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Table Of Contents

Table Of Contents 1

Letter From The Editor 2

This Month’s Map: “A place I’ve always wanted to visit…” 3-4 THE ART GALLERY 5

PET OF THE FORTNIGHT 6

The Axolotl 7-8 Extrasolar Planets 9-10 Neutron stars 11

Terrestrial Planets 12-13 Chapter #3 Oda Calliostios 14-16 Shark Bait 17-18 Dragons Make the Clouds 19-20 23F 21-24 EveryThing Everything 25-26 Creative Writing 27

Pretty Little Liars 28-29 Opposite Day 30

25 Things To Do When Bored Out Of Your Mind 31

Which is cuter a Rat or an Orangutan 32

Safari West 33-34 K-Pop 35

Chic Ski Wear 36

UGANDAN KNUCKLES 37-39 Spongebob Squarepants 40 Fortnite 41

Letter From The Editor

Hi! My Name is Mia L. I’m in 6th grade and I am overjoyed to be your editor! I want you, the readers to have an easy to follow, fun and exploring experience while you are reading the awesome articles our team here at room 11 have put together for you. We put a lot of work into each of these articles you see here so we hope you like it! This is the Tenth overall fortnight and the second Next Gen fortnight publication of the series. Hope you enjoy!

PET OF THE FORTNIGHT

Pepsi

Age: 1 year Breed: German Shepherd Mix

PERSONALITY

Pepsi is a sweet, mischievous, but very cute dog who loves stealing things from the dinner table.

Her favorite toy is a fake cupcake.

3 This Month’s Map: “A place I’ve always wanted to visit…”

Map Arranged by Seb Woodthorpe

THE ART GALLERY

By: Twyla King

The Axolotl

By: Amanda Craig

The Axolotl is an amazing species of salamander. They are endangered undersea animals only native to the beautiful beaches of Mexico. Their diet mostly consists of worms, insects, small fish, and just about anything else that can fit inside their mouth and swallow whole, including other salamanders. In the lab, axolotls are fed brine shrimp, California blackworms, and salmon pellets. The branches that grow from the axolotl’s head might not seem practical, but they’re actually the salamander’s gills. The filaments attached to the long gills increase surface area for gas exchange. As a result of habitat loss, pollution, and the introduction of invasive species like tilapia and carp, these salamanders are being pushed closer and closer to extinction. In an attempt to revive the species, researchers have built “shelters” made from reeds and rocks to filter the water and create a more desirable living space. Unfortunately, the numbers continue to decline. There were about 6000 wild axolotls documented in a 1998 survey, but today, researchers are lucky to find any. For a brief amount of time in 2014,

6 biologists failed to find a single water dog, and feared the salamanders had gone extinct in the wild. Luckily, some have since been found roaming the water. And although it's not ideal, even if the elusive animal disappears from the wild entirely, the species continues to thrive in captivity. Axolotls also have a pair of lungs, though these are undeveloped. Still, if they are placed in shallow water, their lungs can develop and their gills can be absorbed, which can allow them to gulp air and survive on land.

Extrasolar Planets By: Amanda Craig

Extrasolar planets (often called Exoplanets) are planets that orbit a star other than our sun. The first evidence of an exoplanet was noted as early as 1917, but was not recognized as one . On the first of February 2018, there have been 3,728 confirmed planets in 2,794 solar systems, with 622 solar systems having more than one planet. Because exoplanets are much fainter than the stars they orbit, extrasolar planets are extremely difficult to detect directly. By far the most successful technique for finding and studying extrasolar planets has been the radial velocity method, which measures the motion of host stars in response to gravitational tugs by their planets. The first planet discovered with this technique was 51 Pegasi b in 1995. Radial velocity measurements determine the sizes and shapes of the orbits of extrasolar planets as well as the lower limits of the masses of these planets. (They provide only lower limits on planetary mass

8 because they measure just the portion of the star’s motion toward and away from Earth.)Between 5 and 10 percent of stars surveyed have planets at least 100 times as massive as Earth with orbital periods of a few Earth years or less. Almost 1 percent of stars have such giant planets in very close orbits, with orbital periods of less than one week. Some of these planets seem to be distended in size as a result of heating by their stars. More than 20 percent of stars have somewhat smaller nearby planets, with sizes of several to a few tens of Earth masses and with orbital periods of less than three months. Even though scientists have already found a lot of exoplanets, there are still thousands of exoplanets yet to be discovered.

