Halloween

On this special night, some people go around to other houses knocking on doors saying “Trick or Treat!”.
When we all go home, we sort our candy and hand out candy!
Halloween is a night for celebration.
Every family celebrates different cultures on this fun Halloween night!
Halloween is a night for laughter and fun for everyone, even if you don’t trick or treat!
But you will only receive candy if you say the magic words “Trick or Treat!”


Fern Bluff Elementary

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Nature

The way the birds sing
Through the wind and the rain
The way the deer run
Through the big and small
To the short and tall

Through warm and cold
Day and night
There the animals lay
Watching to catch their prey
Coming and going
Listening and watching
Just as humans do
Fighting and killing again and again


Gorzycki middle school

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My Home

It’s my home, it’s land,
It’s water and it’s sand.
It’s is my life, it’s my pride,
With Muslims side by side.
From naturally flowing fountains,
To high ranging mountains.
Pakistan is a terrorist,
That is what the the world names us.
IT’S NOT TRUE!
You have never been there,
Not breathed in its lovely air.
Try to understand,
It’s a paradise, not a simple piece of land.


Gorzycki Middle School

7

Truth

I am gauged by scale,
But weigh nothing.
Who am I?
You avoid me
But once I strike
You cannot let go.
Who am I?
You cannot see me,
But I am everywhere.
Who am I?
I am lighter than a feather
But when you disown me
I way you down.
Who am I?
I don’t have a color,
But I am a dark secret in some.
Who am I?
I am…


Pearson Ranch Middle School

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Gun Rights

October 27th, 2018.
A man walks angrily into a Jewish synagogue in Pittsburgh.
Then
there was a mass shooting.
Families are broken.
It was with an automatic rifle.
School shootings in Sandy Hook,
School shootings in Florida,
Even School shootings here in Texas…
and the people who did it also used an AR.
Why are people using assault rifles (AR) for bad things?
There are lots of reasons why people hurt others…
but
why
does the government allow this to happen?
I do not think anyone will use an AR for self-defense…
it will destroy everything in the area.
I think
the government should ban automatic rifles from being used.
They rip apart bodies like a war,

they destroy the family like a beast…

they rip out souls like a reaper.
Think about it…
an 18-year-old,
with a clean record,
can buy a gun for as low as 50 dollars
And then walk out of the store
and then go to Starbucks holding a huge semi-automatic gun
and go start a shooting….
it doesn’t seem to make sense…
like love….
complicated and confusing sometimes…
I wish…
guns would stop ripping families apart…
I wish
the government would stop this…
I wish
world wars would be fought with sticks and stones,
instead of guns breaking bones,
hurting people and killing innocent children.
I feel that I’m lucky,
guns haven’t destroyed my family…
killed people I love…
hurting those I love….
I WISH
GUNS
WERE NO MORE.


Austin Jewish Academy

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The Price of the US

Palm trees and beaches
Deserts to spare
Mountains as high as you can dream
But the secret inside
Is too much to hide
A country divided
A country un-United
Once we could soar SO high our worries would float away
But now so much more
So much unwanted, undivided attention
Now you see it isn’t the same
One man came along thinking it was all just a game
The price we must pay for his mistakes
Is too much to bear, too much to pay
Now more than ever it’s time to change
Is it too late or do we have time to change our fate?


Doss Elementary School

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