October/November 2019 Grant School The New York Yankees By: Noah Dennis The New York Yankees have had a pretty good 2019 season with a record of 103-59 and making it to the Playoffs. The Yankees made it far, knocking out the Twins in a 3-0 series. Trouble ended the Yankees post- season when they played the Astros. The final record for that series was 4-2 with the yankees losing anoth- er trip to the 2019 World Series. At the end of the 6th game, Jose Altuve hit a homerun off of Aroldis Chap- man, which ended the game in the bottom of the 9th inning. All the way through the year the Yankees did a perfect job. A player named Didi Greorious might have a bright future with the Yankees, says Dan Rourke. Aaron Judge’s problem is that he has missed almost two seasons. In 2018 he missed a lot with a fractured wrist and 55 games in 2019 with an oblique strain. Judge can still return with hitting power. He already won the title of most defensive player in 2019. Judge was only lucky enough to make it to the 2018 All-Star Game because of that injury. The Yankees have won the World Series the most times in MLB (Major League Baseball). A great player named Gleyber Torres had an amazing season with 38 home runs and also helped break a franchise record in home runs. According to a YouTube post by Dan Rourke, the Yankees have traded Greg Bird and Jacoby Ellsbury and now the question remains on Clint Frazier. It looks like he is going. Personally, I don’t want Clint Frazier to be traded. Clint Frazier was a great replacement when Aaron Judge was injured this year. This 2019 season Gleyber Torres has hit a home run at every ballpark from Yankee stadium to the Tiger’s ballpark. That is 30 ballparks in MLB. I hope the Yankees have a great 2020 season, improve on their team, and make to the 2020 World Series and win it. SPOILERS Avengers: Endgame 2.796 Bill INSIDE THIS ISSUE In first place is Avengers Endgame. I think this a good movie. 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And the mad titan Thanos wants • Every wondered why we celebrate to take all the infinity stones and if he does somehow get all the infinity stones, with snaps of his fingers he Thanksgiving? can eliminate half of the universe. I loved Avengers Infinity War better than Avengers Endgame. • Looking for a good movie? Check out our reviews! • Entertainment can be found in the back! 1 Avengers Endgame Review: Warning! Spoilers! By Christian Jittan In my opinion, Avengers when Iron Man died and it Endgame is the best movie was very sad as everyone ever! I love it because it stood over him. I really liked gave up a good ending to the part where Cap said, an eleven-year saga. My “Avengers assemble!” Over- personal favorite part is all, it is a very good movie. [SPOILER] when Thanos is killed for the second time. I also like the motto: Whatev- er it takes. The soundtrack is really good and I like how Spidey was portrayed. [SPOILERS] I cried hard “I love it because it gave up a good ending to an eleven-year saga.“ Tatiana Rowlands Title: Molly’s Story HIP HIP HOORAY! Author: W. Bruce Cameron The book Molly’s Story is about a girl What is Cheer? named CJ, her mother and Molly, a cute loveable By: Julianna Jordao & Gianna France puppy. CJ’s mother never allowed her to get a pup- py, but that did not stop CJ from sneaking Molly into her house and keeping her. CJ had gone What is cheerleading? Cheerleading is a team activity that includes the through some tough times with school, so she cud- elements of dance and acrobatics combined. It is also a sport that is dles up with Molly every night. Molly knows her job is to stay hidden in CJ’s room and protect her from closely tied to American Football. Cheerleading began in the mid 1800’s dangerous people. Molly knows that no matter what by a man named Johnny Campbell. To begin with, men were only allowed CJ’s mom does to keep them apart, it is her job to to do the sport. Until the year 1923 when that all changed. At the Uni- protect her girl. My favorite character in the story is, hands down, Molly. The pictures of her are so versity of Minnesota, both men and women were allowed to cheer. In cute, and her thoughts are super funny. this decade cheerleaders added a lot of things such as stunting and I could not really relate to Molly or any of tumbling. In the year 1948, a Southern Methodist University cheerlead- the characters. I have been in an art show like how CJ was for her school. I was very excited for how CJ felt er named Lawrence “Herkie” Herkimer held the first summer cheerlead- that night. I can connect the character CJ to another ing clinic at Sam Houston State Teachers College. Cheerleading has been book by W. Bruce Cameron called Max’s Story, about considered an iconic American activity that symbolizes leadership, a girl named CJ who lived in the city and adopted a dog named Max. CJ is very caring and loves to be school spirit, and youthfulness. The college-aged men during World War with Max. Though this is a very good and well- II opened up new opportunities for women in cheerleading. It ultimately written book, it was hard to make a connection. The led to the “feminization” of cheerleading in the 1960s and 1970s, when only connection I could make was with the two characters named CJ. the population of female cheerleaders rose to roughly 95 percent. To- I really enjoyed reading this book. I think day, cheer continues to be very popular in schools, colleges and local or- my favorite part was when Trent asked CJ to go to ganizations like Pop Warner. Students are now allowed to get scholar- the dance with him. I think my least favorite part of the book was when Gloria poisoned Molly and tried ships. to kill her. Molly had not done anything wrong to hurt Gloria and she still tried to hurt her. I really Where we got the idea from: would not have changed anything because I really liked how it ended. The ending was sweet and We cheer together. Gianna has been cheering for 5 years & Julianna 7 straight to the point. years. We wanted to know the history behind our favorite sport. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone about 10 and older. There are some words and phrases younger kids may not understand or comprehend. I strongly believe that the main target audience are people that enjoy reading stories about Sources: dogs, love adventures, and enjoy some sad moments every once in a while. I would definitely recommend •https://www.varsity.com/news/cheerleader-history-cheerleading/ this book to another person because it is super funny, •https://www.britannica.com/sports/cheerleading sad at times, and teaches you great life lessons, like 2 you can not run away from your fears. 2 THANKSGIVING Thanksgiving Day– by Kayleigh Rohrer Do you know that the Thanksgiv- ing parade was first introduced in 1924? Thanksgiving is now a holiday because it celebrates the Pilgrims and Native Ameri- cans coming together in peace. Thanksgiving is when you gather around say what your thankful for and then you start eating food. Do you know the boat that the Pilgrims sailed on when the came? Pilgrims came to America on the Mayflower, they came to be free and worship God. The Pilgrims and the Native Ameri- cans were the first people to celebrate.