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11/10 /2012

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar

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11)      The beginning explains what one of the main characters, Blair Waldorf, is like. She is mostly stuck up and full of herself as far as I can tell. She is dating a boy named Nate. Her mother is Eleanor Waldorf and she is going to be marrying a guy names Cyrus Rose. Blair doesn't like them being together because she does like Cyrus. They Waldorf family decided to throw a party and invite all their friends over. As doing so everyone was talking about Eleanor and Cyrus getting together. During the party an old friend of Blair’s who goes by the name of Serena Van Der Woodsen, showed up after being gone for two years and not being in contact for a year. No one had a clue she was coming or she was back from her boring school, except her family.

22)      “Don’t listen to a word that girl says. Girls like surprises. They want to keep things interesting. You know what I mean?”  This was being said from Cyrus to Nate about Blair. I think this is an important quote because Blair and Nate have only been dating for a year and he never surprises her. He thinks that If he doesn't treat her special then he will lose her.  Now he is going to be figuring out things he can do to remind Blair that she means a lot to him. Later to find out that Serena comes home. Serena and Nate were lovers in the past and now that she’s home he starts thinking that he never lost feelings for her.

33)      In this part of the book I can connect to Serena because she lived in one place for a while and made a ton of friends but then she decided to leave and she moved somewhere else for a while and she moved back again and her and her friends didn't stay in that good of contact and now that she is back things with her and her friends are a little weird now. That similar story happened to me. When I moved here and then I moved back to Nevada and then I moved up here again. I didn't stay connected with my friends as much as I wanted to and when I moved back everything was different with my friends. Everyone else had different friends and everyone was hanging with different people, and when I got back I didn't know where I fit in anymore. 

Horror review

11.       When I was writing this story I was think of the things I'm afraid of and most of the things I'm afraid of are being home alone and hearing noises. Also I'm afraid of people in mental hospitals. That’s when I came up with my story. I just kept putting situations together and my story came from that.

22.       I found that the middle was the easiest to write because I was in the heat of my story and the climax was coming together. I kept coming up with good ideas for the next part and my thought were flowing.

33.       The very beginning was the hardest part for me because I didn't know how to start the story and I was thinking of ideas for the story. It took me a while to figure out what I would put next in my story.

44.       I’m feel that my story was written with a lot of thought and time, so I would have to say that I give my story a 9. Not a full 10 because I could have used better explanations on certain parts.

55.       I think I deserve an A- because the story was a little rushed towards the ending.

66.       On my next writing project, I will explain more and go into more detail about everything. I think that would make my story ten times better

Different Person

          The night was rough I was struggling to sleep. With all the things going through my head I decided to go to my window and sit there and look at the stars. Upon sitting there I witnessed a shooting star at that moment I wished that I would get the chance to trade lives with an unattractive homeless person.  I wished this for myself because everything might not be as bad as it seems and I would learn to not take things for granted. This way I would not get down on myself about all the little bad things that happen in my life. After I wished I went back into my bed to try to get some sleep. The morning had rolled around, I woke up to cold winding blowing on me and birds chirping next to me. I found myself in our town park, lying on the bench near the play ground.  I was confused on how I got here, and why the park out of all places? I looked at my body to make sure I didn't get hurt. Upon looking at myself I noticed I was wearing really dirty, ripped old clothing. I remembered at that point what I wished for that night. I honestly didn't think it would really happen, but by the looks of it, it had happened.  I got off the bench and started to walk around, I noticed everyone was looking at me really weird. In a way that made me feel way different from everyone else. I was thinking to myself, is this really how they feel, unloved, weird, and useless. I kept walking around, I didn't know how I would get food, so I started asking people for money. Everyone was ignoring me, so I decided to get louder and stand on tall things ,but I noticed that I doesn't matter how loud or tall you are. You need to be good at something or impress people if they are going to give you money. I that point I started dancing, everyone loved me and the money was pouring in. once I got tired of dancing I decided to pick up all the money and go and get food somewhere, because I was to hungry to function. When I went to get food it seemed as if no one wanted to serve me. I made them those because I was starving. When I got out of the restaurant I went back to the park and sat there wondering if this is all they do with their lives. I realized that I don’t know what I would do without my phone or nice close or a decent meal.  I came to a conclusion that I needed to change who I’m because it’s not all about the things you get and it’s not right to be selfish.

