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School Stuff 7th Grade MCAS By Alexandra Karpe and Cassidy Lowell

On March 23rd the official MCAS testing for seventh grade started! This year on the MCAS, there is English Language Arts and Math. On the English Language Arts series of MCAS tests, there is: Long Composition on March 23rd, and Reading Comprehension on March 24th and 25th. **During MCAS testing, we use the skills that we have developed since second grade.** Many teachers have spent a long time helping us write long compositions which include five paragraph essays. They have worked with us one on one and in large groups to help us better understand what goes in these essays and what each paragraph should be about. MCAS testing for English Language Arts is finished for this year, but Math MCAS is coming soon. Be prepared!!!



AFTER SCHOOL CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES **
 * By: Sean Sanford Chris liberta **
 * There are several after school activities and clubs for students to enjoy at Hopkinton Middle School. Some of the clubs/activities that are at the school are Science Club, Honors Band/Chorus, Drama Club, Accapella and Homework Club. All of these activities are very interactive and fun. **

** Science Club ** In the Science Club Mr. Howard and Mrs. Grant (both 6th grade science teacher) hold the club in Mr. Howard’s room. It is 6th graders only unfortunately. Every Thursday kids go to build things like water rockets, land yachts, egg drop, and the aluminum boat. One of the most exciting activities is the egg drop. The egg drop is when you use a limited amount of chosen materials to build a devise to protect an egg from a drop. You start at a lower height and if your egg survives then you move onto a higher height and if your egg survives that you go higher and so on until there is one egg left. The Science Club is very fun and a fun thing to do with all of your friends.

** Honors Chorus/Band **
 * Honors Chorus and Band is a group of kids who really enjoy singing or playing their instrument. In this club, they have more challenging songs. They can also meet people who have the same interests as them. This is a great idea because a lot of kids like to sing and want a chance to express themselves through more challenging songs. If you enjoy music and are good at making it in any way shape or form that involves singing or instruments then Honors Chorus or Band is right for you. **

** Drama Club **
 * The Drama Club is a club held by Ms. Gifford the Drama teacher. In this club, kids go to have fun and learn about acting. At this club you can play fun games and have fun with Ms. Gifford and all the other kids. Most people think that in order to be in the drama club you need to be in the plays, but you don’t. You could, only go to Drama club and not do the plays, or you could do the plays and not Drama club, or you could do both. Drama club is a fun and knowledgeable activity. **

** Accapella **
 * In Accapella Ms. Conant has a group of 7th and 8th students and teaches the group a song. She teaches them to sing the song without any instruments. All you have is your voice. You can do more common songs that are recent or songs that are older. I’ve heard them sing and I thought they were great. This is for people who like singing or for people who want to try something new with their voice. You would love this and Ms. Conant would love to have you so try it out. **

** Homework Club **
 * In Homework Club you can stay after school and work on homework. It is in Mrs. Malone’s room. This is for any grade. This is not a place to just hang out though; if you go, you have to do homework. If you are staying after for something that starts a little later you can stay there until what ever it is you’re staying for, but you still have to do homework. This is a good way to get work done. **

Suggestions/New Ideas Geek Club, a Great Idea for an After-School Club By Jack Chase and Nina Cok

Imagine, a room filled entirely of the best and most experienced. Geek Club is competitive gaming for only the true geeks. Helping is always a great idea for the favorites of the geeks of schools around the world. The real gamers play against the world and learn about the people and their strategies. The definition of a geek is a computer expert or enthusiast (dictionarey.com). Anyone can be a competitive gamer if they are dedicated to their life’s dream, gaming.

A competitive gamer must prove themselves with the list of the games that they enjoy. The true geeks will have their own equipment: laptops, keyboards, desktops, game downloads, gaming mouse, gaming keyboards, and the most important… information. To join the club the person must be less than fourteen years old because the good gamers have an intermediate talent. Level or rank does not matter as long as they are the best of their league. Gamers must be able to put everything, except school, low on their priorities to make sure they can achieve greatness in their specific game. The proven gamer has played their game(s) for at least a three months. Information is important, the knowledge and experience is always a necessity. The true gamer can prove them by showing their dedication and making sure they are following the restrictions listed beforehand.

