Author's Note: I am explain a funny time during my winter break.
During
winter break I was playing Kinect Sports 2 with my friend. We were
playing football and he was ready to punt it away. He kicks but while he
does that his other leg flies up to and he falls on his back. It looked
liked a cartoon character slipping on a banana peel. It was a perfect
punt.
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Monday, December 19, 2011
Jonathan & Katniss
Author's Note: This is a comparative essay for Language Arts. I am working on Idea Development. Any feedback would be great.
Have you ever
thought about going to war? Maybe you want to or not. Katniss, the Hunger Games, & Jonathan, The Fighting Ground,
are both in war, but will they live? There are many similarities between the two,
but the there are differences, Yet they still have the same importance to the
war.
Jonathan &
Katniss are both very important to the war. Both of them are really fighting in
the war but they are helping in a way that really affects the war. Katniss doesn't
fight in the war, but she is the face of the rebellion. Jonathan tried to fight
in the war but was captured. Once he escaped the Americans wanted him just so he
could sneak into the Cabin and say if the Hessians were still sleeping. They were the Pawns.
Both of them couldn't
really decide which side they were on. Yes, Katniss was with the rebels and
Jonathan was an American, but could either of them really trust anyone. Katniss
ended up killing Coin, The leader of the rebels, instead of Snow, Leader of the
Capitol. Jonathan went back into the cabin to see if the Hessians were still
sleeping, but instead he woke up the Hessians and warned them that the
Americans were outside. They both didn’t trust the side they were on.
There is one
difference between the two. Katniss
became the face of the rebellion after the stunt with berries. She went to war,
she never wanted to but was forced to. All Jonathan wanted to do was fight in the
war. His dad didn't want him to but he did any ways. After all that had happened I
don't think that either of them ever want to experience that again.
Both of them are
important but are still just pawns. They probably didn't expect anything that
this to ever happen in their lives, and it made a huge impact to their
lives. An experience they will never forget.
Friday, December 9, 2011
The Fighting Ground - Cause & Effect
This book has so
much to do with cause and effect. Everything Jonathan does changes the
story. The biggest thing was Jonathan
wanting to go war. His father did not want him to. But the Hessians were coming
and he went any ways. If he never went to war he would have never gotten
captured. There wouldn't have been any story if he listened to his father. Even
the littlest things can change the story.
The Waitress with Big Dreams
May I. Take-Order is
a waitress. She wants to become a star football player for the Green Bay
Packers. But for now she works at Applebee's. She practices football all the
time.
"Set, Hut, Hut,
Hike!" May yells then snaps the ball (Burger).
As she snaps the
pretend football and at this time everyone in Applebee's is staring at her. Because how many
times have you see a waitress play football with a burger in a restaurant?
"She has time,
May throws it down the right side line!" May yells.
The burger is flying
through the air and the burger smashes right into the costumers face. May
throws her arms up in the air.
"TOUCHDOWN!"
The costumer she hit
wasn’t just any costumer it was the Packers Manager! He walks over to her.
"That was a
marvelous show you just put on there," He says.
"Really!?"
May is getting really excited now.
"Yes! How about
you and me take a trip to Lambeau Field and see what you can do." He says.
"YES, YES,
YES!" May screams and by now she is jumping for joy.
As May is leaving
the restaurant she screams "See ya SUCKAS, I am going to be a GREEN BAY
PACKER!!!"
As she arrived at
Lambeau she dashed out of the car and ran straight into the building. They told
her to get on the field. She was ready, she had all her gear and everyone was
set.
"Hut, Hut,
Hike!" Yells Mays
After throwing
multiple perfect passes not letting one touch the ground, they decide to put
her into a game. May brings the Packers to a 16-0 season.
It the super bowl
and they are down. 6 seconds left they and they are down 35-31. They on the 10
yard-line.
"Hike!" May
screams.
"It's a QB
Sneak!" says the announcer.
May breaks free. She
dives into the end zone! Crash! Like the sound of a window breaking woke her
with a start.
"Oh, it was
just a dream," May thought to herself.
"Well maybe I
am just seeing the Future!"
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
The Fighting Ground - Point of View
Author's Note: I am working on Point-of-View. The book I am reading is "The Fighting Ground". It is comparing Jonathan (Main Character) and the Hessians (German Soldiers) view of each other.
It is Revolutionary War time and a 13 year-old boy named Jonathan wants to fight in the war. His doesn't want him to go to war, but since his father is hurt with a leg problem, Jonathan runs off and disobeys his father. Once the first shots are fired, war is nothing Jonathan thought it would be. After the battle he surrenders himself to the Hessians. The Hessians speak German and Jonathan speaks English, so they have totally different perspectives of each other. In the book it is weird because when you know what Jonathan thinks about the Hessians, but when you see what the heesians are acually saying it gives you a whole different perspective of them. To Jonathan they are emotion-less people that want to kill Jonathan. Jonathan doesn't know what they are saying, but he can kind of guess. The Hessians think of Jonathan as a weak little boy that shouldn't be in the war. Since they speak different languages they really don't know what the other is thinking.
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
Short Story
A crash, like a window breaking woke me with a start! I look out the window, but there is just a bunch of mountain out there. Wait a minute, that does make any sense I live in a neighborhood and there aren't mountains for miles. I walk downstairs, no one is there. This is getting kind of creepy. I take a step outside and I am frozen. I can't say anything, because there is nothing there!
As I stare out into the empty field, this man walks by saying nothing. I start to chase him. Finally I catch him and ask him where we are.
"A meteor hit and wiped out everything." said the man "Oh, by the way my name is Jack."
"Some how your house is still standing." says Jack "I survived by mining, I got lucky because I was underground. Here you can have this pick axe" says Jack
"Thanks!" I exclaim
"Here also takes this sword because after the meteor hit, monsters have been walking around usually at night but some during the day." says Jack
I let Jack stay in my house if he needs it. These tools are great but I will have to get some better ones.
As I set off on my journey to find anything a large green blob launches itself at me. I pull out my sword ready to fight!
To be continued
Monday, December 5, 2011
Point Of View- The Hessians
We have found this boy. He seems he is to be around 13 years old. At first he didn't know anything that we were saying, but now he is sort of catching on. He doesn't speak German. I think we won the battle, but the only problem is that we are the only ones left.
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