Page 2: Opinion and Sincerely, Susie Page 3: MADD Music and Fantasy Survival Guide Page 4: What’s on your MP3?, jokes Page 5: Schoo photos Page 6 and 7: Art & Comics Issue 4 APRIL 2013 Philip Schoo Middle School INDEX Schoo Screamer [email protected]Student Council raises $1200, attends convention Meet ‘Coach P’: A Schoo athletics program mainstay BY MADELEINE MCMANUS If you play intramural sports, chances are you have seen a familiar face in the gym, but may not know who he is. His name is Ethan Pellatz, also known as “Coach P”. He has coached many Schoo sports since the school’s opening. Pellatz grew up in Plainview, Nebraska, about a half an hour away from Norfolk. He’s played sports through pretty much his whole life, Kin- dergarten through high school. He is currently studying History at UNL. He likes government and presidency best out of history, especially Teddy Roos- evelt. Pellatz got the job at Schoo through an advertisement in the univer- sity’s student newspaper. He sent an email to Mr. Shanahan, and was hired. Pellatz loves working here. He coaches flag football, girls’ and boys’ basketball, wrestling, and track and field. He enjoys coaching basketball the best, because it’s more competitive and more like high school sports. His favorite sport to play is football and he’s a big Husker fan. Pel- latz said he enjoyed football because it was complicated and emphasized team play. He also was a member of the show choir in high school. One of his most memorable coaching moments was a double over- time flag football game. Schoo scored in the last play of both overtime and double overtime. Though they still lost, it was exciting. Pellatz says his coaching phi- losophy is that team play is the most important thing. “You can’t get better by your- self,” was something that he stressed, and that “It’s important to have fun. Nobody is being forced to be playing intramural sports, and if you don’t want to, you don’t have to.” Ethan Pellatz, aka ‘Coach P’ has become an intergral part of the intramu- ral sports coaching staff since the opening of Schoo. Photo by Madeleine McManus PENNIES FOR PATIENTS BY CAMRYN SPENCER In February and March, you may have noticed your classmates, or maybe your friends, coming to school with a small yellow box in hand. This box was probably filled with change for Pennies For Patients, a fundraising program Schoo partici- pated in. Pennies for Patients is a nation- wide fundraiser and a way kids can help people with blood cancers. Through the Leukemia and Lympho- ma Society, kids help by donating any spare change lying around the house. Anything helps, and you can make a difference! At Schoo, through SOAR groups, which meet on PLC days, students had the chance to bring spare mon- ey to donate. All this money went to funding research so that perhaps someday in the near future, doctors could find a cure for these types of blood cancers. Schoo’s goal was to collect $1,200 from students and staff of Schoo- and they met the goal! The winning SOAR group at Schoo was Mrs. Seuferer’s group. They brought in $348.46 and won a cookie cake, and will receive a gold pennant from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Soci- ety. In the national Pennies For Pa- tients Campaign, there were a lot of schools participating. There were also larger prizes given out, such as computers, electronics, and sports equipment, to the top schools in ev- ery area. 8th grader King Tadesse, a stu- dent council member, thinks this fundraiser was a good idea. Tadesse participated in Pennies for Patients, because he says, “I’m helping a good cause.” Many other students brought in money because of that same reason. Pennies For Patients helps a lot of people who have Leukemia or Lym- phoma, and their families. Doctors are working hard to find a cure for these blood cancers, and with Pen- nies For Patients, along with many other organizations funding it, and this year, Schoo was a part of that search for a cure. DISTRICT 6 STUDENT COUNCIL CONVEN- TION BY PEYTON ERICKSON On Tuesday, February 26th, Schoo student council members volunteered at the Children’s Mu- seum, listened to guest speakers, and learned leadership skills, all as part of Nebraska’s District 6 Student Council Convention The convention was held at Lin- coln High School, with student coun- cil members from Lincoln and the surrounding communities, such as Norris and Malcolm. From there they attended sessions that taught leadership skills, talked about the community service work they’ve ac- complished, elected new district of- ficers, and later the Student Council volunteered at the Lincoln Children’s Museum. At the Children’s Museum, Student Council cleaned and disinfected toys, handrails, and chairs, mopped the stairs and floors, and the eighth grade organized the storage room, over the afternoon. 