My Freshman Year

Reflection on My Freshman Year at MMIB High School

My Freshman year at Marshall Montessori International Baccalaureate High School was wonderful and the finest experience I’ve had. I always thought high school would be my downfall of life because I thought it would be so hard. Yes, it was hard but I kept my G.P.A. above a 3.0 and I worked hard on every assignment I had. I also had help from the great staff of MMIB. They help me make through the jungle of the hard assignments and all the misunderstanding of work I had. They explained things so well and if I still didn’t understand something, they still found a way for me to do so. Before I came to MMIB I used to always get in trouble and couldn’t stay out of it but when I came here I stayed out of trouble and haven’t got suspended or wrote up not once this year. I was too busy with work or my extracurricular activities to even think about doing the wrong things. The teachers here at MMIB are like another family in my eyes and I thank them for al the things that they have done for me this year. Next year I will be a Sophomore and I will share this experience to the new comers and I hope they get attached to this school just like I did. These are all my classes I had this year and a reflection from me on how the class was:

Class: Biology

Teacher: Mr.Stangel

This class was so confusing yet so interesting.

Class: Algebra

Teacher: Mrs. Moran

This class was hard as a rock but I got it done cause I put my mind to it.

Class: Art

Teacher: Mrs. Schwarten

I love drawing and painting and all the other enthusiastic ways of art.

Class: Chinese

Teacher: Mrs. Ding

I never thought I’d learn this language cause I made so much fun of it as a child. This language is a language everyone should want to learn.

Class: British Authors

Teacher: Mr. Magnuson

This class wasn’t interesting to me until I actually did the work. We read good books and hope to read more. I think this would be my favorite class of my Freshman Year.

Class: Humanities

Teacher(s):Mr. Lippert and Mr. Zimmers

OMG!! This class is still confusing till this day to me but I worked hard and did all the work.

Class: Accounting

Teacher: Mrs. Moran

I thought this would be hard but It’s so easy so far. I love it though!!

Class: Student Justice

Teacher: Mr. Johnston

This class is a one of a kind class and I think that it should be a major to study in college. It taught me the rights and wrongs of the justice and how to restore justice in crimes.

Class: Citizenship

Teacher: Mrs. Faloran

This class taught me how to get into my community and how I can help my community with certain problems that consist within it.

Class: Zen Garden

Teacher: Mr. Lippert

I love this class because I get to do hard labor and I get to help clean the courtyard of Marshall High School.

Class: Growing Power

Teacher: Mr. Glaber and Growing Power Staff

This class is so interesting cause you get to work with plants and animals in green houses. I love helping the world and keeping it Green.

Class: Home E.C.

Teacher: Mrs. Ogunkunle

I loved this class cause we did a lot of cooking and eating but beyond that we also got to knit and sew. We also learned table manners and the basics of home structure.

Class: Physical Education

Teacher: Mr. Stefanovich

I’ve never failed this class and probably never will. I liked the fun activities that I had no idea that they existed but it was fun playing them.

1984 George Orwell

At Marshall Montessori IB we read a lot of good books.  All well written and by authors I’ve never heard of.  The one book that stood out to me was a book called “1984” by George Orwell.  It is about how Orwell predicated what was going to happen in the future.  It’s about a dystopia and how everything was during that time.   The book was well written and it had a certain something that caught my attention.  It was about how this man named Winston and how he was against “Big Brother”.  Big Brother is the government in this book and everybody is supposed to go by what they say.  Winston was against Big Brother but he couldn’t speak his mind.  Everywhere he goes he’s being watched.  He ends up joining a group who is also against Big Brother, known as the brother.  He gets caught by the “Thought Police” and taken to Ministry of Love.  The Ministry of Love is where they tortured and punished Winston for trying to go against “Big Brother”.  In the end he truly realizes that he loved “Big Brother” even though he tried to hide it.  Marshall Montessori IB has a good idea of what they want the kids to read.  Everything they have given us to read has some meaning to it.  1984 was the best book so far at IB that I’ve read.

By: Naomi Jones

Half a days

Blog: Half a Day

By Darius Stevens
The students at Marshall high school I think we all deserve to have half a day on Tuesdays and Thursday because those are the longest days during the week. US students really deserve to have it because we all do our work. We work hard for ours school and teachers. Half a day make students happy and we get more time to get in all of our work because we will have time. Why? When we get out of school our regular time we usually go to work or we have things to do around the house. That’s another reason why we need half a day. The reason the students is being cranky because we be sitting do a all day. We don’t get enough time for our break. Then when we are sitting down all day our body parts get tired of just being their all day. The half of days would mean a lot to us kids because we need a rest now and then.

