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CRACK THE CODE
Join us on Thursday, Feb. 28th, for some mad experiments.
Digital Citizenship Assembly
By : Adina K.
2019! A New Year Has Approached! Many inventors started to create new products like electronics, plus much more!
January the tenth of 2019, an assembly took place in the Keller gym about digital citizenship, a topic most of us learned about at the start of the school year. However, there is so much to learn about with particular detail.
Digital citizenship applies to apps that you find in your phone or other electronic devices, say, for example, apps like Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, Instagram, and so many more! It is exciting to see your friends on social media and meet other people around the world, but sometimes it can be a war zone. It all starts by making a joke about someone. Gradually bystanders start to come in, they try to get involved in the joke and start insulting the image or the video. Slowly...it gets worse.
It is necessary for us to learn about this because we all need to be safe, not only in the real world, but also on the internet. Whatever you do on your phone, like sharing a comment or watching a video, is all recorded in your digital footprint. A digital footprint records your activity on the internet, saying that you CANNOT erase your footprint, ever! It will follow you for the rest of your life! If you see someone being cyber bullied, try to help them by telling your teacher or any trusted adult in your school or at home. Don’t leave them alone and let them deal with it, solo even if they say no. Try to help them. Studies have shown that bullying can affect a person's psychology. Not helping them can have very bad results. We can also connect this scenario with the Stand For The Silent assembly.
Just as seventh grade and school reporter, Munya N., mentions: “As teens, we should build a fair, trustworthy society. By saying that, we should know how to use social media. We will build a fair society by using kind words on social media and gain the trust adults gave us to use the internet web. We have this web for a purpose, so we should use it with trust. We have awesome technology, let us use it for something that could help the universe! Try to be reasonable, things are made for a purpose. If we don't use social media as we should, then it is just a big waste, because having something usable in life and we don't use it, then why is it even there? So, as much as we can, let us try to use social media for a purpose. If someone has a great talent and/or an idea, share it, and as users we should help them. That was why social media was built for, for us to share our ideas and make the world a better place!"
In conclusion we have to be respectful and safe, not only in the real world, but also on the internet.
Wildcats with a Golden Heart
By: Munya N.
"Even on the darkest of days, the sun still shines!"
Of course you've seen that quote on the Keller Junior High board in the hallway. Well, if you want to know who put it up there, then follow along!
Walking through the hallways of Keller Junior High, you’ve probably seen the inspirational quotes or even seen the kindness flyers. Those things you are seeing around are created by the Keller Student Ambassadors. With the help of Mrs. Konkey and the Interact Club, the Student Ambassadors are going to rock Keller with kindness.
As many of you are wondering, who are the Keller Student Ambassadors? These ambitious students are leaders of the school. They are chosen by teacher recommendation, selected for high grades, politeness, and mind flexibility. Those students help the Interact Club spread kindness around, their goal is to draw a smile on student faces.
Here are our amazing ambassadors: Nikki M., Larkin C., Jason W., Victor D., Andi V., Mikayla N., Delanie D., Rachel D., Fernanda S., Alexis L., Libby D., Eliza W. Stephanie C., Nikola Z., Reid M., Aditi S., Bobby M., Nandana V., Niueni E., Michelle R., Harley S.
The leaders are now focusing on the kindness arrows. Each student writes something kind they did on an arrow, then the student ambassadors and the Interact Club put it up on the Keller Junior High walls. Good job to all Keller student kindness spreaders, keep that kindness rockin’.
WE THANK YOU FOR YOUR HARD WORK!
"For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone." - Audrey Hepburn
"Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." - Mark Twain
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. " - Confucius
"No one has ever become poor by giving.” - Anne Frank
“Strong people don't put others down...They lift them up.”
- Michael P. Watson
“Acts of Kindness: A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”
- Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
“Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Muhammad Ali
“We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
D211 PSAT
By: Madeline Schulz
You have probably heard not great things about PSAT from either current or previous eighth graders. They’re not wrong, so here’s the scoop
For: All future 8th grade students
Why do they have to take it? To see what classes they place for high school
What tests are part of the PSAT? Reading English and Math
When is it? PSAT or Preliminary Scholastic Aptitude Testing takes place in October usually the second Saturday of the week. You’ll need to wake up at 6:00 or earlier, and you need to be at your high school by about 7:30 and until about 12:30. 5 hours of testing on a Saturday?!
Yeah no thanks no wonder everyone always complains when it comes time to take the test.
Quote(s) from someone who took it:
“It was hard and boring. But at least we get snack breaks.” Tiffany Chu 8th grade student KJH
Why should students try their best?
You should do your best on the PSAT even with it being difficult and tiring because it is a huge part of what classes you are placed in in highschool and whether or not you get a third elective or study hall.