Neutron stars ___

By: Amanda Craig

Neutron stars are dense, collapsed stars sometimes left behind after a supernova explosion. If the collapsing core is 1.4 to 3 times as massive as the sun, it will form a neutron star, while a heavier core will collapse into a black hole. Neutron stars form because they are big enough for their own gravity to compress normal matter into a super dense liquid made out of neutrons surrounded by a solid crust. Some neutron stars have jets of materials streaming out of them at nearly the speed of light. As these beams pan past Earth, they flash like the bulb of a lighthouse. Scientists called them pulsars after their pulsing appearance.Normal pulsars spin between 0.1 and 60 times per second, while millisecond pulsars can result as much as 700 times per second. As material within a pulsar accelerates within the magnetosphere of a pulsar, the neutron star produces gamma-ray emission. The transfer of energy in these gamma-ray pulsars slows the spin of the star. Neutron stars were discovered recently. (compared to other scientific discoveries) They were discovered in 1967 by Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish, and even though we know they exist, mysteries still lie in the core of neutron stars.

Terrestrial Planets

By: Amanda craig

A terrestrial planet, telluric planet, or rocky planet is a planet that is mostly composed out of rocks or metals. Within the Solar System, the terrestrial planets are the inner planets closest to the Sun. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are all terrestrial planets. All terrestrial planets in the Solar System have the same basic type of structure, such as a central metallic core, mostly iron, with a surrounding mantle. The Moon is similar, but has a much smaller iron core. Io and Europa are also satellites that have internal structures similar to terrestrial planets. Terrestrial planets can have canyons, craters,

11 mountains, volcanoes, and other surface structures, depending on the presence of water and tectonic activity. Terrestrial planets have secondary atmospheres, generated through volcanism or comet impacts, in contrast to the giant planets, whose atmospheres are primary, captured directly from the original solar nebula.

Chapter #3 Oda Calliostios They walked for what felt like years. Luna questioned her sanity a couple of times while Twilight began to hear things. But this time, she was right. “Hey, I think I hear a river!” She shouted. Luna moaned. “No you don’t! It’s all in your HEAD!” She screamed. “You do not hear a river, Twilight, you do-” She started before Twilight started bombing forward. Luna chased after her. Sure enough, a river was running at the edge of the meadow. Twilight and Luna went pale. Their bodies froze. The forest where they found the “thing” was right in front of them. It looked like a painting. A bright and colorful meadow on one side, and a dark, deadly horror-forest on the other side of the river. “Uh, howaboutwedon’tgointotheforestandleaveokbye” Twilight said and bolted back towards the meadow. “Nope! Not so fast!” Luna said grabbing her tail and dragging her back. “BUT IT'S SO EVIL!” Twilight shrieked. Luna rolled her eyes. “You’re acting like a pup. We HAD to go back eventually. Maybe this is the right time!” She said. “Nooooo” Twilight moaned. “Fine, I’ll go in, and you can stay out here. When I die, it’s your fault for not protecting me” Luna taunted “Hah! So you admit that you’ll die!” Twilight laughed. Luna rolled her eyes and spread her wings. She jumped into the air and flew over the river and landed on the other side.

Purple and black roots crawled out of the forest, Luna only had to go a couple feet before the whole ground was discolored completely. “Luna! Get back here!” Twilight called as she arched her back, ready to leap over the river. Luna turned around and gasped. “Twilight no! You can’t make the jump!” She shrieked. Too late. Twilight leapt into the air and hung from one of the roots above the raging river. Luna stared for a second then snapped back to reality. “Luna help!” She cried. Luna ran towards her and grabbed her paws. Twilight’s tail dangled in the water. Her hind legs kicked the dirt as she scrambled up the ledge screaming. She flopped onto the decaying topsoil panting. “T-thanks Luna” Twilight whimpered. She picked herself up and they continued into the forest. Twilight was still trembling a bit when Luna noticed her tail was coated in purple goo. “Hey Twilight, did you step in… something when you got out of the river?” Luna asked wearily. Twilight looked around and yelped. She ran around smashing into trees trying

13 to get it off. She gave up and fall to the floor shaking, her ears crippled and her nose bleeding. “Twilight! Are you ok!?” Luna shouted rushing over to her. She sobbed quietly, the goop had almost consumed half her tail. “I-it hurts” She whimpered. “Stay here” Luna instructed, lying her against a tree. She ran back towards the meadow flying over the river carefully. “Oh, I hope Twilights alright…” She said as she made a mad-dash for help.

