School spirit and anticipation filled the OHS hallways this
morning. Tomorrow is State Wrestling, which is much anticipated. Later, we will
salute them off and wish them good luck in Omaha. The whole student body was
crossing their fingers hoping that we wouldn’t have school tomorrow. This week
is FFA week and today was farmer/rancher dress-up day. To no one’s surprise,
Aurora placed as usual with her overalls, hat, and boots.
Water squirting and laughter filled
Mr. Hesse’s civics class this morning. Right off the bat, we got our tests
about the Nebraska Unicameral back. Some faces were disappointed, and others,
like mine, were very surprised at how good we did. Mr. Hesse likes to spring
tests on us. “Oh, and by the way you have a test tomorrow over this.” These
words are his favorite. We then got our Upfront’s passed out and read a few
small articles and then read the big one about Edward Snowden. Sadly, Mr. Hesse
handed out a front and back worksheet over what we read. It was pretty easy and
we almost all got it done before class was over. Right before the bell rang,
Mr. Brosz walked in and said he had an important message. Very surprisingly he
gave Justin the student of the week award. We were all in shock. I mean, what
has he done to get that? Once he said that he got it for the spelling bee it
all made sense.
After
I lugged my huge backpack to English, I noticed that we were missing a lot of
kids were missing. Blair clarified it for me and said that they had to go to
court. They weren’t getting prosecuted, but just watching. I got out my DGP and
journal next. In our journal, we wrote about one thing that surprised us about
Kent Warneke’s tips and one tip that we think is most important. In our DGP, we
had to identify clauses. I’ll include a picture that shows what we did. Then
Mrs. Morrow read an expert from the New York Times Best-Selling Author, and
Nebraska native, Mary Pipher. Her book was titled “Writing to Change the World
and is about persuasive writing. The expert was about Pipher’s letter to save
Spring Creek Prairie and one of her friend’s letter about a motor cross track.
Pipher wrote that adding a personal connection and understanding both sides of
the story really enhances a persuasive letter. After a small class discussion
on the topic, Mrs. Morrow passed out our pre-write paper. We were instructed to
fill them out and start writing out letter to one of the newspapers. No matter
what, out letters are due Friday. Then another class discussion came out about
our Patriotism iBook. We talked about hashtags. If you want extra-credit, you
can post something about on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, ect. Just screenshot
it and turn it in on Blackboard. Make sure your post has either
#supportourtroops, or #ohsibooks. Help out troops out and get more people to
buy the book! Then the bell rang
and we rushed out of the room to our next class.
As
it turned out, we do have school tomorrow.:( There’s a rumor going around that
over 100 predestines were given out by Mrs. Price. Since there weren't enough kids to take a big bus, the kids who signed up and got their money paid got to go and take a small bus. They were given predestines. Most of them were in JH. They will have to leave at 5:30, but I'm sure it's worth it. I’m kinda happy we do have school though, because I’d rather have
school now, then at the end of school. A lot of kids are going to be gone, so
maybe we won’t have that much homework in our classes. The pep rally got the whole
school pumped and excited for tomorrow. Best of luck to the O’Neill wrestlers
competing at State, bring home first!
| Make sure you fill in your DGP! |
| Retweeting this tweet can get you extra credit and help get our word out!! |
| Empty seats in our English class and Justin being his usual self. |
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