Book Jacket-Wake

Janie, a seventeen year old girl has been getting stuck into other people's dreams for to long . She's been in falling dreams, naked-but-nobody-notices dreams, and the sex-crazed dreams. Janie's been sucked into so many dreams that its a regular routine for her. Janie cannot tell anyone about what happens because no one would believer her. I mean who would believe someone that could supposedly go in and out of peoples dreams. She lives with an ability that she doesnt want nor does she know how to control. When Janie starts going into so many different dreams, she starts to be a participant in the dream.

Journal: From Grammar-Karlee

I ran quickly to the base as I hit the ball (prepositional). To hit a home run was my first goal(infinitive). As i was running i noticed the ball was still headed to the outfield, so i kept on going. I was afraid the the old, grey haired umpire with the crooked teeth, would yell foul(appositive). My arms pumping, my legs moving, I was hoping i would make it to home (absolute). Digging my cleats into the annoying, sticky mud, I was afraid I wouldn't make it (gerund). Sliding into home, closing my eyes, hearing the crowd go crazy, i made it home (participle).

Journal: From Grammar- Emily

Walking anxiously, Jerry finally got the chance to go to the wild beach(participle). Jerry went on vacation with his mother to a nice beautiful beach where everything was safe. His eyes swelling, nose bleeding, and lungs closing Jerry realizes his adventure at the wild beach may be his last(absolute). He saw a group of boys swimming through a tunnel so he decided he would try it. Scrapping at the tunnel's sides Jerry scrambled to get out(Gerund). To swim swiftly was Jerry's goal(infinitive). He swam frantically(prepositional). Better than he ever had. When he finally reached home, out of breath and looking for rest a mother greeted him, a sweet loving woman(appositive).

Journal Entry: Tiffany Thomas

A widow takes her son to the beach where they are they are spending their vacation for a day. The boy gets permission and goes to the bigger beach, where some boys, whom he can't understand, lead him in the discovery of a tunnel. The boy practices holding his breath everyday until he can hold it long enough to make it through.

Journal:Kaylyn Cook

I held my breath for the longest time!

I had jumped into the water, and just kept sinking, seeing how far down i could go. I touched the bottom finally! I came swimming up, but didn't think i could hold my breath long enough to reach the surface. However, i did, i held my breath as a long as a Frog under water!

Journal: Audrey Hyatt

Cats
I like cats
They lay on mats

People dress them in funny hats

i saw one chase a mouse

all over the purple house

i also like dogs

even though they eat like hogs

they bark at strangers

and dont realize dangers

Journal Free Writting : Emiy White

Softball , my pride and joy

On the line home run

Fast and light I wish I could run

Tough behind the plate

Bursting with energy, I save the day

All the excitement leaves you wanting more

Left field sure has a good hole

Lifetime of games ahead of me, I definitely want this for sure

Free Write Journal: Courtney Norris

Yesterday, we had our last soccer game. We were in the district tournament and were playing Bourbon County. In the first half we were losing two to zero. At the end of the game the score was six to one. Last year we lost to Bourbon in the same tournament, we lost in pk's and it was a really emotional game. After the game, our coach Follet gave us a talk about "how hard we played" and "how much we have improved throughout the year." I didn't really agree that much with the talk he gave to us because I didn't feel that everything he said was completley true. Our season is now over and I'm looking forward to the next season.

Journal-Karlee Willoughby :Poem

Emily is crazy
She is also very lazy
She has brown hair
And can give an evil glare
Sometimes she can be funny
like when she stepped on her pet bunny
She text on her phone non stop!
Ale-8 is her favorite pop
She's staying with me for the week
Sometimes i could just punch her in the cheek
She is my best friend
and that will never end!

Journal: Emily - Moiety

Best Friends are suppose to be moiety. They are like your other half. They are there to complete you, their the happy part of you when your sad, to help cheer you up. They listen to all your problems. Best friends try to be equal to each other and always make the other better. Everyone has a best friend whether they are human, animal, fake or real. Best friends can be your other half in any shape or form. Best friends... You just can't live without them !

Halloween Report :O

How Did Trick-or-Treating & Costumes Come About ?

The American tradition of "trick-or-treating" goes back to the early time of All Souls' Day parade in England. At the place, poor citizens would beg for food and families would give them pastries called "soul cakes" in return for their promise to pray for the family's dead relatives.

The giving of soul cakes was expectant by the church as a way to replace the ancient practice of leaving food and wine for roaming spirits. So from this young children began to go to neighbors houses and they would ask for goodies, like candy and such.