One reason why people should join the geek club in Hopkinton Middle School is because we will help people with their weaknesses and increase their strength to maximum proportions. Our most experienced gamers will be involved in helping the newer players and even the more experienced players. Our social club will involve the basics of player versus player and player versus environment combat. First, our most able players will take them through the steps of master movement control. Second, they will tell the player their strengths and weaknesses against certain opponents. Third, they will teach the player a basic winning strategy that they have found most effective. Last, they will play against the player to ensure the training is complete. With our experts, the players that needed help will become the true mastermind of their field of play.

Learning about the world, the world’s geeks, and the world’s geek’s strategies is important. The world is filled with a variety of languages, people, and cultures. First, we will teach the new players about the world and the history of gaming. Second, we will teach them about the world’s geeks and their lifestyles. Last, we will teach them about the strategies of average people around the world in order to counter their moves.

Doctors, singers, plumbers, etc. all of these people of the world can invest their extra time in gaming and becoming a great gamer. A gamer must show their dedication and their brain-storming abilities to prove themselves worthy of the Geek Club. Any person that joins the Geek Cub will learn strategies to dominate everyone that is not an ally. Finding information can make a difference in winning and losing. Failure is not an option for the Geek Club personnel. The true geeks know what g.e.e.k. stands for, it means gamer, expert, extraordinary, and last but not least kingly (of or deserving to be royalty).

Source: [|www.Dictionary.com]

Suggestion for more Extra-curricular Clubs in the Middle School. By: Avery McKenna and Adam Graubart

I suggest that the middle school should have more fun and friendly clubs. It would give more freedom to the students and let them express themselves in creative ways, with their friends and teachers. There are endless possibilities on clubs for school.

There could be clubs on hobbies that kids like to do, or even sports they like to do, or just things they do in their free time. Most kids like to play sports so maybe a Club All-stars where kids can play their favorite sports and activities in the school gymnasium. You could also have a Photography club, where you can take pictures and properly learn how to use a camera! Or even an Environmental Club, a club where kids could do projects and learn how to keep the environment clean and healthy.

I feel that if a student has an idea for a club, with an activity that’s appropriate and what they like then we give them a chance to express themselves. There are tons of kids out their millions of endless possibilities for great ideas if we just give them a chance. Nina Cok of Hopkinton Middle School says, “I would like to have a dance club in school. That would be cool”.

If we ask around a lot of kids would like to speak their opinion. Please think how great of an opportunity it would be to have kids be enjoyed, while spending extra time in school doing things that they love!

Breakfast Time Survey By Jeffrey Grandinetti and Sean Sanford

I gave this survey because I was interested in seeing who likes to eat breakfast in the morning! What I realized that people that eat breakfast have a better grade point average from this survey. If my research is correct, then people that do eat breakfast love to eat cereal. But what I thought was going to happen was that people that didn’t eat breakfast didn’t have time in the morning but in fact the survey shows other [for other reasons]! I also learned that I didn’t think that the results were going to be all for cereal. Personally I was expecting to have a lot more other’s instead of cereal. I am Jeffrey Grandinetti with the “Breakfast Time Survey”.

1. Do you eat breakfast in the morning? ** Yes: 38 ** No: 5

2. If you do, then what do you have for breakfast? B. eggs and ham bacon : 2 C. bagel : 8 D. other : 18
 * A. **** Cereal : 23 **

3. If you don’t, then why don’t you eat breakfast? A. no time: 5 B. makes you throw up: 0 C. don’t like breakfast: 1
 * D. **** other : 7 **

4. If you had time in the morning would you eat breakfast? ** Yes: 31 ** No: 4

5. Do you eat more or less on the weekends relating to breakfast? ** Yes : 18 ** No: 5

6. What is your grade point average in school? A**. a-b: 31 ** B. b-c: 11 C. c-d: 0 D. d-f: 1

7. Do you feel more tired when you skip breakfast? ** Yes: 19 ** No: 16

8. Do you have more energy for homework when you have breakfast?
 * Yes: 22 ** No: 16

9. Why do you think you should have breakfast? A. Gives me energy: 16 C. it’s the most important meal of the day: 17 D. I don’t know: 8
 * B. **** it affect’s my effort in school, job, sports and more: 19 **

** Field Day ** By: Emma Galeucia and Jenna Thyne

Every June the school travels to Laborer’s Training Camp to spend a fun school day with all of our classmates. We swim, do sports, and other fun, team building activities. Field day is a good way to hang out with friends to catch up and meet new people. Everyone looks forward to field day because instead of being in classes learning subjects your outside learning cooperative skills and having a great time.

