Letter to the Big Washington

Dear George Washington,

In class, we have been talking about our freedom and our founding fathers. If you were to look at our country now, and our country back then, what do you think would be different if our Founding Fathers didn’t create the declaration of independence?

The flag, the eagle, the national anthem, our freedom, these things all stand out when we are talking about our country. Symbolism will never be forgotten because of our Founding Fathers. Without the Founding Fathers, women voting, no slavery, and our independence wouldn’t still be here today.

During this time of year it is because of our great founding fathers that women can now vote. You go to vote and then you think that it is amazing of the independence we have. Since you started our country off so great, we’ve gotten to this amazing country with many ally’s that help us out.

Also since you made such a great country we have learned to bounce back. Just like you did countless times in the war. 12 years ago our country suffered a major tragedy. There was a terrorist attack on a great city which killed many people and destroyed many lives. We bounced back because of the way you taught our country to do so.

Over the years all these ups and downs our country still has the outcome of greatness. Bouncing back from 9/11, gaining independence for everyone including women, and with a government who knows who to have ally’s for. You definitely started off this country better than anyone else could have.

The Job

Authors Note: I wrote this piece because in my class we were working on conflict resolution and we had to write a piece about it. This isn't a true story.

Ah baby sitting, an easy way to get money. This job doesn't take hard work if your good at it like me. Right now I have both the kids sitting down watching a educational T.V. while eating some carrots. Of course I am watching them carefully to make sure they don't choke. "Ding Dong" Both the kids turn their heads while I start to get up to go answer the door. "Try to find a game to play I'll be right back" As I get to the door I find it to just be some punk teens who think they're funny going ding dong ditching."No!" "Aw man the kids are having a conflict again I better go resolve it."

"We are playing this!" "No! We are playing this!" "Hey what's going on?" As the kids tell me about their problem I desperately   try and thing of a way to resolve it and make them both happy. I finally come up with something. "Tony," I say "Would you be willing to try your brothers game for 30 minutes and then play your game after?" "Uh, I guess so" As I help set up the game for the kids I can't help but thing that there is no conflict with these kids i can't resolve.

Personal Narrative

Authors Note: I wrote this personal narrative about my football game against Tosa East because it was a really fun game and we also won it. Our team doesn't win that many games because we have to play players that aren't exactly the best. Since we have 40 players on our team we have a lot of players that aren't all that great.

"Set, Red, Set, Go!" "First down Pewaukee Pirates on the 55!" On Saturday my football team played a game against Tosa East on our home field! It was a important game for us because we had lost the last few games and had started to loose our moral. This game was a very fun game but to me the last five minutes were the most import.

After an unsuccessful play I jog back to the huddle to listen to Carl call the play. "632 counter on one, ready? BREAK!" As I walk up to the line I can barely keep in my excitement as I think of the moves I'm gonna make when I get the ball, but I can't get too excited because I need to remember to get the hand off on the inside and cut into the two hole. "Set, Red," By now I'm smiling in excitement as I see Mike go in motion, "Set, GO!" I take off down the line of scrimmage to see Carl right where he should be ready to hand me the ball, I take the ball and take a hard left up the perfect hole my blockers have made me. I can feel defensive players hanging on to the back of my jersey but they can't hand on for long since I never stop moving my legs. Then I see someone right in front of me.

It's a little guy who tries to wrap up my legs but I decided to be awesome and step over him in stride which was pretty cool. Once I get past him all I see is open field. Right when I'm thinking this is going to be a touchdown run I get tripped up by about three people. I jog back to the huddle to get a couple high fives and smacks to the helmet which don't necessarily feel good. "733 counter on one ready break!" As I walked up to the line of scrimmage I wish that I would get the ball again this play. "Set, Red," I take off in my motion, "Set, Go!" As I start to block someone I heard the whistle signaling that they play was over so I stopped blocking and turned around to see a nice three yard gain, now back to the huddle.

632 counter on one, ready, break!" I'm literally jumping in my steps, because I get to run the ball again. " Red, Set, Go!" I take a hard step to the right and start sprinting towards Carl to get the ball. I snatch the ball and cut up the middle. I run about eight yards before I am tackled. After the huddle I'm excited for the next play, 747 crisscross. "Set, Red," I take off down the line of scrimmage, "Set, GO!" I quickly grab the ball from Carl and in a split second I had it to Mike and start blocking someone. I turn to see Mike running to the end zone. "Touchdown Pirates!"

To me those were the most important moments of the game because it was to clutch our win in our football game.

The Rise Of Nine

Authors Note: I talked about this book, The Rise Of Nine, because I think it is a great book and that more people should read this series.

The Rise of Nine is the breath taking third book

in the amazing series of I Am Number Four.

Four and Nine are in the U.S. and nine is with

a new member of the Garde and with Ella.  

They suddenly are confronted by a friendly

army and are taken to a possible member of

the Garde. This book comes with many

surprises and a ending that is really interesting.

Now with the Garde teaming up they stronger

than ever and could beat the leader of the

mongadorians. If you haven’t read the first

book or second book in this series you should

go read them. If you love science fiction and

adventure books than this is the book for you!.

This is really one of the best books to read.

When will we stop hiding.

Authors note: I wrote my conflict resolution piece on the series because I'v read all three books and each one is better than the last.

The series I Am Number Four has a very interesting conflict it is person vs person because it is two alien races fighting each other. They aren’t really fighting though more like playing hide and seek but when you get caught you will most likely die. That is also like a person vs self conflict because I would probably go crazy knowing that a race of aliens was tracking me down to try and find me to kill me.

The two races are the Mongadorians and the Lorians. The Mongadorians took over Lorien but there were a few survivors. So this conflict has been going on for a while. In the second book the leader Mongadorian comes to earth and the Lorians resolve the conflict by trying to find they others to try and take him down.The cause and effect from this is because the Mongadorians are hunting them down then the Lorians and to go into hiding. The cause is the Lorians are being hunted so the effect is that they have to go into hiding