Dressing up in the odd costumes came from the Celtics. Hundreds of years ago, winter was a scary time for them .They would begin to lose food stock and surprisingly many were scared of the dark, so it was freighting going out. On October 31st, Halloween night people believed that’s when the ghost came back and they were scared they would be taken, so they wouldn’t leave their homes. To avoid getting noticed as humans the Celtics would put on mask to be disguised as their fellow spirits. On Halloween, to keep ghosts away from their houses, people would put food outside, thinking they would not come in.

So now Children of all ages up to usually 12 will put on their costumes and go around asking for candy, but the background of Halloween is usually not remembered. Most people don’t even know why they go trick- or - treating. Before it was because the people were frightened and hungry, but now it’s out of fun and games. It comes to show how much times have changed and evolved and developed something we all love to do.

Book Jacket

Juliet and the others involved in this book have a high acuman of the war. Some of them, for a moiety of their life have been involved. It has become personal for all of them. The inculate of the war- the poeple of guernesy give to Juliet, makes Juliet fall in love, with the people and the place. What will happen when Juliet becomes obsequious to one particular man who she only really knows through letters? Will the man realize her love for him, or is there another who has his heart? <3

Journal :Write any kind of poem By:Tiffany Thomas

Warm fire

Ice skating on the lake

Neat ornaments

Tree's bare

Evergreens still green

Rudolph comes to town

Free Write Journal : Kaylyn Cook 10-22

Falling leaves
Apples laying on the ground
Leaves lying in a pile
Laughter while playing in the pile of leaves

Country Music-Karlee Willoughby

Country music usually tells a story about there past experiences. Majority of country singers have came from or went to a musical school in Nashville. Country music is performed with guitars and many back-up, up-beat instruments. Country musicians have a unique voice because of their southern accent.

What type of literature do you remember most about our theme-Emily White

I remember the movie " The Last Holiday" the most out of all the short stories and other literature we have read during our "live like you were dying" unit. I remember this movie the most because individually I am a visual learner. I remember the events that happen to represent our theme better when I can put faces with the event. That's why I also remember the song "Live Like You Were Dying" because we watched a video and I could hear the words, someone else was telling the story. Instead of having to read it myself.

Article

Blue Jackets, Gold Standards

In the agriculture department the classes often go to the farm, but you have to be a dues paid member. Parts of the farm are very deciduous. Thats usually where tree ID and leaf identification take place. Other places are very spacious and clear, thats where the cows, horses and goats are kept.

The Montgomery County FFA Chapter has lots of cookouts. Sometimes we just make up reasons to have a cookout. We wouldn't be considered a very abstemious group. We are pretty much the farthest thing from it. We strive to make sure everyone feels at home and welcome. At these cookouts we do a little recruiting and the rest of the time we relax and enjoy the praise we are getting for a great acomplishment we may have made.

In the first few weeks of class we learn about the FFA organization. Lots of the FFA history take place during the Antebellum time period. During this time, FFA was just starting. At first it was an all boys club but with much detirmination girls were eventually allowed to join. Also, our creed was adopted in. The author of our creed is E.M. Tiffany. This consists of 6 paragraphs explaining what we believe in and what we try to acomplish as an FFA memeber.

The irony of being in FFA is that when people think about FFA, they think its for farm people only. But the reality is that we have programs for everyone. Some of our programs are: Welding, building, tractor driving, public speaking, speech writing, fossil research, technology based projects, and quizzes. So next time you see the Blue Courderoy Jacket just remember that the FFA members have Gold Standards.

The Biggest Crowd I have ever been in by:Audrey Hyatt

The biggest crowd I have ever been in was when I was watching a fight between two girls. It was one of the best fights I have ever seen. I remember it like it was yesterday we were all in the lunch room, and when I say we I mean the whole freshman class, it was just like any other day loud and boring until one of the girls sitting beside me started yelling at a girl at the table behind us. then all of a sudden she got up and slapped the girl in the face. It was like a firework going off, the boom part of the firework had just happened and every one had the same reaction as if a firework had went off every body in the whole lunch room had her eyes glued to them then they fell on the floor and as soon as that happened everyone stood up so they could watch, it was great. but that is definitely the biggest crowd I have ever been in.

The Cave, The Cabin & The Tattoo Man- book jacket

Timmy goes to visit his grandparents that live in an antebellum peaceful town in Kentucky over the summer. Timmy faces many difficult tasks in which his life depends on. The irony of his cave encounters foretell his fate with the tattoo man. The tattoo man became abstemious, from Timmy's intelligence. The climax of the story will develop throughout the deciduous forest on his grandparents farm. This novel is embraced with mystery and action, leaving you wanting more.

