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Bethany News Spring Edition What’s Inside Global Issue Project Advice Music Student Interviews Sports Fashion Movies Video Games The seventh grade students presented their Global Issues Project to their families, and the Amity community on Tuesday, March 5th in the AMSB Gym. Presentations were open-house, exposition-style. The students worked hard on these projects for nearly 6 weeks and were excited to show off their results. Issues included access to water, access to education, disease and epidemics, use of child soldiers, LGBTQ and gender rights, civil war, refugee crisis, and habitat preservation. Student groups resented and informational poster, an awareness campaign (which may be presented with technology, art, or music), as well as an individual argumentative essay, in which they advocate for what they believe to be the best organization for their chosen issue. The final products were an impressive demonstration of student learning and motivation.
Weird News Daisy Kusnitz March 7th, 2019 1,500 Live Turtles Found in Suitcase at Manila Campos was walking by the Airport Chinese restaurant, and By: Daisy Kusnitz heard muffled screaming. People were stunned after That’s when he found out looking at what police found in that there was a man the Philippines. trapped in the roof. On Sunday, officials found 1,500 Wednesday morning, he live turtles in an unclaimed was freed by the Fire suitcase. Department, and he is on his way to making a full The Smuggler’s baggage in Hong Kong. recovery. No criminal charges have been filed. Man Stuck in Grease Vent After 2 days was Freed By: Daisy Kusnitz A 29-year-old skinny man took off his clothes and climbed in the grease vent, thinking he would just slide The Turtles are preserved in a monitoring unit. down, but he didn’t realize that he would get stuck for The man covered in Security says that the smuggler 2 days straight! grease, crammed in a from Hong Kong may have backed down, or avoided his narrow space. luggage in hopes to not get "I keep hearing this 'uh, uh' and arrested. I'm like, 'Who can it be?'" Quoted by Igor Campos, owner of Campos Tax Services who told KGO TV.
Sneaker Folk’s Ben Aviad March 9, 2019 LBJ “Home” Yeezy 700 “Inertia” By - Ben Aviad by: Your Name Here SNEAKER FOLKS This weekend March Ninth! Talk Sneaker to Me Yeezy has come out with many fantastic colors and The all new Lebron III in an all Vol. 7 new ”Home” colorway. This models, but the inertia is one colorway is perfect for an all-black of the best yet. and white outfit with the hint of red on the bottom for only 175 Retail! These won't be in stock long so do your best to get them for retail! The Original Sneaker Magazine Type Caption Here Nike Zoom Lebron James III “Home” Another Air Jordan 9? By Ben Aviad Kyrie 5 “GS” The new “Dream It Do It” Colorway is Air Foamposite One QS the Jordan Company’s Best Jordan “Memphis Tigers” Kyrie has made a big hit in the sneaker Nine! An elegant colorway for the street world, but the all new GS colorway is or even on the court everyone will be one of his greatest. It has a simple jealous of these kicks! white body with the hint of gold on the The Nike Foamposite One is swoosh makes it perfect for almost any Air Jordan Dream It Do It classic, they have come out outfit, and still lights up the court! many different colorways, Kyrie 5 “GS” however this one isn't there best, but it would however be perfect for a blue and black outfit!
Movie Review Rowyn M. Burgess 3/7/19 4 Back at it Again The Black Panther by: Rowyn Burgess by: Rowyn Burgess The black panther happened to The Black Panther was the top win the the Grammy award for the rated movie for weeks to months best movie of the year. It will be on end. In just 26 days it was able back in the theaters for 1 last to make 1 Billion dollars. This has time because it won the best not been able to happen since the movie of the year. The actors and year 2000. Bringing in a whopping Director hope to bring more profit of $900 Million dollars. happiness and suspense into the theater. It came out in February The Black Panther had an amazing 16, 2018 and again it will play as of cast, Including the most famous 2 April 3rd 2019. African American actors Chadwick Boseman, and Michael B. Jordan. Along with Lupita Nyong, Danai Gurira, along with Letitia Wright and many others. The first Black Panther Movie trailer Quotes from the Black Panther By: Rowyn Burgess Many lines and quotes were said in the black panther, some more than others but overall the best movie of the year. Just because something works, doesn't mean it can’t be improved. - Shuri One of the many trailers that captured audience’s attention, big and small.
