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=Nikki's Journal= Nikki Nikki's Reading Log Nikki's homework page 5/5/14 AS Jebel and Tel Hesani travel away from the caves they come upon a bridge. Jebel falls off the cliff and is acquainted with the god of Death. Jebel then bargains with him and is then set into the real world. Jebel travels back to the caves for shelter not knowing where Tel Hesani is. As he climbs up to the caves he is greeted by Master Bush and Master Blair, the grave robbers.

4/30/14 Continuing from 4/28/14


 * RING RING RING *

I quickly cover up the phone with my hand. The masked man quickly looks at the bookshelf with curiosity. As he quickly inches towards the bookshelf I slide the phone through the crack and lay it down next to a book.


 * RING RING RING *

The phone rings again and this time the masked man is right near the bookshelf.


 * RING RING RING *

“Oh well look what we have here,” He says picking up the phone.

“That’s funny because that wasn’t there when I walked in,” He said standing near the bookshelf realizing the book on the end that looked like it had been recently touched considering the dust had been taken off in the shape of a handprint.

4/28/14 Continuing from 4/22/14 “You know I am going to find you sooner or later so why don’t you come out now,” He said inching closer and closer to the bookshelf.

I quickly back away from the crack. I put my finger over my lips signaling to Elizabeth to be quiet.

“THUNK”

I slightly see him as I have backed up against the wall. I signal again for Elizabeth to be quiet.

“Come out come out wherever you are,” He sings, "Come on I know you're in here."

4/25/14 Jebel and Tel Hesani travels to Abu Aineh. As they travel through Abu Aineh Jebel almost gets into a terrible predicament, but luckily Tel Hesani had warned him before it happened. One of the "maids" was trying to seduce Jebel. She later on said that she was going to come and bring some wine to his hut. This "maid" was not an actual maid. Turns out this woman was married and from what Tel Hesani had heard this woman was going to go to Jebel's hut, accuse him of attack so that she could be freed from her marriage. Then as they arrive in the barbarian town of Um Nekhele. In this town they see children running around naked chasing a chicken, blood puddles on the floor, and soldiers everywhere.

4/24/14 Jebel gets permission from the High lord, Um Wadi, and finds a slave, Tel Hesani, to sacrifice to Sabbah Eid. As he starts his quest he is branded with a cobra on the inside of his wrist. If he makes it back but does not succeed the cobra represents great honor and forever if he does not succeed may he be highly respected. If he does return successfully he will fight in the mukhayret and win to make Debbat Alg, the high maid, his wife.

4/23/14 Summary: Jebel gets embarrassed in front of almost the whole city at the execution. Jebel has to prove to himself that he can become the next executioner. To do so Jebel will have have granted permission from the king to visit Sabbah Eid, the fire god.Then he has some difficulties to overcome. For Sabbah Eid to turn Jebel into a strong man to fight in the mukhayret to become the next executioner he has to bring a slave to sacrifice to Sabbah Eid. He tries to convince the high maid to vouch for him to go on this quest.

4/22/14 “Oh yea I remember that and then she said she said that it was the second to the last book on the second to last shelf to the left,” I say.

I look for the book on the bookshelf. I grab the book and pull it back.

“I’m going to find you. I’m coming for you,” The masked man says as he comes closer and closer to my room.

We can hear him panting like a dog as he gets closer and closer to us.

“Hurry up,” Elizabeth whispered.

“Hold on just a moment,” I snap back.

I pull back the book and it reveals a passage. Elizabeth and I quickly run inside the passage and push the button on the wall to close up the entrance. *SCREECH*

“Oh I have found you now,” He says as he opens the door.

“Elizabeth get back,” I say peeking through the little crack in the wall.

“Where are you? I know you’re in here,” The masked man says coming closer and closer near the bookshelf, “Come out come out wherever you are.”

“Darn. You guys are slick. You are probably one of my only victims that have ran away,” He says like a story.

4/21/14 For the learning test I received an 88%. For the real test I received a whopping 100%. I know these prefixes and suffixes well but if you would like me to give a definition it would not be like the definitions on the flash cards.

4/16/14 292 words
 * Knock knock***

“Hold on I’m coming,” said Elizabeth.

I hear a mumble hello from where I stand in my room listening in on her conversation with the person at the door.

“Elizabeth, who was that?” I ask as I hear the door slam.

“Elizabeth, who was that?” I say getting mad at her.

That’s when I heard my name being called from outside. As I ran outside I grabbed my house keys. I see Elizabeth being pushed into a black mini van. I bolt towards the mini van as I pull out my keys to use as a weapon.

“STOP. Let her go now,” I say with the keys in my hand to use as a weapon.

“Don’t come near or she will be stabbed,” The person in the mask says.

Then I saw Elizabeth signing to me with her hands under her legs were the masked man couldn’t see.

IT’S-OK-I’M-GOING-TO-MOVE-AND-THEN-YOU-CAN-GET-HIM

I sign back “ok”.

She then signs “go”.

As she runs free of the masked mans hand I quickly stab the masked men with my key and run with Elizabeth towards the house.

“Lock all of the doors,” I say as we run into the house.

“Hello this is 911. What is your issue?” The person on the phone answers.

“Hello, someone just tried to kidnap my sister and I stabbed him with my house key” I reply.

“Can you describe him for me honey?” She says

“Umm, I could see black hair and he was about 5’10,”I shakily say.

“Ok the police will be on there way over, but for now can you just stay under your bed and open your bedroom window and throw your shoes out to make it look like you ran out,” She says calmly.

