questions for mr. valles

1. what do you teach? speech? debate?
2. how did you meet alana?
3. what award did she recently win and where?
4. how many people are in debate?
5. what sort of contribution or impact has alana made to the speech/debate team?
6. what are your thoughts on her as a student? debater? 
7. what do you like best about speech and debate?
8. why did you decided to teach them?

Alana questions

talk to
mr. vallez
alana
debate/speech friend

1. What awards have you won?
2. How long have you been doing debate?
3. Who all is in the debate team?
4. What strategies do you personally use in debate to win awards?
5. How competitive is debate?
6. When did you decide you wanted to take debate?
7. What are the challenges of it?
8. Do you want to debate after high school too?
9. How do you think debate is beneficial to you?

Beto DREAMS questions

1. When did you start the DREAMS clothing line?
2. What inspired you to create the clothing line? Why did you create it?
3. Is it just you who designs this? Who else helps?
4. When did the clothing line start to gain popularity? How did you try to get your clothes noticed?
5. What are the hardest things about trying to run a clothing line while in high school and in general?
6. Have you made a big profit off your clothes?
7. How does it makes you feel whenever you see people wearing your shirts or buying them?
8. Where can you buy them?
9. Do you plan to continue your clothing line after high school? What else do you see yourself doing after high school or college?
10. What is the process of designing, making and producing the finished product?
11. Do your designs carry any specific meaning or significance?
12.  Where did the name DREAMS come from?
13. Is it just popular among Akins students?
14. Who have you seen wear it? (what type of crowd, specific people, etc.)

questions for denmark kid

1. Through what organization did you come to America?
2. Why did you pick to come to America out of all your choices?
3. In what ways does the culture in your country look up to America's culture?
4. How did you imagine America to be before you came here? The people? land? culture?
5. How has America and American's influenced your personality, style, outlook on things, etc.
6. How did you feel when you first stepped foot in the school?
7. What did you expect American school to be like? How's it different over there from here?
8. When do you go back to Denmark? How do you feel knowing you'll have to leave America at the end of the school year?
9. What other countries have you been to?
10. What are families like in Denmark compared to here? How are the kids different?
11. Was it easy for you to make friends when you first got to the school? Were you nervous about coming to school here?
12. Do kids have more freedom in Denmark or in America? In what way?

friday oct 12

1. -i gave my paper back to dez i don't remember the number
2. My story about freddy zamora and sinsored got published.
3. 26 people contributed to the creation of the paper.
4. My favorite photo is the picture of Freddy and Yera dancing together at prom on page 6 because it is in the moment of the prom queen and king dancing and the contact he has with her while dancing.
5. My favorite story in the paper is Sean's column, "Inside the Outside" on the opinions page, page 2, it's about his thoughts on high school and what do we knowledge we really get out of high school, it's my favorite because I think it's well written and I can relate to the point he is getting across.
6. My favorite graphic is John's drawing that is a part of Sean's story, I like it because it truly depicts the kids at school in my opinion. I think it will attract many people to the story because the drawing is interesting.
7. The news pages are my favorite because it has a good amount of both pictures, art, cutouts, and graphics. I think every things on the pages look good and isn't just a bunch of words on a page, the art and pictures bring it to life.
8. This issue I want to put more art on my page and be more creative with it since it's the entertainment page, I want to also do more cutouts, this issue I'll also take pictures for homecoming.and blue & gold night

three little pigs video

1.  The story of The Three Little Pigs was covered through the internet, newspaper, and TV.
2. It has the same concept, but through the media if was taken as a serious issue people were concerned about and protested and tweeted over.
3. They didn't really interview anyone, they filmed the police speaking about it and the rioters and what they had to say about the case.
4.  They covered the opposite opinion of the three little pigs being guilty and the debate over whether they're guilty or not.
5. They didn't cover what exactly happened as in why they murdered the wolf and the story behind it.
6. The Guardian did not express their opinion but covered the opinions of others.
7. Yes we can cover events and show different sides of a story and how people feel about a certain topic.
8. You can make it a reality by covering it, what really happened, and showing different sides of the story from others but not your opinion because you're the journalist documenting it.

freddy zamora story

1. what was your relation to freddy?
2. have you lost anyone else close to you before?
3. what did freddy mean to you? 
4. when was his funeral? what was it like?
5. what do you miss most?
6. how have family and friends handled it and make this transition?
7. how is life different now that he isn't here anymore?

sinsored story

1. how did it feel winning 2nd place at battle of the bands last year?
2. who plays which parts? whose all in the band?
3. what venues have yall played at?
4. any albums or tour in the works?
5. what caused some members of the band to leave?
6. have you guys gained more fans or recognition from playing in venues?
7. what are the hardest things to deal with when you're in a band?
8. what's the craziest thing that's happened at your shows?
9. how did you guys end up getting gigs at venues like the red eyed fly?
10. what do you like best about being in a band?
11. what do you like the least about being in a band?
12. what bands do you guys look for for inspiration?
13. planning any sxsw shows?
14. when are your next shows?

story
freddy zamora story
who to interview
-his brother adam zamora
-dad
-friend either nohemi rodriguez or cousin tori
-mom
-marisol gomez

other story
sinsored story
who to interview
michael loera
austin davenport
santana gutierrez
pierce
some fan of theirs

scavenger hunt
haleigh, alex, savannah

3. Mrs. Ball if the director for diamonds and is located in the fine arts building, Mr. Faust teacher band, Mrs. Bennet teachers orchestra, Mrs. Seagle teaches theater, Mrs. Medina, Mr. Cannon, and Mrs. Yopp teach art.

6. Mrs. Horowitz teaches history, Roberson teacher science, Sloane teaches math, Kesling teaches English, Broome teaches animation, Clark teaches biology, Warr teacher English, and Reeves and Doerr teach journalism.