What’s your favorite part of field day? We asked a few students their favorite part of field day. Christine Tarantino says that swimming is her favorite activity to do at Laborers Training camp. Haley Zepf says, “I love getting out of the classroom to go outside! Also that field day is a break from homework!” Abby Baer said that her favorite activity is volleyball. Another student, Jimmy Hervol, told us “I love hanging out with all my friends and having a great time.” Conrad Lavioe stated that he loves the hot tub. We asked a couple teachers; Mr. O’Connell reported he loves seeing students out of the classroom having fun. Mr. Howard responded, “I love the pool.” We asked Sara Freedmen why she likes field day. She told us that she loves the pool and volleyball. But most of all, she loves how it’s a break from worrying about your school, classes, and homework to be outside with all your friends.

In June, everyone has a fantastic time doing all their favorite activities on field day. We do everyone’s favorite things to do out in the sun. There are sports, team activities, and almost everyone’s favorite swimming. Field day is a great way to communicate with fellow classmates. Everyone looks forward to field day all year, we just can’t wait until we get to go next time!

Teacher Interviews Christine Tarantino and Jennifer Stevens We worked on interviewing the 6th grade English teacher and the 7th grade English teachers. For the 6th grade teacher, we interviewed Mrs. Levy. She said that she has been teaching here at the Hopkinton Middle School for 7 years. Before she taught here at the middle school, she taught at Walpole, Framingham State, and Westboro for a long time. She went back to teaching after her kids grew up in 1997. She decided to become an English teacher because English was her best subject. Also, she really liked English because she had a really good teacher named Mr. Ready. He was her English teacher in 10th grade. When she was in 7th grade, her favorite subject was foreign language. She liked it because she loved learning the languages. She took French, then Latin, then Russian. A favorite thing she has taught her students was poetry because she thinks that she makes it really fun instead of just reading from a book. She does ink splatter poetry, limerick, and much more fun things. When Mrs. Levy was first teaching, one school said that she had to be a math teacher in order to teach English. She did not like math and she was not good at it so whenever she got home, she would show her son what she had to teach them and he would help plan out her whole lesson. Around Christmas, her son told her that he would not do her lessons anymore, but she said that she was ok with making her own plans. We also interviewed Mrs. Ferguson, our 7th grade English teacher. She has been teaching here in the Hopkinton Middle School for 23 years. She decided to become an English teacher, but it was a hard decision. She wanted to teach math, history or English. She finally decided that she wanted to be an English teacher. Her personality didn’t really fit math, and you can teach history when you are teaching English, so she decided to teach English. When she was in 7th grade, her favorite subject was English because she had a very exciting English teacher. In Hopkinton, Mrs. Ferguson was also a geography teacher. But she had a degree in reading so she switched to English. Her favorite thing to teach in English is short stories. She likes short stories because with novels, you have to talk about the same thing every single day but with short stories, you can talk about something new everyday.

** Sports **
 * By: Sean Sanford **

There are so many sports that the school has to offer to its students. Like Track/field, 8th grade Soccer, travel Soccer, 8th grade Basketball, travel Basketball and Volleyball. All of these sports are fun and you can do them with your friends. These sports can be competitive so you do have to take them seriously though. You should try these sports out!

** Track and Field **
 * Track is in the spring and has multiple events. There is the mile, the 4x100 relay, high jump, long jump, shot put, and 800meter, 400meter, 200meter, 100meter. This is a co-ed sport for 7th and 8th graders only. This is a very fun sport to keep you in shape or to get in shape. This is a very fun sport. **

** 8th Grade Soccer **
 * This is a sport for 8th graders only. There are tryouts and then a team is chosen and unfortunately not everyone makes the team, but it is still worth it to tryout. On the team you travel from town to town, playing other teams in different towns. This is only on week days, not on weekends. This is very convenient if you have other things on weekends. This is a great thing for people who enjoy soccer. **

Middle School Dances By: Alex Herlihy

Our school has dances for the 6th grade, the 7th grade and the 8th grade. This way no grade will be left out. The 6th grade dance is called Kid’s Night Out. Kid’s Night Out is where all of the 6th graders can enjoy hanging out with their friends and dancing to music. Also, you can play all sorts of games. There is dodge ball, basketball, really any game that you want to play. Now on to the 7th grade dance, the 7th grade dance happens in the gym and the 8th graders come to that dance too.

