Jacobs, her theater arts teacher. She would notmind sharing her personalvalues with her or a men-tor in general if they are supportive. She admits that her rela-tionship with her mentor is straight up professional, not private. The age gap or lack there of does notbother her. Julissa is 14-years-old and has a first year teacher who is very young, but extremely passionate about her job. It shows in Julissa. She loves to act. Julissa spends all her spare time after school and acting practice dedicating it to her education. Though she wishes to spend more time with friends, she still gives theater arts class and teacher four out of fivestars. Dont miss next weeks issue with a special inter-view with the male lead, Fabian by Ahtziri Hernan-dez. We will also give you a 411 on the French play, Tartuffe about an inter-loper and the trouble he caused. Check out some pictures of their dress re-hearsal bellow!

By Rolando Alvarez

The DTMS Act Pack,

theater arts group, is prac-

ticing their play Tartuffe

the imposter for their one

act UIL competition. I had

a chance to speak to the

lead actress Julissa Vela.

She enjoys acting like

someone else and would

someday like to be a pro-

fessional actress. Keeping

her personal life private,

she does very well in

school. The closest person

in her life is Jenette Meli-

no, a cousin. If you would

ask her what Julissas per-

sonality was like she would

say trustable.

My friends are the

ones that motivate me and

are always there when I

need them, she says.

When asked to think

about the word mentor

she immediately said Mrs. Photos by Neftali Ortega & Jovanna Pacheco

This was the scene at the DTMS library during the Valentines Day dance this past Friday, February 15th. If you are not inter-ested in spending two hours in a noisy maybe smelly gym with super loud music and about a few 100 of your fellow classmates crammingand singing along badly to Gangman Style, the library is where it is at. I did not want to go to the dance, so I decid-ed to go hang out with some of my friends at the library. Everyone was reading a book. Not fake

Reading either. They were actually reading. When we asked around in other grade levels we found that the library was full of stu-dents catching up on

up on their reading. What was everyone reading, I wonder? Donot be surprised if wesend another crew around lunch to ask you what you are reading.

Links to other videos, pictures & web-pages all over issue. Scroll over to see them highlighted in blue.

NAME OF THE BOOK:

Forged By Fire

AUTHOR: Sharon M.

Draper

Setting: New York

NUMBER OF PAGE:

157

Audience: Young Adult

TESTABLE?: YES

REVIEWER: Victoria Alvarez

When Gerald was

a child he was

fascinated by fire. But

fire is dan-gerous and

powerful, so tragedystrikes. His substance-

addicted mother is taken from him. Then he

loses the lovinggenerosity of a favorite aunt. A brutal stepfatherwith a flam-ing temper and an evil secret

miserable. The one

bright light in

Gerald's life is his

little half-sister, Angel, whom he struggles to

protect from her father.

Millionaire Fieldtrip By Green with Envy

AR Millionaire's, students that have read 1,000,000 words, are being treated to another one of the AR fieldtrips to Barnes&Noble in Mcallen, Tx next week. Inhindsight, I should have read those million words and tested more instead of complaining.

Have a safe and fun fieldtrip to one of the best and most well known bookstore chains, my fellow students. I will be here reading, pra- ctice for next year. Bring Me back something? Not a book, but a coffee? Just kidding.

STRESSED

distorted.

OUTRAGE!

By Gladys &

Cecilia Correa

I think it is discussing

because the walls have

germs. ~ 6th grader

That is so dumb.

Thats nasty. There

are many germs on the

wall.

Yes ladies, accord-ing to the sixth graders we interviewed what you are doing is nasty

Business. The only buisness you should be doing in the re-stroom is counting up number two. If you

think we are being gross talking about doing dodo in the toi-let imagine what you are doing. Do you know on average only 20% of kids wash their hands after going to the restroom? Think about that next time you kiss the mirror or walls.

I LOVE my ID. Article coming soon next issue.

New Guy By Las Nenas

Wow! There is a new guy on campus. Have you seen the new seventh grad-er? He is so cute. He just transferred from Ann Rich-ards. Not that we are stalk-ing him or anything, but we heard. Maybe we can inter-view him about what it is like to change schools in the middle of the year. We will keep you posted. There is no doubt that he will not have trouble mak-ing friends here at DTMS because it is full of friendlyawesome students, like us.

