Tuesday, September 28, 2010

My Opinion about Banned Books

    By Nora

    Many adults think that kids aren't mature enough to read certain books. What they don't know is recent generations of kids are much, much more mature than they were when they were young. I would think that all kids above the age of 10, maybe even a bit younger, know about things they shouldn't know about yet. I'm sure adults these days will never understand that because they still believe their kids are "innocent."

I definitely still believe some books should be banned from certain grade levels, but they should NOT be banned from schools. Older grade levels (middle school) should be able to read whatever they want because I think that SOME of the kids in middle school these days are mature enough and understand almost everything high school students do. And some books on the list of banned books shouldn't even be considered being band because they're very good books for middle school students and they're not even that bad at all. Whoever decided to have banned book week is ridiculous because students should be free to read whatever they want if they feel they're mature enough to handle it. Parents shouldn't control what their kids read either.

Another reason I don't think books should be banned is because books have a great deal of information that kids can learn from even if they're not meant to be taught at schools or even supposed to teach you anything. Different people get different information out of books. Some people may not even learn anything, and some people might learn something that'd change their life. I know I've learned and enjoyed many books that are on the banned books list and it makes me mad they're banning them. Books like that definitely matured me a lot, and I'm sure the same would happen for other kids. I'm not sure why adults make such a big deal out of books that students would probably enjoy. Just because they might not like them doesn't mean younger people won't.

In my opinion, there shouldn't even be a banned book week. But when I'm an adult and all the adults that are alive now are dead, I might be able to delete it from existence. Then all good books will be able to live happily ever after.

    

Thursday, September 23, 2010

By Magie

Peace means that people are nice to each other and care for each other. It also means that people aren't killing each other or yelling at each other. When people are being peaceful you will hear every one getting along and communicating. That is what peace means to me.

To make our school and class more peaceful I think we should stop criticizing each other. We shouldn't criticize of what they wear or what they look like. Probably if we would stop criticizing there wouldn't be fights. Everyone would be friends and they wouldn't fight.

To make a family peaceful I think we shouldn't argue with each other. When we're mad at each other we should try to fix things by being calm. Also when my parents tell me to do something or tell me not to do something I should listen. I shouldn't argue because that wouldn't be peaceful. That's what I think we should do to make my family peaceful.


 

Wednesday, September 22, 2010

By Avi


 

When I think of the word peace it reminds me of family, friendship, school and happiness. To me it also means no wars or fighting and being nice to everyone and not being violent. The word peace sounds like Paz which means peace in Spanish. It could also mean bye. When I see the peace sign it reminds me of a circle.

To keep peace with my friends and I can hangout more and we could try to make new friends. In school we can stop the bullying. People also shouldn't criticize others for how they look or dress. Sometimes peace also reminds me of helping the earth and being calm. Some ways we can help the earth is by recycling and reusing things.

To keep peace in my family I think we shouldn't argue. We could also have more family reunions. We could also treat everybody in the family equally. For example I could help my parents around the house.


 


 

By Yareli

When I think of the word peace it reminds me of happiness and people being nice to each other. And also it reminds me when people say peace instead of bye. The sign of peace it reminds me of a circle with the letter A in the middle.

Io make the school more peaceful everyone should be nice at each other and be friendly. People should not criticize how other people look or what their wearing. For the class to be more peaceful kids should work together as a group and be nice too. Everyone should help each other. And they shouldn't fight or argue.

To keep peace in my family everyone should be happy. And also everyone should treat each other nice. And be helpful by cleaning the house.


 

What Peace Means

By Nefer

Peace means being nice to everyone and everything, including the earth. We could be more peaceful to the earth by putting trash in trash cans, recycle, and using reusable things. Not bullying, hitting or yelling at people would make us seem nicer to them. We shouldn't write or carve on things that don't belong to us. Peace sounds like people talking calmly to each other, and everybody getting along. Peace sounds like everybody getting along, and communicating with each other. People hugging, talking to everyone, being happy is what being peaceful looks like. That's what peace means to me.