This dance is different from the 6th grade because at this dance the only thing we do is dance and the 6th graders can play sports. So really the 7th grade dance is called the 7th and 8th grade dance. At this dance all we do is dance. It may seem like not that much but it is actually very fun just to hangout with friends and not worry about school work. The amount of dances that we have throughout the year is about 3. We would have one in the beginning of the year, the middle and close to the end of the year.

The dances take place in the school, mostly in the gym only because it is the biggest gym that we have in the school. This way everyone who goes to the dance can fit in the gym, especially the 7th and 8th grade dance there are a lot of people who go to that. For the 6th graders there are fun activities for them to do in the gym. They go back and forth from the gym to the cafeteria. Another dance that the 8th graders have is called the 8th grade celebration. This also takes place in the gym and it is basically a party for the 8th graders. They have this because the 8th graders are about to go to high school and it is their last year as 8th graders. They have this party just to celebrate the 8th graders into becoming freshman in high school.

The place where the 6th graders dance is the cafeteria because there are not many 6th graders. The 6th grade dance lasts for about one hour and a half to two hours. The 7th and 8th grade dances last for two hours. All of the dances are on Fridays because no one would have to stay up late then have to go to school in the morning. The reason why we have dances is because the school wants the kids to socialize, and to have fun with their friends.

By Vanessa Prathab, Olivia Charteris, and Isabel Hagberg Here in the Hopkinton Middle School, kids can choose orchestra, band, chorus, and general music, although general music cannot perform in concerts. Children go to these related arts almost every other day and are required to go home and practice their music every day.
 * Middle School Concerts **

During the instrument classes, the first thing students do is assemble and tune the instrument. Next, they go over their scales. Then, they practice the music given by the teachers. Occasional quizzes, tests, or exams are given to evaluate the potential of the students.

The students perform three concerts every year. They are required to wear a black shirt and pant for the first two concerts. For the third concert, the teachers let the students have fun and wear any color they wish. For orchestra, the songs they have performed so far are Ceremonial March, Giant Slimy Squid, Jazz String, Tribal Dance, Batman, Sleigh Ride, Joy to the World, Gargoyles, Sword Dance. For band, some of the songs they have performed recently are Water Music and Revenge of the Dust Bunnies and in chorus a few they have sung are Tiger and Sing, Sing, Sing. Usually, the concert is two to three pages long per section.

Thanks to our music teachers who are Mrs. Morin, Mr. Hay, Mr. Purdy, Mr. Yeavaro, and Mrs. Conant. The school concerts are very enjoyable and successful. Middle School concerts teach kids the wonderful art of music.

Mrs. Shannon Kirshenbaum’s Interview By Kayla Sullivan, Whitney Thalheimer and Juliet Hulme

Mrs. Shannon Kirshenbaum was born in the month of November. She is now teaching Spanish at the Hopkinton Middle School on the split team. She didn’t play any sports as a kid but she did enjoy cooking classes, dance lessons, and she even played the viola. She loved school and her favorite years were during middle and high school. In seventh grade her biggest difference from now is that they typed on typewriters, and she also had overhead projectors on the desk rather then situated on the ceiling. Her first year in Spanish was in seventh grade in an introductory class that continued on into all her school years. Although she teaches Spanish now, she liked many other subjects in school including geography and science. When she was young she always wanted to be a school bus driver because she was never able to ride the bus. Shannon went to Hope College in Michigan which was lots of fun and a very good experience. Her favorite teacher in college was Sra. Alvarez-Ruf, her Spanish teacher, who helped her to decide to be a Spanish teacher.

Mrs. Kirshenbaum loves her first year in Hopkinton Middle School. Prior to this experience, she was teaching at The Ahern Middle School in Foxborough. She taught there as a full time substitute for a one year contract. She has been teaching Spanish for two years and loves the variety she gets by teaching two different grades. If she was not a Spanish teacher she would want to be teaching in higher education and student affairs. Being with kids for so long in the day is sometimes tough but fun, too. She has made many friends here along with her mentor, Mrs. Caruso. Mrs. Kirshenbaum knows some words in other languages but is best at Spanish and loves teaching it.

Mrs. Kirshenbaum likes many colors but her favorite are bright colors like pink and purple. Her favorite food is Mexican foods and her favorite drink is Diet Coke. Her favorite animal is a giraffe. She loves many types of ice cream but her all time favorite flavor is mint chocolate chip. Lastly her favorite place to go is Chile. We would like to thank Mrs. Kirshenbaum for giving up her time to let us interview her.


