Advice for the class of 2016

If you have Mrs. Reagles:
She is haunted.
She can be random.
She takes awhile for conferences.
She is straight forward with what she says.
She makes sure you are good at writing.
She knows taekwondo, so don't be terrible.

If you have Ms. Mitchell:
She is funny, with a sense of humor.
She is very laid back, unless you are within two weeks of a concert.
She has to listen to people making weird voices.
She knows more than you think.
She can hear everything that happens.

If you have Mrs. Whelan:
She understands.
She doesn't grade hard.
She knows better.
She is laid back.
She knows how to grade you.
Don't be mean to her.

If you have Mrs. Silday:
She likes kitties.
She can't say Oranges and ice cream.
She marks everything with her red pen.
She likes it when you draw on her white board. Not.
She drives a red Civic.
She teaches everything thoroughly.
She likes it when you finish your homework; otherwise you get a zero.

If you have Mrs. Stingle:
She gets carried away when you talk to her.
She enjoys it when students are nice to her.
Don't be a suck up to her. That's not good.
She loves her puppy dog, and her husband.
She teaches band and choir.
She enjoys having students visit her.

If you have Ms. Colque:
She has a lot of fun teaching.
Her husband is Mr. Giese.
She teaches Social Students.
She loves the class of 2015.
She teaches Academy 21.

John Smith

In the showing of John Smith, I think that they could have a lot in common. One thing that they all had in common that I am 100% sure about is that they where all males. Another that they all had in common was that they all lived a normal life and that they had lived a life that someone we would know would live. It is something that is always good enough for someone to live. In this show, it showed how normal people actually grew up threw a full life, and wanted to show how from children to adults would live a life.

Ice cream social review

At the ice cream social, they put it that it is going to be easy. But for all of us, we have one thing to worry about, Freshman kill day. Even though we may be going to one of houses, they may still find us. Another thing about going to high school is be the babies of the school, and always being the main target. Being the babies, we always want to make a good impression on the school. We have to be good at getting good grades, and try not to get into trouble.

Raymond

This is based on the story "Raymond's Run."

As I sit on the side line cheering on Squeaky for her marvelous running, I realize people are starring at me. Knowing why they are starring at me, my big head, makes it uncomfortable for me. Even though they are starring at me I turn back around and continue to cheer on Squeaky.
Before the race began, I walk with Squeaky through the streets and I know whats going to happen if we see someone she knows walking through the streets. So she had me walk in the inside, the side closest to the buildings, so that she can keep nice and secured, from everyone. I don't like getting teased for something I can't handle or control. But before anyone says anything to me, they have to go to my sister first, because you know I can't handle it.
As we are walking through the streets, we realize that there are some girls from Squeaky's school coming towards us. As always, she takes care of what's going to happen.
"What grade are you in Raymond?" Mary Louise Williams asks, and waiting for a respond from Raymond, but that's what was going to happen.
"You got anything to say to my brother, you say it to me, Mary Louise Williams of Raggedy Town, Baltimore." Squeaky blurted, but couldn't hold back the frustration from her.
"What are you, his mother?" one of the girls, Rosie, asked if she really was.
I want to do something about it, but that is not what's going to happen, because my sister believes that that should be that way. I wish I could do something for myself before I can't because I want to learn how to do it. Knowing that Squeaky will do anything for doing something like that for me, I love her, but I want to learn how to do it myself.
As I sit down, by the fence, watching Squeaky run for first, I realize that I think I'm going to sit here and be proud of myself, because that is what I'm proud to do. Squeaky is a great runner, I know that for being her number one fan in the stands! No one knows how much I appreciate my sister standing up for me, but I want to do it sometime on my own. I know it will be hard, but it would be something different to do and something great to do. Being young is a good thing, but that's what I want to do.
My sister runs, runs, and runs to the finish. My favorite thing to do is cheer her on until she runs into first. This time, she knows that someone else have won, but she know that she deserved it.

