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Friday, May 13, 2015  

May Issue A Trip to Washington 

By Jade Patterson, Alyssa Sproul Claymont Jr. High 8th graders

traveled to Washington D.C. and Gettysburg to see monuments, museums and Medieval Times on March 22-24, 2016. On the trip up to Washington D.C. they stopped and saw an incredible sight called Gettysburg. As they stopped in Gettysburg they got off the bus and got to go see a film about the Civil War that made the people feel like there physically there and the students saw a pomeranian. Then after that a tour guide got on the bus and showed them the different monuments in Gettysburg. Next they went to the Pentagon City Mall to get dinner after that it was off to the hotel.

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Washington continued The second day they all had breakfast at the hotel. After the amazing meal they went to Arlington National Cemetery and the Holocaust Museum, Air and Space Museum, where 8th graders ate lunch. Finally, students enjoyed dinner at the Medieval Times. The third and final day everyone packed up and went off to breakfast then they went to the Capitol building, Lincoln Memorial, WWII, and then to get the whole school picture with staff and students.    

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 Photo credit: clearviewregional.edu CJHS Spring Sports 

By Breanna Huggins, Michaela Dumont, Bailey Anthony, Michael Turner 

  Do you play Spring Sports? The students interviewed were: Marah Green, Mason Beeman, Blayde Swayne, Regan Brown.The students were asked what spring sports they played and why they played them, the most common responses were “softball, baseball, and track.” The most common responses for why they play them were to be active and either because they have played all their lives or to just try something different. Blayde Swayney said “ I play so I don't have to be a couch potato.” he most common responses for how long students played sports was in between 5-8 years. Regan Brown said “ I have played softball for 11 years.”

  

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Presidential Election: Democrats 

by: Makaleigh Vega, Mallory Wolf 

With many Americans drowning in politics, students at Claymont Junior High School have influentially decided to interview inhabitants of the school on their personal opinions of the presidential election. With interviews from Tori Ledford, Peyton Smith, Sam Caley, and Drew Brick, results have been found to that an outstanding percentage of students who were interested in presidential candidate, Bernie Sanders, over other competitors such as Hillary Clinton.

Although students would be obligated to choose otherwise if their favorite candidate wasn’t running, the results showing their desire for Bernie Sanders as president has extreme potential. Tori Ledford was the only individual to choose Hillary Clinton, the rest of students choose Bernie Sanders.

 

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 Presidential Election: 

Republicans by: Allayna Ortiz, Rylynn Smith, Nikita Page 

  The students in the seventh and eighth grade were asked to see their opinions on the Republican Party and who they would vote for.

Everyone knows of the Republican Donald Trump. Casper Page says, “I’d vote for Donald Trump, he has some ideas that I really like!” Mr. Duvall was also interviewed. He said, he

wouldn’t vote for anyone in the Republican Party. He feels the Republicans have horrible ideas and doesn’t think they have what it takes to run an entire country.

Mr. Shumaker was asked who he thinks should win the election, and he said that he would vote for his cat. Alexis’ words were, “I really hope Ted Cruz wins the election, He really has good ideas I think he might do this country some good after some bad presidents in the past.”

 

Social Media Sites by: Emmalee McDaniel, Brock Meese, 

Symone Carlton 

 Social media is an

interesting topic among teenagers of today. Gretchen Birch, 8th grader at Claymont Junior High School, said her least favorite social media is Kik, because it contributes to the disappearance of many teens and younger kids. Tyler Brown, 7th grader, said his first social media site was Facebook and he was about 11 or 12 years old when he made it.

 

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Popular Music by: James Brown, Blake Bridgeman, Keegan 

Garabrant 

Hey you,do you want to hear some news with special people in this school? Well, CHECK IT OUT! What is your favorite music artist, your favorite song by them and their least favorite genre? Rosellen Short said her favorite artist was “Allan Walker”. Her favorite song by him was “Faded”, and her least favorite genre was country. Emalee said her favorite artist was “Panic! At the disco”. Her favorite song was “Emperor's New Clothes”, and her least favorite genre was country.TJ said his favorite artist was the “Bee Gees”, his favorite song was “To Much Heaven” and his least favorite genre was country.

