The Road Not Taken response

I think "The Road Not Taken" gives great advice for life. It shows that people can take different routs in life, and either way you take you will end up fine. Also, it says that you should be your own person and don't do what people want you to do. If you want to do something and someone else wants to do another, then go down the other road.

Artie the Aligator

Artie the Alligator had a boring life. Every day he drove to work, drove home, and slept. Simple as that. But one day, his boring day turned into an extra-ordinary day. While he was on his drive to work at the office, he was rolling down the road, not caring whats happening. But the worst thing of all......HE FORGOT TO PUT ON HIS SEAT BELT! :O He didn't care, though. Never has he once put on a seat belt. And before he knew it, BOOM! The mail truck hit him. Artie's car flew all the way across to the other side of the road, hitting everything in his path. That day, Artie died. Because he wasn't wearing a seatbelt, he flew through the windshield and glass went right through him. this is a lesson to all you boys and girls to always wear your seat belt.

The Lottery

In the short story, "The Lottery",  there are many themes. I think the most important one is desperation. All of the women are desperate for power, or being able to be equal to men. In the story, women complain that they don't really belong with their other family anymore. It's mostly them, their husband, their kids, and their husbands family. When their husbands pick the slips, they should have a chance, too. There's no reason they should be treated worse then men. One person was late for the Lottery because  she was washing dishes. Her husband should've been the one doing that, not her. And, of course, she was the one that ended up.

Devin the Lost Child

September, 2001 was the worst experience I’ve ever had. There I was, eating my peanut butter and jelly sandwich, when I look out the window and everyone’s running. I didn’t know what to do, what to say. But my first reaction was to call my mom; she would know what’s going on. I dialed her number, waited for her to answer, but she never did. I was scared, real scared. “She’s okay, Devin.” I told myself. “She’s all right. She’ll be home in a little bit; she’s just in a meeting. That’s all.” Next I tried my dad. He answered all right, but not on purpose. I heard people screaming in the background. I heard all the cries coming from the people next to him. I heard him moaning. I could tell it was him, because he has such a deep voice. Then I heard the old lady that might have been helping him. “No, Johnny, no!” Johnny was my father’s name. 

The first thing that popped into my mind was to sprint. Sprint as fast as I can to my mother’s work building; the one right next to my dad’s. I wanted to tell her my father is probably dead, and I wanted to make sure she was okay. By the time I got to the building, it was gone, and so was my mom. I sank my knees to the ground, and sat there, crying for hours. I just lost the two most important people in my life, and no one will ever replace them.

Delicious, But Not Nutritious!

Many kids spend their nights sitting on the couch and watching some television. What do they do while they’re doing this? Well, they eat all the food they can until they feel sick. I bet you’re wondering why this happens. Every night these kids get hungry, and why is that? Because of the food commercials! These commercials are making the people in our nation obese. They get no physical activity whatsoever! Unless they lose the remote and they have to get up to change the channel. These food commercials are making us not care about our bodies anymore, and we need to put a stop to it!

 Have you ever wondered how McDonald’s became so popular? Well, they have done this by making ads. Their ads make their burgers, fries, and other foods look delicious, and I’m not saying they aren’t. But even though their delicious, doesn’t mean they’re nutritious! They are very unhealthy and make us gain a few every time you take a bit. McDonald’s is one of the fast food companies that have their commercials play the most. Once a week eighty-four percent of parents take their kids to a fast food restaurant. But sixty-six of that percent of parents take their kids to McDonald's, which is one of the unhealthiest restaurants. Any parent can take their kid out to a fast food place, but once in a while, maybe they could consider a healthy one.

 Next to McDonald’s, Subway looks really bad to kids. It seems as if Subway isn’t as delicious, because it’s not as greasy. Subway is way healthier for you. Usually when you eat there you order a sub, and that’s it. That sub could fill you up as much as a hamburger, large fries, large soda, and two apple pies from McDonald’s all put in one! That’s more than two thousand calories less (depending on which sub you get). Maybe, if food ads are less shown, people will realize Subway is the better deal, and maybe kids will start eating more healthy because of it.

Food commercials are one of the reasons the people in our country aren’t the skinniest. You might be getting a salad or something ready to eat, and then you see an ad, and get a craving. It might be cheap, but that’s not an excuse for all of us to be fat…..get your act together, or you’ll be joining the club. The U.S is described in one word to other countries: obese. We don’t want to keep this name forever! Let’s change this around and be healthier! Or soon we will have to take turns rolling each other around like bowling balls because we can’t keep ourselves up.

Seeing Double!