6th grade teacher Allysa Diehl, co- sponsor of the Schoo Student Council, says,” It was good for the students to get to know different kids from around the area.” There were also new ideas for proj- ects to help the community, students learn leadership, and that it’s impor- tant to do things for others. Some ideas included participating in the Make-A-Wish Foundation and cheering on students with special needs as they participate in Special Olympics events. Diehl also says that they learned a lot from the speaker at the convention. The speaker stated how this generation a lot of leadership positions open up and how to prepare to take those volunteer opportunities and by doing community service. Student council member Desirae Townsend said, “We did a lot of ses- sions about team building and we were one of only two middle schools at the event. I learned to socialize with older students. I had to not be shy and learn to speak up and to help others.” “It was also super fun to help at the Children’s Museum too,” Townsend said, “ We clean toys and organized stuff. It made the museum safer and cleaner for kids.” (right) Mara Wasserman cleans up at the Children’s Musuem as part of a volunteer opportunity at Student Council District Con- vention. (left) This photo shows the boxes containing the $1200 in spare change collected by Schoo students for “Pennies for Patients.”
Meet ‘Coach P’: A Schoo athletics program mainstayBY MADELEINE MCMANUS If you play intramural sports, chances are you have seen a familiar face in the gym, but may not know who he is. His name is Ethan Pellatz, also known as “Coach P”. He has coached many Schoo sports since the school’s opening. Pellatz grew up in Plainview, Nebraska, about a half an hour away from Norfolk. He’s played sports through pretty much his whole life, Kin-dergarten through high school. He is currently studying History at UNL. He likes government and presidency best out of history, especially Teddy Roos-evelt. Pellatz got the job at Schoo through an advertisement in the univer-sity’s student newspaper. He sent an email to Mr. Shanahan, and was hired. Pellatz loves working here. He coaches flag football, girls’ and boys’ basketball, wrestling, and track and
field. He enjoys coaching basketball the best, because it’s more competitive and more like high school sports. His favorite sport to play is football and he’s a big Husker fan. Pel-latz said he enjoyed football because it was complicated and emphasized team play. He also was a member of the show choir in high school. One of his most memorable coaching moments was a double over-time flag football game. Schoo scored in the last play of both overtime and double overtime. Though they still lost, it was exciting. Pellatz says his coaching phi-losophy is that team play is the most important thing. “You can’t get better by your-self,” was something that he stressed, and that “It’s important to have fun. Nobody is being forced to be playing intramural sports, and if you don’t want to, you don’t have to.”
Ethan Pellatz, aka ‘Coach P’ has become an intergral part of the intramu-ral sports coaching staff since the opening of Schoo. Photo by Madeleine McManus
PENNIES FOR PATIENTSBY CAMRYN SPENCER In February and March, you may have noticed your classmates, or maybe your friends, coming to school with a small yellow box in hand. This box was probably filled with change for Pennies For Patients, a fundraising program Schoo partici-pated in. Pennies for Patients is a nation-wide fundraiser and a way kids can help people with blood cancers. Through the Leukemia and Lympho-ma Society, kids help by donating any spare change lying around the house. Anything helps, and you can make a difference! At Schoo, through SOAR groups, which meet on PLC days, students had the chance to bring spare mon-ey to donate. All this money went to funding research so that perhaps someday in the near future, doctors could find a cure for these types of blood cancers. Schoo’s goal was to collect $1,200 from students and staff of Schoo- and they met the goal! The winning SOAR group at Schoo was Mrs. Seuferer’s group. They brought in $348.46 and won a cookie cake, and will receive a gold pennant from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Soci-ety. In the national Pennies For Pa-tients Campaign, there were a lot of schools participating. There were also larger prizes given out, such as computers, electronics, and sports equipment, to the top schools in ev-ery area.