★Amity Advice Column★ Zoe Fleischman 3/6 Dear Lonely Dear Crushing By: Zoe By: Zoe Dear Zoe, Dear Zoe, Sometimes I feel like I have no one I really like this boy, but I don’t in my corner, or someone who is there think he knows who I am. He’s really for me. Most of my friends are only cute and super nice to other people. concerned with themselves, and when I When I try to talk to him, I get so ask them about a problem I have, they flustered and I forget what I was going brush it off like I don’t mean anything. to say. My friends know him and think It’s starting to make me feel badly about he’s great. I really just want to get to myself, but I don’t know what to do. Can know him. What do I do?! you help me? Dear Insecure Dear Crushing, Dear Lonely, By: Zoe It can be hard to get up the Everyone feels lonely nerve to talk to someone, especially if sometimes. Maybe just tell your friends Dear Zoe, you have a crush on them. Try to say how you feel. If they don’t understand I always make fun of myself and hi. If you don’t know what to talk then it isn’t your fault. Try to reach out laugh at myself when people make fun of about, ask a simple question like, to other people and make new friends. me. I guess I think it’s funny but really it “What’s your favorite animal?” or “Are However, you shouldn’t burn bridges. makes me feel bad. I wish I could feel you doing anything fun over the Don’t hurt your current friend’s feelings better about myself, but I just don’t see weekend?”. You never know where a by expressing yours. Ultimately, have what’s good about me. Some of my conversation can take you. Go with the fun with making new friends and friends tell me I’m really smart, but I just flow. Always remember, though, not participate in clubs or sports, too! don’t see what’s so good about being everything you do should revolve smart. around a boy. If he doesn’t look at you in that way, it’s his loss. Dear Insecure, It situations where people are making you uncomfortable or self- conscious, it may be easier to just laugh it off. Unfortunately, doing what’s easy is not always what is effective and best for you. Also, there are probably a hundred positive things people can say about you for every little negative thing. Being really smart is a great trait! Don’t be down on yourself for the little things you see in yourself that you don’t. Look at the big picture.
Sports World Kevin Black 3/7/19 NBA NHL by: Sports Center by: ESPN Here in the NBA world, Here in the NHL world, the Boston Celtics come out the Capitals win over the on top over the remaining Flyers 5-3. Right now they champions, Golden State are looking really good in Warriors. The Boston the standings with the Celtics outscored them by playoffs coming up. 33 the other night. Another Another big game was the important game for the MLB Blues vs the Ducks. This Lakers to make the playoffs by: ESPN was a very close game with and take the loss drastically. In the MLB world, the the outcome with a score of The Lakers lost by 16 to the spring training is here. The 5-4. Denver Nuggets. Philadelphia Phillies are on top in the MLB with a record of 7-3. The other trailing teams are Baltimore, Houston, and Pittsburgh. Aaron Judge leading the league with 3 homeruns already. What is the loudest sport? Racquetball (Racket- ball)
Pop News! Marin Korenaga March 6th, 2019 Who is Shawn Mendes? Pictures of Shawn Mendes What does Shawn Mendes by: Marin Korenaga do? by: Marin Korenaga Shawn Mendes was born on August 8th, 1998 in Toronto, Canada. He made his Shawn Mendes is a Model, Composer, first debut in 2014 as a singer, and has Pianist, Singer, Guitarist and a been growing popularity ever since. His Songwriter. He is signed with Universal tour for his album released 2018 started Island Records. yesterday at Amsterdam, and ending this December. He is currently 20 years old. Shawn Mendes Hits Shawn Mendes with Guitar By: Marin Korenaga Stitches by Shawn Mendes What are his hobbies? Peaked at #4 on 11/7/2015 by: Marin Korenaga Treat You Better by Shawn Mendes Peaked at #6 on 10/8/2016 At School, he enjoyed playing Ice There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back by Hockey and Soccer. He can play both Shawn Mendes the piano and the guitar. Shawn Mendes gained his popularity through Peaked at #6 on 8/26/2017 video-sharing app Vine, where he In My Blood by Shawn Mendes would release six-second snippets of Fun Facts about Shawn Peaked at #11 on 6/9/2018 him singing renditions of popular Mendes Mercy by Shawn Mendes songs. By: Marin Korenaga Peaked at #15 on 3/25/2017 - Shawn Mendes’ net worth is estimated to be 12 million dollars. - Shawn Mendes is 6”1’. - Shawn’s first ever concert was on October 26th, 2013. - His favorite color is blue.