Pieces of popcorn are like the human race; no two people are exactly alike. Some might have the same laugh, or walk similarly, but no one has the same personality as another person. This is why cloning is pointless. We want our world to be unique, not a bunch of people or animals that all act the same. We have a variety people, and we want to keep it that way. Cloning might help us in some ways, but in others it’s a waste of time, money, and lives. Cloning had so many disadvantages. Including that cloning never works perfectly because there’s always some sort of side effect. For instance, Dolly the sheep was cloned in 1997 (Knight). She was put down six years after, because she got lung disease (Knight). Sheep are usually supposed to live up to age twelve (Basic information about sheep), but Dolly didn’t live up to this expectation. Many other animals have had failed organs because of cloning. If almost all of these animals are dying, why are we still experimenting? A fter you get past all of the bad things about cloning, there are some upsides to it too. Maybe, just to be safe someone cloned some of their organs incase one of them had failed. This would be great if everyone could do this because we would never lose our loved ones unless it’s truly time for them to pass. Another positive thing about cloning would be we could clone a professional athlete, but cloning isn’t what everyone thinks. You don’t just take someone like David Beckham and put him into a giant machine and two of him appear. Cloning is a long process that involves cells. For example; you start by taking many cells from the donor animal, then you take out the nucleus from each and every cell (Cloning: How To Make Identical Genomes ). Next, you take many egg cells from a female and take out the nuclei’s, then replacing those with the nuclei’s from the person or animal you were cloning and place the cell into the female’s womb (WHAT IS CLONING?). Then, after the person or animal gives birth to it, it starts out as a baby, then in many years will grow up looking as if a copy of the donor clone. I personally think cloning is a horrible idea. Sometimes it’s good, but clones usually have very bad side effects. They’ll get horribly sick and get lung disease (Knight), or they might turn out really messed up. Also, many animals die from experiments on cloning, and they don’t deserve that. We don’t need to keep going through with this process, because no one should be tested on, unless of course they want it. Animals have rights too, and they have as much of a right as us to not be tested on. Overall, cloning is a pretty good idea. It might be a very long process, but it might work in the end. Because it takes so long, costs so much, and kills many animals, we shouldn’t be still trying to clone. In the end, like it was for Dolly, it could be a big failure. After everyone realizes how ridicules the idea is, we could actually stop scientists, so they can spend more money on something more important, like finding a cure for cancer. The scientists could be saving lives, but right now they’re doing exactly the opposite.

Best Mall Experience

What a beautiful day! Then sun is shining, the sky is clear, and it’s so warm! What are you supposed to do on a day like this? Go outside? Play video games? Maybe….but no. it’s a great day to go to the mall. My friends and I had a trip to the mall, and it was like one of the best days of my life. It was such a fun-packed day! To start off the day, we decided we should all get a bouncy ball. They were very bouncy. We lost them a couple of times, but eventually we got them back. Then, we headed to the changing rooms and made each other try on the ugliest outfits we could find. The funny part is, Austin was with us……and we were in the women’s dressing rooms. This lady was waiting for him to come out, even though he wouldn’t, so she could prove he was a guy. So I went in there and exclaimed, “Common Lauren! It’s time to go!” and he came out, but she followed and yelled at us. To top the day off, the photo booth took our money. What a miraculous day!

Journal Entry

The songs "Big Yellow Tax" and "Field Below" are very similar. They have the same tone, the same mood, and they both make you think twice about yourself. But, that's only the lyrics. When you add the music to the words, they sound completely different because "Big Yellow Taxi" is so upbeat and happy. "Field Below" is so depressing and makes you want to cry. The only part in "Big Yellow Taxi" that is sad and depressing is the end, the music slows down and so does the voice of the artist. This made that part of the piece actually seem depressing, even though the rest of it is too. In the other song, the whole entire thing is sad, and that gives you the feeling that there is something wrong happening with this person.

Frisbee

I can watch your shimmering gold car drive by everyday
I can listen to you bellowing through the streets with you and your friends every night
I can smell your nauseating armpit stink when you jog past me every morning
I can taste the bittersweet chocolate you just ate as you skip past me every afternoon
I can feel the damp puddle that showed up under me when you tossed a can of soda into the ditch
You left me here, you come looking for me, but I can't say anything.
I'm a miserable, depressed, lonely, troubled Frisbee, that you will never find.

Disgusting Lies

People wonder why kids don’t listen to their parents. But they don’t realize how badly kids are treated. They get lied to every month of every year. We are told Santa brings us presents. We are told there is a bunny that hops around and gives us candy. We are told that there are magical tiny people that come around building rainbows and giving gold to lucky people. It's so tragic that we get into so much trouble for sneaking out, or lying to a teacher. But really, parents should be the one's getting in trouble for lying to us every waking moment of our lives.

