Assignment #20 Christmas Story

As I sit under the tree with my presents on my lap, I remember everything santa had told me. I remembered te story about the reindeer, and the bell, but most of all i remembered what santa had told me.

It was a very cold December 23 night. I kissed my mom and dad good night and walked up the stairs to my room. My room was the door to the left of our small kitchen. Me and my parents had just ate dinner, we had pototoes and tortillas. As I climbed into my bed i lay there thinking about all the kids at school who talk about everything they wanted for christmas. It made me sad to think about how all the kids at school would get all of the new toys and I would only get a piece of candy. I told myself not to be sad because I had everything a kid like me could want. I had both of my parents who love me very much and they work hard to get me good food.

After thinking about the many things I had I finally fell asleep. In the middle of the night I woke up to a loud thud followed with a whistle. I remember walking to my window looking out and finding nothing. I walked to the living room after hearing jingling. I hear a little voice say my name, I answer yes?

"Hello I am Hunter one of santas elfs he has been asking for you." said the man in a green suit.
"For me? Why me?"
"I am going to have to take you with me has a surprise for you." he said.

So we clombed up the chimney to find a sled with 9 horses who had antlers and one had a red nose. This must be Santas sleigh! I climb into the large sleigh with red velvet seats. The next thing I knew we where at he north pole. We tookthe reindeer into their barn and walked inside this big house. we opened a big door and inside there he was drinking a glass of milk and christmas cookies. The elf left us alone. We started talking about cookies, I guess it was true that Santa loves cookies and milk.

Santa said that I had been a wonderful kid all year and desereved a special tour of his workshop. I saw all the little elves making toys, I saw the toys get wraped and I even got to meet Rudolph himslef. Santa told me that there were many kids in the world who get all the toys they want but they are not nearly as lucky as I was.

As my private tour with Santa ended he told me siomething i would never forget. He said "never stop believing" i asked in what? he told me to never stop beliieving in what is rght.

On that christmas morning I woke up to find something I had never seen before. I had presents under the tree, I looked and found that the labels read:

To: Calvin
From: Santa Clause

My parents looked at each other in amazement, for the first time in 5 years I got presents from Santa!

Assignment #19 My Very Short Story

It was a foggy and cloudy day in New York City. This didn’t stop anyone from getting where they needed to go, they never take time to just take a step back and enjoy life. In New York it’s always go, go, go never look, look, look.


I moved to this horrible place in July, its November now. I’m in the 8th grade. I made friends right away but I just can’t stand this lifestyle. I’ve played baseball since I was 5. Baseball is the best thing ever. You can’t get any better than hitting the ball and running from base to base.

As months passed baseball season finally arrived. This made my life a little better. I had practice every day after school until 5:30. One day at practice they had just watered the grass. We still played on it. We did our running and our drills. Then we started playing. I was put on second base.

The batter hit the ball and started running. I saw the ball coming in my direction I ran to catch it. The next thing I know I’m laying on the ground and I can’t move my ankle! As I’m sitting in the car, many things run through my mind. I hope I can play on Saturday in the first game of the season.

I’m sitting in the doctor’s office waiting to know how my x-rays came out. I hear a knock at the door. The doctor introduced himself as “Dr. Mackler”

“Your ankle is broken. I will send you to get your cast on now.”

Broken? I felt like I had just got punched in the gut. I am not going to play in my first game.

As I spent my time at home, I realized how nice New York could be. I spent a lot of time with my baby sister and my mom. I had been so caught up in how miserable I thought my life was that I didn’t see all the good I could pull out of it with my family.

Kisses and Lies: Book Report

Recently I read the book Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson. This book was very interesting, it made me want to keep reading. This book pulls you in from the very first page, you will not want to put it down. In the book Scarlett is a teenage girl living in London, her parents died when she was just a little baby (and she doesn't remember much about them) now she lives with her aunt in who is the principal at Wakefield High. This is the school Scarlett goes to.

When Scarlett goes to the biggest party of the year she ends up talking to the guy just about every girl is crushing on in school, Dan. Scarlett has liked Dan since she can remember. As Scarlett pulls back from her first kiss she realizes that The boy of her dreams is laying in her arms... dead. Scarlett gets blamed for Dan's tragic and surprising death she knows it is a mystery that needs to be solved. As Scarlett tries to clear her name the whole situation turns in to the biggest family drama she has ever witnessed.