Video Game Review Charles Chen 3/8/2019 Pros of Fortnite Negatives Fortnite has transformed the gaming industry in a lot One negative side effect of of good ways. One of the Fortnite could be your kid ways that it has playing it for too long. A kid transformed the gaming needs an average of 9-10 industry was by forcing hours of sleep. There is a other gaming companies to chance that your kid would rethink how their products Fortnite Infinity Gauntlet LTM be staying up too late are developed, monetized, playing Fortnite and not and updated over time. Availability getting enough sleep. Fortnite has generated an Another negative side estimated 300 million One of the contributing factors of effect would be that they dollars in April entirely Fortnite’s success was that are not getting enough Epic’s game was free and it is physical activity. They based off of items that give also available on different no competitive advantage. might not be hanging out devices and can support cross- with their friends or play. Fortnite is available on PC, Mac, Console, The Switch, interacting with family Apple devices and Android. This members. Perhaps they are combined with the fact that you not attending to their can play with your friends on academics anymore and different devices allowed their grades are really Fortnite to blow up and surpass slipping. many popular games. You lose the game the second you quit trying.
Interview With Kyla Santulli By : Harley Luciani Hobbies and favorite Pets and Family foods Kyla has a Chocolate lab named Kona, and she loves him dearly. Kyla loves to do Dance and Kyla surprisingly is a triplet. Her two play tennis. She has been other sisters are Amara and Morea. doing dance since she was Kyla has an amazing mother 2, and has been doing named Cheryl, and an extraordinary father named tennis since she was 9. Dennis. One thing she likes to do Kyla also is amazing at with her family is going to the Kyla’s dream of going to law school volleyball. Even though Kyla movies. Her favorite movie that she just started volleyball this went to see with her family was year she is already an Future Plans Wonder. expert. Kyla’s favorite food Kyla has big plans for her is pizza and her favorite upcoming life. Kyla wants go to NYU for college, and she also topping is cheese. She also wants to go to law school to be a loves Italian food especially Lawyer. pasta. “I Have dreamed of going to law school ever since my friend’s dad told me what a great experience it was”, Said Kyla. Kyla’s famous cheese pizza While a cat was outside, it It was a hairless cat!! started to downpour. The cat couldn’t find any shelter and got completely soaked by the rain, yet not a single hair was wet. How could this be?
Book Recommendations Iris Yang All the Light We Cannot Maze Runner See Marie-Laure lives in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where her father works. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and they flee to the walled city of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, Werner Pfennig, an orphan, grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find that brings them news and stories Need from places they have never seen or Kaylee Dunham wants nothing more than imagined. Werner becomes an expert at a kidney for her brother, DJ. In fact, she building and fixing these crucial new needs to find him one. So, when Nate When Thomas wakes up in the lift, the introduces her to a new social media site instruments and is enlisted in the military to only thing he can remember is his name. use his talent to track down the resistance. called NEED, which promises to fulfill He’s surrounded by strangers—boys users’ requests in exchange for certain whose memories are also gone. The book is beautifully written and tasks, Kaylee trusts him enough to try it. emotionally poignant. The characters have Outside the towering stone walls that been realistically developed. Doerr takes us Soon enough, almost everyone from Nate surround the Glade is a limitless, ever- with the characters’ journey through this and Kaylee’s high school is a member of changing maze. It’s the only way out—and book. NEED. But NEED isn’t like other social no one’s ever made it through alive. networking websites…the tasks users are asked to complete quickly become Everything is going to change. dangerous, some even criminal. Yet, the anonymity of the website means that it’s Then a girl arrives. The first girl ever. And harder for members to say no The more the message she delivers is terrifying. that people contribute to NEED, the more she becomes convinced that something is This book has an intriguing plot. It is fast seriously wrong with the site and those paced and I would recommend it for fans involved…and she needs to fix it. of books like The Hunger Games or Harry Potter. The suspense of this book is compelling and has many plot twists. It is very easy to understand the intentions of the characters. I recommend this book for readers that like the mystery/thriller genre.
Billboard Audrey Cummings 3/11/19 Top Ten Songs Top Artists By: Audrey Cummings by: Audrey Cummings 1. Ariana Grande 1. Shallow 2. Queen 2. 7 Rings 3. Lady Gaga 3. Without Me 4. Bradley Cooper 4. Sunflower 5. Post Malone 5. Middle Child by J. Cole 6. BTS 6. Happier by Marshmello 7. Gary Clark Jr. and Bastille Queen was a rock band that 8. Cardi B 7. Thank You, Next formed in 1970 and despite 9. Halsey 8. Wow. by Post Malone not being immediately 10.Gunna 9. Sicko Mode by Travis popular, once their song Scott Bohemian Rhapsody was 10.High Hopes by Panic! released, their rise to fame At The Disco happened quickly. Some of their most popular songs are “Bohemian Rhapsody”,” We Will Rock You”, and “Another One Bites the Dust”. The Success of Shallow This is an image of Ariana by: Audrey Cummings Grande performing. She has Shallow was released from the been the number one singer A Star is Born soundtrack on for 10 weeks on the top 100 September 27, 2028. The two artists list. She recently main singers in it, Lady Gaga released Sweetener, which This is the Album cover of the song Shallow by and Bradley Cooper are also at has been a hit album for her, Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper. It is from the movie A Star Is Born the top of the charts for artists and she’s going on tour in a in spots 3 and 4. few days.