Santa is great. Every December he comes around and gives us things we want. Of course no one wants to completely get rid of Christmas, but we should change it up a little. We could actually tell the truth to kids! No way, right? Well, it's the right thing to do. According to Parent Beyond Belief, six percent of kids die each year because they find out the truth about the obese man that celebrates holidays only by giving. We could change this, and give up on Santa. It's fine if your parents give you presents, it'll make a big deference and every year there will be no percentage of kids dying because of Christmas.

Next to Christmas, Easter Is pretty bad, too. Many kids start to believe that a giant bunny passes out candy to every kid in the whole world. This is bad because when they're older they decide that they will catch this bunny. They don't trust rabbits hopping around their house. This is very dangerous considering that children might try to set up traps for these creatures, and then the bunny never comes, well that's what they think. But really, they leave their hiding fort and find baskets in their living room. The Easter bunny is the most unrealistic. At least Santa is human, unlike the symbol for Easter. We need to make this holiday more realistic, this is why kids have wacky imaginations. This is why kids run around the yard naked. This is why we need to change holidays and they way we treat children.

St. Patrick's Day is by far the worst holiday! So many kids are terrified by the fact that there are tiny people roaming around their house anytime in that day. This is unacceptable. That's not even the true meaning of St. Patrick's day! It all started when a very clever man who brought Christianity to Ireland. Everyone respected him so much, they made a holiday that was named after him. This holiday is touching, and should not be treated so dreadfully. St. Patrick deserves some respect, and never was he a leprechaun. Leprechauns have nothing to do with this holiday, and we are treating it the wrong way. That's what people believe in, and we shouldn't make up some dim-witted story, even though adults tend to do it a lot.

As you know, kids love holidays. They have merriment times no matter what day or what time it is. But, we shouldn’t be lying to them. No child deserves these lies given to them by their own parents. When they find out that these things were all lies, they start lying because they think it's okay. They get into so much trouble, not only with their parents, but with kids at school as well. Also, all the three holidays mentioned are not very realistic, and they could start thinking out of the ordinary. This is why people believe in aliens taking over the world. This is why people believe in the world ending on twenty-twelve. This is why kids don’t do well in school. They're scared about what's going to happen next. If we stop telling lies now, imagine how much further in life everyone will get. Parents should stop with the lies, and tell the truth, or sooner or later no body will be telling the truth.

Parody for The Lovely Bones(Death Scene)

I was walking home, when I heard twigs snap behind me. I quickly turn around with my fast reflexes. It was Harvey. Mr. Harvey. He’s the new guy that moved down the street. He’s so nice and funny. But my mom told me to stay away from him, he was too mysterious. Anyway, so Mr. Harvey asked me a very interesting question, “Would you like to visit my fort?” I didn’t know what this meant, but I realized it would all be worth it in the end. So, I followed him into his underground fort. The one next to Dairy Queen. It was humongous! But the only thing in there was a stack of Pokemon cards. “You wanna play some Pokemon?”

“You know me so well!” We both ran to the deck and sat on the floor. We were battling each other. But I usually won. I had better cards. But, right when I threw down my Pikachu, he exploded like a volcano. Not literally, but he got so mad. He stands up, and turns on a switch. I look around, and where am I? In a pot. He pours oil all over my body, and my body bursts into flames. Eventually, once all my body parts were boiling, he stuck them all into a large bowl, and sucked me up through a straw.

When I was watching from heaven, there comes my sister, skipping into this hole. She paid him money. To kill me.

Then they went out for ice cream.
THE END!

By: Austin & Brittany

Mother to Son response

In the short story Mother to Son there is a lot of figurative language throughout the whole thing. Mostly there are metaphors, that all follow the same metaphor is the beginning; life ain't no crystal stair. This means life isn't easy. There are hard parts of life, but later the narrator tells that even though life isn't so easy, she has gotten through it. I think this poem is about how life is difficult, but that doesn't matter. Never give up and try your hardest to get past all the bumps in the road.

How important is love?

Have you ever wondered what it’s like to be a lonely, miserable old man, that had no one to talk to? Well, in the book, The Lovely Bones, you can put yourself in this man’s shoes. Mr. Harvey came off as a nice man. He seemed like one of those people that wouldn’t harm a fly. This was obviously wrong, considering he killed a child. But, if this man would have someone to truly love him, he wouldn’t be a bad person.

Many people get sad because they don’t have someone special in their life. Because they have no one to hold them close when they’re sad. Because they have no one to love. This is how Mr. Harvey feels. Susie was an innocent girl that he betrayed. He never said he was going to hurt her, nor did he say he was going to do things to her, but she didn’t know. She died because of that man, because he had no one to love. Her last words were, “I love you.”, only because the man threatened her, but Mr. Harvey killed the fourteen year-old anyway. It’s a very sad world you live in when you have to threaten people into saying three simple words.