8th grader King Tadesse, a stu-dent council member, thinks this fundraiser was a good idea. Tadesse participated in Pennies for Patients, because he says, “I’m helping a good cause.” Many other students brought in money because of that same reason. Pennies For Patients helps a lot of people who have Leukemia or Lym-phoma, and their families. Doctors are working hard to find a cure for these blood cancers, and with Pen-nies For Patients, along with many other organizations funding it, and this year, Schoo was a part of that search for a cure.
DISTRICT 6 STUDENT COUNCIL CONVEN-TIONBY PEYTON ERICKSON On Tuesday, February 26th, Schoo student council members volunteered at the Children’s Mu-seum, listened to guest speakers, and learned leadership skills, all as part of Nebraska’s District 6 Student Council Convention The convention was held at Lin-coln High School, with student coun-cil members from Lincoln and the surrounding communities, such as Norris and Malcolm. From there they attended sessions that taught leadership skills, talked about the community service work they’ve ac-complished, elected new district of-ficers, and later the Student Council volunteered at the Lincoln Children’s Museum. At the Children’s Museum, Student Council cleaned and disinfected
toys, handrails, and chairs, mopped the stairs and floors, and the eighth grade organized the storage room, over the afternoon. 6th grade teacher Allysa Diehl, co-sponsor of the Schoo Student Council, says,” It was good for the students to get to know different kids from around the area.” There were also new ideas for proj-ects to help the community, students learn leadership, and that it’s impor-tant to do things for others. Some ideas included participating in the Make-A-Wish Foundation and cheering on students with special needs as they participate in Special Olympics events. Diehl also says that they learned a lot
from the speaker at the convention. The speaker stated how this generation a lot of leadership positions open up and how to prepare to take those volunteer opportunities and by doing community service. Student council member Desirae Townsend said, “We did a lot of ses-sions about team building and we were one of only two middle schools at the event. I learned to socialize with older students. I had to not be shy and learn to speak up and to help others.” “It was also super fun to help at the Children’s Museum too,” Townsend said, “ We clean toys and organized stuff. It made the museum safer and cleaner for kids.”
(right) Mara Wasserman cleans up at the Children’s Musuem as part of a volunteer opportunity at Student Council District Con-vention.
(left) This photo shows the boxes containing the $1200 in spare change collected by Schoo students for “Pennies for Patients.”
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SincerelySusie An advice column
you can rely on
Emily’s Book Nook
Would you rather...BY: CAMRYN SPENCER *Be trapped in a cage with a tiger OR be trapped in a tank with a shark? *Have everything you touch turn to gold OR have everything you touch turn to chocolate? *Have to eat broccoli every day for a month OR have to eat brussel sprouts every day for a month? *Pick any country to fly to for a week OR go to a different planet?
BY “MISS REPRESENTATION” How do middle school students de-fine “beauty”? We wanted to know so we generated a survey to answer that question. The survey was given to 3 random 8th grade classes and the results were calculated below. Question 1—“Do boys and girls identify beauty in the same way?”93% of girls said “no” compared to 64% of boys saying “no”. A heavy majority of the girls believe that boys and girls do not see beauty in the same way. Boys get their ideas of beauty from their own opinions (89%) as com-pared to girls who get their opinions from peer and the media. Although a large portion of guys and girls see themselves as beautiful (65% for girls, 79% for boys) a large number of girls do not believe they are beautiful (29%). The physical feature that indicates beauty identified by both boys and girls was the “face”. However, boys identified “body type” as the next most important feature while girls identified “physical fitness” as the next most im-
portant feature. Boys and girls agreed that the per-sonality traits needed to be beautiful were “kind” and “funny”. An inter-esting fact in this survey showed that boys felt that “acting unintelligent” was attractive 18% of the time while girls felt that it was attractive only 4% of the time. Definitions of beauty by boys in-cluded – pretty, being yourself, good looks and personality, and being nice. Definitions of beauty by girls included, being yourself and being nice. We agree that boys and girls do not see beauty in the same way but there are some similarities. Many boys and girls stated that they formed their defi-nition of beauty from their own opin-ions. But the mystery to us is…where do these opinions come from? We feel that friends and family play a larger role in this decision. In addition, be aware that how beauty is defined in the media is not always as it seems. Don’t try to become what the media wants you to think is beautiful. Only 6% of the population could ever meet that goal.