Journal 4/25

Over spring break something that I did was go to Chicago. As we thought about it we wanted to visit my aunt, because we don't get to see her often. Besides going to Chicago, I got my Easter stuff and was not ready to go back to school the next day. I didn't do much over break, because most of break I was sick. Even though it was a break, I have to re-take my science test, so I'm able to go to six flags.

history

Something for me to go back in history is for school pictures like they had at the end of the movie.
I don't have much control over how people remember me, because people have ways of remembering people and how the remember me as. It's different for everybody.
In 10 years from now, I will remember this school. I will remember all of my friends and all the fun times. I won't forget about it.
I think others will remember me by how I was with them and I approached them.

journal 4/15

one cause about the civil war is that they had different beliefs about slavery and how slavery was used. They didn't want the slavery in the north but at the same time, the south thought that slavery was a good thing to have so that the owners didn't have to do stuff all on their own. Slavery was a one of the things that had caused the civil war.
One important battle that had happened was the battle of Gettysburg. That was a battle that was going to be fought for what they wanted and how they wanted there own things.
One person that was important to the war was Abraham Lincoln. He became president and he wanted to stop slavery in the United States. He didn't want there to be slaves when all of the slaves escaped from the south and went to the north.

Journal 4/14

During the class time, I think that my class time has been used wisely. The thing that I find easy about the assignment is that it can be something that we can free write about. That is something that I enjoy. The one thing that I find challenging is that we have to put head notes and know exactly were the facts came from and putting the facts into the writing. I could impove the story by maybe putting more speaking parts into it.

journal 4/13

Reporter: What is the hardest thing for you while you are fighting in the war?
My hardest feeling that I have is that I have to leave my wife and she is going to have her baby soon. I don't feel right leaving her while she is in this position and that is the hardest thing for me.

Reporter: Who is your closest friend during the war?
Well, my closest friend during the war is a 16 year old boy named Thomas. He has respect for everyone around him, and he has a hard life as it is now. I am happy that I met him, because I'm able to talk to this guy and he understands what's going on.

Reporter: Are you trying to keep in touch with your wife? And when you child comes will you keep in touch with it too?
Yes. I am talking to my wife Lucy, by writing letters back and fourth to each other. I enjoy being able to hear from her, even though it takes a few days between each letter to get back. Normally I try and respond that night when I get it or immediately in the morning so that I can get it sent out right away. And when my child comes, I will try and know how the baby is doing and making sure everything is okay with it.

journal 4/11

I woke up this morning thinking to myself, what am I doing with my life? It never seems the same as the day before. I feel like everyday I wake up and something happened to me that it can't be explained. My mom never remembers me, neither does my dad. Usually my brothers know what is going on with me, because my parents never know what is going on with us, and why we are waking up in their house. They always tell us that they never had children and that we are just hobos that are sneaking in at night. Well whatever. I can find a different family that actually appreciates me. My older brother is old enough to say that we can be his children. He should know what is going on and how it's happening. But no one ever knows. Everyone remembers us, just not our parents. Maybe it's just the short term memory loss that old people get when they get old.
As I woke up on Saturday morning, my mom greeted me right as I awoke. This is weird. I thought to my self. She told me that I was having nightmares and kept talking to myself. She told me that she had no idea what was going on and she tried to wake me up. She had a lot of troubles trying to wake me up and that I wouldn't wake up, so she decided to make me breakfast for once. Lucky enough it was all just a night mare.

journal 4/8

"There he goes.. up, up, up and away!!!" excitedly says Herman going down Maple alley.
"What?!?! who is going UP,UP,UP AND AWAY!!!!??" replies Merman walking at Herman's side.
"You know your brother. He's in that space rocket and he's going to be gone forever!" Herman is reminding Merman what is going on.
"OH! YEAH! YAY! YAY! YAY!" Merman is more than happy what's going on.
Merman's brother was an ugly adult, and very rude to everyone he meets. No respect at all and doesn't treat people the way he wants to be treated. He is 13 years older than Merman and his name is Pip. We all know it could sound like a name from a dwarf, but that's why everyone made fun of him. He didn't care he was always a spoiled brat and always wanted things his way until Merman was born. Then he never got things his way anymore. He didn't like that.
Flashback.
"Mommy, I don't want a brother. Can you please take him back to the store and never get another child again?" Pip rudely said to his mom.
"Sweety, there is no reason why you should be angry with having a little brother," his mom was explaining to him. "But now you have someone to play with and that you have someone to take good care of."
"Well my issue is that there are things that you aren't being fair to me at all. All you care about is Merman and not about me. Goodbye." Pip said as he started to cry.
"Pip, we all know you are going to be happy with this someday."
"no I'm not."
"okay."
15 years later....
As Merman was sitting on the bench with Herman,they were talking about how much Pip always hated him. So as they watched to rocket go, it turned around and came back down to the Earth. They were both very confused about what was going on, so they ran to the nearest place that had a rocket landing. Supposedly Pip felt bad and all he wanted was a life to himself and nothing to do with Herman. That was rude of him to say, but as long as Pip was home, Merman can also stay away with him with everything he did to him.