If at some moment and time Mr. Harvey had someone to tell him they loved him, everything would be great. No dead girls, no scary man living down the street, the world would be a big happy place. But, a disadvantage towards this situation would be that the Salmon family would never go through a problem. They just have a wonderful, happy life, well, until Susie went missing. If they never went through this problem, they would have never had the experience of having trouble in their life. And if something bad happens later, they won’t be ready for it. But then again, this is the only disadvantage to the idea, so Mr. Harvey should have a chance to be loved. If he did, the world would wondrously go round.

Susie Salmon

Author's Note: our class had to make a character description story of the book we're reading. This is about what happens when Susie Salmon, from The Lovely Bones, walks into the room.

When she enters the room, nobody looks. They see right through her. They can’t see her flowing blond hair or her tight yellow jeans sticking to her legs while she jumps trying to get someone’s attention, even though she knows no one will ever even realize that she could be there. Susie Salmon, a dead fourteen year old girl, looking down on her family. She isn’t actually in the room, but she’s watching. Watching her family’s every step, getting closer and closer to finding out the truth about her mysterious murder.

Susie just wanted to tell them. She wanted to tell them she’s okay. She wanted to tell them everything was going to be fine. She wanted to tell them all Mr. Harvey did was kill her, nothing to it. But, she couldn’t. Susie couldn’t mention who hurt her, and what horrible things they did to her body. She is there, technically, and she knows it, but only if they did, too.

Transporting into Touching Spirit Bear

In the book Touching Spirit Bear Cole goes through many lessons, mostly the hard way. If I could somehow help Cole out in this book I would lend him a hand in the scene where Peter comes to the island. I chose this scene because Peter won’t forgive Cole for all the bad things he’s done, even though Cole has changed. Peter doesn’t believe that and I would try to convince him because he won’t even try listening to Cole, but I wouldn’t blame the kid. He’s been through so much since Cole beat him up. But, I could change his mind about the world. Or, I could’ve stopped Peter from beating Cole up when they were on their walk. Then he would’ve realized what he was about to do, and stop that feeling before it became an action.

The Importance of Forgiving

Have you ever wondered what life would be like without having anyone to love? You can’t survive with no one taking care of you every once in a while. Even though these two things are true, Cole, from Touching Spirit Bear by Ben Mikaelsen, can live without them. He proved he could by his parents not loving him, so he didn’t love his parents. Also, he had survived through live physically, but not emotionally. This story proves that life is all about forgiving, and without it we would be nothing.

Cole Mathews is the main character in this book. He goes through many troubles in life. For example,ever since he was a little boy, his dad has abused him. After all the years of his dad beating him, he decided to be a bad kid. He robbed banks, beat people up, you know, the usual. But one day, he went too far. He found the scrawniest person you could find, and knocked his head into a side walk. Hard. A troubled teen’s life started with his father abusing him, in many ways. If his father would’ve left him alone, he wouldn’t have almost gone to jail, or beaten up Peter. But, because this did happen, Cole had to forgive himself, then his family, and then Peter. It took Peter a long, long time before he would forgive Cole, but that eventually happened. If no one forgave anyone, Peter would be dead, Cole would be dead inside, and his mom would be miserable. Forgiveness is a gift we all get, and no one in this book took advantage of it. Except for maybe his dad.

Another example of trouble Cole got into was when he got mauled by the Spirit Bear. The Spirit Bear is a giant white bear that only shows up when you are truly relaxed. Cole saw this bear, and was very angry at it, because it wasn’t afraid of him. So, he ran at it, and tried attacking it. His plan backfired, and the bear attacked him. He lost feeling in his body, and he couldn’t really move anywhere because he was horribly hurt. Cole was nearly on an island for three days, not moving. He ate a bug here and there, but he couldn’t move otherwise. During this time, Cole realized it wasn’t his fault he beat up Peter. And it wasn’t Peter’s fault either. It was his dad’s fault. His dad was the one that got him mad, and he blew up at Peter. Peter was just in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Cole decided to forgive himself for all the trouble he’s been through, and blame it on his father, because all of this was truly his fault.

Forgiveness is great. When someone forgives you, you have a different feeling inside. It feels like they gave you a second chance to live. Like you and that person can start over with your friendship. Cole from Touching Spirit Bear feels this way about Peter. They seem to have a strong connection at the end of this book, and it seems that they really did care about each other. Forgiving all lead up to this. Without it, Peter wouldn’t see how sorry Cole is, and how Cole has matured. But, he has now, all because Peter gave Cole a second chance, even though he didn’t really have a choice. Forgiving is the reason the world goes round. Everybody makes mistakes, but anybody can fix them.

My Prediction

Imagine being chased by people that want to keep you locked up in a cellar. Imagine being on the run at age 15. Imagine being betrayed by someone you really trusted. All of these horrible things happen to Chloe in the book The Reckoning, and she really doesn't handle her problems very well.