 

For my school to be more peaceful we could all be nicer to each other and, not bully anyone. We could all talk to each other nicely, and not yell. People shouldn't criticize others on how they dress, or what they look like. Kids at the school should be nice to their friend and people who aren't their friends. Doing some of these things would make our school more peaceful.


 

To keep peace in my family my sisters and I shouldn't fight or yell at each other. When my parents tell us to do something or not to do something we should listen to them and not make them mad. Me and my sisters shouldn't get mad at each other so easily so we don't argue and yell. My family could be a lot more peaceful than it is now.

Peace

By Karlie

    I think peace means happiness, being kind to others, getting along with others. When I hear the word peace I think of the words happy and loving. I see the word peace I think of the peace sign.

    I think to keep peace in your class room and at school the school staff should report any and all types of bulling. Also the kids in the class room should cooperate better so that will prevent the teacher from giving off negative energy.

    Well I think to keep peace in your family have less family gatherings, also maybe the alcoholics get some help, and very one should stay out of other family members business!

    

By Jon

    What peace means to me is no terrorists trying to murder people Obama doing what he promised (If you want to know what he hasn't done watch the Oriley factor on fox). What it means is Binladin is either dead or not attacking the USA. It means that the US is either out of Iran or has a reason to be in there, that all the people drive like they have brains so that there are no drunk drivers or road rage. One example would be no countries being at war. If you want peace prepare for war you'll be prepared and it will be over faster.

    In school people could actually listen to the teacher, and do what they say! (99.9% of the time they know what they're talking about). If they don't listen they'll regret it eventually. What if you're broke because you never learned anything? What if you're out on the street and none of your friends are there to help you? They're just five or six people out of 6, 000,000,000,000 people. Be realistic what are the chances you'll see them again when you're out of school. What will you do then?

    To make my family more peaceful I could try to understand my little brother (like I haven't tried that!). I could hide from my big brother Ethan. I could just ignore my little brother. I could not argue with my brothers. And I could not fight with my brothers.


 

 

Peace Love Dove

By Jacob


 

My sister causes a lot of pain and destruction. She tries her best to annoy me whenever she can and it makes want to punch holes in the wall. I think that if she was not "special'' then it would be a lot more peaceful in our house.

Dylan and I fight a lot. We usually talk about our moms a lot and I usually win. If we did not fight that much the class would be much more peaceful.

At school there are some people that use their size and pick on kids smaller than them. Specifically Brad and Michael. Brad has gotten better at being nice but occasionally he can be mean. I think Michael needs to be beat up because he doesn't care about anyone else he is selfish. Does anyone have the # for bully beat down?

What Peace Means To Me

By Nora

Peace means different things to different people. Like present day, "peace" mostly means bye or something hippies liked, but to me, it means other things too.

    To me, peace means harmony. It makes me imagine a place where there's no war, no prejudging, no racism, no mean people or bullies, no rapists, no killers, and no government or laws. (But no one does anything bad.) To me it looks like a peace symbol, the peace sign with your fingers, and happy joyful people together. It sounds like nice music from a piano, a harp, or Mariah Carey singingJ. Also to me it sounds like a meaningful fun conversation with nice people.

    To make it more peaceful at my school, I would organize a "peace day" where there's an assembly where the whole school goes outside and we talk about the bad things that are happening, the good things, and what we can do better. Or I would get the people from the television show If You Really Knew Me to come to our school (the middle school) and the high school. Also I would like to do a "fun day" when the whole school gets together to do multiple activities. I really think these would help a lot to make, or keep peace between people. To make it more peaceful in my class, I think we should have more activities during class that involve the whole class using teamwork to accomplish or do something instead of individuals or small groups. Also we should have more time to talk about interesting fun things between the whole class.

