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.