Assignment#16

 The girl with sad, sparkly blue eyes gently pushed aside the frazzled curtains. Her name was Rachel. She peered out at the lime green forest she'd been in deep slumber. She could not go out. The sun rested in the clear sky shining across the forest. Rachel went and opened the cabin door. The only door she encountered since age 5 now, 15. The door was scratched with many holes, which she stuffed with the branches and leaves to keep light out. She draped herself with a silky garment. She pondered if she would ever leave the cabin while darkness lingered throughout the forest. Oh, how Rachel liked the midday's cool breeze. It crawled over her clear pale skin and tousled her long, blonde gorgeous hair. Frogs ribbited softly as if they were trying to sing her a sweet melody. As she walked over to the lake, dirt gathered between her toes. She's come to recognize that lake as if it were the back of her hand. The lake was very long. It looked as if the sand was sucking up all the water. The sun glimmered over the silent waves. For days, Rachel had begun to notice the way the waves trickled south. Her sparkly blue eyes flickered left and right assuring she was alone. Taking five steps backwards, she took a deep breath and dove into the lake. Eliciting a big splash of water.
Rachel got way to rigid so she got out of the lake and began to walk once again. No shoes. Her feet are starting to get a lot of blisters. She stops by the darkest tree in the forest. Takes the thickest leaf and branch. She starts to make a contraption which looks to be shoes. She slowly starts walking forward, but suddenly stops as she sees a huge shadow. She makes a sudden stop and gasps for air. The huge shadow slowly moves towards her. She closes her eyes as if she's just trying to pretned not to be there. It is just a little mouse. She picks it up and names it Fred! Rachel takes him everywhere. As she continued her walk up the long path, Fred bit her thumb! Blood started gushing out and Rachel started crying and threw the mouse at a tree. He was so small, that he died suddenly.
She continues to walk up the path. As she feels that she is getting to the top, she looks to her right and sees the most beautiful flower she has ever seen in her lifetime. She has to stop and just take it off of the vine. She had to take it's only life support. Crack! She ripped the flower from the vine! She gently placed it behind her ear. She now looks like a Hawaiian hula girl. Her beautiful long, blonde hair sways with the soft sound of the cool breeze. Rachel now looks like a model. She finally reaches the top of the mountain. It is very timid and horrid. The top of the hill is so ugly that Rachel starts to cry her sparkly eyes out. She is very sad.

Assignment#18:My Poem

I don't know what to do.

You left me dry and cold.

I should have so much hate for you.

I choose not to hate.

I choose to love.

While you were gone,

I sat there feeling useless and unwanted.

I know you had no bad intentions.

It was like you viciously ripped my warm heart out.
It is now oh so cold.

I knew you would be back.
You really hurt me.
Although I could never forgive you,
I will always love you.


Would you like to know why?
Because you are my father!
That is exactly why!

Where were you when I was growing up?
On drugs or in jail.
When I was going on from elementary to middle school?
On drugs or in jail

I hoped that you would be there
to watch me graduate from the
eighth grade, but you weren't!

You don't know me.
I wish you did.
We have no connection.
I'm glad we don't.
You're all about you wife.
So just be happy with her
and your oh so perfect life.

Assignment#14 Persuasive Essay:Uniforms

Uniforms has been a big topic of discussion in APS schools. Here at Atrisco Heritage Academy, I believe that students should have to wear uniforms because some kids and their parents can not afford to buy other clothes,the kids here could possibly be hiding drugs, and last but not least, it helps with the discipline in students' lives.

Students should have to wear uniforms because maybe some kids and their parents may not be able to afford other clothes. For example if one kid is wearing aeropostale or ecko red, and the poor kid is sitting there wearing torn up old clothes, that is very embarrassing. No child ever wants to go through that.

At Atrisco, students shall not have any type of drugs. Which includes crack cocaine, marijuana, alcohol etc. they should not also have any sort of weapon. When students are allowed to wear their own clothing, it can be very baggy and you cannot see what is under their clothes so they could possibly have a gun, knife etc.

When students are made to wear uniforms, many are very angry. They shouldn't be, because when students are made to wear uniforms, teachers and principles are just trying to show them what the real world is like. When you get a job when you're older and they have a dress code, you can't fight back and say "No I will not wear this" because if you did you would get fired.

Therefore, students should be made to wear uniforms because they cannot afford it, they can be taking drugs or weapons, and because it shows them disciplinary actions.

Assignment #13

Cries of trick or treat. Moonlight, pumpkins and black cats. It is Halloween.
The bright moon shines on. Spooky sparkles in the air. Dead come alive now!
Bats circle dead rise. Full moon, ghouls delight fool's plight. At twilight demise.

