- In this class we have used many different writing techniques and formats. We have taken pages from books and with black markers, blacked out the page except for some words here and there to form a poem or saying that we liked. Some of my favorite pieces of writing that I did this year were all poems. I like the 6 word poems and the picture poems that we did along with the all the hands on things we did and the walks outside were nice.
- I haven’t read as much as I would have liked to this year. I have been extremely busy all the time and the only books that I have read are the last to Hunger Game books and Rot and Ruin. I enjoyed both of them but I had a lot higher expectations for myself for reading. But I think I’ll be able to pick back up later this year. I also read unbroken which is my all time favorite book it’s about a WWII pilot that crashes and gets captured by the Japanese, I have already read it twice and I plan on reading it again.
- Where do I begin, when I went to set up my blog it took forever. First when I first logged on I didn’t us a Gmail so I had to go through the process of I had to go create an account just so I could begin to set up my account. And once I did all of that I started to do it on the wrong website and had to exit out of all my progress. Then once I had gotten to the real website I was almost done and I went to change the song I was listening to on my computer and Steinhouse exited me out of the internet and I had to restart for the third time. So I finally get it done with barely any time to spare and when we came back the next day I had forgotten all of my passwords so I had to go through the process of changing my password. But after it was all done I was glad that I went through all of the trouble because I much rather type out my entries than hand write them ant day.
- I have mixed emotions on the topic of the journals. On the one hand I hate to write not like you might think I love to write poems and stories and things like that but I hate to physically write. Like pen and paper write, I much rather use a computer to type out my journals rather than hand write them. I have all kinds of things in my journals that we have done in and out of the classroom. I have poems, stories, memories, and dreams in there. At times it was hard to come up with topics to write about and it’s hard for me to focus sometimes so I had trouble filling full pages. I don’t know if I will continue to do the blogs because I’m pretty busy and the last the on my mind is to do a blog. However I will occasionally do some journal entries just to get something’s off of my chest that I can’t tell to someone’s face. If I do write it would be about things that I have been going through and are struggling with.
- Kids the days are told they are free. But when they try to do something they are met with a mile long list of rules they have to abide by. They try to be creative and express themselves they are stopped because others feel they are standing out. It’s a good thing to stand out that’s when you get noticed that’s how you succeed in life. But it’s impossible to do anything that we can learn from because adults are scared of what we could accomplish. Life is all about choices and what we learn from those choices, I am fortunate that my parents allowed me to learn stuff on my own I have done many things that I won’t anymore because I have learned from them. And there is a fear growing in parents now a days that they won’t let their kids go free in fear they could get hurt. Yes they can and they will learn from those pains and mistakes and they will never do it again, it’s called life. And from those mistakes that kid will grow and learn from them to become a responsible adult from fear he could fail. That’s what drives people, the fear of failing. People are born to fail and to get up and try again until the job is done its human nature.
One of my favorite things I wrote was the scary
stories here is mine.
Staring at the
teddy bear, I would have never imagined that I would have been here, in this
wet dark suffocating cellar. I don’t know how long it’s been since I was on the
streets with my girlfriend going to a haunted house when all of a sudden
everything was black. That’s when I realized she wasn’t there and started to
yell for her calling her name as loud as possible but there was no response
only silence and the muffled echo of her name. I started to look at my
surroundings a little bit more, that’s when I realized there was a creepy teddy
bear sitting on a shelf there was a rusty old sink on the wall I tried to turn
it on but the handles were rusted in place. I moved on to a little tool bench
that had a few tools laying on it I thought I might be able to use them, then I
realized there was a little closet in here so I went into it and found nothing
there wasn’t anything in it besides a piece of paper. I then moved towards a
door that seems like my way out and as I passed under the archway I got a huge
shock to my leg and I couldn’t move finally it subsided and I could back away
from the door. I quickly pulled my pant leg up and there is an ankle bracelet
on me and attached to it is a tazer. I cannot believe I didn’t notice it
earlier but now my leg feels like I’ve been stabbed. “So I’m not going over
there anymore” I said out loud which startled me because it was the first sound
I had heard since I woke up.
Since
I couldn’t get close to the door I set about searching the rest of the cellar
for anything I could use. In one of the corners was and old bed with a
paper thin mattress and a wool blanket, in the adjacent corner of the room
there was an old crate that looked as if it had been there since the 80s. Then
I realized I hadn’t checked my pockets. In one pocket I had my car keys and
pocket knife; in the other pocket I had a phone and a lighter. I quickly got
the phone and dialed 911 but there was no service and I couldn’t call anybody.
I then thought I could light the mattress on fire so somebody would come but
decided against it since it might be and abandoned house in the middle of
nowhere. So I just sat down on the bed and tried to think, but the pain in my
leg seemed to get worse and I couldn’t focus. I paced around for what seemed
like days. I then started to hear a very annoying beep and looked around and
didn’t see anything electrical. The beep continued and I stared to walk around
the room that’s when I passed by the teddy bear and heard it. Instead of button
eyes, it had camera eyes. Starring at the teddy bear I just snapped how someone
could do this to another person was just insane. Lock them up and just forget
about them, so I grabbed the teddy bear and ripped the head of, took the
cameras and smashed them. Panting with anger I made my way over to the tool
bench and grabbed for the hammer and screw driver. I started to go to town on
the ankle bracelet, I could feel it getting looser and looser and it finally
broke loose and I ran for the door but it was locked, I took the hammer and
broke in the lock and ran through the door.
As
I made my way through the thresh hold there was at least a dozen more doors
just like mine. And by each door was a little monitor with live feed from
inside the room. And in every single room there was another person just like me
freaked out. And in the furthest door from mine was my girlfriend laying down
on her bed just laying there I quickly open the door to get her, run to the bed
and when I get there I just freeze I couldn’t move just stood there. Her face
was gone and I just stood there she wasn’t breathing or moving and I heard
something coming from the hall and I ran to see what it was with hammer in
hand. And the creepiest looking man I have ever seen was in my room with a
machete and I ran down the hall and closed the door behind him found a chair
and set it against the door to keep him in there and opened all of the doors.
But everybody else was dead or not conscious so I took off for the stairs and
as soon as I got to them the man broke through the door and started after me. I
ran as fast as possible but my leg, still hurting from the shock I received
earlier was slowing me down. I got up stairs and made a hard left for the door
and as soon as I got outside I was shocked.
I
thought that I was only in there for a few hours or a day or two. But when I
was grabbed it was summer now it was the middle of winter. I turned to get I
good look at the place before I ran and that’s when the big guy barreled out of
the building. And right as he did I took off, the weird thing was there was no
one around and the big guy was gaining on me. We ended up going through a park
and I thought I might lose him on the ice so I ran to a nearby pond and the ice
would barely hold me. I was about half way across the pond when I heard a crack
I turned and the guy had broke through the ice and was having trouble swimming
then he just disappeared.
.”–Arnold Schwarzenegger. Thanks for a good year.