She came back with a medical kit she got from one of the nearby villages. She got back to the tree but Twilight had vanished. A puddle of the goo was where she was lying down. “Twilight! Where are you!” She screamed running through the woods. She heard a sickening growl and she went limp. “T-Twilight? Is that you? Stop playing games where are you?!” She screamed. Suddenly, a drop of the purple goo landed in front of her, just missing her nose. She slowly looked up and almost dropped dead. Twilight was clinging to one of the branches drenched in the goo. Her fur was matted and full of twigs and her face was buried in her front paws. Her tail was twined along the branch and she was shivering like mad, trying not to fall off. She was whispering something to herself over and over but Luna couldn't make out what it was. “T-Twilight..?” Luna was so terrified she could barely squeak out a word. Twilight stopped whispering and shaking. Her tail untwined and she sat up. She looked away from Luna so she couldn’t see her face. “Luna…?” The word tumbled out of her mouth in a terrifying voice. “Yes Twilight it's me! I’m so sorry I didn’t get back sooner!” Luna called into the tree. “To. Late.” Twilight drawled. “W-what do you mean?” Luna stutterd. Twilight slowly turned around to face Luna. Her eyes were jet black and had goo stains all around them. Luna practically fainted. “Twilight! What happened!?” She shouted. Twilight didn’t say anything. She swung down and hung from the tree like a sloth and then she crawled back to the trunk and down it like a panther. She stalked up towards Luna who was petrified. “Luna” She whispered again. Luna was frozen in fear. It was like she was trying to run but her legs wouldn’t let her. Suddenly, Twilight dropped to the floor and started howling like crazy. The sound broke Luna out of her trance and she started booking it out of the woods. Even after she crossed the river you could still hear Twilight’s howling as it echoed through the woods. Luna didn’t stop flying until her wings gave out and she smashed head-first into a small pond sending some geese flying. She felt horrible leaving Twilight there in the woods with the “thing”.

14 “But what could I do?!” She said repeatedly to herself. Soon, night came and she curled up in a bed of lily pads and prayed Twilight would be ok as she looked at the stars. She must have counted every star because she couldn't sleep. She knew that she couldn't do anything, but she still felt guilty. She didn’t even know what happened to Twilight. Her mind stopped racing eventually and she fell asleep.

Twilight crawled up the tree and clung to the branches. She flinched at the smallest noise or the faintest crunch of a leaf. She couldn’t go down. She knew that the thing was roaming the woods at this time of night. No matter how bad the stabbing pain of hunger was, she refused to hunt. No matter how dry her throat was, she refused to drink, and she even had 2 reasons not to drink. 1. There was no WAY she’d drink the river water after what it did to her. 2. The river was a good 5 minute walk away. Eventually she drifted off to sleep. It wasn’t a very peaceful sleep, though. It felt like every other minute something rustled around and she’d jolt awake, only to slowly fall back asleep and repeat the cycle.

Twilight woke up and was instantly greeted with cloudy vision. “Ooh.. what.. My eyes..” She said and blinked about a million times and almost fell out of the tree she was in until her vision came back. She stumbled down the tree because her hunger got the best of her. Plus, it was daylight. The ways she could die came down 50%. She walked along the river looking for a place to get across. The more she walked the thinner the river got. Soon, it emptied into a little lake and she could barely jump over the river. She breathed a big sigh of relief. She was safe, for now. But she couldn’t stay out here forever. She ran to the nearest village and took a quick bath and drink in a fountain only to be hit in the head with a rock by an angry villager. It was worth it, though. She did manage to steal a couple fish. She retreated back to she safety of the dark woods. She feasted on fish and took a nice nap considering her minimal amount of sleep last night. She woke up and had a decision to make. She could go look for Luna and risk dying, or stay in the woods and have a smaller chance of dying. She decided to stay in the woods for the night and wake up early to go find Luna. She climbed up a tree, curled up, and fell asleep ready for the hunt tomorrow. She woke up and looked to the sky. It was still dark, the stars were just starting to fade away. Perfect. She leapt down the tree and walked to the river. She sat down and groomed herself a bit before crossing near the lake. She then heard a crack in the woods. She whirled around in fear.“Who’s there?” She shouted into the woods. She slowly stepped back, The crunches got louder. Twilight felt her life flash before her eyes. Soon the crunches stopped and a figure emerged from the trees. Twilight was shocked. “Oda?!”

