November Student Newspaper

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In This Issue:
-Recipes
-Creative
Stories
-College and
Career
-Sports
-Random
Questions with
6th, 7th, and 8th
Graders
- Volunteering
And much
more
Lyza S.
Lilliana P.
Nolan B.
Craig R.
Sam C.
The Fight against Hunger
Volunteering on Thanksgiving
An organization, with the name of Second Harvest, is
used to help provide food for the 35,000 individuals in
need of provisions through-out San Joaquin and
Stanislaus County. Many schools help, Second
Harvest distribute out approximately 1 million pounds
of food each month. Will you help to this cause? For
every dollar you donate, the Second Harvest Food
Bank is able to provide five dollars’ worth of food.
However you do not necessarily need to donate
money, food donations are always welcome. The
organizations main vision is to, eliminate hunger
within the communities we serve. How can you get
involved? You can get involved by, donating
money, give up some time to volunteer, or providing
the program with some provisions. The deed is so
little compared to the lives you will better.
Second Harvest Food Bank Information:
Address: 704 E. Industrial Park Drive Manteca, CA
95337
Phone: 209.239.2091
Fax: 209.239.2086
Website: http://www.localfoodbank.org
Email: infosjstan@secondharvest.org
By: Miranda M.
Thanksgiving is a day for being
thankful for what you have. Some
people are taking time out of their
day to help give hot food for the
homeless. Anybody can take
about an hour out of their day and
sever food to the people who
don't get hot foods every day and
being thankful for what they have
and do. Here in Manteca
California there is a place that you
can be serving food for the
homeless at 545 W. Sonora Street
Stockton, California 95203 with St.
Mary's dining room. Everybody
should volunteer in a homeless
shelter for Thanksgiving at least
once. Be likeJeff Liotard and
volunteer at a homeless shelter
and don't just think about yourself,
think about the other people in
need of food.
By: Dominic A.
Microsoft 3E
As you may or may not yet know, in January of this year each student of
Brock Elliott will be receiving the Laptop/Tablet Hybrid that is the Microsoft
3E. This is an interesting piece of hardware considering that it is made
specifically for education purposes. Unlike your typical tablet or laptop,
the 3E has things such as a heat sensor and a microscope. While these
features are interesting, I will say that the display is less than impressive,
especially from Microsoft. It features a 10 inch LCD monitor with a resolution of 1366x768. In plain
English, it is widescreen, but a very low quality display for its aspect ratio.
The Microsoft 3E stands for three words. Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. What Intel, Microsoft,
and Panasonic mean by this is as follows. This is taken directly from an official website speaking
about the 3E.
1. Embrace: Development of software substantially compatible with a competing
product, or implementing a public standard.
2. Extend: Addition and promotion of features not supported by the competing
product or part of the standard, creating interoperability problems for customers
who try to use the 'simple' standard.
3. Extinguish: When extensions become a de facto standard because of their
dominant market share, they marginalize competitors that do not or cannot
support the new extensions. By: Randall H.
B
6th Grade
What’s Going On?
Mrs. Kelley: In social studies, they are wrapping up Mesopotamia and working into Egypt. They will be
doing a report, project, and possibly a musical. In science, they are starting chapter 3 Earth's Heat. They are
wrapping up chapter 5 of math and heading into chapter 6 which are expressions. In language arts, they
are about to start Muta and then start to go into theme 4 Ancient Civilizations. Finally, heath was very
successful with the To Good For Drugs and Red Ribbon Week.
Ms. Fullmer: In Ms. Fullmer’s science, they are learning about different biomes. In social studies, they are
doing a play called "family feast" involving agricultural farming. In math, they are learning about integer.
Finally in language arts, they are reading Where the Red Fern Grows.
Ms. Bettencourt: In Ms. Bettencourt’s social studies, they are learning about Greek mythology projects such
as Gods/goddesses. In language arts, they are working on stories about growing up such as career projects
and also cause and effect essays. In math, they are learning about integers, positives and negatives,
comparing and ordering integers and also investigations with integers.
