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Cal. Teensters<br />
<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
-Back to School<br />
-How did I spend my Summer<br />
-Shop Local after School program<br />
-How to prepare for SAT<br />
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
Contents<br />
<strong>Fall</strong> Season 3<br />
School Date 4<br />
Summer Time 5<br />
After School 8<br />
Talking SAT 9<br />
Teen Fashion 10<br />
Nat’s Game Club 11<br />
Places to Visit 13<br />
Special Days 14<br />
Talking to College 16<br />
Book Room 17<br />
Around the World 18<br />
Movies 20<br />
Sports 22<br />
Events 23<br />
Californian Teenster Volunteer:<br />
Kitty Y. Fanny H. Jason W. Bryce L.<br />
Mia S. Jessica W. Nat. S John C.<br />
Natalya G. Raesy C. Carol T.<br />
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CALIFORNIA TEEN 2
3<br />
<strong>Fall</strong> Season<br />
Autumn<br />
By Mia<br />
Autumn or <strong>Fall</strong> the season of the<br />
year between summer and winter<br />
during which temperatures de<br />
crease. It’s often called fall in the<br />
United States because leaves fall<br />
from the trees at that time. Americans<br />
typically refer to this time of<br />
year as “fall,” while the British use<br />
the word “autumn.” Both terms date<br />
back to the 16th century but before<br />
that it was called “harvest. <strong>Fall</strong> was<br />
called “harvest” because of the<br />
“harvest moon” that occurs when the full moon is closest to<br />
the autumn equinox.<br />
During <strong>Fall</strong> there are many fun activities you can do<br />
like; go apple picking, take a hayride, go pumpkin picking<br />
and so much more. <strong>Fall</strong> also means that Halloween is just<br />
around the corner. Mild autumn breezes in California<br />
usually echoes the region's welcoming<br />
spirit, but as the end of October approaches<br />
a spooky wind sweeps in and<br />
strange things begin to go bump in the<br />
night. From family-friendly fright fests<br />
and historically-haunted tours, to terrorfilled<br />
scream zones and wild,<br />
trick-or-treat parties, and Halloween<br />
themed Amusement park, Halloween in<br />
California is crazy fun for kids of all ages.<br />
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
School Date<br />
Back to School<br />
By Mia<br />
A lot of teenagers spend<br />
about seven or more hours in<br />
school, only to spend more<br />
hours in after- school activities.<br />
From school work to afterschool<br />
activities to more school<br />
work, high school students<br />
lives’ are very stressful. As a result,<br />
many teenagers manage<br />
only 6 hours of sleep a night, when research shows that<br />
adolescents going through puberty need 8 ½ to 9 hours of<br />
sleep. Teenagers are sleep- deprived, and parents are wondering<br />
why their children are doing so poorly in tests. Still,<br />
many parents complain about their children, assigning<br />
overwhelming responsibility at home without taking into<br />
account the heavy homework load students are given.<br />
These parents must think high school students just go by<br />
in school, sitting lazily in their desks and ignoring the<br />
teacher’s blabbing while they doodle in their notebooks.<br />
High school students, like other normal humans, need a<br />
vacation from school from time to time in order to enjoy<br />
other things in their lives, but some of these things are<br />
sacrificed in attempt to succeed in school. But despite all<br />
of their efforts to excel, high school students hear sermons<br />
every night from their<br />
parents when they come<br />
home. It’s as if parents<br />
think they’re the only ones<br />
with problems and continue<br />
to ignore what their<br />
children are going through.<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 4<br />
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How did I spend my summer<br />
By Bryce Lim<br />
Traveling to a place that is<br />
so different from your homeland<br />
is an exciting and informative<br />
experience. During my trip to<br />
Hawaii, I was able to witness<br />
nature’s beauty, and I was able<br />
to see sights that I usually do not see in California.<br />
Summer Time<br />
Additionally, I learned some of the Hawaiian culture and<br />
lifestyle. The first thing that stood out to me about<br />
Hawaii were the large amounts of vegetation that were<br />
present on the island.. The overall exotic feeling of the<br />
island was a big change from California. From the lush<br />
forests and vast oceans to the sprawling fields and deep<br />
canyons, I felt as though I had entered another dimension.<br />
In addition to the sights, I was able to learn some of the<br />
Hawaiian language, and I was introduced to the Hawaiian<br />
way of living. It surprised me how similar Hawaii was to<br />
the Philippines, such as the<br />
shack- like houses and small<br />
communities. Overall, my trip<br />
to Hawaii was a breath of fresh<br />
air from the monotone city life<br />
of where I live.<br />