 

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 Role Models by: Shaylyn Lamp 

  Who will be your lifelong role model? Arianna Hahn, Kylor Burroway, Mackenzie Guy, Lexius Holt, Danielle Bower and Haylee Heavilin was interviewed. They were interviewed about their role models on April 13th at Claymont Junior High School.

Mackenzie Guy said, “My role model is Sydney Napier. She became my role model because she is smart and funny. She became my role model last year.” Lexius Holt said, “My role model is Mrs. Monticelli . She became my role model because she is looks after me when I need help. She became my role model on the first day of school.”

 

Favorite Video Games at Claymont by: Kylie Maloy, Salvatore Sidoti, 

Koulton Fischer 

 The kids at Claymont

Junior High like gaming. The people that were interviewed are Logan Warner, Brennam Duff, Matthew Rogers, Jimmy Clark and Brady Milburn. The first interviewer was Logan Warner, when asked what his favorite video game is “Black Ops 3”.

The next person interviewed was Brennam Duff, he was asked what his favorite video game was and he said “Gmod”. The next interview was Matthew Rogers, he said his favorite video game was “Black ops 2”.

Then after that Jimmy Clark was interviewed, his favorite game was “NfL” then Brady Milburn’s was “nba 2k”. At this point our group learned why each person likes the video games and what is about. Our group asked each person what they would do if they were in the game and they had some pretty interesting responses. Kids at Claymont Junior High have different interest in video games.

  

  

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Fashion Update by: Alysa Mayforth, Destiny Campbell, Loretta 

Royer, Emily Reynolds 

Anna Randolph,Sam Pugh, Mr.Manchester, Brian Briggs and Mr. Kunkle was interviewed about fashion. It happened on April 12,2016 at the Claymont Jr. High School.

It was interviewed on all floors. We asked them “Where did you get your clothes and why?” Mr Kunkle said it was Nike because they were comfy and best known. Then we asked Anna what is her favorite brand of shirt and she said Under Armour because it fits in with the schools fashion sense. Then there was another question that was asked to Sam and it was where do you get your clothes and why and he said the mall and sometimes Finish Line.

 

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 Favorite Animals 

by: Kayla Beckley, Kateleen Martin, Sydney Napier, Jade Gibson 

 

 At the Claymont Junior High, everybody has different animals. Would you like to know what animals are at Claymont Junior High? Sarah Beem has animals, she has too many, she has chickens, donkeys, birds, cats and dogs, if she didn’t have any animals she would want a lemar. Meriah Miles has an animal, she only has one animal, the animal she had is a dog, lastly, if Meriah didn’t have any animals she would want a monkey. Last we interviewed Samantha Mann. She does have animal, the animal she has is a dog, if Samantha didn’t have a animal she would want a hedgehog.

 

Movie Reviews By: Emily Schreiber, Hannah Snyder 

  Grab your popcorn because this article is all about movies! Payton Milburn, Shauna Golec, Marah Green, Emma Leggett, Michaela Oswald, and Anna Randolph were each asked about their movie preferences. When asked about her favorite movie genre, Payton said it was comedy because she finds “the movies really funny”. Shauna Golec said that the last movie she watched was Daddy Day Care, a movie about two dads that decide to create a daycare because they are running low on money. Marah Green was asked about her favorite movie when she was younger, her response was, “The Lion King because I found it to be cool.” Also, Emma Leggett said that her favorite had always been Dolphin Tale because she really liked the message it sent to its’ viewers. Anna Randolph’s favorite movie is Frozen. Michaela Oswald mentioned that her favorite movie genre is comedy because it makes her laugh.

 

 Infamous Dances by: Irelynn Ickes, Vanessa Grove 

 

  

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  Today Jake Poland, Drew Dryden, and Chance Best were interviewed about popular dances at Claymont Junior High. Also there was a dance battle between Mariah Miles and Mr. Manchester. Jake Poland said he likes the dance “The Quan”. That move goes to the music Hit the Quan. This dance is popular because students today like the song and tried their hardest to have a dance to go with it. Drew Dryden answered with the dabb and whip and nae nae. He was very good at it doing the dance and the boys at our school love to do the dabb all the time. Chance Best was very funny and he did awesome doing The Quan. Mariah Miles and Mr. Manchester did a dance battle. They were awesome at it. Mr.Manchester did the chicken dance and the shopping cart and Mariah did her classical ballet dance moves.