Tuesday, September 11, 2007

September 11 Journals

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  1. Imagine that you have been selected to choose your new school mascot. What would you choose? Explain why this is a good choice for your school.

  2. In honor of September 11th we had a "Moment of Silence" at 8:47 am. Tell me why you think it is important that we remember this day.

  3. Did you watch the MTV Awards on Sunday? If so, who's performance did you like best and why?

60 comments:

Anonymous said...

it is improtant that we remember this day becasue so many people died that day and it shows what terrorism did to us. Also, it shows what our country has been through.

Anonymous said...

The reason why we had a moment was because we had to think about what happened to the hundreds of pepole who died. And to respect the people who died too.

Anonymous said...

If i had to choose my school I had to pick my school mascot, I would pick a giant Bumble Bee becuase thats what our school colors are

Anonymous said...

If I could choose a new school mascott it would but a chief. I would choose the chief because they took it away from Illinois last earlier this year and it made me very angry. I would like to have it because I like seeing the chief do his dance its cool. He was always a good mascott so I don't understand why they couldent have just kept it. So I really think that Chief Illiniwek should be our school mascott.

Anonymous said...

I think that it important to remember this day of 9/11 becuase it scared all of america world wide. Many people died that day and many lives were ruined because of it. It is important to remember that we are fighting becuase of the terrorists that hurt our country in so many ways, killing lots of lives that aren't needed to be killed. So in the moment of scilence we can remember everyone that diedd that day and everyone else that died fighting in the past, even though these were just innocent lives. That i why I think tghat the moment of scilence is important to do.

Anonymous said...

I think it is important to remember September 11 because alot of people died that day for us. Not everyone remember that so we have to take a little bit of time to remeber those people.

Anonymous said...

On September the 11th, I think we should remeber this day because a lot of family and friends died in buildings and on the plane. The reason why I think we had a moment of silence is to everyone know that we care about those people.

Anonymous said...

are ne w mascot would be a lion because i like lions

Anonymous said...

If i been selected to choose a school mascot i would choose a black and gold peacock bird.i would pick a black and gold peacock bird because are colors is black and gold and a bird because at all the games when every one score they could make the bird noise and then it would get annoying so the teachers would run away

Anonymous said...

Its is important because we have to remember the ones who have lost their lives over something that happened that was unexplainable and shocking to many people around america. I also think it is important beacause they had lives. they had family members who care about them. They probably had plans for the future. So we need to respect these people who once lived.

Anonymous said...

Everyoine wants to be an hero but the ture heros are the people who died for us on this day and they are the ones who should be horned and in my eyes they desrvse so much more then they got

Anonymous said...

I think its important to have the moment of silence at 8:47 in honor to remeber the people who died at 9 11. I also think its important because that day alot of people died beacuse of the twin towers.

Anonymous said...

i think that we should rememmber nine eleven because thousands of innocent people died on september 11 th at the time of 8:47

Anonymous said...

because someone might have had family or friends in the bulding at the time of the attacks of september 11th and that is why we have a moment of silence

Anonymous said...

i think we should remember this day because i was a meger thing in american and history

Anonymous said...

I think it is importent to remember this day because lots of people died

Anonymous said...

If i get to pick a mascot it will be a tiger. I pick this because i like tigers. It match the school color kind of. The colors of the tiger is orange with black stripes. They are the fast like we are to win each sport and try our best.

Anonymous said...

Is think it is important to remember this day, because it is a day where more than 3,000 people lost there lives. And it is the time when the terrorists attacked. And along with killing more than 3,000 people, they also took our wonderful twin towers with them. So we remember this day, beacause it is a day of remembering tons of lives that were lost.

I remember this day greatly, because today is my dad's birthday. And that was a horrible birthday for him six years ago today.

Anonymous said...

I watched the MTV MUSIC AWARDS and the best preformer was CHRIS BROWN.Really though who doesn't like him except for the haters.

Anonymous said...

the mascot i woulde chose would be a wolf becouse a wolf is a mean creter and i like wolves.

Anonymous said...

I would choose it to be a senator.

Anonymous said...

If I could choose a new school mascot it would probaly be a bear.Just for no reason really just becase.They are also strong and firce.So they would be a good mascot since it shows power.

Anonymous said...

For the new school mascot I would choose the hawks. They are so fast and attack everyone in sight.

Anonymous said...

becauuse are some of are solider died in the war

Anonymous said...

I would be a a dog for a mascot

Anonymous said...

I think that was pretty important because a lot of people died on that day and it shows that we honor that firefighters, police officers, and people that were in the twin towers.

Anonymous said...

If I had to pick what to be for are school mascot it would be a cheetah . I would pick a cheetah beacsue it is the fastest animal in the jungle and itr chactes it's pray slowly but then it gets it fast .