English Group Project

Shannon-Questions and set what we thought

Makayla- Proof read, what we thought,Questions, and Visual

MIke-Script What we what we thought

Cam-Script and what we thought

Zombie Apocalypse

          The zombie apocalypse is coming, Sooner than anyone has ever expected. Even though people believe this isn’t going to happen, well it’s coming. Knowing this, I came up with a sneaky plan, in which they will have no idea what my plan of attack is. If all of a sudden out of nowhere you saw many strange creepy looking people walking toward you moaning you would know that they are more than likely zombies. At that point you would try to run to your ZAHP (zombie apocalypse hideout place) usually this would be in a basement, crawlspace, or even a closet. Any place that you can lock away anything trying to kill you. In this ZAHP you will need a couple of things. You will need a gun, some food, water, a zombie taser, maybe some blanks, definitely a mirror, and other essentials you may want to have in your ZAHP, that you would need to survive for a day or so. You may never know how long you will need to prepare to go out and attack, and also if they are in your house or standing outside your door, you will have to stay in there until they think you’re not there anymore. When that time comes you will then use your mirror to double check that they are not there anymore. You will have to put the mirror under the door and angle it so you can see on the other side. If you see no one that is when you grab your gun and your zombie taser, a zombie taser only kills zombies.  You then will check one more time with your mirror to make sure the coast is clear. You first search your house for zombies , when you find no one you will lock up your house so only will you will be able to get back in it , your house is now you’re safe spot. Then you will start of on a quest to help other people away from the zombies. This now makes you a zombie slayer. Now with that title you are able to attack any zombie in your path.

Author Bio.

My Name is Shannon. I live in the state of Wisconsin. I'm currently in high school right now. When i get out I'm planing on working with deaf people and translating for family's and kids in school. I'm on the swim team  and I'm going to be doing track. I love animals and taking care of them. My family is  the best, they have supported me in everything that i have done through my life. I plan on going to the UNLV college when i graduate high school. My hobbies are running, four wheeling,reading and spending time with my friends and family, and playing with my animals. I plan on enjoying the rest of my years in high school.

9/11

      The Day of September 11^th ,2001 I was 4 years old and at that time visiting my grandma in Florida. Around the time of the attack I was watching cartoons in the guest room and my mom and brother were watching TV in the living room. When I heard my mom screaming I had no idea what was happening so I ran out to see and she told me that a building in New York got hit by a plane. We all stood there in shock, watching and waiting to see what would happen next. When all of a sudden the second plane hit the other building.  We didn’t know what to do besides watch. As we were watching the terror within everyone , my mom then realized the my uncle, who is a pilot was supposed to be flying an American airlines plane from New York to California that day, my mom started to freak out and call a bunch of people. After a while of my mom freaking out she realized that he did it the day before but was supposed to come back and do it again but he wasn’t allowed to fly that many hours in a row.  The terrorists chose that plane he was supposed to fly that day because it had a lot of fuel in it so that it would make it all the way to California so with a lot of fuel that means a bigger explosion. I’m so glad that he wasn’t allowed to fly that plane that day. For the rest of that day all I could sing is god bless America as loud as I could. My sorrow for that tragedy will never go away. I don’t think that our decision for starting this war was very smart for our country because it altered the Americans and in how we live our life today. The terrorists succeeded what they wanted to accomplish by messing up our lives and to make it where we could never go back to what it was before. I will never forget where I was and what a horrific event that shook our nation and the world on just one single day.

Advice Blog

           If I could go back and give myself advice at three ages of my life. The ages, five, ten and fourteen.  I would hope to achieve different things then what I have achieved so far.  At age five I would tell myself to start learning Spanish, so I would already know everything by the time we had to take it in high school. That way I could skip Spanish now. It is easier to learn things one step at a time, over a long period of time then to learn it all in one school year. As you get older it is harder to focus because you are thinking about different things going on in your life. At the age of ten I would tell myself that I need to take in interest in more sports. Now I regret not going out for more sports. If you don’t like one sport you could quit it and go on to another sport of your choice. Since I have been in swimming my whole life its hard to stop, but since I don’t like swimming anymore, there is nothing I can really do sports wise, because I not very good at any other sports. At the age of fourteen I would tell myself to be a better and nicer person. Over the years I have always been a great person, but since I got into 8^th grade and high school I have been not caring about other people as much as I should. I always think about myself before others and that’s not how I was raised. I definitely would tell myself to keep on with my attitude from when I was growing up, because everyone knows that high school is the place that changes you the most. High school is what shapes you for the rest of your life ahead of you.