8th grade lessons to live by:

1. Positivity
8th grade can get pretty annoying and hard at times, so stay motivated and get your work done.
2. Time management
Stay on task and appreciate every minute when a teacher gives you time to work on stuff in class
3. Be social
You're in middle school, everyones pretty quirky still so hangout with friends and stay social
4. Show your teachers you want to learn
If you don't understand something in a class, go to the teacher and ask them for help, that lets them know you want to learn and do well
5.  Get ahead
Do anything you can to be ahead of the game, it will pay off long term
6. Organization
Theres a lot of paperwork and assignment that you're going to need more than once, have an organized binder so you can get everything done on time and well
7. Teachers are friends too
Go to your teachers for problems you're having out of the classroom too, they always know what to do
8. Have fun
Its middle school, get good grades but don't be too serious, thats what the next 4 years are for

As seen in Lizzie, Elie, and Tom Robinson’s stories, it shows that they can help transform the world for the better. They stayed postive and happy in a time of depression and hardships for their people. From a religious cleansing, to slavery, and post slavery racism. To give up would be easy, but to stand and fight for your life and the lives around you is what a hero would do. To say no to societies preconceived notions of whats right and whats not.

I think that the biggest innovation that changed the world would be the mindset that the leaders of the innovators and go getters of our young world. All of these men and women thought differently because they had goals in life that may have been thought impossible. To make tasks that were hard but seemed normal to people at the time, easier. Working hard trying to find out what could make their visions a reality. The Wright brothers, Henry Ford, Thomas Jefferson, all people who persisted and made something that is now an everyday tool for people. 

I think that out of issues we were given to choose from I believe that environmental protection, factory workers rights, and election/political reform. Everything humans have gotten in the beginning of the world has been from the environment and nowadays there are less people who depend on the environment but its still a big group of people. Wether athletes or fruit and vegetable lovers, we need to take care of all aspects to the environment and keep it and all wild life living there safe. Factory workers and people who need jobs, who are willing to work for low wages and horrible working conditions have been taken advantage of and still are. Lots of which being immigrants legal or not cannot or do not say anything to the FDA. They need the money and although not getting good treatment, are continuing to work in sed places. I think that also in political reform there are people trying to persuade the voters using wealth and power because they might want whoever is elected president to stay out of the way of their business. Generally those people tend to be upper class, wealthy people. They want there businesses to grow even more and have all the power they want. These are the same people who don't care about the environment or how the people in their factories are treated. But there are also people who arent wealthy, and are looking for a president to give them what they need (healthcare, lower taxes) and those people, although being larger in number, have less power than the big time businessman and i think that there still is a lot of persuading in our countries elections.

Hey doods,

Today I'm going to be talking about what i would transform on earth if i could. If i could change or transform anything, it would be terrorism. People that attack weaker people and get them to do things they don't want by using force, or the same people attacking a city because of what they believe. Its not right and i think that ISIS and Al-Qaeda should be stopped. They think that if they can kill innocent people and attack cities that they can become their own nation. They say that their religion influences what they do, but if thats the way they interpret their religion then i think they are not celebrating it correctly.

Dear Yoncé and friends, today we gonna be talking about courage, and someone i find to be very courageous.

I think that Jesus was a very courageous person. From birth he was special, but to not react horribly to all the atrocities bestowed upon him, and to forgive and forget takes a very courageous person. He was constantly hated on and dismissed because of the fact that he was special in a time with not many open-minded people. To do what he was sent to do, and to not give up after seeing what he was up against shows his persistence, bravery, loyalty etc. that he consisted of. I think all of those qualities tie into courage. I think he's a person that everyone can look up to and strive to be like. If people thought like he did, i think that this world could be a war free, happy place and everyone would get along. Although not growing up wealthy or the son of a king (at least a king on earth) Jesus had to start from the bottom and work his way as a carpenter and good person, that eventually bestowed knowledge on lots of people. Christianity although being tied to lots of bloodshed throughout history, is a religion that he started and celebrated. It led to lots of changed lives in the middle east and has spread throughout the world.





Super duper sincerely, Wells

Dear buzzing bees, today i will be writing about the point from the view of a horse during the civil war.

Dearest Robert, its hot and moist and I'm hungry and tired. You ride me all day and barely let me sleep, i don't enjoy the hours, and i could do without the gunshots and artillery constantly ringing in my ears. I don't care that we conquered pickets charge, oh wait we didn't. Whats the point of this war anyway oh Robert? I dream of rolling in hay and eating apples as red as roses. The saddles are scratchy and my hooves are in pain, oh Robert why do i do it? Is it because i yearn for the day where i can go back and see Jezebel. Where we can retire in the barn i was promised. Oh Jezebel my Jezebel i yearn to run along your side and graze with our foals. But until the war is over i have a duty. A duty that binds me to the same treatment as those who the north are fighting for. Just another cog in the machine, trying to make it home in one piece. Oh Robert, Oh Jezebel, Oh Abe, Oh Jeff, Oh War, Oh Pride, why? Why do we do it? The fighting, the mistreatment. One day, one day.

Love,

Traveler