Tuesday, October 20, 2009

IN TEN YEARS

In ten years I will still be living in Michigan and will either be going to Western Michigan University or Michigan State University College. I will be in college for eight years so then I can get a masters degree. I will be twenty-four years old and my two old sisters will be thirty and my little sister and brothers will be twenty-one, seventeen, and twelve.
I will be working at a good place that pays well. I will be living in my own house and will have a 2008 ford mustang in my garage. My job will be my own business and I will be making homemade jumps for bikes, skateboards, scooters, and dirt bikes. And my cousin will be helping because we came up with the idea and I think it would be fun because I always liked to build ramps.
I will have one pet dog and will have a 50 inch plasma TV. I will still have a small house but it would be good enough for me and I will have a skate park in my back yard that I will make. My house will be really cool and will be getting paid well.
I will travel around the world every summer and visit somewhere different each week and I will go everywhere in the world before I die. I will be doing all my school work before anything so then I can get it done and have fun after and I will study for all my test after school if I have any coming up
I will also draw comics or something because I like to draw and make stuff that people like and think is funny and cool. And I might make picture books to for little kids so then they don’t have to read when there 2 or 3.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

ABC

· A is for Awesome which mostly describes me.
· B is for bagel is my favorite food.
· C is for competitive which I am
· D is for dog that is my favorite pet to have.
· E is for endless days that seems like it’s really long
· F is for fox which is a really cool animal and a motocross company
· G is for games and I like to play any games
· H is for hangman that I play when I get really bored
· I is for igloo that I build in the winter for my little brothers and sister
· J is for Jake which is my first name
· K is for kind and I am very kind
· L is for Detroit lions because they are not doing good this year
· M is for March and my birthday is in march
· N is for Nike that is a sport company
· O is for Obama and he is our first African American president
· P is for pumpkin pie which is my favorite kind of pie in the world
· Q is for quick because I am very fast so then I can get past people in soccer
· R is for running which I do daily so then I can build stamina
· S is for soccer which is the sport that I have been playing since I was 4
· T is for taco bell and is my favorite fast food restaurant
· U is for USA the country I live in
· V is for victorious and I like to be victorious
· W is for waffles that I eat for breakfast
· X Is for the x-games which is a TV show that I watch
· Y is for you because that is a word I just thought of
· Z is for Zeppa which is my last name

Dirk

DIRK

Vocab
1. Impasse: a road or way that has no outlet
2. Absurdly: the quality or condition of existing in a meaningless and irrational world.
3. Rangy: slender and long-limbed.
4. Brindled: gray or tawny with darker streaks or spots.
5. Deftly: dexterous; nimble; skillful; clever: deft hands; a deft mechanic.

Connections
1. My next door neighbor has 3 dogs and they come over to my house sometimes and run around in my back yard and if someone they don’t know comes over they will be protective.
2. My friend has a dog and it will always bark and act all tough when someone walks by the window.
3. My grandpa has a dog and it’s all rangy and brindled like dirk.
4. My friend has a dog that bit me because it thought I was going to hurt my friend or something.
5. My sister has a dog that is super protective when people it doesn’t know comes over

Questions
1. Why does Gary live in a small town?
2. Why did the gangs not have guns but they had knifes?
3. Why does Gary get paid so little but works so long?
4. What does Gary mean when he said, but I added to my income so that I could stay above water?
5. How old was Gary when all of this happened

Interesting/Important Sentences or Passages
1. Street kid, that tells what he’s like
2. Seven cents a lane , that tells how much he gets paid at his job
3. Dirk would try to remove some part of Happys body every time he saw him, Dirk was Gary’s bodyguard.
4. First time dirk had wagged his tail, the first time dirk was really happy.
5. Give the beast under the stairs half a burger, a distraction.