Assignment #11

Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?
Proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet.
Funny it seems, but by keeping its dreams, it learned to breathe fresh air.
Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared.

Tupac is talking about a little child who is coming up into the world with no help from anybody or anything. He is practically talking about himself and how he grew up with no help but, he did have dreams so he learned to get along in life. When he died, He did not have anybody to care for him.

I think it's funny how when people with the most support that they could ever have, are the ones who fail and the people with less support achieve more. It just shows how ignorant people could be. Also how they can just take advantage of something so valuable.

I think all of my observations that came from the poem, are hidden in between the lines. For example when he says that proving nature's law is wrong it learned to walk without having feet. You just have to think deep about this one and it will come to you. It hit me right in the face, saying that he learned everything on his own without anybody's help. Another example is when he says Long live the rose that grew from concrete when no one else ever cared. He is saying that when he dies nobody will be there for him or even care. Tupac is a very intelligent person with very deep thoughts and emotions. I believe that this poem was written after the controversy between him and Biggie. I think this because Biggie was his best friend and Tupac thought that Biggie turned on him so he had no one else to turn too and no family because he got into the music industry and into multiple drugs.

Assignment #10

My Experience

Nobody likes it, almost everybody does it, and no one is taking charge.It happens everywhere you go. When I was in elementary school, I got bullied tons. It was by multiple people. The reason I believe that I got bullied was because of my weight, height and even my skin color. In elementary school, it was very horrible because there were little cliques just like middle school and high school. not everybody got along. They would throw things at me and tell me "Oh you're nothing but a little fat white girl! Go eat some more Twinkies." They would also say stuff like "Don't you belong in some other school you whit piece of trash?" It only got worse in middle school because I did not tell anybody. In middle school, nobody would want to hang out with me. I felt alone inside and out. At that time, i felt like i was worthless. They would tell me that i stink to go take a shower and that they should have used my stomach as the solar system. Once I got to high school I had nothing else to turn to so I started cutting myself. I cut myself one time so bad that my mom had to take me to the hospital and they had to admit me to make sure I wouldn't do something worse. I had hidden all of my cutting from my parents and fellow classmates by always wearing sweaters or long sleeves. My mom had only found out i was cutting because she saw the scars from previous cuts. Now I am just so self conscious about my body image and what people think of me. I think I will be scarred for life because of the bullies.

People need to just stop the bullying already! It is a waste of every body's time! The reason I think people bully is to build up their own confidence by putting multiple people down.

Assignment #9

Out in the desert in Tuscon, Arizona, There once lived a short, wrinkly, chubby, grumpy man named Phyllis who didn't care about anyone or anything but his property. If even a squirrel  tried to take a step on his property, ZAP! They automatically get hit by a spark that kills them once touched. Phyllis has been alone ever since his wife of 42 years passed away 10 years ago. He does not like having any company.

All of a sudden, what looks to be a UFO lands right near Phyllis's property and he cannot believe it so he goes out to his fence and yells "What the hell do you think you are doing near my property?!" A weird creature gets out of the UFO and starts trying to talk but Phyllis cannot understand his language and just stares at it and runs back inside. The creature is an alien and as he is walking into Phyllis's property, ZAP! The alien gets zapped but just keeps on walking as if he didn't feel a thing.It's like he is indestructible. He walks up to the door of the house but Phyllis is hiding in the closet of the living room and tries to make it seem like he is not home. The alien is not stupid so he starts knocking and finally hits the door so hard that he broke the door and just stormed inside. Knocking over everything as he is searching for the short, wrinkly, chubby man. Phyllis finally surrendered and asked the alien "What are you doing here? And what are you?" The alien starts talking in his weird language again and Phyllis said "Wait! Wait! Wait! I cannot understand you let me try and find a translator." The alien walked outside and came back with a machine with a microphone and handed it to him. Phyllis looked very confused. He plugged it in and told the alien to talk. He did. It was very so a translator. The alien was telling Phyllis how his UFO ran out of the stuff used to make it go. It was called googy. It was very similar to gas but it is made to power more powerful machines. All the alien wanted to do was find some googy to power his machine. Unfortunately Phyllis could not help him. The alien was very sad and Phyllis was feeling very lonely so he invited him just to stay at his house as long as he needed to. Phyllis named the alien Guiness. Guiness and Phyliss became very good friends and Phyllis taught Guiness how to speak english. Over the next few months, another alien ship landed and demanded that Guiness go bcak home with him because he did not belong there.

Guiness went home and Phyllis had for once thought he'd never be alone agaain. Once again, he was. Phyllis was depressed for the past year and then got over it finally when he met a new friend.. THE END