    To make it more peaceful in my family, I think we should start eating dinner together. Usually my little brother eats early and he's already done by the time my parents start eating. I usually eat with my parents if I like what's for dinner, but my big brother always takes his food to his room and pretty much never comes out...unless he wants to get more food or go out or something. Also it would probably help a lot if we had some sort of game night every Friday night or whenever it's possible. I doubt Adam will come, but I think it still would help. But I think our family is pretty peaceful, except for Adam, but I consider what he does normal now.

    If there is a peaceful place somewhere in the world, I would totally go. But I'm sure there isn't, unless I create my own.

    
 


 


 


 


 


 

Monday, September 13, 2010

No Headline Given

by Avi

On Thursday night Ponyboy Curtis had got in a fight with his older brother Darryl. Ponyboy was really upset so he ran away from home. He went to look for Johnny and told him they were going to run away. They were just planning on spending the night at the park. When some drunk Socs appeared, Ponyboy and Johnny had noticed they were the boyfriends of the girls they had gone to the movies with. There was about four or five of them. Ponyboy and Johnny had started running. Three of the Socs were trying to drown Ponyboy in the fountain. Johnny had got really scared. He always carried around a pocket knife ever since the Socs jumped him. So he stabbed one of the Socs that were drowning Ponyboy. Later on when Ponyboy woke up Johnny was crying. Ponyboy had noticed the big puddle f blood near the fountain. And he told Ponyboy what had happened. Johnny had killed one of the Socs. Neither Ponyboy or Johnny knew what to do, if they should turn themselves in or run away.

Thursday, September 9, 2010

Boy Dies At Loomington Park

By Jacob

    Dallas Winston a boy from the north side of Tulsa was killed by police officers last night. He robbed a magazine store by gun point. Then ran towards the park. His friends were on scene at time off death. Police chief Fredrick Dast held a press conference he said "The boy pointed an unloaded gun at our officers and not knowing that the gun was unloaded they shot him three times in the chest. Dallas Winston's funeral will be held on Saturday.

The Death of Dallas Winston

By Jesus

A man named Dallas Winston was shot down at Loomington Park after running from the police. Minutes before Dallas was killed he robbed a store and threatened to shoot the cashier. His friends showed were running down the street towards Dallas while he was being shot at. After Dallas was shot dead his friends stood over him. They looked very upset and angry. The gun that Dallas had was unloaded. Dallas was shot 2 times in the chest.

Dead Dallas Winston

By Samantha

A poor young boy names Dallas Winston got shoot down by six cops. Dally was a trouble maker in and out of jail. He has been out of jail for about a week.

One night after the Greasers won a rumble Dally went to the hospital to visit his friend Johnny Cade. They visited for a few minutes before Johnny pasted away. Dallas was under a lot of pressure and was about ready to explode. He was pretty messed up after he saw Johnny pass.

He ran out the emergency room doors and had a doctor tell him he wasn't supposed to be there and Dallas pulls out an unloaded gun and pointed it at the doctor and fired it! Thankfully the gun was empty. Dallas went to a store and was looking at some magazines for a really long time. The manager asked him if he was going to buy one. Dally took as magazine and ripped in half. The clerk demanded him to pay for it but he refuse. He walked up to the clerk with is gun and took the money. He started to run out when the clerk started shooting at him.

The clerk hit the boy but the boy just kept running. Dally finally got to a pay phone and called his friends and told them to meet in the park. Dallas and his friends both took off heading for the park. Dallas reached the park first then the cops. Dallas pointed his gun at them and they fired. His friends where there rite after their gun shot. They screamed at the cops he is just o boy stop shooting. It was too late the cops already fired six shots in to poor young Dallas Winston.

Fight

By Emma

    Last night October 2, 1968 there was a deadly fight at the park in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It was around 10 pm. Ponyboy Curtis and Johnny Cade were walking through the park on their side of town when some Socs showed up.

