The silence was broken by the calling of birds on the windowsill. His stormy gray backpack laid in the corner of his cream colored room. The beeping of a heart monitor could be heard down the hallway. He noticed the silence in between each beep, it felt like it was stretching out. Giving everyone in the room a mini heart attack. He went to the small cubicle bathroom and prepared for his journey to nowhere. After all, he had no idea where Cleo was. He gathered all of his supplies: a toothbrush, toothpaste, 3 in 1 body wash (which he had no idea where he would even wash himself), part of his foodstash that he gathered in his small closed when he didn’t have an appetite, a pile of clothes. He picked up the backpack and put on the shoes that Nurse Mary got him for his birthday. Cleo’s letter she wrote hung on the bulletin board, the letter that made Berkeley always have hope. He folded the letter and put it in his sweatshirt pocket. He quietly opened up the door to the hallway, and walked toward the elevator. Berkeley stopped and stared as he saw Nurse Mary hovering over a patient. He’s going to leave her all alone, no one to talk to, qbut he had to do this. This was his only chance to find Cleo, he waited for years for this and he only needed to get past the reception desk. He walked up to the elevator and pressed the down button, it made a satisfying click underneath his finger. He could hear the hum of the elevator traveling down the elevator shaft, the doors opened to reveal Ryan in all black clothes with a bandana wrapped around his head.

“What are you wearing?” Berkeley chuckled which made Ryan frown.

“Hey, you got to dress for the occasion.” Ryan took off his backpack and opened it. Inside was an assortment of different sandwiches, four plastic water bottles, chips, and a bag full of cookies. All of which they collected throughout the week. The doors opened to reveal the hospital lobby. The fluorescent lights reflecting off of every metal surface hurt his eyes, and he quickly realized that an eager family waiting to get on the elevator were right in front of him. He passed them and stepped onto the white tile floors. Ryan looked at him and they gave each other a reassuring look. They put up their hoods and started to walk to the front doors, nurses walked past them not noticing who they were. 

“Hey Berkeley!” Startled he looked up and saw Chelsea at the front desk. She has been working as a receptionist for the hospital for about five years. “What are you doing down here?” 

“Going to the park with Ryan, we are planning on having lunch there too!” Chelsea looked at both of them and frowned.

“You’re supposed to have someone with you when you leave the hospital, i’ll get a nurse to go with you. Stay right here.” Berkeley nodded. She walked into a connecting room to the lobby, Ryan looked at Berkeley and sighed. Berkeley noticed Ryan start walking towards the door, Berkeley quickly followed. He was about six feet away from the door, he could feel the breeze against his face. He’s going to find her finally, Ryan quickly opened the door and sprinted out. He looked back and made eye contact with Berkeley, he smiled and made a reassuring face. Berkeley smiled back and stepped out of the doorway. Above him the sun shined letting everyone know it was the start of a new day. Kids walked down the streets toward the school, laughing with their friends. He took a long breath in, and slowly let it out. He did it. All these years surrounded by his own thoughts, and now, finally, he can find Cleo.

The typical person thinks that video games are bad for you and that you are going to be violent and that you are going to do drugs or something but the scientist have proven that they actually not. In fact, they are the complete opposite. They help improve your eye coordination and help people with problem-solving.

Video games also help enhance your memory which is something that most people would say that it wouldn’t but it’s scientifically proven. When you play video games like Apex or Call of Duty and other shooting games it actually helps improve your visual and aural memory because you have to really pay attention to what you’re doing.

Some games that are you are playing doctor Its actually helping make better surgeons and doctors because people are learning what to do so when they get older and if they remember what to do that is already going to know what to do.

Video games help make better leaders because in some games people have to team up and win but if they don’t show leadership they are going to fail the game. People who have a disease or they or are soldiers who got hurt and are hurting a lot of video games can help that because they are paying attention to something else instead of their pain.

