Do you feel like you don’t ever have enough time to get your homework done?  Does it feel that when you are doing your homework you get frustrated and can’t take it anymore?  Many student’s don’t ever have the time to finish their homework when they get home right after school, they either have to go home and get ready for work or they just don’t have the time because they have to deal with things at home.  Well there is a solution for this.

Step 1:  Schedule an established time to do homework daily:  It doesn’t matter what grade you are in, you should or need to set routines for yourself to get your assignments aka homework finished.  Some of us are better doing it right after school.  You can find some sort of routine to sit down and do your homework between your busy schedule.

Step 2:  Take 5-minute breaks after every 20 minutes:  Find some activity or any other elective that you can think of and do in between your breaks.  If you keep your breaks structured, you will understand this as as part of the routine and not a time to wander off and get distracted and lose all focus you had.  Short, frequent breaks help you recharge.

Step 3:  Stop yourself when you can’t go on:  If you are getting tired or frustrated, stop yourself.  Homework shouldn’t take more than at least 20 minutes to complete depending on what level you are.  Talk to your teachers and let them know how long it takes you to complete your assignments.  They should understand and might give you less then they assign.  Make a plan with your teacher so that you can feel success with homework and every one’s time will be spent.

Step 4:  Request an extra set of textbooks to use at home:  Student’s if you are more organized, you are more in likely to leave your books in your locker.  That way you always have an extra copy at home that you can use.  Having homework material at home is crucial.  Once you fall behind it’s very hard to get caught right up with your class.  Many school’s don’t have extra copies. so you might have to purchase one on your own.

Step 5:  Find the right location for yourself to do daily homework:  Make sure that this place has lighting and is not full of cluster.  If you have learning differences and/or ADHD, they get distracted very easily with their workspace.  Make sure that you have what you actually need like extra paper, pencils/lead, and mostly a computer, none of the unwanted things such as a comic book or basically anything that will distract you. 

Step 6:  Have some help organizing papers for after school homework and prepare for the next school day:  When you have completed your homework you should feel accomplished!  Make sure that you  put your completed homework in the right folders or binder.  Keep your quizzes, tests, and completed homework at home so you can study for major tests or other daily assignments. 

     If you put these steps into action you are gaurenteed to finish your homework.  Then you won’t go crazy and freak out because you have numerous pages of homework.  Take these steps one at a time.  Good Luck To You FMHS Students!

      Here at the Fort Morgan High School there are four different grades; Freshmen(9th), Sophomore (10th), Junior (11th), and last a Senior (12th).  These students are very hard working and know what they need to get done.  Some of the students are exuberant, mellow, well known, easy going, new, quiet, loud, and obnoxious.  Under all that they get along well with their teachers and peers.

     All students here have priorities, such as, getting homework turned in, but maybe not all the time, get all their credits for graduation, try to at least make it on the honor roll at least once or numerous times, getting to school on time, and so many more.  Here these students have to take multiple tests, and quizzes in their required classes, such as, Math, Science, Spanish, English, and so on.  At the end of each quarter they have to take finals on what they’ve learned that following quarter.  That takes place the last two days before Christmas break, as well as the last two days of school.

     Two major tests that take place here at the high school would be the CSAP (Colorado Student Assessment Program), which is taken by the freshmen and sophomores.  Then you have the ACT/SAT, which is taken by the juniors.  The seniors on the other hand don’t have to worry about any tests except for being prepared and ready to go for their graduation.

     The freshmen take three different tests for the CSAP, such as writing, reading, and math.  The sophomores take basically the same tests, but on the other hand they have one other tests included, which would be science.  Now the CSAP’s for the sophomores take four days in the morning since they have an extra test to take.  The freshmen take the test for only three days during the morning as well.  The juniors take one day to take the ACT/SAT.  They may take as many times as they want, but you have to pay for it.

     Between all the homework, tests, after school activities, sports, and jobs what goes on when these kinds of things aren’t being done.  Are they hanging out with friends, driving around or even studying some more?  Well that is where the question comes in:  What do the students of the Fort Morgan High School like to do on their Free Time?

     Here are what some of the students here at your very own school had to say!

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     People across time have asked the question:  When will the world end?  The quest to know the exact time has haunted people forever because of their lack of preparedeness.  The Mayan calender has made many people less tense because it claims the world will end in 2012.

