A Grade! What a Grade!

Allison Nickerson

Mr. Allam

Hour 7

5-20-2011       

A grade, a buzz, a high, you never seem to stop worrying about them. Most of this year my grades have been A’s because, of the work I put into my stuff and how much I participate. The grade I believe I deserve is an A because of the improvement I’ve made and participation.

            Some students in our class may think I’ve always been argueementive and really good at English but really I’ve never have been too good at English until the last three years. This year a lot of people think I’ve gotten really argueementive when I really just have an opinion than I have ever had in any other class.

            This year my improvement in English has sky rocketed more than ever. Kansas reading Assessment score was 82. The score I got was the best score I have ever had on the reading assessment. I was really proud of this score and hope to get better at the assessment before the end of my senior year. Understanding what I learned has increased greatly this year. Understanding what I’ve learned in years past has always been difficult to me but this whole year I’ve understood what we have learned or talked about. Being able to understand what we’ve been doing has made it so much easier for me because I understand discussions and assignments which help me with class participation. Being able to understand is like a dog barking at the mail man it’s common and very necessary to our daily lives.

            Participation is essential to life just like oxygen is to the existence of pretty much everything. Notorias B.I.G. rapped, “No heat, wonder why Christmas missed us” I choose this because being able to TPFASTT even this line from a poem your participating. Participation consists of pretty much everything you do being able to TPFASTT the poem that quote came from because discussing it with your class means you understand how to do it. Just being able to talk about something is participation because one it shows you understand something and that you’re willing to engage with your fellow classmates. Suffixes, Prefixes and Roots a way of words, a way of a sentence and a way to speak if we didn’t have then we wouldn’t have words. Intersection, orthodontist, microbiologist. These words some common words in one society which use prefixes. These had to come from somewhere which most of the times they are either Greek or Latin words. Identifying these roots in everyday life cause like come on its plan English but its participation in everyday life. Boom, Boom, Buzz the sign of talking is everywhere, life is everywhere, and understanding and participation is what you do to succeed.

            One life, one understanding and one participation. The grade I should get is an A because of the improvement and participation I’ve done throughout the year.

Last Sacrifice Trailer

Villanelle

To win a chance for a cure,
Age and looks don't define who they are,
What they want is so pure and mature.

To learn more theres away a brochure,
Just the way they act people may think there bizarre,
To win a chance for a cure.

They never have to go through the pain we endure,
you never reallly have enough room in their drawer,
what they want is so pure and mature.

They love they give makes them a saviour,
they tend to be off of our radar,
To win a chance for a cure.

Most Families can't afford because their poor
but thank the lord they don't go to war
What they want is so pure and mature.

we should all fight for something that is so pure,
lets make sure they are very secure
To win a chance for a cure,
What they want is so pure and mature.

Sonnet

What shall you see through the sound of a beat?

This record is finally to the end,

I never thought the lyrics would be complete,

I hope this isn't able to offend,

concerts are the thing that helps me keep going,

when you walk on that stage all their is is energy,

 the energy of the crowd is just blasting,

these fans are always there to make us cheery,

many channels to play so many to complete it,

many songs, beats, lyrics to write,

I never thought this would be the thing to commit,

I never thought i would get to see the light,

I never thought it would be this much work,

but i never thought it would be a firework.

A Vampire Acadamy: LAST SACRIFICE

LAST SACRIFICE BY RICHELLE MEAD

Although it seems that Rose is done, over, and nothing is going to work for her and that she will be killed for her crime but her and her friends are fighting the courts and trying to find quickly who the real killer is. Although it seems that Dimitri will never be accepted as a guardian or dhampir again he still tries to do community service and fight for his freedom and to prove that he isn’t Strigoi anymore. Although it seem that’s Dimitri doesn’t love rose anymore and swears he is forever to fight for Lissa we all pretty much know just on how they act around each other that Dimitri is still in love with rose.

