Interview with H by AV

Q: What do you like to do in your free time?
A: “Read, paint, theater, and play guitar.”
Q: Do you know anyone interesting?
A: “My grandma served as a nurse in a war.”
Q:What is your favorite place to be and what feelings do you have when at this place?
A: “Target or Costco. I feel happy at these places.”
Q: What is your favorite genre of book to read and write? Why?
A: “Mystery because I like not knowing what happens next.”
Q:What is your hidden talent?
A: “I can turn my face bright red by holding my breath.”
Q: What is the all-time worst movie or TV show you have watched?
A: “ A knock-off live-action Cinderella that cost $20 to rent it.”
Q:If you were a famous Youtuber or TickTocker, what would your channel be about?
A:”Probably things that I think are funny or self-love because people need to feel good about themselves more.”
Q:Who is someone who has influenced you?
A: “My older sister taught me resilience.”
Q: If this interview was top-secret government information, what would the code name be?
A: "Probably Code Fox because I have red hair.”

Summer by AR and HS

The sky is bright blue, reminding me of you
Sun shining, engulfing me in warmth
The gentle summer breeze feels cool on my face
Blowing my hair all over the place
Tying my hair back, I take in the sweet summer day
Laying in the grass, begging summer to stay
Although I know it will pass, I have to hope anyway
Recalling memories from summer
The good ones, the bad ones, the normal everyday ones
Days at the pool, dripping ice cream cones
Feels like it's all I’ve ever known
And now summer is over and fall reappears
And unlike summer, nobody cheers

Ugly, Old, Shoe by AV

There once was a man from Peru,
who ran to grab his ugly, old, shoe.
He threw his guitar
in front of a car.
The man died,
because he stood where the two would collide

 

Life: A poem by AV

You will grow up
You will die
You would have left your mark
No matter what
And when you die,
you won’t ever be forgotten

Nature by AD

Nature can be a lovely thing
Grass sways in the wind
Creaks trickle
You can feel the peace within
As you pick the rose
And feel a slight prickle
Nature can sometimes make you grin
As you close your eyes
And inhale the sweet air
You can run around
And just not care
Because…
Nature, can be a lovely thing

Life is a roller coaster by K.K.

life has unpredictable ups and downs.

It will make you happy.

It will make you sad.

It will make you mad.

And it will make you feel bad,

But you have to push through it,

But you still will have to stay lit.

Life is a roller coaster,

it has unpredictable ups and downs.

But you can choose to turn that all

around!

Twitterfic by AR and DP

Jazlyn was presumed dead. Grayson was grieving. Piper was crying. Joe was celebrating. Until the cops arrived.

**

It was the end. Only one girl could fix the world overnight. She’d have to fix it in her dreams or all would be lost in a pit of sorrow.

How To Make A No-bake Cheesecake! by K.K.

*The first thing you are going to do is get the ingredients ready. First we will make the crust using graham crackers, butter, and sugar.

1.put about 5 graham crackers in a zip lock bag,then mash them up until they are mostly crumbs.

2.Now open the bag and transfer the graham cracker crumbs into a bowl. Then add ¼ cup of sugar. Warm the butter up for about a minute,it should be a liquid. Slowly pour the butter into the bowl with the graham cracker crumbs.

3.Mix the crumbs and the butter together until the crumbs are a darker shade of brown. Now you have made the crust. Put the crust in a pie container then pat it around the sides with a round cup. Store the crust in the freezer for an hour.

*Now we will make the crust, we will be using cream cheese, sour cream,powdered sugar,heavy whipping cream,vanilla extract, and a lemon.

1.Warm the cream cheese (3 blocks) in the microwave for 10 second bursts until it is nice and soft. Put the cream cheese in a bowl.

2. Add the sour cream (a cup)to the cream cheese, now slowly mix them together.

3. Now take ½ a lemon and squeeze the juice into the bowl with the cheese cake mix.

4. Now slowly mix them all together until it is nice and smooth.

5. Now add 3 cups of powdered sugar to the mix and mix that in.

6. Once you have finished mixing the powdered sugar in slowly add a few drops of vanilla extract. Start to mix again, keep mixing until you can’t see the vanilla extract anymore.