4/14/14 I would rate the quality of this blog a four. I grade the quality of this blog a 3.5 because in majority of most of the blog posts they needed to capitalize the beginning of sentences and names of people. Also, they wrote like they were texting someone. I would grade the comments 2.5 the comments had uncapitalized I's and the start of the sentence.

4/7/14 On the teacher story the score I was given as a 94/100. I could have got a better grade by writing more about the setting and what was going on during those. On the Language skills reflection my score was 48/50 (96%). I could have got a better grade by writing more about the reasoning of why this was my best writing or why this was my worst writing. One of my long-term goal is to raise my A- to a high A.

3/21/14 Continuing from 3/20/14

Once again we ran through the passage to another room. In this room we found another note. This is what it said:

Oh you have done a great job to get to this point. In the other rooms you might have noticed that you can just run to the other side and you can just run right past them. But in the next couple of rooms you will notice that they are different. In the next room you will find..

That’s when it faded. The note looked like someone spilled water on it and made the ink fade away.

“Find what? Find what!” Courtney asked in fear.

“I guess we will have to find out. I mean we have gotten this far. Could it even be any worse,” I said.

That was when I realized I was wrong when we entered the first room. It was like out of a scene from “Jumanji” animals came from everywhere and soon we had spiders crawling up our legs. I grabbed Courtney along and I raced to the entrance of the passage. Only to be stopped by a lion. I ran and jumped over it almost getting bit from its sharp teeth. I look back only to see that Courtney was being eaten alive by spiders, roaches, rats, and mosquitos.

3/20/14 Continuing from 3/19/14 252 words

As we turned around ready to bolt and run out we discovered they were coming from all directions. So I just ran through them, but they didn’t seem to notice. All of them had here eyes planted on Courtney.

“Come on Courtney. Run. They won’t notice,” I yelled to Courtney.

But she just stood in fear. I ran back to get her. But she refused to move as she just stood staring into the little girls eyes. I stepped in between them and suddenly it was like Courtney had come out of a trance.

“AAHHHH,” She screamed as she punched me again in the arm.

“Come on we have run to the other side of the room,” I told her grasping her fists in fright that she might hit me again.

WE both bolted to the other side of the room as the little girls walked to the beginning of the passage, but not for long. They all halted like as if they were one and they started to turn their heads to face us in unison, but we just ran and ran until we stumbled upon another room.

There was something different about this room. That was when we looked down and saw the tiny little clown dolls surrounding us, as they turned into real life clowns in real life.

That was when I realized I was frozen in fear. I quickly snapped out of it and ran to the other side of the room yelling for Courtney to follow me. 3/19/14 Continuing from 3/18/14 207 words

“Lets find out,” I said trembling.

Courtney and I walk towards the wall, following it until we stumble upon a passage.

“Wait. I’m not sure if I want to do this,” Courtney said.

“We have to. If we don’t then curiosity will kill me of I don’t find out more about this passage,” I said in a strict voice.

“Fine. But don’t blame me if I scream in your ear or punch you if I get scared,” She said.

“Fine,” I said in reply.

As we walk down this dimly lighted passage another gust of wind greets us. But this time it was different. It felt like it was right in front of us. We both pause in our tracks. We stand still counting down how long it had been since we got greeted and as we stand still we see a small little girl covered in dirt and blood.

“Come and play dolls with me,” She said as she hold up a ripped, dirty, one eyed baby doll.

That’s when all of them started to ask us to play dolls with them. Then we were suddenly the room was completely filled with the little girl. Ten or fifteen surrounded Courtney and I.

“Ow,” I screamed in pain from a mixture of a punch and screaming.

3/18/13 Continuing from 3/17/14

“Fine,” Courtney said as she started to pant.

As we once again walked down the old, rickety staircase it felt like we had never been down before, like a new perspective. As we meet the gust of air once again we both shudder.

“Wait hold on what did I just kick,” I said calmly.

As I reach down to the floor I come to grasp a lantern with some matches and a note taped to the side of it. We lit a flame and the room became glowing with light. I put the note near the lantern to see what it said and this is what it said:

I have seen very few people come down here. You are amongst one of the bravest student alive. I would like to admire you confident and courageous soul. To do so I provide you with this lantern and matches. I will also like to wish you good luck throughout this passage.

From, H

“What does it mean “I will also like to wish you good luck throughout this passage”’ I asked Courtney.

3/17/14 Continuing from 3/14/14 As we both got ready to kick down the wood that blocked the entrance, we both started to get clammy and we felt like we were going to throw up. But that didn’t stop us from doing the dare.

As we kick down the wood blocking off the entrance we see a glimmer of light reflecting of a mirror, but as we watch and stand there it is quickly covered up by something. Courtney and I walk slowly down the steps and all that can be heard is the squeaking of our footsteps on the wooden staircase. As we approach the bottom of the staircase we are approached by a gust of wind. We both run back up the staircase alarmed that something was going to kill or eat us.

“What was that?” Courtney asked alarmed.

“I don’t know it was probably a fan,” I said not to sure of myself.

“Let’s just say we went down here and lets get out of here,” Courtney says as she walks up to the top of the staircase.

“No. I am not going to back out of another dare,” I said trying to sound confident.

3/14/14 It was all the same when I woke up this morning. I woke up got ready to go to school and started to walk o school. At my school they have a weird policy. To never go down the caged o basement and that was it. They only had 1 policy. As I arrived at school my friends greeted me.

“Hey are you ready to go down to the basement,” She said curiously reminding me of the dare that I received last night.

“Aw come on do I have to,” I complained to her.