Shark Bait

Chapter 1

The Beginning

Hi! I am Boxer, my friends call me Box . I am just an ordinary teen except that I’m the best white water kayaker in the town next to the Mississippi River. Right now I am stuck in high school with my friends, Gabe, Alex, Ewan, and Michael. I am going to tell the story of the shark attack that could have cost me my life.

I was sitting in the last period at my high school, English. As my teacher, Mr. Frank started to tell us our homework, James Bellworth talked to Gabby, the girl sitting next to him.

Gabby or as the rest of us call her, the gas-machine can fart like no other. One time she farted near our math teacher and he fainted, no joke.

Well anyway, while Mr. Frank was yelling at James, Mr. Frank was distracted. I tiptoed up to his chair and put my whoopie cushion on his seat then tiptoed back and sat down. Almost as soon as I sat down, Mr. Frank finished yelling and sat down. The whoopee cushion made its sound, Mr. Frank shot out of his seat, and he said “ Excuse me, I have to use the lavatory.” He ran out of the room as fast as his work shoes could carry him.

Ewan, Gabe, and Alex came up to me and said, “Wow nice one! If Michael was here he would have laughed so hard noodles would have come out of his nose. I feel bad for him, he is stuck in detention for making farting noises in class.”

“ Really?” I asked.

16 “ I thought he was sick, or that's what Malachi Yeller told me unless he lied again.”

Then we saw Mr. Frank coming back from the bathroom, we all hurried back to our seats so we wouldn’t get in trouble. He finished giving the assignments and the bell rang, we ran out of the door. Then my friends and I headed for the river to go kayaking.

By Boxer Kopcsak-Yeung

Dragons Make the Clouds

Chapter 9 Present

My chest was filled with treasures. Few, but very dear to me. I reached to the bottom and rummaged around the flat bottom of the chest until I felt what I was looking for. I pulled out the porcelain doll. It was dusty and the blushmarks were worn out. They were only pink lines in a two circles as the outlines. The wood was scratched and the wood didn’t shine in the sunlight.I then looked to my satchel hanging from a nail stuck into the wall. I took the lamp and the satuel and started to pack. Clothes, the porcelain doll and one pair of cloth shoes. I set the satuel on the floor of the hallway when I heard another knock at the door. ‘Who could that be?’. I walked to the door. Every footstep I took made a sound on the wood floor. Thump.Thump.Thump. I flung the door open but, saw the letter-man standing their and instantly lightened up. “Sorry I left in a hurry.” He said. Now that I hear him talk slower I can hear his british accent. “ It was my duty to deliver the letter and leave!” “Duty?” I asked raising a eyebrow. “Headmaster’s duty!” he said standing tall and saluting like a soldier. It made me giggle. “I left so quickly I forgot to give you these” he said reaching into his pocket once more. He pulled out two train tickets. They shimmered with their gold lining. “Two?” I asked. “One for you and One for me. I got to get back to the school somehow.” He said with a giggle.

Chapter 10 Flashback

My Brother giggled like that. Years ago. Feels like the so long ago that the sun was just born. Scene A boy and a small girl are standing on a grassy hill. The boy is chasing the girl with a dandelion in his hand. They are singing ring-around-a-rosey. When the song ends the girl falls backwards and the boy blows the little white puffs into the girl’s face. Both children giggle.

Chapter 11 Present

“Mamma!?!” I yelled from the door once it closed and the man walked away. I heard footsteps from her bedroom. She had gone off mumbling before the man came to the door. She hadn't come back either times he had knocked. She must be doing something important. I opened the door slowly and just a bit. Just enough to fit my head through the door and turn my neck to look at Mamma. “Yes?” she said looking at me with her reading glasses. “I have some good news.” I said with a small smile. Nothing was good news to Mamma anymore except getting royal again. That's all the world to her. “What is this ‘good news’?” she said looking back to a letter or parchment she was writing on.

