The Big Apple Disappearance

The splendid breeze of the fall season gently blew, and instantly made goosebumbs appear on Liz’s back. Liz took in her surrounding and thought nothing would be better than this moment. It had been fall break and she decided to go to New York City with her friend Megan to visit her family, look around at apartments, and colleges.
   “Don’t you think that next year is going to be difficult?” Liz asked Megan.
    “ Well what do you mean? I’m not comprehending.”giggling Megan replied. “I mean like with all this school work we have to juggle, moving from Michigan to New York. It DEFINITELY is a lot I will say.I almost can’t believe it! It seems like it was just yesterday we had kindergarten and was in Miss Finkles class.” “Ha ha yeah, and I miss those little dumb songs she would make us sing to remember all those numbers, but look at us now, we’re in New York for crying out loud! And next year, you never know what’s gonna happen, we  could be the next big thing! NO!...more like replacing Justin Bieber on the charts!...” nudging Liz’s shoulder Megan kept blabbing on with enthusiasm. Walking along the concrete sidewalk sipping on their hot chocolates that were half empty, Megan’s pink prada purse dropped. As she went to go pick it up, Liz thought this would be a funny moment to document as a memory. Liz pulled out her black, shiny, new flip camera and pressed the record button.
   “Hey guys it’s Liz! Um Megan and I are in New York, you know just checking out things and Megan, knowing how clumsy she is, dropped her purse.” Laughing, Liz turned the camera over to Megan, and skittishly, Megan shield her face from the camera. “Liz,STOP!” Megan yelled. “Okay fine, Megan’s getting annoyed so I guess we’ll talk to you guys later.” When Liz closed the camera and put it back in her black buttoned down coats pocket, her phone began vibrating a million times...Oh no...it was her mom trying to reach her.
       “Yeah mom?”Liz answered.
       “ How’s the city treating you and Megan?” Liz’s mom asked. “What? Wait WHAT?!” Asked Liz putting the phone closer to her ear and placing her index finger to her right, red, cold, ear. She signaled Megan to come closer waving her hand back and forth as if she was fanning herself. Megan skimmpered over to Liz like a little mouseand began walking with Liz down the street into a dark and quiet alley.
     Finally a quiet place.
“Okay sorry mom. It was too loud, I couldn’t hear what you were saying.”
“Well I was just calling to make sure you’re alright and where’s your father?” Liz’s mom queried. “ Oh he’s at Aunt Lanies job on 5th Ave. Not too far.”
“Okay stay safe Liz. And stick tight with Megan. I don’t want to hear any bad news saying that you went missing.”
“Ha ha very funny mom.” Liz said giggly into the microphone sarcastically.
“I’m being serious Liz, New York City isn’t a place to play around. If you want  to live there, you MUST pay attention to what is around you.”
“Mom I know.” Liz  said impatiently.
“Alright, on that note, I’ll let you go. Remember curfew. 12 o’clock and you have to go back to your father.” Liz’s mom said in a serious tone.
  After 10 seconds of silence, Liz spoke into the phone softly into the phone, “I love you mom.”
 “I love you too.” Liz’s mom replied. Before hanging up, it came to Megan’s realization it was pitch dark and she started to get paranoid of the vibe that filled the air.”Alright Mom, I got to go, talk to you  soon. Bye.”
 Those last words meant everything to Liz at this moment. It was now 11 pm. As the midnight darkness crept up slowly, the two teenaged girls became nervous, feeling practically stranded in the Big Apple;Home of new yorkers. A white van pulled up. With all their might, Megan and Liz began running away.When they reached the end of the alley, they thought they were safe.All of a sudden three guys with black hats on, Black winter coats, black sneakers, black gripping gloves, and denim levi jeans slowly appeared up behind Megan and Liz. The guys grabbed them and dragging them down the alley became a struggle as the two girls began kicking and screaming. The strangers covered Megan and Liz’s mouths almost blocking half of their noses , only leaving them with a limited supply of air. Megan bit the mysterious and unfamilars hand tasting the copper like blood.
  “OW! SHE BIT ME!” Stranger number one yelled letting go of Megan. Megan, sprinting down the alley in tears, was heartbroken. Leaving her best friend behind wasn’t the greatest idea but that was one of the ways there could be help. Turning around the corner, Megan’s white pointy noise and her brown eye poked around the corner pressed against the old brick wall. She saw her friend being dragged and shoved into the back of the white van screaming for help. The wan door slammed and within seconds, her best friend was gone. Out of breath, Megan stopped looking at the alley and put her back against the brick wall.The clear tears ran down her pink rosy cheeks like a waterfall.
 Groping around in her purse, tremblingly, she pulled out her phone and dialed for Liz’s dad.
    “Hello?!” Megan yelled anxiously
     “Whats wrong?” Liz’s dad Jerry asked.
     “ITS LIZ! WE WERE WALKING, AND MONICA JUST HAD CALLED LIZ AND THESE TWO GUYS CAME AND TOOK US AWAY BUT I WAS ABLE TO ESCAPE...THEY HAVE HER STILL...I’M SO SORRY...” Megan’s sentence began to trail off. Suddenly every bone in Megans body felt like they were collapsing and breaking and making her become weaker and weaker inside, at every breath she took.
“Okay, where are you? Are you safe? I’m coming to get you now.” Jerry responded quiet frightened. “I’m right around the corner from 7th Ave.” Megan sobbed. The call was disconnected.
     

