The Squawk 1 The Squawk Halloween Edition Volume 1, Issue 5 Tuesday October 24, 2017 Shumate Middle School

The History of Halloween said that he’s going trick-or- By: Meri Potomi treating with his friends be- Articles in this Issue cause he’s family is too Free candy, yes, please, slow.6th grade Christian Page 2: October Weather, that sounds good to me Donicis said, yes to and Halloweekend, Huanted don’t mind if I do .What he’s going with a friend be- Houses people call Halloween and cause hi has a little brother that happened every single and his little brother is Page 3:New restaurant, year in October. From slow .At what age should PSAT, Population clowns, vampires, princess- people stop trick-or-treating Page 4: Volleyball Last es, and free candy you and what do you think that? name it and it Halloween. 8th grade Brealyn Proud- Game, Cross Country Fi- Halloween originated in lock think at age 14 be- nals, football scores (United Kingdom, Northern cause you are mature. 6th Page 5: Cuphead, Room- France, and Ireland) it and 8th grader Harry Elmazaj and Sydney Murphy ba, New game came from the Celtic festi- val Samhain, many kids un- said at age 17,18 because Page 6: Student Spotlights der age 10 think that you are an adult at that dressing up as a scary un- point.6th,7th,and 8th grade realistic character is Hallow- Social Study teacher said at een they think that it cele- age 16 because you have Special Points of Interest bration October 31 but over better thing to do.In conclu- 2,000 years ago many peo- sion be safe.  Haunted Hallway ple celebration Halloween,

 Boo Grams only 1$ November1.

sold every day until this Are you going to be trick-or- Friday treating this year yes/no

 Bottle Drive Nov 4 and are you going with you family or friends and why? 8th grade Andrew Kennedy 2

October Summer Vacation? year the fall temperatures go up, lets!” How do you feel about this By:Kloie Fargo causing a new “record breaking change in seasons? heat wave”. I don’t know about you, but since when is the temperature 80 de- Not everyone is upset about this grees in fall, with this heat next warm fall weather. Aniya Thomason thing we know our Great Lakes are a 6th grader at SMS is in love with going to dry up! All throughout the it, she says “My birthday is October Midwest the temperatures have 2nd and it’s usually always cold, for been skyrocketing. Last year in Oc- once I can act like I have a summer tober the highest temperature was birthday!” Although she may not be 60 degrees, this year we are in the the only, many people have a dif- high 70’s to low 80’s. Scientists ferent view. Olivia Odell a 7th grad- say the “heat dome” is causing this er at SMS despises it, she says heat and it will only last till the end “Fall is supposed to be chilly, I of the third week in October. Every bought so many fall clothes and I can’t wear them or i’ll sweat bul-

Cedar Point HalloWeekend mazes and scary zones. Cedar that saying “Cedar Point Hal- By:Emilee Reece Point HalloWeekends goes from loWeekends is really fun and scary September 15th through October too.” If you don't think it's fun yet Scary or not? As Shumate stu- 28th. Fun fact: The first time Ce- just think of what there is to do dents all know, Cedar Point is quite dar Point opened was in 1870. there. Renae Gillespie 6th grader the hot spot for fun. You can go (www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/ stated this ”What I like most about there in summer and you can go Cedar_Point) the HalloWeekends is that all the there in fall. The HalloWeekends is workers dress up and it's fun to low as $43 for a fun day. You can play all the games there. I also like go on the rides, play games and Hailey Holbdy 7th grader stated to ride the Dragster at Cedar walk through scary houses. Cedar this, "I think HalloWeekends at Ce- Point.” Point also has fun activities to do dar Point is exciting because it's with your family like go through really scary but also really fun.” Ava Rekuc 6th grader also agrees to

Haunted Housing Fun time!!” Says 8th grader Ava Gilles- By:Alissa Stanley pie. Haunted houses provides a unique way of understanding the Have you been dying to go to a spaces we inhabit, and reflects ro- Haunted House? Have you been mantic and dystopian notions of trying to find prices and times? the domestic realm. “I can not do Don't fear, here is some news you haunted houses! If I go to one I will might want to hear! With Halloween cry myself to sleep!” Says 8th grad- coming up there has been many er Sebastian Potter. Get a group haunted attractions out including together and visit these haunted the psychopath Haunted Attraction, houses for a good scare, and a Erebus Four Story haunted house, good time! Wyandotte Jaycees, and the Hush Haunted attraction!

