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February/ March 2021 Volume 4 Issue 3
Terrier Times
Joe Biden’s Inauguration
Ask the Staff By Shae Hartless
By: Elizabeth Martinez
Joe Biden won the presidential election to be the
United States 46th president. On Tuesday November
3rd, 2020, it was Election day. It was to have a new
Mrs. Donihe was a student intern in Mrs. Jones’ sev-
president Joe Biden or for Donald Trump to do four more
enth grade English classroom until the end of January. In Feb-
years. This election took up to about 3-4 days because of
ruary, she moved to tenth grade English at William Byrd High
how many votes there were. Biden had over 82 million
School.
votes- the most votes in history. At the end of the elec-
Ms. Donihe is a graduate student from Hollins Uni- tion Joe Biden had 302 Electoral Votes and Donald
versity, and is working on a master’s in teaching. She wants to Trump had 232 Electoral Votes. Biden won the election
teach middle school or high school English class. She would by 32 more votes from how much he needed and 70
like to go into teaching because she thinks everyone has a more than Trump.
story to tell and everyone needs the tools to tell that story by
January 20th, 2021 during Biden’s Inauguration
reading and writing. She wants kids to be excited about read-
Lady Gaga sang the National Anthem along with Garth
ing and writing. She wants kids to find what they love in read-
Brooks singing “Amazing Grace” and Jennifer Lopez sing-
ing and writing. Her favorite genres are Memoir, Young
ing “This Land is Your Land” and “America the Beautiful.”
Adult, and nonfiction. She likes to hear the story behind
For Biden and Kamala Harris, his vice president, to be
things. Her favorite book ever is The Book Thief, in the genre
sworn in they had to do a speech with their hand on the
of Young Adult. One of her favorite graphic memoirs is Be-
bible and to swear to keep our home safe. Harris is the
longing by Nora Krug. One of her favorite nonfiction books
FIRST women to be part of the executive branch of our
that she’s reading currently is Because Internet: Understand-
government. She is the first black woman to be Vice
ing the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch.
President which is amazing and inspiring because this
Hopefully, we will see Ms. Donihe again in some proves women can do anything!
Roanoke County English classroom.
What’s it’s like to be Group 3 (Fully Virtual)
By Logan Wood
I am in 6th grade, and I am one hundred per-
cent virtual this year. In case you are not, I will explain
what it is like. For one, it can be a bit hard because if
you cannot download something, you can’t get a physi-
cal paper, so you must wait and hope you will be able
to download it soon. It is very hard as well because you
cannot be social, and you get bored a lot of the time if
you are alone. If you have a project, it is hard to think
of ways you could do it because you can’t just bring in
a giant clay castle, for example, to school anymore if
you are 100% online.
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February/ March 2021 Volume 4 Issue 3
Valentine’s Day
By Brooke Hershel By Makaylah Witt
Valentines Day is a special day that happens every year
Valentines of pink and red ,
on February 14. It is a day used to show your love and apprecia-
tion for those that you care about by sending them gifts and
showing them your love. But Valentine’s Day and giving valen- Special word of wisdom said,
tines to people has not been around forever.
Before there was a Valentines Day there was a man named Saint “The best part of this happy day,
Valentine who during the third century was a priest in Rome who
secretly married people who were in love. Saint Valentine had
Is that I get the chance to say,
been marrying people in secret of Emperor Claudius II. Once the
Emperor found out that Saint Valentine was marrying people in
secret, he put him in jail. While Valentine was in jail, he sent the ‘Today and for the whole year too,
very first Valentine to a girl he loved and started the idea of send-
ing Valentines. Even though he had sent the first Valentine Valen- I’m glad to have a friend like you!’”
tine’s Day wasn’t considered a holiday until the late 5th century.
