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Name __________________                                      November 6, 2007

ORGANIZATION SHEET                                                      Group ________

 

 

PARAGRAPH ONE: INTRODUCTION

Begin with a good lead:  This can be a story, quote or question that makes your point.

STATE YOUR MAIN IDEA OR THESIS: 

 

LEAD:  Did you know every day in the U.S 100,000 students bring guns to school; 160,000 students skip school because they are scared of physical harm; 40 students are hurt or killed by guns;6,250 teachers are threaten with bodily injury; 260 teachers are physically assaulted?

 

THESIS: Lockers are school property kids just borrow the lockers for sports equipment library books, school computers, etc.

 

Choose 3 (or more) good reasons why lockers should be allowed to be searched.  State each reason as a separate paragraph. 

 

PARAGRAPH TWO: 

FIRST REASON WHY

 

Lockers don’t belong to students and therefore they have no right to expect that lockers won’t get searched.

SUPPORT: Since guns and drugs aren’t allowed in school to make sure that doesn’t happen is to do random searches in school lockers.

 

PARAGRAPH THREE: 

FIRST REASON WHY

Without searching lockers young criminals will know that they can hide forbidden things such as guns without fear. And with searching lockers students will think twice before bringing things to school.

SUPPORT: And with searching lockers students will think twice before bringing things to school.

 

 

PARAGRAPH FOUR: 

FIRST REASON WHY

 

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PARAGRAPH FIVE: 

REBUTTAL (My opponent may say…. But)

 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BUT (argue your reason here): ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

PARAGRAPH SIX: 

REBUTTAL (My opponent may say…. But)

 

________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ BUT (argue your reason here): ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

CONCLUSION: 

RESTATE YOUR ARGUMENTS (accumulatio: summary and climax)

 

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A FINAL STATEMENT THAT MAKES YOUR POINT

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Justine Bogue                                                                                     4/4/09

  Ms. Hill                                                                                             Grape

Lockers are school property.

     

 

Did you know every day in the U.S 100,000 students bring guns to school; 160,000 students skip school because they are scared of physical harm; 40 students are hurt or killed by guns;6,250 teachers are threaten with bodily injury; 260 teachers are physically assaulted. Lockers are school property kids just borrow the lockers for sports equipment library books, school computers, etc.

        Lockers don belong to students and therefore they have no right to expect that lockers won’t get searched. Since guns and drugs aren’t allowed in school to make sure that doesn’t happen is to do random searches in school lockers.

        Without searching lockers young criminals will know that they can hide forbidden things such as guns without fear. And with searching lockers students will think twice before bringing things to school.

 

 

School Softball (:

    Hey, it's Kasey...i'm back! It's been a long time since I wrote last. I'm going to tell you about my school softball team today. I love to play softball, so I tried out for the school team. I made the team (as you can tell) and so did some of my friends that tried out. Our team name is the Leopards, our colors are white and blue, and we have a pretty good team. There are alot of people on the team, about 18 players, I think. We have a first string group and a second string group, due to the amount of people on the team.

    I play mostly shortstop in our games and practices. I love playing this position because alot of balls are hit to you, and not alot of pop ups are hit to you. Although I love playing mostly centerfield on my other team, I like playing infield too. We have only had one game so far, but I don't think the competition is very good. We beat our opponents 19 - 1 in the fifth inning, but the final score was 19 - 4. My friend, Rebecca, pitched the first five innings and pitched a no-hitter.

    Well, I have to go now. Come to our games whenever you can [: Wish us luck tomorrow!(We're playing a game if you didn't realize) and Deirdre's pitching! :D.

            xoxo, Kasey (:

Short Story

By: Crystal U.

Date: 4/30/09

Hey, hope you like my short story and please comment. thanks!!