7. Slowly add ½ a cup of heavy whipping cream to the batter, but if the batter starts to turn into a liquid, leave the rest of the heavy whipping cream aside. Slowly mix the whipping cream. *Tip:mix around the side and cut through the middle.

8. It should be all the same color, if it isn’t, keep mixing.

9. Make sure that the crust has finished cooling, then take it out of the freezer. Very slowly pour the batter into the pan with the crust. Pat it down so that it doesn’t look uneven and so that it doesn’t overflow.

10. Now put the cake pan into the fridge and let it sit there for 2 hours.

Once the cheesecake has finished cooling, enjoy!!

Dolphins Spotted on Land! by H.S.

A family in Port Stephens, Australia spotted dolphins resting on land, with lush green verdure sprouting out of its nare (blowhole)!

Scientist Claudia Cloeman states that she has never seen anything like it before! In an interview with Claudia she states that “this challenges everything we thought we once knew about aquatic animals, especially cetaceans.” She claims that she had been researching this topic for a while, and this only confirms her theory more.

Scientists are currently performing tests to confirm this theory. They believe that dolphins might not actually need their nares to take in oxygen but actually take in oxygen through their rostrum. Interestingly enough scientists believe that the dolphins brains have just the right nutrients to help a plant grow. 

The specific substance pentadecanoic acid in their brains that supports cellular health and contributes to aging in a healthy manner. This substance also happens to have the right nutrients to help a plant grow. 

Who knew that dolphins were actually land mammals that could grow plants out of their blowhole!?

Teleporting tupperware lids by AR

Breaking news, your missing tupperware lids have been found! The lids have a hidden superpower that no one knew about! Teleportation! Your missing lids were found in the local sewers. The FBI looked everywhere and...they found millions of lids in the sewers! Call the FBI for your lost lid.

The goat is the G.O.A.T. by AR

A goat from a local farm becomes the G.O.A.T. at skateboarding. The goat is named Tony (coincidence? I think not.) He escaped the farm and ended up at a teenage skatepark. The teen boys thought it would be funny to see what the goat would do if given a skateboard, so Todd (one of the boys) gave it to him. Tony did a Nollie Gazelle Heelflip which is one of the most advanced tricks in the entirety of skateboarding. Nick (a different boy) caught it on camera. So overnight Tony goat became the best skateboarder in the world not even superior to Tony Hawk. Tony now goes by Tony the G.O.A.T.!

READING IS AMAZING by AR

Reread
Exciting
Awesome
Discover
Interesting
New
Great
Intriguing
Savor
Absorbing
Moral lifting
Articulate
Zone out
Illuminating
Noteworthy
Graphic

WRITING TO GET PUBLISHED by AR

 WRITING TO GET PUBLISHED by AR

Wordy
Radical
Impassioned
Thrilling
Interlink
Novel
Glimpse
Tedious
Original
Genre
Engrossing
Timeless
Plot
Unputdownable
Binge-read
Lively
Incisive
Stanza
Historical fiction
Enlighten
Dramatic

The life of a cat by K.K.

It was dinner and I was not in a good mood. I was going to go over and play with my best friend Samantha, when suddenly it started to rain hard. Now I usually love it when it rains but that also meant I couldn’t go over and play with Samantha. Boo! So I wore my lucky new watch. It's sparkly purple, it isn’t one of those cool digital watches though.Anyways it must have worked because we had spaghetti for dinner and I love spaghetti! I slurped my dinner up ,I was so hungry that I got seconds. Then I went up to my room and snuggled up in my day-bed with my book, (I’m reading the baby-sitters club). I had gotten through the very first sentence when… BOOM! BOOM!BOOM! I grunt, did I mention that I have a younger sister-Kshama. KATE-KATE-KATE LET ME IN!!!!!!!!!I grunt again!”No way”I yell! Then…silence?I shrug my shoulders.Whatever.Two minutes later,I’m back in my day-bed. Next door I hear “I don’t wanna sleep!”.I giggle,I close my book,hop into bed, and close my eyes.

