The Tusker Tribune The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Issue Number 29 http://somersschools.org/domain/995 Spring 2018 Get Set for Finals! Is the Dress Code Fair? By Juliana Spano Tusker Tribune Staff Hi, I'm Juliana Spano with By Amanda Malkin a very important topic. FINALS! Tusker Tribune Staff This is a public service an- Do you like the spring dress code? Do you think nouncement informing you that these set of rules are fair between girl and boys? finals are approaching at a very fast speed Well, those are some of the topics that I will talk and study should start soon. Reviews in all about in my article. Now that the sun is starting classes will be starting shortly and no one to come out and spring will be excused from these exams. Also, has finally started, our remember that this counts towards you school, Somers Middle GPA so study hard and do well! School, will start talk- ing about the dreaded Study tips spring dress code. This dress code Keep calm and use tells girls not to wear breathing techniques to tank tops or no off the calm you down when you shoulder shirts, but get worked up. what are the boys’ If you can chew gum, rules? mint chewing gum is very If girls wear calming and will help you these items, we can get detention, be asked to change or focus. could possibly be asked to go home. Boys don’t even Drink water! Drinking know what their guidelines are to the dress code. water will keep you more In 6th grade, girls must watch or are in a fashion awake and alert and it will show to show examples and rules to the dress code. In help you stay focused as well. addition, they’re given names of stores that have some of Try listening to calming music when these clothes that fit the rules. you study. It helps me, so you might as I believe the boys at Somers Middle School well try it. You don’t even have to play should have an act that shows them what their dress music just find some headphones that code guidelines are. block out noise. Don’t forget to eat a good breakfast on testing day, it helps! What Book Should You Read Next? By Aleksiana Rukaj Tusker Tribune Staff I surveyed multiple stu- dents on what their favorite genres were, and which books were the best from each. Don't know what to read? Hopefully this will give you a clue! Realistic Fiction Drums, Girls And Dangerous Pie, The Midnight Gang, Falling Over Sideways, Notes From The Midnight Driv- er, Everything, Everything, The Art Of Feeling, Since You've Been Gone, and 13 Reasons Why. Continued on page 2 The Tusker Tribune Page 2 The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Music Can ‘Change’ the World! (Part 2) By Donovan Smith nities. Tusker Tribune Staff So, we are back at for Please support 7th grade students Music Can (canned goods) Michael Abrenica, Eddie Baranowski, Change ($) the World and Ryan Eade, Evan Carway, Jake Gannon thank you in advance! and myself with our community service project to If you don't have a stu- benefit the Community Center of Northern dent in the schools/in the con- Westchester. certs, please feel free to just Please consider bringing stop by and donate if you canned goods and spare change to would like to! We welcome the whole communi- the Somers Music events listed be- ty's support!! low as we will be there collecting # Music Can Change The World donations. # Somers Strong Last fall, we collected 271.2 pounds of canned goods which we SIS Band Night May 10th stocked at the food pantry of the Community Center SMS Band Concert May 23rd in December and donated $580 in spare change! After stocking the SMS Chorus & Orchestra Concert June 5th shelves, the boys took a tour and learned the support that the SIS Spring Concert June 14th Community Center of Northern Westchester provides to those in Hope to see you there with canned goods and need in our surrounding commu- spare change in hand ready to change the world! What to Read ing Vermeer, The Wig From Page 1 In The Window, The Rithmatists, Fantasy Dark Life. The Red Queen Series, 11 Birthdays, Mr. Historical Fic- Lemoncello's Library, The Time Keeper, A tion Wrinkle In Time, The False Prince, Good- bye Stranger, The Kane Series, The Castle Girl In Blue, In The Mist, A Long Walk To Water. Weasel, Ida B., Dunkirk, Blood Mystery On The River, Once, The War That Saved My Life, Gone With The Wind, The Help, The Westing Fever, The Boy