Monday, November 10, 2014

Book review & picture quiz from Mr. Lemoncello's Library


This is a picture quiz like in the book Escape From Mr. Lemoncello's Library. this is my review for that book.
this was the best battle book I have read so far. I love the fact that it has so many challenging puzzles to solve. it's full of excitement,secrets,action,mystery, and much more. It's a comedy mixed with a mystery mixed with a fantasy and more. it's so many different things! I just wish it talked a little bit more about the character's back stories. Like for example, i wanted to know how Bridgette Wage knew all about the writers. It was such a fun book to read I wish there was a second!



+R



put your answer to the puzzle in a comment box:)!!

Wednesday, November 5, 2014

Goody Two Shoes (fiction story)

Everyone says Anna-Rose Selena Elizabeth McCann is a goody two-shoes. They have many reasons to. She never misses a single day of school. She has perfect grades. She’s never broken a rule. Yeah, she seems like that perfect straight A’s student. But she thought in a different way. She wanted to change all this. Anna-Rose wanted to fit in. She could change her life with the touch of a marble.
                                        “Hurry up, mom!" I called out.
                                       ”I’m almost ready." my mom answered.
                                        "We’re going to be LATE!!" I screamed.
 I've never been late. Ever. And I'm in 7th grade. I didn't want to start today. I quickly pulled my purple jacket over my ugly green, red, white, and blue school uniform. We hopped in the car and drove off to Greenbrier Church Catholic School.
I ran straight to my locker and pulled out my stuff. I ran as fast as I could down the hall to room 56 and there I saw my teacher, Mrs. Elliott waiting for the rest of the class to arrive.
                       "BBBRRRIIIINNNGGG, BBBRRRIIIINNNGGG!" the school bell rang.
I was so happy I made it on time. As the rest of my class filed in, i saw my best friend Nini through a small piece of paper at me.

          “Hey!” I shouted at her.
          "read it!" she whispered
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Monday, November 3, 2014

Forensics

                    FORENSICS               

I sat quietly in the classroom. It felt so big and spacious. Me and my friend, Arya waited silently till it was our time to perform. We were third in line to perform. This was my first forensics competition and I was so nervous. A forensics competition works like this: you perform in a class room with other people in your category. You have to perform for three judges in three different rounds. In each round you go up to a table and draw for order. When you draw you get a piece of paper with a number. That number tells you when to go. Then you go up and perform for a judge. The judge ranks all the people in the category. then after all the rounds are done, you go to awards and see what place you were in. then you get the comments the judges wrote about your piece the next day.  I was in a duo (which is just one of the many categories) and I had a hilarious piece called action news by Jonathan Rand. All the other duos were really good. One of them was an episode of a popular T.V. show. Another was about a game of bingo.
"Hey Arya, are you nervous at all?" I quietly whispered.
 "I'm really nervous, but I know we can do great." She answered.
"We’ve worked so hard so we'll do great!" I said.
 "A1 duo" the judge announced. 
We quietly walked down the stairs to the performing spot. The other team from our school went up before us and was super amazing. They had good movements, great blocking, they were loud. I thought we were going to do great. I wondered what would happen if a chair fell over or some big distraction started happening.  But that wouldn't happen. We were going to do great, I quietly thought to myself.
“Judge ready? “Arya said.
“Timer ready?” I said.
“Wait one moment.” The judge said.
“Now go.” The judge said.
"It’s 5:59 and you’re watching WOMG action news..." Arya and I said. 
Oh No, we started, I thought. But we were doing great, I thought again. I thought we were going to win. Actually, I KNEW we were going to win. 
It felt like my lips knew exactly what to say without me even thinking about it. I thought I had been practicing a lot, so I knew exactly what to do, when to do it, and where to do it. 
We were close to the end of our piece. We only had about two paragraphs left. We were almost done.
"Achoo!" I heard in the audience.
Our coach had told us to not get distracted. So we didn't. We kept going.  We put our heads down and finished. I felt my fingers wiggle. I felt so happy. I thought we had done amazing.
About five minutes later everyone gathered in the Media Center of the school for awards. Since it was our team hosting the competition, our coach came up and talked a little about awards and placements. 
"We are giving awards to places 1-3." Mrs. Basset said.
“At least I'd get a medal no matter what I because there's only three duos,” I thought to myself.
The man announcing the awards had started speaking.
"First category, poetry. In 3rd place, Charlie Anderson. In 2nd place, Kate Adams-Boone. In 1st place, Vanessa Brown!" The man said.
"Next category, Declamation...”
"Next category, DI...” The man told the crowd.
I dosed off for a while, not paying much attention. I saw a lot of different people come up for a lot of different categories. Some categories had a lot of people. Others just had one person. Finally I heard them announce duo.
"In 3rd place, Layman and Mastrangelo." The man announced.
I realized that they were calling the duos by last name.
"In 2nd place, Delewen and Greenfield."
"In 1st place, Nelson and Goel!" said the man.
I thought I miss heard. But I didn't. We won! I was screaming with joy! Arya and I were so, so happy! We never thought we would win. We ran over to our parents and hugged them.
"We won, we won!" We screamed.
“Calm down!”Our moms said.