What is Beauty??
BY EMILY VANEK
Hi, I’m Emily Vanek an avid reader who loves telling others about my opinions on books. I love the library; and most likely, if you name a book, I’ve read it. Each issue I’ll review 3-5 books that I think you’ll like, and give a grade from 1-4 to go with it (with four being the best!)
To TimbuktuThis is a nonfiction autobiography about Casey Sciezka, and Steven Weinberg. It is about the life of this couple studying, living, and teaching abroad. They met studying abroad in Morocco, both were from the US, but from opposite sides of the coun-try. After their trip to Morocco they thought they’d never see each other again, but they were wrong. Soon after they decided to go to Beijing to teach English. They then continued to travel throughout Africa and Asia, experiencing local culture and having fun while doing it. This is the only non-fiction book I’ve read in awhile that I actually liked. This book is really in-teresting and funny, I loved it!*Available at Lincoln City Libraries (I got it from Eiseley)*Rating 3 out of 4
SovayThis book begins in 1794 in England, Sovay (the main character) poses as a highway robber to test a possible suitor. When she steals the wallet of one of England’s most dangerous men, she finds something she wasn’t expecting concerning her father. She then travels to France in the thick of their revolution to uncover more bur-ied secrets. This book started out great and I loved it, but then the book kind of pooped on itself and got re-
ally boring. I thought this book was terrible, but read it for yourself before you judge it.*Available at Schoo and city library*Rating .25437899 out of 4Team HumanThis is a hilarious book about a girl named Mel who lives in a town called New Whitby. This town may have been founded by vampires, but it’s completely different that any other vampire novel out there (although it does bear a striking resemblance to being a twilight parody.) A vampire has just enrolled in the local high school. Usually, the vamps stay in their part of town and the humans stay in theirs, so this is strange. Mel’s best friend has been falling in love with this vampire - Francis Duvarney - who happens to be 200 years old. This whole thing seems a bit off to Mel, so she begins her own sort of investigation into Francis’ motives. What she uncovers is highly surpris-ing and somewhat suspicious. So far this book is great, its written by Justine Larbalestier (co-authored by Sarah Brennan) who is one of my fa-vourite authors. It starts a little slow, but then quickly picks up pace*Available at the Lincoln City Librar-ies (I got it from Eiseley)*Rating 4 out of 4
Dear Susie,I overheard my best friend saying I overreact over everything and we have been friends too long. What should I do?Signed,Hurt
Dear Hurt, Try to go along like everything’s okay. If your best friend’s mean and rude and talks behind your back again, then maybe you should find a different best friend. If not, just forget it ever happened and go back to being best friends.Sincerely,Susie
Dear Susie, If you were on the new show “Ani-mal Hoarders”, what animal would you hoard?Sincerely,I-swear-I-don’t-hoard-animals
Dear I-swear-I-don’t-hoard-animals, I love all animals, especially wild animals, even though it would be WAY easier to have dogs or cats. But if I had to choose I’d have to choose ei-ther white tigers, zebras, or a unicorn. [As long as they don’t kill me]. But to actually hoard animals,I’d choose cats because you don’t have to take them outside and they can just roam around.Sincerely,Susie
Dear Susie,I’m pretty sure my dad got fired. He came home early from work on day and
hasn’t gone to work since. Should I ask him?Sincerely,Worried
Dear Worried, Try to talk to you Dad about it. If you are nervous to ask your dad about it, try to talk to a close family member or family friend about it, maybe they will know something about it. If he has been fired, try not to talk about it too much. Also, don’t worry!! Your dad will find a job soon!Sincerely,Susie
Dear Susie,I’m nervous about going into 7th grade. What should I do? What do I need to know?Sincerely,6th grader
Dear 6th grader, I’m sure you were nervous about going into sixth grade when you were a fifth grader. This is almost exactly like that! You have a different schedule, you’ll be on Team A or Team B again, and you’ll have different teachers. The only thing is, you probably won’t be going to a different school this next year, so it will be even easier. The thing is, you got through fifth to sixth grade, so you’ll definitely get through sixth to seventh grade! Also, if you’re still wor-ried talk to your counselor or a seventh grade teacher or student.