 

The fire Has Completely burnt out during the night. It was so cold that I woke up shivering and sniffing. I could hear father’s loud snoring, and I knew he was still sleeping soundly. “I’ll get the wood for Mom” I thought, and I slipped on my shoes to go outside. I barely had the door open when I saw her looking right at me. She looked sad and cold. So I went to go get the fire wood. Then she looked at me she was happy and she said “Thank You.” Then I Went back to the cabin. I started thinking why we came on this trip for. The last few days were good. We went hiking, riding our bikes and we even had some smores today. My sister is sleeping so I can’t talk to her right now. Tomorrow we are leaving to go back home. I can’t wait for school to start in 3 more weeks. Now I have to go back to bed to wake up early tomorrow morning to pack up and do our last ’s the tomorrow already that was fast everyone is already awake expect me. My sister is awake, even my dad, and my mom is always awake. She is always the first person to wake up. This morning for breakfast we had bacon and pancakes. Next we are going to pack up and do our last activity. Before we went to go pack up my Mom said “Make sure you have all your stuff, because we are not going to come back here again.” My sister said “This was a really great trip.” I thought so too. I finished packing up. Our last activity was to go on a treasure hunt. After the treasure Hunt We packed everything we had into the Car. Before we left I looked at the cabin and the forest to remember this vacation. It was kind of cool to go on a camping trip as your vacation, but it gets really cold at night time. But now is time to leave so I put my last bags into the car and we left.

                                                    The End!

Top 10 Rich People in the World

Date: 4/8/09

By: Crystal U.

        Hi there, I am going to tell you this week who are the Top 10 Most Richest People in the World. To be the richest person in the world it depends how much you get job paid per hour and how much you get the whole day. And alos how much money you make in a year and how much you have in the bank. But now its just how much money you have and how much you are going to have for days to come. I did some research from the magazine Forbes and other sources. It helped me to find out who are the most richest people in the world. There are 946 billionaires and 178 newcomers. I just shorted it down a bit to the 10 most richest people in the world. Hope you like my research!!!

Ok the 10th most richest person in the world is Amancio Ortega. 

9th is Theo Albrecht.

8th is Lakshmi Mittal.

7th is Mukesh Ambani.

6th is Karl Albrecht.

5th is  Ingvar Kamprad & family.

4th is Lawrence Ellison.

3rd is Carlos Slim Helu & family.

2nd is Warren Buffett.

And finally 1st is William Gates III with$40.0 billion.

Hope you liked my blog see you next week.

Letter To the Editor

Dear Editor,

I have been having a problem with how much time we have in between classes. With this being said I have a new concept that I think will work better.  I think that we should have longer time in between our classes. This will defiantly facilitate the students and everyone else at the school. Beneficiaries will be so much happier and they'll feel like they don't need to rush as much as they do now.

Some people may misconstrues this strategy as a way to hang out with friends in the hallways longer but that is not why I want it. I want it because some times I have classes that are on the opposite sides of school and sometimes its just not possible to get to your other class on time. Especially when your other teacher lets you out like a minute late your only left with two minutes to get to your other class and as we all know when we are late for class we get detention! Which for some people is a big deal and they get really upset about it and even sometimes end up crying. But this can be easily preventable. 

This is a very contemporary thing for us kids because sometimes were really slow and its hard for us. It's hard to get through the entire school in three minutes. If you just gave us another two minutes i'm sure that everyone would get to all there classes on time and our teachers wouldn't have to give us detention. With this plan we will all be happier and as you can see we will all benefit from it to make out school a happier and funner place for everyone.

Help the Polar Bears

        Hello my name is Sponge bob Square Pants and I’m here to tell you about this new product that will help polar bears that are suffering. Did you know that every few minutes a polar bear is at risk of dying every few minutes? But if you donate ten dollars we can help save polar bears. I know what you are thinking what’s in it for me, well two things... one you can help polar bears and two you can get 2% of the whole profits. We make if you pay more than twenty dollars. You also can run for the polar bears which is a 2 mile run and all the money that you donate is put to the polar bears. Let me guess you are thinking that how would I know about this I know about this because I have been working with the polar bear team which are the people who run the run for the polar bears for many years. So please if you just donate a couple of dollars you can save one of the most beautiful creatures in the word who are also going instinct. But if you sign up for the run for polar bears you can help even more.