Anonymous said...

i would choose the dog because avdog is nobel and freindly

Anonymous said...

We need to remember today because many people died in a bad way and it is that reason we should always remember September 11.

Anonymous said...

I wouid cosch the eagles for the mascot.

Anonymous said...

I love tuedays to

Anonymous said...

If I was selected to pick a schol mascoy I would probably pick an owl. I would pick an owl because it symbalizes wisdom. It is a good school choice because there a lot of smart kids in the school of Dirksen.

Anonymous said...

it is important to remember 9 11 because a lot of people died cause of the terrorist that went and crached into the twin towers and the people that were in the 2 planes died

Anonymous said...

The reason that this day is so important is because 6 years ago about 3,000 americans lost there life in a terrist attack. So we now took time to think about it.

Anonymous said...

we had a moment of silent to think
of all the peopel how died on 911

Anonymous said...

I think it is importnat to remember today because several of people died because a airplane and most and/or all had their own families that lost them September 11, 2001. All of this happened because of IRAQ.

Anonymous said...

IF I COULD CHOOSE A SCHOOL MASCOT I WOULD CHOOSE A CHEETAH BECAUS3 I LIKE CHEEATHS BECAUSE THEY HAVED ATTITUDES AND SO DO I N THEY ARE VERY AGRESSIVE AND LIKE AGRESSIVNESS............THAT IS Y I WOULD CHOOSE A CHEETAH AS THE SCHOOL MASCOT!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous said...

We should remember this day because a lot of americans died.That was a really sad day that happened.

Anonymous said...

I will change it to a bird because we fly to sucess. It is improtant that we remeber this day because of all people who lost their lives.I liked Chris Brown performance because he is one of my favorite singers.

Anonymous said...

The school maskot would be a white house.It is a good idea because Dirksen is the home of the senaters and it shows that we are patreatic.It shows that we are the bestand we work hard.

Anonymous said...

I did watch the mtv awards sunday and the only good performans was Chris Brown. Chris Brown beacuse his dance was the best. Him and Rihana. They both can sing and dance so it was good.

Anonymous said...

Yes I watched the MTV Awards.I liked how Fall Out Boy and Gym Class heroes rocked it.And I also liked Kanye West with T-pain.I really enjoyed Chris Brown Dancin.It was awesome.

Anonymous said...

If I had to chose a mascot it would be a crown because i just think crowns are go good with our school colors.

Anonymous said...

Its improtant to rember september,11 because of all the people who gave up there lives for us. Thats why we should remder this day for all the people who gave up there lives for us.

Anonymous said...

The mascot would be a bull because bulls are cool and they are red and black sometimes and red is my favorite color and black yeh.

Anonymous said...

Since today is September 11th today we remeber all the people that had past away six years ago because of ''9/11'', the very horrible tragityin New York with the Twin Towers. So that's why we had a silent moment

Anonymous said...

I think it is impotant because this was the day the us was breached, threaatened, and had their world trade center, and the pentagon was destroyed. Thousands died and were injured. We should respect our loss and their deaths as if it was ours.

Anonymous said...

I think it's important to remember that day because people tryed to attack our Country and about 3,000 or more people died. Everybody should remember that day, they are hero's to our Country. That's why we should honor them!

Anonymous said...

If I had to choose a school mascott I would choose a puppy dog because, they are cute and I think it would look good! The breed would be golden retrever.

Anonymous said...

The reason why I had a moment of silence was because we had to remember how many people lost their lives 6 years ago in 911.
My neice was sopposed to be (born today!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

Anonymous said...

In honor of September 11th we had a "Moment of Silence" at 8:47 am. Tell me why you think it is important that we remember this day.


i think it is important to remeber this day because the world trait center got hit with two planes and the petagon got hit with a plane and these both killed thousands of people

Anonymous said...

I think it was it important to have a moment of silense to remember those who's lives were lost in that tragic event.

Anonymous said...

Yes it is important that we had the moment of silence because we should be very proud of the people who did that for us.

Anonymous said...

I would chouse jamer because he is funny.

Anonymous said...

yes i did watch the mtv movie awards my favriote performence was sojia boy

Anonymous said...

If I got to choose our masckot it would be who ever the school is named it would be them . But if our swchool was not named after anybody the maskot would be a cool famise person who is cool . But alot of people has to like the famise person if they don't then that will not be our school masckot.

Anonymous said...

It is important to reamember 9/11 because lots of innicent peaple died.It was a sad day for U.S.

Anonymous said...

the school mascot is going to be a dog mascot or lion

Anonymous said...

In honor of September 11th we had a "Moment of Silence" at 8:47 am. Tell me why you think it is important that we remember this day.



becuase a lot of innocent ppl dead that shouldn't of died and i think having the silence across the whole world was a good thing to do

Anonymous said...

I would choose amaddog and it would be yellow and black.

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