Platinum Speeches

Seat Belts

By: Ali Keen

My mother was in a car accident in 2006. My older sister Dawn and younger brother Trevor were in the car with her, they left her for dead. When the EMT's got there she was starting to wake up a little. When they got her to the hospital they told my stepdad that she may never walk again. She had broken everthing from the knee down and shattered every bone in her foot from the ankle down, and had to have nine staples in here head and has now had up to eight surgerys on her right leg.

Right before the accident my brother made my mom put on her seatbelt. The EMT's and docter said that if she had not been wearing one she would more than likely died on impact. That seatbelt saved my mothers life. I would be sitting here today if it had not ben for that small strap of matiral that held my mother to this world.

Drive safe. Wear your seat belt.

~Ali

Driving under the influence

By: Kim Brown

Thousands of teenagers die each year for driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol. When you drive under the influence not only can you hurt yourself you can hurt others. A man is driving down the interstate, he's swerving and crossing the line, he has ran off the road a few times. He then drives over to the oncoming traffic, a family in a van is coming towards him, he never hits the brakes just keeps going and they crash. A head on collision that killed that whole family, now you have that to deal with for the rest of your life. Can you carry that guilt? Drive safe and be smart.

Overcome your fear of the dark!

Only way to overcome your fear
is to face it when it is near
if it is at night
when the bright looses its light
stand tuff and do not cuss
cause the end is nowhere near

Tonight's the darkest night
the boogyman is sure to strike
don't run nor jump
just sit on your rump
and face your greatest fear.

Journal Highlight

You say it's not okay

to be gay

to be black

well i think you lack

so many things

like a brain

you say hispanics should be slain

your just evil

so vacuous

hateful.

your reasons

have no meaning

it's just hate

the words don't translate

you take the easy way out

so afraid to shout

and stand up

so then shut up

and sit down.

Five Chimneys by: Olga Lengyel

This book is about the life of a women who was taken to a Nazi concentration camp with her family. The story starts in the year 1944. Olga tells about the hardships and life of the Auschwitz camp. The camp is run by a women by the name of Irma Griese. The life of the internees of the the camps were misreable and hard. All day the internees were put to death and had to work just to stay alive. The book also tells us about the mishaps in the camp. For instence Olga was asked by man if she would have sex with him and he would give her half of his food. Even though she did not do as he wished she still did not regret her disicion. The book is a great book for people who love learning the truth about the Holocaust and the camps. I would recomend this book to anyone.

Journal Highlight

You Are Poem

You are confident and talented
You wonder about the net
You hear the squeek of your sneekers against the court
You see the orange sphere flying from your hands

You want the fans screaming your name
You are confident and talented

You pretend your at half court, going for the shot with three seconds on the clock and your down by two.
You feel the atmosphere change
You touch the ball with your lips and shoot
You worry you'll miss
You cry when you do
You are confident and talented

You understand it's just a game but it's more to you
You say you'll get it next time
You dream of your name on the back of your favorite teams jersey
You try to practice hard
You hope you win the game
You are confident and talented.

This was written for Darrian Asberry

I think it is so racist when....

I think it is so racist when people discrimminate against others and be so loquacious about it. It's like they don't care who heres it. It makes me so mad sometimes but I can't do anything about it because I'm on the basketball team, and I don't wanna get kicked off or suspended from over racism. (Stopped early.)

Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson

Twisted is about a boy named Tyler who is a dorky teenager who wants to make himself known. So in order to do that he does the "Foul Deed." He spray paints the outside of the school with graffiti and gets caught. He has to do some community work to make up for his crime instead of going to jail. He goes to work for the janitors at his high school and by the end of the summer instead of the dorky looking teenager he was he is now a bulked up dork for his senior year. Then he goes to a party while still on probation and it all goes down hill from there. After the party he later finds out that he is being charged for taking dirty pictures of the girl who invited him to the party, Bethany. The police tell him that he can no longer be put in a classroom with the oother students, so they put him in a little room off of the main office. After all of this happens him and his dad get into a fight and Tyler leaves to go to his friend Yoda's house. Later him and his dad make up and his dad tells him that he is sorry. Then Tyler finds out that he was not guilty and they let him off the hook. He turns his life around and tries to work harder to get what he wants out of life. It is anawesome book! I loved It!

