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My opinion story

 “I think that traffic kills empathy. Hear me out: have you ever been stuck in traffic for 25 minutes and then it just dissipates for no reason at all and then you have that moment where it’s like, ‘That was about nothing? Are you serious? Nothing?’”

Well at Bowie it is about nothing but its something we all can fix together! 

Traffic is always a problem. In so many countries people depend on their cars to get to the closets things around their house, like the supermarket on the next corner or the park 3 blocks away. A human spends a lot of time in his car and the traffic is a huge result of that. 

Every day after the bell rings at 4:30pm the students and teachers of the James Bowie High School in Austin, Texas run to get to their parked cars so they won`t get stuck in †he big traffic on Slaughter on their way home. There needs to be a way to stop this and make it less difficult for students and teachers on the way home. 

Theres not many ways to stop school traffic in big schools like Bowie because the students need to get treated the same way and no-one should have better treatments then the other. 

If we would treat some of the students better then the others that would lose out student  fights in the hallways of Bowie and that would lead to a really bad picture in the public. 

Also students that don't want to be stuck in traffic have always the opportunity to wait at school after the bell rings till the traffic is over so they can drive home on a calm road. 

I hear the teachers complain about the after school traffic too, its not only students that would benefit with a solution to make the traffic less bad. 

The danger of accidents in that traffic is even more because the crowd of all these cars stresses a lot of the students especially when they are sophomores for example and just started driving. 

The school traffic also affects other people that take Slaughter after their work at the same time. These people get stuck because of the 3000 students that leave Bowie every day at the same time. 

In my opinion the James Bowie High School should find a solution to avoid creating this traffic that is not fun for anyone at Bowie or outside of Bowie. 

My suggestion would be that Bowie could release the A Hall and B Hall  early on every A day and relate the F and E Hall early every B day. The early release is gonna be 15min before the normal bell rings so at 4:15pm so the students can get to their cars and drive home so the traffic after the normal bell at 4:30pm is not as bad and everyone can get home faster and safer. 

That would be fair to every single student and every single teacher. 

Personal Essays

1. I need to make sure that i can relate to the topic I chose and that it is something that is personal for me. I also want to make sure that i am not the only one in that specific situation, I wanna reach other people with the same problem, that can relate and understand.

2.  Be specific about your topic and they to write it detailed enough so the reader feels like he has been trough that situation.

3. (a) lead them trough the essay so they feel like they can relate to your situation
    (b) look for a balance between your personal story and facts etc.
    (c) describing and using senses help

Opinions writing preview activity

1. Who wrote the story?

2. What is their story about?

3. What is their direct opinion about that topic? Please quote it directly from the story or do a really good job of paraphrasing.

4. Did they address what the other side might think about their topic?

5. Were they wishy-washy with their opinion? By this I mean did they every go back and say well maybe if this were to happen, then their opinion wouldn't be valid. Support your opinion.

6. Are there any quotes in the story?

7. What point of view did they write in (1st, 2nd or 3rd)?

Finally, answer the following questions:

A. What do you think the major differences between a hard news story and an opinions piece? Come up with at least three.

B. Why do you think there aren't very many photos on this page?

C. What are three topics you think would be good to write an opinions piece on?

C. What are three topics you think would be good to write an opinions piece on?

Page A7

"Our great tee is worth saving"

1. Ian Miller

2. The tree in the courtyard

3. "In my opinion, its absolutely worth the price to save it," Miller said.

4. Jacob Wallace funded a lot of money

5. no he clearly told his opinion in the article after explaining what it is about and again at the end of the article. 

6. none

7. 1st

"Going above the norm for college" 

1. Jake Brien 

2. College

3. "Yes, preparing for college, finding the right scholarships, and achieving prestigious grades isn't an easy thing to do," Brien said. 

4. no

5. he had a split opinion 

6. none 

7. 3rd

"Importance of physics class"

1. Abby Ong 

2. the importance of taking physics in high school

3. "i believe all students should take it regardless of endorsement or future career choice," Og said. 