“Yes you have to because you can’t back down from a dare remember the rules?” She asked.

“Yea I remember the rules,” I mumbled.

Then I looked up at her. But before she could say no. I dared her to come down to the basement with me.

“Come on man. This stinks.” She said punching the outside wall of the school.

After that we made a plan to head to the basement during lunch when no one was there.

Part 2

As I sit in Advisory anticipating the time when the bell is going to ring.

RRIIINNG the bell ring as it is time to head to lunch. My friend and I meet up at the very back table in the lunch court, where we always sit.

“ Are you ready Courtney?” I asked nervously.

“Yes. What about you Daisy?” She replied nervously.

“Of course I am,” I replied trying to sound confident.

3/13/14 The article [|"Neanderthals stored a lot by organization"]is about new research that shows Neanderthals weren't such slobs after all. According to Riel-Salvatore before the research he believed that Neanderthals were complete slobs, but after research that shows that they were organized. In the article it states, '“We found that Neanderthals did not just throw their stuff everywhere but in fact were organized and purposeful when it came to domestic space,”' Riel-Salvatore said in a prepared statement." This piece of text shows that Neanderthals were not the slobs we thought they were and that they were organized. Also, in the article it states "Riel-Salvatore and his colleagues wrote that the cave was probably used at times as a permanent residence, and as a logistical base at other times." which also supports why Neanderthals were organized.

Works Cited **"Neanderthals stored a lot by organization"** Retrieved from http://newsela.com/articles/neanderthal-organization/id/2288/
 * Monte Morin Los Angeles Times** **01.07.14**

The Differences Between //The Outsiders// book and Movie 3/11/14

There are some important differences between the book and film versions of //The Outsiders//. First of all, when the church is on fire in the book it says there are 5 or 6 kids and in the movie there is about 8 kids in the church. Second of all, in the movie when Johnny is in the hospital bed laying face down and in the book he is not. In the book his English teacher about his grades and the assignment, which inspired him to write about what he has been through, confronts Ponyboy. In the ending of the movie the clerk shoots Dally, but in the book only the police shoot him not the store clerk.

3/6/14 Had trouble with wifi sorry I couldn’t write as much

“Get your chocolate covered bacon cheeseburger with curly fries with sprinkles and chocolate gumdrops here,” The vender yelled from his cart.

“Ew,” I mumbled under my breath.

Who would ever buy that I thought. But apparently it was a booming business.

3/3/14 Continuing from 2/28/14

I dash to her side. I rest her head up on my knee.

“Emily,” I scream panicky.

“Man don’t yell in my ear that hurts.” She says as she opens her eyes.

“Haha,” I mumble.

I couldn’t have imagined this happening in real life. I couldn’t have imagined my life with out my sister.

“Thank god your alive,” I say to her as I carry her into the house.

She replies with a mumble because she just wanted to go to sleep.

“Good night,” I softly say.

I couldn’t have imagined that all of this could happen. I couldn’t imagine a world without my sister and I would never dare to imagine one without her. This made me realize that you imagination is more powerful thatn you could ever think it could be. I learned a very important lesson today. As Nickelback says “Live each moment like it’s your last.”

2/28/14

It was just the usual typical boring Monday. We had the day of since it was some sort of holiday. My sister was drawing creatures with chalk on the sidewalk outside of my house. She did that almost all of the day because she had nothing else to do. That was when the sidewalk creatures came to life.

The sidewalk creature looks down on my sister. I tell her to run towards me but she is frozen with fear. I could hear her panting from the living room. I rush outside only to see her being held up by this creature. I walk slowly to my hose. That’s when I tripped. Out of all of the times I could’ve tripped and made fun of my feet choose now.

I slowly rise, but only to see that the creature is staring at me with my sister in his hand. I quickly spray this creature with the water and it melts away dropping my sister on the grass. I quickly run to my sister and help her up.

2/27/14 I wake up to the awful noise of my alarm going off.

“Just five more minutes,” I tell my alarm.

As I fall back asleep I notice something that is flickering while flying around my room. Then I felt a sudden tug on right leg. Like someone was trying to pull me out of my bed. I move my legs trying to release whatever was on me. I finally got up and looked at what was tugging on my leg.

What I saw was like something out of a fairytale children’s book. I saw a very small human, but it didn’t exactly look like a human.

“AAHHHH,” I scream rushing to the coroner of my room.

The little creature replies back with a tiny shriek and disappears. That’s when I saw the flickering again. The tiny creature flies right in front of me and I catch it’s tiny little wings just in time. I try not to squish them and I lay the creature on my windowsill.

“Who are you, what are you, and why are you here?” I ask the little creature panicky.

“I am one of her majesty’s royal knights. AKA I am the only girl in this army of royal knights. I came here to prove my worthiness. The prophet states that you are part human and part fairy.” She says screaming with her tiny little voice.

2/26/14 I can see her from afar. She is talking to someone that is dressed in all black. She hands him money and he hands her a suitcase. I follow her as she leaves his sight. She then meets with another person at a coffee shop that wasn’t to far from her last meeting place. She hands him the suitcase secretly under the table and he slides money under a napkin towards her. She walks towards me. I duck under a bush and contacted my client. I confirm your theory.

2/24/14 Continuing from 2/21/14#111 I growl and growl at the people yelling at me and then they are quiet. I still growl and growl until my zookeeper comes. She takes me out of my cage into a cage that I guess is for animals that get angry and need to calm down. She shoots me with a tranquilizer and misses but I still act like I got shot with it. As we approach the end of the hallway I move making the zookeeper run. I quickly run down to the end of the hallway where the zookeepers enter the zoo and I see the keys and unlock the door.

