DOGS R THE BEST:-)

There is a calm feeling that comes over you when you are with puppy. Think about their fluffy fur and their cute little eyes and noses. Dogs are the best! Nobody can deny it because if they do they are wrong. Now think about the stress and awfulness of final. Having a warm, happy fluffy dog with you there would make you feel much better.

Dogs are man's best friend. Dogs are always happy to see humans. They are always happy and there for you when you are down. Everybody loves dogs unless you are a soulless piece of trash. I was in school the other day and a random dude walked in with a puppy and I saw a girl who I have never seen smile have a full blown grin on her face. Dogs make everybody and stress free.

Finals suck. Everybody is worried about failing. Most people have a bit of anxiety. A lot of people even fail just because of feeling stressed, it doesn't matter how well prepared they are, finals are scary. Finals test you over all the material of the whole semester on one day. The tests would be so much better if everybody were happy and more calm. Nothing makes a person as happy as a dog. The dogs would help calm everybody down and make them feel way better.

The way it work is before the finals students would have dogs brought into the classroom. The students will then feel way better about their tests, having a dog around will make everybody happy and before a big test that helps a lot. Having joyful students will bring a more positive vibe in the testing area. After the students play with the dogs they will then proceed to get 100s on their finals.

In conclusion dogs should be able to come to school. Finals weeks is the most stressful two weeks if the year. Letting students play with dogs would help them calm down and therefore help them do better on their tests. It is not an opinion that dogs are the best, it is a fact.

just a bill :((((

1.There was a measure made to make new screening for Syrian refugees. It is popular because there was already politics about this topic. They are going to take up the measure after Thanksgiving. Obama is threatening to veto the bill!!!! HE'S JUST A BILL YES HE'S ONLY A BILL. This will be mean and our economy is based on immigrants.
2.The city council is easing regulations for garage apartments. Garage apartments provide space for people with low income and allow people to live affordably in neighborhoods. Tovo was opposed because it would undermine neighborhood plans. Ates said it was the only way he could live in his neighborhood. I think that people should be able to live where they want to live.
4.Salmon that is genetically modified is ok to eat. They can now eat AuquaAdvantage. There are aguements saying that the fish isn't safe to eat. The approval took a long time because it was the first of its kind. The executive was excited and surprised by the review.
5.Zimmerman wants to block Austin's money from helping Syrian refugees. Casar wants to support the refugees. Adler says that helping refugees and people in austin are two different things. 1225 refugees came to Travis County. Sid Miller compares rattle snakes to refugees. Democrats say that he "fanned the flames of fear".
6.Raphael Holiday set a fire that killed three people.He is one of the 13 people that has been put to death this year. Texas is half of the total murders in the US. Sween says that the attorneys gave up on Holiday.
7.I think I want to do an editorial on the Syrian refugees. This topic is highly controversial and there are many opinions on it. This would be very interesting to readers to get another view.

EXTRA CREDIT:
My All American is about longhorn history. Hi column has a strong opinion.

The Craft of Writing Columns

1. Alfred Dwayne Brown was convicted on shooting Charles R Clark.
2.He said that he didn't rob or shoot anybody.
3.The jury sentenced him to death.
4.October 2005.
5.he said he was at his girlfriends apartment.
6.They couldn't find any phone logs.
7.The investigator found old records while cleaning out his garage and he did make the call.
8.There was "one that shows one of the prosecutors had requested the records". I do think she is right.
9.The court didn't do anything for a year.
10.She basically says that trials should be more fair.
11.He will have a happy and fair life.
12.There is a subtle bias throughout the whole article and it is wrapped up at the end.

Restaurant Editorial

1.They hook the reader by describing the terrible conditions that restaurant dishwashers are in. This pulls the reader in by giving human interest.

2.There are higher wages and greater opportunities offered.

3.Restaurant workers have low wages and raising the wages would cause fewer jobs.

4.Children of workers are affected and raising the wage could help bring more people out of poverty.

5.The gap between rich and poor is beginning to rise to levels before the stock market crash of '29.

6.Consumers should not support the restaurants that underpay workers. Lawmakers make minimum wage minus tips be  minimum wage and tips will be extra.

7. The NRA is plays the role of allowing restaurants to underpay workers.

8. Restaurant workers say that they don't make much profit  and competition so they cant pay their workers well.

9. Kingsbury says that raising wages across the board will not end the competition. Raising wages will cause higher prices in the food but that will cause higher wage for workers and the workers will be more reliable.

10.They don't get paid enough to sustain.

11.This adds an emotional element and makes the reader see a real example about how workers are treated and not just statistics.