The Brtital Cold Weather

The cold, eerie, ridgid January wind, blew as hard as a current pulling in someone in the deep blue sea. The white snow flakes came down from the sky landing on the white mittens that it seemed to be camafloudge. The past couple of weeks have been full of hectic distaster with the weather that all the schools in the township had been closed. Playing outside in this weather, was the best. It seemed as if when I closed my eyes and saw all darkness, I was able to picture being in the artic. The ice cold artic, where the polars bears that appeared on red sparkly coke bottles lived. It was an extravigently, amazing feeling that should've lasted forever.

NJASK test taking!!!

Through out the week of the NJASK, there was a ton of feelings going around the sixth grade hallways as the students of the sixth graders. With me personally, I had experiences a mix of feelings running through my head such as nervousness, eagerness and a quit bit of happiness. As being a sixth grader, I had four days and two sections of the test. That was for the first two days, English and the last two days, Math.

     During the first two days during the testing of the English part of the NJASK, I thought to myself that it was going to be easy because all the essays such as explanatory, open-ended, and persuasive, I have gone over many times as a review in English class. All though the prompts that they had gave us was easy, it took me a while to plan out the story line of it. I thought to myself that I only had a limited amount of time so to keep myself where I needed to be and not waste my time on just one section, I split the sections into a certain amount of time so that I made it easy for myself. For the planning part, I made it only to be at least 5 minutes. And the rest I took at least 30 mins and then whatever time I had left, i used to go back and check over my work. The writing the essay part was easy and I hope that I was scored with a good grade that is reasonable and that I deserve.I think the only hard challenging part during the LA part of the NJASK was the multiple choice to this one passage which was Japense.

The math part, overall was challenging to me because on most of it, was thing that I didn't understand well before the NJASK and when I was learning it in school. All through that part also, I made sure that I had paced myself but at the same time I kept my eye on the clock so that I didn't run out of time once again.

All though the NJASK is a challenging thing that each child in the state of New Jersey has to face, it is benefitting us all by the thigns that are given on the test.

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Kyle and Leah: The Lost Dog

"Maxie!!!! Come Here!!!" Leah exclaimed to the brown and black german shepherd. As Maxie came towards the treat Leah held out in her hand, Leah's older brother Kyle, came over petting Maxie on her back. "Hey Kyle!!"
    Hi Leah." Kyle responded. Leah looked around curiously with a thinking expression written on her face. "Have you ever thought of how Claudia has many things to do when she gets home?" Leah quried. :Yeah, it seems fustrating to do that many things. Especially right after a couple boring hours in that college."  "Maybe we should be agood little brother and sister and do something fantastic for Claudia! Look at it this way, there's blue skies, nice weather, and the sun is out and you hardly see that during this time in April." After a while of processing what his sister just told him, Kyle shouted, " We CAN MAYBE WALK MAXIE FOR CLAUDIA!!!" When Kyle was done saying that, Leah looked relieved to see that her brother finally caught up and understood what Leah had been meaning for him to say. "I'll get the leash for the dog!!" Yelled Kyle as he began running into the kitchen looking for Maxie's leash. In a nano second, Kyle raced out the house with the purple lease that glowed magnificently in the shining sunlight. Leah took the leash from Kyle's hand and attached it onto the matching purple collar that was around Maxie's neck.
       As soon as they got out of the backyard and got to the park, Kyle and Leah heard a rumble in their stomachs. They were unaware of what they heard, but they knew that they were hungry. Without realizing, at the same time, Kyle and Leah let go of the leash and Maxie ran off away from Kyle and Leah!! When Kyle and Leah got within a distance to catch Maxie, Maxie darted off and soon after, Kyle and Leah began to feel out of breath.
      They then Knew Maxie was nowhere to be found after looking for two whole hours all over the park. So, they began looking for Maxie outside of the park and around the neighborhood. With Maxie to be found no where in sight, the began to lose hope in themselves.... All of sudden they heard someones familiar voice call out to them.
    "Hey you guys missing something?" Asked Leah and Kyle's older sister Claudia. Oh no!!! We are doomed!! thought Kyle and Leah. Instead of getting yelled at, Leah told the story and their sister understood because that once happend to her. "Thanks you guys for helping me out. Maybe next time you guys can do something easy like wash the dishes or clean  my room." Explained Claudia. They began laughing to ease the mood and happy that they knew everything was now going to be okay with Maxie found, by their sides. 

