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The Marquee

Marcus High School's Online Newspaper

The Marquee

Marcus High School's Online Newspaper

The Marquee

Emily Couch

Emily Couch, Reporter

Emily Couch (she/her) is a senior and is excited for her first year as a staff member for the Marquee! She appreciates good movies, writing of course, ceramics, painting and reading. Storytelling is one of her favorite things and she looks forward to telling the many stories of others this year for the marquee. :)

All content by Emily Couch
A losing game

A losing game

Emily Couch, Reporter April 24, 2023

  Eraser crumbs covered the desk. I stared down at my tear soaked paper and the empty spaces I couldn’t fill. Everyone in my second grade class had finished their work and gone to lunch, but...

What comedy TV show are you?

What comedy TV show are you?

Emily Couch, Reporter April 24, 2023

If you enjoy a good laugh or unwinding after school, you probably have an arsenal of comedic TV shows. We all feel like we can relate with one show over the others — take this to quiz out which one.   Are...

Pressure spikes

Pressure spikes

Boys Volleyball pushes through challenges
Emily Couch, Reporter April 21, 2023

As school was released, the boys volleyball team scrambled into friends’ cars and mom’s minivans. With only an hour and a half to get to a game an hour away, they were pushing it. Due to a lack of...

Adopt an angel

Adopt an angel

Emily Couch, Reporter December 13, 2022

Students all around the district have been coming together to help those in need this Christmas through Adopt an Angel. The program presented by LISD provides presents for students who don’t have the...

The Giving Season

The Giving Season

How to help local nonprofits year round
Hyunsung Na, Kaelen Reed, and Emily Couch November 4, 2022

The months of November and December mark the start of an annual surge of donations, a phenomenon known as — the season of giving. The winter holidays arrive consecutively all sharing one universal thing:...

"That was when one of my closest friends said the nine words that would haunt me for the next three years. 
“There was a list, and I was on it.”

The list

Emily Couch, Reporter October 13, 2022

Sobbing, she rushed back into the classroom of my old school. It was the uncontrollable kind, the kind where you can’t even get a word out. Catching her breath, she was finally able to answer my question. “What...

Sophomore Alex Alvarez pulls sophomore Sheila Povar on a scooter during freetime. Leaders and partners spend the class period playing games together.

Volunteers needed in PE Partners

Emily Couch, Reporter September 30, 2022

PE Partners is in need of additional volunteers to help in the life skills class. Volunteers, which are called leaders in the class, help the buddies–the life skills students. They teach social skills...