    Bob Hill and Randy Smudgens and two more kids that were not identified picked a fight with Johnny and Ponyboy. Bob and Randy were upset with the boys because they had been with their girlfriends earlier. The Socs were drowning Ponyboy in the fountain and Johnny didn't know what to do. He pulled out his switch blade and stabbed and killed Bob Hill. The rest of Bob's friends ran away after that happened.

    The police have been investigating and asking their friends and family where Johnny Cade and Ponyboy Curtis might run away to. They got an answer from Dallas Winston that they were headed for Texas. The police are going to try to find their trail!

No Headline Was Given

By Nora

In Tulsa, Oklahoma on Friday, October 6, 1967 a sad incident happened. Dallas Winston was shot by a police officer. What was told to the officers by Ponyboy Curtis, Sodapop Curtis, Darryl Curtis, and a few more of their friends was that earlier that night, one of their best friends, Johnny Cade, had passed away. They were all very sad about it, but Dallas just couldn't take it and went almost crazy.

The first thing Dallas did after his friend Johnny died was rob a store. The man working at the store said he was acting weird while looking at a magazine and then he ripped the magazine in half. The man working told him he'd have to pay for it, but Dallas didn't answer. After that he all of a sudden walked up to the cashier counter, pulled out a gun, and said to give him all the money. The helpless man working had no other choice but to give it to him, so he did. But of course the man called the cops, and that's when Dallas started running. It was reported that he made a phone call on a payphone to the Curtis' home. After the call he ran towards the park, where the cops found him. The cops kept telling Dallas to stop, but he wouldn't. They chose to shoot him because they thought he was a threat. Around that time was when the Curtis brothers and a few of their other friends started running towards the cops and Dallas and yelling, "Stop, Stop!" After the first shot, Dallas was still up and walking, after the second, he fell, but he was still crawling. But, when his friends finally got to him, he died.

The poor friends of Dallas Winston have to live with the fact that two of their good friends have passed. We wish them well, and hope they'll get through.

No Headline Given

By Isai

Last night October 17 1968 the young Johnny Cade died in Tulsa Oklahoma. It was a terrible accident in a church at Windrexville Oklahoma. There was a fire at church and Jonny and and his two friends went inside to save the kids in the church.

Then the roof that was on fire fell on Johnny's back. The broke his back and he had severe burns. Then jonny was taken to the hospital. When pony boy and dally went to visit him he died. Now funeral is going to be next week.

No Headline Given

By Lupita

Last night Ponyboy Curtis and his friends Jonny and Steve got in

a big fight with two socs on the side of the road. They were trying

to pick up two girls Cherry Valance and Marsha at the drive-in

theater. The cause of the fight is not fully known but it is thought

that alcohol was involved. However they main cause of the fight

was because Cherry and Marsh left their drunken boyfriends at

the drive-in and watched the movie without their boyfriends and

were with greasers.


 

After a while of sitting there watching the movie Ponyboy

Steve and Jonny sat behind them. First Steve was reportedly

being rude to Cherry and Marsha and then the girls got fed up

with the rude was Steve was treating them so they made him

leave. Jonny and Ponyboy however stayed with Cherry and

Marsha. All four of them stayed and watched the movie happily.


 

Things drastically changed on their way home. Ponyboy and

Jonny were reportedly planning to walk Cherry and Marsha

home when The Socs came up behind the group and got out

trying to start a fight. The boys calmy started walking away.



**Lupita hasn't finished

No Headline Given

By Prestin

The rumble in the pack on Monday the 24

Monday the 24 of July there was rumble in the park. There was about 40 guy but most are unknown the only ones we now that were there was ponyboy, dallas and some of there friends. This toke place in 1968. The greasers and socs have been fighting for years. Ponyboy and Johnny save a lot of kids in a fire. Johnny died like a week later because he got



**Prestin hasn't finished yet.

Tulsa Oklahoma High School - 1991

By Angela

    Ponyboy Curtis was a very good student until two of his friends died. Then he stopped doing all of his work, one day his teacher talked to him and told him he was failing English. The teacher told Ponyboy that he would pass him with a good C if he did an essay about one of his life experience.