In my book so far, a group of teens all have supernatural powers and are being experimented by people they barely know. When they were being experimented, people told them they had mental problems, and where they were staying was a mental home. But really they weren’t mental and they kept them there so they wouldn’t hurt anyone with their powers. Now they’re on the run from everyone and everything. Including the Edison group, which is the group of the experimenters.

What I think will happen next is that they will run away, again, but get caught by the people that caught them in the first place. The Edison Group will probably end up killing one of them, because that’s what they intended before the last time they ran away. I think this because it reminds me of the book The Outsiders. Because when they ran away, two of them came back horribly hurt, and one never came back, because, obviously, he died. This happened because the teens were trying to save other kids that were trapped in a fire, and even if they went home and never saved those kids they would have gotten beaten up anyways.

This book is most likely to be an irony. It's obviously not very realistic because they all have supernatural powers,which doesn't happen to people in real life. Also, the characters go through many struggles as their enemies try to catch or kill them.

A horrible ending will probably happen to Chloe and her group in The Reckoning because they have the same issues in life; they’ve done bad things that people will never forgive them for. So, they also have a pretty good chance of dying, just like Johnny from The Outsiders.

Confession from Cole

Author's Note: We had to pick a paragraph or sentence that we thought was important from Touching Spirit Bear.

Hesitantly,he explained how he had how he had tried to escape the island and how he was mauled trying to kill the Spirit Bear. "I wanted to kill it because it wasn't afraid of me," he admitted.

I thought this paragraph was important because that Cole changed his ways by finally admitted something true. He admitted that he doesn't like it when people aren't afraid of him, because he likes seeing their reactions when they are. For example, when Cole and Peter were in the Circle of Justice together, Cole gave Peter the stare and Peter had a scared look in his eye, and Cole enjoyed it. He confessed something that he never would have if never went to that island.

Beginning

Author's Note: My teacher gave us the end of a story and we had to write the beginning of it, so here it is. (Where the ******************** start my story ends.


I thought diving was easy. I thought swimming was easy. I’m stuck with the fact that I can’t do either of these things nor have I tried, until today. I’m also literally stuck, in a pool, with my foot stuck. It’s feels like someone or something is grabbing on to my ankle, and it won’t let go. I didn’t think I would get stuck. Everyone dared me, but now I’m lying at the bottom of the pool. I’m stuck. “Someone help me!” I try to scream, but the only thing that happens is water gets sucked inside me. And my lungs collapse even more every time I struggle to say something. This is all my fault. Right now I should be in my bed, grounded. But of course, I’m not. My mom wouldn’t care if I die, anyway, that’s probably what she wants. I hope I do die, then I don’t have to face her. She probably won’t even be home. She never is. She gets home at about 11 every night, drunk. She wakes me up, and locks me outside. I tell my friends about my problems, but all they do is laugh. Everyone’s life would be better if I was gone. Only if.

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Then there was nothing -- only a silence that filled my ears like honey. It dripped down, insulating me from the world outside my closed eyes. For several moments, I succumbed to this silence, welcomed it, and hoped that perhaps it would last an eternity.

It didn't. From a distance, I could hear voices calling. My name floated on the wave of voices as they crested and grew louder, disturbing my silence like the squeezing of a balloon.

When it popped, I finally opened my eyes and faced the world again.

Elise the Duck

Elise the duck was out on a stroll through the park, but she had a weird feeling that she was being followed. Every time she looked back, she saw the same person walking behind her, in a tall, back coat that covered their face. Elise was getting very angry because this person was bugging her. So, she went up to the mysterious stranger, and them why they were following her. Before she got her answer the person stuffed her in a sack and took her away. Later she woke up in the middle of the street, while it was pouring rain, and she was holding a spork.

Cole from Touching Spirit Bear

Cole believes that he is invincible and everyone should be scared of him. Cole has a negative attitude towards his life. He’s always saying how no one loves him and they’d rather have him be dead than alive. Cole doesn’t really have any positive abilities, basically his only skill is being strong, but he uses that towards the wrong things like hurting people. Cole affected many people’s life, mostly by hurting them. Peter is a different character that was affected by Cole, because Cole had a fight with him, and now he has trouble speaking

Cole from Touching Spirit Bear

Cole believes that he is invincible and everyone should be scared of him. Cole has a negative attitude towards his life. He’s always saying how no one loves him and they’d rather have him be dead than alive. Cole doesn’t really have any positive abilities, basically his only skill is being strong, but he uses that towards the wrong things like hurting people. Cole affected many people’s life, mostly by hurting them. Peter is a different character that was affected by Cole, because Cole had a fight with him, and now he has trouble speaking

the ending to thank you ma'am

That night Roger realized he has to change his ways. He has a nice family, that actually has a lot of money, so he doesn’t need to go around stealing. But, he got in a fight with his father last month, it was really scary. His dad threw punches here and there, and all Roger could do was take it. And he ran away when he got his chance.