Even though Valentines Day was a holiday they didn’t consider it Small surprises, funny jokes,
a romantic holiday until 1375 after Geoffrey Chaucer wrote a po-
em declaring it a romantic holiday. When Valentine’s Day started
Paper hearts and friendly notes.
becoming popular all around the world people began to start
making up characters for Valentine’s Day one of those characters
was Cupid the son of Mercury and Venus. Cupid was a symbol of
Valentine’s Day because it was believed that if you got and you
true love got shot by one of his arrows you would fall in love with Saint Patrick’s Day
each other. With Cupid around people had great ideas of drawing
By Grace Reynolds
him on cards that were given to the people that you loved that
are called Valentine’s. It was around the 1400s when people first Many people expect Saint Patrick’s Day,
started giving handwritten Valentines to each other, but over the March 17, to be different this year, and they are
year’s valentines started to change when people started printing right. It will be different… This year most Saint Pat-
Valentines in the 1900s. rick’s Day parades will either be postponed or can-
celled due to COVID-19.
Valentine’s Day is a holiday where you show love which
makes it a great holiday to show how much you appreciate all the The day commemorates Saint Patrick and
people you love. So, the next Valentine’s Day spread some love the arrival of Christianity in Ireland and celebrates
with people all over the world who need it. the heritage and culture of the Irish in general. Cele-
brations generally involve public parades and festi-
vals, and the wearing of green or shamrocks.
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February/ March 2021 Volume 4 Issue 3
March: Women’s Rights Month
By Osheanna Hartless
March is a month set aside to honor women and it is
a month for women to be proud of themselves because of
what they have been through in the history. Over one
hundred years ago, women couldn’t do things like vote,
work, or anything else “manly. ” The only jobs they could
do was raise the kids, cook, clean, and more things “lady
like. ” That’s what I hate about our world. There’s things
“only boys or men can do” and there’s things “only wom-
en or girls can do. ” Some men or boys always act like we
women or girls are weak- like we can’t run faster than
them, we can’t do the jobs they do, or we can’t play the
sports they play. But in fact, women are the strongest
humans I know. We had to actually fight for our rights. If
we didn’t, we wouldn’t be able to vote, work or do any-
thing else but cook and clean and take care of the kids.
My mom and all other mothers out there are the
strongest people ever. They take care of us, and they love
us with all their hearts. My mom is my best friend -I
know it sounds weird- but she knows me better than any- By Brooke Hershel
one, and I love her so much! Women, you should never
I’ll be honest with you when I started to write
doubt yourself you are amazing!
this, I had no idea what I was going to write about be-
cause I didn’t think anything in this world was really inspir-
ing at the moment. But then I got to thinking about how
everything in this world basically fell apart when the pan-
demic hit and people were losing their jobs, families were
struggling, and teens our age were struggling with not
being able to do the things they enjoy. All this stuff just
made me think about how all of us in this world no matter
what age, how famous, or how pretty you look are an in-
spiration to this world because all of us are living through
a pandemic that nobody alive today has had to go
through, and we have learned and are learning more
about how to get through this together.
I just want to remind everyone no matter who
you are that you are an inspiration to this world, and you
are helping us get through these struggles in this world.
Have a great day and remind yourself everyday that you
are an inspiration to yourself, everyone around you, and
for future generations.
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February/ March 2021 Volume 4 Issue 3
Another Season
By Evelyn Dickason
The bare trees stood cold in another freezing night; the scarce grass patches waved in the gentle breeze. The thin wooden
branches brushed against each other, emitting a rattling sound. The usual bright and happy animal playground was a dark and
gloomy wasteland. A few stray birds flying overhead, barely being visible in the dark sky. It was the middle of the most miserable
season the year had to offer, winter. The season that brought joy to young kids and older ones alike, no school, lazy days, the
best kind of days. Of course, the winter had its many downsides, for example, the ice. Ice was the precursor to disaster, broken
power lines, frozen roads that led to catastrophe, even fallen trees. The snowmen would sit on their icy thrones and watch from
afar with an everlasting coal smile. Their hats aligned and their scarfs wrapped perfectly, a bright orange carrot nose and sticks
for arms. They didn’t have to worry about anything, for they knew if even a single pack of snow fell from the three giant snow-
balls that founded them the lovely children who had created them would throw a horrible fit that their snowman was ruined.
