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Hey Ms. Pennington’s class. It’s been a long time since we have been in contact. Our English class has been very busy these past few weeks. Ms. Baggett and Mr. Travlos, the high school photography teacher, have decided to collaborate between classes about the violence accruing within our community. Since they are a photography class, the objective is to portray different types of violence that we see in our own community. With these pictures will be specific descriptions about the photo background. The different types of violence we have chosen to demonstrate are: Bullying, Domestic Violence, Child Abuse, LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender), Racism, and Violence within video games and how they provoke violence. When the individual groups have all finished the series of photographs, they will be put into an exhibit to be auctioned and half the money will go to a community organization. This will help raise awareness to the community members so they can really understand what is happening in the community. These are pictures of the class discussion we were having. Hope to here from you soon! Your friends, Beronica, Lizbeth, and Galvir **Hello Ms. Pennington's Class! This is Lizbeth and Claribel! We heard your class is called SYRACUSE. We were excited when we found out because we did an overnight trip to visit colleges including Syracuse University in New York. These are three of many pictures that we took throughout the trip! The first picture you see is us eating at one of the dining halls at Syracuse. Dining halls are very different from a normal cafeteria at school. There are many choices that are offered to us just like a buffett! We ate so much! The next picture shows how we went outside of the campus and visited Marshall Street. Marshall Street is a local street that has many places to shop and eat. Students from Syracuse would always go to Marshall Street and shop, eat and hangout due to the convience of it being a walking distance from campus. We took a picture outside of one of the many restaurants. The last picture is our FAVORITE! It shows all of us girls that went on the trip but only four of us are in Ms. Baggetts' class. This picture also shows the beautiful architecture of the main building of Liberal arts behind us. Our experience in this trip is unforgettable! We now see the way college life is and what we should do to prepare ourselves for college. Some of us also experienced the feeling of leaving our state to a whole different enviornment. We are use to seeing the city but our way to Syracuse was all rural and that was the reason why we saw many farms and animals. That is something we do not see everyday! :D Hope you guys enjoyed it!****LOVE, LIZBETH AND CLARIBEL**  **Hey, Ms. Baggett's Class!** **This is Ms. Pennington. I am writing to let you know that my students have looked through and chosen the person they want to be pen pals with! We really apologize for this taking longer than expected. Things have been a bit crazy here - we are testing for the end of the quarter so doing anything "fun" isn't really allowed. Shhhhhhhh, don't tell on us :)** **Anyway, I took the liberty of renaming the pages with my student's names. At the beginning of next week I'm going to invite them to the wiki and then they will write you back. They are so, so excited to get started.** **Thank you for your patience with us! We look forward to being in touch next week.** **Talk soon,** **Ms. Pennington and her scholars** **Dear Ms. Baggett's Class,** **We are excited to start our pen pal system with all of you! Thank you for your invitation and for sending us pictures of your school. It looks like the high school in "High School Musical" and Target, lol. :) We have looked at some of your profiles and really like what we have read so far.** **We are in middle school at Friendship Public Charter School's Chamberlain campus in Washington, D.C. Our school is right down the street from the U.S. Capitol! We work very hard and enjoy school. We love to read and it is one of the many pleasures we have in Ms. Pennington's class. We would love to hear about what you are reading and what colleges you would like to go to! We have heard about your trip to Syracuse and can't wait to hear how you like it! We have also thought about different colleges we want to go to.** **We can't wait to share about our experiences this year. We are going to New York at the end of the school year and will definitely plan to take pictures and share it with you!** **We are planning to write back to you when we pick our pen pals in the next few days.** **Thanks again!** **Talk to you soon,** **Ms. Pennington's Class** Dear Ms. Pennington’s Class, Thank you for accepting our invitation to The Student Exchange! As a class, we are very excited to become pen pals and blog buddies with all of you guys. The area where we live in is a mix of different cultures, but the majority of us are Hispanic. We have many ideas and topics to base our activities on. We will keep the entire wiki updated and running with things that relate to all of us, in the hopes that you also do the same. Our class will keep an open mind with topics to talk about. The new Student Exchange wiki that we’ve created will include personal pen pal pages which will be paired off with a student of each class. Hope that you are all doing well and we will keep in touch.

Hablamos Pronto! (talk to you soon!),

Ms. Baggett’s English Class



These pictures are of our school. Its all composed of six buildings and connected by one hallway which is what you see in the first image, it says Performing Arts because that means that this section belongs to our individual building out of the six others. The outdoors photo is a picture of a part of PFA from the outside, which also goes into our building directly.e