 * Health Teacher’s Interview**
 * By: Amanda Madany and Lizzy Kelley **

In recent news Hopkinton Middle School has a new teacher; her name is Ms. Lotoski. In a recent interview we asked Ms. Lotoski a various number of questions. When Ms. Lotoski was younger she did not want to be a health teacher, she wanted to be an Olympic gymnast and her hero was Nadia Comaneci. Seven years after her dream, Ms. Lotoski walked by Nadia Commencia and wasn’t aware she was there!

Ms. Lotoski went to U. MASS Amherst, University of New England, and Bridgewater State College. She has been teaching health for 10 years, and her favorite topic to teach in health is bullying like cyber and text bullying. When we asked about how she felt about the increasing number of kids drinking and doing drugs she exclaimed, “It is of great concern and research shows that middle school drinking is on the rise and we have to get kids involved socially as an alternative.” She feels like we need to educate our boys and girls about risks of getting involved sexually too early and have more supportive discussions regarding this. Ms. Lotoski has nieces and nephews which she has regular talks with. These talks are about pressures, decisions, and skills.

Here at Hopkinton Middle School Ms. Lotoski is not nervous teaching at a new school. This town is not the first place she has taught at. The reason she came to Hopkinton Middle School instead of any other town is because Hopkinton is one of the top districts in the Metro West area. We hope she has a successful teaching experience in Hopkinton Middle School **. **

** A French and Spanish Teacher ** Reporters: Courtney Manning and Rachel DeMore

For the past ten years, Mrs. McNally has been a French and Spanish teacher in the Hopkinton Middle School. Mrs. McNally loves being a teacher because she likes to see students learning a new language. She doesn’t know any other languages except for the two that she teaches. She became a teacher because during college she was taking educational classes and thought that it would be the right path for her to go with her language skills. She decided to take this path following college, to go back and take her teaching degree. Mrs. McNally as a teacher is really fun because the students get to do lots of cool projects. Some of her favorites are the weather skits and the upcoming food unit. Rachel has to admit that the weather project was actually really fun and is excited to do the food unit. Since she teaches foreign languages she has gone to some places that speak these two languages, such as France, Mexico, Spain, and Canada.

Traveling sounds like a lot of fun and she would like to go to many more places, but Mrs. McNally says that if she could live anywhere it would be right here in Massachusetts, and hasn’t lived anywhere else. She loves New England and the east coast. Mrs. McNally has taught at four other schools in Massachusetts and has taught grades five through eight. One year she actually taught geography and enjoyed learning about new places. Another subject she likes is Math and is really good at it; she enjoys solving word problems. Mrs. McNally has two sons and enjoys playing baseball and going to the beach in her spare time with them.

As you can see, Mrs. McNally sounds like she has a blast teaching at the middle school, and her students think so, too!

Mathcounts David Wang and Daron Arakelian

27 years ago America was lacking behind in science technology. That resulted in the founding of the Mathcounts program. It ensures America as an able bodied competitor in math and technology. All children in the United States can participate. It also has the national winners to meet the president. In fact, there was a local competition in Weston that our school participated in. The actual competition contains 3 rounds. The first round is an individual round otherwise known as a sprint round with 30 questions, followed by a target round of 10 questions, then a team round of 10 questions. Each school has a main team and an alternate team. It has helped to raise interest in math and science from all around the country. This program has helped us to be more compatible to compete in math and science on a global basis.

The Mathcounts program consists of three sections starting with the chapter Mathcounts. Next there are the state competitions. Then, the representatives of each state go on to compete for the nationals. The winners for the nationals go on to meet the president and get to participate in a math test called AMI. Next, the top 12 contestants of the AMI contest go to math camp. The top two students in the math camp represent the United States in global math competitions.

Sources:

Mathcounts. Retrieved on March 1, 2010 from [|www.mathcounts.org]

// Oklahoma //// ! // By Jenna Bogan

Spring is in the air, which can only mean one thing. It is time for the school musical production to start! This year, the musical that the middle school is putting on is the famous 1940 play, //Oklahoma////!// As said before, //Oklahoma// is based off of the hit 1940 musical that premiered on Broadway. What made it so famous is that it took place during war time, and since the actual setting of the play in the early 1900’s, it reminded many of the soldiers that were currently serving of their farming lives back home in the USA. Also //Oklahoma// made musical history because the show itself begins with Curley, the main character, singing a song from offstage, and that had never been done before. Usually what happened was the main character would stand singing in center stage with a spotlight shining on them. So those two things are what made this play so memorable in history.