Jamba Juice’s History (and secret
menu)
Jamba Juice was conceived and founded
in April 1990 by Kirk Perron, an avid cyclist
and healthy-lifestyle advocate who opened
his first store in San Luis Obispo, California. He was joined in the business
by three friends: Kevin Peters, Joe Vergara, and Linda Ozawa Olds. It
was incorporated in 1990 as Juice Club, Inc. in San Luis Obispo.
Jamba Juice acquired all nationwide Zuka Juice, Inc. stores in March
1999. Zuka Juice was founded in Orem, Utah, by Dave Duffin and also
was a prominent smoothie company at the time. Since then, Jamba
Juice has expanded to become a well-known smoothie chain. The first
location in New York was at Columbus Circle and 59th Street in the
basement of the Time Warner Center and is part of the Whole Foods
Market seating area. Other locations include one south of Union
Square, Times Square, Tribeca, and one in the Port Authority Bus
Terminal. There's Jamba juice secret menu, their flavors are:
-Raspberry Dreamin’ –Strawberry Shortcake –Butterfingers
–
Melonade Wave –Sunny Delight –Pacific Passion –Lemonade Lightning
–Tropical Tango –Berry Depressing etc. Try them today!
By: Derek A.
Random Questions 6th
Q: What are you thankful for?
A: I’m thankful for everything in the world! –Joshua H.
A: I am thankful for the internet. - Tyler W.
A: I am thankful for a roof over my head. - Justin B.
A: I am thankful for life because if I didn’t have life, then I
couldn't answer this question. - Nolan B.
Minecraft Story
One day a guy
name Steve was
bored with his
house. He had
everything he
needed! A bed, walls,
windows, and a dirt beacon.
So one night he dreamed of
him mining for diamond, gold,
and iron in a cave. So when
he woke up he decided to do
what happened in the
dream. He went into a cave.
When he was searching for
the ores, he spots everything
he needed! He went to go
mine it, but there was lava in
the way! Then he heard a
creeper. He heard the
creepers crunchy steps until
he heard “tsst”. Steve slowly
turned around. Then, at the
last moment he pushed him
into the lava. The creeper
looked at him with a
disgusting look. He didn’t
care. He was mining all the
ores! He forgot his way home
so he pulled out his map and
compass all the way home.
When he got home, he was
delightful with his treasure.
By: Joshua H.
7th Grade
And The Winner for the Ugliest Animal Is…
This animal looks distinctly like a grumpy man, however
living at the bottom of the Indian Ocean it was still able to
pull the unofficial title of the ugliest animal. Named the
blobfish, after its strangely proportioned body shaped by
its habitat. Then again there are many other divergences, for instance, the
blobfish does not have a swim-bladder or as you may call it muscle. The
skin of the blobfish allow it to transport its body around the oceans floor.
This newly found animal was named the mascot for the Ugly Animal
Preservation Society. This Blobfish beat out the earlier competitors for the
ugliest animal such as the, kakapo, axolotl, long-nosed proboscis monkey,
and the pig-nosed turtle. By: Miranda M.
Finding Dory coming out in 2016
Finding Dory is scheduled to be released on June 17, 2016. It has been
established that characters from the first film will appear in the sequel,
including Dory, Nemo, Marlin and the "Tank Gang" The cast will include
Ellen DeGeneres as Dory, Albert Brooks as Marlin, Diane Keaton as Jenny,
Eugene Levy as Charlie, and Ty Burrell as Bailey. By: Kanani D.
CaliforniaColleges.edu
There is a website that is new to this year’s
junior high called CaliforniaColleges.edu. It’s
just what we needed to kick off our start to our future in high school,
college, and even your career. As Mrs. Hernandez said "You’re never too
young to start planning your future." This program is so huge and will help
so much on helping us take classes, get careers, and plan for our future
the way we want to. It will make sure we are prepared so that we have
most of it easy. By: Arianna K.
Wings
The best A.R. book I’ve read so far is Wings. It’s about a boy
suffering from severe back pain with no clue why. When he
got X-rays on his back, he learned he had the spine of a bird.
