Have you ever been faced with a two choices: the right decision or the easy decision? Almost everyone has; maybe it was whether or not to stand up to a bully, or maybe whether or not to cheat on a test. This dilemma can take many different forms and exist in many different forms of […]
Ray Bradbury’s science fiction novel Fahrenheit 451 depicts a dystopian future where no one is unique; everyone thinks the same (and by that I mean not think at all) and everyone acts the same. Guy Montag, a fireman who instead of putting out fires creates them to burn books, is just like everyone else until he […]
Fahrenheit 451 takes place in a society far different from our own. Besides the fact that the story takes place in the future, the government is drastically different. Here in present day U.S. of A., we are granted freedoms, such as freedom of speech and freedom of the press, that no one in the world […]
Students anxiously sat down in front of their Think Pads in their Language Arts class. It was time for the Scholastic Reading Inventory (SRI) test, the first standardized test of the 2017-2018 school year at Blackhawk Middle School. In principle, the test is supposed to measure a student’s reading ability by answering a series of questions, […]
Students anxiously sat down in front of their Think Pads in their Language Arts class. It was time for the SRI test, the first Standardized test of the 2017-2018 school year at Blackhawk Middle School. The test is supposed to measure a student’s reading level and lets teachers see each student’s score. For some kids, […]
Thursday August 27 2017, it was just a normal day for Mr. Hoering’s 2nd period English Language Enrichment class: students came in, sat down, and waited for further instruction. When the final bell had rung, Mr. Hoering informed the students of the day’s agenda. The students were to read silently for 15 minutes, then they […]
The last book I read was “The Westing Game” by Ellen Raskin. What I loved about this book is that it always kept me on the edge of my seat and was full of surprises, all the while you feel like something bigger is at play. The ending left me speechless. A definite must-read for […]
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