12. Restaurant owners don't pay for overtime and pay way under minimum wage, break child labor laws, and even fail to pay workers at all.

13.Wage theft is common all over  Boston not just struggling neighborhoods.

14.He should allow restaurants to open easier and that would allow a higher wage.

15. I think the conclusion paragraph should be more powerful. It is not typical.

current event quiz 3.1

1.Texas abortion restrictions law may be reviewed. The public will know on Monday what the supreme court says. Everybody wants to know because they could give no access to abortion.The attorney general doesn't want the law looked at because it could cause medical difficulty.
2.The judge shielded Charles Kleinert from charges. The judge cited a precedent from 125 years ago.  The supremacy clause declares the primary law of land. Jens David Ohlin says the case could be "far reaching".
3.The University of Washington did a major culture prep for their to China trip and learned basic Mandarin for two weeks. UT did the same thing to a lesser extent. The game is historic because UT might go again in the summer and in fall to engage alumni. The team has to miss a lot of class time to do this so that is a concern.
4.On Sunday in Myanmar millions of people voted to let military's power to be loosened. The day was peaceful and everybody was happy. Suu Kyi is expected to prevail and this will help the country not be under military rule that they have been under for half a century.
5.Pope Francis said that staling the financial malfeasances was a crime. The pope says that the two books released last week don't help. He is mad because the books say their is greed in the Vatican.
6.The sanctuary cities are Austin, Houston and Dallas.Both of the articles have opinions on immigration and quotes and evidence. The first article gives Greg Abbott's opinions. The second article talks about how people who cross the border are able to come to sanctuary cities.The cartoon basically says that if people can cross the border if they come to Austin, Houston or Dallas is it is totally fine. 

These articles are different because they have comics and two views. Also there is no editorials on the page.

BACON:(

1. Processed meat can cause colon cancer.
2. Environmental groups want warning labels on meat.
3. Putting the processed meats in group 1 means there is a lot of evidence supporting that they cause cancer. The chairman said that people shouldn't be terrorized by eating red meat but they should realize the risk.
4. The guy says that bacon causes cancer.
5.People don't really care about cancer  because they like the food to much.
6. I do not eat much meat at all so this doesn't really affect me.

LBJ Students Vandalize McCallum

At the beginning of October, McCallum students were surprised to see a series of vandalism was done all over campus. It was later determined that a group of kids from LBJ/LASA High School had done such things to prank McCallum before the football game that night. There were many opinions on this topic from both schools, some students saw it as a harmless prank and others thought that the students took it too far.

The LBJ/LASA students put crushed up plastic on one McCallum’s practice fields in the shape of a penis and also salt on the game field in the shape of a penis. They also put toothpicks and skewers on the main football field as well as tearing down one of the goal posts. Also they drew penises using an unknown liquid all over the courtyard which McCallum has yet to find a way to clean off. “Replacing the goal post will cost from $3,000 to $5,000 dollars.” says Michael Garrison, the McCallum principal said.

No students know the exact reason behind these crimes or who did it.The consequences of these students is confidential as well.There have been rumors that the people weren’t actually LASA students but i has been confirmed that those rumors are false. The pranks were not known to be targeted at any group of students either. Most McCallum administrators say that these actions were uncalled for. “I do not consider this a prank. It is vandalism, criminal mischief, and destruction of property.” said Garrison. Students have opinions on the situation as well. Student Amanda Eller in the LASA program said, “I think it was stupid of them to do it with grease and Mac hadn’t even done anything to us so I think they took it too far and they need to stop caring about rivalries so much”. There are very strong opinions on this topic.

An anonymous teacher comments, “They should have at least made their portraits more accurate!”.

Current Event!!!!!!

1.  It could have either been a farm accident or somebody not following the burn ban. At 10:30 a.m. officials let people in burn ban areas return home. The fire burned 34,000 acres and damaged 1,600 homes. The cost estamate of the damges is hundreds of millions of dollars!! Thats a lot of money!

2. Central Texas has stopped using paper textbooks and is now using online textbooks. Online textbooks are cheaper and prepare students for their future. The program isn't that user-friendly and it is hard for people if they need help, like the Robertsons. Melissa likes the online textbooks because there are videos, she can upload content and its more interactive.  leander doesn't have the money to fix their wifi therefore it would cost them even more money to make their wifi faster. I personally don't see a difference in the shift because it is all the same material just in a different format.