This book will make you think about your family. the ending of the book will make you rethink the big decisions you make. When you make a big decision you usually only think about your self, which is always good to do, but if your decision is harming other people in a bad way it may not be a good decision.

Assignment #18 My Poem

You are always together 

Everyone has one.

But you might be completely different like the left foot and the right foot,

But opposites attract...

Right?

Sometimes we  have our problems 

But we work through it 

We have our good times and bad times 

And we might hit a few bumps in the road.

Eventually we get over them.

At times we are separated 

One of us might be in the living room and the other under the bed

In the end we always end up together.

You can were friends 'til the end

Or your favorite pair of shoes. (:

-Amanda Otero

Assignment #17 Lone Ranger and Tonto



"He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass." ~George Herbert

The movie Smoke Signals is based on the book The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven by Sherman Alexie. In this movie there are many lesson and teachings that come up. One that spoke to me was how Thomas teaches Victor to understand that his dad didn't mean to leave him.

Throughout the movie Thomas keeps asking Victor about his dad. He also keeps telling stories of the good times the had with Victors dad. Thomas tells the sory of when he went to Denny's with Victors dad, and how he was this really nice and good guy. When Victor hear these stories he gets mad at Thomas because he doesn't think that Thomas relly knew his dad.

As they go through the trip Victor realizes that Thomas is right and that his dad didn't mean to leave him. His dad didn't leave because of Victor. His dad was planning to eventually come back to Victor.

I really liked this teacing because it shows you a lot of different things. It shows you that before you blame yourself for something you have to really looked at the situation. You might be blaming yourself for a problem that really isn't anyones fault. When the boys get back home after the trip Thomas asks Victor one last time why his dad left, Victor replies "He didn't mean to."

Assignment #15 Multiple Intelligences Essay

Way up in the mountains, at the very top is where little Jesse lives. He has all of the nicest things,  but he always wants more and more. His parents always give him everything (and I mean everything!) he wants and they do anything and everything for him. He is 12 years old and he loves playing in the woods. His parents tell him not to go too far, today he decided to go a little farther than usual. He took a path that he had never seen before.

This path lead him to a little village on the other side of the mountain. He had never passed the boundaries of his village, so he was completely lost. He was turning in circles trying to find the way home. When it started to get dark his parents noticed he hadn't come home yet. They went looking all over for him, they didn't think to go deep into the woods because they figured that Jesse usually follows the rules.

While Jesse was on the other side of the mountain he didn't have any of his nice new things, but he did see that others kids weren't as lucky as him and they didn't have all of the latest toys. Finally Jesse found his way home he was so happy to be home. He decided to give his toys that he didn't play with to the kids on the other side of the mountain. This taught Jesse to be thankful of what he had and to always follow the rules.

Assignment #16 The Journey

Every morning I wake up in my big bed. My room has wood floors and it has a fire place on the other side of the room. Once I get out of bed I walk down the stairs to the living room. I pass the living room couches and I walk into my big kitchen. In the kitchen I have my stove in the middle of the kitchen, I have my pots and pans hanging from a shelf over the stove. My sink and the counters are against the wall, over my sink there is a big window overlooking the front porch and the front yard. My living room has big couches. On the far wall of the room I have a big fireplace, above the fireplace you can see the television. As you leave the living room you walk through the coat room, and you see the front door. 

As I walk out the front door I walk onto a big porch with chairs, this porch goes all the way around the house. I continue walking out onto the porch and dow the stairs, when I get to the bottom of the stairs I walk into a big meadow. This meadow is full of soft green grass. There are a few big trees growing in different places very far from each other. As you are walking through the meadow you can hear birds chirping as they fly over your head. You can see sunflowers growing all around you. In the meadow you can smell sunflowers and fresh air. As you pass the sunflowers you come to the base of a large mountain.

I start to climb the mountain. As I am climbing the mountain I can see many pine trees. While I am climbing I see squirrels and chipmunks running through the trees. You can hear their little feet on the trees and you can also hear the acorns falling from the trees. While I am climbing I hear all the leaves on the branches moving in the wind. I hear the crackle of rocks under my shoes. The leaves in the trees are dark green and the trunk of the tree is dark brown.