A Golden Friendship

December 15, 2014 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Poems
 –By @7th Grade
  • Heqet and I are best friends whose friendship will never end,
  • Even when I come up with crazy ideas Heqet is right by my side,
  • He is a cougar and will not hide especially when I need help,
  • Heqet supports my causes and trapped Gebu in the tomb,
  • In all of my plans he is whom I thank most.
  • Heqet brings a smile to my face with all of his little jokes
  • Even in times of despair he has a million and one jokes up his sleeve
  • But in these times he knows when to leave joking aside and stay focused
  • He will always listen to what we have to say
  • And speak his mind thoughts and ideas
  • Heqet is not wealthy but very generous
  • Almost every afternoon he splits his food with me
  • For all I had was crude food
  • At first I looked a gift horse in the mouth and was ungrateful
  • But from this I knew it was a gift so I accepted the plateful
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Why Homework Should Be Less

December 15, 2014 by admin | No Comments | Filed in What are our opinions?

–By Warthog-Pilot, @ 7th Grade

Dear Ms. Teacher,

I am a seventh grade student concerned about the time it takes for homework to be done. The amount of homework assigned each night from 6th grade to 7th grade increases enormously. One thing that is implemented in 6th and 8th grade is a study hall, but 7th grade is the odd one out with no studyhall. A study hall is needed in this grade more than all of the others in the middle school because this year we have long composition contests and finals.

In 7th grade there is at least an hour and a half of homework each night. In my case, I get home at 3pm from school. If I get right to homework, an hour and a half later is 4:30 then I have 30 minutes to eat and get ready for soccer practice at 5pm. That isn’t enough time at all to get prepared and fed. This brings me to my next point, with an excessive amount of homework, you’re late for things! I can not tell you how many times teammates have missed practice due to homework. I also can’t tell you enough how many conversations I have overheard talking about how late people had to stay up to finish homework. Research from the “sleepfoundation.com” has said that only 15% of teens get 8 ½ hours of sleep on school nights. This can result in a loss of concentration and lack of problem solving skills, and will cause a bad day at school. Most, if not all, of my teachers have told me that if I had no time to get homework done then write a note signed by my parents that I did not have time. A disadvantage to that is that is the work turns into makeup work, which is piled on to the metric ton every night anyways.

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Why The Continents Were Connected Together–Letter From Mr. Alfred Wegener If I were Him

December 15, 2014 by admin | No Comments | Filed in What are our opinions?

–By @7th Grade

Dear Colleagues,

I have been working on a new theory. It is called: Continental Drift. There is evidence in all of the continents supporting my idea.

First of all, I have evidence from landforms. Mountains on the west coast of Africa are very similar to the mountains on the east coast of South America. This suggests that the two continents were once connected together. Now I know that there is a different idea spreading around the world, about how the earth is compared to an apple. You say that the earth is continuously shrinking much like the skin of an apple when it rots. You also say that the wrinkles formed from this are the mountains. If this were true then wouldn’t there be mountain everywhere? It just doesn’t make that much sense right?  Getting back to my theory, I have also found evidence in coal fields. Similar coal fields have been found in Europe, America, and Antarctica. I know that coal only forms in warm places. It cant form in Antarctica without a warmer temperature. This tells me that Antarctica was once in a different spot then where it is today. Is my idea starting to make sense?

I have also found evidence of continental drift in the climate of areas. Fellow geologists have found ancient plant fossils on an island called Spitsbergen in the Greenland sea. Tropical plants are not able to survive there today. Spitsbergen must have moved from a lower latitude in the last 200 million years because the climate is too harsh for a tropical plant to live there. Then in South Africa there were glacial scratches found in the plains. South Africa is not that cold, today there are no glaciers in that area. So this also proves that Africa was colder back around when Pangaea was formed.continents

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