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Postcard to My 12th Grade Self
Article posted June 22, 2007 at 12:45 PM GMT0 •
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[Editor's Note: My 2006-2007 students have just graduated 5th grade. They have been in school for about six years. In another six years they will be a senior in high school. Believe it or not, they are about half way through their public schooling life!
Below is a postcard they wrote to their "12th grade self." I will mail it to them in June 2013!]
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Article posted June 22, 2007 at 12:45 PM GMT0 •
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Give a homeless person some spare change
Article posted June 21, 2007 at 04:09 PM GMT0 •
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I can just imagine my friends saying, "Money is for you not for other people." I think it should be to share with people that need it, not people that don’t need it. People should donate money to the poor.
Once when I was going to town hall on a trip for school in fourth grade with Ms.Saul Noah and I saw a homeless guy on the sidewalk. He looked like he was dying. I felt that if everyone had homes it would save a lot of peoples' lives.
Another time me and Stefan saw someone on the sidewalk in a cardboard box and I said to Stefan, "He should be living in a home not a box. He is a human being."
Another time I was on my way somewhere with my father, Danielle, and my sister. This homeless guy knocked on my car window and we left. I felt bad because we were avoiding someone who needed our help.
I say if you really want everyone to be safe in the world and for everyone to have homes, donate some spare change. Once you do you will feel amazing and so will the person you're giving it to.
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Article posted June 21, 2007 at 04:09 PM GMT0 •
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China was flooded
Article posted June 11, 2007 at 05:30 PM GMT0 •
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Rain started to pour in south west China. Every summer heavy rain falls down and they get flooded. Last year more then 27,000 people died in a storm that caused floods. In the storms that lately came around, the storms caused schools and even factories to close. People had to go to centers for people that just got flooded because their building got swamped.
I remember when we had our flood and everyone had to evacuate their apartment buildings.
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Article posted June 11, 2007 at 05:30 PM GMT0 •
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The Gas Man
Article posted May 22, 2007 at 05:08 PM GMT0 •
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A man on Soloman Island found a way to make gas out of coconuts. John Wolrath’s fuel is called coco-bio-diesel. It is cheaper then petrol and diesel. He would use coconuts that were about to rot under the palm trees. He’s hoping more people use it in their cars. They could make 10,000 litters a day which is 100% green.
I think that it is really cool how someone made gas out of coconuts. I would never be able to do that.
Read more:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6640000/newsid_6642500/6642569.stm
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Article posted May 22, 2007 at 05:08 PM GMT0 •
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Special Fred
Article posted May 17, 2007 at 04:43 PM GMT0 •
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Special Fred
Cast
Joey: Girl
Bruno: Boyfriend
Noah: Male
Jesse: Special Dude
Joey: Announcer
Jesse: Fenderbobby
Noah: Special Pringle
Joey: Squirrilbuffy
Stefan: Laughdaburpdafart
Bruno: Special Fred
Noah: Ice Cream Man
Soccer game
(Ring ring ring)
Noah: Hello?
Stefan: Come to the game tonight.
Noah: OK
Stefan: Good. ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ahhh…. (phum). Sorry.
Later that evening (crowd is roaring).
Joey: Go, Special Dude!
Bruno: OW! (Ball hits Bruno.)
Joey: Go Special Dude!
Bruno: OWW!
(52 hours later. . .)
Joey: Go Special Dude!
Bruno: Can you stop saying that?!
Joey: Sorry.
Bruno: OWW! I hate you.
Joey: I love being me.
Next morning. . . .
Jesse: haghhhh (Jesse yawns and rises up from his bed and gets hit by a ball.)
Jesse: OWWWWW!
Jesse: What the heck was that?
Jesse: I hate random things.
The male teenager on the phone. . . .
Noah: So I said, “Dude I can beat you up, you can’t beat me up. And then he just started throwing punches and I beat him up.”
The female teenager on the phone. . .