4. yes, she said most students wonder if they even should take physics and if it helps in their future

5. No Ong clearly said she has the option that physics is important and that students should take it

6. yes7. 1st

A6
"Immigration was getting out off hand"
1. none
2. Immigration hand getting out off had 

3. "Deportation can be very unfair for some because they may have been doing everything in their power to gain citizenship." 
4. none
5. They were clear in their Opinion and kept sating the same things in the article 
6. none 
7. 1st

"Best Devos"
1. Reagan Wallace 
2.  Trump appointed a new person for the education person in the U.S and she doesn't have a lot of fans 
3. " I don't believe she is prepared to lead a countries education system."
4. none 
5. She didn't make the reasons why she doesn't like her not clear
6. none 
7. 1st 

A.  A hard story is more neutral in their opinion and its to inform people about a topic, while an opinion is something to

 basically get you on the side of the writer .

B.  Because not many pictures would fit the topic

C.  politics, economy, personal things you believe deeply in

Peer Review SoM

http://ashleyhsphotoblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/student-of-month-story.html

Paragraphs: 50pts
5 quotes: 35pts
Inverted pyramid: 25pts
Extra credit: 5pts
TOTAL: 115

SLO practice

1. Caption: Courtney Suel (left) and Lesia Bridges navigate a flooded Aquarena Springs Drive in San Marcos on Tuesday. One gauge in the city recorded nearly seven inches of rain.
D.

2. Caption: Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday in Nogales, Ariz: "This is a new era. This is the Trump era. The lawlessness, the abdication of the duty to enforce our immigration laws....are over."

A. 

3. Which of the following is an example of a present tense action verb?

C.

4. Headline: Big win

D. 

5. Caption: On Wednesday, March 13 senior Sarah Smith captures the flag.

B. 

6. Caption: On Wednesday, March 13 senior Sarah Smith captures the flag in the annual senior games event held at Bowie High School. Smith lives at 10405 Johnston St. in Austin.

C.

Caption writing: 

On April 17, Mulan the princess from Saudi Arabia visited the President of Canada in his house. They talked about the trading plan that they were planning on a long time. 

Nut Graf

The Nut Graf is really important, it is the paragraph of a story that explains, it explains the point of a story. It provides a "rocket" for the reader and understanding and knowledge. It lets reader know the importance of a story and that it was important enough to write about it, it lets them know why they should buy the story and read it.

Student of the Month Story.

The freshman Kendall Oh who goes to Bowie High School won the student of the month award for the April of 2017. Kendall got chosen out of 3000 other students because of her good behavior in school, she treates staff, teachers and students with respect, is a role model for her classmates and keeps her grades up.
Every month the James Bowie High School in Austin, Texas beings the process at the beginning of the month of choosing one student from the freshman class to the senior class to give him or her the honor of the student of the month award. Factors like grades, participation in sports or clubs, and behavior with other students, stuff, teachers and the school rules play a big role in that process.
Freshman girl Kendall Oh was named student of the moth April.
"it is a great honor, it is cool to get chosen out of 3000 students," Oh said. After School Oh plays soccer at the Lady Dawgs team and plays soccer in a club during off seasons. People like Mia Hamm inspire her to keep playing soccer ,"she is an inspiration." During school time she likes to go to her Biology class, "I want to be a doctor in my future and I am really interested in learning about the human body." Biology is not only a class that she is interested in because of her future her favorite teacher Mrs.Keyes teaches this class too. "She is fun an makes the class exciting." Oh said. Oh likes Bowie because likes Bowie because of all the cultural differences and that the Bowie High School is school where people come together and get a long with each other. On the other side she has still things she would like to change for example, "the school could still use something more modern in the design. For me the still has a cold mood that I feel overtime I enter a hallway.
Oh was born in New York and moved from there to Dallas and lives now here in Austin with her family. She's been around several places in the U.S, in Mexico, Canada, Bahamas, and the Dom Rep. In the future she sees herself "with a husband and kids in California, working as a pediatrician and fluent in Spanish." Oh said.

Action preview

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1wJA8OdEP2MOJlXzcmeAh-86ieKx2_gYESGlU6ccGACM/edit#slide=id.p

Inverted Pyramid.