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This interview is about Mrs. Lyon, the new French teacher. She has a lot of interesting things about her, that’s why I wanted to ask her these questions. First, I ask her what inspired her to speak French, she said because her grandfather speaks French and he was in station 2 World War II. She has been traveling a lot, of course in France. She lived there and went to school like... In the state she went to Longwood University and in France she went to American University in Avignon. I wanted to know if she knew any other languages and she does! She knows English, French, and Spanish. She also loves some French food. Her favorite French food is “les Esescargots” which means snails in French. I was curious finding out if her rest of her family speaks French. Her mother speaks Italian and German, her father speaks Spanish and Italian. Another question that I asked her was her hobbies. Her hobbies include needle point and love to read outside of school. I have her for 6th period and we’ve been using IPods. She lets us use it because, she thought it will give her students new experiences and learn the language and to have fun with it. The kind of apps that she downloaded is flashcard, games, tours to the Eiffel tower. I really enjoyed the interview and I hope you do too.

Most people love winter break but do different things during the time. And, believe it or not, this rule applies to teachers too. For example, Ms. Cleveland likes to hang out with her family. She thinks that we all need a break for refreshment. Some things my classmates do over break is go sledding, put up decorations, play video games, go on vacations, read books, open presents, and other things. I think that winter break is also beneficial because it gives us time to unwind and get us ready for school again. It also gives us a chance to let out all the energy that we had to keep bottled up during school to go free, which in turn helps us be better students. Wish for snow, because, as you may have noticed, it almost never snows here in North Carolina. Local Meteorologists say that there may be some rain, but there is not likely to be snow. There go the sledding ideas. I think that the holiday spirit and the long break in itself will make up for it! It will be somewhat sufficient to look at pictures of snowy wonderlands. Anyhow, in short, it will probably not snow this break. You never know, though!

Carolina crafts is an art class taught by Mrs. Bennet. Students do amazing projects based on their relation to Carolina. The first project the classes did was face jugs. These jugs were said to be invented by African slaves. They used the face jugs to hold liquids. The faces on the jugs were to keep children out of them.

The students worked about three weeks on creating these marvelous master pieces. They put a lot of effort into the jugs. Here is what one of the students said about the jugs. Toniyah said “I did enjoy making the jugs, but I went through a lot of trouble to get it to stay in the right angle. I tried to be as ordinal as possible and not do what most people would.”

The current projects that the students in Carolina crafts are making are baskets. It’s a lot harder than you may think. Let’s look at some of the students’ opinion. Loren: “It’s sort of difficult.” Reem said “It’s fun because it’s difficult and you have to be patient with it and I like challenges.” Hannah: “I love making baskets, but it takes work and it isn’t easy.”

First the students will make paper baskets and then they will make reed baskets. I wish all the students good luck that their baskets are successful. They really seem to enjoy the art class.