CRACK!I wake up. It's pouring out. I realize I’m still wearing my watch.I try to see in the dark,but end up pressing the side button of the watch (I didn’t even know it was there)suddenly a flash of blinding light shoots from my directly watch onto my face. “AAAHH!!!”I scream, but it comes out as MEOW!”What?”I say out-loud.Again-meow? I bury my face in my hands.MEOW!OMG!I Have paws! I look down at my body and realize that I've been turned into a cat. Now I love cats but I do not want to be one! I hop out of bed -oh no-I’m falling! Good thing cats have 9 lives. I look down at my watch,which still somehow fits me,it’s softly glowing. I realize that it must be some type of magic! I must turn back into a human before my family wakes up. I decide to check the watch manual since it is new. After a while of climbing up the mountain day-bed, I finally reach the top shelf (why did I put it there?). Luckily my paws were very grippy,I hooked my paws onto the top shelf and with all the strength I could muster,I hoist myself onto the shelf,my tail swishing from side to side. I open the manual,the instructions were at the very bottom of the page, in the littlest letters possible,so that only if you were looking for it then you would find it. I squint “the only way to undo the spell is to take the watch off and leave it in the sun for two hours"easy,I think! But sadly there was more."It must start sitting at the first ray of sunrise. I definitely do not want to be stuck being a cat so I must hurry. So sadly , I climb down from the shelf. Since I want to save time I just hop right off, luckily a pillow on the floor cushions my fall. I leap across the room, and slowly climb up the wall, clinging on to the window-sill for dear life. I take a deep breath. I go very,very slowly (but at the same time I try to be fast so that I don’t miss the first ray of sunrise),and try to take my watch off. I fiddle with the strap. After a while it comes undone! So I set it down on the window sill so that the watch can catch the sun.

Finally, two full hours later, I’m still a cat,I go over to the window sill where the watch is sitting. I slowly, very slowly put the watch back on,

My skin starts to tingle, then a blinding flash of blinding light shoots from my watch to my face.I cover my eyes ,I was expecting something like this to happen. I go to look in the mirror. “Yay!”I can’t help but say,"I'm me again!" I open my drapes and let the light flood in.

I yawn and open my eyes,the drapes are closed but light is shining through them,I look at my day-bed and sure enough my book is there. I was almost expecting the manual from my dream to be there,but nope it’s still atop the highest shelf. My dream seemed quite real, and I did forget to take my watch off last night. I get curious over the day, and find myself checking if my watch does have the power to turn me into a cat. Then strangely,later that day I discovered that there is cat hair all over the window sill. Could it be possible that I had turned into a cat? I decided to investigate later,and to keep it a secret for now.

A Twitterfic by DP

He ran and he ran without looking back. He kept running, never stopping as he hoped and prayed.

Breaking News: World's Largest Roller Coaster is Done by AR

In Six Flags amusement park (Arlington Texas) the world's largest roller coaster is almost completed! Rides open this Friday on June 26! The coaster breaks 6 world records! The six are:

1. Tallest Dive Coaster: The passengers go up a steady 309 foot climb.
2. Longest Beyond-Vertical Drop: Drops occupants down a frightening 285 foot drop.
3. Steepest Dive Angle: Lanches at a petrifying 95 degree beyond vertical angle.
4. Fastest Dive Coaster: reaches speeds up to 87 mph. That's faster than the Texas State Highway speed limit which goes 85 mph. That is the fastest speed limit in the world!
5. Longest Dive Coaster Track: Spans 4.199 feet of steel track.
6. Tallest Inversions: Features the world's highest immelman inversion of 218 feet and the tallest vertical loop on any roller coaster of 179 feet.

A Twitterfic by DP

Not yours but mine. Not lost but found. Not everything but nothing. Not rich but poor. Not right but wrong. Just boring just because.

