Vance County Early College High School’s Journalism Team Presents... Too Good To Title September Issue We howl because we’re proud! The Staff Courtney Adcox Ainsley Jackson Safa Alazab Ariana Jones Tashanta Bryant Gerardo Lopez-Villa Alexander Cruz Jasmine Richardson Miriam Zuniga-Garcia Taylor Stevenson Sodaytra Green Mr. Wallace Table of Contents Local Event…………………………….Adcox Phone App Review……………………Alazab Television Review……………………...Bryant Restaurant Review……..……………….Cruz Single Review………………….Zuniga-Garcia Trivia, Birthdays and Polls……………Green Film Review and Previews……..Jackson and Richardson Album Review…………………………..Jones Videogame Review………………Lopez-Villa Social Media Review………………Stevenson Mr. and Mrs. Floyd’s lake day By Courtney Adcox On August 11th, 2018, Carey Baptist Floyds. There were fruits, vegetables, Church had fun filled day at Kerr Lake, pastas, and beans. For drinks we had starting with a large lunch. water, lemonade, and a mango tea that was mouth watering. There were Liz and Curt Floyd, two of Carey Bap- plenty of choices to make, and dessert tist’s members, were kind enough to host hadn’t even been mentioned. this type of event again. They hosted the event at their lake house, near Satter- For dessert, several yummy white Point. They live in a nice home, choices were provided. There were which has a large screened-in deck and cakes, which were store bought and living room, where everyone gathered homemade. They also had brownies, and ate lunch. rice crispy treats, and ice cream. The kids and some adults sat outside on Since the food took a while to grill, the large screened-in deck as the deli- the teenagers played with the little kids. cious lunch was enjoyed. First, they wanted to play Uno. They played for about 30 minutes before they People spent about 45 minutes eat- wanted to do something else. One kid ing lunch. After everyone finished went inside and got a puzzle, which the lunch, they walked through the woods adults ended up putting together. The to get to the lake. It was kind of hard to children continued to play as the adults keep all the kids together. It was scary started talking about other church re- because the dock was very wobbly, lated activities. They talked about going and nobody, including myself wanted to Kings Dominion and about the annual to fall in, but the adults finally got eve- church ski trip. They talked until lunch ryone on the dock. was ready and all of the guests arrived. Everyone then prayed and began to dig After everyone got on the dock, a in. problem was noticed. There were dark clouds in the distance, and the kids For lunch, Mr. Floyd had grilled bur- even knew what that meant. But, that gers and hot dogs as our main dish. isn’t what stopped us. The younger There were tons of delicious toppings, children got into the water, along with such as relish, slaw, and many more. a few of the adults. It wouldn’t have They also had many sides. Some of mattered if it was raining, because them were bought in by the guests, and everyone was going to be wet any- others were provided by the ways. But then it was heard; a loud roar of thunder. It was followed by in- timidating bolts of lightning. Adults and kids stayed in the water and on the dock for about ten more minutes before they decided to go in. Most of the kids were upset, but they were told that there would be another get together soon, so they could swim. So people exchanged their thank yous and goodbyes, as they all began to leave. Even though the kids didn’t get to swim at lake day, everyone had a great lunch and fellowship. Helpful School Apps By Safa Alazab Powerschool is a phone app that Users can look at important makes it easy for students to look at emails first and search their mail their grades, to get notifications about if faster. They can also unsend any mail they were absent, what they missed, and sent by accident or by mistake. It pro- to see what's due and when. Users can vides support up to 5 accounts with also see their teachers’ comments on push notifications and more. their assignments and more. It’s very organized by how once a It shows grades and attendance for user opens the app they can see their each class a student has. The first thing important mails first. The little tabs are that appears once a student opens it is on the top and whichever tab is clicked their GPA. Then, below that is the class on shows the user below on the right overview. But users can edit the of the tabs the email, promotions, and dashboard to what order they want to other messages. see things in. Its very organized and neat how it’s set up. This app is faster and has a more comprehensive search than other It is very easy for students to use email apps. One thing that's not so and very helpful on a phone because it’s great about it is that it has little room faster on a phone and quicker rather for any customization. Other than that, than using the website. The app is highly the Gmail app is great and free. It can recommend for student use because it be downloaded on iPad, iPhone and has helped to keep track of grades and iPod Touch. assessments and so much more. Power- school is a free app and can be Photomath is an app that can downloaded on iPad, iPhone and iPod help students with math problems. Touch. Just take a pic of the equation and it will solve it for you and also shows the The Gmail app has about the same step-by-step solution for students to functions as the Gmail website but stu- understand how it works. Users can dents can use this app to look at their in- also edit equations using the smart box and send emails to anyone. For ex- calculator. Also, they can explore ample, sending important documents to graphs. your boss or teacher can be done from a It is very organized once the app user’s phone. is opened. It has the picture scanner, with four tabs at the top of the page which are the first to last a regular cal- journey too. culator than the camera after that the The app is very organized. It has solution to problems and last history of an explore tab and it allows the user to equations which have been solved. bookmarked videos for later viewing. It What is enjoyable about this app is also has quick access of what users that it’s very easy and quick to use also want to learn about anywhere anytime. organized. Internet connection is not re- Khan Academy app has a lot of quired for this app, but this app could subjects to learn about and review, but improve by adding word problems and the only thing it needs is to expand how to solve them. Other than that, it is learning contents of some subjects than a good and helpful app. Students have math. Overall, this is a great app not found this app to be really helpful with only for students but teachers to use for some equations they couldn’t answer. their classes. It can be downloaded on It can be downloaded on iPad, iPhone iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch. and iPod Touch.. Khan Academy is an app that al- lows users to learn and study for any kind of subject that they might need help on when they don't understand the subject that they need to understand, and more. Users can learn anything, and sharpen their skills with over a 150,000 interactive exercises. They can even keep learning even when they’re offline. There is also an entire library of videos. One also can celebrate their learning Current T.V. Dramas By Tashanta Bryant Lucifer is a mature T.V show that is against his father. He soon decided based on the devil and his vacation on that he wanted to take a break. Luci- Earth. The actor that plays Lucifer Morn- fer’s demon friend Maze was expect- ingstar is Tom Ellis. Lucifer’s origin is ing him to punish the people who de- from a comic book series by the same served it on Earth. That was one ex- name which was written by Mike Carey. ample of how people expected Lucifer The first season was released on Janu- to be. th ary 25 , 2016. The show’s network is Tom Ellis plays Lucifer Morning- Fox. star in the T.V show with a comical ap- In Season one of Lucifer, the open- proach. It’s easy to see that he has no ing events take place five years after problem with just going right into char- Lucifer Morningstar left the underworld. acter on set. You can tell when there is During season one of Lucifer, it tells why a serious moment happening and Lucifer decided to take a break from the when there’s not with his style of act- underworld. While on earth, he opens a ing. Another great actor in this show is piano bar and meets a detective through Lauren German, who plays Detective one of his human friend’s death. While Chole Decker. She is known to always Lucifer is loving his time on Earth, an an- be serious about the cases that she gel, which happens to be Lucifer’s older has.