Book Jacket:Blood Brothers

Clay and Joey always had this epiphany. They are best friends, and had been since they were little. They dreamed of biking cross-country. They had the infrastructure of their biking plan, however, they had not taken action. Clay is always loquacious, and Joey being his hubris self, they make the perfect best friends. After a simple argument, and Joey getting into some trouble. Will their epiphany be ruined? Will they realize what true friendship means? Will Clay lose his BEST FRIEND???

Journal:Kaylyn Cook

Compare Georgia to another Character.
Georgia, to me, is like Jamie off of "A Walk to Remember". They are both diagnosed with an illness. They know they only have a short amount of time to live, and they take advantage of that. They enjoy the time they have left, and they don't take anything for granted. Jamie and Georgia don't mind what others have to say, they both know and understand what the important things in life are.

Feature Article : Holocaust

“The Jewish Massacre”

Did you know that the Nazis hated the Jewish so much that after they murdered them, they used their remains as soap, lampshades, and pretty much anything else they needed? The Nazis hated the Jewish so much, that they were willing to do almost anything to banish them. This mass murder of the Jewish all resulted in the Holocaust.

Who were the Murderers? The Holocaust took place in Germany during 1938 and ended in 1945. This all took place during World War II. One day Adolph Hitler decided that he hated the Jewish so much that he wanted them gone. He came with a plan that he would catch as many Jewish citizens as he could and then kill them in gas chambers. He knew he couldn’t be stopped because he was their new leader. He also knew that he couldn’t do this alone so he gathered up a group of men in which he called Nazis. Hitler and the Nazis only did this because they thought they were better than the Jewish.

When the Jewish found out the Nazis were out to kill them, they were hurt. They couldn’t believe they were after them just because they were Jewish. Most of the families tried to find non-Jewish families to stay with. The families that were not Jewish took a risk of hiding them, but they hid them anyway. Sometimes the Jewish families would get separated and some families would get caught and killed. The Nazis would come and search their homes. The adults would hide in hidden areas, but the children were just assumed to be children of the families that were not Jewish.

Nazis would find the Jewish wherever they could and ship them in vans, trains, and other modes of transportation. No matter how much room they had, they would pack them together where they could hardly breathe. This journey started wherever they were and ended in Germany. The trip could take many days or a few hours, it just depended on where they were coming from. While on the trip the Jewish weren’t fed r given water. If they needed to use the restroom, they would just have to wait until they got to Germany or use it on themselves and everyone around them. Once they arrived at Germany the Nazis would decide which camp to send them to.

There were three different types of camps, the wok camp, the red-cross camp, and the death camps. If they were sent to the work camps, they were forced to work and treated harshly. The Nazis would make them their slaves and would brutally beat them until they did what they were told. Some even died at this camp from such hard labor. At the Red-Cross camp the Red-Cross would come and medically attend to the sick Jewish people. The last and worst camp was the Death Camp. At the death camp the Jewish would be killed by gas, hung or killed in any other violent way. No matter which camp they were sent to they would all end up in the Death Camp.

During the Holocaust a lot of lives were lost, due to the senseless act of cruelty brought on by one evil man,” Adolf Hitler”. He had the heart to kill so man people, just because he thought he was better than them. He made innocent people suffer just because of their religion. He gassed, hung, and killed them in other violent ways. This related to today because people discriminate people because of their religion not because of who they are.




personal opinion
I think this is wrong it is probably one of the worst things i have ever heard of. i don't understand why the Nazis would want to kill the Jewish for no real reason. i mean the Jewish people did nothing to deserve such brutal punishment. like using the remains of them for soap and putting them into gas chambers to kill them even the children is just very outrageous to me!!!!!!

Journal:Tiffany Thomas

What do you know about Country Music?
Country music tells stories. To me, the stories told in country music are more understandable than any other type. It can be slow, and calm, it can be religious, fast, and upbeat. I like Country Music. It's probably my favorite!

Journal:Audrey Hyatt

If you were a color, what would it be, and why?

I would be Neon Pink. I would be Neon Pink because it is a very bright, and outgoing color. I think my personality is very outgoing. In my opinion, when people think pink, they think happy. I am a very happy person.

Journals

Songs
Emily White
9/2
I love you
you love me
We're a happy family
with a great big hug and a kiss from me to you
won't you say you love me too.

Amazing grace how seeet
the sound that saved a wretch
like me, I once was lost but now I'm found, was blind
but now I see.

Twinkle, twinkle little star how I wonder what you are.