Journal 4/4

Dialogue
"Who are you?!?!" my mother says to me as she woke up this morning.
"I'm your child. Your first born child." sassing back to her wasn't easy but I had to do it.
"Well if you are my first born child, then you wouldn't be talking to me at, wait what time is it?" she was tired, and miserable, because she was sick.
"Mom, it's 2:30 in the afternoon. I need you to tell me what to do with my sister. She's bored and I can't do anything unless you told me to do it."
"Well you are the man of the house now since of what happened to your father in the war." I shouldn't be in her room. Thinking of how sick she is, it is horrible to be around her.
Last week I decided to fight in the war, because it's something that I should be able to do. I don't care if my father had died in the war, I want to fight for something that I will fight for.
"Take good care of your sister. I'm not feeling to good." She responded to me in dread.
"okay. stay in bed. I don't want you getting out."

Journal 4/1

Something that I was able to learn, is that the war was almost 150 years ago. Unless you really want to know about the war, most people should there minds in the of Americans.
There is really nothing else that really caught my eye about the Civil War.

Journal 3/31

As I sit off to the side, afraid that I am going to get found. I'm worrying that my disguise is working good enough. People all around me are staring at me wherever i go. It's unfair that I'm stuck like this. My family has left me alone, because I was never what they wanted me to be. So as I sit here, all alone, my things that I didn't want to leave anywhere, I had to leave them behind. I'm a slave, that should be working and not running away. I have enough money to go find a new job, and actually have food for about three days. As I'm searching for a new job, I think I may have a few ideas. As someone though was walking down the road, a man, a stranger, noticed me, he walked up and wanted to talk to me.
"Hey, you over there, wait up!" he shouted at me.
"uuhhhh.. yeah?" I responded slowly.
"I've noticed that you are jobless, looks like you need a job?" Willingly said the man. Good thing that he hasn't brought anything up yet.
"Yeah. Why?" scared of whats going to happen.
"Well we need more people fighting in the civil war. Will you do it?"
I didn't know how to respond to that, so I just told him I'd think about it and asked him to meet up with me later.

Journal 3/30

What are my ideas for the writing of the historical fiction? Well an idea I have is that I would like to talk about how people lived during the civil war. They weren't happy when it was happening, because they were living where they were loosing family and friends that they were very close to. I don't know for sure if I want to do this, but it sounds like something that I would want to do. Otherwise if I don't do that, I would enjoy doing the events that were happening. There were a lot of things that were happening while the war was going on. That's another thing that I would like to do.

Journal 3/29

Something that people can get motivated about, is how they treat others. Some people put others before them and put them last, because they believe that helping others before themselves are very important. Something else to get motivated is before games. You can get excited and motivated for that so that you have energy to play at the game. Another thing that you are able to do, is how something that can easy, it will get you excited in so many ways that you are motivated to do something. For example you want do good in school this quarter, because we are motivated to go to six flags at the end of the year. We all want to go, but we have to good grades to be able to attend six flags. Things that you want to do, but you have to give something in return, is something that we all enjoy getting, but we all have to get motivated and do good in school.

Journal 3/28

Yes there are times when people should be able fight for something. Fights aren't suppose to be always violent because you can stand up for what you believe in. For example our class will stand up for what we believe in, which is our own seats back. We should be able to fight for what is important to us and how it is important for us. When we believe in something we should be able to say what we think is important because our opinions should count for everything we do. Everyone should be able to give their own opinion to everything because that's what's right.