In The Striped Pajamas, Game, The Nancy The Book Thief, The Enchanted, The Good- Drew Series, The Black bye Season. Butler, The 14th Goldfish, It Happened In 6th Grade, I hope that this helps you find a great book Three Times Lucky, Chas- to read! The Tusker The Tusker Tribune is featured online and is published weekly Tribune Staff (except during school vacations) on the Somers Middle School Juliana Spano Website. It is entirely student-written by 6th, 7th and 8th Amanda Malkin grade students from: Somers Middle School Anthony Tucci 250 Route 202 David Jocson Somers, NY, USA. Noah Volkman Any SMS student is eligible to write stories. If interested, Joseph Melillo please e-mail Advisor Dean Pappas at Donovan Smith [email protected] The Tusker Tribune Page 3 The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School The Great Shoe Review!!!! By David Jocson of now. and Anthony Tucci Designed Tusker Tribune Staff by Kanye In our opinion Jordan is the West the largest shoe brand in America and Yeezy it is still rising in popularity among kids and shoe line adults. My personal favorite shoe from Jordan is has been the 'Jordan X Kaws retro 4'. The colors are either around black or grey both suede all around with a glow in for a little the dark sole. The while and price ranges from with mul- $1,400-$2,000 de- tiple dif- pending on size ferent (retail value). types in- These are very cluding hard to find and the V2s, which include color ways of Beluga, Be- are hard to main- luga 2's, Breds and Frost Yellows. There is also tain due to the the V1 that comes in Turtle Dove, Tan and Pirate suede everywhere Black. The Wave Runners are the newest type on the shoes be- and the most expensive varying from $500- sides the sole. $600dollars depending on size. The Yeezy V1 is the very first Yeezy with Jordan 1 Adidas. Kanye has also made shoes with Nike and he has a collection of Yeezys. For example, there are the Red Octobers, Pure Platinum, and The Jordan 1 is probably the most talked the Black Solar Red. These are all made with about shoe. This shoe is very old and still in the Nike. Then he moved over to Adidas then he shoe made the Yeezy V1 game. They The V1 comes in four colors: the Turtle come out Dove, Pirate Black, Oxford Tan, and the with a lot Moonrock. These are the color way. They are of the 1’s, very expensive now rather than when it came out. for exam- The ple, the price for a Bred, Yin Deadstock Yang, pair varies Shatter from your Back- size and boards, color and and the how rare iconic Chicago 1s the shoe is but a These shoes crease easily but look good Deadstock when they get creased. They come in many differ- pair will ent color ways. The price varies it depends what cost color way and size you get. The price starts at around the $170 and up. thousands. For exam- Adidas ple a Dead- stock pair Yeezy of the Tur- Wave Run- tle Dove ners are prob- will cost $2000-$3000 on the Stadium Goods web- ably the most site for shoes. overrated, ug- Some people hate these shoes; some love liest shoes on them for the style; others just follow. The shoe is the market as light weight and very comfortable. The Tusker Tribune Page 4 The Student Newspaper of Somers Middle School Book Fair Had Variety By Joseph Melillo In addition, they had Tusker Tribune jewelry, such as necklaces The 2nd book fair of the and bracelets. They also had 2017-2018 year ended on purses and water bottles. Thursday, May 10, 2018. The They had lock diaries and the Book Fair is a key fundraiser for the gamer’s book of world records. Somers PTA. When it’s held, ELA This really wasn’t a “book teachers sign up to bring their classes fair” it should be called a to the fair while it’s being held. “book fair with many out of The most recent book fair had, category objects”. It wasn’t of course books, along with UV pens, those buy one get one free giant pencils, emoji pens, and fake book fairs. Some students phones with markers inside. seemed to come to a conclu- These were the writing tools sion that everything was the book fair had. overpriced, while others found exactly what they The book fair also had earbuds, Mario t- were looking for. shirts, and Mario drawstring bags. The catego- Since it was called a “Book Fair”, it’s ap- ries of books they had were history books, fanta- propriate that you could buy two books for the sy, thrillers, and horror books.