Branson Bright!

Miranda Ellis

Grant Preston

Leanna Allen

Felicity Krebs

Ayuub Farah

Levi Rash

Josephine Wasson



Asma Al-Masyabi Books:

Book Store Sonnet: Beyond the daily grind
Opportunities to break away are waiting
What is perfection, but a book store on a snowy day? Only if you choose the undertaking, your
Warm tea in your hands and books that surround you
Titles unread and pages un-flipped, waiting in their neat array voyage is close at hand
The falling flurries of snow hiding the street from view. Know every journey is your own, but you

All is quiet, a collective peace is cast have to be willing
On cluttered shelves, odd nick-knacks collect Seek a new title, and open the book.
You fill your arms, amazed at the stories amassed
The lull of words and tales weave a dreamlike effect.

Soon lost among pages, time’s meaning fades
The snow seems to still, the wind seems to wane
Now and then, the doors open and a cold draft invades
Pull your sweater close and there’s no reason to complain.

When it is time to leave, look back and know
You found one heaven that cannot be hindered by snow.

Asma Al-Masyabi

Without A Thought:

I am hardly
Without a thought.

When I talk,
I think
When I read,
I think
When I listen,
I think
When I sleep,
I dream.

Jayla Mallard Diamante- Depression:

Loneliness: Depression
Empty, broken
Loneliness Sobbing, alienating, hurting
The fighting of depression and sadness, or a Shattered, trapped, comfort, peace
combination of both. Inspiring, exhilarating, uplifting
It lay like a heavy stone in my heart. Hopeful, tranquility
I tried to rid it, but it did not budge.
The heavy stoned seem to increase, Joy
Day by day, night by night.
Tossing and turning, searching for solutions.
Then courage came to my door, and strength too.
I pulled and tugged on that heavy stone.
Sooned I ripped it out,
And threw it far into the sea.
That was the day I threw loneliness away.

Jazmine Godoy

My Happy Place:

Suddenly, everything feels fine
The sweet wind flows into my nose.
I can breathe regularly, peacefully.
I’m in my box, icy and blue, yet it isn’t cold.
The soft wind makes me feel perfectly warm with a hint of humid. I look up to see billions
of stars in the beautiful night sky. The palm trees above me move with the wind, quiet and
respectful. The calm soothing feeling takes over.
The sky is dark blue with a pinch of purple.
Some stars white, others a soft yellow.
With the peace and solitude I finally am in control.
Finally with myself, alone and happy.

Sadiqah Al-Masyabi

True Life: Life Life isn’t
Isn’t our heart that beats The blood
With every Or the oxygen That circulates our body
Breath I take, We breath Or the bones
I search - No - That holds us together
And search Life,
For the beauty in life Is seeing Life is living
And The world Outside the box,
With every breath, With bright eyes Reaching
I find And shining sunlight For the impossible,
Another reason To the darkened spots And bringing brightness
To live another Into everyone’s heart
Moment Life,
Is happiness
Life, Found in the
Is not a curse, Smallest of things
But a blessing And finding
For those that have it Beauty
In the ugliest

Sadiqah Al-Masyabi

Crystal Wall: Straight or back? And no matter how hard
These questions have us We cry
Crystal wall In anxiety and worry And beg,
Standing high That we may take We all know
And looming The wrong step That it is to no avail
Above the world On the wrong road And that we must
Blocking what’s behind it - Discover our futures
Hiding all the truths Crystal wall By living it,
It stands so high And making the wrong turn
We beg And no matter On the wrong road
And cry How far we dig Is simply a mistake
Trying to convince it And chip That is learned from,
Of giving us one glance - Its exterior seems And turning back –
One chance - To grow Starting again -
At seeing our future Taller, wider, stronger Is always an option.
Separating us from
We are lost Our predicted futures
Not knowing where to turn And the truths that
Unsure of where the roads Others try to hide
Will take us
Left or right?



Adanna Lobato

"I knew exactly what to do, but in a much more real sense, I had no idea what to do.“
-The Office – Michael Scott

"If I don't have some cake soon, I might die.“
-The Office – Stanley Hudson

"I am Beyonce always“
-The Office – Michael Scott

"Oh God, my mind is going a mile an hour.“
-The Office – Michael Scott

"Why are all these people here? There are too many people on this Earth. We need a new plague.“
-The Office – Dwight K. Schrute

"When someone smiles at me, all I see is a chimpanzee begging for its life.“
-The Office – Dwight K. Schrute

"Sell it to charity.“
-The Office – Michael Scott

Alyssa Ford

“Life itself is worth living for.
If you're not living the life that you want, you fight for that life.“

-Jensen Ackles

Anonymous

"To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, to draw closer, to find
each other and to feel. That is the purpose of life."
-The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty

"Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist“
-Pablo Picasso

- "I think being different, going against the grain of society is the greatest thing in the
world"

-Elijah Wood

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time"
-Thomas Merton

" I guess I'm a little weird. I like to talk to trees and animals.That's okay though; I
have more fun than most people“
-Bob Ross

Asma Al-Masyabi

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...“
-By Charles Dickens

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear
the music.”