The school version of the play that is being put on is directed none other by out Drama teacher, Ms. Gifford. In the past she has directed all of the plays, both straight plays and the musicals. And since it IS a musical, Mrs. Conant, the middle school chorus teacher, is assisting Ms. Gifford by helping to teach the songs. In this particular play there are several dance pieces, and the two 8th grade students that will be our dance captains are Mackenzie Britt and Taylor Forsmo. Taylor will be assisting the girls and Mackenzie the boys. And in this musical the drama club is extremely fortunate to have the assistance of two former 8th grade students with out musical. Those two girls that we are so lucky to have with us are Stepahnnie (Steffie) Bell-Chapin and Ashley Raybuck.

As for the cast, the lead roles are Curley and Laurie, the same as the original Oklahoma play. This year we are very fortunate to have such talented students playing these roles. The character Laurie is being played by 8th grade student, Catherine Cote, who has been with the drama club since the beginning of her 6th grade year. Catherine is very dedicated to what she does and takes it very seriously, but at the same time she is extremely talented and is the perfect fit for Laurie. And the role of Curley is being portrayed by 7th grade student Kyran Schnur. Very much like Catherine, Kyran too has been with the drama club ever since the beginning of his 6th grade year. Kyran too is very, very dedicated to acting and loves every minute of it. He is always there to give it his all otherwise he wouldn’t be there at all. So even though he is “only” and 7th grader, Kyran very much deserved the role of Curley. The rest of the cast includes favorites such as Ado Annie, Aunt Elleor, Will, Ali, and the very famous villain Jud. These roles have been taken up by 8th grader Paige Guarino, 8th grader Evelyn Oliver, 8th grader Austin Adams, 7th grader Adam Graubart, and 7th grader Henry Vumbaca as Jud. These roles and many more have been taken up by all different middle school students, all of which are very dedicated as well talented.

There is so much more that I could say about the play as we begin to move toward pre-production and production week in weeks the to come, but I wouldn’t want to give too much information away. This amazing play will be premiering here at the middle school auditorium on Friday April 30th, Saturday May 1st, and Sunday May 2nd, 2010. The Friday and Saturday shows will premiere at 7 p.m. and the Sunday show will premiere at 2 p.m. Tickets will be available both in advance and at the door. We hope to see everyone there!

** STUDENTS AT ** ** HOPKINTON **** MIDDLE SCHOOL ** By Sarah Whapham and Reilly Kopp We chose to compare two 7th grade students - oe boy, one girl. The girl, Kendall B., is a figure-skater. T.J. F., a hockey player. We asked them the same questions, separately, and this is what they said…

7th Grade Boy TJ Perspective 1. Do you think school food is good? 2. If you could only live with one pair of shoes for the rest of your life, what type of shoes are they? 3. What are some of your interests? 4. Why do you like them? 5. What’s your favorite color? 6. Do you do any extra curricular programs? 7. What is one thing that drives you CRAZY? WHY? 8. Do you enjoy watching Television…What’s your favorite TV show???? 9. If you could have a special power, what would it be? 10. What is your favorite toothpaste brand (If you brush your teeth) 11. Do you believe school bathrooms are sanitary? 12. Do you like bananas or apples better?
 * // Um... most of the food that our delightful lunch ladies make I find quite yummy. //**
 * // Sneakers. //**
 * // Hockey, dogs (I have a dog), that’s… about it. //**
 * // Hockey is interesting, and dogs are great. //**
 * // Oo…. Probably green. //**
 * // Yeah. Probably, um… I don’t think so. //**
 * // Having to wake up on a school day.. That’s terrible. //**
 * // Favorite T.V. Show… that’s the Office. I don’t watch much TV though. //**
 * // Fast running. //**
 * // I do brush my teeth, and I like Crest, because Crest is the bomb. //**
 * // Actually not really. Some are good and some are bad. //**
 * // Bananas. //**

