Designed By Youth @ Pollicita Middle School: March 2014

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Celebrity of the Week: Shailene Woodley by Alexia and Catherine

Celebrity of the Week: Shailene Woodley

Shailene Woodley is the most recent female breakout star that is the female-lead in Divergent, which is currently in theaters and #1 in the box office. She was first known as Amy Juergens in ABC’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager.

At 22, her popularity is rising with her role as Beatrice(Tris) Prior in Divergent. She is currently working on the next movie in the series Insurgent.

Shailene is also starring as the female-lead in the upcoming movie that was adapted from a book by John Green, a young-adult novel that is much anticipated by teens, The Fault in Our Stars. She will be playing, Hazel Grace, a girl with cancer. The book is amazing, and we’re sure that the movie will be too. Her co-star Ansel Elgort will be playing Augustus Waters, who is also suffering from illness, but recovered.

Shailene Woodley has made an impressive breakthrough and we can’t wait to see more.

Monday, March 24, 2014

Washington DC Trip by Alexia

Washington D.C. Trip

The time has finally arrived! This Saturday, March 29, 2014, the 13 people that signed up for the 2014 trip to Washington D.C. will be departing that day. The trip will last a total of 5 days. They will be returning the following Wednesday, April 2, 2014. They are so excited and will have an experience of a lifetime.

The following people will be going on the trip:

Mr. Pfyl

Mrs. Kretschmer

Raeann Arceo

Jaztine Deborja

Trinity Dominguez

Maylasia Goo

Alexia Macahilas

Jarren Miranda

Jose Ramos

Aiden Sanchez

Millicent Santos

Carolina Vasquez

Brooke Waters

Chocolate FUNdraiser! by Cathernie

Chocolate FUNdraiser!

Currently, T. R. Pollicita is having their most important fundraiser! We are selling World’s Finest Chocolate for a $1 each. This fundraiser will help raise the needed money for assemblies and end-of-the-year trips. This also helps the 8th graders’ Grad Dance, which is very much needed for them. So far, student government has collected about $2,000. This amount, right now, is not very good, since we need $4,000. At this point we will probably have no food for the Grad dance. So how are we gonna raise the other $2,000? Duh, all you need to do is sell! Us student government work our butts off, so just help us out with this fundraiser. SO PLEASE SELL AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE !!!!!!!

The chocolate box has a total of 60 bars. That is not hard to sell. All you have to do is just walk around your neighborhood, with a friend or parent, and simply just SELL! And of course the best part of fundraisers, PRIZES, is included. Every case you sell, you receive a cute, unique frog. There are many different designed frogs, which means you can trade with friends! I find that very fun and cool to do. Two more prizes they will receive, if they sell a case, is 100 Spirit Points and they get to be entered in the drawing for the Benihana Limo/Lunch prize! YUM. there will be 5 winners which is even better! The top seller gets a FREE SPIRIT TRIP TO SIX FLAGS!!!!!! I totally think it’s worth it. Right now, it looks like the student who is getting a free Six Flags trip is A.J. Ramos, who sold 6 boxes. She told me that. There are only 10 boxes left, and we’re trying to get rid of them ASAP. So, PLEASE sell & buy chocolates, since it is for a really good benefit.

Wednesday, March 19, 2014

New York, Boston mayors back LGBT groups, reject St. Patrick's Day parades

By Stephanie A

The mayors of Boston and New York decided to stay out of the St. Patrick's parade because the parades didn't support LGBT rights. I think the mayors should participate in the parade because they're the head of their cities. Even if they don't agree with what's going on in the parade, they should at least support their city because then others in the city could be upset. If I was the mayor of a large city, I would be part of the parade because if I didn't their could be a bad reaction to my not participating in the parade.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/17/us/mayors-st-patricks-day-parades/

Monday, March 17, 2014

Celebrity of the Week: Lily Collins

By Alexxi and Chelsea

Lily Collins recently portrayed Clary Fray in the Mortal Instruments: City of Bones in August 2013. In the movie, she had great fashion wearing the all black shadowhunter gear. She also had a fantastic fashion sense off screen. She’s also a model for Teen Vogue, where she displays the clothes she is modeling perfectly.

Lily has a new boyfriend, the actor Thomas Cocquerel, who has replaced her past boyfriend of one year, Jamie Campbell Bower. Lily and Jamie were co-stars, being the two leading roles of City of Bones. They had romance on and off screen. It was heartbreaking when the two broke up a couple days before the premiere of their movie together. (Jamily forever<3)

It is known that Lily will be starring in Love Rosie with co-star Sam Clafflin, and she’s currently working on the next Mortal Instruments Movie: City of Ashes.

Monday, March 10, 2014

Malaysia Airlines plane crash

Many people were wondering if the plane in Malaysia Airlines disintegrated because of the oil slick and a lifeboat that has moss covered on it. I personally think the plane crashed into the water somewhere. Students from Beijing are sending messages of support to the family members of those on the plane.
http://news.yahoo.com/stolen-passports-probed-malaysian-plane-mystery-174324605--finance.html