Tis the season! There are so many haunted attractions out, I love go- ing to them because I just love the scare and I always have a really fun 3

Astounding Meals and homemade lemonade. And By: Shea Gladden last, but certainly not the least, desserts are also served. The des- Do you like wonderful meals but serts served are carrot cake, and don't like paying too much? If so, cheesecake. There are also plenty then you should consider trying a of delicious sides and salads. meal at Nerwins Place. Nerwins Place is a restaurant on 33518 W Brady Jaskula a 6th grader enjoys Jefferson Ave, Rockwood, MI that classic dinner meals ¨I like home- serves high quality, but inexpensive made mac n` cheese, and really meals. Prices for the meals start at any spaghetti.¨ Olivia Tocco a 7th $5.99 and reach $13.99. Meals grader usually gets the normal served here include pulled pork, meals at restaurants ¨At restau- mac n cheese, hamburgers, turkey, rants I usually order hamburgers and more. Nerwins Place also and fries.¨ And indeed you can get serves drinks, prices for drinks these meals and plenty of other start at $1 and reach $1.50. delicious homemade meals that Drinks served include coffee, tea, will brighten your day.

PSAT math with a calculator. The 8th on the PSAT. 8th grader football By: Madison Carter graders will be getting their score player Andrew Kennedy said, “I soon. Without a score for the SAT think I did really bad.” 8th grader Testing, testing, one two three. The colleges will not accept that per- Emma Shimizu said, “I think I did 8th graders had to take the Prac- son. With a score you have a ok but during section one I started tice SAT test on Tuesday. The PSAT chance but make sure it's a good guessing cause I got tired of read- is to show the score someone score. ing paragraph after paragraph.” would get when they become a Not many 8th graders enjoyed this Junior in high school and take the Most 8th graders felt not so good test but this is for their good. For SAT. The SAT is a college deter- while taking the PSAT. 8th grade those 6th and 7th grader, start to miner. The PSAT is taken about volleyball player Sydney Alford prepare. Are you ready to take the seven times before the SAT. There said, “I felt really nervous and anx- PSAT? are four sections to the test. The ious and tired.” Former softball first section is reading the second player Saige Sly said, “I wanted to is writing the third is math without eat and die.” While other 8th grad- a calculator and the last section is ers felt like they did not do so well

India’s Overpopulation have a certain amount of children cause the economy is falling By: Alex Clim per family and will have to kill the baby if the over exceeded the lim- Over the past few years India has it . been suffering from overpopulation this is a very scary topic because Currently india's population is more and more food is getting 1.324 billion witch the the second scarce in families are suffering, biggest continent China is the 1st 7th grader Kareem Fahs says, ¨ I in the world . Food production and think they will have too go to a kid distribution have not been able to policy because there's too many catch up with the increasing popu- food to share with everyone and lation and the costs of production indians usually have a lot of peo- have increased. Inflation is the ma- ple¨. And the child law means indi- jor consequence of overpopulation. an citizens will only be allowed to Inflation is a very seris topic be- 4

Bumping Into the Last Game ing a win on their last game of the had played them before and did By: Kaleah Fenech season. Leaving their final score of very good so hopefully we can pull the season 8-3 with an excellent a win again.” What a great season The 8th grade Shumate Volleyball season. by 8th grade Shumate Volleyball. season is sadly coming to an end with their last game on Wednesday With their season coming to an 18th. Their season has definitely end, Jennifer Ferguson said “It was been one to remember. With hard a great season and we did good work and dedication the team has this season with a score of 8-3.” worked together to accomplish The team worked so hard this sea- many goals. They had an outstand- son and continues to work hard. ing game on Monday, with great Their last competitor was played serves from the team against against Taylor Hoover. Before play- Melvindale on Monday. Also, bring- ing them Sydney Alford said “ We