Sincerely,Susie
Want to see your name in print? The Schoo Screamer is looking for:• poetry• artwork• comics• writers to join us• Sincerely Susie Skyhawk Ques-
*When you die, your hair still grows for a couple of months!
*The most money ever paid for a cow in an auction was $1.3 million!
*Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced!
*Mary Stuart became Queen of Scotland when she was only six days old!
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Do you know this Mystery Teacher?HINTS*She has an apple in her lunch bag almost everyday.*She loves all things purple.*She is way out numbered by the opposite gender in her household.*Growing up she rode horses almost everyday.
(read the NEXT issue of the paper to find out the answer!) (last month’s answer: Mr. Swift)
MADD music Fantasy Survival Guide ‘Divergent’
editionBY PEYTON ERICKSON
Author’s note: This is one of a series of survival guides for all your favorite fantasy and sci-fi stories! Stay tuned for more! Imagine this...You’re on your way to The Choosing Ceremony to make the biggest deci-sion of your life, choosing a faction. There are five factions. Abnegation, which you were born in, Dauntless, Candor, Erudite, and Amity. Abnega-tion are selfless, Dauntless are coura-geous maniacs, Erudite are SUPER smart [and annoying], Candor NEV-ER EVER lie, and Amity are peaceful, which can sometimes be a pain. This is the decision that could change your life, and not to pressure you but, YOU BETTER NOT CHOOSE WRONG!! But don’t worry, I’ll be there to help. Mostly.
Prologue: The day before the Choos-ing Ceremony, you have to go through a test. Before you know it they’re calling your name [Hopefully you won’t come back shaking like your brother!] and you go to a room.They shoot you with a needle in your neck [ I don’t know why you don’t scream] and you see a dog. Then you go pet the puppy! But then he attacks a little girl [She was so cute!] but, Hey you got through it! Then you find out you’re Divergent, a mix of Erudite, Abnegation,and Dauntless.
Step 1: Your brother just betrayed you and your family! Then again, you just chose Dauntless instead of Ab-negation, so you just did too. Right now, you are running down the stairs WITHOUT THE RAILING!!!! [ I know right!!!] Chhooo -Chhooo! There’s your train. Wait, what do you mean you’ve never jumped on a train be-fore! Well, Good luck with that, I’m going to go get a Dr. Pepper. -Five Minutes Later- Okay, sorry I’m back. Wait, you made a friend, jumped onto a building, and jumped off the same building two minutes later!! What do you need me for! Oh, yea! I remember why you need me! You
don’t even know your name! [ You an-swer, ‘Beatrice’] NO, you’re name is Tris! You just arrived in the Dauntless Headquarters, your new home. Now stop crying, I’m sure you’ll replace your family quickly. I SAID STOP!!! Either way, you eventually replace your family with Al, Will, and Chris-tina. The first day you train, eat a hamburger, get a tour, and fight other people [Well everyone else but you fights other people].
Step 2: Uh-oh! Visiting Day, where your family [who hates you] comes to visit. But on the bright side, your mother actually bothered to show up! Congrats!!! Also, you’re mother’s from Dauntless and the chocolate cake there is really good! Plus, you get in a fight with Will’s evil [though not in the second book] sister. It was so funny! Especially the part where you threatened to punch her in the face.The training scores are posted today!! Edward is first and Peter [your arch- nemesis] is second. You are sixth. Then [Finally something in-teresting happens!] Peter stabbed Ed-ward with a butter knife in the eye last night! Then Peter is first and you are fifth. Hopefully you don’t die! Then I’d lose my job!
