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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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?

My Trip to Jamaica

Author's Note: My piece is about the wonders of going to Negril, Jamaica. It was wonderful and if you want to know more keep reading and leave a comment about what you think!

Waking up to the sound of the waves crashing onto the sand every morning was amazing. Feeling so refreshed and rejuvenated and a little sunburn was the life. It was my second time coming to Negril, Jamaica that I will never forget. My parents have been to Jamaica 10 times at least. This year we went with another family and stayed for nine days it was just as enjoyable.

Every morning we would get up and go have a huge breakfast with endless buffets with beautiful colors of fruits and salads, breads, and desserts. I was always full till dinner time. After breakfast we would go back to our rooms and get our swimsuits on and head down to the beach. The parents would usually lie on the bright green lawn chairs and the kids would be in the water or down and the fish sanctuary. That area was beautiful; we spent most of our time there. There were fish everywhere, fish with every color you could image! Some were big; there were little ones, and fast ones. During breakfast we would grab some bread and take it down there, the fish would eat from your hands and they were everywhere. They were like bees swarming honey! One hot afternoon we were down by the sanctuary and I had some bread in my hand feeding the fish. I was videoing the whole think with a waterproof camera, I was thinking to myself hoping no crabs would come near me. Well guess what happened next, I turned and looked to my left and walking towards me was a big crab. I slowly got up and backed away the crab got scared and then went into its little hole. I was a little giddy after that because no one had gotten that close to a crab. There were also starfish and lots of sea Urchins those hurt a lot if you stepped on one, I did and I got a couple of the spikes stuck in my foot. When we were down in the sanctuary one afternoon a Jamaican who came back from fishing from the edge of the resort and we didn’t notice I was standing there looking at the water and I suddenly felt something scaly on my leg. I turned to look and they man had a giant barracuda pressed to my leg! I was so surprised but stayed still by then my friends and brothers came over and admired the man’s fish. We asked him what he planned to do with it and he said he was going to cook it up for supper. After that we went back to the beach to tell our parents.

By the middle of the afternoon around two we would go to lunch, we always had a big plate of fries and really nothing else, other than ice-cream after. We never really ate much because we were still full from breakfast. When we were done with lunch we would head back to the water for the rest of the day. We would leave around seven and go to dinner at about eight close to nine. Dinner was just as amazing as breakfast was, with buffets full of food! At night they would always have some form of entertainment for the most part we would go and watch but that was it. This happened most of the nine days but there were activities that we would go to such as snorkeling. We went out on a glass bottom boat so you could see the bottom of the ocean when we were driving. We saw tons of sea creatures, stingrays, fish, sea cucumbers, huge sea Urchins, and we even went through “Star Hollywood”, it’s a place where tons of starfish live the ground was littered with the giant starfish it was really incredible. When we arrived we got all of or gear and jumped into the water. I was first in and got to see the reef first. It was breath taking; there was fish everywhere all different colors and sizes. Starfish and Sea Urchins lay on the ground too. By the time I stuck my head up my brother Owen joined me and a couple of our friends that came to Jamaica with us. Owen made his way from the boat a bit and was look at the reef. I started to follow him but a second or two later he was above the water saying he saw a sting ray and it was still there. I swam over and sure enough it was really delicate looking just gliding in the water it was amusing to follow.

My trip to Jamaica was spectacular; the people were delightful and friendly. I think I came back with a couple more pounds than when I got there! I miss that place badly and hope to go there really soon.

True or Not?

Author's Note: Do you really know me? If you think you do then read this! If you think that it's true or not please comment your answer! I will post another piece saying if it's true or not.

I have 3 older sisters, they are Kimberly who is 16, Jessica who is 17, and Ella who is  19. They are really crazy! Each has their own counter in their room and it is full of makeup products. The only boy that is in my family is my dad. He always feels like the odd ball out but he enjoys teaching us on how to take care of the chickens, hunting and helping us with school work. Although sometimes we get on his nerves. The nice part about having older sisters is they can help you with school, boys, makeup, and that girly stuff that girls do, even take me places. My mom helps to but she doesn’t know that the the latest fashion trends are. Having sisters can be a downfall too. They might judge you on things or can make fun of you and even make you do their dirty work. But that doesn’t mean that I hate them. They are family so they mean a lot to me. My friends are jealous of me but that doesn’t change us.