ExcEllEnt with distinction Vol 7 issuE 4 Interview with Volume 7, Issue 3 Mr. Goff, 7th [Social Enmity within Grade Interven- an Educational Setting] Editorial by Kayla K tion Specialist. Social enmity. Social enmity is a term that can de- By Bri L. scribe the situation between fellow students and what 1.What brought you can cause them to be rude or unkind to their peers. to North Union? There are many causes of social enmity, but some causes “I grew up in a town are social and developmental insecurity. When ele- similar to North Union mentary students make the transition to middle school and I also enjoyed the interview. It was a great students, they have to create an identity. For the most atmosphere and the staff members were amazing part, students will spend the majority of their middle people.” school years creating their identities. When students 2. What’s your favorite color? “Blue.” make that transition, they experience sadness at the 3. Where did you go to college? “The Ohio State loss of childhood, and anxiety from a feeling of loss of University.” control. Students have to learn to fit into their families 4. What’s your favorite sport? “Basketball/volley- again due to more tension in the relationship between ball, but I like to watch football.” 5. Ohio State or Michigan? “Ohio State.” the son/daughter and their parents. Due to all the 6. Do you have and children or wife? “No, but I mixed emotions and confusion, the competition for an have a girlfriend.” identity becomes pretty ruthless. The competition is a 7. How do you like North Union so far? “Love it direct cause of social enmity, students doing whatever great staff and kids.” they can to make their identity. 8. Batman or Superman? “Batman. I enjoy There are five forms of social cruelty: (1) teasing, (2) watching the Batman movies more than the Su- exclusion, (3) rumoring, (4) bullying, and (5) ganging perman movies.” (He really is the best.) up. Teasing makes fun or puts down another human 9. What is your goal in life? “My goal in life being by pointing out differences or calling one person when I graduated was to own a Landscape busi- a negative name. Exclusion is when you set someone ness. But, then I re-thought and, since I loved be- apart and isolate them as an outsider. Rumoring is ing around children, I wanted to become a teach- er. So, I guess my goal in life is to become a great when you spread lies and damaging falsified info to teacher and start running a landscape company in hurt someone’s social standing through gossip. Bullying the summer.” is when you threaten or pressure someone to dominate 10. Where did you used to work? “This is my first another person; usually by putting them down. Gang- real job, but I work in a landscape company in the ing up is when you have greater numbers of people to summer.” single out and put down an individual. What do you think--is social Enmity at NUMS? Learn from yesterday (Continued on Page 3 with suggestions on how to deal Live for today with Social Enmity.) Hope for tomorrow Cool Choir NU Burns Night Zodiac Signs 6th Grade Half Way Day By Kaylee S. By Kelsy by Kaylee M Hey NU students did you hear about ‘Burns Night’?? Burns Night was on Janu- The Chinese e had our special celebra- ary the 25th, it is celebrated in Scotland for tion halfway day on January Zodiac, also 15, 2015. The 6th grade Robert Burns. In Scotland for this wonderful known as Sheng W night they asked for videos of individuals had fun, and we were all happy to Xiao, is based be halfway through school. We played of groups singing a specific version of Auld on a twelve year Lang Syne. In 1788, Burns wrote the lyrics dodgeball, and it was fun. We had rotation, and a special catered lunch of pasta, to “Auld Lang Syne”. The NUMS choir have salad and pop. We had a lot of fun decided to go with the challenge and sing each year in that playing relay games which included the song then put it in a video and send it to rotation relat- the 3-legged hop, leap frog, hockey Scotland. All the videos that are sent in will ed to an animal dribble, soccer dribble, basketball be compiled into one large video and posted sign. These an- dribble, piggy back, and a few others. on facebook and twitter on January the 25th. imal signs are During leapfrog, Lucien face-planted into the floor a little, more like a lot. the rat, ox, tiger, During hockey dribble, a lot of people To watch the video go to this website - rabbit, dragon, were