Helpful Advice Anchal Bahel 3/7/19 Time Management High School BY:Anchal Bahel Organization by: Anchal Bahel Have too much homework, and you have other activities, and you In high school, most students do do not know how you are going to not use their locker. Thus, you have finish all of it? Well that means you to carry everything in your need to have better time backpack all day long. One way management. One way to keep a you can organize all your stuff is to track of everything is to make a list. buy a five or eight subject notebook You can make a list of everything and buy a set of folders or one you have to do and as you finish Persistence binder for everything. And at home the task cross if off. Put the tasks you can have storage binders, so that take less time on the top of the Struggling on A Quiz your binder/ folders do not get to list, so you can quickly to the small by:Anchal Bahel piled up. tasks, and spend more time on If you did not get the grade you bigger assignments. wanted to get on your last quiz, I recommend talking to your teacher. He/she can go over it with you, and you can have a better understanding. Even if you did bad on one quiz you can still prove yourself on the test, Stressed out Child I have no doors but I have keys, I have no rooms but I have a space, you can enter but you can never leave. What am I?
Fashion Weekly Grace Kennedy Accessorizing 101 What’s Hot in 2019 This year so far, there’s been many hot trends so far. This month, a big When it comes to accessorizing, thing is overalls. Corduroy and color schemes are key. Pick 3-4 denim overalls are both included in colors to base your outfit around. this trend, usually styled with a You don’t want your outfit to be graphic T-shirt and tennis too loud, so stay within that shoes/sandals. A huge trend right range. When picking out your now is scrunchies. Many girls buy accessories, make sure it fits the velvet scrunchies, which may be “theme” of the outfit. For very pricy, raging up to $20 for a example, if you are wearing A teen girl purchased her prom dress pack of 5. jeans, pair it with a bandana for a online. On the left is what she thought pop of color and a picnic theme. she was buying, and the right is what she ended up receiving. Can You Go Dress Shopping Online? Since Prom season is coming up, many girls are turning to online dress stores, but the dress they are ecstatic to wear doesn't always come the way the website showcased. Many third party dress shops are scamming girls across the globe while they search for their prom dress. To make sure you don’t get duped, here are two teen girls takes on how prom dress shopping online really is. This woman's color scheme is perfect and How did it make you feel when your complimenting her hair. She also threw in the dress came in the mail? What can you gold necklace for a beautiful accent piece. do next time to make sure it doesn’t happen again? “Well, when I saw the package I was Never say no to an excited because I thought I was accessory, because it receiving the dress in the picture. can really make the outfit standout. However, I was very disappointed when I opened the package and saw what I got. In the future I know to only order from reliable websites, such as Nordstrom and Macy’s, instead of random websites I've never heard of. -Blythe Reis, age 16, who has recently received a dress online that was not the same as the one in the picture, with lesser quality and completely different shape and material.
Interview With Harley Kyla Santulli 3/6/2019 Pets & Family Vacation & Food by: Kyla Santulli by: Kyla Santulli Harley has a beloved grey Harley loves going to lab named Coda. She likes to Disney almost every year and play fetch with her dog and run dreams of going to Hawaii. around in the snow. Harley has She loves mashed potatoes an older sister names Julia and and Italian food, especially two loving parents. They are pizza and pasta. “You can’t Italian and American and have special dinners every go wrong with Italian food”, Wednesday. Her family also Harley has been playing soccer she states. Harley’s favorite enjoys going to the movies since she was 9. restaurant to go to is Texas together. Their most enjoyed Roadhouse. She usually movie that they watched Future Plans & orders steak with mashed together was wonder. potatoes and broccoli. Hobbies By: Kyla Santulli Harley has big plans for the future. She dreams of going to Boston University to study abroad. She wants to become a Spanish teacher in one of the schools in This is Harley’s loyal dog. Connecticut. In Harley’s free time, she watches Netflix. She is amazing at volleyball and Harley also plays soccer. Harley’s favorite ride in Disney is Splash Mountain, “I have dreamed of studying which is in the picture above. ever since my Spanish teacher told me what a great experience it was.” 1. If Harley was to bring 3 things on an island, she would bring a coat, food, and her phone. 2. If Harley can have one superpower it would be the ability to fly. 3. If Harley could eat one food for the rest of her life, what would it be mashed potatoes.
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