Letters About Literature

Hi, everyone! I just got a letter that says I'm a semi finalist in the Letters About Literature contest! Yay!!!

Monday Free Write 12/8

High: Ice skating today!
Low: I cut my finger on a dog food can.
Goal: Finish making Christmas cards for soldiers.
Question: If you could change 1 thing about the world, what would it be and why?

Letters About Literature

The poem I wrote about was Slow Dance by Amy Bruce. Amy Bruce is a girl about my age with cervical cancer. She wrote this poem in the hospital. Apparently she gave it to one of the doctors, who then posted it on the web. It goes like this:

SLOW DANCE

Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into a fading night?
You better slow down.
Don't dance too fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is done
Do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance too fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
Ever told your child,
We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say, "Hi"
You'd better slow down.
Don't dance too fast.
Time is short.
The music won't last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It's like an unopened gift...
Thrown away.
Life is not a race.
Do take it slower
Hear the music
Before the song is over.
...........

Late Monday Free Write

Okay, so it's Wednesday, but that doesn't mean it's too late to write my Monday question, right? So here it is: Why do so many people pay more attention to boy scouts than girl scouts? In my opinion, cookies are WAY better than popcorn. And why do boy scouts get to make commercials? I've never seen one advertising girl scout stuff!

Question of the Week

What do you think the majority of US
citizens are most afraid of? Why?
What are YOU most afraid of?

Personal Reflection

HIGH OF MY WEEK: I might have a sleep over with my friend that lives in Mt. Vernon on the weekend!
LOW: I have to draw 2 big maps and 1 little map of Washington state for social studies by December 3rd!
QUESTION: If there are so many hungry people in the world, why doesn't the government do more about it? Also, if people keep telling me to make the most out of my day and do the most I can with it, then why are we in school for 8 hours a day?!?!
GOAL: My goal for the week is to find a soup kitchen and take my girl scout troop there to help!

Yellow Jounalism

A few days ago in my Social Studies class, we were watching the election news on TV, and they were showing the current percents of the voting polls. They said something like the democrats having 51% and the republicans having 29%, but Mr. Tupper said that they were lying and that it was actually a tie with 28% to 28%. That's my best example of yellow journalism.