A movie I've seen
Karlee Willoughby
9-8
A movie I've seen that goes with our theme is "My Sisters Keeper" In the movie the little girl lives out her dreams during the last few days she has to live. The theme is to live like you were dying without any regrets. Right before the young girl passed away, she had one last wish to full fill. She told the doctor she wanted to go to the beach one last time, she knew she was about to pass on. So her father let her full fill her last dream by taking her to a luxurious trip to the beach.


A theme last holiday other than the original
Kaylyn Cook
9-10
Another theme for "Last Holiday" other than "Live like you were dying" could be "don't watch your life just waste away". Do something with your life, when you look back be proud of the lifetime you have had. Most people think "Well, when i get older i will travel the world!" Why wait? You never know how much time you have left. Take advantage of the time that you still have here on earth. Figure out what you want to do in life, and take charge to fulfill your dreams!

Killing Britney book jacket

At first Britney was diffident when it came to others outside of her family. She starts dating Ricky, a hockey player, and becomes popular. Ricky supports her after her mothers death. However, when something happens to Ricky she had only friends to help her in her lugubrious times. She becomes incognito and some see her as factious, when in reality, she IS serious. When everything goes wrong, and no one seems to be left, everyone is wondering "Who is the murderer?" Is someone really after Britney, or is Britney after herself?

Editorial

Dear Advocate,
We are in Mrs. Mullin's accelerated English two class. We are writing an editorial to express one of our concerns in the school system.
In our school system our scheduling requires everyone to take a health and P.E. class. You have to pass the class to graduate. We understand that our society is concerned with our teens health. But do they understand that not everyone needs a P.E. class. Do you know why this is such a big concern?
We come forward to say that we feel like students who play two or more sports, should be exempt from a P.E. class. We believe this because some athletes are having too much physical activity. Say for instance you have a student that is a star basketball player and very competitive in Cross Country. You would think their very active. I know that Cross Country practices four days a week and competes on Saturdays. I know they run up to five miles every night. Which is a tremendous amount of exercise. Now say this student had a week day Cross country meet and has a P.E. class. In P.E. you are expected to run at least a mile. When they go to run their race, which is 3.1 miles, that will be very tiring and stressful.
I'm not saying physical activity is bad, but too much of a good thing can be bad. So we as students are willing to come in to school and work with counselors to work out a new schedule. Without P.E. athletes could open their minds to more curriculum. We do believe that a health class should be mandatory, but without the P.E. class . Please take our concern for our fellow classmates into consideration.

- Red Group

Journal : What makes you really mad. By: Tiffany Thomas and Karlee Willoughby

As a group the majority of our answers were drama, being girls you think we would like that, but we definitely don't. Another thing is obnoxious people, Immaturity, girls who act stupid and cocky people.

Free Writing :

Over the summer I played on a softball team called Nitro. I was number eight and I played first base. Our team colors were lime green and black. I made many new friends over the two months I spent playing softball and had many amazing experiences. My team participated in six straight championship final games. We won first place twice and second the remaining three. My summer was wonderful and I wouldn't have wanted to spend it any other way.

Journal - What do you think about when you hear the word happy? By: Audrey Hyatt

When I hear the word happy, I think of the sun , big yellow smiley faces, laughing with friends, contagious smiles, flowers in the fields, bunnies frolicking through the meadows and cotton candy at the fair. Oh and food , of course.

letter to principal

Dear Mr. Franz,

We would like to address an issue we have in the school about locker breaks. As current sophomores we have learned the five minutes isn't enough time to get from one building to another, and to go to your locker. Some students have classes all the way from building one to the ATC building. They find themselves rushing and on the verge of being tardy almost everyday.

We don't have time to go to the restroom between classes. Most students have to go during class, taking away from the short amount of time we have to learn. Teachers give us incentives not to use the restroom and we endanger our bodies or lose class time.

A solution that we have is to extend the time between classes or give more frequent breaks. Ten minutes would be a perfect amount of time, however , seven minutes would cut down the number of tardies, and number of students going to the restroom during class.

Thank you for taking the time to read this letter. We really hope you consider our recommendations for future scheduling.

Sincerely,

The Red Group

"What My Girlfriend Doesn't Know" book Jacket

The auspicious teenage life of bellicose boys and churlish best-friends who use alot of chicanery is one crazy life to live. After Murphy finally gets the one he's always dreamed of, other things start looking up for him as well. Murphy is in the process of becoming more popular and his WILDEST dreams are coming true. When things finally get better, and Murphy has friends that accept him, will his mistakes cause him to lose all that he's worked for? Is getting what you want really WORSE than wanting more? Is the grass really greener on the other side?