18 I opened the door fully now. “I got accepted into Harrow. The school.” I said. “Your not going” she said under her breath. “We haven’t had the money.” she added. “It’s a full pay. The headmaster sent his messenger to give me this.” I said fishing the envelope out of my pocket. I handed it to her and she took it firmly. As she read the letter her eyes widened. “I’ll take the headmaster’s regards and you can go but, only till your done with school. Come right back here when your done.” she said still sounding displeased.

Chapter 12 Flashback

I was 8 when my Brother died. In the same year Pappa died too. I was 9 when they finally kicked us out of our house and took our family’s fortune. Mamma was furious. One day when I was 9 I heard her mumble “Women in this society get half respect as the men.” Our family’s fortune had gone to my cousin. He was already rich and greedy and refused to even pay attention to our family. I wanted to change that. Women should be able to enharrit. Not let the money skip over to the selfish men. ______

23F

Today was the best day ever! Daddy and I had a Daddy-Daughter date. We’re driving home now, and I’m falling asleep with my head on the window. I’m exhausted. We were at the amusement park, all day! We just had dinner at a restaurant called Burgers Delight. Cheesy, I know. I got a double delight burger and a milkshake. Mmmm... Daddy got that too, and fries. A whole lot of fries. But the crazy thing is, he didn’t eat it all. He seemed more focused on his bubbly drink. Actually drinks, plural. I stopped counting after the fourth one. I’m trying to go to sleep. It’s late already. But I can’t. The car is swinging back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. “Daddy, I can’t sleep” “Shut up, you’re too sensitive,” he snaps. His speech is slurred so much I almost can’t understand. The car begins to swerve harder than before. I reach my hand up and clutch the handle thing attached to the roof of the car with all my might. I’m clenching so hard my fingers turn white. “Da-” “BE QUIET!” And then we swerve off the bridge we’ve been driving on and plunge into the river below.

I never noticed how slowly cars moved when you are in a rush. I just got off about the worst phone call in my life. My eight year old daughter, Faye, is at the hospital. All I can think about is my daughter, I don’t care about the fact that my ex-husband was also there, Drew, I knew it was a bad idea sending Faye off with that disgusting man. I should’ve known. Should have known. I’ve arrived at the hospital, after what felt like a lifetime. She could have died. She could still die. I can’t find any parking, nothing was left. I worriedly skid in front of the two glass sliding doors, and shoot out of the car as the doors slide open. Sprinting to the room were the man said she is be being held. I can feel hot tears rolling down the side of my face. All the nurses sidestep out of my way, all wearing concerned faces. Dread floods me as I approach the door, I find myself staring at a number. 23F Her favorite number and F, for Faye.

Beep. Beep. Beep. What’s going on? Why can’t I move? What is this mask on my mouth? What’s going on? “She……...water……...memory” I can hear a muffled voice in the distance. I want to call back What’s going on? But I can’t feel my lips. Actually, I can’t feel anything. If I can’t feel anything how can I be sure I still have legs? Maybe I don’t. Maybe they got chopped off on a helicopter. Wait, that doesn’t make sense. I wasn’t in a helicopter was I? I’ve always wanted to go on a helicopter. Maybe I did? I can’t remember! My head hurts trying to think. Actually, it doesn’t, I can’t feel it. The only logical explanation I can think of is that I’m in a hospital. But why would I be in a hospital? Will I get a lollipop if I’m good? I need to stop thinking. I need to just go to sleep. But I can’t. The questions I have are probably pounding on my skull. Probably. I’m not sure. I can’t feel it. I hear another voice, closer this time “I……that man!…..when…...ok.” “Car……..drown…….damage.” responds another voice, they must be having a conversation. I don’t know what they are talking about. I don’t know who is talking. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t like this very much.

The first words that registered were Drew and Drunk. I felt the rage and hatred boiling up within me. It was his fault. But Faye had begged and whined and pleaded so eventually I gave in, and said yes. I would do anything to change that decision. Anything and everything. “Would you like me to repeat that, Ms. Adre,” he asked, clearly noticing that I had been glazing over. “Oh,” I said too worried and angry to be embarrassed,”Yes.” And so he went on, he told me that they had Drew had been extremely drunk. When they were crossing the bridge over The Merit River, they had swerved off and plunged into the river. For once I was thankful that river was such a tourist magnet, for it was empty, Faye surely would’ve died on scene. If

