Assignment #9

1. Happiness is a feeling that overwhelmes you with joy.
2. Happiness is being around my friends. When I'm alone, I always feel more lonely than I should. Happiness is coming home and eating food. I love coming home from school and making a pizza. It feels so good after a hard day of school. Also, happiness is sleep. Sleep feels so good, and when I'm lacking it, I'm never happy.
3. People in my life that influence my happiness the most are Steph and Mimi. I think that if I didn't have those two, I would honestly be a different person. If one of them is mad at me, I feel terrible. Other friends influence my happiness too. Pretty much anyone does. Like, if someone IGNORES me I take it really bad. :]
4. I impact my mom's happiness. I can tell when I yell at her she probably gets sad. When I'm super nice to her, she's happy.
5. My greatest need in life friends. If I didn't have any friends I would probably kill myself.

Assignment 8

BRAINSTORM!
-friends
-family
-camp
-mystical creatures
-make up a fairytail
-personal experiences

Aissignment #7

1. I really enjoyed getting into groups and passing our notebooks around writing poetry. It's really fun to rhyme, especially trying to rhyme with someone else's words. I also really like reading what we have put together at the end, because it usually doesn't make alot of sense.
2. I think that poetry is my strongest because I'm really bad at writing stories. I just feel like it's easier to write poetry because it's shorter and you don't have to have a whole plot to it.
3. Throughout the quarter, I found that I need to think alot before I think of something to write about. I have to be really into what I'm writing about. For example, for my first short story I didn't really know how to write it and I didn't really have that great of Ideas. For my second short story, I was really into it because it was about my personal fears, but about someone else.
4. I think it would be really fun to write a memoire. It's easier for me to write about myself than to make something up. I really don't want to write non-fiction because I hate doing reasearch.

Aissignment #6

1. I love watching scary movies, but I don't really like being scared by people in real life.
2. I'm scared of situations that could happen in real life. I'm also deathly afraid of windows at night. When I walk by an uncovered window at night, all's I see is my reflection and a black background. Sometimes, you can kind of see through the window, and that's mostly what terrifies me. It scared me that I can't see what's happening outside. For all I know, someone could be sitting on my lawn or standing right outside the window watching me. I'm also afraid of my garage. There's a hole in it leading to the attic and it reminds me of the hole in the closet in the grudge. I'm also afraid of vents, the dark, and being home alone at night. Oh yeah and walking outside at night. I guess most of it comes from scary movies, but I still love watching them.
3. Maddness is basically craziness. If someone is a "mad man" it means they are a psyco.
4. Random events that make the person angry drives them to maddness.

Assignment 5

1. The jingle of mildew covered coins clashing against a ceramic mug echoes down the street. The smell of ribs and barbicue sauce puts an eager face on the man crowching on the dirty, slush covered sidewalk.
2. The street swarmed with honking cars and people yelling with road rage. Slush spashes from a fast-moving car onto an old man sitting on the sidewalk.
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Assignment #4

Task one:


a) The setting in the second half of the story is her house. Connie is home alone and this guy knows everything about her and where she lives, and he's such a creeper.
b) Well, it kind of makes me angry that she gets in the car with him even though she has no clue who he is and he knows everything about her. I just think its weird that she just goes along with it. If she really didn't want trouble, she could have walked away, or went inside and called the police right away instead of getting in the car with him. Shes dumb. But, she represents a teenager who thinks she knows everything but she doesn't.
c) The problem the author is addressing is trusting strangers. Never talk to strangers, or get in the car with them if they offer you a ride, especially if they know everything about you.
d) This story appeals to alot of people because its so interesting and full of action and conflict.
e) At the end of the story, I think the guy comes back and kidnapps her.
f) The guy probably had some bad child hood experiences. Maybe a similar situation happened to him. Or, he could have been neglected from girls. He probably never had a girlfriend so he was super horny all the time and decided to stalk girls and try to get with them.


Task two:


10 things that make a short story great:
1. alot of drama and conflict
2. mystery
3. a setting that the reader can relate to (someones house, a store, school etc.)
4. teens
5. written in first person
6. interesting names, not just "Bob"
7. names that relate to their personality
8. conflict that could relate to the reader
9. A good ending (either really happy or really sad)
10. The story should make the reader want to keep reading more (suspense)

3rd Assignment

Poem #1

When I was a little girl,

there were no worries in my world.

Drawing and painting,

kindergarden.

Baking cookies in the oven.

Couldn't wait to be older,

I wanted these days to be over.

Thinking it would be more fun,

thinking I could do whatever I want.

Now I know it's not what I thought. It's really not.

Life has rules.

Life has regulations.

The older you grow,

the more you must know.

People expect more of you.

On your own, true friends so few.

Now I wish I was five,

not worrying about what I'm going to do for the rest of my life.

Recess and playtime,

Nothing on my mind.

Running around with no care, and so much time.

Poem #2

Blankets sprawled over the floor,

beenie babies lined against the door.

The act of revenge, commencing attack,

Dammage is done by a strawberry sack.

I knew right then, I would not surrender,

the princess was hiding. Safe, down under.

Then, I witnessed something that made me quite upset.

My big brother, the person I look up to, destroyed the set.