Community Service Library Aide Punishment?

Jose Mora, 6th grade, lent a book he checked out at the DTMS library to a friend and it was returned full of graffiti. He was sentenced to community service, helping out at the library right after finishing his lunch.

Sometimes he eats and others he does not. Still we have to wonder what kind of punishment is it if he would rather be at the library anyway? It is a great idea

to have students pay for their mismanagement of school property with community ser-vice, but sometimes it backfires when they end up loving their job like Jose does. Let this be a lesson to all of you. Do not lend out your book or write on school property.

Sweet Hearts! By Sweet Tart Thursday, February 14, 2013 was full of love, candy, teddy bears, flowers and heart shaped balloons. The day of love and friendship, Valentines Day, was spent with students of all grades here at DTMS ex-changing love tokens. Didnt have time to go out and by your sweet heart a gift? Well, the DTMS Student Council remedied that for us. They sold button roses made of chocolate kisses for a$1 and the money raised goes toward the 8th grade prom. The Valentines Dance on Friday, February 15th was also sponsored by the DTMS Student Council. The price to get in was $3. Think that is a little much for a dance? Well, you not only gained en-trance to the dance, but you got to wear whatever you wanted, within the dress code, if you purchased it with a blue bracelet. Ac-cording to Student Council Officials 1/3 of the dance profits will be donated to the Pennies for Patients fundraiser which raises money for cancer research at St. Judes Childrens Hospital.

A special shout out to Mrs. Perez, spon-sor, who is doing a great job providing many fundraising opportunities for the DTMS Student Council. Good job, ladies and gentlemen.

The Ugly Truth By Ms. Swag

Red, black, and gray are the ugli-

est colors there can be. Why not

Pink? Blue? Bright Colors, pretty

colors, that is what we need here at

DTMS., a little bit of swag.

Teachers get to pay ten dollars to

wear jeans for fundraisers and why

not us? We want to look unique.

We want to show off our shirts. Not

everyone likes black, red, or gray.

We have the right, amendment

number on the right to free speech or

expression! Consistently treated un-

justly, we should be able to decide

whether or not to wear uniforms.

Dance!! Dance!! By Neyda Villarreal

It's free dress everyone come

however you like!!

Do we actually take some time to

choose what to wear or do we just

get whatever comes out first of the

closet. To be honest some of us just

get whatever comes out first because

we have some fashion problems.

Just because it's a school dance it

doesnt mean you cant come with

the best looks.

Our past Valentines dance was a

blast! Many of us had tons of fun. Like always, there were some party poppers in the bleachers, but without them our dance would not have been as fun, our audiance. Based on our appearance we looked pretty good.

Many of the girls did their hair, put

on makeup, and dressed nicely.

When during the week they did not look that well. Even the quiet girls, wow, they looked good. Now to start with the guys, they

actually look nice. The matching up

as a group all wearing pink. Awe-

some idea! Who would of known

that group matching looked good.

Not to forget about the student coun-

cil kids, they looked amazing too.

They also did a pretty good job with

the crowning the Special Ed kids.

Nice ending. Lets see who falls in

the good list and the not so good list

at our next dance.

We are having a

great time dancing!

Click here to see them.

Taken by Mrs. Trevino.

Teachers that do not release us on time and then shout. Wait! There is still 20 seconds left of class!

According to an article published on the Reality Nation web page by Branden Barker in October of 2012, Honey Boo Boo is so popular she is even on South Park. For those of you living under a rock for the past year and do not know who Honey Boo Boo is I will tell you. She is a crazy eight-year-old self-admitted redneck pageant queen with a sassy attitude and family to match. Alana, her real name, first appeared on Toddlers & Tiaras on TLC as one of many toddler pageant queens run a muck addicted to Coca-Cola and pixy sticks. Her inaudible redneck language, heavy southern accent, and wise cracks were such a big hit that they gave her and her like minded/mannered family their own show on TLC. It is very

funny. Check out some of

her clips on YouTube.com and on TLC. You will

not regret it.

