OCTOBER 21, 2013 VOLUME V, ISSUE II
CONTENTS COPYRIGHT 2013 PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE NFL predictions and history By Andres Mah-Candelaria Fall has begun and the NFL season has started! I think the Seattle Seahawks will make it to the Super Bowl and the 49ers will not make it to the playoffs. Of the 32 teams these are my favorite teams: Baltimore Ravens, Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, and the Green Bay Packers. In this article I am going to write about the teams best players and predictions that I made and predictions from 826LA students. I also interviewed my grandfather about his thoughts about the teams. The New England Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI (2001), XXXVIII (2003), and XXXIV (2004). They play at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts. Tom Brady plays quarterback and is the best player on the team. He has played QB in the NFL for 13 seasons. The Baltimore Ravens won Super Bowl XXXV (2000) and XLVII (2012). They play at the M&T Stadium in Baltimore, Maryland. Ray Lewis played middle linebacker and was the best player on the team, until he retired recently. Ray Lewis played for the Ravens for 17 years. Their best player who still plays on the team... “NFL Predictions & History” continued on page 5
GOOD TIMES FREE
HALLOWEEN SPOOKS A review of Halloweenthemed theme parks By Monica Lee Halloween is the time of year when the ghosts, zombies, mummies, and other monsters take over the night. Many amusement parks decide to frighten their guests to death. Amusement parks that are ready to scare their guests are Universal Studios, Knotts Berry Farm, Disneyland, Lego Land, and more. Many of these amusement parks are going to base their rides on movies and books.
Halloween at Disneyland, Universal Studios, and Legoland. Some parks are scarier than others.
Universal Studios is going to base their rides on Insidious, Walking Dead, Evil Dead, Halloween Horror Nights, and other famous scary stories. Universal Studios is also going to make mazes and haunted mirrors. A special and famous horror story reading is going to take place. Universal Studios would be the first place to go to since their haunted houses are the best. At the end of a haunted house there is usually a scary character that will chase you. Their commercial is very promising since they made it very creepy. Zombies and bloody clowns chase you until you are trapped. The commercial shows that part to give the audience a daring chance to come to their theme park. Disneyland, the happiest place on earth, is now the scariest place on earth… or is it? There are going to be a Haunted Mansion, Space Mountain, Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, pumpkin festivals, carnivals, a dance party of Alice in Wonderland, and other spooktastic themes. Disneyland isn’t the scariest place on earth since Disneyland is meant for kids. Nothing is going to chase you like other places, and lines for the scary rides are longer than they are on an average day. Disneyland is teeming with all the evil characters and there is a parade for the evil characters. Disneyland does not want to scare the kids, but they do want to celebrate Halloween so the whole amusement park is mild with the spook level. California Adventure wants Halloween to be a chill and a thrill. Knott’s Berry Farm is doing two types of Halloween themes. There is one called Camp Spooky, where
kids from ages three to eleven are allowed to come. It starts from 10 am to 5:30 pm beginning on October 5th. You can dress up, go treat or treating, watch parades lead by Snoopy and stage shows, and join the bale maze. The other section of Knott’s is Knott’s Scary Farm. This part of Knott’s is scarier since there are new exhilarating rides, mazes unlike the hay barrel, and scary story times. Legoland is deciding to do a theme called Brick or Treat (a.k.a trick or treating). There are going to be fun shows and a costume contest and everyone is a winner. They hand out little bricks with a ghost on it that says BOO! And there are mazes with booths where you can get candy. The best place to go if you want to be brave is Universal Studios because there is no way out. The next place, in order of scariness, would be Knott’s Berry Farm because there aren’t people who are going to chase you. The next would be Disneyland because there are going to be parades and a pumpkin festival. Legoland is the next scariest since there aren’t any scary people. Monica Lee is twelve years old and goes to Eagle Rock Junior and Senior High School. She enjoys going to journalism because she meets new people and gets to know the tutors more. Monica loves to hang out with friends and journalism provides her with work and friends.
Warning: make sure that the 8 balls aren’t raining, or you might get a hole in your newspaper. Ay, ay, ay!
SNEAK PEEK AT THE NEW WIMPY KID BOOK: HARD LUCK By Joon Kim The new Diary of a Wimpy Kid book will be released on November 5th. It is going to be the eighth book in the series by Jeff Kinney, and the title is Hard Luck. The plot is about Greg facing a new problem: finding a new friend. He is facing this problem because his best friend, Rowley, left him stranded. Luck seems to be the main theme of this book because the horseshoe and the 8 balls are involved with the title and the cover. These are the plots of the previous books: In the first book, lots of things happen such as Rowley getting injured in a tricycle accident. The second book stars Rodrick and Greg, but they don’t get along very well. The third book includes a threat of going to military school. The fourth book is summertime, and a lot of events happen besides playing video games. Greg rushes to grow up in The Ugly Truth. He gets into big
trouble and gets stuck in the house during a blizzard in Cabin Fever. And Greg needs to find a date to the dance in The Third Wheel. The book series has been very popular. Sharon, an employee of Children’s Book World in Los Angeles, said last year at her store they “sold over 300 Wimpy Kid books, and each time a new one comes out we sell more than 100 of that title within the first two months.”
excited that they wanted to be the first people to get it. This reporter is also excited about the book. Just watch out for the raining 8 balls. Joon Kim is 9 years old. He goes to Third Street Elementary School and what he likes about journalism is writing articles. Joon is also a talented cartoonist.
“Because the series became so popular so quickly, the sales have consistently been outstanding,” Sharon said. “The popularity built quickly after the first book came out, and has continued steadily with each new book.” Sharon also said that they got a dozen pre-orders, which means that people are so Comic by Joon Kim