13. Which appeals to you more, Vegetables or fruits? 14. If you could be any animal what would you be and why? 15. What are some hobbies you enjoy doing? 16. How long have you lived in Hopkinton? 17. What do you do in your free time? 18. What is your favorite movie genre? 19. Do you have any siblings? 20. What is your favorite Winter Olympic Sport? 21. What is your favorite song of the moment? 22. If you were a super-hero, what would your name be? What would your costume look like? 23. Tell us about a funny or embarrassing moment you’ve had. 24. What is your favorite subject? Why? 25. What do you like to do over the summer? 26. Tell us something interesting about yourself. 27. What is your secret obsession? 28. If you could stay one age for the rest of your life, what age would you want to live at? Why? 29. What is one thing you want to do before you die?
 * // Fruits. //**
 * // I would be a Peregrine Falcon, because they can go over 200 miles an hour. //**
 * // I like to walk my dog. I like to play outside with my friends. I guess mostly being with friends. //**
 * // Almost 12 years. //**
 * // (See question 15) //**
 * // Um, probably comedy. //**
 * // Yes I have siblings. //**
 * // Hockey. Duh. //**
 * // I don’t know… Break Your Heart. Haha. //**
 * // I would be the “Fast Runner Man.” MY costume would be a big green cape. And I would be in a banana suit. //**
 * // I was warming up before a hockey game, and I could not stand up. I kept falling down. //**
 * // Probably science because our teacher has an interesting way of teaching it. //**
 * // Sleep. //**
 * // I like to eat toast butter-side down. //**
 * // Mint jelly. It’s really good. //**
 * // Uh, about 26 or 86. 26 because you can drink and you’re out of college, and 86 because old people get away with anything. //**
 * //Climb Mt. Everest//**.

30. How was your weekend? What did you do?
 * // My weekend was good. I played Hockey. And listened to “Break Your Heart” (not really) //**

__ From female Kendall Burdick perspective __

1. Do you think school food is good? 2. If you could only live with the rest of your life, what type of shoes are they? 3. What are some of your interests? 4. Why on earth do you like them? 5. What’s your favorite color? 6. Do you do any extracurricular programs? 7. What is one thing that drives you CRAZY? WHY? 8. Do you enjoy watching Television…What’s your favorite TV show???? 9. If you could have a special power, what would it be? 10. What is your favorite toothpaste brand (If you brush your teeth) 11. Do you believe school bathrooms are sanitary? 12. Do you like bananas or apples better? 13. Which appeals to you more, Vegetables or fruits? 14. If you could be any animal what would you be and why? 15. What are some hobbies you enjoy doing? 16. How long have you lived in Hopkinton? 17. What do you do in your free time? 18. What is your favorite movie genre? 19. Do you have any siblings? 20. What is your favorite Winter Olympic Sport? 21. What is your favorite song of the moment?
 * // I’ve never bought food at the middle school. //**
 * // Hopkinton flip-flops. //**
 * // Ice skating. //**
 * // I like being on the ice and feeling weightless when you jump. //**
 * // Red. //**
 * // No. //**
 * // I hate when people say they are going to tell me something but they don’t. It keeps me suspense. //**
 * // At points…I like …I don’t know…I don’t really have one. //**
 * // To freeze time. //**
 * // Colgate … I brush my teeth. //**
 * // No. //**
 * // Apples. //**
 * // Fruits. //**
 * // A hawk because they can fly. I could be a hawk that could fly and stop time. //**
 * // Skating. //**
 * // 8 years. //**
 * // Write letters to people. //**
 * // Action. //**
 * // Yes... 2 older brothers. //**
 * // Skating. //**
 * // Break your heart. //**

22. If you were a super-hero, what would your name be? What would your costume look like? 23. Tell us about a funny or embarrassing moment you’ve had. 24. What is your favorite subject? Why? 25. What do you like to do over the summer? 26. Tell us something interesting about yourself. 27. What is your secret obsession?
 * // I would be the Flame. I would be all red. //**
 * // I tripped over a kid at the dance and fell down. //**
 * // Lunch…I can talk without being yelled at. //**
 * // Get a tan. //**
 * // I don’t own a hair straightener. //**
 * // Juliet Hulme shhhh! //**

28. If you could stay one age for the rest of your life, what age would you want to live at? Why? 29. What is one thing you want to do before you die? 30. How was your weekend? What did you do?
 * // 16… So I can drive. //**
 * // Climb Mt. Everest. //**
 * // I was with Jenna Hanlon for 24 hours hanging out. //**