Polyphasic sleep

Many of us have wonderful memories from growing up that include being out in the great outdoors. There’s something magical about hiking a mountain on a beautiful day, roasting marshmallows by the fire with your friends, or descending deep into a cool and dark cave. These are the experiences that State High’s Outing Club gives to its members. The club plans several trips a year for members to go backpacking, day-hiking, orienteering, rock-climbing, camping, caving, and more. Along the way,…

This summer I went to Big Moose Lake in upstate New York. I go every year with all of my cousins and we all hang out with each other for a week. It is our kind of family reunion because I have 20 cousins on my dad’s side and 12 aunt’s and uncle’s and we never get to see each other. Most of them live in New York, so does my grandma, some live in Pennsylvania, and my two cousins and I live in California. At Big Moose Lake we all stay at a place on the lake with a bunch of cabins that we rent out.…

Getting ready for school makes me cantankerous because it means my summer is over. To get ready for school, I need to get into a routine,shop and go to Open House. First, getting into a routine is one of the hardest things to do while getting ready for school. It is important to start taking showers at night instead of in the mornings. Also, I need to start going to bed earlier so I can wake up on time for school. I need to start eating a healthy breakfast like eggs and milk, not that I did…

The Night Reagan lived in New York City. She came home from school like any other day but didn’t realize what was going to happen in the next ten hours. While she was at her apartment building she ate, took a shower and went to bed. She always went to bed fairly late, that night she went to bed at 11:57. She turned on her TV and started to hear a strange noise from the apartment a floor down from her. Not thinking she got out of bed, put on her slippers. Walking ever so gently she walked out the…

bed?” she thought. Jared saw her confusion and grew confused. “Do you not know what a bed is? It is where you sleep.” Bummeo smiled and began to feel dumb. Jared got a little closer and apologized. He was not trying to make her feel that way. Bummeo yawned and began to lay on the couch. “Okay, I guess we will talk tomorrow. Get some sleep.” Bummeo closed her eyes and feel into a deep sleep, listening to the door close behind Jared. Bummeo shapeshifted back into her green skin and pointy chin.…

My report is about brown bats. There are two types of brown bats. They are called Big and Little Brown Bats. I learned that they are nocturnal animals. That means they are active at night and sleep during the day. Brown bats sleep up to 20 hours per day. The life span of the Big Brown Bat is 18-20 years while the Little Brown Bat lives 6-7 years. If you go looking for brown bats you will find them in big colonies. Big Brown Bats and Little Brown Bats are similar because they are both…

The time when I was the happiest was when I became a Bronze medalist at the 2016 Cheerleading Worlds. All season we worked non-stop making things perfect and just putting the final touches on our routine. But it was also one of the saddest moments because I spent 10 years of my life into this sport and it all comes to an end in two weeks. Me and my team Super Seniors would practice every single day for 3-4 hours at a time till we left for Disney. Every time at practice our coach told us “Stop…

Imagine being taken from a luxurious home where you are treated like royalty into the middle of the wilderness, where you are forced to work long, hard hours, with no reward but surviving until the next day, where you will only do more of the same. The idea of living like this seems almost impossible. To survive, you would have to fundamentally change who you are. Yet this is the exact scenario that Buck, the main character, is placed into. In Jack London’s novel The Call of the Wild, Buck…

What kind of stories do you like to read? What kind of stories do you think kids should read in school? I think that kids should read scary stories. Why would I think this? I would have asked you the same thing had you asked me a week ago. I’ve always enjoyed scary stories. For this reason, my cousin Tayler and I scared ourselves half to death reading a particularly scary story in the late hours of the night at one of our sleepovers. Yet I’d never thought of reading them during class. In…

Giving Out One horrible day, about 3 or 4 years ago. I woke up and all of the feeling in my legs were gone. I tried to get out of bed, but my bed is a top bunk with a desk underneath it so It was hard to get out of bed. I tried to use my legs, but they were lifeless. They wouldn't move so it was all upper body strength getting down from my bed. Finally, I got down from my bed tried to walk but I couldn’t. So all I could do is yell, so I started screaming “Dad! Dad!” Then I blacked out. I…