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=dear 6th soon to be 7th graders.= =7th grade is not that bad and having it at wilkinsburg middle school is not even what i expected. this school is no as bad as people label it. you have to atleast go to the school before you judge it. dont get me wrong 7th grade is a big upgrade from your 6th classroom. you have 7 different classes 7 different teachers and 7 different subjects. you have about 4 minutes to get to each class and if your late...you have detention! so i encourage you to never be late! or you will pay for it later. some teachers at this school are the best! but others...not so much. for example, mr boll, ms plymire and ms. lowman are my favorites. and i dont hate the other teachers but mr. altemus, ms drane, and mr cupps are just ordinary teachers. you have to do all of your work in order to pass the quarter. beleive me if you goof off, your grades will go down very fast! i cant believe im leaving this school. and im going to cry, like i did everytime i exaled to a higher grade. so you guys are lucky to have started this late because the teachers are the best and they are making big changes so get ready for the awesome teachers that i have grown to love.= = = = = = = = = = = = progress is bad because you will never wantto do anything else, you can gain alot of weight, and robots will take over the world. = = one reaon progress is bad is becauseyou will never want to do anything else.sooner or later, you will get bored with yourself and then your going to wish that you never even got any robots in the first place and you may even regret it for the rest of your life. = = one resason why is because you will never want to doo anything else. =

the girl walked in and pushed open the doors. she was amazed, star struck, and shocked. when she walked into the living room, and sat down on the couch, it automaticll,y started to massage her sholders and her feet. she didnt know what to expect. as she enjoyed her massage, she looked around for the remote to this gigantic flat screen tv staring right in her face. she couldnt find so she went on to explore what else was in the house. to this girl, this house was like a dream. the house that she came from had no gas,electricity or hot water. she washed up maybe ounce or twice a month. she got teased at school because she didnt have the most expencive clothes or the cleanest but she believed that one day there ill come a day when she goes free from hate. the girl got taken from her mothers house and went to foster care for a year and a half but this rich family took her in and gave her all of this. this house was esspecially made for her so her room was made with about 6 food stations a massage bed a salad bar ect. it looked like an ohio town center......all in one room! the little girl almost fainted when she walked in but she caught herself just in time.

aaliyah dana hougston was born on january 16,1979 in brocklyn new york. aaliyah had alot of careers in her short life time. she was a music artist, an actress, and also a model. as a kid, aaliyah attened the detroit high school for the proforming arts, where she majored in drama. during aaliyahs ground breaking career, she worked with timberland and missy elliott for her second album one in a million. after completing the movie, romeo must die, aaliyah starred in her part in the movie queened of the damed. aaliyah appered on television at an early age on the tv show star search. and also did concerts on the side with gladys night.at age 12, aaliyah sighned with jive records and blackground records by her uncle, barry hankerson. her introduced her to r.kelly, who became her mentor and songwriter for her debut album age aint nothing bet a number. the album sold 3 millioin copies in the united states and became double platnum. aaliyah was such an influential person. she was descovered just sitting on a bench singing to herself. also, aaliyah has been a great person to society and to all of her friends because her story explains that you can become a star, form basiclly nothing. i look up to aaliyah as a roll model because she does some of the things that i would like to do some day. just from being a music artist, came being an actor and and a model. aaliyah has put a big influence on me and ihope shes a big influence on you to. when aaliyah died, her funeral was held on august 31, 2001. he body was carried in a silver glass casket and drawn by a white horse. aaliyah was killed along with 8 others in a plain crash in the bahamas, just a few hours after shooting her video rock the boat. aaliyah family then filled a wrongful death lawsuit agenst blackhawk internatinal airways. aaliyah was honored at the 2001 mtv awards by janet jackson, missy elliot temberland, genuine and her brother rashad who all paid tribute to her.in the same year, the united states social security administration ranked the name aaliyah oneof the most popular names of new born girls. aaliyah was ranked number one on the top 40 wemon of the video era. and 100 sexiest artist. in memory of aaliyah, the intertainment industry foundation created the aaliyah memorial fund. to raise for charities she supported. aaliyah leaves on a non-dying legacy, that will always live on forever!.....

Good start here Lataja- You are a good writer with a lot of potential. Try to focus in the next paragraph about how she influenced society with her work. Keep writing

Lataja- You have a great start here. You are a really good writer. I like the attention-getting intro and the similes that you used i the second paragraph. Keep writing.

