Journal 77: Slang

Most slang comes from the internet, however some come from real life. Most slang is often produced over  years of development. In the US their language was slowly changed and they started to change words into an easy slang.

• 1800s - 1900s :
• Why must thow? (This means why must you do this?)
• To whome am I speaking too? (Who am I speaking to?)
• 1980s - Today
• Yo hey man! (Just saying hi...)
• What up?  (Whats up...)
• -Ect..
• -Now here are some examples of computer terms and American slang.
• G2g/Gtg (Got to go)
• GTGTTB (Got to go to the bathroom)
• PAS (Premium Artist Service)
• flame ( This means your threaten people with words)
• Troll ( This means you randomly say a negative act towards a random person, for example "Your a moron")
• TROLOLOLOLOL (This is just making fun of the person trolling)
• Noob (New person)
• FROOB (Free noob)
• Dub dub dub (This means "World wide web" This is a common term for trolls to make fun of the internet)
• Cookie (This is a common use for sites to track your location and time and date on your computer.)
• Blog (This is a personnel site someone uses to store information.)
• Blogger (This is a person who spends countless time on forums and blog posts and commenting)
• Bandwidth (This is the transmitting data coming into your computer.)
• Geek (This is someone interesting in technology, not apparently lacking any necessary skills)
• Fat fingered (I like to use this term when my brother makes a mistake, this means you messed up on a type for example "you computer i awesome" 
• hack (This is illegal in the US, this is some experience a user had in-game by a someone using a cheating program.)
• Exploit (This is a glich found in a game and a user using it to his/her advantage.)
• Google it (This is a common use for searching knowledge online.)

Journal 65: General Conditions

The details I have found in camp harmony was that it was very plain and houses where all the same. People where very scared and kinda confused about the situation. You where only allowed to bring what can fit in your bag. Japanese interment camps in the US during word war II was very corrupt. The people did not revolt because they are just to afraid. Those camps are scarry and I would hate to be in one. Knowing that you would be killed before the war is over. Everyone should have revolted before it got to that point. Camps itself is just a place people are staying at. A camp is a group of people in one spot. This information is accurate because it is taken strait from the book itself. I also know for a fact that people where always killed before the war ended. I do not know of any self contained camps that people did not end up not being killed at the end. I do however know of some revolts that led to the escape of some people. I also know of some people that where smart and left the area before the matter has gotten worse. Before they where even contained.

Journal 64: Camp Harmony?

Harmony basically means peace or peace together. For example you say we are all in harmony. That means we are all currently at peace together. I do not think the name is appropriate, it is a death camp and everyone at the end was killed. Children and women was throne into that camp for no reason. The US thought they where so called 'spies'. She said "it was hopefully called camp harmony" because she hopes it is not as bad as everyone is thinking. She thinks it is as bad as its going to be. They don't know that but they want hope so they described that in that form. I would give a summer camp name "The number four" or I would give it "Camp 51". I called this camp 51 because it is related to area 51. Everyone in America talks about area 51 because its a cool place. Camp 51 is also a game that I am currently making. I would call my second choice "The number four" because have you ever heard "I am number 4"? I also choose The number four because it mostly sounds cool. Only people in America would find it cool or interesting and any English school in the world. I am sure Dominic has watched the movie.

Journal 82: My Last Journal Entry

Journal writing have been helpful to be because it have improved my reasons skills,. I have improved my spelling and even my language development. It has been helpful to me because it allowed me to learn all of the skills I have shown above. It has improved my social skills and it even showed me a few tricks. It has been helpful also because, its easy! All you need to do is do it! You get an easy A if you simply do it on time! When I look back on all the past journals I have done I see how my skills has improved since then. I see improvement since then. I see a long history, of my past. I also notice that if any random person where to find my blog they would know almost everything about me. Besides that point, it reminds me of the past. It reminds me of even the future, it reminds me of what I need to work on and it reminds me what I have achieved. The topics I have written about have been very interesting. Each one has been fun to me, one blog even made Dominic laugh until his stomach was sore. (In a good way) I usually try to make my journals exiting when a person reads it. I try to add hummer when writing it. These journals are a good and easy way to practice and learn for the future.