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
What I Did in the Summer of <strong>2018</strong><br />
Summer time<br />
By John Chen<br />
Over the summer,<br />
I did a lot of<br />
things. I was very<br />
happy. I went on a<br />
cruise, zip-lining,<br />
swimming, and much more. The truth is, this summer was one of<br />
the best summers I have had. In this essay, you will be given two<br />
reasons why.<br />
The first activity I did over the summer may sound strange to<br />
regular schoolchildren, but it was actually summer school. My<br />
summer school, PA College Prep, was one of the best schools that<br />
I’ve ever been to. The lunch at PA was great and I particularly like<br />
how students were able to make special orders. For example, special<br />
orders like instead of juice you could have water, or instead of<br />
orange juice, you could have apple juice. At PA students did many<br />
activities including math, language arts, debate, public speaking,<br />
cooking and even STEM! Overall, PA was the opposite of what a<br />
child thinks school is. PA is the best!<br />
The second activity I did over the summer was quite exhilarating;<br />
I went on a cruise! The cruise had Ping Pong, swimming<br />
pools, complimentary food and snacks, and best of all- shuffleboard.<br />
The cruise took me to Alaska, and I did many activities<br />
there. I ate King Crab, went kayaking, and the most exciting thing<br />
I did was to go zip-lining! On the cruise, my friend and I watched<br />
unlimited free movies in high quality rooms. The cruise also gave<br />
me a chance to relax because school can be hard at times.<br />
To sum it all up, my summer was a great one. I greatly appreciated<br />
the time my parents took to arrange them because the vacations<br />
were very fun. Although I’m unarguably sad that my amazing<br />
summer ended, I’m still unarguably glad that my summer<br />
started in the first place. My summer was really-the best!<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 6
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
After School Program<br />
Shop Local After School in W. Covina.<br />
By Jessica<br />
“Shop local after School program” is a program that<br />
helps schools by shopping at local<br />
retailers and gives back to local<br />
schools. The person who created the<br />
program is Tony Wu. Currently the<br />
school districts who are part of this<br />
program are West Covina USD and<br />
Covina Valley School Districts. This program was created 3<br />
years ago when Mr. Wu was running. The program was<br />
created because we need to help education for children to<br />
have more programs. Since students are growing up, they<br />
need some sort of program and<br />
that program should be after<br />
school. Mr. Wu said, “I can’t<br />
control the school’s programs but<br />
I can help out after school.”<br />
The students should be proud<br />
of themselves. It benefits students<br />
because of their resources and to<br />
give them a chance and to give<br />
them something. It benefits<br />
parents since they would be proud<br />
of their children and they know<br />
their children are happy doing something after school. People<br />
would shop locally if it gives back to schools or to their<br />
students.<br />
(Pictures from WCUSD)<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 8
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How to Prepare for the SAT<br />
By Kitty Yu<br />
Talking SAT<br />
3. Know the Test Structure<br />
Questions on the SAT are in ascending<br />
order of difficulty. This means that<br />
questions at the beginning of a section<br />
are easier than those at the end. Knowing<br />
this, you shouldn’t spend equal<br />
amounts of time on each SAT question.<br />
The questions at the beginning of each section should be<br />
easily and quickly answered, allowing you to save time<br />
devoted towards the harder questions at the end. You<br />
should answer detail-oriented questions first, saving<br />
general questions about the passage for the end.<br />
PA College Pre Director<br />
4. Study the Vocabulary<br />
Studying vocabulary is a really easy way to increase your<br />
SAT score, especially if you study smart. Make some<br />
flashcards and you can study vocab whenever you have a<br />
few free time—waiting in line at the restaurant, during<br />
recess, in the car… This practice expand your vocabulary<br />
on the sentence completion questions and the reading<br />
comprehension Portion of the test.<br />
***Next issue will have more***<br />
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
Hot & Cool<br />
Teen Fashion<br />
Model: Natalya<br />
Creator: Jessica<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 10
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Nat’s Game Club<br />
Super Smash Bros Ultimate<br />
On June 12th, was<br />
the day we finally got<br />
our first look at Super<br />
Smash Bros Ultimate.<br />
The Smash game<br />
everyone has been<br />
looking forward to on the Nintendo<br />
switch. Super Smash Bros Ultimate<br />
takes on a brand new look, mixing Super<br />