Post Your Answers:

Define the following words from the book "What My Mother Dosen't Know" (post a comment with your answers) DONT CHEAT!!!

Enquirer-

Singe-

Overcast-

Sihouettes-

Montage-

Implicitly-

Linoleum-



Here are links to the answers but don't look until after you post YOUR answers:

Enquirer-http://dictionary.die.net/enquirer

Singe-http://dictionary.die.net/singe

Overcast-http://dictionary.die.net/overcast

Silhouettes-http://dictionary.die.net/silhouette

Montage-http://dictionary.die.net/montage

Implicitly-http://dictionary.die.net/implicitly

Linoleum-http://dictionary.die.net/linoleum

Overall View of "What My Mother Dosen't Know"

The book was about the life of an average 15 year old girl named Sophie. The book thells the ^ups^ and the

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And everything in between of a average teen girls everyday life. Mostley the book is about being true to yourself and your feelings and not letting other people influence your decisions. The book is great for anyone age 12-16!!! You learn from Sophie's mistakes. The book can jump around a bit and gets a little random but it was still enjoyable.

Sophie tells about her first second and third loves. The book shows the problems of a young girl trying to survive her teen years while at the same dealing with her confilcts with her mother and fearing what people think. Sophie must break up with her boyfriend Dylan after falling for a guy named Chaz over the internet. Soon after she realizes that Chaz isn't what he apeared to be. Sophie befriends the nerd of the school named Murphy. Soon she finds out that he has a crush on her and ends up going on a date with him. Sophie thinks about what her friends might think but at the end Murphy gets his girl and Sophie finds her true love.

Free Write

I don't remember everything about my elemtary years but there is one event that I remember very well. I was in 2nd grade and we had these things called stop lights. They were round and they were red, yellow, and green. If we were bad than the teacher would take one of them away. One day I was being loquacious. My teacher took one of my lights and I was devestated. I went home and cried. From that day forward I never spoke out in class when I wasn't allowed. It was one of the worst feelings in my life.

Grammar

In our Acc. English Class our group had to take a quiz to determine what elements of grammar we needed a little help with. We all thought we knew what Nouns, ProNouns, Adjectives and ect. were. Turns out we needed a little help with our pronouns and adjectives.

Mrs. Mullins had us work on our weaknesses by giveing us projects designed for our groups personal drawbacks. Such as sifting through paragraphs at a time and decided which words were pronouns and adjectives.

I believe that Mrs. Mullins really knows how to get kids involved in learning. Working in groups, posting our progress on our blog and reading and discussing literature together has helped me succeed in english.

My freshman year English class was very difficult for me. I enjoy reading I wasn't inspired. It seemed like we were reading the books just to write a summary about them and to fulfill the requirements of the state, it didn't seem like we were reading them because they were worth reading. All this relates back to our grammer becuase Mrs. Mullins also inspires us to learn the right way, I don't think she just want's us to pass the test and forget about it. She really cares that we know what were doing.

Feel free to post your comments and opinions about working in groups and lit circles.

Thanks.

Overall View of Deadline

The book starts out with a young boy in his senior year of high school. He was on the track team and wanted to go to college on a scholarship, but soon found that he had less than a year to live. When he found out he decided not to tell anyone about not taking treatments or the fact that he was dying.

After finding out about his disease, he decided to go out for football and go for the girl he has always wanted to be with but thought that she was unatainable.(Dallas Suzuki) He even decided to help Rudy McCoy, the town drunk. He became obssesed with Malcom X and sat out on a mission to get a street named after the black man in an all white town.

