Dodgeball

On a bright sunny day in the middle of summer, I woke up wrapped in my warm fluffy blanket with a dog. With my mom saying, “Austin wake up your cousin will be coming visiting us.” I was surprised, I hadn't seen her in weeks. Her name is Ceara she’s really nice. I was kind of shocked she only comes over at the most 3 times a year. When I finally got up, it was sometime in the middle of the day the reason I know this is because my mom was in the middle of cooking our lunch, she was making freezer

signs of emotional, social, and communication disabilities, however it was just chalked up to being a little slow. In elementary school teachers and students verbally, socially, and physically bullied me. Students both my age and older would use “dodgeball to physically attack me. I was often made fun of for being slow or “weird” and the teachers themselves would often leave me out of class and would use me as an example of what not to be like. Finally, after being told by my principle in front of

Cooties Movie Review Cooties is a horror comedy film directed by Jonathan Milott and Cary Murnion. The film revolves around Elijah Wood as Clint, a failed writer working as an elementary school teacher to pay the bills. However, on his first day at a new school, the children eat contaminated chicken nuggets and turn into child zombies. Chaos ensues as Clint and his coworkers try to survive against the zombie plague that can only be spread through children. I had a lot of problems with this movie

We had been friends for as long as I could remember. Her parents had adopted her from Ethiopia, and very soon after she arrived we had become friends. We spent 18 years together and became closer than our own siblings had been to us. Our houses were a door down from each other, and we were the type of friends who were constantly walking in unannounced. Mallory was everything I wasn’t. I was short, greasy, and shy; Mallory was tall, gorgeous, and charismatic. She was often scouted for modeling agencies

senior sponsors had planned out and support all of the seniors playing. When my other friends and I got there, we saw so many different variety of teams, also with different kinds of neon color shirts that the teams had on. They had many games like: Dodgeball, Giant Hamster Ball Race, Tug-of-War, etc. When the players got exhausted, hungry, and dehydrated, they would stop at a table where they had food and drinks. The players would rest by sitting down and cooling off. There was a time where a kid got

“Okay class, today we will have time to work with a partner of your choice on the assignment I’ll be handing out.” I groan every time I hear this from a teacher because I look around the class and see the glances people give each other, signaling them to work with them, but I never seem to have anyone give me that signal. One house after another, it grew to be the norm for our family. Move into one house, stay for a year, pack up and move onto the next one. With every move, the more vulnerable I

Page Pockets (1 per pair) holding: Superhero Training Camp Data Sheet Dry erase markers (1 per pair) Sticky notes (1 per student) Measuring tape (2) Balls (5) String Masking tape Melee Circle (10 minutes) Stations, Everyone! (30 minutes) Super Dodgeball (15 minutes) The Great Comparison (5 minutes) Test and compare their physical abilities to those of various superheroes and villains. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.C.4 Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract. CCSS

Digital media has had a huge influences on the children in the various generations. One specific example is how differently children of each generation play. Before digital media children played outside more, they played hopscotch, dodgeball, sports, they played on the playground. They didn’t have devices in the home that were used for entertainment. After the invention of the television and arcade games digital media has been utilized as a way to entertain children. Next were the generation of

The No Translation, Translation Dilemma: What to do When Items Don't Translate Science and math have an advantage when it comes to translation. Most of the signs, symbols, and lexeme associated with these fields are relatively universal. Other fields, especially the arts, are not nearly so fortunate. Translation becomes increasingly difficult if literary elements such as meter, verse, or rhyming are included in the source text, or if there are specific sounds associated with a culture. When Sounds

“And your 2015-2016 Future Business Leaders of America President is…” Mrs. H, our advisor, paused for suspense. In the ten seconds that Mrs. H paused, a whirlwind of thoughts went through my head. I thought this was it. The culmination of all the sleepless nights and immense amount of stress throughout the past weeks, this is the moment I would find out if it had all paid off. In those ten seconds, I bent over my trembling knees, held my red, sweaty hands to my head praying that my name would be