The Falcon Files

ETMS Newspaper Club

Inside this issue

Student in State Fair ................... 2

Meet Mrs. Hammond ................. 2

Trail of Tears ............................... 3

“Stranger Things: A Serial Story” . 3

Sports Update ............................. 4

YUM ............................................ 4

Gamer Section ............................ 4

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ETMS… Where Falcons earn their wings!

T-Shirt BLITZ… Think PINK!

By Jacob Nagelhout

Edward Town Middle School recently did a fundraiser for our 6th grade teacher Mrs. Miller. Mrs. Miller is currently undergoing treatment for cancer and we wanted to help support her by selling pink ribbon t-shirts for $5.50.

Students in each homeroom had the chance to purchase a t-shirt. The money and t-shirt sizes were collected and given to Mrs. Braham in room N212, Mrs. Lobaugh in room J204, and Mrs. Marotta in room M210.

The school's planning on having a “pink out” day in the month of December. We hope you will wear your pink shirts to help show support for our teacher, Mrs. Miller.

Clubs are Cool By Jacob Nagelhout

At Edward Town Middle School there are many clubs or events that are happening after

school that you can have fun at or more importantly you can socialize better. For exam-

ple, you can join clubs or events to socialize with other people and have a good time.

Also, when you start accomplishing things with your club you and your club will be hap-

py. Last of all, you can find out or learn new things. That is why its important that you get

involved with clubs and events.

November 2017 Volume 1, Issue 1

Our school gets a new logo!

After a public vote, our school

has adopted a new logo. That

logo was student designed and

is featured below.

By: Iain O’Donnell

Meet our NEW Assistant Principal Mrs.

Hammond!

I had the chance to sit down with Mrs.

Hammond for an interview for our school

newspaper. I found out a lot of great in-

formation.

Mrs. Hammond is a remarkable assistant

that has been working in the education

department in Buffalo for twelve years.

She wants to work on the communication

between the students and the teachers to improve our school and believes in student

success.

She tries stay active with the after school clubs to show her school spirit. Mrs. Ham-

mond is looking forward to seeing the musical and how it turns out. She loves our

hometown sports teams , even when they lose. She also loves ice cream and traveling

with her family.

Mrs. Hammond has three dogs and a teenage daughter. She is very excited to work at

our school and wants to help improve our school.

“Michellynn had a great time at state fair and received a blue ribbon…”

ETMS has a Student in State Fair

ETMS Welcomes Mrs. Hammond!

by Michellynn Schroder

Michellynn Schroeder is an active

6th grade student on team 6-3.

She is in not only in jazz choir,

Builder's Club, newspaper club

and yearbook club; she is also a

very active Niagara County 4H

member that participates in

archery, the rabbit program,

public presentations, made it to

state level horse bowl, and her

mom is the co-leader of the north

east herd. She also has a minia-

ture horse she enjoys showing.

Michellynn entered many pro-

jects into the Niagara County 4-H

fair. The day before the fair she

was dropping her brother’s bun-

ny off. Her family went into the

building to cheek that her club’s

table was set up, but little did she

know that she was going to find

out that her project was going to

be in state fair! Michellyn was

not there for judging and her

mom was hesitating allowing her

to enter her EZ Groomer inven-

tion [made for West Street’s In-

vention Convention]. Michellynn

had a great time at the state fair

and received a blue ribbon for

her E-Z groomer.

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Stranger Things...

A fictional serial story that

continues issue to issue… can

YOU figure out who’s behind

these strange happenings at

ETMS? Read on for some clues!

Entry 1, Day 1, November 14th

2017, 3:00 p.m.

Today in Mrs. Jamieson’s sci-

ence class was the perfect

opportunity mess around with

the kids, because there was a

substitute. He he he… Anyway,

I went into the computer sys-

tems and messed around with

them. So this way at any point

in time, I could just scroll

around and mess them up and

aggravate them! It was so fun-

ny! Everyone was getting frus-

trated and mad! The best part

was that they didn’t know why

it was happening! Ha ha ha!

After I had some fun, the

school day was over. I snuck

out after all the kids were

gone. Ooh, I just heard some

Juicy Gossip!... well, I'll only tell

you some of it and then I'll

make you wait to hear the

rest! So, this kid… I don’t know

his name, but I heard his

phone was stolen from his

locker…

Who is behind the mysterious

phone disappearance? Look for

next month’s issue to find

more clues.

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Is America really free? A Trail of Tears

An essay by Nicholas Thomas The Trail of Tears was the Native American removal so that the early U.S settlers could expand west and all the Natives suffered from the trail. Many died, the Cherokee deaths alone were 4,000 to maybe even 5,000. As you can tell this was a terrible event in history that really makes you mad at our “Free” land. What was happening was the Native’s were being driven from their homeland for early and greedy American settlers to expand west even though there were treaties against that, but we didn’t follow them. Do you see now how America was not always so great like it is now? And do you even want to know that that large part of the Native’s land was not enough for the settlers and their greed brought them to wanting to remove the NATIVES FROM THEIR OWN LAND that they did not really have any control over! The Native removal actually started after government officials have been talking about for a long time. It was very harsh, cruel, and terrible for the Native Americans and also expensive for the U.S. government but it was also a very inspiring event in history for many people. It took $5 million dollars to support the Cherokee alone when it was only estimated to cost $3 million dollars for all Native groups. Since this was looking like it would be a very big expense the presi-dent at the time cut off annual pays to the Native American groups. He also stopped all funds for missionaries. A lot of Choctaw people obeyed Native relocation, but some Natives hid in forest’s eastern to the Mississippi and if you did not obey the relocation you were beaten and arrested. A French social scientist named Alexis De Tocqueville traveled to the U.S. and wit-nessed how Natives were being treated and was inspired to write a book about it. Ultimately the main idea of this event in history was part of the Natives’ land was not enough for greedy American settlers so they had an idea, the idea was to relocate and remove Native Americans. The Natives were driven from their homes for our settlers to expand westward and treaties were broken. The removal was harsh, cruel, and terrible for Natives, and expensive for the U.S. government but an inspiring event in history.

