Civil War Writing Ides

My story is going to be about a young girl that was a slave and she has escaped from the south with her family to head on the underground rail road to get to the north and be free. I have decided that the girl's name is going to be Annie, and she is a slave that works around the house with her mom, and her brother and her dad are the cotton pickers. There is going to be a tragedy when they are trying to escape, but I am not going to ruin it! My story is going to describe the life of a slave and what it was like to be a run away, and what did people back then think of the north. Was it the just like they thought it was going to be, how so? Why did they leave, to be free, to have power, just to get away?

(Stay tuned for my story and see what happnes, put yourself in a body of a slave, experience the past!)

Motivation

I think that most people act because of the money or passion. I mean if people want money, they can do anything other than acting. I don't understand why they choose acting. A lot of the good paying jobs you have to do a lot to get in that position. like if you wanted to be a doctor, you have to go through many years of schooling. Also if you want to be an Olympic medalist you have to work hard at getting that gold and silver mettle's.

I think that some people are more selfish than others, all I know is that I don't like hanging around other people that only talk about themselves. But some individuals always but others, no matter what, first on there to do list before them. Everyone is selfish once an a while. That's just who we are, even if you say u where never selfish, that's lying because every one has done it!

Last year, I really wanted my 7th grade math teachers, sisters, rabbits. She was giving them out for free to a good home, and I asked my mom and she was about to say no, but then I made a deal. If I get good grades and take care of the animals I have now, do you think we can get them! She agreed to this genius deal. I was so excited but I had to get to work right away. For the next week I took care of all my animals and did all my homework and studied for my tests! I got all A's and B's. My mom was so proud, 3 days later we went over to my teachers sisters house and we picked 2 rabbits out of the 5 and we took them home. I wanted them all, but I all ready had 1 at home, I didn't want to overwhelm myself with to much work. I also did a 3 page essay on what we would do to keep this up and how this would work. I did really good on it. I had my 7th Grade english teacher read it and grade it. I got a 97%! That also helped with getting the rabbits.

School Changes

If I was in charge of the school, the 3 things that I would change would be:

1) Homework code: I would have no homework and they would just do it all in school, and if they didn't finish they would do it next class. I would change this because kids have lives and would like to do things other than homework after school, that is why a lot of kids now a days don't do them because they have other things they would rather be doing. (there is only so much sun light)

2) Time School Starts: I think that school should start at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 4:00p.m, because we all know how long girls stay in the bathroom in the morning. Also when people have plans on a school night, they stay out late and then they have to get up really early to get ready so they are not thinking properly and if they have a test they will fail. Then will not go on to the next grade.

3) Resource/Study Hall Period: I think that we should have a longer resource because then we would have time to relax and get ready for tests!

Reflections

I think that our discussion with the class went really well, even though our topic wasn't that interesting or bid. I think that we did good with eye contact and getting the audience involved right away and we knew what we where talking about, and many facts to back our opinions up! I think we did really good and we didn't need to do anything better. The reason Beth didn't talk a lot was because she was gone and she missed a lot so we where still filling her in. At first I didn't like this assignment but when we started to get it and do it, I really liked it and getting n front of the class wasn't so bad!

Elizabeth Taylor, Lifelon Screan Star, Dies as 79

She did on Wednesday in Los Angeles at 1:28 a.m. She was a very famous movie star back in her days. She has passed because of heart failure. She has been in the acting business since she was 8 years old, her first movie ever was "National Velvet", her second was right after the first, "A Place in the Sun," and right after that she was in a movie called "Cleopatra!" She quickly turned from a fragile young girl actress to a very popular and strong actress. In her 70 years of acting, she has been in 5o films, 2 academy awards for best actress for her movie "Butterfield 8" and "Virginia Woolf."

I think that she was a strong actress and stuck to her dream, and what she could make better about her job she did better than she thought!

(NOT DONE, FINISH IN RESOURCE)

Free Write

I have been reading this book called "Dream of Night" written by Heather Henson. It is a really good book and yesterday I finished it! I am so happy because its over, but I'm sad at the same time because I want to keep reading! You would like this book if you like horses. In the beginning was kind of confusing, but as the story went on and clues started to come in the story became more clear. The main character is a 13 year old foster girl by the name of Shiloh. She has been through a lot, her mother being taken away from her, her real father dead and her mom's x-boyfriend trying to take control of her mom and hurt her. The foster home she is in now is owned by a lady names Ms. LiBean, she has been a foster parent for a while, but she hasn't had a child in her home for a while now. Shiloh doesn't like where she is and who shes with, not at all. That is all I am going to say for now, it is a really interesting and enjoyable book. I recommend you read it!

Can Humans ever be Equil?

I don't think that humans can be equal. Just like the story, Harrison Bergeron, if everyone was equal and the same, we would have all of there "handicaps" and there would be nothing interesting and the world would no longer be a fun and enjoyable place an nothing would be out of the ordinary and interesting. The world would be a place where I wouldn't want to live if we where all equal. I imagine the world being all gray, the same clothes, the same cars, even the same names. Nothing out of the ordinary nothing interesting, everything just the same.

Superhuman Power

I would like to have the power of Invisibility. When I was younger I wanted to have the power of mind reading! After thinking it through that if you heard every ones thoughts, it may be personal and you might not want to hear what you want to hear. I chose invisibility because you can be anywhere you want and hear things that are not supposed to be heard, with ought being seen. The only down fall to this is if someone is walking (they cant see you) and if they run into you your power would be reviled. But if someone knew about your power like the government, you can earn a lot of money by going on special missions! This power can be abused and used in good ways! If you use it right, you can do and get a lot!

March 16th 2011

Are you really Yourself?

Being yourself, important but meaningful. It is very common in this generation to act like someone your not, or be two faced. When you are yourself, a lot of people might not like you, but you are going to have best friends that will always be there for you. If you are two faced, you life is not going to get any easier, its might just get harder! Like you might say something that was your other character to the friends you have with your current character. Be yourself and life will be easier and you can live your life in the light and not that shadows, and you can live your life to the fullest!