Bluffs Poem

The buttons are white,
looking like crystals.
From the sight,
it looks kind of mystical.
After we're done,
we all have to listen.
To our instructor,
When we are finished.
Done with this piece,
to the next station.

Snowboarding Gear

Snowboarding is a sport that you obviously do in snow. To go snowboarding, you will have to have a snowboard. It is a wooden board that goes from 5 feet long to about 6 1/2 feet long, depending on how tall you are. They measure it by centimeters so it goes from about 130-160. Most of the boards have a thin piece of metal that boarders the edge of the snowboard.

There are many different types of gear you will need. With many designs on the board, some brands are Burton, 686, Forum, Ride, and Rome. These are just some of the brands there are probably about 50-75. My favorite is Burton, Burton makes snowboards, boots, bindings, clothes and plenty of other things. Snowboarding boots are specially designed to fit into bindings, the go about half way up your shin, the main reason for that is so it is stiff that way your ankles cant bent and possibly break. The bindings are screwed into the board. They have two straps that go over your boot so they stay in place when your riding. They also have an about 8 inch back on it so your feet don’t slip out.

Snowboarding is a great sport. They have it in the Olympics and they have a lot of other competitions. So you will need the right gear to go. With many different varieties and brands you wont have a hard time choosing what you want. So sometime you should get out and try it.

Speak

In the book Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, There are plenty of examples of symbolism. The main character is Melinda, everyone hates her because she called the cops on a party at the end of summer.

In this book the symbols are the couch, the mirror, the bedroom, the trees, and the mascot. The couch symbolizes having two different sides. The mirror shows that Melinda doesn’t like who she is, so she covers it up. The bedroom also shows that Melinda doesn’t know who she is because it is about what her friends like. The trees remind her about bad memories that she has had. Then mascot keeps changing at her school so that shows that the school doesn’t have an identity.

Melinda is a teenage girl in high school who called the police at a party where everyone was drinking at and she got a lot of people in trouble. When school starts everybody hates her and she becomes an outcast. In the book Melinda seems to be depressed and has no motivation in life. She says that she would rather sleep than do homework.

Science

Yes I think that patriotism still matters because people are still going to war for our country and people still care about our country. Patriotiism means support,love, and to be willing to serve and sacrifice for our country.

I think that the short story, "a body in henrys house" is a romance. The main characters get married then he tells her that there is a body in his house. She was like ok, its not too bad I guess. But when she goes in the cupboard she sees it. She told him to move it; so he did. They had kids and the kids played with the pinky. As the years passed, they passed in front of the fire.

Hemingway Essay

Throughout the world about 2000 people kill themselves every day. In the U.S., there are over 80 deaths from suicide a day, and about 30,000 a year. In this short story “A Clean Well Lighted Place” the old man tries to kill himself but his niece lets him free. This story is in the tragic mode of literature.

This story fits into the tragic mode of literature because the old man tries to hang himself so he is feeling kind of tragic. Then he is at the bar and is feeling good which is the rise to power. Then he has to go home without a wife or anything which is a tragic fall. The death symbolism in this story is when the old man goes home and has nothing to look forward to.

Like the old man the older bartender has a rise to power. He is a happy person while he is at the cafe because he has the company of others.He doesn’t have a wife and he doesn’t really have anything to look forward to. His tragic fall is when he has to go home; he has nothing to go home to.

Hemingway's tragedy is really about the older men in the story who don't really have anything to do in life. They need a clean well-lighted place to brighten the path to the rest of their lives.

This weekend i went up north and went fishing tubing and to noahs ark 2 times it was really fun

memorial day fair

Memorial Day fair


The Memorial Day fair is held in Pewaukee Wisconsin. Obviously on Memorial Day weekend. There are a lot of fun games and rides there. It is at Village Park. My favorite ride is the zipper. It is when your in like a cage and it spins around while the whole thing spins like a zipper.

fishing

Bass Fishing

Around the world there are hundreds of different fish. Some of these we eat, and some of these are game fish. But my favorite are the Largemouth and Smallmouth Bass, both of them are fun to catch and they taste great. Bass are truly freshwaters best fish.

The Largemouth Bass is named for its wide mouth. The jaw of this fish extends to below the eye. Largemouth grow very big. The record is 22 pounds, 4 ounces. Largemouths are voracious feeders, eating insects, crayfish, smaller fish, and other small creatures. They are often found in freshwater lakes and ponds, and will grow to a large size in deep water with plenty of food. The smallmouth bass is obviously named for its small mouth. They also grow very big. The record is only 15 pounds and 11 ounces but it is still a big fish. They eat the same things that largemouth’s eat. And they are also found in freshwater ponds and lakes.

The largemouth and smallmouth bass have the same characteristics of what they eat and where they live. But I would probably prefer to catch a smallmouth over a large mouth because they taste great and put up one great fight.

3 things ill do over spring break
1. shedd aquarium
2. go to Florida
3. skateboarding

spring

Super
Pretty
Righteous
Inspiring
Neutral
Great!

Streetwise

streetwise is a inspiring story that tells us how it is to be an the streets without food,water, and shelter. And it tells how homeless people are not scary.

My Favorite Season

My favorite season is the winter first of all because it is fun to play in the snow and so you can go snowboarding I have a hill across the street from my house so I always go out there make some jumps and rails then I go off of them. Snowboarding is my favoritething to do.

Shaun White

Shaun white is my favorite person because he is my favorite snowboarder.
The reason he is my favorite is because he is really good and cool. I went to the Winter X Games and saw him do the super pipe and the mega jump. He took gold in the super pipe and his best trick was a BS 1080. On the mega jump he got a bronze or silver, his best trick was a 720 back flip. When he did the mega jump, I was at the bottom and he came down and gave me his autograph.

My favorite vacation was last year when I went to Florida with my mom, me, brother, and sister. We went to see my grandma and grandpa that live in St. Petersburg. When I was down there it was about 75 degrees every day, so we were at the beach a lot when we were at the beach I went on a jet ski with my uncle. When we got back to shore, there was a guy coming out of the water with a baby shark, about 3 feet long and he let me hold it, they feel like leather. I also went deep sea fishing; I caught a puffer fish, tuna, and a baby swordfish. It took me like 25 minutes to real in the tuna it weighed like 40 or more pounds.