They would be referees for the many snowball fights that would take place and the snow angels that they would stare
down at, judging the supposed wings. The sun would be stored away by clouds that wanted to watch the children as if they were
their own, and sometimes even cry icy tears or unique snowflakes. In the late afternoon the children congregate inside with
warm bowls of soup and bundles of blankets, leaving the snowmen with nothing to do. By nightfall every kid is passed out from
their frivolous adventures in the snow only hours earlier, the clouds crying their own icy midnight tears throughout the night. The
moon sits high above the sky and watches in a confusion fit, he had been asleep all this time, didn’t kids like the nighttime? He
wouldn’t rest until many hours of solitude had passed; every moment spent wondering. Why was he alone?
Many nights had gone by, the icy tears leaving their mark on the ground below for days on end. The children did the same
exact routine as every other day. Sledding, snow fort, snowball fight, snow angels, tag, and then nothing. They would leave their
mess and run inside where it was warm, leaving the snowmen waiting, waiting for the next day of judging, waiting for the next
day of……what? Every day was a routine that they had frozen into their snow core. It wasn’t exciting, but to them it was the high-
light of their day. The moon never understood their fascination with every second of that seemingly boring routine.
Three months had gone by now. The moon sat high in the sky with his unusual look of fascination. The trees were lusciously
vibrant with their branches coated in leaves. Small blinking lights floated through the air as kids of all sizes ran around the yard,
their bare feet stomping around on the voluminous grass patch. With jar in hand the kids twirled around with glee, trying to
catch the blinking lights while smoke rose into the air just around the corner. A brilliant inferno sprouted from the pile of logs
that sat on a dirt patch, a few people sat around it with sticks in their hands.
An odd white object was punctured onto the stick as it turned golden brown over the fire before it itself caught on fire.
Laughs echoed throughout the air as the owner of the burning object tried to blow out the small fire. They themselves laughing
after the fire had been put out. The moon looked down upon them, the stars by his side twirled in the dark purple blanket of sky
that stretched on for miles. Where had the snowmen gone? They would’ve loved to be around for such a joyous time, they had
left a few months ago, leaving him and the clouds that were nowhere to be found with the job of watching over the kids that
frolicked on the ground below.
This was his own routine, and he couldn’t have been happier.
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February/ March 2021 Volume 4 Issue 3
By Osheanna Hartless
BLM—When people say this some people take offense to it because they think it means
“ONLY black lives matter” which it does not. African Americans haven’t had the best life or history be-
cause of slavery, and a lot of people unfortunately believed in slavery because they were raised that
way and taught racism. Either way raised or taught, it was horribly wrong. African Americans never
deserved it. In the past, many of them couldn’t even get the good education for their kids because of seg-
regation. They had to either sit on a whole different bus or sit in the back, and when a white person got
on the bus, a black person had to give up his or her seat. Black people couldn’t vote, and if they did,
they had to take a test that people knew they couldn’t pass because they didn’t get good education. It
wasn’t their fault. It’s like they set them up for failure.
Even with the many obstacles that black Americans faced, there are a lot of black people changed histo-
ry such as Martin Luther King Jr., Thurgood Marshall, Langston Hughes, Sojourner Truth, and Maya
Angelou. These are just a few of many who are the reason Black people deserve Black History Month.
They are an inspiration to us all.
2021 SUPER BOWL
By Izabella Fleisher
The 2020-2021 Super Bowl was a little tricky this year in February. First off, we
didn’t even know if we could even have a season. Then when we did, a lot of teams were
put out of commission because their teammates got Covid-19. The stands were a bit different too, emp-
ty and lifeless. Not completely lifeless though, that’s right- I’m talking about the cardboard cut-outs.
Lots of creepy motionless faces that people paid $100 dollars each to get. There were 30,000 sold.