XC Finals were chosen for Shumate to run pumped up for our last meet”. Now By: Emma Shimizu are Owen Anderson, Carson Blake, for the girls we have a runner Haley Jack Brinker, Quinn Burgei, Aidan Holbdy who says everyone will push On October, 12th our Shumate Malec, Kyler Ostrowski, Alec Paint- it and we are likely to win, “I think Cross Country team got invited to er, Dylan Javor, and John Hojo- everyone will push it and I'm really Gabriel Richard. Overall, the boys nowski. For the girls we have excited and it's very likely that we took 3rd place and the girls took Brooke Cifaldi, Danica Swetz, Abi- are going to win”. Gabby Hash 5th place. Some stand out perfor- gail Polakowski, Kristine Piatt- Agrees with Haley Holbdy, “I think mances for the two mile were Car- Bakos, Grace Norton, Haley Holbdy, it'll be great and our seasons going son Blake with a time of 12:11, and Kylie Iwasko, Paris Pyle, and Brook- to end with a dub”. Now as you can Aidan Malec with a time of lyn Desjardens. Aiden Malec a run- see our cross country team is very 12:53. The stand out performanc- ner on the team thinks their last confident and ready for their cham- es for the girls were Brooke Cifaldi meet is gonna be their best, “I think pionship. with a time of 13:29, and Danica it's going to be good and I hope we Swetz with a time of 14:04. get 1st or 2nd place”. Another run- ner on the team Mason Hande says The team's last jamboree which they are going to do amazing and also happens to be the champion- that he's really pumped up, “We are ship, the 10 girls and 10 boys that going to do amazing and I'm really

Shumate’s Bouncing Back! haun Williams.This was a great way cause of their great coaching from By: Jacob Lusk to end the season for the Sea- Bob McArthur and Dave Franzek. hawks. The overall record of this The Seahawks try to bounce back team is 3-3. and succeed. On Wednesday Octo- ber 18th the Seahawks took on the This was a great season for the Airport Jets and succeeded to Seahawks, they had a major im- bounce back after losing two provement from last season. Der- games in a row. The Seahawks got rick Szucks was asked ‘How did the the game going early and scored on season go this year?” He answered the first play of the game with a 70 with “ We did a lot better that last yard touchdown with Jiashaun Wil- year.” This answer was true be- liams. Nemiah Jamison had a 60 cause last year they went 0-6. Ja- yard pick six and increased the cob Latzy was asked “Who per- score to 21-6. Ryan Witte ran a formed well this season?” His an- throw back play and caught a 70 swer was “The team performed well yard touchdown pass from Jias- as a whole.” This team performed well as a whole this season be- 5

Cuphead (2017) and amazing game mechanics. Skrebels’ verdict of the game was By: Angelene Elumba What’s remarkable about this “As tough as it is beautiful, Cup- game is that every single frame head won’t be to everyone’s tastes, When 30s cartoon style pairs with has been hand drawn by artists, but there is absolutely no doubting “run and gun“ mechanics it results inked, and then coloured digitally. it’s quality.” (8.8/10). Metacritic in an amazing thing: Cuphead. The gave it a 87% based on the re- game is about a young boy called So far, Cuphead has gained a lot of views on 68 critics, and a user Cuphead, who ends up getting in recognition in the gaming commu- score of 8.4 based on 526 ratings. trouble with the Devil. In order to nity. Two weeks prior its release 2017 has been a great year for save himself he must collect con- (September 29th), Cuphead had games thus far, what new games tracts from the residents of Inkwell already sold 1 million copies. Even are in store for us in 2018? Isle and do the right thing (plot may though it’s art and animation has (Metacritic: http:// be inaccurate). Cuphead sticks out been praised by many critics, it’s www.metacritic.com, IGN: like a sore thumb in the game difficult gameplay is not really eve- www.ign.com) mainstream with its fluid animation rybody’s cup of tea. IGN critic Joe

Vrooming with the Roomba the Roomba uses sensors to guide worth it because it would save you By: Nathan Dummer itself through your home and can a lot of time.¨ detect dust which it then zooms 6th grader Caleb Greena said ¨It is People are tired of having to do over too and sucks it right up. Un- worth it because it saves you lots everyday chores, especially vacu- fortunately the Roomba costs of time instead of having to do it uming the floors to get rid of all around 500 dollars and you may yourself.¨ Seems like the Roomba those nasty dust particles and need to order them online, but lots is really vrooming along crumbs from food. Vacuuming can of people like the Roomba because also be hard for your back due to it can clean up a surprising constant straining and the vacuum amount of dirty things that you itself as your trying to get in be- man have not even know was tween those wedges within your there furniture. Students at Shumate middle Well all of that has been solved school were asked about this, 6th thanks to the Roomba by iRobot, grader Loui Jasso said ¨ I think it's

