Inauguration Confusion by Imani and Porshia

President elect Barack Obama's inauguration day is coming up...!!!!There is going to be a lot of confusion....Now people are renting out thier homes for more than $4,000 and people are really buying them....The people who are buying these homes for this amount of money are CRAZY!!!!!!!Another thing is that there are going to be many people downtown so it might be hard to move around.....This is going to be a historic event.Of course there's going to be millions of people. Take a look at this and imagine what it would look like on January 20th,2008. So many people say they would love to attend but, there's just going to be too much confusion.....

Terrorists Confess by Andrew

On December 8, 2o08, five men confessed of being the planners of the 9/11 plane crashes. They said they decided to tell on November 4,when Obama won the election, and told at their next trial. One man named Khalid Sheikh Mohammed he and two others said they would wait to plea until everyone would agree they would plea together. They said they would all accept immediate death as a penalty for what they did.

EDUCATION GONE WRONG!

What is this world coming to? Teachers tying their students up to imitate slaves is UNACCEPTABLE. A white history teacher who teaches at a middle school in New York attempted to teach her students about how slaves were tortured during slavery. One of her students who is an African-American girl volunteered for the activity. Another African-American girl was designated for the activity by the teacher. The teacher tied the two girls arms and legs together and made them crawl under the table to demonstrate how slaves were tortured. The designated African-American girl went home crying to her mother about how scared she was when the teacher tied her up and made her crawl under the table. Her mother then called the school and then went up to the school to have a meeting with the principal and the teacher who committed this "crime", but the teacher was not punished in anyway at all.

The Great Overcome

On December 8th 2008 I was watching the news at 10:00pm ,Something very interresting caught my eye it was about the crime in our world and they said that 80% of the men who is locked up right know is in prison because they admited that they did there crime just because Barack Obama is our president.The criminals says that it's time for a change because we have a black president.
By: Publisher Girl

"Military Jet Crash Kills 2 People In San Diego" by Al'Asia

A tragic incident happened in the borders of San Diego. "A military plane crashes and kills 2 people." As firefighters look into the incident they come to fine that a planes failure to land the aircraft destroys two houses leaving two people dead in a densely neighborhood in California."

I think that the passengers were killed in the crash. The plane was found completely wrecked. The streets were filled with the remains of the damaged plane. Either the plane had ran out of fuel or the pilot experienced a moment of stupidity.

Expert Guest Speakers in Science Class by Ms. Lerenman

In science class, it is of the utmost importance that students are provided opportunities to interact with experts in the field of science. A knowledgeable teachers is sometimes not enough when kids want to get really in-depth with a topic.

The above pictures display the following expert guest speakers:

• Ms. Diane Yabut, biomedical engineer and patent examiner for heart defect devices. Ms. Yabut helped teach the the class about the heart deffect Atrial Septal Defect, or ASD. Students had the opportunity to learn about the causes and effects of cardiovascular dysfunctions such as ASD. They also got to build model clamshell occluders, the devices that Ms. Yabut helps to examine at her job. Students now know how doctors treat such problems with a virtually non-invasive, non-open heart surgery.

• Mr. George Hughes-Strange, a medical student and former Teach For America corps member, came to our 7th grade class to teach students about the endocrine system dysfunction, diabetes. He modeled the disease by explaining the human body in terms of a hotel and had students physically demonstrate the process of insulin production or lack there of.
  

Field Trips by Ms. Lerenman

Students thrive when they are endowed with opportunities to build their social and cultural capital for life. These experiences will serve them well when they interview for high schools and colleges.

The pictures above show field trips to:

• The National Museum of Health and Medicine as a culmination of our Human Body Systems unit. Students got to explore various body systems while completing a field trip guide. Students also got to do forensic science inquiries by discovering who the diseased soldier was using medical anthropology, DNA, and other forensic evidence.
  

• Williamsburg and Jamestown as a reward trip for the 7th graders that showed the best academic performance and social habits. Students worked on a Social Studies project with the help of chaperons. In Colonial Williamsburg and Jamestown, students got to experience how the colonists, slaves, and Native Americans lived during those times.
  

• The Koshland Museum for a filming of an EPA segment for "Greenscene," an environmentalist podcast that comes out every couple of weeks on the EPA website. Students got to meet the foremost expert on acid rain and were filmed doing an experiment where they measured the levels of acidity and Ph balances of various fruits, beverages, and household items to simulate the work that the EPA does when it meausures rain acidity. Students will get to watch themselves online soon!