     These facts are based on the Bible.  Both the Mayans and the Bible have differing views to when the world will end and how we will know.  People may look at the Bible and think this is not true or has no validity, but in acutality the Mayan calender is from a religious belief as well, so all those looking down on the source need to realize this fact.  The main passage below is spoken by Jesus himself, and is found in Matthew 24:3-15.  It states:

“And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man decieve you. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall decieve many. And ye shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation shall rise against, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in diverse places. All these are the beginnning of sorrows. Then shall they deliver you up to be afflicted, and shall kill you: and ye shall be hated of all nations for my name’s sake. And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. And many false prophets shall rise, and shall decieve many. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved. And his gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come. When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)” Matthew 24:3-15

     This passage holds many keys to know when the world will end but does not give a specific date.  This may anger some people, but the end of the world will come when as this comes to pass.  This means people must rely on patience and make sure they are prepared for when it does end because we cannot know ofr certain.  The Mayan calender may be more convenient, but it too is just a religious view of people long gone.  The only way to know is to view the warnings in the passage above and be prepared for a possible sudden of far off ending

     On Friday December 4, 2009 the Fort Morgan High School girls had a basketball game against the Sterling Tigers.  C team and JV (Junior Varsity) played at the same time.  C team won against the Tigers with a final score of 37 – 18.  They showed a great start to a new season.  We had a celebrity apperance in that Austin Hoskinson was running the clock for the C team game.  They showed a lot of hard competitiveness while they crashed the boards and sunk short and mid-ranged shots.

     Jv (Junior Varsity) also had a good start to the season with a close loss.  The final score was 35 – 46.  Early on in the game the lead bounced back and fourth between the two teams.  With some late foul trouble two different lady Mustangs had to leave the game, forcing the rest of the team to make up the difference.  The team excelled when Brooke Wiederspan and Jaelynn Chappel were on the floor.  This isn’t to say the rest of the team did poorly, actually the whole team worked hard together in every situation with great passes and rebounds.  We expect to see great things from the junior varsity team.

     The Varsity team started off the game looking good but faced a team with a major height advantage.  Earlier in the game the varsity team managed to keep it close but slowly lost ground after the first quarter.  The final score was 31 – 56.  One of the challenges the varsity faced was spotty shooting; nerves were probably to blame.  With the new coach, Mr. Kreikemeier, the team is working to embrace the new style.  Once everything runs in sync, the varsity should be unstoppable.

     Good luck to all the lady Mustangs as the season gets underway.  We all will be cheering you on!

     Mr. Borda is a biology teacher here at the Fort Morgan High School.  He has book assignments for all his biology students at least once a week.  The week before Fort Morgan High School took off for Thanksgiving Break he assigned a book assignment.  It was pages 371 through 378.  His classes had to define Climate and Biome.  Also we had to describe the following: The 8 major Terrestrial Biomes, The 3 main parts of a Fresh Water Biome, and The 3 main Marine Biomes. 

     We each had to describe these biomes in many short paragraphs or in lists.  Each one of these biomes were we categorized in different groups, and they each had a paragraph describing what it was or how it effected the world.

     Some of the 8 major Terrestrial Biomes are Savannas, Tundra, Tropical Rain Forests, and Deserts.  His classes had to describe them from what the book said and put them in their own words or pull some of the important things out and write them down.  For an example here is what his biology classes did.

Tropical Rain Forest – Has over 2 million species and has a high primary productivity even though they exist mainly on quite fertile soils.

       

     Charles Alvarado is a Sophomore at the Fort Morgan High School.  He is fascinated by The Roswell Alien Crash that happened in 1947.  Not only is he fascinated but believes very strongly about it.  He has done two speeches for Mr. Humphrey’s Speech class.  One on the Roswell Alien Crash which was the information speech and then he did one on Crop Circles for a persuasion speech.  Both of his speeches were extraordinary.

     His persuasion speech was about crop circles as I said up above.  Charles did a lot of research for his speech.  He had numerous pictures of old time photos that seemed to have a UFO in them.  Also he made a PowerPoint and had pictures of crop circles and more old time pictures of UFOs and also cave drawings of what seemed to be people with egged shaped heads also known as aliens!

     Charles also stated in his speech that farmers who have had recent or older crop circles is said to believe that they are to be blamed on teens or younger adults.  Now how would they be able to do this, because when this happens it is magnetic and radiated and the land becomes unfertile.  Also he said that they cant be done by teenagers because a plain regular bored can’t make land magnetic and radioactive.  After seeing his speech it was wonderful to hear about all these interesting facts about crop circles.  I would have never guessed that they were real until Charles Alvarado gave his persuassion speech on crop circles.  I say well done Charles, excellent work.

     Now as you can see above are to pictures of crop circles that Charles used in his speech.  How can teenagers or young adults be blamed for these enormous designs or crop circles.  So do you believe in the other life out there also known as aliens?  I know after seeing Charles speech I do honestly believe that there is another life out there besides us.  Once again excellent speech on crop circles Charles!