Half a days...Where did they go?

Blog: Half a Day

By Darius Stevens
The students at Marshall high school I think we all deserve to have half a day on Tuesdays and Thursday because those are the longest days during the week. US students really deserve to have it because we all do our work. We work hard for ours school and teachers. Half a day make students happy and we get more time to get in all of our work because we will have time. Why? When we get out of school our regular time we usually go to work or we have things to do around the house. That’s another reason why we need half a day. The reason the students is being cranky because we be sitting do a all day. We don’t get enough time for our break. Then when we are sitting down all day our body parts get tired of just being their all day. The half of days would mean a lot to us kids because we need a rest now and then.

Student Voice- Snack Time

Student Voice- snack time

By:Racquel Bryant

At the beginning of the school year we had snack time and then it stopped after about

three weeks. On occupation days we eat lunch extremely early, so we get hungry about two hours

later. We should be able to eat what we want to eat as long as it’s not too messy. Junk food should

be considered a snack as well, because some carbohydrates- {sugars and proteins) are good for

your body .Every student in the school deserves to have a snack while working hard in their class.

Snack time should be Tuesday and Thursday during our long occupation classes. We could make

this happen by finding ways to raise money so that we can keep our snack time regularly. Snacks

can be very costly. We have to be able to function the correct way, while getting our work done.

If we’re thinking hard enough, our work will look better and it will get done quicker.

We as high school kids eat a whole lot more than younger kids. We also need a snack because

some of us don’t really like to eat the food that we have for lunch. Snack time should be after

lunch. It’s always good when a school can give students options for what they want and need. That

will draw more kids to come to our school, because we are the greatest school in the Milwaukee

school district.

Study Hall

By:Giovanni Ragsdale

Blog: Why are there no study halls for freshman and sophomores?

That is a question that many freshman and sophomores including me are asking and I still haven’t found any answers. I asked a couple of teachers (Mr. Magnuson and Ms. Lemke) and they both gave the same response saying “that is a great question that I wish I had the answer to”. They went on to say that they felt like a study hall for freshman and sophomores would be a great idea. I also think that it is a great idea because the work at MMIB is very challenging, and I know that we all can agree on that, so a study hall would be a great opportunity for the students.
Study hall is given to juniors only in MMIB and I feel like that is unfair. I think that all of the students in MMIB get about the same amount of work so I think that we all deserve to have a study hall. I think that if a study hall was given to every student it could help to raise grades and test scores. Study hall could be used in various ways like to do some class work or home work from your classes, study for a quiz or test, start a study group and get help with some of the things that you don’t understand or you could just use the study hall as a grace period after a day of work you can take a rest. Study hall could be used as a time during the day to just relax listen to your mp3 or I pod and get some work done.
In order for the MMIB freshman and sophomores to get study hall there will be a couple of steps you need to take to make this happen. You should ask yourself do you really want a study hall. If your answer to that question is yes than you need to follow these steps to get a study hall, first you and or a group of people need to first write the issue that you are talking about, next you need to get the opinion of other students, the next and final step is to go to either Ms. Hmeleski, Mr. Stefanovich or Mr. Zimmers and talk to them about it and it will be in their hands to make the decision on if a study hall will be given to you. I would recommend that every student try to get study hall could it could be a great opportunity for you to improve your grades. I think that if study hall is given it should be given on Tuesday and Thursday during the last hour of the day. I think that would be a good time for it because on Tuesday and Thursday’s are classes are 3 hours long and it would be shorter if you have study hall for the last hour.

Please comment on your opinion and how you feel about this blog.

Three Hour Occupations

My name is Tanosha Jackson and I have a complaint about the last block of occupation and why we shouldn’t have to sit in a class for three hours. It’s already crazy that we eat our lunch at 10:00 on Tuesdays and Thursday but to have to it in a class for three hours is a torture. I think I speak for all students when I say that don’t nobody just want to sit in one class for three hours. We hate just sitting there for hours and doing the same work and looking at the same teacher. We get a ten minute break but that’s not nothing we should at least get a thirty minute break. We as students shouldn’t have to work for three hours straight. Teacher when they work for three hours straight somewhere along the line they get a break and it’s not for ten minute and they get paid. We also feel if we are forced to stay in a class room for three hours we at least should get a snack by us eating lunch so early we be hungry later in the day during class time. A way that the teachers could change it is instead of us students having a class for three hours split our class in half and give us another occupation class so we would have four classes instead of three and we also can be focused on more then one class