Dear ALMS, No Homework!

    To whom it may concern,

    

    Hi, my name is Kasey. I'm a seventh grader here in Albert Leonard and I am very dedicated to our school. However, I have been talking to some of the kids around our school, Albert Leonard, and we have come to a conclusion. Homework gets in the way of our studies. No homework will definetly facilitate students' lives. Homework takes, on average of the students in seventh grade, one hour to fully complete. However, homework is not the only thing we have to do when we got home. We have after school commitments, like clubs, groups, sports teams, etc. Also, we have classes to study for, tests we have to prepare for, and new topics we have to learn in order to pass all of our classes. Many of the seventh graders in Albert Leonard think this is a good concept. I have made a petition signed by most of the seventh graders and will hand it in as soon as possible. Giving us no homework would definetly be the contemporary thing to do :D. If you did this, all the seventh graders would be beneficiaries.

 

This strategy will definitely help students in seventh grade. Thank you for listening to my letter, and I hope you think about it. Get back to me!

 

Signed,

Kasey D :D

My opinion on Spectaular

By: Crystal U.

Date: 4/2/09

    Hey, today I am going to give you my opinion on the movie Spectacular. Some people say that Spectacular was really bad and that Dadnapped was so much better. maybe some people just didn't conceptedit. Cause i concepted it and understood it. Cause in the beginning you really didn't know what was going on. But if you watched it a couple times you would understand it. Maybe they didn't like Nolan (Name is Nikko in the movie.) in the  movie and were not really vital with him.

    Also my other opinion is that Spectacular and Dadnapped shouldn't have been premiered on the same day. And that Nick and Disney Channel were having a challenge about who can get more viewers than the other person. And no one was passiveabout the situation like no one cared. And everyone knows that Spectacular was way better. Cause how did they already have a CD, clothing, accessories, and live concerts. My opinion would be that they are making major cash. And Dadnapped has had nothing but a movie on Disney Channel and everyone thinks that, that movie was way more better.

    So thats why my opinion is that Spectacular is a way better movie than Dadnapped. And its not to be mean but I just think that it is a better movie. I just think everyone misconstrued it and really didn't care that much, but i really cared about it. (But not that much.) Well thanks for reading my blog and see you next week.

 

My Terifficly Planned Out Future.

    With this graphic I think that Jessica Hagy is trying to say that it takes a lot of hard work to get to where you want to in life. If you don't want to do something that great then yeah probably your life won't be as difficult and changeling as someone who knows what they want and will do anything to accomplish their dream. But I think its also saying that if you are someone who only dose the minimum and tries to skip over the lots and lots of work you wont get to where you want to be and could make you life harder.

    I know where I want to be in life. I have always know since I was really little I have had the same dream. I have always wanted to go to Brown and become a teacher. I know that it's going to be extremely hard because that's what everyone tells me. But I don't care because I know that I am going to do it or at least try as hard as I possibly can to accomplish it. I think starting right now I can do some stuff that will help me get there. I can keep my studies up and get very good grades that can prepare me for the work in high school and then in college. Also, I can do community service. Community service always looks go on a application of any kind and sometimes it's just what you need to get into a college like Brown.

So, I know that what I want to do is going to take so much work. But you probably want to know exactly what.... so i'll tell you! First of all you have to go to college. For me if everything works out the way I want it to it will be Brown. After college you need to get a four year bachelors degree. But usually before that you need to do some on the job training, which is usually a student teacher. To be a teacher you need a lot of skills so you are able to run a classroom and be able to teach what you need to. Some of these skills include instructing, speaking, learning strategies, reading comprehension, social perceptiveness, active listening and monitoring. Once you go through all the hard work and get all these skills the average of how much money teachers make is about 60,000 dollars a year. I know that's not that amazing but I always think that if you really love something it doesn't matter how much money you make from it as long as you love doing it. 

So this is my plan for my future so far. I don't know if it's going to happen or if by the time it should happen that I am going to even want to do it anymore. All I know is that since I was little this has been my dream so far. But, hey dreams can always change.