Lesson Learned

It was the summer before 7th grade; Me, Amanda, and my other friend Jessica were planning on meeting up with one of our friends. It was almost past curfew and we had no idea how long we'd be out. So we all built the courage and left my house to meet with him halfway. We were at his house for about a good three hours and it came across the scanner that the police were looking for us. We all started to freak out and go into panic; we ran out the door and through the field of tall grass. As we stepped foot on the parking lot of an electricity company, a truck pulls up out of nowhere and calls the cops to tell them where we were. The police all come and circled around us, we were put into the back of the car and driven to the police station. The cop had asked us a lot of questions and we had to pay a hundred dollar curfew ticket. We were still all scared, I know from that experience that I'll never be out pass curfew ever again. One because, my mother was out of town and a Beth Moore Convention learning more about Jesus; talk about me feeling guilty right? And also, I was supposed to be a good and innocent girl, I didn't expect myself to do something like that at the age of 12. It's something that won't be ever be forgotten.

Literary Elements: TAKS PT 3

1.) SATIRE - a literary work in which vices, follies, etc. are held up to ridicule and contempt.

2.) IRONY - expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their us

ual sense.

3.) ANALOGY - similarity in some ways.

4.) FORESHADOWING - to indicate or suggest 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 that has a meaning or connotation familiar to the reader or listener.

Imagery - the art of making images.

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

They're all involved in the usage of words and how things are said. They give special effects to something be read or listened to.

Story Spinners: Option 3

As I regained consciousness, I remember asking..."If, I could goto a friend's house for the night", and then my parents went total nuts on me. The impression of what I thought was right, seemed to be wrong. I didn't know where I was, nor where I was going. All I knew, was that I wanted to get out of my house. So, stubbornly I started to walk down the road. The night air was cool, the clouds were still, you could see a clear circumference of the moon. I didn't imagine anything going wrong. That idea of mind all changed when I seen the bright headlights coming around the corner, and the car slowly started to approach me.

I felt a strong pressure on my head, I could feel my feet sweep out from underneath me and my mouth open to say something, but nothing would come out. I didn't know what was happening. I heard a loud voice, a man's voice, he was talking about how he'd found a girl. Preferably me. He said, "She was lying on the side of the street, cold as can be. I had to pick her up." Oh, what a liar, I was walking down the street. I knew that whoever he was talking to, couldn't know the truth.

My mind started clearing, I blinked my eyes a couple of times and everything started to come back to sight. I looked up to notice that I was being carried in a butch man's arms. He had a brown beard, shaggy hair that was very unpleasantly everywhere and looked as if it hadn't been washed in a couple of days. I could smell his scent, nothing that was recognizable, he smelt like baby oil with a hint of burnt grass. Defiantly not my cup of tea in choice of smell. He was carrying me down some sort of vestibule, it felt as if he had been carrying me for hours. We come upon this room, it was red and bright.

I was laid down in front of this elderly man. We looked into each other's eyes as if we knew one another. He asked me, "Why did this young lad here, find you on the side of the road?" I started crying ballistically, I poured everything out, what had happened with my parents and why I had left. I also told him the truth, I wasn't laying on the road, the man stopped and kidnapped me. As soon as those words came out of my mouth, the old man stood up. He went over to my kidnapper, and asked him if what I was saying, was true. He admitted that it was, the old man had guards come and take him away.

The old man came up to me and apologized for what what happened. He told me that he took full blame for it, he gave me a hug and hoped that everything would work out for me in the end. I never expected this to happen to me in my life. I knew I would have to forgive the man that kidnapped me; but it was an experience that'd never be forgotten.