The second time I wake up, I see a blurry face in front of me. I can’t quite focus on any part of the face, if it really is a face. I’m not sure. For all I know, it could be a plate of bacon and eggs and toast. My stomach growls thinking about food. Hey, I can feel my stomach! I can feel my legs too, And my feet, And my arms, And my he-----ohhhh. My head feels like it is being hammered into a wall. Like it’s been dipped in lava. I don’t want to feel my head right now. “Owww” I moan. I can talk! If I can talk maybe I can ask for a lollipop, yum! Or walk, but lollipops seem more important at this moment. “Faye? Are you awake?” the face in front of me asks, which startles me because in my train of thought I’d forgot about it. Who’s Faye? Oh wait, that’s me right? I’m pretty sure, who else could she be talking to? “Yhm” which is all I can squeeze out because despite my excitement of talking, I’m exhausted. “Faye, go back to sleep, okay?” the face says. And I do. Or maybe I don’t……. The third time I wake up (If I was ever asleep), I don’t feel as exhausted. I don’t know how long I’ve slept, or how long it’s been since….. Since what? I don’t remember how long ago I got here, or why I’m here, just that I wasn’t here before. “Oh, Faye you’re awake.” This time the voice isn’t muffled, and I can clearly see the person the noise is coming from. The person has a white coat on, and a stethoscope around her neck. She must be a doctor. “Faye, tell me how many fingers I’m holding up” the doctor says. “Three” I respond. “Good, good. I’m Dr. Kullney, but you can call me Dr. Kay. You are probably very confused, but try to go easy on your head right now, you’re recovering from a concussion. That’s why the lights are off. A concussion? Why would I have gotten a concussion? “Why--” I start to say but Dr. Kay cuts me off. “I’ll tell you later, but right now, try to rest. “But I already slept” “Resting and sleeping are two different things. You’ve been sleeping” “Please just tell me now.”

22 “I’d love to, but I should go get your mom I tell you, that way I can tell both of you at once.”

I glance up at my reflection, monstrous bags hang pool underneath my gloomy eyes. A soft tap on my shoulder startles me, I’ve been awake for two days, with little sleep. I look up, a women maybe in her early thirties,”Hello, can I help you?” My voice surprises me, its weak, pathetic. “Yes,” she replies,”I’ve been taking care of your daughter, she is awake now and i would like to talk to you together... “ I say nothing, but instead just stand up, I already feel the tears welling up in my eyes. She starts heading down a corridor…

(to be continued)

EveryThing Everything (Spoiler Alert) By: Serena Almaneih & Stella Grimm

Everything Everything is 1 of the best movies I have ever seen. To read the book in the school library you need a permission slip from a parent.

The movie is about a girl named Maddie who is “allergic to everything”. Maddie can never go outside because she can easily catch any sickness with a result of death. One day Maddie gets a new neighbor named Olly who Maddie eventually falls in love with. Maddie's mom finds out that her nurse let in Olly so they can meet, she ends up firing the nurse that let Olly in. When people come into their house they have to go threw a cleaning vent. Maddie decides to get a credit card using her moms money that was originally used for buying clothes but one day she uses it to by 2 plane tickets to Hawaii, 1 for her and the other for Olly if he says yes to going with her, which he dose. After he says yes Olly gose and packs and then they leave.

When they land in Hawaii they get to there hotel room and settle in and then they go to the beach and he teaches her to swim because her 1 wish is to go to the beach. The next morning Maddie gets sick and is not able to breath and Olly has to call 911. While Maddie wakes up she is not in the ER, she is in her bed at home. Once she is no longer sick her doctor from Hawaii calls her and tells her that she is not allergic to everything. After she finds out that news she goes threw her moms desk and finds nothing to prove that she is sick and allergic to everything because she is not. She ends up running away and living with her (fired) nurse and her daughter (who happens to be her best friend). Olly ends up moving to New York with his mom and sister while Maddie deals her mom. But to be fair her mom only told her she was sick because when Maddie’s dad and brother died in a car crash she was devastated

24 and wanted to do anything she could to protect Maddie. Maddie is a adult now so she decides to go to New York to be with Olly.

Creative Writing

Creative writing. A lot of students love to write to explore their vast and endless imagination. It’s not

any different than the normal writing that is off a prompt except one thing. It’s made up. This seems to be shunned in english

language arts. When were writing were given prompts but, shouldn’t students be able to write at least a few creative essays.