Journal 3/25

Do I think everyone has a free will?
I don't think that everyone has a free will because if they are ruled by someone else like the government then they don't have as much freedom as they could. When they are ruled by the government then they don't have as much free will as they should as Americans or anyone else. I formed my opinion by realizing that people aren't able to do as many things as we can. As an observation, that is how it was focused on to my opinion about this.

If I were in control....

If I was in control of the school, some of the changes that I would make is that school would be fun. Not boring, because we don't want to sit in class all day and just learn. We want to do things like play games, or be able to talk to our friends whenever we want. Another change that I would want to make is that the lunches would be better. I would change something, where we would be able to go out to eat for lunch and not eat the school's food. Another change that I would want to make is have nap time. We are always complaining that we are always tired. We want a nap time to, because we are always coming to school dragging. Some of us don't even get a full five hours of sleep. I want these changes made, because I feel that is good when each person gets what they want to do and not sitting in a chair or desk all day, because they are trying to go to school. Some students believe that sitting in a chair or desk is good for them, but not for every other student. It depends if these changes would prepare the students for high school, because if they have a good attitude about school and keep their school work up, they wouldn't have a hard time. If the students take everything for granted, then they won't have a good time in the high school. If the changes are made so that each student can still prepare for high school, then it would be fine.

Journal for 3/23

Immigration
As a young child, you always want to be with your parents to be protected by them. In this case a 4 year old American citizen went to stay with her grandpa down in Guatemala for the winter. When she came back, the Washington airport wouldn't let her and her grandfather go through on the plane, because her grandfather was an illegal immigrant, as well as her parents. The littler girl and her little brother, age 3, are the only ones throughout their family that are legal in America. Her father had moved into America in 1996, because his family was very poor where he lived in Guatemala. It's not fair to the family that she has to be living somewhere away from her family and maybe never get to see them unless the family fights it off to win her back.

The family is very devastated that they have to go through this but it's what they have to do. If you were a parent and your child got separated from you, you wouldn't be to happy about what's going on. The young girl, age 4, isn't very happy that she has to live like this, because she's living far away from the people she loves. The only thing they can do at the time with the child is send her back home with her grandfather in Guatemala. The safest place would be with her grandfather, because if they decide to send her where she can easily get set up for adoption, they don't want that to happen to their little girl.
This is a quote coming straight from the father:
“This is very unfair because she is a citizen,” he said, “and she is a very little girl.”

Refection

In these discussions, it is helping us with our presentations so that we can keep the class going on a topic. It's good when the class is able to go onto one topic and keep a discussion going. I think we should be able to do this more often so that we can get our speaking skills in front of others better. When we did this, I feel like I'm getting better every time I do that. The problem is that people won't stop talking and we have to keep stopping and wait for them. It is not the best thing to do, but it is better than writing an essay. I'd rather do this than write an essay, as long as I can get better writing skills.

What happened?!?!

As I sit in my room thinking about what had happened on Friday, everything was a blur. Everyone was telling me that I was knocked out by a basketball because Amy, my best friend, was mad at me, so she decided to throw it at me. None of the teachers knew about to suspend her, but I wondered how I could be mad at her if I don't remember anything. AT ALL! People were also telling me about how then once I got up after I was knocked out that I was bleeding from my head. As I sat in my room thinking about what really did happen, my brain just shuts down. Nothing. Whatsoever. I don't understand why I can't remember and why I can't believe anyone because no one is telling me the truth.

Can Humans ever be equal??

Humans may not be different now, but if in my opinions, humans should be treated equal everywhere they go, but not all looking like an average person. They shouldn't have have the same personalities and not always think the same. It wouldn't be a fair would if they all acted the same. Everyone should be able to be different in their own way, but be treated the same. Humans should have a right to be different from others because if they are equal then someone can't do something fantastic, it can make others happy in a way that they can enjoy themselves. When they can enjoy themselves, that's when they realize that they like being different from other people around them. Equal isn't always the true answer for people when they are in need.
What would the world look like if we were all all equal? The world would be boring, un-exciting, and absolutely no fun. Humans should having different personalities in themselves so that people can tell them apart. Equal isn't how everyone should be treated, you want to be in a place where we can be welcomed by different people with different ways of living. You don't want the world to be boring and nothing to do if everyone thought the same and never could say anything that they want to say for their own opinion.