3. Traudeau legalized marijuana, dropped the US bombing campaign against and that changed the economy. They aren't going to bomb Islam. This will also change the fact that there will weed everywhere!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

4. Alan Guckian is a semi-finalist for the 2016 Music educator Award. There are 25 semifinalists and he is one of the 4,500 who were originally in it. He has a pretty good chance of winning. He will through his students a pizza party if he wins.

 5. Shaka Smart wants the players to be smart and athletic. He is making new rules and ways to make the players have drive to be smart by only allowing intellectual players to have playing time.

current event quiz

 1. The city council can get free Austin City Limits passes but many members are declining them. They are giving them out because in the article it says "“City, through its Parks and Recreation Department, Police, Fire, Safety, other designated representatives, shall have the right at any time to enter any portion of the Property for any purpose.” so the council members can attend. Rick and Don thought that there was a rule saying that council members can't accept gifts. Romero confirmed that members can accept the tickets. Kitchen used the passes and Houston gave them to 311 operators. I don't think that there is any problem with this perk because the workers deserve it.

2. Oklahoma  has to change what they use for the death penalty because the drug is illegal. All of the states that use these injection have to find another way to kill their people. Midazolam is a "short acting sedative" is apparently unreliable.

3. The prime Minister of Israel barred his ministers from visiting and Old City holy site. He also ordered the police to stop letting people from the parliament go there. He didn't want to "alter the status quo". The parliament didn't care and they went anyway. Muhanad was an extremist and murdered two othadox men and was later shot dead. He was part of the riots.

4. Svetlana Alexievich, a belarussian writer who studies russian world war two and the chernobyl nuclear accident. Her work is manly non-fiction, which shows some rarity from other female writers that have won. She blends literature and journalism. She says that she is proud of herself and will proceed to write in the future and still has new writing ahead of her.

5.

Observation Practice

I sat outside with Claire at a picnic table. The weather was very nice, it was a clear day. We watched the english class through the window and there were a few other people outside. I saw people waving to me and then I realized that it was my boyfriend and my friends Mamie and Isabella. Then I realized that their was a substitute and he was shooting me a death glare so I ran away.

Observation

I went to the small gym to observe the senior pictures. There were two places for the students to take their pictures. The students were in lines that were more like clumps. The casual clothes on but the boys wore fake suits and the girls wore fake dresses which were just pieces of cloth. The students didn’t seem to happy but they didn’t seem to be pissed of either. They just looked kind of bored. They were all talking to each other. There were also students by the wall during what seemed to be English homework. I saw a few people that I knew. There seemed to be at least sixty or seventy senior students and teacher in there. Their backpacks were way smaller than freshman backpacks. The students doing the English work looked super bored. The photographers looked really bored. People were walking in and out and changing their shirts. Some of the seniors had sashes on their suits. The room smelled like feet and old wood. I could hear the small little bits of chatter from where I was standing but nothing clearly. Sometimes I could hear people laugh. I could focus on a certain people sometimes and watch their body and facial expressions. Nobody in the room looked mad. Anna, the girl next to me started talking to who I assumed was an English teacher because he was grading an essay. They started talking about college. She told him that location was a big part of what she was looking for. They talked about Portland and the west coast. The seniors were still taking pictures. I noticed a girl with Adidas leggings talking to another senior with a sweatshirt on. They weren’t waiting in line. A boy with shorts and a black shirt and slides came in and started talking to Anna. She told me that his name was Victor. I asked him if he knew my sister and then he told this story about how my sister was in a play with him and he said that she was bossy. I then noticed that victor had an iPhone case that had unicorns on it and it said “hater gunna hate”. Then Victor and Anna started talking Adidas slides. Then we left the big gym and walked back to the classroom.

current event quiz 3

1. The pope wanted to "break out of its cycle of polarization and paralysis and use its power to heal the “open wounds” of a planet torn by hatred, greed, poverty and pollution". He wanted the governments decisions to be for the people good and not just diced based on money.He was directing the speech at congress. This was historic because this was the first time His speech defended freedom of religion.  John Boehner invited him.

2. There is a debate on whether a football official said racist remarks or not to provoke a player to punch him. The two players can return on the 15th but Breed will not be returning. The chairman, Mike Motheral said that he was frustrated when Moreno, Rojas, Watts and Breed didn't show up for the committee.

3. The parents of Maplewood students were frustrated because one of the sixth grade teachers got switched to Blackshear Elementary. AISD wanted teachers to only have 30 students per class. This causes the advanced students and students who aren't as advanced so the students will either be behind or not learning enough. The same thing happened at Bryker Woods except they allowed the teacher to stay.