Joey: And so she said, “I touched her and she started crying and her boyfriend dumped her for me. . .I know. . .Oh my god, is that my boy friend in the background? The heck with him, put him on the phone. . . ! I hate you! We're breaking up!
Bruno: Whatever.
(Later that day at the ice cream stand.)
Bruno: Yo, ice cream man!
Noah: Yeah?
Bruno: Give me your ice cream and your money.
Noah: You get nothing from me.
Bruno: Oh yeah?
Jesse: Yeah.
(Jesse jumps Bruno. Joey jumps Jesse and Bruno.)
Noah: The heck with them. I get the ice cream.
The End
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Article posted May 17, 2007 at 04:43 PM GMT0 •
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Living spiders in boy’s ear
Article posted May 16, 2007 at 04:51 PM GMT0 •
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A 9 year old kid named Jesse Courtney found a dead and alive spider in his ear. Spiders built a web in an ear. That’s scary! He knew because he heard tapping noises in his ear. When he went to the doctor they washed out his ear and a dead and alive one fell out. They were walking on his eardrum.
If a bug was I my ear I would have freaked out, and I would have dug in my ear for the bugs!
Read more at:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_6630000/newsid_6632300/6632317.stm
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Article posted May 16, 2007 at 04:51 PM GMT0 •
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The Constitution Works! Brief and Oral Arguement for the Denver Dispatch
Article posted May 11, 2007 at 07:18 PM GMT0 •
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May it please the court? My name is Joey. As a lawyer for the Denver Dispatch, I appear before you today to argue that my client has not violated the law. The Denver Dispatch, under the First Amendment, printed very important information that can affect the lives of thousands of people in Boulder, Colorado.
The facts of the case are that The Denver Dispatch is trying to publish information on the military secrets. The government isn’t letting us publish because they think it is going to cause a clear and present danger.
The Justices are asked to decide if the Denver Dispatch should be allowed to continue their series of articles about the government’s secret lab in Boulder, Colorado.
In the N.Y. Times vs. U.S. government, in the year 1971, Justice Brennan wrote as part of the majority decision, “under the First Amendment, there can be no blocking of freedom of the press based on educated guesses that some danger might come about. The court needs proof of immediate danger to the nation and its people before it can limit the freedom of speech and press. They can’t stop freedom of the press because of guesses about what could happen.”
I feel this applies to the Denver Dispatch case because if the courts decide to stop the Denver Dispatch from finishing their story, the courts will have taken our basic rights and will have changed the original meaning of the Constitution.
Justice Holmes, in Schenck v. the U.S. Government (1919) wrote, “are the words that are said or written used in such a way that they cause ‘clear and present danger’?”
I believe this applies to the Denver Dispatch case because this is exactly the same situation, the issue of freedom of the press. The articles found in the Denver Dispatch do not cause clear and present danger but actually may help to avoid a dangerous situation by notifying the local residents of the lab’s existence. The information in the article was very important to the people of Boulder, Colorado because the type of work being done at the lab could affect the health and well being of the local people.
In the New York Times v. the U.S. Government, The New York Times had much more top secret information about our government’s actions and decisions concerning the Vietnam War and the Supreme Court ruled in their favor. They had the right to publish their information. The Denver Dispatch article was simply an article informing the public on the new weapon called Anthrax X. We should have the right to publish, too.
In Article III of the Constitution, the federal courts have the power to apply the rules of the constitution but not to change the original meaning of the constitution. Also, under the First Amendment of the Constitution (freedom of the press), Congress is not allowed to make laws that stop people from speaking, writing, printing, or broadcasting on TV or radio what they want to say. This applies to this case because the U.S. Government is trying to stop the Denver Dispatch from publishing secrets but they’re not allowed to.
The Justices should rule in favor of the Denver Dispatch because it’s their duty to uphold the Constitution, not to change it, and because there has been other cases, similar to this, that the courts decided for freedom of the press.