AI and Technology Part One by AD

Many people in the world know about AI and Technology. Phones, TV’s, Alexa’s. All types of technology and AI. But as technology seems to advance, this is going to change the future of the next generation in about two ways. It might start to destroy the world or take it to greater heights. In this essay, I will explain the consequences of AI and Technology.

One day I was at my friend's house for a sleepover. We were looking for new movies on Netflix and we saw NexGen. NextGen was a movie about an angry teenager named Mai. Mai finds a robot named 7723 and together they bully bullies, and destroy other robots. Everything was good until they hurt one of Mai's enemies. Meanwhile, Mai took the robot from a company called IQ Robotics and that company was tracking them down. The owner of the company, Dr. Tanner Rice, finds Mai’s house and starts causing destruction. Soon at a robot soccer tournament Mai soon figures out that Dr. Tanner Rice is not a human at all, but in fact a robot. The robot wanted to eliminate all humans for pushing them around.

This is a fun adventurous movie which I highly recommend to older children, but this story does have a happy ending. Real life might not be that way. AI is already in so many people's lives, and it can take just a few hackers to destroy AI and people. And it can take AI to help hackers. AI has a great impact already on people's lives. Why? Because AI has taken jobs. Jobs that some people need money for. Some people might say that it is good that AI can do jobs for us, but is it? AI is programmed to be smarter than humans, so AI can over take almost any job, leaving people lazy. If you have ever watched WALL-E you might get my point. Now although in WALL-E people get lazy on their own terms, people can get lazy because of AI. And even though NextGen is science fiction, there is a reason for it. It can be possible for AI robots to take over the world. Now, even though it is unlikely, it is not impossible.

I am pretty sure that everyone reading this right now has an electrical device. Right? Well let me tell you something. I have older friends. I used to be great friends with them until one of them got a phone. After that we don’t really see each other anymore. I really want to have fun hanging out with them but it is kind of hard when they are on their phones. It made me really sad, but I realize that it’s not just them, it’s everyone. So many people are addicted to the phone life, it sometimes causes you to forget about the friends who don’t have phones. So it’s not really their fault. By getting a phone, you finally feel connected to your friends but sometimes disconnected from the world . But is it worth the risk? Phones and other technologic devices are bad for your mental health. It can also make you less social and interactive with people when you see them in person. Having a phone that you are addicted to can take you away from some great opportunities in life. Like going to see the world. Going on vacation. Some may feel that going places is un-needed because there are devices that make you feel like you're there when you're not. People are going to be disconnected from the world, nature, what it feels like to be actually there. To be physically social. So many traits that humans are capable of might disappear. And why? Because humans depend and advance on technology too much. But even though this article is about all of the bad things about AI and technology, in some cases, it might not be too bad.

AI and Technology Part Two by AD

Many people in the world know about AI and Technology. Phones, TV’s, Alexa’s. All types of technology and AI. But as technology seems to advance, this is going to change the future of the next generation in about two ways. It might start to destroy the world or take it to greater heights. In this essay, I will explain the positive future of AI and Technology.

AI which stands for Artificial Intelligence, can be a great thing. For one, electric cars are used by AI, which help the environment by using electricity instead of gas to fuel cars. This is reducing the risk of global warming getting worse. In fact, climate pollution would get significantly better now that cars are not burning fossil fuels.

Another reason is that AI can be really helpful. AI can help with tough work and can do many jobs making things smoother and easier for people. AI cars and vehicles make transportation lots easier. A self-driving car would be safer and more helpful for drivers.

Technology can be really helpful too. Technology is what almost everyone in the world uses. In fact, over 74% of the world uses technology in some way. Technology is a great place to learn and create things. On technology you can be creative and be yourself. You can search almost anything up on google or safari, and it’s a great way to do research on a new or old topic.

Phones are a big part of technology and are helpful as well. Phones help you feel connected to the internet and your friends. By using phones or other electrical devices, you can speak up and share what’s on your mind. It’s also a good way to find friends and people who have the same concerns and interests as you. And some people can even get money from posting on Tick Tock, Instagram, and other social media apps. So AI and Technology can be immensely helpful in many ways. But be careful, we might take them too far.