Tuesday, January 30, 2012

by Amanda Pischel

         Today was a big day in English class. As the statewide writing assessment approaches, we prepare our selves more and more each day. Some days we work on writing compelling sentences or interesting leads. Others we have to write practice essays on an assigned essay. Whatever the tactic be, Mrs. Morrow, and Mrs. Troester are preparing us well.

         We have a practice test for the assignment in a few days and the actual assessment is going to be taken in early February. The 8^th grade English class is well prepared for what ever obstacles the test throws at us this year.

Blast from the Past

I ran across these great pictures from when you guys were in 3rd grade.   Remember when...?

:) Good times!
Mrs. Morrow

Tuesday, 1-24-12

by Walker Liewer

         Today was a big day in English class. As the statewide writing assessment approaches, we prepare our selves more and more each day. Some days we work on writing compelling sentences or interesting leads. Others we have to write practice essays on an assigned essay. Whatever the tactic be, Mrs. Morrow, and Mrs. Troester are preparing us well.

         We have a practice test for the assignment in a few days and the actual assessment is going to be taken in early February. The 8^th grade English class is well prepared for what ever obstacles the test throws at us this year.

Friday, 1-27-12

by Mikayla Mosel

Monday, January 23, 2012

by Detective Bailey Krieger 

As there have been so many reports on being Daily Blogger, how do I make mine interesting? Well, I guess you can say I’m on a hunt for a story. As class blogger today, January 23, 2012, I was looking at what could possibly go on in this school. Along side me was my trusty iPod touch Dr. Watson  and my English class as a lead. After lots of pictures of the evidence and 50 minutes later, I concluded that you could learn a lot of simple ways to fix a sentence. A comma there and a conjunction there, and you fixed a run-on sentence. A word deleted here and one changed there, you got rid of ‘deadwood’. But something is bothering me that I will have to keep working on.  The events outside of English class on January 23, 2012, still remain a mystery.

Friday, 1-20-12

Today at O'Neill High School, we had two tests. One in Science,and a vocab one in English. It is also Friday!! Mrs. Troester wanted all of us to wear blue and white to show school spirit. That's all for today at O'Neill High School! Hope everyone has an awesome weekend!!!

- Blake Johnston

Patriotism Essay Contest Winners

Monday, 1-9-12

by Andrew Burival

            In math today we learned a semi new concept and worked on skills 5-6 evens on the front and back. For English we reviewed simple sentences and compound sentences. We did a riveting PowerPoint together. (We all had to participate in hopes of not being tested out. Before we did we watched as our teacher Mrs. Troester opened quizlet and gave us our new set of words for vocab. Lesson 10. In science because Mr. Corkle hadn’t done something that he should have he assigned us two teenbiz articles. Although we never learned what he hadn’t done it was a pretty fly by class period. For Civics we learned that we wouldn’t be getting our pizza party but hopefully tomorrow. Also we talked about how a person can become a United States citizen, by being born a U.S. citizen or by naturalization. (Taking an oral test and having to get 7 out of 10 right, the process though for forms and such cost about $675.) Then for study hall we studied. For reading we worked on our PowerPoint’s.  We got a packet on “Reading Strategies” and we had to transfer all on the information into a PowerPoint or Keynote. For my seventh period Ag class we didn’t do anything except take attendance because we had to go to the gym and watch the very close very competitive Geography Bee. The third place finisher was James Walton. The second place finisher was Tye Hilker. And the first place finisher was a fourth grader…. He was the first fourth grader ever to win the geography bee before. He was Justin Beeks. Then for 8^th period P.E. the girls went outside and walked while the boys/men depending on whom you talk to… The boys/”men” did some pretty crazy basketball things. The first thing we did was to try and beat each other’s amount of layups in two minutes. The next thing we did was sideline basketball. It’s pretty hard to explain I guess, but the red team being my team we won by like 6. An average day at OHS, except for of course the Geo Bee.

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

In the amazing world of writing we started a new essay. The essay is about a special event that you attended. We all were gave a packet. We read the though the essay structure review which says that what was expected from the essay; and what the essay has to be about. We all had to says what we are writing about. After everybody told what that were going to write about we fill out a graphic organizer about sensory details. We all had to tell and make sure that every thing was fill out in our groups. Then we has to begin prewriting. For homework we have to fill out four boxes with question in them. We also have to fill out a web. Today  Mr. Holster fourth period class had there pizza party for first place in the food drive. That what happen in the amazing world of writing.

~ Olivia Fonseca

Friday, 1-6-12

by Sarah Devall

It’s a new year; twenty-twelve is here!  Here at OHS we’re getting back in the swing of things and are geared up for another great semester.  In English class today we discussed descriptive writing.  We did this to prepare for our state descriptive writing test in February.  Some topics we discussed and went over were: similes and metaphors as well as sensory details.  Mrs. Troester and Mrs. Morrow split us up into groups to do some practice worksheets.  We hope to do well on this assessment so we can show our state that OHS has the best 8^th grade writers.   Besides the fairly warm weather nothing has been too bizarre this week at OHS.  Monday, January 9^th will be the start of the first full week of school for 2012.  We’re making it happen!

Thursday, 1-5-12

by Robbi Burnette

We learned about compound and simple sentences today. You can use one independent clause fora simple sentence. You use two or more independent clauses for a compound sentence.

New Year Blogging Resolutions!

2012

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