Soon after the football season ended he began to tell his family and friends that he was dying. He died in the arms of Dallas. At the end of the book, his younger brother gave a speech about his life and how meaningful it was to everyone. The street was finally named after Malcom X in Ben's favor.

I wanted to dissapear....

I wanted to dissapear when we were all sitting in the cafeteria, the whole 8th grade class. It was so embarrassing, one of my friends was having a really bad day and was really mad during lunch that day. She was the kind of person that if you said something to her she would blow up. Someone had come up behing her and asked her why she was so mad and she was taking a drink of water at the time and she threw the open water bottle and it hit me right in the face. I was wearing a white shirt that day and liquid eye-liner! I was drenched from my waist up and my make-up was running all down my face. Everyone in the whole cafeteria saw and heard the racket. I was so embarrased! She did say she was sorry though. I just wanted to be incognito or just disappear. Nobody laughed at me or anything but it was still emabrassing, she threw a FULL water at me, even when I didn't do or say anything to her.

The Overall View of Rosey!

The book Rosey was awesome! It is about a boy named Frankiln whose girlfriend (Rosey) died in a car crash. The highschool sweethearts were then parted from one another. When Franklin's shrink, Dr. Stiller wanted him to forget her, it made him want her back even more. One night while he was crying she came back as a ghost. When he finally relized that that she was there as the ghost he wanted everyone to know that she was back. But the only problem was that he could see her, no one else could. Rosey stayed with Franklin until Baba (Rosey's grandmother) died. When Frankilin starts to put his life back together Baba, and Rosey both leave him. In conclusion I thought that this book was pretty good! But I think that it ended to soon for anyone to grasp the concept of the book. But other than that is was good!



Kayli Henderson

Journal Highlight #2

What makes me who I am is:

• Loudness- I am a very loud person and love to talk.


• Funny things- I try to look on the bright side of things and make it funny.


• People who are outgoing- I am very outspoken and outgoing.


• Music- I love music; it's my life.


• Family- I love my family.


• Friends- Love them to death!


• Religion- I am a Christian.


• Quietness- I am loud but sometimes you need a little peace and quiet.


• Food- I love to eat!


• Rain Storms- I love listening to the rain.

By: Kayli Henderson

Banking

In this artical we are going to talk about the Bank of the Tribe in the Montgomery County High school. The bank opens at 11:50am. You can walk in and open an account for $5.00. Some of the plans that they have are...

• lunch loans up to $2.50



• savings account



• pricless savings account



• check cashing



• formal loans

We asked Emily Vice questions about her job. She does not work at The Bank of the Tribe but she works at a bank. Most of the things that she does at a regular bank are done at the school bank, just at a lower level. the questions that we asked are...

1. What do you do at the bank?

• Handle cost deposits
• Casier checks
• Loan payments

2. Do you like your job?

• "Yes, I love my job!"

3. What do you have to go through to have a job at the bank?

• Apply computer skils and math skills

4. Would you recomend your job?

• "Yes, anyone who keep a seceret!"

5. Any other things you want to add about your job?

• Bankers hours
• "It's Great!"

Emily said that she loves her job and that she would recomend it, just as long as you can work on the computer and do math. We thank Emily for letting us interview her and telling us about her job. Thanks Emily!

If I could go back

If I could go back,
I'd be more uncutous.
I'd thank my step mom
for accepting me.
Instead of rejecting her.


I'd appreciate
all the little moments,
with the people
I will never see again,
have more fun
with the friends I now miss.


If I could go back,
I would try my best.
Listen to those wiser than I.
For now I know,
everyghing they said was
not to keep me from fun,
but to keep me from harm.


If I could go back,
I'd warn them
of the towers that will fall.
Of natures wrath,
and mans cruelty and neglect.

If I could go back,
all the little things
would be worth so much,
and the few times
I thought my world would end
would be forgotton,
because now I know...

Everything happens for a reason
and theres always that silver lining
around each gray colud.