Quotes!!!

In your life, you face battles that you feel would be so difficult, so remarkable to be defeated, impossible to ever be accomplished but sometimes, you do lose those battles but at least you lean from those corruptions and mistakes. And you try to improve. "Fall seven times, stand up eight." (Japenese Proverb). This quote should inspire people to never give up and always go for the long run.
      This reminds me of when I was learning how to ride a two wheeler with no  training wheels and I wound up falling of my bike. It was a very inscrusating pain but I new that in order to learn, this stuff was going to happen. As I got up, i had a cut but I new that couldn't stop me. I continued riding my bike and meanwhile, as I had the cut, I knew from that point on that I shouldn't do what I just tried to do. From that point on, I learned from my mistake and fixed it by correcting myself on what I should do while riding my bike.
      This also relates to the situation in Tokyo Japan. On March 11th, 2011 there was a tsnumai and a 9.0 magnitute eathquake. The Japense all suffered in horrible ways. Mostly, death, horror, and not to mention inhaling the stentch of the nuclear power plant that had leaked from all the mess. The Japenese might have gone through the most terriblest time ever but now they stand together and tries to fix this. They stand up together, and are trying to make the enviroment around them much better then how it is right now.
     Through everything, you learn from the mistakes you have made, or the bad times. During those healing times, you gain more knowledge and you, you become a bigger person, and you gain wisdom.

Locker Searches

Today, I have been informed that the Edison School Board is trying to have Random locker searches. I agree with this descion because it will help in 3 ways. These ways are if someone is carrying around drugs, the adminastrators or police will seek these drugs and have them disposed immeadiatly. Not only will this help the school, but this will help the student as well. This is so, because the student will have to go to another school to clean up he/she act and attitude.
           This will help because if there is a weapon in the locker, same with drugs, it can be disposed and the school will be safe because there will be no harm or violence. Also, with no violence, there maybe can be a decrease in the death toll rate.Lastly, this can help because by the adminastators finding these drugs or weapons, the students who has possetion of those weapons will no longer have them and they can do no harm to themselves. Such as, commit suicide or have a drug overdose.
        Overall, the Board of Education should have this act come into play because it will benefit in many ways.

A Perfect Utopia of Uniforms

"Freedom rings where opinions clash." (Adlai Stevenson). This quote, in this situation particular, is meaning, people won't be able to say what they think about wearing uniforms, and they can't be unique, express themselves and with this happening, everything will be bland, (not interesting). The uniforms in a way can benefit the students by them not worrying and focusing on what their wearing, and, all that focusing goes onto their schoolwork for once. Also, by them wearing these uniforms, it can help them prepare for their future careers on proper ettiqute and how to dress.

By having uniforms for schools will also decrease the chances of teachers and students assuming that one of their own, is intruding on the schools property. These uniforms would help schools because they easily make it much clearer to distinguish who belongs on school grounds and who doesn't. This is so, because the people who don't belong will be spotted and the principal/ teacher, will escort them out the building. This way, the childrens safety isn't in danger.

If you could look at some of the students records, grades, or the effort they put into their work, you would most likely become disapointed. Half of the time, when the kids get back their report cards, they wonder why they're failing, is because they honestly are either failing because they are having problems with the lessons being taught in class, or  the lack of effort of participation in class that is being shown. Especially around this age, (middle school) you hear talking going around the school about whos wearing what. If all the schools had to wear uniforms, there just may be a posiblity of the grades going up. Even though the students may not like the ideas of uniforms, I bet they would be happy to see that their averages are increasing and they aren't failing.

If there was a chart that kept track of the population of the bullies in middle school, the stats would've probably increased from the past couple of years. To make this number decrease, something about this, has to be done so that these numbers can decrease. The bullying began out of jealous, hatred, taking their madness out on people, or just loving o see the effect that they have on this person. In this case, the bully can be picking on kids who are likely to be under priveledged, that can't afford name brand things or just people who don't want to wear those types of things. The bullies bully these kids because they are insecure and by them bullying these kids, makes them feel better about themselves. Also, as of recently, there has been alot of kids committing suicide because they actually care about what other kids say about them or they are just tired of them being picked on.

