Friend O' Grams are here!!!!!!!

Hey everyone it's time for.... FRIEND O' GRAMS!!!!!!!!!! So for the next few days the journalism class will be selling friend o' grams. What these are, are helium filled balloons with a nifty piece of candy tied to them. They are only one dollar per friend o' gram. So they are super cool and not very expensive so you should buy many of them and show how much you love your friends!




                                                                                                                       - dakota

New Blog Look ~ Escher Dollar

I was thinking of something to blog about, but then I took a found Blogger is getting a new look. I wanted to see the new look so I clicked "upgrade" and I saw the new look, and it looks horrible. It just looks bland and generic. Maybe I'll like it better if I use it more, although I think I'm going to have to because I think it will switch to this new view permanently.

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Readers Challenge (Sarah Baker)

Mrs. Thompson gave the entire high a readers challenge. She said that who ever read the Hunger Games would get to go see the movie for FREE!!!!!!! We had to have the first book read by March 26th to be able to go see the movie. Monica, Caleb, Brooke, Jonathan, and I are the only ones that read it so we are going with Mrs. Thompson This Friday I'm so excited.

Have you ever heard of any really crazy stories lately? Sometimes you'll hear about a really crazy event, or an act of valliant survival. If you haven't seen a crazy story then try watching a show like 20/20 or something like that, i'd almost bet you'd find atleast one. There will be several ones that I will touch on during this essay-type assignment.  Some even as severe as to cut off a body part, or pull a rocket propelled grenade out of an injured soldier!

The first story I will touch on will be one that I heard of back in the Summertime. There was this farmer who lived in Colorado and he went hunting up in the mountains. On his trip he took a big horse trailer and his truck. When he was about to pack up and head home, he got pinned against a rock and the trailer rolled on to his foot, crushing his toes. He was then forced to cut off his toes... with his pocket knife... all five of them! He then got to a hospital where he was treated and now is doing fine!

The next story I will touch on is one about a military soldier and the fearlessness of his companions. One day a vehicle that was carrying several army troops was taking them to their destination when they were hit with an ambush. One of the troops was hit with an RPG rocket directly in his upper leg/stomach. The crazy part was that it didn't blow up. His troops took him back to base where he was then operated on. The Doctor showed much courage because he actually performed surgery and removed the RPG!! This showed courage because the whole time there was a chance that it could've exploded and killed alot of people. However it didn't and they took the RPG and properly disposed of it, and everyone survived.

    

Improvements

I, for one, think that we should save up and build a gymnasium on the field south of the school. It would save money for gas used to go to practice for the sports teams, give us a place to play, and would be a great place for breaks in the day. Another thing, we should dig a new well. I realize that we are trying, but this should be our main focus. It would give us ude of the water fountains and we wouldnt have to buy gallons of water or water bottles. I'm sure that these have come up before, I'm just restating them.

We should also get new sports teams. For instance, Tennis, Baseball, Football, maybe even Track. I think we could expand and possibly get publicity. We could get more students, because most of America's teens are obsessed with sports.

So, these are changes I think that, with a little time, money, and work, we could see in this school. Even though these may be my own, personal views, I have no doubt that others feel the same way. This could help us expand and get more students.
                                                                  Thanks,
                                                                                  Jonathan Kirkland, 10th Grade

What Crazy Things People Will Do To Survive. By Monica Jones

  Have you ever had a near death experience? Or though about what you would be willing to do if you were caught in one? Throughout history we all have seen some crazy things that people will do to save their lives. We have t.v. shows now about what if we put people out in the wilderness and made them work to survive. We all know the story of the man who even went to the length of cutting his own arm off to escape death.

  Here are some crazy stories about how people of all different ages survived by crazy ways of survival.  Nine year old Grayson was lost for a whole 24 hours when he and his parents went on a hiking trip. He survived by ripping his bright yellow jacket up and tied them to trees for people to know where he was. He said he learned if from Man VS Wild and that the show saved his life. Before his parents and him left he snuck a energy bar in his bag so his parents wouln't know. So he wasn't left without food.

  In 2003 Aron Ralston cut his arm off in order to survive. He had fallen and got his arm lodged inbetween a 800lbs rock. Throughout the night he didnt know what to do and he finally realized he would have to cut his arm off in order to survive. So he tied it off and cut it off with his own pocket knife.

A Feature(s) I Would Like To Have At The School

 One feature I would like to have at this school (BCA) is a nice, wood-floored, giant gymnasuim. Me, being a basketball player, would LOVE to have a gym at the school. We could host our home games at home, and not at some church 11 miles away from the school ( not that there is anything wrong with that). We do have a multi-purpose room, but it is not that big, a concrete floor, and has one of those mobile basketball goals. We would host our basketball and volleyball games, the Family Fun Night, and other activities. It could also be used for recess when it is raining, or even chapel services.

