activities if inclement weather.
Mission/Purpose: The purpose of the Spirit Club is to work together to improve the spirit of the school body and to provide a forum for students who want to support the school’s competitive teams outside of cheer leaders & pep band.
Meetings: Fridays, Warrior Time, gym
Faculty Advisor: Mindi King (Tm 8A),Denise Anderson and Saundra McKoy (Tm 6C), Ishy Neelly & Cindy Smith (Tm 6A)
Activities: Learn cheers, make posters, plan pep rallies, attend after school athletic events, support athletic teams.
Mission/Purpose:
Student Council, through its elected members and officers, represents the student body as part of the school governance.
Meetings: Weekly general membership meetings, Thursdays during Warrior Time
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Mary Ann P. Browning (ESOL) and Lynn Buddin ( Tm 6A)
Activities: Members develop student leadership skills through service to the school and the community.
Mission/Purpose: The mission of the Trail to Eagle Club is to support Boy Scout of America (B.S.A.) ideals while sustaining rank advancement, learning Scouting skills and performing community service. The Trail to Eagle Club is open to all students.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Friday, rm 737
Faculty Sponsors: Ron Plauche (Assistant Principal), Marcia Clark ( Read-180)
Activities: Activities are centered in B.S.A. troop organization that places members in patrols. The troop and the patrols have a leadership organization. Through the troop and patrol activities are conducted, skills taught and service performed. As part of the club an Honor Guard is organized to raise and lower the school flags. A concluding activity such as but not limited to a campout or field trip is conducted near the end of the year.
Mission/Purpose: To teach students fitness training concepts that will enhance overall wellness of the students.
Meetings: Before school at 7:30 - 8:10, Wednesdays and Fridays, weight room.
Faculty Advisor: David Munoz (PE)
Activities: strength training, endurance training, speed training, and flexibility training.
Mission/Purpose:
Yearbook Club is open to al self-motivated Booth students who are interested in photography, layouts, and journalism. Students should have basic computer knowledge and be willing to work on pages before and after school on a consistent basis.
Meetings: Fridays Warrior Time, and before & after school, rm 705
Faculty Advisor: Jennifer Switzer (PE)
Activities: Activities will include taking pictures, scanning photos, indexing photos, creating page layouts, and creating feature stories. Members will be required to meet before and after school on a regular basis in order to meet deadlines.
Mission/Purpose: To provide an opportunity for 6A students to receive assistance in successfully meeting their reading and academic goals.
Meetings: Fridays, Warrior Time, rms 602 & 612
Faculty advisor(s): Lynn Buddin & NevaLogan (Tm 6A)
Activities: Quiet reading, AR testing, assisted reading of books on tape, and other related activities.
Mission/Purpose: To provide mnemonics and strategies while learning academic material.
Meetings: Every Friday during Warrior Time. Room 802
Faculty Sponsors: Missy Fisher and Edie Brewer
Activities: Teacher directed activities are used to help students process and master content material. Activities may include drills, games, competitions, and other hands on activities
Mission/Purpose: To provide an opportunity for 6B students to receive assistance in successfully meeting their academic reading goals.
Meetings: Fridays, Warrior Time, Rm 244
Faculty advisor(s): Vanessa Roth & Holly Moseley (Tm 6B)
Activities: Quiet reading, AR testing, assisted reading of books on tape, and other related activities.
Mission/Purpose: The 7th Grade Game Club is an opportunity for students to enjoy enhancing their problem solving skills and concentration as they participate in a variety of games.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Friday, rm. 750.
Faculty Sponsor: Kristi Hardeman (Team 7B), Kim Fisher (Team 7C)
Activities: The students work cooperatively to discover strategies and patterns to solve games. Some of the games students may choose to play include: Scrabble, Bananagrams, Mastermind, Othello, Backgammon, UpWords, Boggle, Battleship, Chess, Checkers, and Uno.
Mission/Purpose: To provide an opportunity for 7 B students to receive assistance in successfully meeting their personal and academic reading goals.
Meetings: Fridays Warrior Time; rm. 724
Faculty Advisor: Kim Makins (Tm 7B)
Activities: Quiet reading, AR testing, assisted reading of books on tape, and other related activities.
Mission/Purpose: To afford students with the opportunity to engage in conversation with their peers allowing for them to practice social skills relevant to real life situations. It will provide students with a chance to share ideas and opinions that are of interest to them in their everyday world.
Meetings: Warrior Time, Friday, rm. 701/711
Faculty Sponsors: Laura Kienast and Sue Mullin (Team 8B)
Activities: Activities are primarily student-run with sponsor guidance and supervision. Students share upcoming events locally and globally. Opportunities for students to consider and discuss opinions and how to handle uncomfortable social situations will be allowed.
Mission/Purpose: The purpose is to provide any extra math help for any student on the team. Is will also serve students who are out sick so that I can get them caught up.
Meetings: Warrior time through out the week (except Wed) & Fridays Warrior Time; rm. 805
Faculty Advisor: Carol Johnson (Tm 8C)
Activities: Get any extra math help