Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Prediction Piece- Appearance

Author's Note: This was a hard topic for me to to mainly because I was gone and needed to be caught up but also because I couldn't find a good story. So hope you enjoy and comment what you think!

Story- Appearance

In the begging of the story everything seems fine, Ellen moves into a little apartment in the Western part of Cleveland. She doesn’t have a lot of things in her apartment not even a bed. It’s always the same old thing. But one morning a man shows up at her window while she is making a pot of tea. The man she describes looks homeless and kid of translucent. She sees this man every morning at the same time for a while. But unexpectedly on morning a women in a beat up car comes and sits in her driveway, every time Ellen would go outside the lady would drive away. On one morning she stayed and Ellen offered her to come inside,  did and they talked about the ladies life in the apartment. Then the man came and the lady noticed Ellen looking out the window. The lady saw nothing though, Ellen noticed that were the man touched the window frost created and then it hit her.

My prediction is that the man is a ghost and that he is the husband of the lady. The way that the man is described leads you on the thinking he is a ghost. Because it makes no sense that a man would come at the same time every morning and peer into the window. I could be wrong but when Ellen would look out the window for tracks she would find nothing. It makes no sense, why would the lady be there in the first place then. The man always has a sad face, maybe because he died or the way he died but I don’t think that a normal person always has a sad face.

Turns out that he was a ghost and was the fiancĂ© of the lady, he killed himself in the apartment the lady said he took to many pills, he lost his job and a spot in a band. The man had a name is name was Eric, the lady said that her parents didn’t like him and didn’t want the two to get married. When the lady left Eric the ghost got into the car with the lady and left. 

Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Truth about Forever Character Analysis

Author's Note: This piece is for my analysis essay. In this piece I tried a different technique for my transitions, I think it went well and was easier that what I used to do before I hope you like it please give some feedback!


 In the book “The Truth about Forever” by Sarah Dessen is a great example for a character that changes throughout the story. The main character is Macy, she is a shy and kept to herself person. Ever since her dad died she never really communicated with her mom only when it was necessary. She was always a hard worker and really school driven, the total opposite of her sister Caroline. When Macy was younger she used to run with her dad but when her dad died of a heart attack she stopped running. Macy changes drastically during this book.  

Macy changes a lot in the book because of many reasons. The main one is when she takes up a catering
Job. Her mom hires a catering company come to her house. People come to see what she can do to build the perfect house for interested family’s. During the night the catering company has some issues and Macy’s mom notices and wants Macy to go see what is going on. Then she spends the rest of the night helping the people of the business. The one person that really sticks out is Wes; he is a handsome boy that Macy seems interested in, although she is still in a relationship with Jason her boyfriend. Macy gets an offer to join the company. She finds out that the name of the company is Wish and she decides to take the job.

The catering company was one of the issues that changed Macy, but there was also breaking up with Jason. In the beginning of the summer Jason went to a Brain Camp and Macy would email him while he was gone. When she said I love you at the end of one of the emails, Jason kind of freaked and told Macy they should take a break until he gets back. Since she joined the catering business, she spent more time with Wes, and Kristy another person from the catering job. After one of the jobs all of them would go to a party hoping to find Macy the perfect boyfriend. Macy soon got more confident in herself, but her mom didn’t like her change. She wanted her to stay where she was and continue to be a perfect girl and focus on school.

Macy was starting to become a more friendly person and not want to work on school so much. In the end Macy ends up  outgoing person and nice person. She doesn’t get back with Jason, but starts a relationship with Wes. Her mom eventually understands and loosens her grip on Macy. Macy really changed from the beginning of the book to the end, and you could clearly see it. 

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

Patriots Pen Essay

Author's Note: This topic was really hard for me to write about because i'm not really into American history like this. I'm not saying I don't like it i'm just not that experiences with it. But anyways here is my patriots pen essay and our topic was "What would you tell America's Founding Fathers?" Hope you like it!


Dear people of America,

I’m grateful for all that the founding fathers have done to make our country great and one of the best, heck they basically start the country. There are however a couple things that I would have changed or done to make it even better. But right now I am grateful for all we have. This country is great and amazing, and I am proud to be an American.

American’s are thankful everyday for all that you have accomplished. However there are some people who hate our country because of all the stuff that we can do. We have freedom of speech, freedom of religion and i'm sure that there are many more reasons as to why other countries are jealous. Our country is great and the men who started such a great country need some credit. It wasn’t just George Washington, it was also: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Hancock. I know your thinking thats a lot of people but they made our country strong. Although they are not perfect like Thomas Jefferson, he had slaves when he became a founding father. It wasn’t until Abraham Lincoln came along and stopped slavery. Slavery was a bad thing but, it did help us with the plantations but all people sould be equally not better than others. Slavery showed that white men and women were better than black people and it shouldn’t be that way.