Bibliography

Benoit, Peter. The Trail Of Tears. New York: Children's Press,2013.

Yum… A column about good treats and good eats!

by Olivia Barbarossa-Robinson

It’s Thanksgiving and what is one of the most

popular foods we like to eat on our day of

thanks? Cranberry sauce! Here is an easy recipe

you can do at home. (Parental assistance recom-

mended)

Empty a 12-ounce bag of fresh or frozen cranberries into a saucepan and transfer

1/2 cup to a small bowl. Add 1 cup sugar, 1 strip orange or lemon zest and 2 table-

spoons water to the pan and cook over low heat, stirring occasionally, until the

sugar dissolves and the cranberries are soft, about 10 minutes. ~Food Network

Kitchen

The ETMS Newspaper Makes a Return

Mrs. Bubar, Advisor

Now that clubs are expanding

at the middle school, we were

able to again start the newspa-

per club. This club gives stu-

dents the opportunity to put

out a monthly newsletter

which features articles, stories,

poems, and student generated

artwork as well as recipes, and

a brand new “serial story” by

student Abby Hatfield.

The Newspaper Club kids also

take turns every other week

doing morning announcements

opposite the Student Council

members.

We typically meet once a week

and publish our newsletter

once a month. It’s an exciting

time to be at ETMS.

The Bills Acquire Kelvin Benjamin

This year, we have a brand new Home School

President, Miss Jessie. Our club reporter, Olivia

Barbarossa-Robinson had a chance to sit down

and interview Miss Jessie about school, her

ideas for , fun clubs, activities, and dances, and

a little about her family. Look for Olivia's fea-

ture story in the December issue of The Falcon

Files!

By Kameron Stenzel

The Buffalo Bills had have there best

start in the NFL in six years .

The Buffalo Bills general manager Bran-

don Beane decided on working on the

receivers by adding depth to the team.

Brandon decided to acquire Kelvin Ben-

jamin to the list .

This is going to make the Bills season a

whole lot better but the Buffalo Bills will

need to trade their 3rd round and 7th

round picks to the Carolina Panthers in

next years draft .

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Miss Jessie takes over as HSA President

Attention, Gamers! This section deals with the latest in gaming news and reviews.

By Carter Galyen

Rating: Teen

Developers:Re-Logic, Engine Software, and 505 Games

Release Date: May 16,2011

Cost: $19.99 (Ps4), $14.99 (XBox 360), $30.80 (XBox One), $29.99 (Wii U), $9.99

(Steam)

Genres: Action-Adventure, Survival

Average Rating: 3.5/5

Description: Terraria is a 2D action-adventure sandbox game created by Re-Logic. The

game was first released on Microsoft Windows in May 16, 2011, and has been re-

leased for many other consoles and devices. Gameplay of Terraria features explora-

tion, crafting, building, and combat with a variety of creatures in a randomly generat-

ed 2D world. Terraria was given many good reviews when it was first released. By

February 2017, the game had sold over 20 million copies across all consoles.

My Rating: 4/5

by Anthony Strangio

We all remember the Nintendo Wii U

and 3DS. There was a social media ser-

vice made by Nintendo for these con-

soles. It was called Miiverse and used the

system’s Miis. You could talk about

games and ask for help to other users of

the consoles. Many games for the sys-

tems used these features for different

things. Splatoon would put people’s

drawings as graffiti in the levels. In Super

Mario Maker, you could post messages

on other people’s levels. In Smash Bros,

there was a Miiverse stage that would

show posts in the background. You may

think, “This sounds like fun! I want to get

a Miiverse account!” But, on November

7, 2017, Miiverse shutdown. It was very

disappointing to many people. Miiverse

started as a social platform for the sys-

tem to talk about games. Then, games

started to incorporate it into them. Now,

Nintendo has moved on from the Wii U.

They are still supporting the 3DS, just in

case their new Switch console fails out of

nowhere. However, the disappointed

people still got something. Nintendo

created an image of Amy, the Miiverse

mascot, with the words “thank you” and

the logo of Miiverse out of posts.

Miiverse may be shutting down, but with

the awesome new Nintendo Switch, I see

a bright future for Nintendo. Next week,

we will cover something happier, so stay

strong gamers. That’s it for this issues

Nintendo News.

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Game Review: Today’s game is… Terraria!

Miiverse, a Slightly Sad Goodbye

Racism

By: Abigail Hatfield

Racism, is real - it’s everywhere. We see people of color - stop, and stare

Red, yellow, black, or white,

Are we different, or are we really alike? Calling each other hateful names, I sit by and watch, feeling ashamed, Separated: red, yellow, black, and white

My world, turned to hate from this terrible plight.

Why can’t we see that we are all the same?

Although, when I reflect, aren’t we all to blame?

Creative Corner ETMS Newspaper Club

The Newspaper Club features

the goings on around Edward

Town Middle school It also

showcases student work and

high-interest articles.

Have an idea for a story? Con-

tact one of our student report-

ers today or stop by and visit

Mrs. Bubar in K203.

Original

illustrations by:

Derek Jelen

Shawn Watson

Nick Thomas

The Funny Side