Super-Human Powers

If I was able to have any Super-Human Powers, it would be that I could control people and the way I want them to be treated when I decide to have them under my ruling. Having this would make things all my way and it would be that way so that I can get everything my way. That would be something that I would decide to do when I am able to know how to do it. I feel that when someone is under my power and I always know what they are thinking and what they are going to do.

Respect

As you think of respect what comes to mind? Being nice to others, or being mean to others and expecting them to be nice back to you. Well if you think that you can be mean to them and expect them to be nice back, well that's in your dreams. Be nice to those that you want them to respect back to you. Those that think of you first are those that are the nice ones and those that can give you things are the nice ones, but if you can't be courteous to them, well that's in your dreams if you want to treat them rudely.

A ContinuationThe Never Ending Story

“Could I please have that book,” says Bastian.
“That story will have you as one of the characters and it could scare you,” explains Mr. Koreander the bookstore owner.
“Well I’ve read more than 80 books; I think I can survive this one”
“If you say so……”
As Bastian tries to get The Never Ending Story from the bookstore owner, he will shortly be able to get what he wants as well as be capable to read it. He really wants to be and try to be brave. The Never Ending Story is a German fantasy novel written by Michael Ende and the movie was directed by Wolfgang Peterson in 1984. Bastian always wanted a friend, an excellent friend to have fun with and talk to. Then he discovers a book in a bookstore near his home. As always he wanted to get the book, so he did decide to get it, but he skipped out of school and stayed away from the bullies from his school. Taking a day off and reading the book was something he was required to do. As he read he went from being disliked to having a world of friends in the Never Ending Story.
“Fine. I guess you can have the book… but I’m warning you,” the bookstore owner says in awareness to not have a young boy read the book.
“Okay… warn me all you want… but thank you!” Bastian says happily.
Now that he was able to take a day off, he went off into a never ending story. Emotions were apart of everything in the story. Appreciate that using his imagination was a big part in his life as a child.
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“I’m ready to fly!” Atreyu, the main character of the story, says in excitement to Falkor, the flying dragon dog.
“Hang on tight!!!! We are going for a wonderful ride!” Falkor explains!
They ride off to save peoples fantasy minds and to save in what people should believe in. They are there to help people in any way they need! All they wanted to achieve was the quest of saving people’s imagination. Although Atreyu wasn’t able to save imagination, he tried. That’s what he always wanted to do - was save someone’s imagination.
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“Get out of my territory” Gmork the Evil, black werewolf scowls to Atreyu…
“Explain to me why this is your territory and I can’t save people’s imagination” asked Atreyu walking past a cave to save what he thinks is right.
“I don’t care what you think is right, leave before I hurt you,” Gmork.
“NO. You don’t deserve to be like this, you’re lonely, friendless, and you don’t talk to anyone about your problems. That’s why you don’t care about anyone else, but you know what.. Provided that you can use your imagination, you will have a friend to talk to!” Atreyu tries to cheer the werewolf up, and encourages him not be so mean to people coming through his area.
“If I try it, will it work? What if something happens? It doesn’t go right?” meaningless replies Gmork.
“It will work, if something goes wrong then, use your imagination to change it. It’s not hard at all!” admonished Atreyu.
As the werewolf starts to be more friendly to people, he gets to be pleased that someone encouraged him to use his imagination.
“I wanted to save children’s imagination, but I didn’t have enough time to do it,” explains Atreyu unhapply.
“Etreyu, we understand what you did, we are pleased with what you did to save imagination of children.” The Child-like empress was cheerful with him because that was the best anyone ever did to save their life. Anyone that could have done it, could have failed at saving their home, but there is always one person that is always willing to fight for what they believe in.
More children need to start using their imagination, with how The Never Ending Story was; it shows that imagination is important in everyone’s life. It shows that even though you may not have many friends, you can always still have your imagination to have friends. Always needing a friend is always what someone needs. Reading a book can always bring you into an imaginary world with more friends that you could ever think of. Once you see that your life could change with imagination, you will be able to use it more often.