Step 3: WHY IN EVERY STORY DOES A GIRL FALL IN LOVE WITH A GUY!!! Now you have fallen in love with your TEACHER, Four [what kind of name is FOUR anyway!!] Either way I won’t stand for you!!!! - Ten minutes later- Fine, I’ll stay your guide. My man-ager said that I’ll get fired if I quit. Anyway now you keep going through fear landscapes. -After a while- Okay, you were first in the fear landscape so you just got thrown out the Chasm! Almost.
Step 4: You were first out of every-one. Yay! Except for that part, it is complete chaos that night and a war started. To be Continued [it will not be continued].
P.S. Also, your mother and father are dead.
BY MADISON MILLER
Of Mice & Men-(2009-present) Of Mice & Men is a metalcore band that I listen to quite often. They cur-rently have five members with one previous member that had left because his depression was getting too hard to handle. Their current members are Austin Carlile(vocals), Alan Ashby(lead guitar), Phil Manansala(rhythm guitar), Val-entino Arteaga(drums), Aaron Pauley(bass). This band means a lot to me and many others. Many people i know look up to everyone in this band, not just Austin.Favorite Songs- Second & Sebring, O.G. Loko, Let Live, I’m a Monster, Prod-uct of A Monster
All Time Low-(2003-present) Being a pop punk band, many people love them, not just me. They have been around for 10 years and are going to continue on even more. They be-gan Baltimore, Maryland as a high school band for they all went to school with each other. Alex Gaskarth(vocals, rhythm guitar), Jack Barakat(lead gui-tar), Zack Merrick(bassist) and Rian Dawson(drummer) are all best friends and even live with each other. They tour all year long too.Favorite Songs- Time-Bomb, Break Your Little Heart, Sick Little Games, Lost In The Stereo, Keep The Change You Filthy Animal, The Girl’s A Straight Up Hustler
Linkin Park-(1996-present) Linkin Park is honestly one of my other favorite bands. I guess you could say I grew up listening to them my entire life because my dad listened to them all the time. I enjoy much of their older music more than recent work. The band consist of 6 members; Chester Bennington(vocals), Rob Bourdon(drums), Dave Ferrell(bassist), Mike Shinoda(vocals/rhythm guitar/piano), Brad Delson(lead guitar) and Joe Hahn(turntables/sampling/keyboards/programing). Linkin Park became the first rock band to acquire more than one billion Youtube hits. They have even been named No. 19 on the Best Artist of the Decade chart. Linkin Park has also earned two Grammys along with selling over 50 million albums worldwide.Favorite Songs- Anything from Hybrid Theory or Meteroa, In My Remains, Castle Of Glass
Of Mice and Men (above)
All Time Low (above)Linkin Park (left)
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What’s on your MP3?
Odd sport around the world:
Austrailian Rules Football
BY ALLISONHINRICHS
Desirae Townsend, 8th, “Thinking about you” by Frank Ocean
Miriam Kluck8th, “Skyfall” by Adele
Mr. Orton8th Grade Teacher“Count on me” by Bruno Mars
Amelia Eggerss, 8th, “Pretty Face” by
Soley
Mrs. Wehner8th Grade Teacher“Try” by Pink
Alexandria Mumgaard, 6th,
“Just the way you are” by Bruno Mars
Maddie Recommends: Best of Disney animated moviesBY MADELEINE MCMANUS
As we all know, Disney makes the best animated movies. Ever. I decided to pick my favourites out of all of them because I basically grew up on Dis-ney.
Monsters, Inc. (2001) Monsters, Inc. is a movie about mon-sters who scare children for a living. In one of the rooms that they have to scare in, a girl comes home with them. We never find out her name, but she says her name is Boo. Sully, a big furry blue monster, and Mike, a green, one-eyed monster, try to keep Boo a secret, but they fail miserably. The whole town is on lockdown, and the monsters are banished, along with Boo. The rest of the movie is an adventure of Mike and Sully trying to get Boo back to where she belongs. But, they can never see her again.
