It’s the beginning of the year and everyone’s going crazy trying to get back on their schedules. Most Rams are either playing football or volleyball. If not, they’re out supporting our team and cheering us on. The past few weeks we’ve been working on an exciting trip to Williamsburg for our eighth graders. To get to attend this trip you have to follow a list of requirements, like no regular zaps, strikes, tardies, or being unprepared to class. If you make all these requirements, you have to get a paper signed by your parents and on the paper you check yes or no if you’d like to attend the trip. After that process, you have a whole class period to write an essay. If you get 20 pts or higher and you turned in your paper, you get to move on to the final step. Only sixteen students get to move to the final step, an interview, but everyone had to write the essay to begin the process. Finally, after all the essays were written, sixteen students get called into an interview and they ask questions like “Why do you want to attend this trip?” and “How would your teachers explain you?” Nine students get chosen to go on this trip, but if they begin to get zapped a lot or their behavior becomes bad and they get in trouble regularly, then another student will be chosen in their spot.
On the Williamsburg, Virginia trip you will be gone up to two weeks at least. You will ride up on a charter bus and spend the first day in the bus until you arrive at the first site. You will get to see the White House, but ever since 9/11 students don’t get to go in and look around. You get to see the Liberty Bell, Tour of Jamestown Island, and Tour of the Governors Place. Students get to sleep in the hotels, but the catchy part is they will be sharing a room with kids from other schools. This trip is about learning new things and meeting new people and that’s an exciting adventure. This trip could be life changing by going back and seeing first hand our history. You get to see the Memorial for 9/11 and the Pentagon since we just learned about it in school. There’s many expectations for this trip like getting up early and not leaving things behind which is why we go through so much of a process to choose certain kids that meet the expectations, because, they will be representing Riverton Middle School.
On this trip you are required to get up early and be down for breakfast at a certain time. Lights go out between 11:30-12:00 and you get up around six to start your day off. We don’t get a bunch of time to be out on this trip, so the days will be really long. So it’s good for students to get as much sleep as possible. This is a school trip, so students will miss work. All their work will be assigned before they leave, or they will have a week or two to finish their work when they get back to school the following weekend. Students will still get zapped if work is not turned in on time. You do not get to slack off just because you attended this trip. Students will be required to go to the front of the class in their social studies class and speak about their experiences and what they learned on this trip for a grade, since it is about history. In this class we’re learning the same as they will while they’re gone. This trip is a good experience but if you don't get accepted, it doesn't change how smart you are, or how your friends or teachers see you. #Rampride #History #Williamsburg
