East Side StudentsMay 112 minBest Books for 6th Graders!by Daniyal Shigri Spy School by Stuart Gibbs In Stuart Gibbs’ book “Spy School” published on March 6th 2012, he targets middle school...
East Side StudentsApr 274 minA Bat Virus?: The Connection of Bats to Covid-19, and Other Amazing Facts About Them. by Luca Inamoto-Martine Bats. When most people think of them they think of creepy and vicious little creatures that like to come out in...
East Side StudentsDec 15, 20214 minThe Weight On Our Shoulders By Abigail Loor & KarinAlyse Heck Lockers in the 11th Grade History room at East Side Community High School (Photo taken in December...
East Side StudentsDec 5, 20212 minBook Review: “Middle School The Worst Years Of My Life”by Daniyal Shigri The book "Middle School The Worst Years Of My Life" by James Patterson was a book I read over the summer before I...
East Side StudentsDec 4, 20212 minTop Restaurants for 8th graders: how to Save Money and Eat Wellby Axel Kirk The city of New York is one of the most diverse cities on the planet, filled with different languages, beliefs, and, most...
East Side StudentsNov 28, 20212 minOur Orangutan Cousins Need Helpby Luca Inamoto-Martinez https://redapes.org/ We’ve all heard of the Orangutan, the big orange ape that swings through the forests of...
East Side StudentsNov 27, 20213 minWHY OUTDATED AND ACADEMIC LANGUAGE CAN MAKE A POEM INEFFECTIVEby Camil Piperni In 2019 at a school in Brooklyn, a class of 7th grade students were asked to analyze and respond to John Masefield’s Sea...
East Side StudentsNov 24, 20211 minEast Side Word Search!by Mia Casella Athena Axel Ben Erin Jen Joanna Kate KimD KimK Latisha Marc ...
East Side StudentsNov 17, 20213 minAbuse of Haitian Migrants at the Borderby Kimberli Mejia Quito Recently there has been widespread footage of Border Patrol agents riding on horseback, Haitian immigrants...
East Side StudentsJun 23, 20213 minGentrification: In My Neighborhood and Beyondby Laylah Holder Imagine that your childhood home had a big window in the living room and that window can see straight into someone's...
East Side StudentsJun 23, 20213 minOur Restless Climate Change Fight: How are Government Officials Trying to Solve Climate Change?by Carmen Jansons Imagine waking up on a normal day, and the first thing you do is open your blinds. As you open them you see water as...
East Side StudentsJun 21, 20212 minVaccine Incentives in the Cityby Wylie Kalotay-Nemec All over the United States, vaccination rates are slowing down. Because of this problem, many incentives have been...
East Side StudentsApr 21, 20213 minWhat is Ramadan? How Can You Support Your Muslim Friends and Colleagues?by an 11th grade reporter “Wait, so you starve yourselves from sunrise to sunset for a month?” Well, no. Ramadan is a month devoted to...
East Side StudentsApr 5, 20213 minCOVID-19 Reflections: The Pandemic According to Three Seventh GradersBelow are three interviews of and by East Side Community School seventh graders. This month marked the one year anniversary of our lives...
East Side StudentsApr 5, 20216 minOngoing Fear and Concern: The Rise of Anti-Asian Hate Crimesby Andy Xie As the cold air started to fade away into the spring breeze, I walked with my family to an anti-Asian hate rally near the...
East Side StudentsFeb 11, 20213 minThe COVID Column: What Should We Know About the COVID-19 Variants?by Finley Keene Question: Can you explain the new British variant of COVID-19 that is being reported in the news? Is it more deadly? Will...
East Side StudentsJan 15, 20213 minJapan’s Suicide Rate Takes More Lives Than COVID-19by Andy Xie “Can you untie the rope around his neck? Is it really fine for us to stay like this?” This is one of the song lyrics that was...
East Side StudentsJan 13, 20213 minThe COVID Column: How Do the COVID-19 Vaccines Work?by Finley Keene Question: How do the COVID-19 vaccines work? Answer: That’s a great question, let’s get right into it. There are four...
East Side StudentsDec 18, 20202 minThe COVID Column: Will Kids Get the COVID-19 Vaccine?by Finley Keene Question: "Are kids going to have to get a COVID-19 vaccine, even though they are not affected that much by the virus?"...
East Side StudentsNov 28, 20202 minLGBTQ Resistance to New Texas Rule by Kimberli Mejia Quito In the month of October, it was uncovered that Texas had newly established a rule letting social workers openly...