Photo by V. Pena

Rated: R (Bring a Parent!!!) Directed by: Ruben Fleischer Starring: Josh Brolin, Ryan

Gosling, Sean Penn, Nick Nolte, Emma Stone, Anthony Mackie, Giovanni Ribisi, Mi-

start with Jerry. Even though their relationship will make it harder for the Gangster Squad to take down Mickey Cohen, OMara approves of the relation-ship. They proceed with the take down by destroying Mickey Co-

hens most popular clubs and

ruining his future plans of ex-

panding his power.

This film is filled with tons of

action and thrilling suspense.

Although this film could have

used a little less violence and

guns, I would still love to see this

movie again and again. Its ac-

tion, a romance, and courageous

heroes will leave you inspired. I

would recommend this movie to

people who love action, explo-

sions, fighting, and an evil ruth-

less man with no mercy. I give

this movie 4 out of 5 stars.

By Daniel Mendoza

Hes so fluffy! I am sure you have all seen the animated film Despicable Me staring Steve Corell as the hei-nous lovable villain Gru, but see it again! Theres a part TWO com-ing out soon were the minions get abducted and youll want a re-fresher on part one. So, here it is. Despicable Me directed by Chris Renaud is rated PG and fun for all ages.Gru is an evil villain that wants to steal valuable things of the world and to be the #1 bad guy. He has a nemesis named Vec-tor and he is a Nerd 100% who wants to do the same things, steal. The only way to get Grus plan going is to adopt three girls, Mar-go, Edith, and Agnes who sellGirl Scout Cookies door to door. Even though the movie is PG, I think teens and children should see this movie.

I am out ofspace, so this is the end. Until next time.

Set in Los Angles, 1949, gangster king, Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) is the man who runs the city and always gets what he wants, never loses. Until a LAPD ser-geant, John OMara (Josh Brolin) decides that he has had enough. Deciding to take matters into his own hands, he forms a group of vigilantes called the Gang-ster Squad to take on Mick-ey Cohen and his gang. With the help of his well-minded and pregnant wife, Connie (Mireille Enos), O'Mara selects fellow officers for his squad. OMara is later joined by hard-headed detective Coleman Harris (Anthony Mackie), wire-tapper and sneaky, Conway Keeler (Giovanni Ribisi), and legendary gangster-killer Max Kennard (Robert Patrick). Kennard's partner, Navidad Ramirez (Michael Pea), ends up stalking the squad and they unwill-ingly permit him to join. Sgt. Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling), O'Mara's close friend on the force turns down the offer, as he is not looking for any troubleyet. When a close friend of Jerry Wooters ends up killed by one of Mickey Cohens followers, he de-cides to quit the force and tag along with OMara, becoming a member of the Gangster Squad. Wooters then begins having a secret romantic relationship with Mickey Cohens gorgeous and innocent girlfriend, Grace Faraday (Emma Stone), who just wants a normal life again and a new Moveis to watch!

Goodbye Basketball!Written in part by Xiclali Cordova

Girls basketball is at its end. In a recent game with Ann Richards Middle School Dalila #12 made the first shot of the game with 1:56 left in the first period tying the game two to two.

Go to the DTMS webpage to see the

schedule for the next exciting sport, track.

After my first day of track practice my

back hurts. We practice almost everyday at

the high school because they have all the

equipment. We will keep you posted on all

the latest. See you from the high jump!

Photos by Xiclali CordovaLayout by Jesus Chico

Coach Ybarra is

always standing by

to lend a helping

hand or a push in

the right direction

to the excellent

young females of

our athletic depart-

ment at DTMS.

We love you Coach!

~ B team DTMS Lady Husky's

A special thanks to all the DTMS coaches for supporting our student's freedom of speech and expression! If you would like to share your take on DTMS or professional sports email us at DTMSPress@gmail.com or Like us on facebook.com/TalkToMeDTMS. You can also come by room A126 in the 8th grade hallway across from the nurse's office and art room.

Photos by Xiclali CordovaLayout by Jesus Chico

EsmeraldaTypewritten Text

the struggles of former years.

Puzzle by Alicia Gauna

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