Epic Games New Hit! have to kill people until you’re the team and win.” An 8th grader By: Nolan Brinkley last person alive. You can play solo, Cooper Ratliff’s favorite feature duo, and squad play, with auto-fill about the game was that "It's free Designed by Daren Suggs and pub- and no fill where you can play with so everybody can play it without lished by Epic Games “Fortnite” your friends or random people or any consequences.” An 8th grader has an initial release of some- “Randoms” a cool reward for win- Alex Klim’s favorite gun was "The where in 2018 while the beta re- ning even once is instead of having legendary scar-h because i’m really leased on July 2nd and has been a glider you get an umbrella to par- good with it under pressure and in climbing top charts for a while now. achute down. tight situations.” 7th grader Zach The “New PUBG” or “Player Un- Sisk’s favorite gun was "the legend- known Battlegrounds” was also A lot of Shumate students didn’t ary scoped AR because it is just a developed by People Can Fly and know the game existed but a few better M16 and is an automatic, uses the Unreal Engine, available did and played it frequently. Alec scoped, and ranged weapon, the on Ps4, Xbox One, Microsoft, and Miley an 8th grader’s favorite part perfect combination.” PC. You can play online in “Battle about the game was that” You can Royale” or in a campaign called play with your friends in a match of “Save the World”. In the online you 100 people and try to be the best 6

All About Hailey Holbdy and everyone will be trying their Now cross country is over she is By: Lillian Diehl hardest. going to try for swimming and track. Hailey Holbdy is in 7th grade.She Hailey is ready for Halloween be- has been in this district for 8 cause she likes haunted house. years . Her Elementary school was But she doesn't know what she Parsons Elementary. If you did not will be yet. Her favorite Halloween know Hailey, runs for cross country. candy is white chocolate Kit Kats She likes cross country because it because they are amazing. Hailey is fun being on the cross country likes fall because she likes all the team and she likes running. Hailey pumpkins flavors. Her favor- thinks the team did good this year ite part of fall is the weather and because even know they lost their the clothes because she gets to good runners . Also Hailey thinks wear jeans and sweatshirts. Lastly that they could win the champion- her favorite fall color is orange be- ship because it is the last meet cause it is bright like pumpkins.

Running into the Spotlight By: Emily Paquette Her best meet was her first meet which she ran in reserve. Ava says Running into the spotlight this it is a lot of hard work at practices week is Ava Stankula, a sixth grad- to be where she is today. She says er at Shumate Middle School. She all the hard work is worth it be- went to Chapman Elementary and cause the feeling of doing good at has been in the Gibraltar School the meets and making progress District seven years. This is her first feels amazing. year doing Cross Country and her 2 mile time is 16 to 17 minutes. Her Ava plans on running track in the favorite thing about running is the spring and doing the 2 mile. She races and being able to hangout also plans on running Cross Coun- with all of her friends and talking try in high school and in the future. afterwards. At her last meet the Ava enjoys running and plans on team brought home the 2nd place sticking with it for a while! trophy. 7

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Editors : Lauren Spano, Chloe Pehote, Adhav Rajesh World News : Alex Klim, Chloe McCoy, Meri Potomi, Zahara Essaf School News : Alissa Stanley, Madison Carter Community News : Shea Gladden, Emilee Reece, Natural Disasters : Alex Ciantar, Kloie Farago Entertainment News : Chloe Smith, Nolan Brinkley Review This! : Azheanne Davis, Angelene Elumba, Tatum Pepper Technology Review : Nathan Dummar, Serena Cowette Shumate Sports : Angela Gonzales, Jacob Lusk, Destiny Rodgers, Emma Shimizu, Kaleah Fenech College Sports: Evan Herndon, Christian Beach, Pro Sports : Chase Agemak, Derrick Szucs Student Survey : Stephanie Benson Student Spotlight : Lillian Deihl, Emily Paquette, Emily Gloskey