ALWAYS FREE ISSUE 1 2016-17 ATMS TIMES AVERY TRACE MIDDLE SCHOOL/ ISSUE 1 2016-17 ATMS Homecoming 2016 by Gus Creter The 2016 Avery Trace What IS MYP? Homecoming was a blast! From By: Mr. Meihls the game to the dance, I feel My hope is that all students everybody had a great time. For who leave ATMS are equipped the homecoming dress up days we with knowledge, confidence, had Twin Day, Hawaiian/Tourist and the tools to be successful Day, Hoedown Day, and Spirit Day. at whatever they choose to The ballgame was on September pursue. This is the main 8th against Livingston. Even reason I am passionate about though we lost, we still had fun our school becoming an IB eating snow cones and hanging World School. out with our friends. Four years ago, we began this The next day was the dance. journey and we are almost There was food, dancing, and fun there. The IB program for all around! The DJ was amazing middle schools is called MYP and he played both contemporary or “The Middle Years and old songs. Next years Program”. This program aims homecoming will be hard to top. to “..empower students to inquire into a wide range of Raider Rumble 2016-17 issues and ideas of By Arshaan Radman some people, they even Dabbed significance locally, nationally, while walking backwards. and globally. The result is Raider Rumble was full of fun and young people who are crazy events. First, we had to Our second event was much creative, critical, and balance a golfball on a spoon and more chaotic than the first. We reflective thinkers” (ibo.org). race. You even got extra points if you had to get in our homerooms and Their mission aligns with ours made it all the way by Dabbing! try to pass the hula hoop here at ATMS. I hope our However, that wasn’t enough for without letting go of one students will become the another’s hands. It was leaders of tomorrow.

THE RAIDER FOOTBALL TEAM HUDDLES UP BEFORE HOMECOMING HOMECOMING QUEEN :8TH GRADER AGAINST THE LIVINGSTON THE 5TH GRADERS ENJOY A GAME OF AUDREY BIRDWELL AND HER ESCORT WILDCATS . JACKSON PETERS TIC TAC TOE WITH A TWIST. THE LADIES FROM MS. WARD’S ROOM GET READY FOR TUG OF WAR. Raider Rumble cont... by Arshaan Radman much harder than it sounds. We had to go head first through the hoops and most of us fell down. After that we had a short water break and played tug of war! Some of the teachers even participated. Overall, Raider Rumble was very fun. I’m sure most of our school cannot wait until next year’s rumble!!! Bring it on PTO!

As We See It: Editorials & Reviews

Invaders Zim on Nickolodean THE 7TH GRADE SPACES by Levi McCaffrey OUT FOR THE PASS THE Are you like me, a person who loves good HOOLA HOOP GAME. T.V. shows? “Invaders Zim” is a really funny cartoon that shows reality in a funny way. The whole show was created by an artist, that I look up to. His name is Johnan Vascuz. This show is mainly for people who are comic book artists like me. The whole show revolves around a character named Zim who is an alien . Zim will do anything to stop his frienemy, Eren from discovering the paranormal is real. Zim lives with a robot named Frank who always makes fun of him for trying to stop a child exorcist. When you start watching this show, you will New Faces: Ms.Dean by Levi McAffrey begin to look at characters differently because Ms. Dean is our new World Cultures/Spanish teacher. She is a unique of the art style. It is very relaxed and edgy. teacher because she teaches to show what amazing world cultures we have The good thing about it is whenever they walk had in the past and continue to develop. She wants students to know that it looks really funny. I hope you come to love American culture and traditions are not the only in existence. Some of her the T.V. show as much as I do. favorite things to do are reading and watching Family Guy. Ms. Dean graduated from TTU and she likes to eat food from the various cultures she has been exposed to throughout her life.. Welcome to the ATMS Family Ms. Dean!We are thankful for you!

FAR LEFT: OUR AWESOME RAIDERS CONTINUE THEIR WINNING STREAK AGAINST BURKS. ABOVE MIDDLE LEFT: NEW WORLD CULTURES TEACHER MS. MARIAH DEAN RIGHT: MCKENNA YOUNG & SKYLAR WILLIAMS HOOLA HOOP