CAPE Charter School

CAPE is a charter school located in Camarillo, California. We focus on an open philosophy that helps foster global, independent, creative thinkers who feel confident in themselves, are willing to take risks, and work cooperatively. We do this by focusing on hands-on education; enabling pupils to become self-motivated, competent, and life-long learners, equipped for the challenges of the 21st Century. We teach Kindergarten through Eighth grade and our Archive-It group is made up of a few dedicated Eighth grade students.

We started this process with most of the class listening in on our first teleconference. The students that were interested talked with our teacher, Mrs. Kavon, and joined the group. We met once a week and decided on what topics we wanted to focus on. Our class is very interested on learning what is going on in our world, so we finally agreed on having a collection for Current Events, Books, and A day in the life of a Camarillo Teenager. We have all enjoyed this opportunity to archive our current lives for future generations of teenagers like us.

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A Day in the Life of a Camarillo Teenager

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Camarillo Cougars
http://www.camarillocougars.com/

Visit the official website of the Camarillo Cougars football team where most of our classmates visit on a daily- weekly basis.

Take a look at the websites that Camarillo tennagers visit on a regular basis.

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  • http://coffeebean.com/
    Coffee. Yum. I like to sit with my friends and enjoy a latte. We see a lot of interesting people at the coffee shop.
  • http://cracked.com/
    Cracked is an American comedy website, and was originally a humor magazine. Founded in 1958, Cracked proved to be the most durable imitator of the popular Mad.
  • http://minecraft.net
    A EXTREMELY popular video game! Made from notch himself!
  • http://pvefcinemagic.blogspot.com/
    Cinemagic is place for kids from 3rd grade all the way up to 8th to express their theatric abilitties.
  • http://www.baskin-robbins.com/
    Baskin-Robbins ice cream is one of the most popular ice cream establishements in Camarillo, which is immensley popular with us teens.
  • http://www.camarillocharter.org/
    Welcome to our supercool K-8 school (internet version).
  • http://www.camarillocougars.com/
    Visit the official website of the Camarillo Cougars football team where most of our classmates visit on a daily- weekly basis.
  • http://www.camarillohigh.us/
    Scorpy the scorpion! Go scorpions! Camarillo High School official website!
  • http://www.camarilloroadrunners.com/
    Visit the website of the Roadrunners football team. This site is visited by the teens on the team on a regular basis.
  • http://www.channelislandsice.com/
    What can I say? Ice Skating is my life. I spend a lot of time at this ice rink.
  • http://www.clubpenguin.com/
    Clubpenguin is a popular game site and is visited by some of the students in our school on a regular basis.
  • http://www.dbi.org
    Having any trouble with your dog/puppy? then take a look at dbi, from chihuaua to dobermann, you name it, they have your solutions!
  • http://www.deviantart.com/
    Deviant Art is a website where young artists can submit fan art of thier favorite TV shows, movies, bands and more. It can then be viewed by everyone on the website.
  • http://www.drinkblenders.com/index.html
    Blenders In The Grass is a great smoothie place and is very popular in camarillo!
  • http://www.fox.com/glee/
    Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States. It focuses on a high school glee club called "New Directions", at the fictional William McKinley High School in Lima, Ohio.
  • http://www.getty.edu/museum/
    The J. Paul Getty Museum, a program of the J. Paul Getty Trust, is an art museum.It has two locations, one at the Getty Center in Los Angeles, California, and one at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, California.The museum at the Getty Center contains "Western art from the Middle Ages to the present;" its estimated 1.3 million visitors annually makes it one of the most visited museums in the United States. The museum at the Getty Villa contains art from "ancient Greece, Rome, and Etruria".
  • http://www.hensonsmusic.com/pages/locations.html
    Camarillo's music shop.
  • http://www.horseboardingcamarillo.com/
    A place to keep your horse if you cannot keep it at home. Like a stable.
  • http://www.kgslf.org/
    This is a website dedicated to our friend Kayla Gucciardo, an amazing artist, friend and person in general.
  • http://www.northamericancinemas.com/roxy11.asp
    Another very popular Camarillo theater
  • http://www.nphs.org/
    Goooooo Panthers! Visit the website of the Newberrypark Panthers to find out what's going on at NPHS.
  • http://www.premiumoutlets.com/
    Our etiquette outlets in Camarillo, immensely popular and visited by most, if not all students in our school.