Now let’s talk about the actual game. Tampa Bay Buccaneers won the game against Kansas City
Chiefs. Some people are happy about the results of the game, saying it was fair and some people are
just “salty” that the Chiefs lost. The Weeknd was the main attraction for the half-time show. Many of
the dancers wore masks and tried to stay socially distanced. His performance got mixed reviews. Every-
thing was so different, but hopefully, the Super Bowl will be back to normal in 2022.
Stay safe!
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I would recommend the Hunger Games series to any The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins is a series of books
middle school student who does not mind blood or and I would totally recommend to any middle schooler
violence because it is a little violent. It is written by that likes suspense. I loved the first book the moment I
Suzanne Collins. -Carina Dibenedetto - 6th grader started reading it. -Lucy Whitenack– 7th grader
A Series of Unfortunate Events Book 1: The Bad Beginning is a
very good book about 3 children whose parents died in a fire
and go to live with someone horrible. It is a dark comedy and
the author is Lemony Snicket. -Keith Schult—7th Grader
I highly recommend the graphic novel
Brave by Svetlana Chmakova to middle
school students. This book is a quick read
and has a good message about bullying.
If you like historic fiction you might like reading I Survived The author lets us see middle school through the eyes of Jen-
the Attacks of September 11, 2001 by Lauren Tarshis. - sen, a kid who is struggling to find his place and escapes into
Thomas Robbins—7th grader his daydreams to conquer every day stress. -Olivia Long—6th
grader
A book that I would recommend for middle school students
would be Wonder by R.J. Palacio because it's a book about a
boy who's different and how he made friends If you are a fan of fantasy and magic, you
and ended up fitting in with everybody else and I would love the Harry Potter series by J.K.
Rowling! I have read some of them and
think that this shows how you don't have to look
watched some of the movies with my sister
like everyone else to fit in. —Brooke Hershel -
7th grader and we are in love with the idea of every-
thing Harry Potter! -Penley Moore -6th grad-
er
I would definitely recommend both Percy Jackson and the Olym-
pians by Rick Riordan and the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.
Those book series are just so good I could never put the books
down. They are full of mystery and suspense and both series
have a exciting love story wrapped inside. I could not tell you
enough how amazing those books are I have read so many books
but those are my top favorite by far. They are the best books I
have ever read! -Aubrey Booze 7th grader
One hundred WBMS students voted and these are
the results:
Mystery and Horror genres appear to be the favor-
ite, with Fantasy not far behind.
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Viet Sub Spring Rolls Recipe
By Emily Ngo
Spring rolls are a classic and easy Vietnamese dish to make. They are also very refreshing and they are much healthier than
the fried variety. They are also delicious with fish sauce and peanut sauce. You can get the items to make these at your local
Asian market or you can go to Viet Sub on Williamson Road, Roanoke.
What you will need:
rice paper. rice vermicelli noodles
lettuce leaves, cucumber.
meat of choice, mint leaves.
Create your set up:
First, grab a dinner plate so the rice paper
won’t stick. Then, dip your rice paper in luke-
warm water for a few seconds. After, put
down your lettuce and other fillings. Next, roll
you spring roll halfway, fold in the sides and
continue rolling. Repeat with all the other
rolls and you’ve created spring rolls! Viet Sub is located on Williamson Road in Roanoke, VA. Dine in the
restaurant , or order take-out.
Time for the sauces!
For peanut sauce you will need peanut butter, a small amount of lukewarm water, and Hoisin sauce. Mix the two together
until well combined.
For fish sauce you need fish sauce, lime juice, garlic, chili peppers, lukewarm water and sugar. First, crush your 2 or 3 pep-
pers and a clove garlic in a bowl. Then, mix it with sugar and water till dissolved. After, add your fish sauce and lime. Finally,
enjoy your meal!
Fun Facts of the Week
By Logan Wood
Did you know, the Moai (the Easter Island heads) have bodies and
are usually up to 13 feet tall!
Did you know, goosebumps (the little bumps that sometimes appear
on your skin when you are cold or scared) are meant to ward off
predators?
The moon has moonquakes!
WBMS Newspaper Club writer and poet, Grace Moll,
has moved and will be attending another school. We will miss her
poetry and creativity.
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