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Tanya: reading response to I'll give you the sun week 4 Evan: personal narrative

I love making these blogs and creative writing. So I was super excited for the personal narrative paper. I really like this kind of stuff because I find it really fun and easy to tell stories. Its also very easy for me to apply vivid detail because I have a great memory and I enjoy describing what happens graphically. The first day we got the due dates I worked very hard on the paper, I actually almost finished it. On the second day I made it to the fifth page and decided the story would be fine to end there. I made the details more realistic and tried to made sure it was easy to picture. I included details on the smells, sights, and even the weather. I had worked so hard to apply the writing requirements. It was Thursday night and I was logging into my computer. I opened up canvas to be ready to submit my personal narrative. After reducing the paper to the best, most vivid parts, it was almost ready. I had to look over the paper again, checking for past tense. I always forget I'

"Throw it, throw it," Talia yells as if he's not 7 feet in front of her. Riley threw the football from the sidelines of the school's football field. He had missed half of the school day so he had to hang out with the water-girls, and of course ford, instead of playing in the game. We were playing around with the ball, the football players were only warming up for their upcoming game so we weren't worried about handing out water yet. I stuck my hand out to block it and I felt my stomach drop. It burns, it stings, it's aching, I cant bend it. "ouch" I say while laughing, not knowing what to do. I can't let them know my finger hurts because its my fault, and I can't make Riley feel bad. "What's wrong, what happened?" Talia says, as I shake my hand pretending that would help. "Finger machine broke," I say keeping the mood light. Jackson laughs. I laugh in surprise he was paying attention. I ask Talia if she thinks

Grace Marionneaux-Dear 12 Year Old Emma P- Advice for Twelve Year Olds

Dear Thirteen year old, Forget the negative people right now. They aren't relevant, so you do not need her and you especially don't need him. You'll realize in the very near future that the people you're emotional over and trying so hard to please, don't matter to you or anyone worth mentioning. You will still have to deal with the mean guys but just block them out, pay attention to your real friends and school because they are all that matter. Even through rough patches, your real friends will still be there, so don't confuse them with the fakes. For a long time I couldn't help but care what the unimportant people thought of me. It lead to me being in a bad place and trying so hard to unstick myself from their toxic lives. Stop stressing too. Stop it right now, it's so bad for your health. If you develop stressful habits now, you will keep them and it'll be a huge obstacle in high school. Right now I'm trying to get over my test anxiety and s

Vivid details of a mint snowball is what drew me to this narrative at first. I liked the title and was excited to read it because mint snowballs are my favorite to get in the summer. While it was interesting to read on the original ways of a mint snowball and the vivid details the author wrote of her grandfathers shop, the deeper meaning behind the story was also capturing. The author related herself to the mint snowball recipe because it was lost and couldn't be recreated. She identified with it because she always felt out of step with the world around her. She has connected herself with it so much, she longs for the mystery mint snowball without even having tasted it before and she continues to look for a different meaning in mint greens to find a piece of herself.

Katie K- Concert Grace M- Exciting Event- Tubing

After watching a 51 minute documentary about September 11th, sixteen years ago I saw the event differently. I didn't really like to think about this event and it seems like no one does, after thinking about it I never learned about it in school and no one really talked about what happened. This might be because its controversial and people have different opinions on it, but I think it needs to be addressed. This documentary explained to me how quick and abrupt this event was. It was five minutes and fifty seconds into the documentary when I started to tear up, but I started really crying at fourteen minutes in. The stories about the event were so eye opening and I couldn't image being in any of the situations talked about in the movie. A bystander said she woke up her husband and stared filming the damage, another woman said she got her friend and ran to the streets when the first tower got hit. A man was walking down the street to get to work when his building got hit, so he

In my book We Are Okay , there are a lot of details, and sentence fluency. Since the book is set in a New York college dorm, its a whole new place for me. I've never been in a dorm and the main character has only been in one for a semester. The people who live there are all gone for winter while she has stayed behind, so she's seeing her surroundings differently. The books specific detailing lets me visualize the dorm but the unknowingn ess I have of these types of places is fun because I get to fill in the details she doesn't mention in my head. If the book wasn't as detailed I would be very lost. Its also more interesting to read because she'll mention the noises and smells that are in her dorm and it makes it easy to get lost in the book. Another part that makes We Are Okay so surreal is the sentence fluency. The sentences mix together so well when reading time passes easily and I read in double the time it usually takes!

Ethan Webb- Maze Runner Response by Ethan Webb Ellie shoe- Its Kind Of A Funny Story