By Addison Wallace

We followed eighth grader Alyssa Lamphere  around for part of the day to see what happens in the day of a life of an average eighth grader.

Alyssa listens to her substitute in social studies, who was cracking jokes in the middle of a lesson.

Lamphere trying to get through the traffic jam in the hallway.

Taking notes and discussing the structure of an atom with “Charles the Shark” and Mari Wood (8).