  • http://www.pvef.org/
    The Pleasant Valley Education Foundation
  • http://www.PVRPD.org/
    Baskin- Robbins ice cream is one of the most delicious and popular ice cream establishments in Camarillo, and is immensely popular with us teens!
  • http://www.pvrpd.org/aquatics
    Pleasant Valley Aquatic Center is a multi-use facility which caters to the entire community. Everyone from infants and parents in need of swim lessons, to competitive, recreational and therapeutic swimmers have the opportunity to benefit from the water
  • http://www.rancholindamio.net/
    Rancho Linda Mio is located in Moorpark, a town not too far from Camarillo. Here, you can board your horse or just take lessons in either English or Western riding styles.
  • http://www.regmovies.com/
    The Edwards Theater, right next to the Camarillo Outlets! It even has a IMAX!
  • http://www.riomesahigh.us/
    Visit the school website of the Rio Mesa Spartans,the highschool where some of the eigth graders from CAPE will be going.
  • http://www.rockcitystudios.org/
    Rock City is a small studio that offers singing, music and instrument lessons as well as recording opportunities. You can also see a concert, participate in an open-mic night or enter a concert.
  • http://www.rocketfizz.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59&Itemid=58
    Rocket Fizz, located in Old Town Camarillo, is a old-timey soda shop with many candies and sodas your parents may have drunk as a kid!
  • http://www.runescape.com/
    RuneScape is a fantasy massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) released in 2001 by Jagex Ltd. It is a graphical browser game implemented on the client-side in Java, and incorporates 3D rendering.
  • http://www.skatingplus.com/
    Skating Plus is a skating rink in Oxnard, a town right next to Camarillo. Our school has held Socials at Skating plus and it's a popular hangout spot.
  • http://www.souplantation.com/
    Can't decide between soup, salad, and a fresh bakery? Souplantation offers all of that, plus more! A local favorite for sure.
  • http://www.steampowered.com/
    Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute a large number of games and related media entirely over the internet, from small independent efforts to larger, more popular games.
  • http://www.stumbleupon.com/
    StumbleUpon is an Internet community that allows its users to discover and rate Web pages, photos, and videos. It is a personalized recommendation engine which uses peer and social-networking principles.
  • http://www.subway.com
    View the webpage of one of Camarillo's favorite fast food stops- Subway!
  • http://www.teacherweb.com/ca/CAPE/Kavon
    Ever wonder what the students in Mrs Kavon's 8th grade class get for homework?
  • http://www.teamunify.com/Home.jsp?team=scspvst
    Do you swim? A lot of my classmates swim on a daily basis. Pleasant Valley Swim Team is my team.
  • http://www.thecoastercritic.com/
    One of my favorites blogs about reading Roller Coasters, Reviews, and news about Theme Parks. (Super Man at our six flags is the first coaster to go 101 MPH backwards!)
  • http://www.vencolibrary.org/
    The Ventura County library is our community library. With many genres and types of books, readers are left with many choices!
  • http://www.venturajuniorlifeguards.org/
    I spend every summer working on my Junior Lifeguard technique. Hard work, but fun! We swim in the ocean every day and learn about becoming a lifeguard.
  • http://www.weather.com/
    Visit weather.com to get the update on weather in Camarillo, CA.
  • http://www.wordle.net/
    Words. Words. Words. I love creating wordles about my favorites. Try making a word cloud and you will understand!
  • http://www.zynga.com/
    Zynga is a casual game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace.
  • http://abc.go.com/shows/modern-family
    A satirical look at three different families and the trials they face in each of their own uniquely comedic ways.
  • http://abc.go.com/shows/v
    V is an American science fiction television series first broadcast on ABC on November 3, 2009.A re-imagining of the 1983 miniseries created by Kenneth Johnson, the new series chronicles the arrival on Earth of a technologically advanced alien species which ostensibly comes in peace, but actually has sinister motives.V stars Morena Baccarin, Lourdes Benedicto, Morris Chestnut, Joel Gretsch, Logan Huffman, Charles Mesure, Elizabeth Mitchell, Laura Vandervoort and Scott Wolf
  • http://www.bathandbodyworks.com
    If you enjoy looking through bath and body products, this is the site for you. Browse through favorite perfumes, brands, plus more.

A New Generation of Books

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Calvin and Hobbes
http://www.calvinandhobbes.co.uk/

The comic strips, first featured in newspapers, about the six year old Calvin and his best friend, the stuffed tiger Hobbes, from 1985 are still immensley popular with our crowd.

Take a look at the popular books for teens.