-By Friedrich Nietzsche

"When I'm 100 I will pick up the houses and put them in my backpack.“
-By my little brother

Caitlin Adams

“If you find yourself doubting how far you can go, look how far you've come, all the things
you've faced, and all the battles you've won.”
-Unknown

Cash Vanek

"I'll be your huckleberry“
-By Doc Holliday,Tombstone

"What we've got here is failure to communicate“
-By Warden, Cool Luke

"Did we give up when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? NO!“
-By Bluto,Animal House

Evan Krumtum

"When I get sad, I stop being sad and be awesome instead. True story.”
-Barney Stinson

Jailyn Sarntee

"Coasting on potential towards a wall, at a hundred miles an hour"
-By Fall Out Boy- Saturday

"The person that you'd take a bullet for is behind the trigger“
-By Fall Out Boy- Miss Missing You

"Nothing kills a man faster than his own head"
-By Twenty One Pilots- Trapdoor

"Rise up and celebrate your life“
-By Black Veil Brides- Ritual

Jayla Mallard

“To stop imagining is to stop dreaming.To stop dreaming, is to stop reaching for the stars. For
without imagination, we do not exist. For imagination is the creativity inside of us; pushing us
to reach higher, propelling us to do the impossible and to never stop to reach our goals.Yes,
imagination is the work of creativity in the minds of humans; more beautiful than the Mona

Lisa or the work of Picasso. For without it, we begin to slowly waste away...”
-By Jayla Mallard

“Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.”
-By John Wooden

“The greatest teacher, failure is.”
-By Yoda

“Do. Or do not. There is no try.”
-By Yoda

“I’ll show you the dark side.”
-Kylo Ren

Kelsea Cruickshank

Kelsey Edwards

"Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere“
-By Erma Bombeck

"If you keep looking back at the things you regret doing, you lose sight of the things you
should be doing now.“
-By Unknown

"Even if you are on the right path, you will still get run over if you just sit there“
-By Will Rogers

Kelsey Wenzel

Levi Rash

“Stay alive friend.”
-By Twenty One Pilots

Marcos Alvarez

"Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers“
-By Pierre Marc Gaston

"I can think, I can wait, I can Fast“
-By Siddhartha

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be“
-By Lao Tzu

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society”
-By J. Krishnamurti

"I'm not the strongest. I'm not the fastest. But I'm really good at suffering“
-Amelia Boone

"No one owes you anything“
-Amelia Boone

"If you want to be a stud later you have to be a pud now"
-By Christophe R Sommer

Marcos Alvarez

"It could always be worse"
-By Joe De Sena

"The Quality of your questions determines the quality of your life“
-By Tony Robbins

"A lonely place is an unmotivated place“
-Laird Hamilton

"If you get the answer, you should hang up the phone“
-By Unknown

Miranda Ellis

Sadiqah Al-Masyabi

“You may not always have a comfortable life. And you will not always be able to solve
all the world’s problems all at once. But don’t ever underestimate the impact you can have,
because history has shown us that courage can be contagious, and hope can take on a life of

its own.”
-By Michelle Obama

"A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.“
-By Gina Carey

"It's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.“
-By Marilyn Monroe

"She was unstoppable, not because she did not have failures or doubts, but because she
continued on despite them.“
-Unknown

"Stars can't shine without darkness.“
-Unknown



24% Either / Or 33%
VANILLA
CATS!!

DOGS!! CHOCOLATE
76% 67%

45% TEA

55%
COFFEE

One Thing
Students Would

Bring to a
Deserted Island

Classic Country BSO’s
Rap 5% 31% Favorite
5% Music Genres
Hip Hop
7%

Pop
14%

Other Rock
14% 24%

BSO’s
Favorite
Pastimes

Wonder Woman

Black Bat BSO’s
Superman Favorite DC
Green Arrow Superheroes

Flash
Catwoman

Beastboy
Batman

Catwoman

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BSO’s Favorite Books

The Book Thief Animal Farm
Spindle's End Crimson Peak
War Storm
The Lunar Chronicles: Winter
To Kill a Mockingbird The Cold Dish
The Fault in our Stars The 4-Hour Work Week
Clive Cussler Books Needful Things
Where the Red Fern Grows Harry Potter
Into the woods Trumps America
Red Queen
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Bones Divergent
Schooled The Last Star
The Glass Sentence Life of Pi
Jurassic Park Five Feet Apart
Sherlock Holmes Vampire Plagues
Hank the Cow Dog
Beyond the Goal Post
Me Before You Pax
Playing for Pizza Allegiant
Ship of Fools
The Young Elites Series

