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Sutter: Poem
Jordan:Warm Winter Day

Poem

So many people view sports as the light of the world,
the big game apparently brings the people together
but are we really together when we are cheering for opposing teams
when we speak hateful words to those in the opposing colors
do they really bring us together?
Riots break out when your favorite team loses
Athletes do drugs
so that they will not let down their fans
by allowing their competitors defeat them
is this really together?




Assonance
Sibilance
Consonance

3 Words

    Zach Potterman was contending in a race, with 49 other people. It costs 15 dollars for one person to join, and every time someone did the monetary award got higher and higher. The goal of the race was to build the fastest car when pushed down a hill. Zach made a car the perfect size for himself out of wood. Zach decided to implicate metal wheels, because he thought they would make him go faster.
      On the final day to prepare for the race he painted his car his favorite colors, purple, yellow, and red. The next day was very exiting for Zach because it was race day. While he was there Zach saw one of his friends from school, and they talked for a while, and before they went separate ways his friend promised that he would beat Zach. Once they finally lined up to go down the hill, everyone got in their car, and then it started. Zach was in second behind his friend, until his friend hit a little bump in the ground which gave Zach the lead. In the final stretch of the race something tragic happened, one of Zach's front wheel fell off, but he still one just because his car was a little longer than his friends.

Quarter 3 week 4 comments

Gautam: Research
DJ:Research

Research Project

      The first skill that I have learned by working on this project is to work ahead. This research project has made me learn to do some work before the night before. Before we did this project I would always wait till the day before, but now I work ahead. The other skill I learned from this paper is to not try and rush things. If I try to hurry up and finish things it normally takes me longer to go back and fix all of the mistakes.
      The one thing that I had trouble with for this project was sources. Finding reliable sources with a lot of information is harder than it sounds. I personally really do not like using databases to find these sources. Most of the sources I found on databases were really old, and did not have a lot of information. So far sources have been the only trouble I have ran into.

Reading Respose

      Currently we are reading the Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. This book is written in the perspective of an Indian boy. The boy is named Junior, and is in a very poor family. The boy decides to switch school, to the most dangerous one he could go to. Some days Junior has to walk 22 miles to get to school, and once he does get there a bunch of kids pick on him. Later in the story Junior impresses a girl named Penelope, and they start talking more and more.
      So far this book has been a great read. I definitely think events like this could happen today. While reading this book it makes me feel really engaged, and wanting to keep reading. While other books are so boring that I never want to read them. Overall this has been a very good book so far.

February 2 blog comments

Megan: Blood and Gunfire
Ian: Mardi Gras