The doctor said he was going to grow wings. When he woke up in the
middle of the night after being sent to his room for fear of it being
contagious, he had a really bad pain and saw he had wings…
By: Mariela C.
Random Questions with 7th
Q: What are you thankful for?
A: I am thankful for food, wifi, and family. – Arianna K.
A: I am thankful for my musical talents. – Victoria H.
A: I am thankful for everything I have. – Tyler D.
A: I am thankful for family, friends, and my awesomeness. – Evelyn A.
A: I am thankful for reality and life. - Ashley C.
What’s going on?
Mr. Dotterer:
In Mr. Dotterer's science
class, they are learning
mitosis and how cells
reproduce and grow. In
math, they just finished unit
2 on percent's,
proportions, and ratios.
Mrs. Jacoby:
In Language Arts, they will
be doing stuff with
Christmas Carols. They
recently were, studying
singular possessive words,
plural words, and plural
possessive words.
In Social studies, they will
be learning more about
Japan.
Mrs. Thissen:
In 7th grade math, they are
learning how to add,
subtract, multiply, and
divide integers. In 8th
grade math, they are
learning how to graph
and solve equations.
Jokes
Can a turkey jump higher
than the Empire State
Building?
Yes. A building can't jump at
all!
When does Christmas come
before Thanksgiving?
In the dictionary!
8th Grade
Apple's Big Change
As you know the new updated
apple product is out… the Apple
iPhone 6. This Phone features voice
control, finger print scanner, and
ambient light sensor, which is new to this century of new and
improved technology. Not to mention the size jump of four inches
since the last updated iPhone, the IPhone 5s. Many say this change
was needed, to help Apple contribute more sales through-out the
U.S, however did Apple take it too far? Some buyers say the size is too
overwhelming for them; liking the more compact iPhones that were
made in the previous years. Apple however is liking the new change
to their most selling product. How do you like the changes the Apple
iPhone 6 has to offer?
By: Miranda M.
ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is Fineable in California due to the new Water
Conservation Laws!
The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is now something of an internet
sensation! BUT... due to California's new water conservation laws. These
individuals actually believe that they can legally fine someone for
participating in a charitable act! This has been argued in many places
such as sites like Reddit and even had thousands of complaints
towards the state, and yet they still refuse to refund the money.
But the main problem with these fines, everyone in America uses this
exact amount of water in a minute long shower! And according to
George N. Kostyroko, the Ice Bucket Challenge "doesn't violate any of
our regulations"
Many people are saying that the Ice Bucket Challenge is one of the
sole reasons for the California Drought. These people are not paying
attention to the numbers. The average American uses approximately
100 gallons of water per day so what if five gallons are added to ONE
day? Think about it, it adds a maximum of a twentieth of our average
water usage. As you can clearly tell I am extremely biased as of the
moment, but for good reasons. As you have read we use this amount
of water in a minute shower, we double it washing dishes, and we drink
this in just a few days. It is not a big deal and it is made out to be a
huge one!
In conclusion, act now. These people need to stop and think and as
do you. If we use only five extra gallons of water once, does it truly add
up to much? By: Randall H.
Mrs. Gaston:
In Social Studies they
are working on notes about "The
Declaration of Independence".
In Language arts, they are
reading about The Tell-Tale
Heart by Edgar Allen Poe.
What’s Going On?
Random Questions with
8th
Q: What are you thankful for?
A: I am thankful for family,
food on my table (especially
cookies), and friends.
– Janelle M.
A: I am thankful for life and
being able to live on Earth.
– Kainoa R.
A: I am thankful for people
on Earth, food, and
Minecraft. – Connie P.
A: I am thankful for friends
and family. – Frankie V.
A: I am thankful for family,
friends, volleyball, and
YouTube. – Hailey St.
A: I am thankful for my cat.
– Elijah T.
A: I am thankful for family,
bananas, volleyball,
basketball, and ability to
sing. – Jenna B.
A: I am thankful for being
alive, my family, my dogs,
and food. – Jorens B.
Mrs. Wallick:
in 8th social studies, they are talking
about George Washington. In 7th
Mrs. Zanders:
social studies, they are talking
In 8th grade they are learning about Japan. In 8th language arts,
density. In 7th grade, they are they are reading the diary of Ann
studying meiosis.