Yes, there are some cons to having students write creative essays,

but letting those creative juices flow once in a while is good for students. In fifth grade we did something like creative writing, but instead of just writing, we were given a picture to look at. So, the

creative writing idea doesn’t just have to be free write, it could have some guidelines added into the

idea by the teacher and still be learning opportunities and creative writing.

Mia Longhi

Pretty Little Liars (SPOILER ALERT) BY: Serena Almaneih

Pretty Little Liars is 1 of the best shows I have ever watched, you will probably need parent permission to watch the show first. You do need to have a permission slip from your parent to read the books.

This show is about is about a girl who people think is dead but isnt she is in hiding, Alison Dilaurentis. She is running from people who change from season to season. After Alison goes missing her friends drift apart. (Hannah, Aria, Spencer, Emily) Once they start getting threatening texts from A (the person alison is running from) they come back together, to help each other. In the end of season 4 Alison makes a surprise visit back and then the “Doll House” happens (captured by A). (In season 5). After they get out of the “Doll House” Spencer goes a little bit crazy because she has had a drug problem before and her mom wont let her have medication to sleep so she steals some from Aria. Emily goes kinda crazy as well, her dad is in the army do they have a safe with guns. Because she wants to feel safe again she goes to a gun range and shoots her dad’s gun. Hannah follows them in being scared, when they were in the “Doll House” there rooms were exactly how they were in there houses. Hannah takes all the furniture out of her room along with her wallpaper and clothes, just so when she is in her room she is not reminded by it. Aria fells the same way the rest of her friends do, she focuses on her photography. Alison got lucky and did not get not get kidnapped because after she returned home and gave the cops the impression that she was kidnapped so cops were always outside of her house to protect her.

In the following season it’s 5 years later they are out of collage and they are drawn from there jobs to go home for Allison's sisters funeral. When they are all back together A starts the threats again. In the last 2 season Alison believes she is going crazy because of her husband so she checks herself into a mental hospital. Because Alison's husband works at this hospital he “treats” her. He just makes her go even more crazy. Her “Doctor” 1 night tried to take her somewhere but her friends were following them so they were able to get Alison back but to be able to do that someone had to die, Eliot, Alison's husband. After that night the friends were focused on hiding their tracks that the cops would be able to track back to

27 them. Once the cops were no longer wondering about what happened they think that all there problems were solved thinking that Eliot was A but he wasn't. In this last season Spencer’s twin sister is A but the thing is that Spencer did not know she had a twin until she captured her and her twin was going to Arias wedding and not Spencer. That's when her friends figured out that it was not Spencer so they found theses clue things pointing to where she was. Once they found out who A is they figured out how Alison's sister died. Hannah's used to be friend Mona pushed her off of the belltower at the local church. When everything was know longer a problem they all stayed friends and went their separate ways but still visited each other.

Opposite Day

At least once in your life you’ve probably heard It’s Opposite Day! Usually the person says this to get out of a chore. The only problem with opposite day is that if you say it’s opposite day, isn’t it the opposite of opposite day, a regular day? Let’s just ignore that first obstacle for now. Anything you say that day with the intention of it being contradicted by opposite day, would obtain it’s normal meaning as it’s the opposite of what you intended. While the orders you get from the people who don’t know it’s opposite day will be turned opposite, your original intention will be too. Here’s a scenario

“Unload the dishwasher”---”Don’t Unload the dishwasher” “No”(Intended to be turned opposite)----”No”

So you have to do the dishwasher. Even after you learned this trick, and you changed your answer to yes, your intended answer would still be yes, so your answer would be no. No of this matters though because the first obstacle contradicts all of this.

25 Things To Do When Bored Out Of Your Mind 1. Do a hard puzzle 2. Plant some jar plants 3. Work on your cooking skills 4. Paint 5. Sketch 6. Organize your stuff 7. Do a DIY project 8. Search up Jokes 9. Watch TV 10.Listen to music 11.Write a story 12.Make a collection 13.Read 14.Photography 15.Science Experiment 16.Learn a new Language 17.Make Lists 18.Bake 19.Call a Friend 20.Meditate 21.Go on a hike 22.Take a nap 23.Exercise 24.Play a sport 25.Eat