As I open the door I see the light and all of the people just smiling and laughing. Then they saw me and panicked. The backed up slowly away from the door and then that slow walk became a panicked run. I walk out of the doorframe and just casually walk out like nothing had ever happened.

I start to feel paralyzed like the way you would feel if you got shot with a tranquilizer but way worse. I look down at my leg and I see a red substance dripping out of my leg.

2/21/14 #111 As I open my eyes to the ruckus of the people yelling at me to wake up. I crawl up to the back of my home. Or well if you even call it a home. Humans saved me when my mother and father abandoned my brother and I. From then on we went and hunted to survive. Only if we knew we were going to get caught and sent to a zoo to be show cased.

When they caught my brother and I we both growled and tried to bite them so that they would let us go and that’s when they pulled out a tranquilizer. Then the next morning we woke up to being in a cage. I thought to my self we are leopards. We can fight of anyone and we can do almost anything. That was when I knew how to get out of this situation.

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Eye am gonna half an grate week end, on Saturday aisle go to my ants house and uncle joey and me will go on a plane two mobile Alabama and on that plain well sea the movee called chicken and dog after that aisle axe uncle joey witch bred is the best.

I am going to have a great weekend. On Saturday, I'll go to my aunt’s house. Uncle Joey and I will go on a plane to Mobile, Alabama. On that plane we’ll see the movie called //The// //Chicken and the Dog//. After that, I'll ask Uncle Joey which bread is the best. He told me Tae is writing about Medieval manors.

2/18 /14

Right now in semester 2 my current grade is an A at 93%. I have a 93% because on the 50-point Character Essay I got a B (84%). I am hopping to keep raising my grade by getting good grades on the assigned assignments.

2/10/14 #110 words Why do we have Olympics? To me there is no reason to have the Olympics. Also, to me Olympics are just an event to show people and other countries that they are better than everyone else. Therefore there is no reason to have Olympics.

Some of the sports in the Olympics are just plain useless. For example luge is useless. Luge is when you try to pick up speed while laying on your back on a board. The point of luge is to try to finish with the fastest time. In general almost all of the Olympic games are trying to get the fastest time, which is just plain, useless.

2/7/14

It was symbolic when Johnny and Ponyboy cut their hair because it was the greases trademark. Also, the long hair separated greasers from Socs. In //The Outsiders// it states, “Our hair labeled us greasers, too---it was our trademark. The one thing we were proud of.” Which means that all greasers are proud of what they look like and that their hair was their pride possession. Therefore when the time came and Johnny said that they needed to cut their hair Ponyboy was hesitant.

2/6/14 The poems message is that everything is constantly changing. In the poem it states “Her leaf’s a flower; But only for an hour. Then leaf subsides by leaf. So Eden sank down to grief…” Which is an example of something, the leaf, which was constantly changing. Also, in the poem its states “Nothing gold can stay.” Which is also an example of everything is changing. Therefore Eden is angry because the leaf had changed throughout time.

2/5/14 My current score in English is a B. So far I am doing good, but am not where I want to be. I want to have a strong A by the end of the semester. I need to work harder on homework so that I can have a strong A by the end of the semester. Also, I need to work harder on in class essays.

2/4/14 #133 I do believe that a woman will be president. I believe that women are as powerful of men. I know this because women can and will be president. Woman are confident, powerful, and responsible which is almost all of the characteristics that you need in a president and I believe that woman have those characteristics. Some year or any day when the presidents term is over that a woman will be elected and win the election. When the time comes and a woman is president then it will show other woman that they can follow their dreams and not be restricted just because they're a woman.

2/3/14 # 112

It hasn’t been one time that my parents have embarrassed me. It has been multiple times that my parents have embarrassed me. My mom dances in the car if she hears a song she likes or she will just do it out of the blue. Whenever we say to stop it just encourages her even more. This causes people in their car to stare at us, but then, sadly, we all join her. We all dance in the car with people in their cars with a confused look on their face.

It’s quite funny to see people dancing in their car and then joining them in the process. I can relate to that because I have done it before at a red light with the passenger of the car beside us. The passenger had some funky moves, but not in a good way. Either whether the passenger had good or bad dance moves they still had a huge smile on their face.

You see. When someone tries to embarrass you in a funny way like dancing in the car. Just play along and do it with them because it is fun and at that moment you don't really care if it embarrasses you.

1/31/14 // The Outsiders // Essay Question

1. “ He's hard as a rock and about as human.” Is a simile from //The Outsiders.// Ponyboy calls Darry a rock because all Darry does is telling him what to do and he is very strict. A rock is hard and Ponyboy thought of him as that. For example in the book it states “‘another hour and I would have had the police after you, Where were you, Ponyboy? ---his voice was rising--- Where in the almighty universe were you?’”

2. Sodapop and Dally are two different people, but have some similarities. Sodapop doesn’t get into that much of a rebel and Dally is a rebel. When Dally disrespects Cherry and Marcia at the Nightly Double is an example of him being disrespectful. Also, in the book it states that Dally was arrested at the age of ten. Sodapop on the other hand says he dropped out of school so that he could get a job so that Ponyboy could stay in school.

3. Ponyboy and Johnny are going to run away, but they don’t have any place so then they are sort of nomads. Also, Darry is going to try to find Ponyboy and he is going to call the police. I believe this because before Darry hit Ponyboy, Ponyboy came home late and he said that he was going to call the police if he didn’t come home in the next hour. I also believe this because after Darry hit Ponyboy Darry showed sincerity towards him.