Frank. In 7th language arts, they are
reading The Monsters are Due on
Maple Street.
College and
Career
Recipes
Oreo Turkey
Pumpkin Pie
What you’ll need:
-Double Stuff Oreos
(2 per turkey)
-Small Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups (1)
-Chocolate Whoppers (1)
-Candy Corn
-White, black, and yellow Frosting
Steps:
1) Place your peanut butter cups in the
fridge. Take an Oreo and separate the cookies
from the frosting. Press the pointed tips of 6
candy corns around half of the Oreo. Take
white frosting and cover it on an Oreo, reattach the cookie after.
2) Take a second Oreo and lay it flat. Take your
Oreo with the candy corn and put icing on the
bottom of the Oreo opposite from the candy
corn. Attach the Oreo onto the flat Oreo so it’s
on the back half.
3) Take a cold peanut butter cup and cut a
small section off so it has a flat side. Place
frosting on the flat section and the top of the
peanut butter cup. Attach it to the Oreo with
the candy corn, forming the body of the turkey.
4) Take a Whopper and put the icing on the
back of it. Attach it so that it is right on top of
the peanut butter cup and iced on the Oreo
and Whopper.
5) For the wings, cut the tip of a candy corn
and ice a wing on both sides of the peanut
butter cup. For the feet, you can use the yellow
frosting and draw three lines going in different
angles.
By: Kanani D.
What you’ll need:
- (15 ounce) can pumpkin
-1 (14 ounce) can eagle brand sweetened
Condensed Milk
-2 Large Eggs
-1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
-1/2 teaspoon ground ginger
-1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg
-1/2 teaspoon salt
-1 (9 inch) unbaked pie crust
Steps:
1) Preheat oven to 425 degrees F. Whisk pumpkin,
sweetened condensed milk, eggs, spices and salt
in medium bowl until smooth. Pour into crust.Bake
15 minutes
2) Reduce oven temperature to 350 degrees F
and continue baking 35 to 40 minutes or until
knife inserted 1 inch from crust comes out clean.
Cool. Garnish as desired. Store leftovers covered
in refrigerator.
By: Mariela C.
Smoothie
What you’ll need:
-2 navel oranges, peels
and pit removed, cut into
chunks
-1 cup frozen blueberries
-1 cup frozen raspberries
Steps:
1) Combine all ingredients in a blender,
and blend until smooth.
By: Angelina M.
New York Cheesecake
What you’ll need:
-15 graham crackers, crushed
-2 tablespoons butter, melted
-4 (8 ounce) packages cream cheese
-1 1/2 cups white sugar
-3/4 cup milk
-4 eggs
-1 cup sour cream
-1 tablespoon vanilla extract
-1/4 cup all-purpose flour
Steps:
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees)
Grease a 9 inch spring form pan.
2) In a medium bowl, mix graham cracker
crumbs with melted butter. Press onto bottom of
spring form pan.
3) In a large bowl, mix cream cheese with sugar
until smooth. Blend in milk, and then mix in the
eggs one at a time, mixing just enough to
incorporate. Mix in sour cream, vanilla and flour
until smooth. Pour filling into prepared crust.
4) Bake in preheated oven for 1 hour. Turn the
oven off, and let cake cool in oven with the door
closed for 5 to 6 hours; this prevents cracking. Chill
in refrigerator until serving.
By: Mariela C.
Sports
Boys’ Volleyball !
The boys’ volleyball
team was really good
this year for Brock
Elliott. Their record was
4-3. They made it to the
playoffs against
Woodward. They
played 3 sets.
Woodward won the first
Brock Elliott won the
second then the final
set Woodward won to
advance to the next
round. The
athletes were Christian
Cruz, Saul Aguiniga,
Kainoa
Rodriguez, Chase
Carpenter, Bryce
Carpenter, Frankie
Vela, Alex Soto,
Bryan Cheng, Dominic
Alvarez, and Joshua
Knott. The boy's team
had an awesome
season. Let’s hope they
do good next year too.
