Shepherd Shout Out

Its kind of hard not to be a college football fan, it’s too good!! The following teams are actually playing in a bowl game.

Non-BCS Bowl Games….

Playing in the..

New Mexico Bowl-Wyoming & Fresno St.

St. Petersburg Bowl-Rutgers & Central Florida

R+L Carriers New Orleans Bowl-Southern Miss & Middle Tenn St.

MACCO Bowl in Las Vegas- BYU & Oregon St.

San Diego Poinsettia Bowl- Utah & Cal

Sheraton Hawaii Bowl-SMU & Nevada

Meineke Car Care Bowl- North Carolina & Pitt

Little Cesaers Pizza Bowl- Ohio U. & Marshall

Emerald Bowl- Boston College & USC

Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl- Clemson & Kentucky

Advocare V100 Independence Bowl- Texas A&M & Georgia

EagleBank Bowl- Temple & UCLA

Champs Sports Bowl- Miami & Wisconsin

Roady’s Humanitarian Bowl-Bowling Green & Idaho

Texas Bowl-Missouri & Navy

Pacific Life Holiday Bowl-Nebraska & Arizona

Bell Helicopter Holiday Bowl-Air Force & Houston

Brut Sun Bowl-Stanford & Oklahoma

Insight Bowl-Minnesota & Iowa St.

Chick-fil-A Bowl-Virginia Tech & Tennessee

Outback Bowl-Auburn & Northwestern

Konica Minolta Gator Bowl-FSU & West Virginia

Capital One Bowl-Penn St. & LSU

International Bowl-South Florida & Northern Illinois

Papajohns.com Bowl-Connecticut & South Carolina

AT&T Cotton Bowl Classic-Oklahoma State & Ole Miss

AutoZone Liberty Bowl-East Carolina & Arkansas

Valero Alamo Bowl- Michigan St. & Texas Tech

GMAC Bowl-Troy vs. Central Michigan

BCS Games:

BCS National Championship Game- Texas & Alabama

FedEx Orange Bowl-Georgia Tech & Iowa

Tostitos Fiesta Bowl-TCU & Boise St.

Allstate Sugar Bowl-Florida & Cincinnati

Rose Bowl-Ohio St. & Oregon

Goff’s hamburgers is one of the oldest and yet most elite of all the hamburger “joints” in the Dallas area. It is so deluxe; I wouldn’t be able to find a better restaurant anywhere else. Although it is quite expensive, you still get every penny out of the amount you pay because of how it is made by hand all the way down to the grated cheese. It also has great business because it is on a college campus. Therefore, if you are ever hungry after class, you can just go to Goff’s hamburgers.

What do the children of Good Shepherd want from Saint Nicholas? (Santa Clause) I interviewed 12 kids from the age of 10 to 13(5th grade through 7th), and I have assembled into a poll the wishes and wants for Old Saint Nick from the 6 boys and 6 girls. Although I will not say who I interviewed (no one will let me), I will make a list of what they want. I hope you haven’t sent your Christmas list yet, because you may even see something you want for Christmas on this list! You might even find some of these presents under your tree on Christmas Day!
Boys Girls
Power tools Laptop Computer
Mac Book Starbucks Gift Card
New Bike Nintendo DS Games
Drum Set Popcorn Popper
Video Camera Samsung TV
I-Phone LG xenon TV
Money Dog
Running and Golf Clothes Blackberry Storm Phone
Motor Scooter Nintendo DSI
Modern Warfare 2 Mac Book
New Drum Sticks I-Touch
Video Glasses DVD
Longhorn Sweatshirt & Hat Juicy Sweatpants/Clothes
Halo 3 ODST Necklace

The GSES book fair is an opportunity to buy gifts for loved ones on Christmas, buy books for yourself, browse, and at the same time help fund our great school, Good Shepherd Episcopal School. The Book Fair is located in the CCL library near the lobby. Some of the top sellers are located at Table 14, the Star Wars table. There are a lot of books based on movies, videogames, even things such as TV shows and toys. Last year, the GSES book fair raised about 5,000 dollars, with 25% of the profit going to the library and the school. This year, we sold about 14,000 dollars and recieved 3,000 dollars for the library.

The following commentary comes from a Wikipedia article at

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_(film)

Compiled and edited by Sam S

 “2012” is an apocalyptic movie starring John Cusack , Amanda Peet and Danny Glover. It is an epic disaster movie about a prophesied Mayan prediction that the world will encounter a horrible natural disaster in the year 2012. Whether you do not believe in the 2012 theory or not, this is a must-see for all moviegoers.

The movie starts in the present, 2009, with American geologist Adrian Helmsley in India to meet a friend, Satnam.  He has discovered that neutrinos from a massive solar flare are acting as microwaves, heating up the earth’s core. The President and the White House Chief of Staff are informed that this will begin a chain of events that will bring about the end of the world.  At the G8 Summit in 2010, other world leaders are made aware of the situation. Collaboration ensues to start a project to assure the continuity of human life by building a series of giant ships in the Himalayas.

In the year 2012, writer Jackson Curtis lives in L.A. and works part-time as a limousine driver for Russian billionaire Yuri Karpov. His ex-wife Kate and their kids Noah and Lily live with her new boyfriend, plastic surgeon and amateur pilot Gordon Silberman.  Jackson takes Noah and Lily on a camping trip to Yellowstone National Park. There they meet conspiracy theorist Charlie Frost, living as a hermit and a host of his own radio show live from Yellowstone. Charlie supports a theory that suggests the ancient civilization, the Mayas, predicted that apocalypse would come in the year 2012, and claims he knows about the secret “space ship” project and has a map of the ship’s location. The family returns home as cracks begin to appear along the San Andreas Fault, and earthquakes occur in the San Francisco bay area. Jackson grows suspicious and rents a small Cessna plane to rescue his family. He collects his family and Gordon just before the crust displacement of the earth begins. Los Angeles collapses and falls into the Pacific Ocean.