Smash Bros for<br />
Wii U’s art style while refining it with<br />
a fresh coat of paint. Now let's address<br />
the elephant in the room, the<br />
characters.<br />
Every fighter that has ever been<br />
playable in the Smash series has<br />
returned making 67 playable<br />
characters along with 89 stages are<br />
confirmed to be in the game. The<br />
creator of the smash brother’s<br />
series, Masahiro Sakurai stated that<br />
he felt people wanted to see every<br />
fighter from the series return.<br />
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 12
13<br />
Crater Lake<br />
Crater lake was formed from a<br />
massive eruption 7,700 years ago<br />
left a deep basin in the place where<br />
a mountain peak once stood.<br />
Places to Visit<br />
https://www.nps.gov/crla/index.htm<br />
Sequoia and Kings Canyon<br />
To the north lies the Giant Forest<br />
where sequoias rise above their forest<br />
neighbors. In this cathedral-like<br />
grove stands the 275 foot tall General<br />
Sherman Tree.<br />
https://www.nps.gov/seki/index.htm<br />
Cave of Shasta Lake<br />
The cave is a pure limestone structure<br />
with many wonders such as<br />
stalagmites, stalactites, and flowing<br />
stones.<br />
http://lakeshastacaverns.com/<br />
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
Special Days<br />
Halloween<br />
By Jessica<br />
Halloween is also known<br />
as All Hallows’ Evening.<br />
The holiday is observed by<br />
Western Christians and many<br />
non-Christians around the<br />
world. Significance is the<br />
first day of Allhallowtide. The day is on October 31 st .<br />
People dress up, go trick treating, and attending Halloween<br />
costume parties. Many Halloween traditions originated<br />
from ancient Celtic harvest festivals, particularly the Gaelic<br />
festival Samhain & Brythonic festival Calan Gaeaf.<br />
Halloween means “hallowed evening” or “holy evening.”<br />
Some celebrations is making jack o lanterns, lighting<br />
bonfires, divination, apple bobbing, visiting haunted<br />
attractions. Universal Studios also have horror nights<br />
during October too. This is time where kids usually get a<br />
lot of candy. The food that is associated with Halloween is<br />
barmbrack, bonfire toffee, candy apples, toffee apples,<br />
candy corn, candy<br />
pumpkins, monkey nuts,<br />
caramel apples,<br />
caramel corn,<br />
colcannon, Halloween<br />
cake, and etc.<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 14
Cindy Choi<br />
Special Days<br />
15<br />
Thanksgiving<br />
By Jessica<br />
Thanksgiving is a holiday<br />
in November. It is celebrated<br />
in the United States, Canada,<br />
some of the Caribbean<br />
islands, and Liberia. It has<br />
been celebrated as a federal<br />
holiday every year since 1863, when, during the American<br />
Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a<br />
national day of "Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent<br />
Father who dwelled in the Heavens," to be celebrated on<br />
the last Thursday in November. When Americans call the<br />
“Holiday Season” generally starts with Thanksgiving.<br />
Thanksgiving has been an annual tradition in the United<br />
States by the presidential proclamation since 1863 and by<br />
state legislation since the Founding Fathers of the United<br />
States. Historically, Thanksgiving has traditionally been a<br />
celebration of the blessings of the year, including the harvest.<br />
It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of<br />
the harvest and of the preceding<br />
year. In 1621, the Plymouth<br />
colonists and Wampanoag<br />
Indians shared an autumn<br />
harvest feast that is<br />
acknowledged today as one of<br />
the first Thanksgiving<br />
celebrations in the colonies.<br />
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Why should I go to colleges?<br />
Talking to College<br />
By Sean Kao Ph. D.<br />
Lastly, it is also a place where you learn how to learn. A<br />
proper education should teach you more than just problemsolving,<br />
it should also drive you to problem-identifying. I<br />
find this to be the most useful skill I’ve learned from my<br />
education. To think critically, to anticipate what’s about the<br />
happen, and to do something about it. You will also have the<br />
opportunity to be that someone who creates knowledge for<br />
other to learn. Contributing to the world of science is one of<br />
the most rewarding feelings one can have.<br />
Colleges are where one goes to learn, and I don’t just<br />
mean knowledge. You will probably meet people whom you<br />
are not going to get along with. You will probably encounter<br />
situations that are not fair. You will probably do the right<br />
things but still end up where you don’t want to be.<br />
To that, I encourage you to Think empirically; Act<br />
empathically. Keep in mind that all the knowledge in the<br />
world can’t help you to make a true friend. People are not<br />
going to care what you know until they know what you<br />
care. Use your scientific mind to think empirically, but use<br />