By Dominic A.
Derek Jeter
Derek Jeter also known as Mr.
November and Mr. 3,000 is a
professional baseball player for the
major league and plays shortstop for
the New York Yankees. He was born
June 26 1974 in Pequannock
Township, New Jersey. He has
played for the New York Yankees his
whole career (20 seasons), and
started his debut year 1995 and has
retired in 2014. His dream since he
was a kid was to play shortstop for
the New York Yankees. He is honored
by many players in the game
because he is a clean baseball
player. Derek has a foundation
called the "Turn 2 Foundation" is to
help children and teenagers avoid
drugs and alcohol. He has
achieved 3,465 hits, 260 homeruns,
and 1,311 runs batted in. His 3,000 hit
was a homerun and was the second
player in all off baseball to hit his
3,000 hit as a homerun. He has won
five World Series and one World
Series most valuable player award
(MVP). He also one five gold gloves,
five silver slugger awards, two
American League Hank Aaron
awards, and a Roberto Clemente
award. His last home game he
played he hit a walk off single to win
the game and his last ever at-bat
was a run batted in single.
By: Dominic A.
Girls’ Volleyball
The girls' volleyball
season turned out to
be a great year. They
won 4 games and lost 5.
"They have definitely
improved together as
their own little family of
girls." Jenna Bolton. They
bonded while telling
jokes and playing
volleyball. These
fantastic players were:
Alexis Agulay
Jenna Bolton
Brianna Pelloque
Hailey Steele
Arianna Kayrys
Bhupinder Kaur
Mkayla Mora
Shyanne Salcedo
Perla Valdovinos
Belen Ramos
Natile Thompson
Thank you to all of you
fantastic players. We
hope all of the 6th and
7th graders on the team
sign up again next year.
Wilt Chamberlain
Did you know that Wilt Chamberlain is the first and only person in the NBA to score 100 points in a
single game? The only person to ever get close to that is Kobe Bryant who scored 81 points. He was
playing the Toronto Raptors while he was on the Los Angeles Lakers. When Wilt scored 100 points he
was playing the New York Knicks on March 2, 1962. Wilt was on the Philadelphia Warriors now known
as the Golden State Warriors. Wilt had broken many records before this one and after! That season
he averaged 50 points a game! He had scored 31,419 points, grabbed 23,924 rebounds, and had
4,643 assists when he retired. Wilt was a complete giant at 7 foot 1 inch and weighed 275 pounds.
Sadly he passed away of congestive heart failure on October 12, 1999. But he was one of the
greatest players in the NBA.
By Sukhraj S.
November 2014
National Holiday Calendar
Sunday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday
Thursday
Friday
Saturday
1: Authors’
Day
2: Zero
Tasking Day
3: Jellyfish
Day
4: Use Your
Common
Sense Day
5: Stress
Awareness
Day
6: Nachos
Day
7: Bittersweet 8: X-ray Day
Chocolate
with
Almonds
Day
9:
International
Tongue
Twister Day
10: Sesame
Street Day
11:Origami
Day
12: World
Architectur
e Day
13: World
Kindness Day
14: Pickle
Day
15: I Love to
Write Day
16: Button
Day
17: Take a
Hike Day
18:
Entrepreneur
ship Day
19: Mickey
Mouse
Birthday
20: Peanut
Butter Fudge
Day
21: World
Hello Day
22: Go For a
Ride Day
23:
Fibonacci
Day
24:
Celebrate
Your Unique
Talent Day
25: Parfait
Day
26: Cake
Day
27: Pins and
Needles Day
28: French
Toast Day
29: Square
Dancing
Day
30:
Computer
Security Day
Weird, But True
-One type of wildflower smells like chocolate
-Bubble wrap was originally invented as wallpaper
-The human body contains tiny amount of gold
-Alligator teeth are hollow
-Winter lasts for 21 years on Uranus
-A speck of blood contains about five million red blood
cells
Contact Information
To turn in articles or news for the
newspaper, you can give it to Mrs.
Kelley (Rm.19)
To email anything, send it to
600008214@musd.net