4. Whitmire asked for the attorney general's opinion on whether the state's new open carry law will allow people to allow firearms on school properties. This law will take effect on January 1. Whitmire said that the position will not withstand a legal challenge. Paxton's office has 180 days to issue the nonbinding legal opinion.

5. Rashad Owens, charged with killing four people and injuring over 20 people at South by Southwest. He was incarcerated with bail of  $5.5 million.

EXTENDED REPONSE:

 An obituary is basically talking about how a persons life was before they die. It talks about how good they were of a person and who will miss them.  They don't really talk about how the person died.

I think having that as an assignment would actually be very interesting to see what people would write about. Also you would learn how people want their life to be.

Franny interviews Franny

One time I was attacked by my friends dog. I was walking her dog and she went inside and left me alone with the dog and it attacked me. It jumped on top of me and ripped my clothes and bit my ear. My clothes got ripped and I got bit on my arms and legs. That was the first time I ever kicked an animal.

Current Event Quiz 2

1. The long shot candidates were before the main candidates debate. The helped them because their ideas were heard first. The gave them a little bit better chance of winning. Donald Trump was on center stage because some of the candidates didn't qualify.

2. The CIA came to look at documents and to speak at Bass Lecture Hall. The release of the documents would show that the government isn't just keeping secrets but they are trying to not harm national security. The public can visit their website to see the documents.  A PDB is the President's Daily Briefs. During the 1960s these were important because they gave crucial imformation.

3. Hungarian security unleashed water cannons and tear gas on asylum seeker who tried to get through a fence. Migrants tried to find other routes from Serbia to Croatia and this would bve dangerous.

4. A student at McCarthur High School got detained for bringing a clock to school and a teacher said he looked suspicious. He wanted to show his engineering teacher his project until he got suspended for three days!! Half a million people tweeted supported him and Obama said it was cool.

I first learned about this story during this quiz, because one of the questions was about it. I think that social media would be very biased but it would still be informative and would show what happened and who supported him. I think that the story should have been more near the front because the fact that there is still racism, let alone racism of a 14 year old boy, is absolutely crazy.  I would have put the story near the front because it is an important story.

Current Event Quiz 1

1. A teaching assistant assaulted a gay man ten months before he was hired. UT says that federal laws of confidentiality keep them from explaining publicly why they hired the criminal. I think that the university did know about the assaults because the information was easy to find.

2.A black man was injured when he was arrested and died a week later. The family sued  the police and got a 1 million dollar settlement. The mayor said that the deal was "in the best interest of the city". The New York, Eric Garner case is also similar to the Baltimore case.

3. Chancellor Sig-mar Gabriel is taking half a million refugees a year, for several years. Critics say that this will cause migrants to travel to Germany and this will cause people to risk their lives for the opportunity. Germany responded to the criticism by reducing cash handouts  and said they would increase food stamps and in-kind aid.

4. Ted Cruz invited Donald trump to the anti-Iran nuke deal rally. Cruz used Trump to attract more media. Unlike other candidates, Cruz isn't that mean to Trump. He basically said that the media follows Trump wherever he goes.

5. Clinton apologized for her use of private emails after declining a week before. This will most likely stay in the news because they (Ron Johnson and Bryan Pagliano) are meeting with the attorneys of Paliano to talk about what will be revealed. Co-mingling is to mix and Clinton's personal and business life co-mingled. Her mistake was her not admitting her mistake.

6.Two students beat up a game official because they thought he was being unfair and they got suspended. The assistant coach made comments that could have influenced the players to do these actions. The students say the official was speaking racial slurs to the players and this is also what led them to hurt him.

Fixing all of Austin's public pools would cost $47 million. The article talks about Austin's Nature and science center, which is free. 61% of AISD are poor. It talks about how everybody in Austin should care about our  young people and give them more opportunities. In a few years, if the funding isn't paid for then the cost to fix pools will rise to $100 million. She basically talks about

I think that there are other things that our city should help raise money for, pools are not really at the top of that list. Pools are important for summer and for kids but we could be raising that money to redo roads or give that money to homeless people who need help with their lives. I do think that the pools need help though.

RESEARCH SCENARIO

PART ONE:
If I were assigned this scenario I would first do some research on what the district approves of for lesson plans. Also some research on creationism so I would have a clearer understanding of it. I would also interview the students in the class. I would ask them about their experience in the class and opinions on what the teacher was teaching. I would try to find some primary sources and see if they thought the power point supported creationism.

PART TWO:
She sited a lot of the teachers and administrators. Also she had pictures of the actual power point which was very helpful. I think that she did a very good job explaining all the events and sounded very professional. I think that the power point was a very good source in its self, also the students seemed to be the most reliable sources.