Roger didn’t want to turn out like his father; a druggie that drinks too much and goes around beating kids. So he decided he needed to turn himself around and get a job. He decides to apply to his favorite store ever, Sentry. Roger liked this store because it was in his location, it was really small, and they had tiny shopping carts. Those made his life.
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The manager hired him right away. They loved Roger. He didn’t know why, but he didn’t care. All he knew is that he didn’t have to steal anymore.

That night he was working late shift, and lucky him he was the only one working and the store was completely empty. At least, that’s what he thought. The young man heard crash, and ran towards the sound of the falling glass. He wasn’t very happy to find the ‘bullet proof’ window broke into pieces on the floor. Nor was he too happy to find a giant black women with a ski mask standing over him. Roger luckily took karate for five years straight, and became a black belt, so he knew what to do. He kicked the women’s legs, and she fell to the ground with a big “Umph!” then, he kicked her right where it matters. In the sitter.

She quickly got to her feet and begged him to stop. Roger realized he knew that voice from somewhere. “Oh my! Mrs. Jones are you okay?” The women holding her buttock answered, “Of course.” She was very pleased to see that Roger changed his ways, but Roger was very disappointed in Mrs. Jones.

“I don’t have any excuse to do this, and I’m very sorry. Are you going to take me to the police?” asked the big lady.

“Of course not. Now I have to return a favor. He walked her out the door and sent her off, with the ten dollars she had given him before. “I’ve been saving this, but you obviously need it more than me.”

She walked off, with a big smile on her face, and never saw Roger again.

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Author's Note: I'm supposed to create a story based off of a sentence I chose on the board, and I would like to score high for word choice in this piece. Comment if you think I would have.


Wars are stupid. They're messed up. My husband was in the army, and we just got a letter, it said that they lost him. They don't know if he's dead or alive. This is horrible! I'm a single mother now, living at home with my beautiful daughter. I haven't told her yet, and I'm never going to. She deserves the right to know, but it would break her little fragile heart. Maybe this is for the best, considering I met a very handsome man last month. We've been kind of an item. Steph doesn't mind him. She actually enjoys his company. They have a very nice bond, and I'm glad they get along, because I think he's the one.


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I hate Brad. He's my mom's new boy friend. I know these types of things. She's never trying to get donut off of his face with her mouth, and I know it! And I know for a fact that he's allergic to donut. And bikes, and barbies. I also know that they're hiding my daddy somewhere. My mom and Brad. They think they're all that, but I know their story, and I will find him! They wont keep him away from me any longer, and I know exactly where he is! "Here I come Daddy!"
"What was that honey?" asked my horrible mother
"Can I have a cookie?" I quickly asked


"Sure, I'll go get the oven started." and I went off, thank god I'm still small enough to fit through the doggy door. I ran, down the walkway to our front door. Then I stopped at the gate. The thought of climbing over it made me want to bawl. My dad used to always toss me over, and my mom would be waiting on the other side, ready to catch me. Obviously neither one of them were present, so I just pushed the latch down, and walked out. I'm pretty tall for a five year old, so I was able to reach it.


As I'm walking down the side walk, I asked myself, "Where am I going?" then my inner self told me, "The airport." I agreed with my instincts, and walked to the airport. I would say it took a good three days to get to the end of the block, and probably another four to get to the airport.


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"Okay Steph, the cookies are done, if you want one while there still warm. Steph? Stephanie come out of hiding right now! This isn't funny! Fine! I'll eat them all myself!" She bugs me. Her favorite game is hide and seek, and she's very good at it. I can never find her. But she can come out, when she's ready. Because I really don't care the least bit.

"Brad come see this! It's so pretty!"

"What is?" replied my lover, while looking over my shoulder.

"You left the gate open, how generous…." I said in a very snotty tone that I'm pretty proud of. "No I came in the back door, and you know that. You greeted me this morning by throwing something at me."

"Oh yeah, then who did it?" We both look at each other, and we realize that Stephanie isn't playing hide and seek, and she never was.

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By the time I got to the airport, I was very tired and hungry. So I went to this restaurant, and I ordered all by myself, which I was pretty proud of. I had a pretty good meal. Some macaroni with apple slices. I took my meal to go. The workers were really stupid to give me glass plates. That's just a waste of money if I'm going to throw it away, and that's exactly what I did. While I was gently applying the plate to the garbage, a very kind man offered me a drink. I took that offer, and it was delicious. But at that moment I had n clue who this man was.


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I had no clue where she would be! She's a boring person that has no friends, she doesn't know how to get to a park. So I was thinking, maybe the airport. She always talks about how much she misses her father, and maybe she thinks he would be coming home soon. "Airport, stat!" I say to Brad with a lot of emotion. He replies with a, 'why not?'.