Video games help with depression because people who suffer from depression from not being able to make new friends are able to play online with people who may not know them and they don’t have to meet in person so it’s not as awkward. Games also help make better decision makers because in competitive games you have to make the choices of where to go and what to do otherwise if you make the wrong choice you fail or die.

In conclusion, this is  all you didn’t know about video games it’s something that many people would argue about or say video games are bad for you and you’ll rot your brains out if you play bad video games but they are actually good for you and help improve your skills or depression.

Our work ethic is slowly depleting. Meaning that we started the year with amazing work and slowly, but surely our work got to look like trash. We take more time to do our work than literally any other class period, probably all periods combined. We need to take Mrs. Risser seriously and get our work done on time. If people start having problems with getting work done on time you can ask Mrs. Risser to change the due date a day back. We asked why they think we talk so much and they said that its fun to talk and that we are social and teenagers. We usually get our work done after the due date and only a couple of people get it done on time or before. Just like the find 5 reliable sources, only like 8 people got it done on time. That shows that people procrastinate until they are forced to do it the week of presenting. There are still more than half of kids that don’t have it done. They are wasting there time and should come during DA to get it done or have lunch detention because it’s not once that they don’t do there work it’s every time they have a project to do, they don’t do their work. And it’s the same thing over and over again, ¨oh I’m working on it.¨ We think you need to have a more strict rule like once the due date it over its a zero or hand in whatever you have and that’s your grade not letting them work on it until they finish it. I think that citing 5 sources wasn’t hard, people could have gotten it done on time if they worked harder and not talked to people. Maybe even worked on it out of school like I did. 

The rainforest is home to many animals. Some animals in the rainforest are jaguars, sloths, ocelots, colorful birds, and many more. Rainforests can contain as many as 10 million different species of animals, plants, and insects. 

The ocelot is a small wild cat that lives under the leafy canopies of the rainforests. They can also be found as far north as Texas. The ocelot is twice the size of a regular house cat and has black splotches that cover its whole body with a dappled coat. These cats will hunt rabbits, rodents, iguanas, fish, and frogs. They will also even hunt monkeys and birds in the trees. They also don’t avoid water like house cats and enjoy swimming. You can even buy an adult ocelot for a whopping $15,000! However, they wouldn’t make great pets because they are still wild animals that have wild  instincts in them. They can be very aggressive. 

 Toucans are a type of bird that live in the rainforest. Toucans have long colorful beaks that are used for mostly eating food or grabbing food off of trees. They live in flocks which means they live together with other toucans. Toucans have small wings that are not good for flying, and they can’t stay airborne for long. However this is not a problem for them because they hop between branches using their curved toes and sharp claws. Toucans can live up to 20 years in the wild,  but they do have predators. Their predators are Jaguars and other big cats.

Jaguars are a type of big cat that live in the rainforest. They are the third largest cat behind the lion and the tiger first. A jaguar has the strongest bite in the cat family with a force as much as 2,000 pounds of force. Their bite is strong enough to cut through a turtles shell. Instead of purring, jaguars roar. Purring is exclusive to jaguars as well as lions, tigers, and leopards. The jaguars lifespan is 15 to 20 years in the wild.  Unlike house cats, jaguars love to swim. Jaguars live and hunt alone except for when they mate.

Sloths are an animal that also live in the rainforest. Surprisingly they are excellent swimmers but clumsy on land. Their laziness is a survival tactic. Their slowness helps them go unnoticed by predators such as jaguars, ocelots, and harpy eagles. Sloths do just about everything in trees. Sloths can live up to 20 to 30 years in the wild. 

Poison dart frogs are another animal in the rainforest. These amphibians are very colorful. Their colors range from yellow, gold, copper, red, green, blue, or black. They also have elaborate designs to ward off predators. However don’t be fooled by their bright colors. They are one of the most toxic animals on earth. Scientists are still unsure of how they develop their  poison. But it is possible it comes from a plant or something else. Interestingly when they are raised in captivity and isolated from insects in their native habitat they don’t develop the poison. In the wild poison dart frogs can live 3 to 15 years in the wild.

