Lesson Learned

Letting someone cheat off you isn't really a good idea, especially when the teacher is standing right behind you. My friends kept asking me what the answers were to the papers, and I didn't want to give them out to my friends. After a while of them asking I finally decided to just give them a few, and that's when the teacher grabbed my paper and theirs. She threw them in the trash and gave us all zeroes. Therefore my lesson learned was not to let any one cheat off of me.

Commas and Semicolons

My father had left our house in the midst of a fight, between Lindsey and my mother. My mother was trying to get Lindsey to go with her to the Y to swim. Without thinking, Lindsey had blared, "I'd rather die!" ,at the top of her lungs. My father watched as my mother froze, then burst fleeing to their bedroom to wail behind the door. He quietly tucked his notebook in his jacket pocket, took the car keys off the hook by the back door, and snuck out.

Gossip

1) If I triple-filtered everything, my conversations would probably be a lot different. Everything we mostly hear isn't always true but we still tell it to our friends, who pass it on to theirs. If everything we said was triple-filtered there would be a lot less gossip.

2) People decide to gossip because that's what everyone else does around them. In high school, especially, it has been done a lot since I've been here. Girls are really bad about it! Most girls don't really want to do it but they get in a group of people where everyone around them is talking and they feel they have to say something to. Gossip really does hurt a lot of people emotionally.

Literary Elements: TAKS PT 3

1) Satire: a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.

2) Irony: a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the others false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning.

3) Analogy: inference that if two or more things agree with one another in some respects they will prob. agree in others.

4) Foreshadowing: to represent, indicate, or typify beforehand.

Figurative Language

1) Figurative- expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous.

2) Figure of Speech- a form of expression used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener.
Imagery- making mental images or figurative language.
Trope- the use of a word or expression in a figurative sense.

3) They all talk about figurative language and give an expression or image.

Story Spinners: Option 1

As the old man approached my friends and me we sat quietly with our heads down. My friends and I weren't sure what he wanted, though we had an idea. None of us quite knew how he would've figured out what had happened. We all thought that we had kept our secret pretty well hidden, but obviously we were wrong. Somehow this man found out about the the night and what happened about a week ago.
About a week ago my friends and I were really bored at home and couldn't think of anything to do. Then, Shelby had the idea that maybe we should all go get bicycles and meet back up to ride around town. Before everyone left I shouted out, "Everyone meet back up here in an hour." By the time everyone had returned to the meeting place it was already dark outside so we ran across the street to ask if we could borrow a few flashlights from the neighbors. After we got those, we taped them to the front of our bikes. While we were riding around town that night we noticed something going on in the store across the street, so we decided to go ahead and ride over there. Soon after we arrived we noticed that it was one of our good friends being picked on by the neighborhood bully. Taylor shouted, "Hey, leave our friend alone!" The bully wasn't happy about this and told all of us that if we ever said anything about this to anyone we'd be next. Brennan sprinted down the street barefoot to go home and hide in his room before it happened to him. We all thought that Brennan had a great idea, and since we were only nine we didn't want that to happen to us. I made sure that our friend was okay, then pedaled home on my bike as fast as i could. Shortly after everyone had returned to their homes, I got a call from Shelby. All she did was talk gibberish. At the end of the conversation we decided to tell everyone of our agreement to never to talk about this again.
After thinking over all this as the old man walked toward us. We were still just as scared as we had been the night it happened. The man looked us all in the eyes, one at a time. Then, after he gave us each a terrifying look asked, "Why aren't you kids in school." Everyone then took a deep breath, and then we explained that we didn't have school that day because we were on our break. Finally, the man left and we all were so relieved that we didn't have to tell him what happened. Everyone went home after he had left and once more promised to never talk about what happened again.

Heaven

In my heaven everything will be perfect, just like the way it is supposed to be. All of my family and friends would be with me there, along with others who were already there. I would love to walk into my heaven and see nothing but beautiful houses and land covered by trees and plants. I would love for the weather there to be in between, not too hot but not too cold. Heaven is said to be perfect and i don't think that if i was up there i would really want to change much because God has made it the best it can already be.

The Lovely Bones

I think that when Susie's father said, "it's trapped in a perfect world," he meant that nothing could go wrong inside the snow globe. There wouldn't be any problems inside of that globe that could make the penguin feel lonely or sad because it was fake and nothing was wrong. In Susie's heaven I think that her world is pretty much perfect, knowing that heaven is the most perfect place you can be. Susie may feel like it's not exactly perfect because her family isn't up there with her, but i think it is pretty amazing to her to be up there in her near perfect heaven.

