Fair

 It was dusk, Jake and his family were in their car headed to the fair. They were all excited, you could tell they were ready to run to the gates. They could see the flashing lights flash over and over again. The family had gotten out of the car, Jake, Joseph (Jake’s brother), and Kole, (Jake’s cousin), were all tempted to run off without permission,  but they didn’t care if they got in trouble. When the whole family got out of the car they all started to walk to the gates. When they got through the gates, Jake and Kole started playing with a football Jake brought with. They both were having a good time. Kole wanted to try a trick with the football, so Jake agreed. Jake threw the football to Kole, but when Kole tried catching the ball he misplaced his foot and he rolled his ankle. “ Ow!” Kole siad, Jake ran over to him to ask if he was ok and he was.

The Trip

It was a kinda gloomy Saturday most of the choir girl were heading to school.The teacher taking attendance.She walked into the classroom.The room smelled of sunscreen and sweat.She sits down and waits for the bus to arrive.15 min later it arrived all the girls are excited but she was nervous.When she got on the bus, she was ready to leave.as she what’s to get to the competition she got more and more nervous.The bus stops and all the girls are ready to go in.Later there driving away with three trophies and a grin on their faces.She wants to get to the water park and relax.They get there and go in the water park the sunscreen smell gets stronger and the screemes of children get louder they cant what to get in the water.Later the girls are tired and what to get there other trophies but when she sits down to what she puts her hand on a wood wall and slides down. She sits down and looks at her hand to find all kinds of splinters.She wants to tell her teacher but she forgets and goes on the bus.Later she gets home and pulls out all the splinters.

Newcast Story

In Winthrop Massachusetts on Christmas Eve, children run down the stairs in their plaid pajamas to see an event that only happens once a year. Every year there's a parade on the streets. On every street everyone turns off their Christmas lights around their houses to get the whole experience of the parade. As Santa Claus comes down the streets on a firetruck the are bright white lights like stars in the distance, the sound of golden bells, squeaking of tires, clacking hooves on the icy road, and the sounds of joyful cheers of children with the smell of freshly groomed horses through the air. It’s one of their special ways of celebrating Christmas in Winthrop even in rain or deep snow. It means so much to the people of Winthrop and the person who’s pretending to be Santa Claus. It's important to understand the history and cultures of other places to understand the world around us.

Journalist at Work

Yesterday, at Calhoun Middle School eighth-grade Language and Literature class went on a hike up the hill to the Mc Alister gym. In Ms. Simmons’ class, the students were learning how to be journalists by practicing taking good observation notes to later turn into a story.  Witnesses noticed that some kids thought it was stupid. One kid named Jake expressed, “I don’t see any action in this gym, and we can’t make up stories about nothing”. There were voices of students talking with their friends, some were kicking an orange cone around as if it were a soccer ball, and some were climbing on bleachers.

Out of nowhere, one of the teachers, Ms.Petit, scolded the kids for sitting on the bleachers,” Get off the bleachers, you’re not supposed to sit up there”. She demanded that they go off to do work as a journalist. One kid lost his journal in the bleachers while pulling up his pants. Coach Ordaz came to save the day by letting out the bleachers just enough for the journal to fall out. Who never imagined so much could take place in a room full of eighth-graders on a journalist assignment. When the class ended, the students left the Mac gym with a notebook full of drama. 

Break

On the campus of Calhoun Middle School, In the Language and Literature class of Mr. Moore,

the students were working hard revising and editing their position papers. It was so quiet in the

class that you could hear the clock tick “tick-tock-tick-tock”, the students waited and waited for the clock to turn on 1:05 pm. They were anxiously waiting to go on a break from doing the work. 

Mr.Moore stopped them in the middle of their work time to teach a quick lesson on revise and edit, but students were disengaged and ready to leave. Witnesses could tell in the student's faces that they were so done with the lecture you could stick a fork in them. Jason raised his hand nervously and asked, “When will it be time for our break?”Moore shockingly responded, “You have like 10 minutes left”.

Finally, the bell rang and the students got very happy but still had to wait. All you could hear in the hallway was footsteps, other students talking and laughing. Eventually, the students were out in the hallway playing and having fun.

However, the kids all started to make their way back in the classroom. One girl was on the stairs and jumped off the stairs and fell, on the last step and hit her head. The students gasp! And looked at her and asked “Are you ok”  as she laid there. Although, she jumped up as nothing had just happened and said: “Yes I'm ok”.The students told the teacher and the teacher sent her to the nurse to get ice for her head. She was ok but for the rest of the day, the students were worried if she had damaged herself. 

Cutz

In the U.S. it is estimated that one in every 200 girls between 13 to 19 yrs old,cut themselves regularly. As students walk the halls of Calhoun middle school. You never know what struggles students are faced with. They hide behind smiles, conversations with friends and hide behind lowered heads. Their struggles aren't easy to talk about with people. Even if they don't trust people.

Eli was a sixth-grader at this middle school who linked up with bad influences in her circle of friends, acquaintances, and strangers. She was convinced that cutting herself was the only thing that made her feel better and make her forget her problems for a while based on what people had said. A teacher found her cutting her wrists with a sharp object in the cafeteria. The cuts were ocean deep. Who would have thought somebody that always acted so cheerful would be hurting herself to hide away her problems. She was admitted to a mental hospital. She was there for a few months and is now better.

The Perfect Storm

It was a cold rainy day as Anna walked to the school bus stop. She saw her friends Alexis and Elliot standing there waiting under a tree so they wouldn't get wet. A few other people were waiting for the bus, too. We stood there getting soaked as we watched the elementary kids walk to school. Twenty minutes later the bus was still late. One of the kids called their mom to pick them up. The mom packed most of the people waiting at the bus stop in the car but there was no more room for us, so the three friends had to stay and wait for the bus. They started getting bored. Anna started jumping around but slipped and fell and started bleeding, which was funny. She was fine. Finally after fifty minutes the bus came. Barely anyone was on the bus. The person driving was an old man and there was an old lady directing him where to go, so I couldn't blame them for being late. When we finally got to school we had to go to the front office and get a late pass. By this time most of us were soaking wet. I was really hungry because usually I have breakfast at school but since we were so late we couldn't.