 As millions are killed in earthquakes worldwide, the family flies to Yellowstone to retrieve Frost’s map. The group narrowly escapes as the Yellowstone Caldera erupts. Frost, who stayed behind to make a live broadcast of the eruption, is killed by the blast. Realizing the ships are in Tibet, the group lands in Las Vegas, where they meet father Yuri, his twin sons, his girlfriend Tamara, and the pilot Sasha. They join the group and take an Antonov An-225 to head across the Pacific Ocean. Also going to the ships aboard government plane Air Force One are White House Chief of Staff Anheuser, the geologist Adrian, and First Daughter Laura Wilson. President Wilson decided to stay in the national capitol, and is soon killed by a huge tsunami that sends the USS John F. Kennedy slamming into the White House. With the Vice President gone and the Speaker of the House missing, Anheuser appoints himself acting Commander-in-Chief.

       Watch the rest to find out!

The movie, directed by Roland Emmerich, received 37% from critics on Rotten Tomatoes who gave the film a positive review, based on a sample of 194 reviews, with an average score of 5 out of 10.

Due to the addition of an enormous new library and the value of 10 cents per box top, we are collecting box tops a little differently this year. The school’s goal is to collect 50,000 box tops equaling a grand a total of $5,000. We are collecting as a grade instead of advisories or classes so that we can raise this money with everyone getting the prize of the most up to date technology.

I enjoy this much more because I believe it gives us a huge advantage over other classes, but we still have tough competition. In order to be successful, you must strike first, fast, and hard but also keep a steady income of these coveted pieces of cardboard. Along with this you must also keep some in reserves to stay on top. The final asset to a successful victory is at the very end you must shut the opponents out with all you have.

By: Matthew H.

P.E. is one of the school’s favorite classes. P.E. is a great class because it gives the kids some time to have fun and take their minds off school work. I personally like P .E. because we the 6^th graders have it first thing in the morning, and it is a good way to lead off the day. If you play on a sports team in 7^th and 8^th grades, you don’t have P.E. There are three trimesters in one year, so if you play a sport in each trimester you have no P.E. the whole year.

In middle school you have to dress out for a report card grade. In lower school you don’t have to dress out, and P.E. is not for a grade. In middle school P.E. you have projects like health units and tests for unit sports.

By Shannon D.

All flags were raised at half-mast for the weekend of November 6^th – 8^th.  Why? On Thursday morning (November 5^th), a gunman came onto the Fort Hood military base and shot a total of 44 people, some of them being soldiers, and some civilians. The shooting left 13 people dead, while 31 were wounded. The gunman was identified as a U.S. service member. President Barack Obama stated at a press conference that “These are men and women who have made the selfless decision to risk and at times give their lives to the rest of us on a daily basis.” The president continued, “It is hard enough to lose soldiers overseas but it is horrifying that they should come under fire at an Army base on American soil.”

       Before the president made his speech to over 564 respected leaders of American Indian Tribes, Lt. Gen. Bob Cone confirmed to the media in Texas that the shooting was carried out by a military personnel. According to reports the shooter has been confirmed as Major Malik Nadal Hasan, an army psychiatrist who worked at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Apparently he was extremely unhappy with the immediate deployment to Iraq. It was confirmed that there was no other military personnel involved.

      A hospital in Temple, Texas was taking blood donations a few weeks ago. The shooter (Major Malik Nadal Hasan) was reported to have been shot, but it turns out he was in a local hospital, wounded and in custody. He was not in condition of dying though. Two other soldiers were taken into custody, but were released. The cousin of Major Malik Nadal Hasan said that it was the deployment, but also the post- wartime stories from his patients that set him off. The families of the people who died will be in our memories and in our prayers.

By: Jack VS 

At Good Shepherd Episcopal School, we have many unique things that we do.  Some are fun, some are exciting, but the one that we do every year in November or December doesn’t fit into these categories.  It is called Distance Learning Day (or DLD for short). It is when all kids, fourth to eighth grades, get to stay home all day and do class work through the internet. I know what you’re thinking, No School!  But you are wrong, very wrong!

Distance Learning Day is the exact opposite of a day off. What you do is use your computer to do your work. This is important if our school gets closed down by the H1N1 (swine flu) virus or if a tornado hits our school. It is also important if hurricanes and floods hit our school. It is good that we have this DLD so that in the case of an emergency, our school will still be working.

We practice this once a year. This year we did it in November. It is good to have this security, but you can’t always rely on technology. Every year someone has some problem with his/her computer.  All in all, the students experience success with DLD.

By: ches c. and fisk b.

The music classes at Good Shepherd Episcopal School are legendary. We use a variety of instruments such as xylophones, tobanos, congas, djembes, wash boards, crickets, glockenspiels, metallophones, bongo drums, tempo blocks,  guitars, drum sets, recorders, hand drums, bass bars, ocean drums, gongs, triangles, rhythm sticks, boom pipes, Bundt pans, cow bells, chekere, Chiquita, our hands, and our feet, casaba, cymbal trees, finger cymbals, and many other insturments. We play these instruments daily and use them in music sharing’s. In music sharing’s we play, some pieces constructed by our class, and we also use pieces by famous bands. Every class enjoys the few trimesters they spend working and creating beautiful pieces.