9. Ten story ideas for this issue are homecoming, Freddy Zamora, Schedule complains, Rumors of seniors not being allowed to go off campus anymore, teen pregnancy, overcrowding, FFA new barn, elections, ACL, and Fun fun fun fest.

12. This years editor are Alex doing the photo essay, Haleigh is in-depth editor, Jackie is features, Ben is sports, Dez is editor in chief, Marissa is opinions, and I edit entertainment.

15. Five people who I think are important to know who don’t work in Akins are Dr. Carstarphen (414-2412), Tommy Cox (414-1050). Elaine Hopkins (414-2413), Lori Moya (414-2610), and Dr. Akins.

Some websites to visit are NPR for news, twitter to see what students are talking about and what’s trending, the AISD website to be aware of what’s happening in the school district, CNN, and Yahoo.

ideas for next year

1. making polls and surveys would be interesting and pull more people to read the paper since they know they'd be in the paper and so would their opinions
2. definitely need to dig deeper with people we interview, start conversations with them and ask them more personal questions and ask till you get those good answers that have a lot of meaning in them

battle of the bands story

kiara, sinsored, lions in winter
questions for melinda horowitz and cassandra perez
1. when is the next battle of the bands? where is it going to be held at?
2. what made you want to hold battle or the bands at stubbs?
3. how did you get stubbs to hold the next battle of the bands there?
4. do you think it being at stubbs will draw more people in to go to it?
5. will it cost more to go to battle of the bands since it's going to be at stubbs?
6. which bands made it to the second round?
7. do you expect a big turnout at stubbs?
8. will there be any other performances other than the 3 bands?
9. how much do you expect to make, it being at stubbs and from the previous battle of the bands?
10. do you think you're making a big impact on invisible children with this event?

bands
1. how does it feel to have won 1st place at the first round of battle of the bands?
2. how did you feel when you found out it's going to be held at stubbs?
3. have you ever had any past experiences at stubbs?
4. will it feel more nerve wracking to play at an actual venue possibly in front of more people?
5.  how do you feel being the only one to make it to the next round who is not in a band? -for kiara
6. whats the prize for this round of battle of the bands?
7.  are you expecting to do as successful this time around like the previous round?
8. will you play a long set since there's only 3 bands playing?
9. what kind of music are you going to play? covers, your own songs, etc.
10. what are you going to do when battle of the bands is over?
11. why do you think you made the cut to the next round? do you feel you deserved it?
12. what do you think the turnout will be at stubbs for the event?
13. what will you do differently this time from the last round?

Front Pages of the World

1. my favorite newspaper front page was Metro from new york, new york because the headlines and main picture draw your attention, even the ad for spotify on the cover draws your attention.
2. my favorite headline was the main one that said "just dying to live here" because the picture with the headline is like a joke but also makes you want to read the story.
3. there aren't really stories on the cover but previews of the stories inside to make you want to open up the paper and read.
4. they all have a lot of headlines on them talking about the stories they've covered.
5. some have interesting pictures, some have pictures that dont show exactly what their story is about, some have interesting headlines but no story on the cover, other have headlines and a story under it.

diamonds macys day parade and aisd menu change questions

josefina castro, emily steger, mrs k, becca priseado, venessa beoul, valerie gonzalezd

1. what was the reason you guys were invited to the macys day parade?
2. how did you do at the contest in killeen? 
3. was it just the diamonds who were invited to the parade?
4. what were the girls reactions to finding out they were invited to participate in the parade?
5. have the diamonds been to anything like this before or been invited to something like this in the past years?
6. is it decided whether or not they will be going to the parade?
7. if you do go, what will be the difficulties of making this plan work out?
8. will any fundraising be involved? if so what kind of fundraising are you expecting to do?
9. if you end up going what kind of preparation would you have to do beforehand?
10. what are the things you're most excited to see/do at the macys day parade?

aisd menu change for next year (info to remember  http://voices.yahoo.com/article/9349385/how-austin-school-lunches-stack-against-usda-10921289.html) who to interview, someone from USDA, maybe the principal, associate principal, find out who's in charge of cafeteria

1.  what are the new nutritional standards made by the USDA?
2. when will the standards be put in to effect?
3. why were they changed? what was the purpose of it?
4. are the new food choices going to be any healthier than the previous ones?
5. what changes/differences do you think will result in the changes of food choices?
6. what made the usda add tofu to the lunch menus now?
7. what do you think about the new guidelines? what will the kids benefit from it?

captions from Evanstonian newspaper

1. Hentz poses for a mugshot at the Travis County Jail on February 21st. He was arrested for attempted break in at Carls Jr. and sentenced to 4 years in prison.

2. Charles Zhou teaches the students how to speak chinese in the first class on campus to teach the language. When the class started 32 students signed up for the class and they were separated in to two class periods.

3. Gerald Brady plays a couple tunes on his guitar for his chemistry class. Brady's a musician outside of school and it was the first time he played for his class, "it was such a treat" one of his students said.

4. Britney Douglas poses for a picture with her baby bump proudly showing. She's 5 months a long and decided to continue highschool and get her diploma.

5. Senior Wes Marberry splashes his way to the finish line. He took home first place out of 50 other swimmers who came from schools all over the state.

captions part 1

Two parachuters and an aircraft take a dive to the ground after the plane stopped responding. No one was killed, but the parachuters did have severe injuries as did the pilot.

A family reunites after Jim's difficult two year service in Afghanistan. He was welcomed home by his son and wife who waited anxiously for him at home.

 

 

 

 

 

A truck is gashed in to a house after hurricane Katrina. The aftermath of the hurricane left over 1000 houses destroyed and 140 people dead.