By these Middle Schools making an agreement to uniforms, all of these problems can come to an end. Bullying about clothes, concentration of work, and the intruders. Hopefully, the schools and the Board of education, can come to an agreement of making these uniforms official.

Pillow Pets!!! (Boardroom)

All around the world, you hear complaints from adults and even children. Either it's neck pains or cant' get through the night because it's too scary, or it's just not feeling comfortable anymore. Well, there is no need for them to mention their problems with their pillows anymore. Now there is a new pillow called Pillow Pets!

Pillow Pets are spectactular! I can assure that because they are the most comfortable pillow that you can find, especially if you are tired of using the same old, boring pillow. This pillow has a very superior quality material by having a extra fuzzy, soft material that is smooth and will stay that way after many washes.

Everyday, you can find people at furniture stores looking for pillows. Most of the time, half of those people don't know what type of pillow to get. If you get the Pillow Pets, you are guaranteed to have the best pillow. Pillow Pets comes in different themes such as Farm, Zoo, Safari, and Holidays. They also come in a Dolphin, Unicorn, Elephant, and Frog. The pillow is made out of 100% polyester fiber and when you go on vacation with your children or just yourself, the Pillow Pet is easy to be placed in luggages without a problem! Having this pillow will surely give people a good nights sleep and most importantly, make the next day GREAT!

Ever stuck on what to get for the perfect present for kids? Well, by kids having these new fantasic pillows, They will be thrilled! As you can tell, this pillow isn't your average everyday pillow. This pillow will become kids FAVORITE PILLOW! Why do I say that? That is because it has a different type of material, it comes in animals, and most of all, the Pillow Pet will give you no problem when it comes to having sleepovers! These pillows are fun and playable and not to mention. Portable! On the side of the pillow, there's a strap that has velcro that you attach to the other side of the velcro to make it portable. Not only will this just be the children's favortie pillow, but also the adults because there's no more fussing and fighting to carry a pillow with a load of things in your hands.

Other Pillows, you can get rid of today and go out and buy a Pillow Pet! Pillow Pets are amazing, fun, and you will never want to go back to you old pillow. In fact, almost the whole Nothern Hemisphere has switched over their pillow and purchased a pillow pet.

Overall, Pillow Pets are the new things to get. If you don't get them now, you will be the only one left behind! These pillows, are voted as the most comfiest and awesome pillows!

Pillow Pets-commercial

During the process of thinking what object I was going to do, and the process of making the commercial was great. A couple of things that I like about this project is that we can be creative with it and we can make up our own ideas instead of following the teachers rules. I also enjoyed how for the commercial you can have a theme like a comedy, seriousness, or just anything that you would want! Another thing that I enjoyed was how we could pick our own partners.

          A couple of things that I didnt like about this was how we had very little time to practice (thats in my opininion). Another thing is how I wasnt able to plan things easily because of the time length that was given. The lat thing is how after all the commercials were recorded and the class watched them, i noticed that my commercial was very out of line. Most of the lines were forgotten and the actions, I believed could be more accurate if I had practiced more.
            Overall, I had fun with this and I hope that in the future that there will be more projects like this throughout the school year.

Pillow Pets

The product that I present to you today is Pillow Pets. I would love if this product could be on t.v to show people just how great it is. Some examples of why you should but this as a commercial on t.v is that this would make tons of viewers go out and buy this. Pillow Pets will have a HUGE effect on little kids. the reason of this is because they are soft, comfy, adorable animals that you can sleep with and they are portable so that parents don't have to stress about dragging this pillow along with them. Instead, the pillow pet allows you to take it with you because you can use the strap that they have to close up the pillow and then attach it with the velcro. Pillow Pets will have children amazed with this product and they would want to go get one to test them out!! Also, you should put this ad on t.v as a commercial because of the theme song will make the viewer remember it and always think of a pillow pet!! Overall, if this pillow pet ad was to go on t.v, it would make a drastic change in Kid's worlds.

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My Smarticles Helped Me Today!!

Throughout this course of the College-Career essay, I learned many things about college and what you can do to apply for one. I enjoyed this because it came me the prespective of how much things were going to cost and I know realize things in the education life, Isn't so cheap. This also gave me a view on how I would like to accomplish things in the future and how I wanted somethings to be like this in College.