Drama Fantasy BSO’s
Thriller 5% 21% Favorite Book

5% Genres

Science
Fiction

10%

Mystery Humor Other
14% 9% 12%

Nonfiction Dystopian
5% 7%

Historical Romance
Fiction 5%
5% Horror
2%

BSO’s Favorite Movies

A Star Is Born

A Wrinkle In Time The Hitman’s Bodyguard
A Dog’s Purpose The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
A Dogs Way Home Bohemian Rhapsody
Ant Man and The Wasp The Greatest Showman
Black Panther
Captain Marvel Walk Ride Rodeo

Fantastic Beasts

Green Book

How To Train Your Dragon 3

Infinity War

Jumanji

The Meg

Moto 10

Peter Rabbit

Spiderman: Into the Spider-Verse

Spiderman: Homecoming

The Last Jedi

Talladega Nights

The Girl With All The Gifts

BSO’s Thor
Favorite Blue Marvel
Marvel
Superheroes Starlord
Squirrel Girl

Antman
Spiderman

Loki
Iron Man

Hulk
Doctor Strange

Doctor Doom
Daredevil
Cyclops

Captain America
Black Widow
Black Panther

0 0.5 1 1.5 2 2.5 3 3.5 4 4.5 5

BSO Students
Want an
Unlimited
Supply of:

Romance Other BSO’s
5% 19% Favorite
Horror Movie Genres
7%

Humor Fantasy
22% 12%

Mystery Science Drama
2% Fiction 7%

19% Thriller Dystopian
5% 2%

Superpowers BSO
Students Want:

Technological Advantages 2018-2019

3D Metal Printing Babel Fish Ear Buds Zero-Carbon Gas

Recent advances in technology A pair of ear buds that can aid New engineering methods are
are bringing people closer to instant online translation tech in introducing the possibility of a
making a 3D metal printer. This real-time conversations are in new way of processing natural
opens up many possibilities for the early stages of development. gasses that avoids releasing
greenhouse gasses into the air.
the future.

Tracking Cell-by-Cell The Birth of a Planet Understanding
Development Alzheimer Disease
About 370 light years away
Scientific methods have from Earth, a planet called 2018-2019 has seen many
advanced and are now PDS 70b was born. Scientists breakthroughs in

allowing scientists to took a picture (the very understanding Alzheimer
track the development of a first) of this forming planet, disease and its cause.

cell into an organism. aided by new technology.

Cloning Monkeys Parker Solar Probe is
Launched
Chinese scientists cloned
monkeys using somatic cell The Parker Solar Probe launched
in August of 2018. The probe
nuclear transfer for the
first time. The result was was sent to study the sun at a
safe distance and send
two adorable female
macaques. information back to Earth.

AI Art is Auctioned Oldest Known Animal Oldest Known Human
Identified Drawing Found
Art created by an AI was
sold at a historic auction Uncovered in Russia nearly In September of 2018,
house. Called “Portrait of 71 years ago, a fossil was researches found the earliest
Edmond de Belamy,” it was revealed in 2018 to be the
oldest known animal, about known drawing created by
bought for $432,000. people, estimated to be about
558 million years old.
73,000 years old.
26,000 Pound Dinosaur
Discovered

Based on its fossil, the
“Ledumahadi mafube” was one

of the largest animals on
Earth, according to
scientists.





Malala Yousafzai Caitlin Prater-Haacke Mikaila Ulmer

Malala Yousafzai was born in Turned a bullying incident into Mikaila developed a fascination
Pakistan and she is the youngest- something positive and with honey bee’s. Later she learned
ever recipient of the Nobel Peace uplifting. Someone used her about the sad reality that honey
Prize. She was shot in 2012 by iPad leaving a note on her bees are very important to the
Taliban gunmen, she survived! Facebook status telling her to ecosystem but are sadly going
Now she has an organization kill herself. In response, the extinct. So she came up with the
called The Malala Fund,it was next day she posted sticky idea to make lemonade with honey,
founded to promote education for notes on every single locker in donating 10% to help honeybee
girls and helps Syrian refugee her school with positive notes advocate groups. Since then she
children. Through her fund, girls on all of them. was a whole business, selling her
also share their stories of their lemonade in whole foods and other
struggles and successes. grocery stores in the U.S!

Alissa Chavez Allyson Ahlstrom Trisha Prabhu

This young girl had campaign Allyson Ahlstrom wanted to After a past of being bullied and
called The Hot Seat: one child too make a difference in her life so witnessing bullying, she wanted
many raised $20,000, exceeding she created Threads For to make a difference. After
her $5,000 target. “The Hot Seat is Teens. Allyson’s goals included researching for months, she
a monitor that can be used on any to give 10 deserving girls from finally created a new product
infant, toddler or booster seat. If extreme poverty or foster care called Rethink, it gives
the product detects a problem (too in two store bought outfits. teenagers who are about to post
much heat or if the caregiver is too Threads for Teens has grown something hurtful on social
far away), it sets off an alarm. With so much since then, now it has media a chance to change there
a patent in hand, Alissa is on the given outfits to more than 1,600 mind before they post it.
way to saving lives.” from The Hot girls!
Seat website

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