Narrator~ So basically what is happening here is two people are going through a breakup and what you are going to read is the girl’s perspective and then the guy’s perspective. 

The girl ~ If I never cheated on him none of this would’ve happened, but he cheated on me first. I know that it was a bad idea to cheat on him but to be fair he deserved it. Now my ex hates me and won’t even talk to me or look at me. Well at least I am still with my new boyfriend. I can’t tell him that I was cheating on him. If my friend never would’ve told me I wouldn’t have cheated on him. If he told me he didn’t have feelings for me anymore then I would’ve understood. I’m surprised that he doesn’t have a new girl. I really miss him, but I have a new boyfriend. 

The guy~ I can’t believe that she cheated on me, but to be fair I cheated first and it was my fault I wasn’t careful about it. Now she hates my guts and won’t even look or talk to me anymore. And she moved on way too fast, she already has a new boyfriend. Does not even care about me? I don’t think I can have a new girl right now especially after seeing her happy with a new guy like that. It just hurt too much. I miss her so much and I wish I never cheated on her. I’m very disappointed in myself. 

Life without homework would be more easy and helpful. You would have more time after school to do extracurricular activities, and after school jobs. Also if we didn’t have homework, we would have less stress and more time to relax. Another reason is you don’t get enough time to spend with your family, because you both have to work at least 8 hours a day. 

First of all, you wouldn’t have time after school to do extracurricular activities or afterschool jobs. If you are struggling in school, you aren’t aloud to do sports anyway. But if you are doing good in school then why do you still need to waste time on homework when you could be using that time to training or practice for extracurricular activities. In my opinion if you are doing good in school then you should be able to spend your time out of school doing what you want, such as getting a job, or playing a sport. In our school, if you have bad grades you can’t play sports, that is when you need to practice outside of school.  

Not only that, but we would have less stress and more time to relax. Some middle school students have up to 3 hours of homework! That puts a lot of stress on students, to make sure everything gets turned in, on time and correct. Sometimes it gets so stressful that people will give up or not care and hate learning, nobody wants that7 hours of school 5 days a week is enough, so there is no reason to bring it home with you.

Another reason that we shouldn’t have homework is you don’t get to spend enough time with your family. If you and your parents have to work at least 8 hours a day, and then have extracurricular activities, how are you supposed to have any time to spend with your family? Families don’t get to spend a lot of time together and a lot of time that causes problems in the family. It would make it so much easier to spend time with your family if we didn’t have hours of homework to do when we get home from 8 hours of school.

Finally, life without homework would be a lot more easy and helpful because you would have more time to focus on extracurricular activities and after school jobs. Less stress and more time to relax, and you have more time to spend with your family.

One minute I’m in my backyard playing with my kids and the next thing I know I see darkness, shadows, and a tiny bullet hole in the wall surrounding me. I hear voices and glass shattering from psychotic prisoners across the hall, but the next thing I see is a tiny sliver of light along with footsteps getting louder and louder until I see a hand reaching through the small opening in the door giving me something that looks my kids’ throwup.

I’m sitting on a concrete block in an empty room and wondering where my life went. I don’t understand how I could have possibly ended up in here. I have a family, a life, I can’t just pack up my things and be in prison for the rest of my life. My family needs me, I need to be a dad to my daughter, I don’t want them to live a life without a dad. My life has turned into me sitting in an empty room by myself, no one to talk to, no one to interact with, and barley no life left. I’m going to miss all my kid’s birthdays and their graduations. I’m going to miss my kids getting married. I know I will get out of here somewhere and somehow…I have to. 