your humanity to act empathically.<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 16
17<br />
Bookroom<br />
The Fault in Our Stars<br />
Summary:<br />
Author: John Green<br />
A young teenage girl who has<br />
been diagnosed with lung cancer and<br />
attends a cancer support group. Hazel<br />
is 16 and is reluctant to go to the support<br />
group, but she soon realizes that<br />
it was a good idea. Hazel meets a<br />
young boy named Augustus Waters.<br />
The Great Gatsby<br />
Summary:<br />
Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald<br />
The Great Gatsby is a story told by<br />
Nick Carraway, who was once Gatsby's<br />
neighbor, and he tells the story sometime<br />
after 1922, when the incidents that fill<br />
the book take place.<br />
Wonder<br />
Summary:<br />
Author: R.J. Palacio<br />
August or "Auggie" Pullman, a<br />
ten-year-old boy living in New York City,<br />
was born with a facial deformity that has<br />
made it difficult for him to make friends.<br />
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
Around the World<br />
Chile, country situated along<br />
the western seaboard of South<br />
America. A long, narrow country,<br />
it has an average width of only<br />
about 110 miles, with a maximum<br />
of 217 miles at the latitude<br />
of Antofagasta and a minimum of<br />
9.6 miles near Puerto Natales.<br />
It is bounded on the<br />
north by Peru<br />
and Bolivia, on its<br />
long eastern border<br />
by Argentina, and on<br />
the west by the<br />
Pacific Ocean. Chile<br />
also claims a 200-mile<br />
offshore limit. The<br />
capital is Santiago.<br />
Pictures from the internet<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 18
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
The Predator<br />
Date: September 14, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Genre: Science fiction film/Thriller<br />
Cast: Yvonne Strahovski,<br />
Summary:<br />
Olivia Munn,<br />
Jacob Tremblay<br />
When a young boy accidentally<br />
triggers the universe's most lethal<br />
hunters' return to Earth, only a ragtag<br />
crew of ex-soldiers and a disgruntled science teacher can<br />
prevent the end of the human race.<br />
Rating: R<br />
Movies<br />
Venom<br />
Date: October 5, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Genre: Fantasy/ Sci-Fi<br />
Cast: Tom Hardy,<br />
Summary:<br />
Michelle Williams,<br />
Jenny Slate<br />
When Eddie Brock acquires the<br />
powers of a symbiotic, he will have<br />
to release his alter-ego "Venom" to<br />
save his life.<br />
Rating: PG-13<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 20
Boy Erased<br />
Date: November 2, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Genre: coming of age drama<br />
Cast: Lucas Hedges,<br />
Summary:<br />
Nicole Kidman,<br />
Russell Crowe<br />
Jared is the son of a small-town<br />
Baptist pastor who gets outed to his<br />
parents at age 19. He's soon faced<br />
with an ultimatum -- attend a gay conversion therapy program<br />
or be permanently exiled and shunned by his family, friends<br />
and faith.<br />
Rating: Not Rated<br />
Movies<br />
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Fantastic Beasts:<br />
The Crimes of Grindelwald<br />
Date: November 16, <strong>2018</strong><br />
Genre: Drama/ Fantasy<br />
Cast: Eddie Redmayne,<br />
Summary:<br />
Katherine Waterston,<br />
Dan Fogler<br />
Magizoologist Newt<br />
Scamander joins forces with young Albus Dumbledore to<br />
prevent the devious Gellert Grindelwald from raising<br />
pure-blood wizards to rule over all non-magical beings.<br />
Rating: PG-13<br />
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<strong>2018</strong> <strong>Fall</strong><br />
Sports<br />
Cross country running is a sport in which teams and<br />
individuals run a race on open<br />
air courses over natural terrain<br />
such as dirt or grass. On December<br />
7, 1867, it established a<br />
national championship.<br />
American Football is a team sport<br />
played by two teams of 11 players on a<br />
rectangular field with goalposts at each<br />
end. Rutgers and Princeton played what<br />
was billed as the first college game on<br />
November 6, 1869.<br />
Soccer/Football<br />
S<br />
Volleyball is a game of two teams<br />
made up of six players, in which a large<br />
ball is hit by hand over a high net, It<br />
originated from Massachusetts in the<br />
winter of 1895. William G. Morgan was<br />
the person who created volleyball.<br />
Tennis<br />
Soccer is a game played by two teams of 11 players<br />
with a ball that may not be<br />
touched with the hands or arms<br />
during play except by the goalkeepers.<br />
Soccer history traces<br />
back to ancient China. England<br />
invented a game of running<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 22
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Events<br />
In <strong>2018</strong>, Ms. Lei Wang led students face painting for<br />
beautification of the San Gabriel community.<br />
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Teensters & Parents<br />
CALIFORNIA TEEN 24