We were super happy we won. But we learned something important; if you dream and believe big, you will reach and achieve big!  


candy

Candy. Candy. Everywhere. All of my Halloween candy all over the floor of my living room.  In Ellie's pile, there was 101 snickers. In my pile there was 50 packets of m&ms. Then my sister had 47 crunches. And in Marijke's pile there was 48 Hershey bars. Then in my friend lily's pile, 34  suckers. Then in my friend Hannah's pile we had 53 twizzlers.

Thursday, October 30, 2014

the wall VI

In Janipur, their are 4 jobs, (none of these are good!) the Cleaners, the Builders, the Drivers, and the Sick Keepers. In Janipur, you don't always have a job though. the ones without jobs are called The Lifeless, and they usually end up jumping. 
Then this is what my society looks like. First, imagine the ugliest, most abandoned, creepiest place you've ever seen. Times that by 100. then paint it gray and chip it up and fill it with people in rags. That is probably what Janipur looks like. Next imagine the busiest, cleanest, biggest, newest city you've ever seen. Make it covered in beautiful grass and flowers and paint it green, blue, red, gray, and white. That's probably what Loysal looks like. Everyone knows who their parents are. they see them once a year. Mine are from Loysal, which makes me Loysalian. My best friend, Estiha Kering, on the other hand is Janipuran. So, If we were adults, we would never be allowed to communicate unless I was a wall guard or government worker and she came up to me.

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

The wall part III

By the way did I ever say my name? Ah yes, I'm Silenia Astes. Silenia is a popular name in my world. It means silent and fierce.  I'm 13. The year where my fait gets decided. Whether I am Janipur or Loysal. Everyone knows I'll be Loysal. I Always agree to everyone and everything. I don't exactly have my own opinion.
By the way this is how my society works. There are the Loysal and Janipur. Then there is the Children Keeping, where all the children are kept till they're 13. Inside Loysal, there are 5 jobs.
Governments, wall guarders, teachers, food suppliers, and runners.

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Phones

                                Phones!
       

 My family quietly walked into the AT&T store. I was so exited!  Earlier that week, my parents had told me that I would be getting my own cell phone. You see, my brother and sister knew they were getting phones for around a month.   My parents said it was for safety reasons and schedule changes and bl-blab-bl-blabbla and stuff, but I didn't care. I just wanted a phone. My brother and sister are 12 and I'm 10. We are all getting our first phones. And I'm getting mine before they ever got their first phones. A lady Called out to us and said “Nelson family! Are you guys ready to see some cool phones?” We all looked at all the cool phones. We thought for a while about the phones we wanted. I chose the Samsung S5 mini. Then we got to pick out cases. I picked out a super cool pink case. Then we waited for the phones and data plans to get set. It felt like five hours until we were done with that.  But sadly the person setting up our phones messed up so we had to wait like an extra 1/2 hour. Finally, our phones were ready. We spent the rest of the day exploring them!