Parts of Speech Review

Nouns - I, Shelby, Chelsea, Kinslie, Campbell, campus, Colorado, college, road trip, car

Adjectives - excited, big, nervous, long, white

Adverbs - gently, then, there

Conjunctions - and, or

Verbs - drive, talk, jump

Prepositions - to, into

Interjection - Ugh!

Pronouns - she, it

It was the summer before we started college so Chelsea, Kinslie, Campbell, Shelby, and I decided to take a road trip. We were all excited for the big trip to check out the campus and head out to Colorado. As I drove around Childress to pick everyone up they jumped into my car and started talking about how much fun it was going to be. Now that everyone was loaded into my car we were leaving childress and heading out for the first stop, the colleges. All of a sudden I head Kinslie yell from the back seat, "Ugh!" She had forgotten to get her camera and thought that she couldn't live without it so we turned back and got it. Walking out of her house she gently put the camera into her purse and then, finally, everyone was ready! After we had made it to the college campuses we were ready for the ride to Colorado. As soon as we pulled into the ski resort where we would be staying we saw so much white from all the snow. Since we hardly got to see snow this was amazing to us. Later we went skiing and a couple days after we went back to the big city of Childress, Texas to finish out the summer with our families and friends.


THE END :)

My Bucket List

1. Build my own house.
2. Get married.
3. Have a family.
4. Go to college in Abilene.
5. Graduate from college.
6. Get my nursing license.
7. Come back to Childress.
8. Work at the Hospital here.
9. Get some boots.
10. Live in town.
11. Get a new car.
12. Keep up with my Ipod.
13. Learn a new language.
14. Have blonde hair.
15. Have brown hair again.
16. Get a good job.
17. Go on a road trip with my friends.
18. Take a vacation with family.
19. Ride on a plane.
20. Go on a shopping spree.
21. Read the whole bible.
22. Go on a mission trip.
23. Go to China.
24. Get a tattoo.
25. Get my belly button pierced.
26. Grow my hair out really long.
27. Go on a ski trip.
28. Learn how to ski.
29. Go to state for golf.
30. Make it to regionals again for golf.
31. Go to state for volleyball.
32. Go to state for basketball.
33. Go to state for track.
34. Learn how to dance.
35. Drive a race car.
36. Go white water rafting.
37. Go to Mardi Gras in New Orleans.
38. Go to Oktober Fest in Germany.
39. Visit all 50 of the United States.

Shakespeare Language

I lost my peat a couple days ago, because he wasn't acting very pert and had gotten hurt by a porcupine. I felt so bad because he was pinked everywhere. We had tried to take him to the vet but by the way he peered we didn't think he could make it until the next day, so we had to have him put down. My brother palled and buried him. If my dog wouldn't have tried to englut the porcupine he could have evitated the situation.

Get thee to a nunnary.

Ha :)

Quote!

"We never know the worth of water til the well is dry," states an 18th-century English proverb.

This quote to me means, you never know what you really have or what it means until it's gone.

9/11

Eight Years ago at this time two planes flew into the twin towers. I was in 2nd grade and our principal went over the intercom and said something so my teacher turned on the T.V. and we watched what happened. I really had no idea what was going on at the time because i was so young, and the teachers never really explained a lot to us what had happened because they didn't want us to freak out about it. I don't really remember too much about what happened following the 9/11 attack.

I think that we will still be remembering the day of 9/11 twenty years from now. That day took a big effect on our country and i think that everyone will still remember the day in the future. The terrorists had no reason to plan the attack on us, and I'm not really sure why they did. I'm glad it wasn't on another country because I'm not really sure how they would've handled the situation and if they could've done as much about it as we did. Our country fought back and got stronger after this attack and I don't think other countries could have done that.

If i were to write a story about 9/11 i would do it from the point of view of the people in the building. I would do that because I'm sure they were very scared and out of everyone had the most fear.

Friendship Blog

I think that my morals and beliefs are more important than friendships. If you follow your beliefs then you will find friends with the same.

Abate

Because the man was agnostic every time he got asked to attend church he denied the invitation.

The Lovely Bones

I would like to read this book in class. When reading the plot of the story on Wikipedia i wanted more of it. Usually i don't read but i found an interest in this book and i would like to read the whole thing. I really hope we get to read this book in class.

Why Blog?

I think that we could use blogging to learn more about some interesting things. I also think that blogging will be fun for not only me but the rest of the classes here too.