Lesson Learned

One lesson I learned was to never go to the red river in a front wheel drive car. This happened Saturday afternoon, when Colby and I wanted to go climb a little cliff out there. So we go out there and I started on one side and kept going until the car stop moving. I stared at Colby and he did the same, then I said "I think we are stuck." We where for about 4 hours, until my friend tried to help but he got stuck too. So we have 2 cars stuck and one of them was on quick sand. One was sinking while my car was sitting there chilling. I left my car over night, hoping it wouldn't sink down in the river, and went the next morning. It was my dad, Orlando, and I and we got the car out of the place it was stuck. We needed some wood, 2 cinder blocks, a car jack, and a big Ford F-350 super duty, dulie, 4 by 4. We get the car out, and my dad asked me what I learned from all this, and I told him "Never to go down a river with out a huge 4 by 4 truck."

Comma What?

My father had left our house in the midst of a fight between Lindsey, and my mother. My mother was trying to get Lindsey to go with her to the Y to swim. Without thinking, Lindsey had blared "I'd rather die!", at the top of her lungs. My father watched as my mother froze, then burst fleeing to their bedroom to wail behind the door. He quietly tucked his notebook in his jacket pocket, took the car keys off the hook by the back door, and snuck out.

Literary Elements

1. Satire-a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.

2. Irony-the use of words to express something other than and esp. the opposite of the literal meaning.

3. Analogy-comparison based on such resemblance.

4. Foreshadowing- to represent indicate or typify beforehand.

Figurative Language

Figurative- expressing one thing in terms normally denoting another with which it may be regarded as analogous.

Figure of Speech- a form of expression used to convey meaning or heighten effect often by comparing or identifying one thing with another.

Imagery- Figurative language.

Trope- the use of a word or expression in a figurative sense.

All of these have to do with language by how you talk and use words.

Story spinners; Option 1

As the old man approached my friends and me with a flashlight he asked what we where doing so late at night? I responded "Where looking for our dog sir." So he left and kept walking down the street. While we kept walking down the street, we found my dog Sneakers. My friends and I were walking home but my friend notice something.

I asked him what? My shoe was missing from my bag he said. So we went looking for it and my friend was barefoot, and we found it in the old mans house. He had a lot of junk in his back and front yard.

So my friend and I went to the door and knocked on the door. The old man started yelling a lot of gibberish when we knocked. Then he answered the door saying "What do you kids want?" So my friend asked "Can I have my shoe back sir?" "What shoe?" he said.

"The one on your desk." I said. Oh that one why sure he said. While we where about to leave he asked "Do you want a bicycle?". I wanted to be nice to I said yeah, I would like one. So we go home and lay on my bed saying "Man this was a crazy night". Then we get in our beds and go to sleep.

Parts of Speech Review

Yesterday, I woke up from my sleep and got ready for work. As I walk to the living room, my brother scares me by hitting me with a belt. So I yell "Ouch!", and my brother runs outside, and I go after him with my belt. Then he gives up and we go inside to make breakfast before we go to work. We started working on this one house, putting siding on the house because the old siding was destroyed. My brother Martin and I get all of our tools off of the back of my truck and start working. After we finished one of the sides, Martin decides he wants to try to hit me with a piece of wood he cut. So I run as fast as I can and as far away from him as possible. But after all that we finished part of the house and got paid $200 just for one side. We went home and rested after a hard days work and took our showers and went to bed.

My Bucket List

1. Finish High school
2. make all region band
3. make the State band
4. get scholarships
5. be a band director
6. be a success
7. be a mechanic
8. have my own dealership
9. jump off a plane
10. bungiejump
11. have a big house
12. have my own band
13. have a 10 second car
14. have a happy life
15. climb a mountain
16. have good grades in school
17. own a 69 camaro
18. go to Mexico
19. go to China
20. go to England
21. travel to Michigan
22. go to Utah
23. go to California
24. live in Arkansas
25. race cars
26. explore a rain forest
27. live close to my brother
28. fly a plane
29. go to Las Vegas
30. have muscle cars
31. have a big business
32. Ride a bull
33. own a farm
34. have cows
35. Street race cars
36.