I got accused of killing a 16-year-old teen. The court had an illustration of what the suspect might have looked like and they said it had to be me. In the picture there was a mustache and I have never had a mustache. I was at a concert with my family when the event happened. I had been wrongly accused of something that I would never do. I love my family, friends, and the people around me too much to kill someone or even think of doing anything like that. I tried to tell anyone but they ignored me then I called my wife and she was crying, my daughter asked where daddy went, I cried.

I couldn’t do it anymore I needed to prove my point. I decided to call my friend which was a detective. I asked him to pull up certain clips of me at the concert in the crowd to prove to the court that I was there. He watched the clip many times 5 hours long trying to find me and my family. He couldn’t find me, he watched it again, couldn’t find me. I had to go to court tomorrow either way. (Next day) I’m standing in court and my friend whispers to me, “You’re getting out.” My mind was filled with emotions and I couldn’t believe it was actually happening. I hugged my family and I was looking forward to all the memories to come. 

As soon as they got over Arizona they jumped out of the plane with parachutes. They take out the binoculars that they brought with them for this exact purpose. Almost immediately start looking the plane blows up and Julius jumps off the top of the plane and onto Jamal. Jamal tries to shake Julius off but Julius is clinging on for his life. James floats over to Julius and Jamal and started trying to loosen Julius’s grip. Julius’s grip loosens and as soon as that happened Jamal is able to shake Julius off. Julius is now free-falling without a parachute and is trying to figure out what to do. If I land on that trampoline down there and bounce into the pool I have a twenty percent chance of living. Jamal and James thinking he is done for, pull their parachutes and headed for the helipad.

Jamal and James went back to the lab and as soon as James is about to leave Julius drives through a wall in the tank screaming you thought you could get rid of me! Immediately Jamal and James bolted for cover so the wouldn’t get shot by the tank. Now Julius was not thinking and he did not get a lot of ammo for the tank so he had to use his ammo carefully. Jamal realizing this told James about and they both were going to try and make him waste his ammo. They start diving and rolling to different objects to try and get Julius to waste ammo. Julius thinking he can easily hit them when in reality he had no chance of hitting them. He starts wasting a bunch of ammo still thinking he could hit them. Jamal and James kept doing the same thing over and over until they were sure Julius was out of ammo. Jamal had found some c4 and lays it down on the bottom of the tank. Jamal got a safe distance away from the tank and blew it up. Now, this type of c4 is one that blasted you far away. Julius got launched into Nevada.

At the CIA base, Jamal and Henry took a vocabulary test (because why not) and were about to see their results. 

“Jamal and Henry, come to my office,” Mr. E(xtra damage) said. 

Jamal and Henry went down to the office. As they walked in, They saw Mr. M(aximum damage)’s head on the beheadestle in the corner. “I would like to talk to you about your grammar scores”. After the “talk”, Mr. E(xtra damage) said, “There is a website I would like you to try. It’s called Membean. It’s a vocabulary site that I think would help improve your vocabulary.” 

After 2 minutes, Jamal said “This sucks. My mind is getting more confused about vocabulary as I go along. It also sucks. It’s really boring. It also-” 

“I GET IT!!” Henry yelled. “But yeah, it really does suck. You wanna write a diss track about it and force Mr. E(xtra damage) to stop making us do it?” 

“HECK YEAH!!!!” Jamal shouted. “Let’s do it now!!!”

They spent the next hour writing a song. “I think it’s ready!” Henry said. 

“Then let’s go!!!”

“But we have to do our daily reeee.”

They spent the next ten hours reeeeing.

“MR. E(XTRA DAMAGE)!!!” Jamal screamed as they burst into his office. 

“Stop forcing us to do Membean! We’ve been doing it for 2 minutes and it’s already corrupting our minds!!!”

“You can’t make me! There’s NO WAY!! HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!” Mr. E(xtra Damage) shrieked with glee.

“Oh, I believe we can,” Henry said as he pulled a giant bass speaker out from behind his back. Then Jamal and Henry each pulled out a microphone and started singing.

How much do I love not doing Membean?