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  • http://authors.simonandschuster.com/suzanne-weyn/1883905/
    Suzanne Weyn has written more than 100 novels for children and young adults and has had her work featured on the New York Times bestseller list. Her books in the Once upon a Time series include The Crimson Thread and The Night Dance among others.
  • http://max-dan-wiz.com/
    Maximum Ride is a series of young adult science fiction and fantasy novels by American author James Patterson. The series chronicles the lives of six fugitive kids – Max, Fang, Iggy, Gasman, Nudge, and Angel – known collectively as the Flock. Bred in a laboratory called the School, they endured scientific experiments that rendered them 98% human and 2% avian.
  • http://members.authorsguild.net/carldeuker/bio.htm
    Carl Deuker (born August 26, 1950) is an award-winning author of young adult novels. His first novel, On the Devil's Court, was published in 1989. Born in San Francisco to Jack Deuker and Marie Milligan Deuker, Carl now lives in Seattle which serves as the setting for most of his work.
  • http://scottwesterfeld.com/blog/
    Scott Westerfeld (born May 5, 1963) is an American-born author of science fiction. He was born in the U.S. state of Texas and now divides his time between Sydney, Australia and New York City, USA.
  • http://themichaelgrant.com/gone/
    Gone is the first of a series of books. Its about a city in California that is suddenly surrounded by a huge dome like a barrior. Even worse, all the people over age 14 are gone.This leaves the kids in charge. This is a very intersting book, well liked by the students of CAPE.
  • http://www.alisongoodman.com.au/
    Allison Goodman is the author of Eon: The Dragoneye Reborn, and The Last Dragoneye. The action and suspense makes readers hang on edge to see what happens next. An ideal book for fantasy lovers.
  • http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/Enter-the-3D-house/#/house/24/hotspot/3354/shortbio/
    The well known story about the young Jewish girl Anne Frank who kept a diary during World War II, is now a that a lot the students in our class have read and enjoyed.
  • http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/Enter-the-3D-house/#/house/24/hotspot/4187/shortbio/
    Many of the students in our class have read, learned from and enjoyed this book. The Diary of Anne Frank describes the life of an ordinary Jewish girl during the Holocaust.
  • http://www.annefrank.org/en/Subsites/Home/Enter-the-3D-house/#/house/24/hotspot/4878/video/
    We all enjoyed the Anne Frank book at CAPE. The story of the young girl Anne Frank is very inspiring and is a very moving novel for young adults. You can explore the Secret Annexe where Anne and her family lived during the Holocaust in this interactive website.
  • http://www.barclayagency.com/spiegelman.html
    Art Spiegelman is an award winning artist/illustrator. He is the author of MAUS,In the Shadows
  • http://www.barnesandnoble.com/u/harry-potter-books-harry-potter/
    Barnes and Nobles is a book store where most of the students at CAPE get their books from. This is a link to find the Harry Potter book for you.
  • http://www.bartimaeusbooks.com/
    The witty and humorous Bartimaeus trilogy is about the djinni Bartimaeus and his adventures. Written by Jonathan Stroud, which takes place in modern day London, its a popular series for teenagers in Camarillo.
  • http://www.calvinandhobbes.co.uk/
    The comic strips, first featured in newspapers, about the six year old Calvin and his best friend, the stuffed tiger Hobbes, from 1985 are still immensley popular with our crowd.
  • http://www.charlesdickenspage.com/carol.html
    This is the site for the Charles Dickens books. The eighth grade read A Christmas Carol and really liked it.
  • http://www.folger.edu/
    English poet and dramatist considered one of the greatest English writers (1564-1616)
  • http://www.haddixbooks.com/
    Margaret Peterson Haddix (born April 9, 1964) is an American author of many books, her most known series being the Missing series and the Shadow Children sequence. She is set to write the tenth and final book in Scholastic's 39 Clues series. Her book will come out September 1, 2010.
  • http://www.harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/books/harrypotter/
    This is the standard Harry Potter book website for CAPE middle school. Most of us have read the books and love them.
  • http://www.harrypotter.warnerbros.com/harrypotterandthedeathlyhallows/mainsite/index.html
    This is the official website for the Harry Potter movies. Most of us really enjoy the movies. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 2 will be released this summmer, and we eagerly await it!
  • http://www.jamespatterson.com/books_max.php
    James Patterson author of the Maximum Ride series.
  • http://www.mrsfigs.com/
    Our local independent bookstore. The best place ever!
  • http://www.percyjacksonbooks.com/
    Most students in the eighth grade have read the Percy Jackson books, and this is the official site for them. The story is about a demigod (half human, half greek god) Pery the son of the sea god Posiedon and his adventures with his friends Annabeth and Grover as they save the world.
  • http://www.prettylittleliars.com/
    Pretty Little Liars is a series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard. The series follows the lives of four girls -- Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily -- whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their leader, Alison.
  • http://www.rickriordan.com/home
    The amazing author Rick Riordan wrote the very popular Percy Jackson and the Olympians series. The book Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Theif was made into a major motion film in 2010. The books were read by many of the middle school students at CAPE and were really enjoyed.
  • http://www.sharoncreech.com/
    Sharon Creech (born July 29, 1945) is an American novelist of children's fiction. Her novel Walk Two Moons received the 1995 Newbery Medal; The Wanderer was a 2001 Newbery Honor book and Ruby Holler received the 2002 Carnegie Medal.
  • http://www.storyman.com/books/
    Neal Shusterman (born 1962) is a popular and successful American author of Young Adult literature.
  • http://www.suzannecollinsbooks.com/
    Suzanne Collins is the author of the Hunger Games series. We all love the books and are very interested to see who is in the movie. It is about a sixteen year old girl named Katniss and how she is forced to participate in the gruelling trial of the Hunger Games.