When we show up, we're running at this point, hoping no one will take my child away. While we're running, I see her, throwing something into the trash. Then I see a tall man, in uniform, standing right in front of her. And I could see, even from a distance, her breath caught as she saw him standing there, sunlight dancing in his eyes. She started crying and running towards him. "Daddy, Daddy! Never leave me again. Never leave me with this evil person you call your wife! She's a bad person daddy!"

Of course, he turns over to me. Gives me a horrible glance, and walks away, into the sunlight, with my child, and never came back.

Science is a No-No

If you go around a school, any school, and ask all the kids what their least favorite subject is, what do you think they would say? Social studies, maybe math? Well, you are wrong. Science is the big problem. Nobody likes it, not one person. They might not mind it, but no one legit loves it. Science is a waste of time and space. We don’t need it, and we deserve to have science be optional. Us kids shouldn’t have to suffer.


If you had to choose between your kid having one more elective classes or playing with fire, what would you choose? Probably not the second choice. Every principal tries to keep all the children safe in their school, but they’re just making it more dangerous for everyone, and not just the students. The teachers too. If we were playing around with Bunsen burners, and someone knocked one over, the whole entire school would burn down! This would be horrible. People try to prevent fires, but really we’re just getting closer and closer to raising money for a new school. Because sooner or later someone will accidently(or purposely) set something on fire.


Science is a horrible class that doesn’t teach us anything but big words that we will never use. If someone really wants to become a scientist, they can take science class, but the rest of us should have to waste our time while we could be in another class learning something reasonable. Kids don’t even pay attention in science class, so it’s also a waste of time for the teachers. If no one listens to them, they shouldn’t even be teaching, instead they could be out doing something fun like shopping. Or finding a different job. It’s not like children don’t respect the teacher, they just don’t respect the subject. Which is why many people don’t get very decent grades in this class.


If we got rid of science and we knocked down the walls in between the two science rooms we have, and put a trampoline in the floor, our school would be so much better. We could have an elective call, ‘Bounce & Pounce’ or something like that. No one would regret it. Over the weekends we could have people pay to come jump on it for money. It would be such a joy! The school could raise even more money than we already have, and buy something else. Like a gold statue of Mr. Daul, or even me. This school would have many more people coming to it, considering that we would have a trampoline. And more people means more money. More money means more unreasonable things we could buy and put next to the gold statue of me.


If we get rid of science, everyone would be so happy. The teachers would be happy because they don’t have to listen to the complaining of students. The parents would be happy because they don’t have to listen to the complaining from their kids. And the children would be happy because no one likes this class and everyone knows it. It’s a waste of money, time, and space and we don’t need it. We should just ban science. It’s not safe for kids, and it never will be. Have you ever heard of the kid that died at school because of some weird experiment they were doing in school with Bunsen burners? Well, I haven’t but there’s probably some kid out there who has died in science class, and we don’t want that happening to any of our kids, so we should all agree that science is a big no-no and get rid of it before someone gets hurt!

Guloff the Penguin 2

“Pick up your mess Judiths’!” Guloff was a very unhappy mom. She hated how many kids she had, but she loved every single one of them. But it was hard to tell the difference between all of them. She had 4 sets of triplets, and one loner who was always depressed.


Judith was the oldest, and never had any friends. His only friend was his father, Pablo, which had recently died. They would play catch together, run together, play Wii together, they had the best times. He misses him the most. But after all the years, he forgot about his mom. And one day, all of her anger built up, and she killed Pablo. While he was sleeping, she took a knife and slowly, but surely, cut his head off. Then, she made a hole at the top of his head, and pulled his brain out. Judith was watching the whole thing, but he had no urge to stop her. Guloff took the brain and planted it in the yard.

In the summer it grew to be a humongous tree with lollipops growing off of it. Judiths’ loved that. They got their love of candy from their father. The family had a very happy life after that, but all of them became obese because the only thing they ate were lollipops. Eventually they all blew up, because they were so fat. Except for Judith, she didn’t even like lollipops. The women lived the rest of her life very sad and lonely.

Guloff the Penguin

The air was cold and Guloff was ready to take off. It was her and three monkeys. She couldn’t stand them. Their long tails, their warm atmosphere, and Guloff was living here, in freezing cold Antarctica. I guess it is where Penguins are supposed to live, but she hated in. She would rather be in the jungle. Climbing tree from tree, eating ticks from her lovers head, but no. She was a penguin and had to live in this ugly weather, and she was glad to be leaving.

“In 10, 9, 8,7….” She was jumping with joy, “3,2,1…..BLAST OFF!” and off they went, into the night sky.