      A couple of things I learned during this unit is how there was a HUGE variety of how many colleges you can pick from but they should have your major that you are going to college for and that the college should suit you as a shirt (in a good way). After doing this unit, I have a couple of college that offer my major that I may go to in the future but I just may change my major from learning different things as I continue going to school. I learned that before you actually go to the college, you should research it or even go on campus and visit to see what college life actually looks like. I also learned that every kid NOW thinks that college is just about going to PARTIES but it really ISN'T!!! If you are able to manage going to parties and not finishing classwork or homework, It can play a huge part on your academic grade and you can pay for it by having bad grades on tests.

     I think that this college-career unit was great and i hope that college will be this easy when I actually have to apply.

A pErSoN tO lOoK uP tO iS.....

Someone I look up to in my life is my little sister Deanna. This one person is very important in my life because of I didn't have her I probably would feel...empty and like I was missing the other half of me. Even though she is smaller than me, I look up to her because of the things she does. You would be suprised at the things she knows at the age six years old. Most times if I don't know how to do something, she will help me or if I make a mess, she will be there to help me clean up.Also, she sticks up for me if one of my Best Friends joke around with me about something and my sister takes the joke literally. I look up to her almost as a older sister because of her uniqueness, smartness, and most of all, her responsibility [even though sometimes she forgets to do her homework]. This person I admire and probably would cherish her prescence HALF the time that I'm with her.

Tech Time!!!

Technology-it is important in so many ways!!...But it can also be a harm to people sometimes.
      Technology is great when you don't abuse it or use it to the max. For an example, Computers!! It is a great source especially for Homework or Kids or even just to have fun and talk to friends!! At the same time, Kids should be monitored at what their doing because they can go on online chat rooms and they can be talking to a complete stranger which isn't the best thing to do. It can also be a bad because sometimes when you have too much of a good thing it can just go bad... For an example: If you use the Computer too much, you can get bad eye sight or you can get bad habits. Another thing that is a good thing to use is an iPod. Most times at having an iPod, is AWESOME because you have your music, your pictures, your apps, your games and its just amazing. Sometimes people buse that because their buying apps that might cost too much money or if their a kid and their blasting their music and their parents are calling them and the child can't hear them, that can result in something bad or something even worse.... like NO ALLOWENCE OR EVEN PUNISHMENT!!!!!! Just remember, Use the Technology in a wise way and not over use it.

Hello Ms.Carrol!!

Hi!! My name is Jazmin Regan and its nice to have you as a student teacher!!! I hope that during your stay you enjoy!!!!
          A couple of things that you should know about me is that in class I am quiet and im very intelligent but sometimes have problems comprehending on certain things. I am a organized and a hard worker in class. An important thing you should is my name...(Jazmin) but you will hopefully know that soon.
       A couple things that you should know about Mrs. Patalano's class in general is that most of the class is very out going and not afraid to speak, a couple of people in the class is also very creative!! The rest, im sure you will learn while you are here in this english class during the next few months.

Future Careers

In your life people set these goals. As you grow those goals become more real and sometimes more hard. These goals are called Future Career Goals. Thes Goals first start off when your in elementary school. The teachers ask you what you want to be and everyone answers something that is...unrealistic but can happen. As you grow and mature, you realize that your goals become harder to work for and your desicions that you have picked, become more perminite.
A Future Career Goal that I have is to become a Photographer. Ever since the fourth grade I had changed my mind of becoming an actress and singer, I realized that I would'nt have the potential to do those things and instead I rather do something that I like and would enjoy and not what everyone else wanted to be. Now that I have set my goal to become a photographer, I think that thats a thing that I really would like to be someday. I like taking pictures and the way that every person sees the picture in different way when they observe it. I also think that being a photographer is cool because instead of just taking pictures, I can turn those pictures in the motion pictures and then I can find out how to make a movie. But for right now, I think that I will keep taking my pictures since that is my Passion.
I think that everyone in their lives has something that they are good at and that they would want to be one day. Setting Future Career Goals can benifit you in the long run because you can have a well paying a job,you can live the way you want and that instead of saying "Oh I have to go to my job that I hate today," You can turn it into a positive thing and say "YAY!! I HAVE TO GO TO MY JOB THAT I LOVE TODAY!!" If you don't have a goal, you can set one now but that just may change in the future with all the things that you learn.

            p.s make sure that your goal is good and that you will love it!!

*New Years Resolution!!!*

As we all know,2010 just ended and we are starting a new year...2011!! One of my New Years Resolutions is to start texting less. I chose this because im either always getting yelled at for using my cellphone too much or I just dont pay attention to anything around me which always isnt a good thing. By me usuing my phone less and texting less, I can become aware of my surrondings and just maybe.... my grades may go up. I plan on doing this by either keeping my phone in a diffrent rrom than I am in, or I can do something that can distract me and i wont pay attention so much to my cellphone anymore.