By Jamal and Henry

An Original Song

(Bold text is Jamal, the rest is Henry, underline is both)

I get on with life as a CIA agent,

I’m an amazing kinda person.

I like spying on Sundays,

I like Ramming ice cream trucks in the week.

I like to contemplate not doing Membean.

But when I start to daydream,

My mind turns straight to not doing Membean.

Shoop Shoop!

Do I like not doing Membean more than you, Mr. E(xtra Damage)?

You bet I do!

Do I love not doing Membean more than spying?

You bet I do!

I like to use words like ‘Rockets,’

I like to use words like ‘Explosives.’

I like to use words about not doing Membean.

But when I stop my talking,

My mind turns straight to not doing Membean.

Shoop Shoop!

Do I like not doing Membean more than ramming ice cream trucks?

You bet I do!

Do I love not doing Membean more than blowing things up?

You bet I do!

I like to hang out with Henry,

I like to kick back with Jamal,

But when left alone,

My mind turns straight to not doing Membean.

Shoop shoop!

Do I like not doing Membean more than leaving people tied up in bathrooms?

You bet I do!

Do I love not doing Membean more than the new secretary?

You bet I do!

We’re not too fond of Membean,

We really hate Membean,

But when we just think back to not doing Membean,

And we’re happy once again.

Shoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooop!

SHOOP! SHOOP!

After they were done singing, the room was smoking. Mainly the bass speaker was on fire. 

“JAMAL! HENRY! HOW DARE YOU SET MY OFFICE ON FIRE, SING A REALLY CRINGY SONG, AND EXPECT ME TO TAKE IT!”

“YOU MADE US DO MEMBEAN!” Jamal shouted.

“Calm down, Jamal,” Mr. E(xtra Damage) said calmly. “We can solve this problem calmly and peacefully.” Then he pulled out a mini-gun. “LOOKS LIKE I’M GONNA HAVE TWO MORE BEHEADESLES!!!” 

Mr. E(xtra Damage) started shooting like crazy (which he might have been) and Jamal and Henry were running (well, Jamal was). But Mr. E(xtra Damage) couldn’t aim a minigun to save his life and just put 50 holes in the same wall per second, so Jamal shoved his extra antlers in the barrel of the minigun. They immediately launched out, breaking the sound barrier, and seriously hurting the new secretary as she walked in.

Mr. E(xtra Damage) immediately yelled, “SORRY JANET BUT I’M MAD.” 

He got “UUUUUUUUUUUUUUHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh…” as a response.

 Then a notification appeared on his computer saying he had a message and he went, “WAIT, I gotta check something.” 

The message said that Membean was made by Russians and is actually a virus and so he then went to the CIA server rooms and blew up every server with the virus then went to Russia and started World War 5.

I am writing about the horrid blog posts, and I think that we should not have to do them at all and swap the for 3 portfolios, or just write at MOST 4 of them. If we have the full 8 blogs to do then it is so much work hurling at us like meteors at a spaceship. Also if we did not have portfolios then we would all be more laid back and ready for the Annoying  Blogs. The blogs are so hard to find topics on, and I even ended up writing a blog about how I hate blogs. 

I think that blogs should be less in number and that there should be less requirements for blogs. Blogs for most normal kids are a pain, and should be taken to a vote of whether or not we keep them. Blogs should be stopped right in their tracks and not be a torcher to us poor kids any more. It is a solid fact that 99.99999% of kids highly dislike blog posts.

In my opinion blogs are just more torcher for us, other than math class. Also they should be taken out of ELA entirely. They should Also be used to torcher people in jail, because that would be a torcher. If blogs were used to annoy jail inmates then no one would want to ever, ever, ever, do anything bad that would result in going to jail.

In conclusion of Annoying blogs  I think that the horrid torment of the blogs should be put to an end! Also the 6th graders will then be free for the whole 7th grade year and ¼ of our 7th grade year.