    At first Ponyboy didn't know what he was going to write about. He thinks about what to write about for awhile. Then he starts to write about the time he got out of a movie theater. When he is staring at himself in the mirror some socs drive by and call him a greaser. He keeps on walking then he notices that they follow him. They gang up on Ponyboy and pin him down to the grown. They pull a knife on him and cut him a little around the neck. Then some of Ponyboy's friends show up and chase the socs away.

    The movie gets really interesting when Jonny kills one of the socs. Ponyboy and Jonny run away to Windrixville. There they stay at a church. Then one day when Dally one of Ponyboys friend goes to visit Ponyboy and Jonny the church starts on fire.

    Some kids are tramped in the fire and Ponyboy and Jonny help them out. Right when Jonny was about to get out of the church a piece of wood falls on him and he breaks his back and gets a lot of injuries.

No Headline Given

By Yareli

On Wednesday night Ponyboy Curtis got in a fight with his older brother Darryl. Ponyboy was sad so he run to the park with his friend Johnny. They were sitting on top of the spider web planning on staying to sleep there. When the Socs. arrived at the park. Johnny and Ponyboy hadn't notice that the Socs. were drunk. So they got off the spider web and the Socs. started hitting and drowning Johnny in the fountain. And Ponyboy took out a knife and stabbed one of the Socs. and the rest of them run away

X Men

By Christian

In 1942 in the city of Poland two Germans were separating a child from he's father. In 60 year's that boy will become none as magneto. He has supernatural powers. He can move metal with his mind. There are other people with supernatural power's.

**Christian wasn't finished

Young Man Slapped Kid Bother

By Karlie

Darrel Curtis slapped his younger brother Ponyboy Curtis, this event took in Tulsa,Oklahoma on the date May 5, 1967. He slapped his bother because Ponyboy got home very late, because he acceptably fell asleep in the park. And he got home late is brother says he was nerves and was scared to no what happened. When Ponyboy finally got home he slapped him for not


 

***Karlie wasn't finished.

No Headline Give

By Kenneth

There has been over 13 un solved cases in vice city .

Today vice city police are re-opening the case.

The victim was 5\5 feet tall died 3:57am 1994 august 17 the victim name was mike dud was a male and was murdered with a crow bar.

He died at Newport beach there was a missing his wallet there was a murder weapon it was a crow bar.

No Headline Given

By Nefer

Johnny and Ponyboy fell asleep in an empty lot after killing a soc. When Ponyboy got home at two in the morning his big brother Darry hit him. Ponyboy got mad and ran back to Johnny they wanted to run away so they went to a party where Dally was and asked him for money and advice on where to go. Dally said to get on a train to Windrixville and climb to the church at the top of the mountain and stay there until he went to go get them.

Dallas Winston, Ponyboy, Curtis and, Johnny Cade were driving by a church in Windrixville, Tulsa. Dally noticed it was burning and Johnny jumped out of the car, Ponyboy followed him into the church. They found the children scared inside the church and handed them to Dally out the window. Ponyboy got out after all of the kids but Johnny couldn't get out because a burning piece of wood fell across his back.

The Death of Bob Sheldon

By Dylan

    Bob Sheldon was a soc and lived in Tulsa, Oklahoma and was killed at age 18. What happen was that he and his friend were looking for fight. They decided to go to the lower class of town and found two boys. The friends Randy and Ted got out of the car and they all started to beat up these's to boys at the park.

This accrued November 10th 1983 at 11: 30. Johnny Cade was a greaser at age 18 with his friend Pony boy Curtis who was also a greaser and he was 16 and they also lived in Tulsa. Johnny and Pony boy were the two boys in the park.

Johnny stabbed bob because he was drowning Bob. After he stabbed Bob the other kids fled the scene. Johnny and Pony boy then went to get help from another greaser and went to the church in Winderxville to Jay Mountain.