1/30/14 Yesterday, iPledge, I learned that people who are bullied are more likely to commit suicide and stay home. I also learned that many people that are bullied are also more likely to bring a gun to school. For example when Mr. Christopher, when he was younger, had gotten a phone call from somebody saying that he liked his girlfriend and that he was going to beat him up and he was thinking about bringing a gun to school for protection. Some of the effects that happened in the video that Mr. Christopher shared was that kids were bringing guns to school and shooting teachers and students and at the end of the video where it showed all of the school shootings and how many people died in total and how many students were wounded was astonishing.

At the end of the second assembly when Mr. Christopher showed the video of the guy that had something wrong with him and how he had made the winning buzzer beater basketball shot was fantastic. It showed us the affect when people stop bullying and start accepting others. I liked how even when he was still different the basketball team still accepted him.

1/28/14
 * yes you can borrow my car but you must return it by 1100 pm
 * a alligator caused a fright win it escaped from the bronx zoo
 * mr lundbergs class planted a oak tree along the walking trail on arbor day

1. Yes, you can borrow my car, but you must return it by 11:00 p.m. 2. An alligator caused a fright when it escaped from the Bronx Zoo. 3. Mr. Lundberg’s class planted an oak tree along the walking trail on Arbor Day.

1/27/14

the book the outsiders is really good book by s.e hinton and its about 3 brothers named pony boy darry and sodapop

The book //The Outsiders// is a very good book by S.E. Hinton. It’s about 3 brothers named Ponyboy, Sodapop, and Darry. I think that Johnny and Ponyboy are going to get jumped.

1/22/14 Continuing from 1/17/14

“Well it wasn’t actually a meeting. I was teaching other people in the neighborhood about this and what to do if it ever happened,” She explained slowly.

“Why didn’t you teach me about this?” I question curiously.

“I didn’t think you were ready and I thought that I would wait until you were 16,” She explained.

We hear a crash coming from outside.

“Go hide in my room. If you move my bed there is a small trap door. Open it and you will find a small room. Hide in there and hurry,” She states calmly.

“What about you,” I say rapidly.

“I will meet you up there I just have to grab a few things,” She yelled back at me as she was running towards the kitchen.

I run as fast as I can to my Moms room. I try and try to move the bed, but can’t. One more try I tell myself as I move the bed uncovering the hidden room. I quickly get into the room. I stand cowardly in the coroner of the room waiting for my mom. THUMP, THUMP, THUMP I hear heading towards me. I stand closer and closer towards the wall squishing myself against it. Then suddenly the wall moved making me fall. I curiously take a peak inside.

“AHHH,” I scream as someone puts his or her hand over my mouth.

I bite their finger and turn around to see that I was my Mom.

“Sorry. You scared me,” I apologized.

1/21/14 If I could go back in time I would go back to when the titanic was made. I would go back to see the titanic because it is on of the most historical moments in history. I would want to see how big it was in real life and how it’s “unsinkable” design. I would also; want to see how big of an impact the Titanic had when it sank and I would like to see the Heart of the Ocean with my own eyes. I would want to see how big of an impact the Titanic had on the community because it was known as the “unsinkable ship” and it turned out to sink. I would like to go back in time to see the Heart of the Ocean because it was thrown into the ocean and nobody ever found it and because of its beauty.

1/17/14 Continuing from yesterday. #214 words written “I believe that they have finally found something that they need,” She said lying to me.

“MOM! DON’T LIE TO ME,” I scream

“Oh no. Run Darcy run,” She screamed at me.

That’s when I realized what I had done. I had accidently caught the attention of them when I screamed at my mom. We both race to the house. My mom hurriedly ran into the basemen. As I see her come up the steps I notice that she was carrying a kit in her hands. As I watch her open it up I notice that she has some of hose white crystals that form a shield like In //Charmed.//

“Mom when did you get those and why do you have them?” I say worriedly.

“They were passed down to me from your grandma. When she was still alive and when I was 7 years old the same exact thing that is happening right now happened. When she thought that I was ready to learn and know about what happened she gave me these. These rocks will protect us from them,” She explained.

“What about the others? What are they going to do?” I reply.

“You know when I said I was going to the neighborhood watch meeting?” She said.

“Yes,” I say confused.

1/16/14

As I approached the deserted house at the end of the road, I saw flashes of light blinding me as I approach. I take a closer look with my camera. I am amazed at what I see. I capture the moment with my camera. I run home as fast as I can to go sow my parents. BAM. The door slams against the wall as I hurriedly walk in.

“Hey. There is no reason to be slamming doors,” My mom yells.

“Sorry. I’m in a rush. Come down here so you can see what I found at he house down the road,” I reply back.

My mom comes speedily down the stairs worried. As I show her what I found she and I race to the deserted house.

“Oh my. I thought they would never come again,” She mumbled.

“What? Do you know what they are?” I reply concerned.

“Yes. I do know what they are. These foul creatures came when I was a young girl and tried to take over the world, but my Mom defeated them and banned them from ever coming back again,” She replies

“That is crazy. Why did they come back to earth?” I say concerned.

1/15/14 My grade currently is a low A in English class. My goal is to try to change it to a high A. I can improve my grade by working hard on assignments that are given out for homework and check over it to see if I have any misspellings or wrong punctuation. For the second semester my goal in English class is to get and keep a high A. To keep this grade I will ask for any extra credit work if my grade gets low.

1/14/14 As I approached the deserted house at the end of the road, I saw rats crawling in and out from underneath the house. I ran back home t get my science kit that I got for Christmas. I suit up in clothes that will protect me from getting any disease that might be spread by the rats.