Which is cuter a Rat or an Orangutan

Rat Orangutan

Most people say “ew that thing is so gross or those things are monsters” but there Some people say “that thing is creepy” not. Rats are cuddly, sweet, loving, and but really orangutans are cute cuddly they can learn tricks! They have an animals and they also have human DNA. amazing personality and will love and They love to play with people and other play with you forever. In conclusion I think orangutans. They all have awesome that the rat would win because people personalities and very cute and funny judge them by what they look like before facial expressions. In Conclusion I think you know how sweet they can really be. baby Orangutans should win because they have great characteristics and there awesome. I

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Safari West (The Last Installment)

Flamingo, American

Flamingo, African Lesser

Stork, Saddle-billed

Weaver, Taveta Golden

K-Pop The Music Genre Sweeping the Globe By Maddie Wong and Angela Horton

From BTS to Red Velvet, kpop is getting mass attention in the music industry. K-pop stands for Korean Pop, and consists of many different genres in one, such as electronic, hip hop, pop, rock, and R&B music. K-pop has been around for about 50 years but only started to get popular in the U.S in 2012 when the world famous PSY made Gangnam style. Many people flocked onto the K-pop train when BTS or Bangtan Boys released their song DNA, which reached over 273 million views on youtube. Many english speakers are learning korean, in order to learn what their favorite songs translated to, and some are even going to the winter Olympics in South Korea just to see their favourite k-pop band. Some k-pop bands have collaborating with American bands such as BTS working with Fall Out Boy for their new album Mania. K-pop is even rated the fourth most popular music genre in the world. Maybe after reading this article you’ll add some k-pop to your playlist.

Chic Ski Wear

Here are some examples of “Chic Ski Wear” people have been rocking some more fashionable gear on the slopes.Most people will think this is totally absurd and wonder why people can’t just wear normal ski clothes but others LOVE this trend

By: Mia C.

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UGANDAN KNUCKLES

Have you heard the legend?

Ugandan Knuckles a Horror Story…

(Thunder) Have you heard the legend? Once a Family moved into that rickety

old house. That held a dark monster UGANDAN KNUCKLES!!!

(Can you find the key to unlocking the hidden text)? No strange things had happened… yet. My friend here will tell the rest i’ll warn you he’s very lonely…

NOW NOW NO NEED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT

Hello there...won’t you join me? No? Well ok then. I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO CONVINCE YOU... https://docs.google .com/document/d/1fI v69NAJVTZTfs7GOMp K0MbResJ_a4K19FXH hVbNdA0/edit

Spongebob Squarepants

(Characters)

By: ANonymouse

Little advice don't watch Spongebob Squarepants unless you enjoy watching unrealistic tv. Spongebob came to bikini bottom looking for a place to stay and a job to get away from his parents. He and his house hunting person helper thing finally found the perfect house which isn't an option until a giant pineapple came down from the surface of the water (Which was unrealistic because it was a fully furnished pineapple with windows and doors). So he bought a pineapple to live in. his neighbors were Squidward and patrick. Squidward is a grumpy old man who is really bad at the claranet and works at the Krusty Krab. Patrick lives in a rock, he is spongebob's best friend, he doesn't have a job, he likes Krabby patties and donuts, and he like karate. Sandy cheeks is friends with spongebob and Patrick, she is a squirrel, she comes from Texas, and she is really good at karate. Mr. Crabs is a greedy old man, he owns the Krusty Krab, and he has a daughter named pearl. So if you can see my point of spongebob being unrealistic and i just don't understand why anybody in the world would watch Spongebob SquarePants. But that is just my opinion. :)

Fortnite Fortnite is a game created my Epic games,the object of the game is to survive the whole game without getting killed, there is several game modes such as , Solo, Duo, and squad.The Solo game mode when you don't have any teammates and you have to survive the whole game until the end by getting materials and weapons to defend yourself to get to the end. There are a variety of weapons there are Assault Rifles, SMGs, Pistols, Shotguns, Snipers, Crossbows, Miniguns, RPGs, Grenade Launchers, and grenades. There are rairity's in fortnite those rarity's are common, Uncommon, Rare, Epic, And legendary. There are materials in fortnite. Those materials are Wood, Stone, and metal. With materials you can build stairs, walls, roofs, and floors. You can build walls to defend yourself from enemies shooting at you. Stairs are used for getting on hills,buildings, and getting above your eminems. You use roofs to stop people from using launch pads to get into your base. Floors are mainly used to go across canyons or placing down traps and other placeables.

By: Corin;Frank;Aiden