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“Get out of my way!” I yell. Those chimps really tick me off. They just want to make me pounce out of this space ship. “I need a place to sit too! Just because your fat doesn’t mean you have to take up two chairs now move! Please?” Finally the fat one moved and I was actually safe.


A little bit later, the gravity turned off. It was so fun. We were spinning in the air, doing a bunch of jumps, and flips. I did things I was never able to do on earth. At one point in time, all the monkeys got so mad at me for being so excited about this (It was my first time), they shoved me out the door of the ship, and I was floating. I’d rather be here than anywhere else right now, and I’m having the time of my life. I drifted through space, and out in the distance I saw a planet that looked a little bit like Earth. So I pushed my body towards it, doing the dog paddle, and sooner or later I was there! It was a beautiful magical place, and the only two living things there were penguins and fish. And the best part….IT WAS WARM! Now I knew what to do with my life!

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Guloff decided never to go back to Earth. She stayed on planet Mexico. She met a guy named Pablo, and trust me he was pretty darn delicious. They had 13 kids, all named Judith. They loved their Judiths’, and they lived a happy life. THE END:)

Guloff the Bunny Rabbit

Guloff was a little bunny. She always wore a black bow with sparkles on her head. She loved it and would never go anywhere without it. One day, she woke up and it was gone. She looked everywhere in her little rabbit hole, but it wasn’t under her bed, in the sink, it the bath tub, no where! Guloff ran all the way back where she came from (Mexico) and met her fairy god mother. They had a chat, and she said, “I’m glad to see you again my grasshopper. I will give you hints to find your special bow, and you will try to find it. Now go off.”

“But I need my hint.” Said Guloff, really confused. “Oh yeah,” says fairy godmother, “Follow the yellow brick road, and you’ll find it in no time.”

“Kay.” And she hopped off, down the yellow brick road. Unfortunately she ran into the big gate guarder: the goat. The bunny has heard stories of this goat, and none of them were good ones. “get out of my way you big fat goat!” screamed Guloff. She was really getting angry now. “Do you want your ribbon or not?”

The rabbit was confused, she had no idea what he was talking about. “What the heck are you talking about? I never had a ribbon.”

“I’m sorry. I meant your bow.” Said the giant goat. “oh haha sorry. Yeah can I have it back please?” asked Guloff in the highest pitch she could get to.

“Why not?” and the goat threw Guloff her bow and she went on her way after thanking him. She was so excited about getting her bow bck, that she wsn’t watching where she was going, and fell into a dark, endless hole, falling to her death.

Guloff was never seen again.

Mean Man, or the Priest?

Authors note: This is a point of view piece for 'Dead Men's Path'.

Michael Obi is a young man, not aware of other people’s feelings. He doesn’t care about other people’s beliefs, only his. One day when he was working at his school and he realized the villagers would take a path right next to the school building, and Obi didn’t like that because he thought they were scary and would get him in trouble. Being the person that he is, he shut down the path and made it so the villagers couldn’t walk down it. This was a horrible thing because the people did all their weird rituals there. After that, many bad things happened.


Michael Obi wasn’t a very kind guy. He didn’t care much about anything, and hated the idea of the villagers being close to the school. On the other hand, the villagers really cared about it. It was part of their life, and they grew to love it. They would talk to their ancestors there and even give birth there! Obviously it meant something to them! This story might have been better if the main character was the Priest. He went though much more than Michael and it would be more interesting than just a principal being freaked out by weird people. Instead you would learn all the weird things they do in their village. Which, in my perspective, would be a lot better and have more of a point to it.

Jesus the Caterpillar :)

Author's Note: My purpose of writing this piece is to show off what I got over the break(not for Christmas). Please give me feedback if you think I should make this story into a different point of view. caterpillar


It was New Year's Eve and it was a beautiful, sunny morning. I was sitting next to my friends, eating a pop tart. It was a great day so far, and I didn't know it was going to get even better.

In the afternoon, me and Ali went to Sam's club, and found the coolest thing. A giant rainbow caterpillar! We both bought one, it was fifteen dollars, but it was worth it. We had a great New Years. At one point we were yelling at each other, "You Don't touch my Jesus!" and "You don't touch my Dewy!" (I named my caterpillar Jesus and Ali named hers Dewy). It was a fun night.

In the morning, Jesus and I went home, to find my brother and his friend Dakota. I love bothering Dakota, it's a habit. It's a pretty good time. This time I went too far, though. He was so annoyed with me. Anyway, I was in the bathroom, putting my hair up for soccer, and wondering what they were doing because they wouldn't stop laughing. So, I went out in the living room and started freaking out. I couldn't find Jesus anywhere! Then they told me "Jesus is trying to escape!" I was confused. I looked out the window, and there he was, laying in the snow, right by our gate, 'trying to escape'. Dakota threw him out the window.