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BENJY, SPANT, AND JOHNLY in...

TIME TRAVEL FRENZY

          “Hurry up already Johnly,” screamed Benjy, covering his ears. Benjy is a very aggressive 12^2/19th year old. Any single thing annoys him, from buzzing bees to the sound of an excavator. He once got so annoyed by Spant blowing his nose.

         “He has a point,” replied Spant. “HURRY UP!” Spant is a very...let’s say “particular” person. Spant is the biggest fan of dragon fruit. Once he traded $50 dollars for a slice of dragon fruit. Johnly and Benjy’s mouths dropped to the ground, literally, when Spant told them about the trading.

         “I am going as fast as I can. SHEESH!” said Johnly. Johnly is the 12-year-old-genius in his age group. He is currently working on a time machine, just because Spant bothered him for the last MONTH because he wanted to go to the past.

         “DONE!” yelled Johnly. “Okay Spant, slowly type in the year you want to go-“

         “HOOB LA DO GABLE TYPEE TYPEE!” said Spant, typing the keypad rapidly.

         Johnly noted: in the future, never let Spant type in the year we want to go to. Only let Benjy or me, or else, there will be “unintended consequences.”

         Soon, Johnly’s United Nations blue time machine (which he calls the Purple Potty ^CO.) that has turquoise polka-dots blasted into vast the space time continuum...

~A FEW MINUTES LATER~

Johnly’s time machine blasted out of the space-time continuum and onto...the White House lawn. 1861.

~IN THE WHITE HOUSE~

         Who should I appoint as the Commanding Officer of the Army of the Potomac? Abe thought that General Joseph Hooker is very confident, General Burnside is very unusual, but, how about General George B. McClellan? Maybe McClellan is the right guy.

~BACK OUTSIDE OF THE WHITE HOUSE~

         “According to the time machine, we are at the White House and President Lincoln is debating in his mind who he will appoint as Commander of the Army of the Potomac. He is thinking he will appoint Major General George B. McClellan,” said Johnly.

         “I will tell Abe to appoint Major General George Mede to the position,” declared Spant.

         “NO NO NO NO NO!!!” exclaimed Benjy and Johnly.

         “Oh brother,” grumbled Johnly.

         “Okay, I have told Abe what he should do,” said Spant. ”Let’s go somewhere else.”

         “To Vicksburg!”

~ANOTHER FEW MINUTES LATER~

         “I don’t feel so well BARF!” barfed Benjy.

         “AHHH!” yelled Spant.

         “OHHH!” screamed Johnly.

         “Okay, I am- BLARF!”

         “UHHHHIAA!”

         “DISGUSTING!”

         “Okay, now I am fine.”

         *Brunisburg was pretty much just a flat plain with a few houses here and there. Grant’s army was just coming out of the river and onto dry land. Impressed with how history looked in real life. Spant’s hands smashed his cheeks, while his eyes puffed so big that they reached up to Pluto.

“Okay, according to the time machine, we are at Bruinsburg, Mississippi. Union Major General Hiram Ulysses Grant,” explained Johnly,  “His first name is not Ulysses, it is Hiram, and it “became” Ulysses when he was at West Point. Some guy wrote his name as Ulysses S. Gra-“

         “Hurry up already!” yelled Benjy.

         “Sheesh! Basically, Grant is deciding whether he should go east or north from Bruinsburg.”

“I will tell Grant to go east,” said Spant. Benjy and Johnly sighed.

~AT JOHNLY”S TREE HOUSE~

“Let’s see that old social studies book you have about the civil war Johnly,” said Spant. “Let’s see if we changed history even though we OBVIOUSLY did not change anything.”

“It says,” said Benjy. “Antietam, the Battle of Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), 2^nd Battle of Bull Run, and Chickamauga were Union victories. These battles all lead by General Mede were all successful, giving him a rank of a four star general.”

 “General Mede was the Commander of The Army of The Potomac and the war ended at Chattanooga. *Abe was good friends with Mede; *Mede also came to Abe’s funeral.”

“Hey, why is my picture of McClellen now Mede?” asked Johnly. “Uh oh.”

Before you know it, the three boys got into the time machine, Johnly typed in the year they wanted to go to, the U.S Capitol, 1861. Johnly pushed the away we go button and off they went...

THE END!!!

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A GAMING CURRICULUM By Branden Wang

GOOD morning Mrs. McCat. Mrs. McCat, I recall that we were permitted to choose what we wanted to learn for a few weeks, and I think game designing would be a good skill to learn. Why not teach it to us in two periods a day?

Khan Academy, Learn Zillion, ABC Mouse, Teacher Tube, and many more...they were all created by a brilliant someone. If we are trained to create games, we may be able to create games for learning websites like special Brainpop. JFK once said, “We must do all we can, to give our children the best in social education and social upbringing - for while they are the youth of today, they shall be the leaders of tomorrow.” We will be doing everything in the future, and we will be the ones making the world better. Hence, I translate JFK’s famous quote to be: we should be educated in the ways of design games because we are the game creators of tomorrow.

Game creating equals...kaching! Jens Bergensten and Markus Persson known as Jeb and Notch to over 100,000,000 Minecrafters make over 300,000 mullahs a day, but Notch and Jeb did not just learn how to design game, their unique game, in three seconds: they had to go to school to learn how to design games, and starting young is a virtuous beginning! Think about Atari, the programmers made millions and millions because of their basic, yet exciting, games. They must have started learning how to design games at a young age. Therefore, they made their millions in their 20s to 30s.  According to Wikia, the video game industry made 76 billion dollars in 2013. Game creating brings students to an awesome dough-making neighborhood, so they can buy food, houses, and air...in the future obviously!

Game creating is just a cool thing to acquire. If someone produces a game, that someone can do whatever he/she wants to do with it. One can put “cary-cary” things in it like potato people, wear hand pants (pants for your hands), or travel to a frozen Alaskan-Yukon-River-blue Pluto to take out the trash. Perhaps, you can put boring things in the game like black and white cows, “dirty” dirt, or pale cheese. An adult, my dad, says, “Game creating is definitely exciting and fun to do.” I agree - game creating is awesome.

Mrs. McCat ALWAYS lectures, “…Watching a dull computer screen is bad for our eyes. When our eyes are worse, it makes it harder to see what we are learning. Blah…blah…blah…” There is no need to have the two periods of game programing time together; it’s possible to have the time apart. It’s possible to have the programing time in two different periods like 2^nd period and 5^th period and we can do math in 3^rd and 4^th period. Or perhaps we can have the designing time in 7^th period and 8^th period, which is a short pack-up period. It is good to break up the time because it helps our eyes.

Many MANY years later after you taught us how to design video games, we are making our own video game for the world. Soon, not many months later, our neat invention goes onto market. It becomes famous. Your students get interviewed: Who inspired you to design video games? One of us says, “Well Chuck (the interviewer), it was my teacher Mrs. McCat that started me off.” Mrs. McCat, you will be known as the great motivational teacher.

Sources:

http://vgsales.wikia.com/wiki/Video_game_industry