Slavery was one of main flaws but there aren't just flaws there are huge success. Such as us becoming one nation blacks and whites. In one of my favorite lady gaga songs she sings “No matter gay, straight, or bi, Lesbian........No matter black, white or beige”. It really doesn’t matter who your are or were you came from all that matters is if you proud to be an American.

Monday, October 15, 2012

Lock and Key

Author's Note: This piece is for on of my assignments in my Writing Lab. I don't really have much to say about it other than it's about the conflict of the book Lock and Key and what leads up to the conflict. Other than that enjoy.


 Book: Lock and Key

 An abusive and not stable mother leaves her 17 year old daughter  Ruby to live alone. Ruby has to stay with her older sister Cora and her husband Jamie, Jamie is the creator of a famous website called UME.com. Ruby was going to run away on the first night but got caught by the neighbor and Jamie. Nate the next door neighbor offers to help Ruby but Ruby doesn’t want to get to close. In the end Ruby excepts that she has to stay where she is because it’s for the better and her and Nate become girlfriend and boyfriend.

The cause of Ruby going to live at Cora’s house is because Ruby’s mother ran away. Ruby’s mom ran away because she was depressed and sad that her husband left her. Her husband left her because he liked someone else and just didn’t love Ruby’s mom. Because Ruby’s dad left, Ruby didn’t have a dad anymore and Ruby’s mom would hit and punch Ruby and Cora when they were little. Since then Ruby had gone to live with Cora, went to an expensive school and was excepted into collage. 

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

That Summer


Author's Note: This piece is one of my assignments for my reading lab. I have to analyze the conflict/resolutioin of a book I read. I think this is one of my better pieces. Responding to things, and showing what I know. 

Book: That Summer

Divorces can get ugly especially if it is a divorce involving kids, such as Haven the main character from the book That Summer by Sarah Dessen, Haven's parents divorced a couple of  years ago and now Haven is fifteen. Her dad got remarried right away to the Weather girl that he sits next to on the Weather Channel. Haven takes this whole thing really hard especially after Lorna Queen the Weather girl announced that she is pregnant. Ashley, Haven's older sister announces she is getting married around the same time Haven's new step mom announces she is pregnant. Haven losses it and starts to avoid people but secretly wish that everything would go back to normal so she could have a real family, but one particular evening she couldn't take it any more and she runs away. In the end she is found and arrives to Ashley's wedding. Haven feels for her sister and is happy for her, they have had a stronger bond after that ever since.  I know people at my school who are in the same situation, I hurts to know that they have to go back and forth to parents houses and figure out who is going where. Because of that I am thankful that I don't have to go through that, I am blessed that I have great parents who love each other and will always be there for me when I need it most. 

Friday, October 5, 2012

Up North


Author's Note: This piece is about going up to our cabin in St. Germain, WI we have lots of fun everytime we go and we see something new every time. Please comment on what you think about this piece! 


Being around family and friends on a warm summer night sitting around a brilliant crackling fire, there is nothing that can get better than that. My family and another close family that we know came up to our cabin in St. Germain, WI. We stayed there for four days and three nights. It was a lot of fun and now I have many more memories to add.

When we were up North we brought or bb guns to shoot at cans and water bottles for fun and a little practice. Everybody enjoyed shooting them and we had a blast. However one afternoon I was shooting my bb gun and I pulled up a new green plastic chair to sit on. My brother and I were both going for the same green tea bottle, we wanted to see you could hit it on the first try. I shot and then Owen, I was getting up when the chair started going backwards. I held onto the bb gun and went falling backwards. When I landed I set the gun down and got up, I was turned and looked at the chair and saw there was a huge crack on it. “Oh my gosh you guys, I cracked the chair!” I started to laugh really hard and one of my friends told me that the look on my face was priceless. I will always remember that feeling falling backwards. After that we started to shoot again but this time we shot at the chair.

Usually when we had nothing to do we would go down to a little inlet where tons of frogs lived. It was really amazing how many there were! You would either be fishing or help catch frogs mostly you would be catching frogs. It’s really exhilarating trying to get the right angle so the frog goes into the net and can’t get out. I think that we caught about 30 frogs in a little bucket, we would joke around about having frog legs for dinner. 

The best part of the trip was walking around this little pond that we call the “Pair less Journey Pond”. When I first walked around it I was 8 years old. It was so much fun! We had to work together to get over the big trees that were cut down, and walk through the knee deep muck. When we went there this summer we walked it again. My little brothers came this time and although they were a pain it was impressive that they lasted the whole trip. I love going up to our cabin my favorite time is the winter thought but summer is just as wonderful.

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Hunger Games Retelling

Author's Note: This is my retelling of the Hunger Games I thought it was good but please comment and tell me what you think!

16 year old Katniss Everdeen is the main care taker of the Everdeen family. During the reaping her little sister is chosen to participate in a T.V. show known as the Hunger Games. Katniss volunteers for her and is then taken into Capital custody, Katniss faces many problems throughout the games and has a chance to save another life, but can she do it?