  So I think a gymnasium would be very beneficial and good for the school in both an academic and athletic way. I think it would be AMAZING if we got a gym. I mean, it would be fine if it was a small gym would be built, but I really dream of a big gymnasium. Also, we could host the athletic practices instead of driving to a chuch to do it. And the way gas prices are now, it would save some greenbacks.

 There is also another thing I think that would be benefical to the school, but it doesn't refer to athletics. I think it would be good if.... the school got Macintosh computers. It would be good for the students to experience this computer. They can do more things than others, and maybe we could make a school app!! But I think both of these things would be good for the school

                                            - Austin :)

  

Super Humans? BY:Jordan

It has been recorded in history many times of men and women going through extraordinary physical feats physically and meantally, for example in 2002 a firefighter bench pressed over 2000 pounds after falling down three stories, or the farmer whos arm was caught in a pice of farming machinery and in order to save his life he cut his own arm off with his pocket knife.

        There are many stories like this but they go to show that the human body us capable of "under preassure of course"

What's one feature I would want a highschool to have?

One thing a highschool usually wants to have is a large multi-purpose building. A large multi-purpose bulidng can benefit a school by giving them a large assembly room for different activities like, plays, chapel, and sporting events. A bigger gym/multi-purpose room would be my first suggestion to add to this school because if we had a gym we wouldnt have to travel for a long ways to go to home games. I know many parents and many staff memebers would want this to happen as well as me. But this is not about what this school needs, it's about what I would want a school to have if I had a say in what would happen. So let me begin....

A large multi-purpose building would be beneficial to any school because, as its name suggests, it can be used for many more things than just one activity. For example, it can be used as a gym when sporting events, such as basketball or volleyball games, are scheduled. It can also function as an area to perform chapel, like we do now, and it is also great for plays if you have bleahcers for people to see what's happening on the "stage." At my old school, they used their gym for basketball games, volleyball games, plays, meetings (at times), and chapel when we couldn't go to the church. It can also be used for recess when the it is raining outside.

So, as you can see, a multi-purpose building is a very versital building in which many different activities can be held. For this reason I think that a large multi-purpose building would be a good choice next to just regular school rooms for teaching. The school I used to go to even uses their muti-purpose to hold carnivals to raise money for their school. So this is why any school should have a multi-purpose building or a large gym are which is practically the same thing.

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Sarah Baker

I think that the public schools of today could use allot of improvement in preparing us for the real world. First off they could teach us alot better morals. Like the way they let kids dress these days. When we kids grow up and finish school and try to find good jobs people want to hire kids who present there selfs in a good manner.
Another thing that would really help us in the public schools is to have allot of good programs that would help students learn bout the field they want to go into after school. In the days we are living in it is very important to learn a good trade and have a good job in life. People who never learn anything in school will never be prepared to go out in real life. That is why we need to learn in school what we will do in the years ahead.
To me the best thing the public school could do is to put God back into the school. If students were taught the from the Bible there would be less evil in the world. If they would just teach the students the really right and wrongs we would have a better future for everyone. This is what I think the public school could do to prepare us better for the future.

The Pros and Cons of Public School.

                Some people feel that the public school system does not adequately prepare students for the real world. This is often true because although it does give students the opportunity to socialize with other people, the way they will once they get out into the real world, the discipline is often not up to par with what it will be in college, and in the work place. A change that could be made is obvious; increase and improve discipline systems.

                 The problem most people see with homeschooling is the students don’t get the social skills that children in public school get. So a main advantage to public school is you get the right social skills which would help you in college, getting a job, and maintaining a career that you enjoy. Also, the right social skills will help students in making friends, resolving conflicts, and persuading people if they’re lawyers or salespeople. However, the problem with public school, is the disciplinary action taken against students is often minimum and can be persuaded by the students, parents, or the relationship between the student and teacher. The main thing is deadlines. Often, if a student doesn’t get in an assignment on time, the teacher is willing to give them more time if they can come up with a legitimate excuse. However, in the real world if something is late, you either get a zero, or fired if it’s in your job. Also, public school students often get away with much more than they should such as skipping classes, back talking, and doing things at the minimum. This will not get them very far once they get out of high school.

                This could easily be improved by cracking down on discipline in public schools. If they were to take it more seriously, public school could better prepare students for the real world. This is why I think Christian school is the best opportunity because it gives the student social opportunities and most Christian schools are more strict on discipline.

Ashlee Mattingly

Rutilant.....

Austin and I went on another journey to the center of the Berean school and asked people what they thought the word rutilant meant. Here are the results....again

Zackeus- "like persistant"

Chase- "wiggly"
Caleb Keeling- "well I guess rude"

Sarah- shiny!!!

And the word rutilant means "glowing or glistening with golden light"
I would like to say that I had to give Sarah a hint before she could come up with an answer that close to what it really meant. So another Austin and Caleb word definition quest has come and gone and so now I would like to know what you thought rutilant meant.