As I approach the house I see that the rats are carrying little bit of wood that they had gathered from under the house. I walk slowly, trying not to disturb them. I slowly take out the little camera that the science kit had come with. I took pictures to show my mom. As I take the pictures I see something out of the coroner of my eye I see a huge rat. The rat acted like it as the queen of the hive. I snap a quick picture of it and I run back home.

“MOM MOM where are you? Come here I want to show you something,” I shouted

“What do you want?” She shouted back.

“I want to show you something that happened at the house at the end of the road,” I replied.

I see her coming out of the dining room covered in flour.

“Trying a new experiment there?” I asked sarcastically.

She rolled her eyes.

1/13/14 It started out as an unusual Monday morning, when I saw a trail of squished mosquitos leading to the door of my house. I walk into my house slowly, but still curious. I close the door silently, like a ninja. I look back and forth in the living room looking for anything suspicious.

“Honey? Is that you?” My mom screams from the kitchen. “Yes. Don’t be freaked out. Why is there a trail of squished mosquitos leading to our door?” I ask curiously

“Oh. Mosquitos are appearing out of nowhere and as I was walking out to go get milk from the store they just attacked me so I started to squish them,” She replies.

1/10/14 Continuing from yesterday “What was her name?” I asked curiously.

“Her name was Margaret,” She replied.

“That is a beautiful name,” I mumbled under my breath.

“Yes I know I was named after her,” she claims.

Then we hear a voice. We scream out for help. We can hear the person’s footsteps coming closer and closer to where we fell. Were banging on the ground and on the sides of the tiny room. BAM. The mysterious person breaks through tearing apart the wood platform. Then we see the persons face. It was a male about 20 years old.

He asked us “What are you guys doing down there?”

“We fell through the wood platform and got stuck in there,” We both stated simultaneously.

“Your lucky I found you guys or you would have been stuck there forever,” He stated with confidence, “I guess you could call me your hero.”

Margaret and I broke out into laughter.

“Don't push it” Margret claimed.

“But we do thank you for saving us,” I added.

After the incident Margaret and I never saw each other again.

1/9/14 Continuing from yesterday

“Step into the light show yourself,” I say walking closer and closer to the back of the small room.

I hear her footsteps walking towards the light. She steps into the light. Her facial expression was grim and angry.

“Why are you doing here,” I scream scared.

She walks towards the part of the room I am in.

“STOP. Don’t come near me,” I scream as I pick up a stick that must of fallen when I fell through the platform of wood.

“Why I am not going to hurt you my dear,” She says with suspicion in her voice.

I back up closer and closer to the walk until I can’t move back any further.

“It’s ok dear I am trapped down hear to. I am not going to hurt you,” she states with serious manner.

“Does the old buggy belong to you?” I stammered.

“Why yes it is and this house belongs to my great grandma,” She answered.

I walk slowly to her.

“I don’t believe a word you say,” I stated.

She pulls something out of her pocket. It is a picture. A picture of her great grandma and her standing in front of this house.

“So what are you doing here at her house,” I say.

“She died recently and now we have to take her stuff out of her house and move it,” She replies.

1/8/13 As I approached the deserted house at the end of the road, I saw an old buggy parked in the driveway. I got suspicious and went inside to check it out. As I got closer and closer to the house I see the keys are still in the car. I walked up the stairs o the house and opened the door, but as I was opening the door I fell through the platform of wood. BAM.

I land in a dark room. I hear someone’s voice.

“I believe we have company now James,” The voice says echoing of the walls.

“Who are you,” I say with a shaky voice.

A light turns on showing “James”.

“Why I am Charlotte,” She says walking towards me.

1/7/14 #116 words It started out as an unusual morning, when got woken up by the brightness of something that was shining outside. I cover my eyes to shield me from the brightness. I get up and close my curtains, but yet it still won’t go away. I walk to my parent’s room, but yet there is no one there. I walk into the kitchen and there they are paralyzed drinking coffee. I laugh to myself for a moment.

“Alright enough of the games. I wanted to ask you guys what is outside that has the green light,” I say concerned.

“Mumble mumble mumble,” my mom says.

“Ok stop playing around. You guys aren't paralyzed,” I say seriously.

1/6/14 I believe that when women marry men they don’t have to take their last name. I don’t believe that women should take their husbands last name. Women should not be forced to take their husbands last name. Also, if they want to take their husband’s last name they should, but they should not be forced to take their last name just because they’re getting married.

If a woman wants to have here last name they should, but just because they’re getting married the bride should not be forced to take their husband’s last name. If in a situation were their last name was meaningless then they should not be forced to take his last name.

12/16/13 180 words It started out as an unusual Monday morning, when I woke up to the sound of my sister screaming in my ear. I got up alerted. I look at her and see if there are any bruises or scratches. That’s when I realized her green/ yellow eyes like a werewolf has in one those scary movies. Then right before my eyes I see her transforming into a wolf. I back up into the wall scared and frightened for my life.

“HELP,” I shout hoping my parent’s will hear me.

“No one can hear you. I already took care of our parents,” She whispers I my ear.

Frightened grab the lamp that is on my nightstand. I bang her in the head with the lamp. She backs away angry. I look for another object to protect myself with. Then I see something that will knock her out. I grab a piece of glass from the now broken lamp. I try to get her, but she moves out of the way.

“You will never hurt me,” She announced spitting in my face.