If I were rose I wouldn’t of told the Dashkov brothers what my plan was to one save myself and to prove that I didn’t kill the queen and that I was framed and two to help Lissa and find her hidden sibling. If I were rose when Lissa was hiding from me even though I was in jail I would have found a way to find out what was going on before my actual escape attempt.

I was really surprised on how the group of roses friends did that well of an escape plan to get rose out of jail long enough to find the real murder of the queen. I was really surprised that Sonya Karp who has been Strigoi for many years was Eric Dragomir mystery person on mystery accounts for Eric’s hidden child who no one knew about.

I wonder if Rose will find a way to get Lissa’s other sibling to court so the Dragomir family will be able to participate in court again.  I wonder if Lissa will find the true killer of the queen and get rose off the hook so she can be reunited with Lissa, Adrian and the rest of her family and friends again. I wonder a lot if hopefully by the end of the book Dimitri will admit that he is still totally in love with rose.


One consequence of Rose and Dimitri escaping from court is that when they get back more unlikely no matter if rose is off the charges for murder she will probably be somehow punished for breaking out of jail and for Dimitri violating his house arrest.

Concrete Poem

Parent letter

Dear Parent,

                Just imagine peace and quiet and well me not being home sounds great doesn’t it. I should be able to get a car from you guys for like my birthday or something instead of buying my own car. I’m 16 years old and almost 17 years I deserve a car because I could do more errands around the house and mom doesn’t have to worry about when she will get the car.

                Of course I know what you are going to say. I need to learn the value of money and just buy my own car with hard work but you sometimes forget even though you guys don’t think the job I have now I is a job I still get money and I still buy most of the stuff I want. You would also say that I don’t take care of things and need more responsibility. Yes this might be true but think about it may be getting me a car would well give me some responsibility because it means you’re giving me more freedom which would give me more responsibly. Then there is the chance I could never be home because well I’m a teenager what do you expect but like I said before it would be quiet then.

                Getting a car would mean that I would actually help around the house more and help do errands for mother. These days I basically use mom’s car to go everywhere and adjust everything because it helps me be a better driver and I don’t know how to drive a stick shift. Having my own car would mean mom really can’t get mad about her settings being change defiantly since her settings are usually set to help her back. I would probably also keep the car cleaner and we wouldn’t have to worry about being embarrassed with moms messy car and I would keep it clean. Moms recent back problems we never know when she will need the car for appointments. My own car would help with errands with this cause we never know if she can’t stop somewhere because her back is in to much pain and she wants to just come so I could go do it for her. If I had my own car instead of riding the bus and taking more time to do stuff I could just go after school and go to wal-mart for mom or go take care of grandma so if like she was having a busy day I could go out there. If you this is all I can do for you guys well you’re like let me see totally wrong.

                Right now I help around the house by going to the post office, grandmas, wal-mart and some of the other lovely places we go. Some days taking mom’s car isn’t always convenient for anyone because we never know if there will be an emergency with Grandma or Nathan. If I had my own car we wouldn’t have to worry about me being in constant contact because like in the summer it’s hard to get me sometimes cause like ill be at the pool and I wouldn’t want to get my phone wet. I having a car would also help with if we had an emergency and you guys went and you wouldn’t have to worry how I would get home. When family is in town we never seem to have enough room in the car to go like out to eat so we always need more cars if we ran out of room in the car and maybe it was too cold the truck is too big sometimes and the jeep well it’s hard to fit a lot of people in it and it’s not good in cold so having my own car would help with transportation if we want to go somewhere with a lot of people. If mom was out of town sometimes she takes the car and keeps it at the airport well what car do I drive if dad needs help? Because I can’t drive the stick shift so having my own car would help if I could do errands to help around the house with that. See if you haven’t figured out there are a while bunch of scenarios that I would be helpful to have my own car.

                 Too many things could happen you see if we didn’t have a second car for me to drive.  I’m 16 years old and almost 17 years I deserve a car because I could do more errands around the house and mom doesn’t have to worry about when she will get the car.

Sincerely.

Allison