it was a bright saturday morning and i was soooo tired because my mom didnt tell me we where going there the next morning. when i got there, my stomach was in knots. i was some what devistated when i here that we where going there. my whole morning was ruined by this news that i was not even ready for. that morning, my mom woke me up like a drill sargent. i really didnt know who she was for a minute. i felt like i had benn drinking the night before and had thew up a thousand times. she told me to get in the shower and get ready. i said why? and she said the most dreadful words she could of said to me that morning. she said i had to go to the neiborhood academy orintation!!!!! i was exsosted. i was tired out of my mind. when i got out the shower, i slipped on my towel. i was laying there for a good 2 or 3 minutes before i got up. my mom hates being late so she was sooo upset when i fell. she said i was waisting time. but i htought i had good timing. anyways i went upstairs and got dressed, i thought that my shower would kinda wake me up, but it didnt. i was still upset when i was dressed. my body was aching and i had a really bad headache. next thing i knew, i was in the car and on my way. to me, this school was kinda like a super school. they had a indoor flag football field and 12 hour school days.the school is from 8th grade to 12th grade. the reason why i didnt want to go there to the oriantation was because all of these emotions where running through my head on the way there. i thought to myself, what kinds of kids are there are they going to except me? and weather i was even ready to face them! i was nurvous, excited, scared, and anxiou all at the same time!!!! i felt lke i had thousand of butterflies in my stomach. i instanly felt dizzy. like i was about to fait!!!! when i got there there where alot of kids there and i was kinda sick because i was so nervous. i felt like i was on my first rollercoaster all over again. as i walked in, everybody looked up at me. that put even more pressure om me. i was kinda happy because they only looked to see who i was. alot of stress as relieved onn me. as i sat down, i saw a breakfast table in a far corner. i just had noticed that i did not get a chance to eat anything at all so i went over, got a plate, and started picking up mini dounuts, grapes, bagels, and bananas. i didnt even look up to see what the place looked like. when i was done, i looked around the room and i saw bird houses hanging from the ceiling, diffrent color floreset fabrics also hanging from the ceiling like drapes. other wise, the room was plain. i dont know why every body else was looking up at the art work on the ceiling like they saw god come down from heaven. i also herd rearks like wow and omg the kids are so creative. i was verry appaled when they said that art work was great because if that was great then, my art work was AMAZING!!!!!!!! after the breakfast, a big man witha scruffy salt and pepper beard walked up and started telling us about the good qulities that the school has. then after he wasdone telling us about the school, they had a student tell us about the school from a students point of view. he pretty much said the same thing but in diffrent words. after that, they ahd a parent tell us about the school from a parent point of view. and lastly, they had a teacher tell us about the school from a teachers point of view. after that, the oriantation was pretty much done. we took a tour of the school and then i took a bagel, toasted it, put cream cheese on it, and me and my mom went home....... Lataja- You did a great job with this paper. There is good description of your thoughts, perceptions, and feelings. However, i would be interested in hearing a little more about why you didn't want to be there. Or, how you felt about going to the new school? Were you nervous, excited, scared, or just ready for a change. Good job Lataja. I'll ﻿ grade this when you mark the assignment sheet on the wall. Keep working hard in class. 3) theres alot of debaits about school uniforms and should wilkinsburg middle/high school going to change from whatever students want to wear to uniforms? if the majority of the stusdent vote that we should have uniforms then the schools policy will change from just no riped jeans, no tank tops and no short skirts to everythings denied except for uniforms. personally, i think that it would be a bad adittion to my school because i am a very colorful person and i like to express it through my sense of style and flair and i think it would be unfair to the student who feel that uniforms are a bad thing. i think it would be a bad addition to my school because not only all of the middle school student would be upset about uniforms, but the high school students also. wilkinsburg is diffrent from all the other public schools but i think it is a good thing because we dont have to wear uniform like the other public schools. but the students at public schools dont get a say in what they wear at all. and i really think thats a bad thing because all the schools should be like wilkinsburg and let the student have a say in what they are allowed to wear. another reason why i think uniforms would be a bad addition to my school is because perssonally, i have alot of colorfull accessories, colorful clothes and a really big colorful personality. alot of other people at my school share alot of the same qualities and personality that i have. so i think i can speak for them when i say that uniforms would be a tragic thing if that happens to my school. uniforms might sound like a good idea to the ones that are less fortunate than others, it wont benifit the ones like me who like to dress to impress like myself. i personally had to experience having to wear uniforms and i hated it so it feels good to not have t wear uniforms for the past 3 years sense ive been living in wilkinsburg. lastly, my sence of style is hard to find. and i had to find a school that would let me express myself through my clothes. to thoughs who dont know me, i might seem a little boring but if you hang out with me, you would find out that i am verry fun to be around. i love to go shopping and i love waring new clothes to school. if the dress code where to change, my whole personallity would change and i would be upset about what im wearing every day. some reasons why people come to this school is because we dont have to wear uniform and look the same as one another. those are some reasons why i think that uniforms would be a bad addition to my school. the middle school students and the high school students will be upset and they will spend all of there time complaining. the studnets wouldnt be as cheerful as they are now and it will make everybody else upset, except for the studnets who arent that fortunate. and those are some reasons why i think that uniforms would be a tragic and an unfortunate addition to wilkinsburg jr./sr. high school........

Lataja, you did a really good job with this paper. We can work on a conclusion. This should just be wrapping up your argument. You can also look at my example in the "assignments" page to help you. I would like you to try to add one more paragraph that discusses the other side of the discussion. Every good persuasive argument includes the view from the other side. You should trow this in, but then state why this does not change your opeinion. Something like, "I know there are a lot of people who will say that this would stop bullying and help students who don't have money to buy clothes, but...."

2) soap has alot of bath beads pufumes lotions and lip balms. first soap all starts off all as hot water then you add all of your ingredience in to your hot water. then your water and the ingrediences will start to harden and then it be all flat. then you have to carve the soap with a steady hand until its perfecly perfect.the lipbalms a purfume give the soaps a sweet smelling aroma. that is my how to on how to make soap............

1) the motivational speaker that i chose was monica. i picked monica because she has been through alot through out her life. monica has come a lond way from her fame when she was only 13 years old making hit songs.monica said she has been through alot from her last cd in 2007, and she has expressed her hurt in her last cd in 2010.

Great start here La Taja. === You have some great details and good facts. The next step is to explain them. Tell me why going through a lot, coming a long way, and expressing feelings of hurt will be a motivational message for WMS st ﻿ udents. Great job ===