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When I was in the hospital it was because I broke the two bones in my wrist. My Dad and I got so stressed out from everything. They were sending us to different buildings and then back to the same one, it was just a lot of chaos. When I we were waiting to go into the operating room the nurse told me I had to make up some crazy story about how I broke my wrist. She said,“ You have to make up a cool story. Like if you fought off crime or you broke it doing karate with Jackie Chan.” Also while we were waiting we noticed that there was no window in the door, which was really weird. =====

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After I got the needle to help to put the medicine in me to put me to sleep, I was all ready to go. When I woke up the nurse told me hat I smiled through the whole thing and had my eyes open. She also told me that I was one of the weirdest patients that they had. That’s when it all started. A couple minutes I got up, all the other patients got up and started to whine and cry and begged their parents to let them leave. Over all it was one of the most wonderful hospital experiences I have ever had. =====

12/9/13 It started out as an unusual Monday morning, when I woke up to spiders crawling all over me. I shrieked for help. Yet no one answered. I move up slowly trying not to disturb the spiders. As soon as I am sitting up I bolt to the door.

"HELP," I scream.

Nobody answers. Scared I grab a trophy from my dresser and walk out of the room with all my senses on high alert. First I walk into my little sister's room. I gasp as I see her lying on her bed with spiders feasting on her. I quickly take off her blanket quickly and check for a pulse. She was still alive. I give her CPR. She awakens frightened. I hold her close in my arms trying to make her feel safe.

"Come on we need to go check on Mom and Dad," I say shakily.' "Ok," she says with fear.

As we walk into their room I see spiders everywhere. There are spiders crawling up the wall, on the floor, and on them. I quickly run over to their bedside.
 * To be continued.**

12/4/13

My grade on The Pearl essay was an A-. I need to improve on connecting my claim with my conclusions and spelling. In my the theme of //The Pearl// essay I had comments on my conclusion and my spelling//.// To improve in these skills I should work harder on connecting my conclusion with claim and more time on my spelling.

11/14/13 "Kino! Is it true. Is it true that you found the pearl,"Julia screamed with excitement. "Yes it is true. have found the pearl of the world," Kino said with pride. "My brother. What will you do with this great fortune," Julia asked Kino. "I don't know yet," Kino replied. "Where did you find this magnificent pearl?" Julia said curiously. "I found it just off the shore off the beach," Kino replied. "Well this is one lucky find," Julia pointed out. "I know," Kino announced.

11/12/13 1.The evidence that was provided in the case helped us find the thief. 2. Over the past years the teacher can infer that students test scores are increasing with the new teaching method. 3. If kids are exercising everyday, by inference we can say that it will make the heart healthier. 4. Teachers should synthesize together to come up with a new method for teaching. 5. The new store on the corner had a significant increase in sales with the new discounts. 6. The 100 customer would have a benefit of a discount on their purchase.

The authors message in Money Poem is that money can buy certain things. Money Poem states "Money buys food, clothes, houses, land,Guns, jewels, men, women, time to be lazy and listen to music and Money buys everything except love,personality, freedom, immortality,silence, peace". This means you can buy anything in the world with money, but you can't buy love, your freedom, and or peace." Money buys the thing you need not the things that really matter. 10/31/13 I'm not to young too be going trick-or-treating tonight. I'm going dress up as Dorothy from //The Wizard of Oz.// When I got to my neighbor's house, I will get Snickers, Skittles, and other candy (candies). It's going to be a lot of fun.

10/29/13 As I approached the deserted house at the end of the road, I saw an abandoned puppy. I ran towards the puppy or what I //thought// was a puppy. As I get closer to the mysterious dog it turns around and starts to chase me. I run back down the road. I run as fast as I can, but that wasn’t fast enough. The mysterious dog runs in front of me as I look back and find the dog in front of me. I run back towards the house, the dog is running after me. I look at my surroundings. No shelter for miles and no one is around. Forced with nowhere else to go to hide from the dog I ran inside the house. Only to be greeted by another dog awakening from my noisy entrance.

I realize that there isn’t just one. There are 100 of them. I start to realize why the dog was outside. To guard them and //their// house. They all start to awake. I’m petrified as they all stare at me.

“BACK OFF” I say.

They just stand growling at me. I turn towards the door and run. They chase after me. I get a head start and run for the hills. As I leave I realize that they aren't following me anymore, but I keep running anyway. As I look in to the distance I see a small town.

Faithful I keep running. People in the town start to see me and get in there cars and drive after me. I faint because I was dehydrated, but luckily the people were already caught up with me. They save me.

As I wake up I start to realize my new surroundings. People surround me as I wake up. I then realize that I'm in a hospital bed.

A few moths later....

I am now part of a family. I have one older brother and a little sister. If I was never spotted that day on the hill I wouldn't be here right now. I am thankful for the people that spotted me and rescued me. I am thankful everyday for my wonderful life.

10/28/13 On Monday, at Hidden Valley Park in Arizona, we played baseball against the Los Angeles Chickens. We played better than the last time. We won and went to the coaches house for pizza.

10/25/13 Roger's brother Sam gave a speech that he had wrote himself. Mr. Jones wasn't liking it so he said "Wait till Thursday which is two days after Halloween?"

10/24/13 My brother Bill and I went to a movie called //The// //Fast and the Furious.// Then we went to Joe's house and ate some of his Mom's meatloaf. He and I played basketball at Balboa Park in San Diego, California.

10/15/13 Teachers should be paid more than professional athletes. Teachers should be paid more than professional athletes because teachers are the one who give them an education so that they can become professional athletes. Teachers give them the green light so that they can be in sports. Teachers help them if they need help with homework or a fix up so that they can play sports and so that they //can// have an education. Teachers should be paid for because they are the ones who give you an education, everything you need to go on into college or a job that requires that kind of skill, and maybe even some advice that you might have needed. This is why teachers should be paid more than professional athletes.

