The Amaryllis Who Took Over The World: Classified (Issue 1: The Numbers)

By Max Gast and Felix Gregory
By Max Gast and Felix Gregory
By Max Gast and Felix Gregory
By Henry DiZefalo
As most of you know, my mom, Mrs. DiZefalo, is the art teacher at BBES.
Since we’ve been home doing virtual learning, she started making YouTube videos for her classes. Even though we are not at school, Mrs. DiZefalo is still coming up with art lessons and kids are turning them in.
by Claire Cooperman
(photo by Numan Afzal)
I sit here
Head out the window
Watching the trees
Sprint along the endless road behind us.
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Sunset Over Mountain Pond By Brenda Herrera Montoya, eighth grade. (Acrylic on canvas.)
Apple By Haylin Pena Martinez, eighth grade. (Pencil, colored pencil, watercolor, and acrylic on watercolor paper. )
Winter Silhouette by Aubrey Maher, Fourth Grade
By Claire Cooperman
Scene 1- The New Kid
Some people may think that writing an essay about what you could do to change the world can change the way a person looks at the world. It just wasn’t that way for me, until Lily helped me see myself and my surroundings in a way I never thought was possible.
“Write an essay about what you could do to make the world a better place. It has to be at least one page and done by…”
Right now I would love to fly away to a far away land through giant white clouds in the big blue sky, or swim in the cool blue ocean with the turtles and fish as my friends, but I’m stuck in the classroom not thinking a girl like me could ever change the world. I am not an amazingly intelligent witch like Hermione Granger, or a young heroine with a dazzling imagination like Anne of Green Gables. I’m just a quiet girl, looking for her place in the world, yet having no luck.