Austin and Caleb

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Murder on the Grill

My character was Dan Dragnet. I am an actor that will be starring as a detective in an upcoming movie. I had just arrived at the police station to get a feel for the detective role, and then we got a call about a murder. I jumped at the chance to go with the actual detectives, in my mind I was thinking how much my fans would adore me, had I got the chance to solve a murder. It only took 3 hours before I sniffed out the murderer. It was Tiara, actually, it was her twin sister Hope. So I am so excited for my movie. Also, I love you fans!!!!!
                                                                                                   Jonathan Kirkland

Murder Mystery Game!!

Well since we had a leap year this year our Journalism class played a murder mystery game. This murder took place in Tom Dooley's backyard. He had a BARBEQUE FORK IN HIS CHEST!!!!!!!! would be a painful way to die! We found out  that it wasn't even one of the guests there! It was accually Tom's wife's twin sister!! ..... shocking right! Anyways it was very fun and I enjoyed it alot!



                                                                                                      - Dakota

Barby Q is Innocent!

Ok so Brooke Keeling and I played a bad person that tanned a lot in a murder mystery activity. Her name was Barby Q and she is definately an interesting person. So this guy, named Tom, that was grilling chicken and somebody stabbed him with a fork in the heart and killed him. And apparently my character stole Tom from his wife. This led many people to think that we killed Mr. Tom but the truth is that the woman that we stole Tom from killed Tom. Her name is none other than Tiara....I know she sounds like a drama queen and she is.


Caleb Hoenshell

The Murder Mystery Game

Well, in honor of Leap Year, we decided to play this mystery game in journalism class for a couple of days. It was called "Murder on the Grill" and the game was set in the 1950's.  There were many characters that some of the students played as, such as Barby Q ( Caleb and Brooke ), Ivan Spudnik ( Jordan ), and Johnny Angel ( Escher ). Dakota and I played as Chubby Cheddar, a black musician. The story was that Tom Dooley had a BBQ for all his friends ( the students ) and it turns out, one of the characters killed Tom with a fork. So the whole game was characters accusing other characters, trying to figure out who killed Tom. So it was a pretty fun game, and we eventually found out who did it. It was Tiara's ( Sarah ) twin sister Hope. And she wasn't even in the game. So none of the characters did it, but it was still a pretty fun game.



                                               - Austin :)     

Monica Jones' Role In The Game

 In the game Mystery I was a girl named Bobby Sox. The basic story was that there was a bunch of people having a cook out and then there was a huge thunderstorm and they all ran inside and they came back out like ten minutes later and Tom (the host) was dead with his cooking fork in his chest. After long and boring questions we have found out that Tom had an affair with his fiances sister (Hope) and Tiara was driven crazy and she was in an insane asylum and Hope was there at the cook out as Tiara  and she killed Tom because she was so mad.

the mystery thingy

So for the last three days we have been playing this mystery game it is kinda like a roll playing game. My character was a tall blonde...girl named Barby-Q, who tans in her front yard and is very good friends with Tom, very good friends(wink)(wink). Now in case you didnt know Tom was the poor man who died by being stabbed in the chest with a barbeque fork during a storm. Now normally I wouldnt say there was anything wrong with Braby-Q  and Toms love other than Tom was engeged to another woman. Now as suspicious as Barby-Q sounds unfortunately she did not kill Tom. I was hopeing I did but I didnt, Oh well, so sad Tiara got to kill Tom.
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By: Brooke Keeling

Murder on the Grill ~ Johnny Angel ~ Escher Dollar

In the "Murder on the Grill", I played as Johnny Angel. We were just trying to figure out the murderer of the party host named Tom. I supposely a mechanic but as it turns out I was a KGB agent on a mission to return Ivan Spudnik to Russia. In the end I was not a the murderer, the murderer was this the twin sister of a girl named Tiara.

Tiara Diamond (Sarah Baker)

Keegan and I was Tiara Diamond in the game Murder On The Grill. Tiara Diamond was Tom's(the man who got killed) Fiance. Who was also having a baby. We ended up being the murderer and we was really Tiara's twin sister hope.

Tiara Diamond

In the game Murder On The Grill, Sarah Baker and I got Tiara Diamond for our suspect of the killing at the cook out,which is Tom's Fiance. It turns out that Tom was murdered by Tiara's evil twin Hope, while Tiara was in a mental hospital at the time. So yea that was pretty much it....

By:Keegan mcguire

Ivan Spudnic .......... Jordan wyatt

hi my name is Ivan... i came here from mother russia to start a new life. I have had a hard time learning english but its getting gooder. I had made a friend, his name was Tom but he was killed by evil woman then a kgb agent took me back to russia.

Ashlee's Role in Mystery Game.

My role in the mystery game that the English class has been playing the past few days was Peggy Sue. I was a dectective in charge of questioning the suspects and having them act out things that happened during the murder. Throught the game, I thought the murderer was Bobby Sox, the victim's sister, but we then found out the actual murderer was the victims' fiance's twin sister, Hope.