My Bucket List

100 Things that I want to do before I die

1. Meet my best friend Timothy.

2. Learn to play the guitar.

3. Lose weight and be completely comfortable with myself.

4. Go to college.

5. See my favorite bands live.

6. Visit every state in the U.S.A.

7. Learn Swedish, French, Spanish, Russian, German, and Dutch.

8. Learn to play the piano.

9. Go to Mexico, Canada, Sweden, Australia and Great Britain.

10. Visit Elvis’ house.

11. Visit John Lennon’s gravesite.

12. Make a change in this world.

13. Get over my fears.

14. Ride a rollercoaster.

15. Go to Africa and help the poor, and see how it feels like to live there.

16. Move to Pennsylvania.

17. Sing in front of a lot of people.

18. Become a vegetarian.

19. Meet my biological father.

20. Fly in a plane.

21. Watch Across The Universe 5,000 times. I’m on 36 so far.

22. Grow my hair out really long and donate it to Locks Of Love.

23. Go to a Texas Tech game.

24. Get a tattoo.

25. Have kids, and give them the best that I can.

26. Meet my inspirations.

27. Go skydiving.

28. Hold a snake.

29. Camp out in a tent.

30. Get a good paying job.

31. Win the lottery.

32. Ride in a hot air balloon.

33. Try to find a cure to cancer.

34. Go to Las Vegas.

35. Become a psychologist.

36. Go swimming in the ocean.

37. Visit the statue of Liberty.

38. Build a stronger and closer relationship with God.

39. Make a CD in a recording studio.

40. Meet my soul mate.

41. Shake the hand of a president.

42. Be a hairstylist.

43. Go to the mall of America.

44. Go on a cruise.

45. Get married on a baseball field.

46. Ride a horse.

47. Create a website.

48. Build a robot.

49. Shave my head and let all my hair grow back.

50. Hug a complete stranger.

51. Find the end of a rainbow.

52. Remain friends with the friends that I have now.

53. Forgive and forget everyone that I have something against.

54. Go to Disney Land and Disney World.

55. Run barefoot in the snow.

56. Become a radical activist.

57. Hit a human piñata.

58. Be on a talk show.

59. Go on a shopping spree.

60. Try a Red Bull energy drink.

61. Watch a sunset.

62. Go to the beach.

63. Get a ferret.

64. Try a skittles blizzard.

65. Run a marathon.

66. Go on to American Idol.

67. Stay awake for a week.

68. Go a month without texting.

69. Write a book.

70. Own a diamond.

71. Go to a circus.

72. Ride a dirt bike.

73. Eat all flavors of dipping dots.

74. Preach.

75. Go skiing.

76. Play football.

77. Do a photo shoot of someone famous.

78. Not have surgery.

79. Dye my hairs all the colors of the rainbow.

80. Jump rope 500 times.

81. Hold a frog.

82. Go deep-sea fishing.

83. Try foods that I wouldn’t have thought about trying.

84. Climb a tree.

85. Watch a different movie every night for a week.

86. Laugh until I turn purple.

87. Grow my nails out.

88. Get braces.

89. Go hunting.

90. Read the entire Bible.

91. See Lake Michigan.

92. Spend a day with my grandmother.

93. Not worry about anything.

94. Dance with a stranger.

95. Paint a painting.

96. See my friend Spencer.

97. Go tanning.

98. Go to a haunted house.

99. Keep from breaking any of my bones.

100. Live life to the fullest.

Eight Parts Of Grammar

10 Nouns: School, concert, Mitchell, music, Dallas, Dylan, truck, Faygo, people, floor.

5 Adjectives: Sticky, pink, loud, hilarious, crowded.

3 Adverbs: Forcefully, quickly, slowly.

2 Conjunctions: And, but.

3 Verbs: Dreaming, singing, laughing.

2 Prepositions: Beside, In front.

1 Interjection: WOW!

2 Pronouns: he, him.

Dylan called me last night and told me that he wanted to take me and Mitchell to a concert in Dallas. All three of us were incredibly hyped about it. We all loved this kind of music, it was our favorite band, and we've always wanted to see them live. We asked our parents, and were able to go. So, Dylan came and picked us up from school and we quickly headed out on the road in his truck. Once we got there, it was already crowded with people. When the music started, it was loud and they started to spray pink Faygo all over the place. Everything was sticky, the floors, the walls, and our faces. People were pushing each other forcefully. Someone slowly walked up on stage and ran out and dived into the crowd. The band was yelling the most hilarious things, the whole room would fill up with people laughing. Dylan was standing beside me, and he got pushed into some guy that threatened to beat him up for it! There were people dancing and screaming in front of me. All I could get out to tell Mitchell was, "WOW!" But, I opened my eyes, and realized that I was dreaming. This hadn't really happened.

Shakespeare Language

Last night me and my friend's did a coranto.

One of my friends said that it was bern, and we couldn't tell anyone.

After that, we sang fancies. We sounded like a fracted record.

Insult:

God hath given you one face and you make yourselves another.

I think that Shakespeare was trying to say God made you who you are and you're

not putting that to use. You're masking yourself to fit in with others.

Be who you are, not something you're not.