losing the tennis ball, but its all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiKn- snake, horse, cool. When we students were pig- m5zFdkA sheep, monkey, gy-back riding, a lot of people were rooster, dog and falling face first onto the ground. At If you would like more information you can pig. It is calcu- least there were no injuries, just a go to these websites - bunch of face-planters laughing. Our scotland.org lated according NUMS spirited principal, Mr. Burrgraf, http://www.scotland.org/whats-on/burns- to Chinese Lunar talked about an old friend of his. He night/join-in-with-our-rendition-of-auld-lang- Calendar. I will told us about how his friend became mention that many successful things in life, like, a syne/ math teacher, coach, basketball play- there is more to er, hotel manager, and more, he was astrology than using some students, like, Emma, Wacky Holidays for February merely learning Aleigha, Regan, Alex, and a couple By Kaitlynn W. the zodiac signs. more people. I am sure everyone had If you were born a funny story to tell to their friends 10th- Umbrella day and family. At the end of the day, our 11th- Don’t cry over spilled milk day in January or awesome, one and only, Mr. Tingley 12th- Abe Lincoln’s birthday February these announced our names as we received 13th- Get a different name day the ones for you. our halfway diplomas. Some people 14th- Ferris Wheel day Stay tuned for might think they embarrassed them- more info in selves, but that is wrong, you were 16th- Presidents day having a lot of fun. :) 17th- Random acts of kindness day future months. 18th- National battery day 6th Grade Half Way Day Way 6th Grade Half 19th- Chinese new year Aquarius 20th- Cherry pie day January 20 - 21st- Card reading day February 18 22nd- George Washington’s birthday Traits: 23rd- Tennis day Knowledge, 24th- National tortilla chip day Humanitarian, 26th- Carnival day & Fairy Tale Day Serious, Insight- 27th- Polar bear day ful, Duplicitous 28th- Public sleeping day & Natl. Tooth Pisces Fairy Day February 19 - 2016--LEAP DAY!! March 20 Great American Pie Month Traits: Fluc- National Cherry Month tuation, Depth, National Children’s Dental Health Month Imagination, Re- National Grapefruit Month active, Indecisive NUMS Basketball Another season of Basketball has ended at NUMS. The 7th grade boys team finished 10-8 while the 8th grade team recorded 8 wins and 9 losses. The 7th girl’s team finished with a record of 10-8 and were defeated by Jonathan Alder in tournament action. Congrats on a great sea- son even though there was not much tourna- ment play. In the picture below the girls unfortuately lost to B.V., but it was close one for the end of the season. Tough defense by Joel K. captured by Our robots are so hot they are smoking! H.R. Imaging of the 7th grade Bbball team. On February 2, 2015, at the Vex compe- tition at North Union Middle School, we had an accident with one of the robots. The robot had started to smoke because two wires were rubbing together, which started smoking and sparking. Thanks to Lily A. for getting it out of the school as it continued to smoke worse outside than inside. The team quickly replaced the burnt parts, rewired the robot and made it back in time for their next match. NUMS has 7 of 8 teams qualified for the sate competiion. The state competition is the Feb 20-21st at OSUM. We ROCK the Robots! We smoke the competition! What more can we say?! Connor, Joel, Evan & Zak competing. (Continued from page 1) GLEE One way to get rid of the social cruelty is to discuss the By Bri L. larger effects of social enmity. Glee is a very popular T.V show, which has Exclusion can lead to discrimination & social selection. recently returned with a new season. It’s the last Teasing can lead to labeling and prejudice. season of the show, with all the original character Bullying leads to harassment and pressuring. (besides Finn who died in real life sadly). But, I’m Rumoring can lead to the use of lies to slander others. not here to talk about T.V shows. In case you didn’t Ganging up can lead to persecution and oppression. know, Glee is a real live club in which you go to We need to stop social enmity; otherwise, our future soci- competitions around the U.S.A to sing. ety will suffer greatly. In Glee, you could have guessed that they sing. They also sing their original songs too. Even Bibliography: though it was an older episode, I have been ob- Pickhardt, Carl E.