Her door is put through a wood chip-per, and Sully keeps a scrap, to re-mind himself of Boo.
Alice In Wonderland (1951) Alice In Wonderland follows the storyline of Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” and includes elements of “Through the Looking Glass.” Alice grows tired of listening to her older sister read to her from a history book, and follows a rabbit down its hole. The part where she falls down the rabbit hole is really trippy. She goes on adventures through Wonderland, and meets the Red Queen. Eventual-ly, she wakes up, meaning the entire adventure was just a dream, or she’s just really insane.
Finding Nemo (2003) Finding Nemo is a heart-wrenching talk about sticking together through hard times. At the very beginning
of the movie, Marlon and his wife are attacked by a barracuda and his wife gets eaten along with all of their eggs except for one. Flash for-ward to the baby’s first day of school. This is Nemo, and his overprotective dad. During his first day at school, he touches ‘the butt,’ which is actually a boat. Fishermen take him to a dentist’s office, where he will live in a fish tank. In the meantime, Marlon is search-ing across the ocean for Nemo. He meets Dory, who aids him in the jour-ney. They meet many people across the ocean, and their story is spread so that when they get to their destina-tion, everyone knows who they are. Eventually, Nemo is reunited with his father. The last scene is Dory and Marlon waving goodbye to Nemo, who is going to his first day of school.
The Lion King (1994) Most people have seen The Lion
King, but if you haven’t, it’s a heart-warming story about a lion named Simba’s life. The story starts the day he is born. Almost all of the animals in the savannah come to see Simba becoming part of the pride as a cub. Eventually we meet his best friend Nala when they go off on an adven-ture, where Simba makes sure to let us know that he “just can’t wait to be king!” Later in the movie, he runs into trouble with his evil uncle. His uncle had planned a wildebeest stampede in a gorge while Simba and his father were there. Spoiler alert: Simba’s fa-ther dies. If you’re like me, you cry. Hard. Simba has to grow up with a meerkat called Timon, and a warthog called Pumba. When everything goes wrong with the pride, Nala comes to find Simba, and they fall in love, and go back to the pride for an epic battle to the death avenging Simba’s father’s death, where the movie ends.
JokesBY: DAMIEN DEVOR
Q.how do you make seven an even number? A.take the s out!
Q: What is the longest word in the dic-tionary? A: Smiles, because there is a mile be-tween each ‘s’
Q: What occurs once in a minute, twice in a moment and never in one thousand years? A: The letter M!!!
BY CAMRYN SPENCER AND PEYTON ERICKSON
May, 1859, in Melbourne, Austra-lian Football was first created. The rules were published by the Mel-bourne Football Club. . It was a mix-ture of different football rules from English Public Schools. Other names for Australian Football are “Football” “Footy” or “Aussie Rules” and in some regions AFL, which is the Australian Football League. The game’s objective is to move the ball downfield and kick the ball through the team’s goal. During general play, players may position themselves anywhere on the field and use any part of their bod-ies to move the ball. The primary methods are kicking, handballing and running with the ball. Players are al-lowed to handle the ball, but not to run farther than necessary to kick it. The “Mark” is when players any-where on the field are awarded pos-
session of the ball if they catch it from a kick. Players can also tackle oppo-nents using hands, feet, or any other part of the body. No more than eigh-teen players are to be on the field at a time for each team. The game begins after the first siren, when the umpire bounces the ball off the ground, then the two tallest players battle for the ball in the air. The player may run with the ball, but once every fifteen meters the ball must bounce or touch the ground. Opposing players may bump or tackle to get the ball. A goal is worth six points, and is scored when the football is propelled through the goal. A goal cannot be scored from the foot of an offending player. A behind is scored when the ball passes between a goal post and a behind post at any height, and is worth one point. This crazy game is also occassion-ally played in the United States, but not on a large scale. Smaller clubs of teams exist in some towns.
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