10/14/13 It started out as an unusual Monday morning, when I woke up to glitter everywhere in my room. Floating in the air, on my favorite shirt, and on my carpet. I immediately got up and ran down stairs only to look into a glittery mess, but as I stare at the glitter mess I realize that its not glitter it is fairies. I faint.

I wake up weary and disoriented. As I wake up I realize what is happening. The fairies. I remember it all now. The fairies. They all come to me as they realize that I am waking up. They look funny. They don’t look like what I thought they would look like. Like in movies. 118 words

10/11/13 Bullies

Bullying has a huge impact on kids. Bullying is the third leading cause of suicide. Bullying can also create self-esteem issues, bad grades, and physical health problems. These are just some of the effects of bullying. Bullying can leave a mental and physical scar.

The one type of bullying that happens most often is cyber bullying according to []. Take for example Rebecca Ann Sedwick. She was being bullied online and she just couldn’t take it anymore. Rebecca Ann Sedwick died by a suicide death by jumping off a concrete plant. Bullying needs to stop. According to stopbullying.gov “Depression and anxiety, increased feelings of sadness and loneliness, changes in sleep and eating patterns, and loss of interest in activities they used to enjoy. These issues may persist into adulthood.” As you see bullying can cause permanent damage to the bullying victim.Most of the time bullies bully because they have been bullied themselves. Also bullies have a higher percent for depression, anxiety and alcohol and drug abuse.

10/7/13

“I ache all over,” he said. he did, too. He kept on crying and it worked all right. “You’d better go on home,” she said. So he went. He limped painfully away. He kept on limping until he got out of the schoolhouse street. Then he felt better. He still had inflammatory rheumatism pretty bad but he could get along better. He must have done some thinking on the way home

10/3/13 “BEEP BEEP BEEP”, the car honks at me because I am walking to slow. I rush to the other side to get to the sidewalk. “ Wow he’s mean”, I think to myself as I walk to the front of Imiddle. I see my friend and walk over to her, but as soon as I get to her I the bell ring to go to your classes. I think to myself “ Great. Could my morning get any worse”. I rush to my classes. First off P.E, but I can’t do PE because of my broken arm. After I tell my P.E teacher I’m here I go to math class and read for an hour.

10/3/13 #129 (continuing)

Then out of nowhere roaches, crickets, ants, bees, spiders, and horse flies come flying in. I rush into an empty room. I think to myself “ How am I supposed to get out of here”. I rush to the door, stepping on roaches and spiders. I run and just keep running. I don’t look back as I try to forget what happened and I just keep running.

9/26/13

My favorite book is //Matched.// Which is actually the book I’m reading right now. I like this book because it has a problem and it keeps going and makes it more interesting. My favorite movie Despicable Me 2. I like this movie because its funny and I love a good laugh. My favorite place to be is at a GS camp called Winacka. This is my favorite place to be because I love to be outdoors and they had a lot of fun activities to do. My favorite game is Jenga. I love to play this game because it is very challenging. I especially love playing this game with my family because we play in teams and we get really into the game.

9/24/13 #129 (continuing)

I get scared and run back out of the house. As I’m running out another alien comes out, but this one was more tough and mean. I run as fast I can, he runs after me. I almost trip, slowing down my speed. He’s right behind me. I run a little faster so that he can barely see me. Then I hide under a big rock, he still thinks I’m running. I breathe a sigh of relief. I walk back to the house more aware then I have ever been. I come to the door greeted by a dead mouse, but I walk inside anyway. I don’t see anyone anymore.

As I walk into a bedroom I see that it is full of insects that have made this their home, but with all of the things I have seen so far I’m not disgusted and I walk out of the room.

9/23/13 # 129 As I approached the deserted at the end of the road, I saw an alien. It popped out of the bushes with a mutant squid. Then the squid grows and grows to a 60 ft monster. The alien did an evil laugh, “Ha ha ha ha ha”. They start to chase after me. I run as fast as I can, but yet there is nowhere to go. I hide under a rock. My heart feels like it beating out of my chest. They run past me, the squid almost crushing the rock I have hidden under.

I get out from under the rock. I’m stranded. There is nowhere else to go except to the house. I slowly walk in. Not sure if there is any other surprises, but yet as I turn the corner into the kitchen. WHAM. A bat comes flying over my head and then a bunch of them come out.

9/23/13

A couple if nights ago I had trouble sleeping. I kept waking up and then had trouble falling back to sleep. The next morning I slept in and was almost late to school. All throughout the day I was tired and couldn’t pay attention. In one of my classes I almost fell asleep but I had to keep myself awake. I could barely keep my eyes open. When it came to lunchtime I was too tired, but after I ate a few things I felt better and not sleepy. I thought I would be better for the rest of the day, but when it came to my last class I felt tired again. Luckily it was my last class and then I could go home and rest.

9/20/13 I believe I am treated differently because I am a girl. I believe that boys do underestimate girls and what they can do. Like playing basketball, playing baseball, soccer, etc.

I believe this because I have seen and been in a situation that girls cant play a sport because the boys don’t believe that they can play and keep up with them. But that’s not true. Girls can play a sport even though they aren’t good at it at least they tried to play. I believe that we should all be treated the same way whether you are a boy or a girl.

9/30/13 My favorite movies are //The Wizard of Oz//, //Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows//, and //Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,// when I was visited in New York.