[Editor's note: "The Constitution Works" is a role-playing exercise that gives students a chance to learn about the United States Constitution and government. The students role-play a hypothetical court case called Denver Dispatch v. United States. Students take on roles as a lawyer or Supreme Court Justice. They think about what is more important: the freedom of the newspaper to print what it wants OR the government's duty to protect our nation's security.]
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Article posted May 11, 2007 at 07:18 PM GMT0 •
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The Prankstas
Article posted May 3, 2007 at 02:42 AM GMT0 •
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Jackie: Test
Gaby: Test Taker
Jaileen: Test Taker
Alyssa: Test Taker
Sean: Nerd Erwin
Stefan: Pranksta Banksta
Noah: Pranksta Bossy
Jesse: Pranksta Bommer
Joey: Pranksta Blazer
Bruno: Pranksta Buffer Then you
Mr.Brune: Teacher, Mr.Doon
Reid: Announcer
Solange: Test Taker
Announcer: Here are the Pranksters: Buffer Then You, Bommer, Blazer, Boss, Mr.Doon, and the. . .
Bossy : Wait a minute!
[Bossy arm farts "Old McDonald."]
Bossy: Now I'm good. Go on.
Announcer: Here is The Nerd.
[Erwin walks up and picks his nose.]
Erwin: Hi, who wants to play square roots?
[No one answers.]
Erwin: OK, how about pie?
Banksta: Ooo, I love pie.
Buffer: Let's go get some.
[Pranksters walk down hall.
Bossy pushes Erwin's head, The Nerd falls.]
Later on. . . .Pranksters pretend to rig water fountain and Nerd goes too close to spout and gets wet.]
Blazer: Let’s move.
[Prankstas run away. Erwin goes to class.]
Erwin: At least I'm away from those bullies. I'm going to sit down.
[Buffer pulls away chair. Erwin falls.]
Erwin: Owww! my glutious maximus! I could have broken my butt!
[Erwin goes to doctor. When he comes out Bommer gives him wrong test answers.]
Bommer: Here you go.
Later, tomorrow. . . .
Mr.Doon: Here is your test. There will be no cheating. You will have thirty minutes. You may begin.
15 minutes later. . . .
Erwin: Here you go Mr.Doon.
[Mr.Doon looks through the test page by page.]
Mr.Doon: This is all wrong. I'm sorry but I'm going to have to give you an F.
Erwin: What?! Ahh! Fine. . . .
[Erwin walks out of class.]
Buffer: We got you good.
Bossy: Yeah, we did.
Banksta: Let’s go guys.
Later on. . . .Prankstas beat up Erwin.]
Bossy: Yeah, that’s right. Get down.
Bommer: Get down. We ain't done with you yet.
Erwin: Please don’t, no!
Erwin: Ahhhhhhhhhh!
[Erwin bleeds (fake blood). Prankstas walk away.]
The End
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Article posted May 3, 2007 at 02:42 AM GMT0 •
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Final Pioneer Diary Entry
Article posted April 30, 2007 at 08:28 PM GMT0 •
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[Editor's note: This journal was found among other artifacts on the Hacker Trail, a trail used by Pionneers traveling to the Oregon territory in the mid 1800s.]
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Article posted April 30, 2007 at 08:28 PM GMT0 •
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The Tungurahua volcano
Article posted April 13, 2007 at 07:37 PM GMT0 •
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The Tungurahua volcano in Ecuador, South America is shooting out hot lava 100m into the air. The lava began to come out of the volcano last month. Children in schools near to it are being taught how to protect themselves from a volcano’s eruption. Families aren’t moving from the bottom of the mountain because they say they have no where else to go. Victor Rosario says he is not afraid of the volcano. He also says that the volcano lets him know when it is going to erupt. The volcano is one of the most dangerous in the world.
I think that Victor guy has to be really brave because if that was me I’d be out of there before you can say "see ya’’! Especially since it is one of the most dangerous in the world.
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Article posted April 13, 2007 at 07:37 PM GMT0 •
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