This is Our World

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Ventura County Fair
http://www.venturacountyfair.org/

Visit the Ventura County fair website to discover new attractions, and summer fun!

View the heritage of our archive- it team through world newspapers. Take a look at our city, Camarillo and the surrounding area... the heritage for future generations.

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  • http://listverse.com/
    Find out the top ten lists for the week on listverse!Catagories ranging from art & literature to science & nature, and even bizzzare facts that you wouldn't have thought of!
  • http://teenink.com/
    Teen Ink is a monthly tabloid-format magazine which is marketed to, and written by, teenagers. It is based in Newton, Massachusetts, and published by the Young Authors Foundation, a non-profit organization. The magazine's name was originally The 21st Century. Many students from our class submitted their work to teenink and have been featured in their website.
  • http://www.ci.camarillo.ca.us/
    City of Camarillo - everything you want to know about our city - where we live!
  • http://www.csuci.edu/
    California State University Channel Islands - A new university right in our backyard. CAPE's eigth grade classes took a trip to CSUCI, and it was a lot of fun!
  • http://www.indianexpress.com/
    Browse through the Indian Express newspaper to get informed about what's going on in India. This is a website based on the heritage of our colleague who lived in and loves India.
  • http://www.iran-daily.com/
    This is a newspaper from Iran, you can learn what has and will be happening in Iran by loolking through our archived data. Also like the other newspapers in this collection, Iran is part of the heritage of our archive-it colleague.
  • http://www.irishtimes.com/
    Ireland, the magical land of many things including leperchauns. Well, the newspaper isn't really about them, but who knows what could happen, so keep yourself updated with what's going on in Ireland through the Irish Times newspaper.
  • http://www.jpost.com/
    This is the official website for a Newspaper from Jerusalem. It is one of the members of the CAPE Archive-it team's special family heritage.
  • http://www.latimes.com/
    The Los Angeles Times. We read this newspaper online and in our classroom. We live less than an hour away from Los Angeles.
  • http://www.nieonline.com/nieonline/cftc.cfm
    We learn a lot from political cartoons. Our teacher uses this website to find cartoons that feature references to current events. This is definitely our world and an interesting way to try and understand it...
  • http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=23759
    National Parks in California. Important to our world. The weather allows us to spend a lot of time outdoors and one of our favorite things to do is spend time at the beaches. Because of that - we have an interest in being Junior Lifeguards and spend every summer training for the duty.
  • http://www.prescottdailycourier.com/
    Prescott Daily, Arizona's favorite newspaper! Keep informed about the news in one of our team mate's home state updates.
  • http://www.reaganlibrary.com/
    Former President Ronald Reagan left a wonderful library and museum as part of his legacy. The Discovery Center offers a great simulation field trip that allows us to see inside the Oval Office, the press room, and the military command center during his time on office. The place is a lot of fun!
  • http://www.toaks.org/cap/
    The City of Thousand Oaks, located in beautiful Ventura County, 12 miles inland from the Pacific Ocean, is nestled against the Santa Monica Mountains and surrounded by more than 14,800 acres of natural publicly owned open space. This open space contains 75 miles of trails for hiking, biking, or just leisurely walking. While this natural acreage gives our community the best of nature, another source of pride in our community is the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. Opened in 1994, this jewel of cultural arts has become a beacon for our region featuring world-class entertainment, musicals, concerts, children’s shows, ballets, and much more. Thousand Oaks, a family-oriented community of 128,000, is home to excellent schools, outstanding parks, and myriad shopping opportunities, including the largest auto mall in the nation, according to J.D. Powers and Associates.
  • http://www.vcstar.com/
    This is our county's #1 news paper! The one and only Ventura County Star!
  • http://www.venturacountyfair.org/
    Visit the Ventura County fair website to discover new attractions, and summer fun!