Journal 81: In Defense of My Treasure

Well I would do anything to defend piles of cash. I would only surrender it at a market or Nova. Or some store. I would buy something with it. Like games, pizza, soda, etc. The point is that I would gain something from it. Its a trade, its apart of the global system trade. The money is a circle of trading that people are constantly using in the system. However the people need to agree its worth something in order for it to work. If people say for example "Gold is not worth financial value!" then gold would skyrocket downward and become a useless object. It is only value if people value the item. There was once a native tribe that used sea shells for currency. Its not worth anything to us, but to them its forth at least some bread. Currency can be trade like a pig for 10 apples. Or pottery for 5 loaves of bread. The purpose is that if we value it it will be valued. If we don't it wont be. The US values paper because the people value it. The people value gold the same way. Will I protect what I value? Yes, yes I will.

Journal 80: My Treasure

My family is what I value the most. It is important because we grew up together. Lived together, developed a bond between us. My family is very important to me. I also value money because currently it is worth something to people. I cant spend it for food, water, toys, games, gaming devices. Even for a new computer. We spend the money and it goes into the circle of trade. Like Mr. McCool said, someone is going to get stuck with the money. One day someone will have one and don't know what to do with it. Its just say you have a gold coin. What makes it valuable is that its rare and its pure. Copper is pure, but also cheaper but gold is the best. Some computers have gold chips inside. Like supercomputers. In the medieval ages gold was worth value because you can melt them down into currency and sell it or buy land. It was also rare in those days that is why it was valued.  Anything can be valued if a person values it. There is a group of people who have sea shells as their currency because they valued it. Money is only valuable if you have value in it.

Journal 79: My Background

I was born in Organ, United States. After I was born my parents stayed there for at least 4 years and then we moved to Singapore. This is why I remember so much about the place. All I remember of Singapore is it was very clean and spotless. It was however very very hot. The air conditioning was breathing hot air. We lived in a 5 star apartment, there was a large swimming pool with waterfalls and everything. Shortly we got tired of the heat and took a vacation to Ireland. We were treated like kings there. I mean like the kings and queens of England. We stayed at the top of the castle and looked down below. There were guards and a king and queen chair. I remember a very very long table with at least 50 seats each side. We even had servants that ran up and town the top of the castle. My parents were the kings and queens of course. In speaking of my parents, my dad was in the army for 7 years and was a combat engineer. He found a way to speed up the tanks to like 30 MPH extra. It was a part on the bottom of the tank that was built there to slow down the tanks.

Journal 78: Style

I think the style is quite the same in opinion, but this is probably a statement from a boy and a girl narrator. In other words 'Raymond's run" is written by a woman and "The Treasure of Lemon Brown" was created by a man. Now my conclusion of all of this in opinion is that the style is basically is slane and formal writing mixed.

Journal 76: Analogy

Journal 75: Fighting Words

I believe the words are not enough to fight over. I have been, my brother certainly. He said well 'things' about me. Including the zombie warfare thing, yeah I don't want to talk about it. I think the zombie thing 'could' happen. When hail freezes over. Yes it is very necessarily to fight over. I will defend my quest for Zombies! Would I defend my brother? If its not about the 'zombie thing' then yes I would fight the person with my own words. I would certainly defend a friend, maybe Steven. Hmm, we will see. WHEN HAIL FREEZES OVER! (No offence Steven, (The one in Soviet Russia) It is sometimes necessary to fight over words spoken to you. If a guy said, "You are... Under new management" and its a fat with two mean body guards with guns. I guess it is sometimes necessary to do so. Also it is also not okay to do so because if say like is Dom said "Move" you are not to go all Karate on him and karate chop him. You move and run away. Then Dom starts chancing you then you scream. Yeah then you like get caught in a corner, then you are doomed.

Journal 73: OOPS!

Journal 72: My Tell-Tale Ending

Louder! louder! louder! You say that I am crazy but in fact I wasn't at all the ground shaking the ground moving! It got louder! Louder and louder! I feel a pain in my chest and it only got worse. Worse! Worse! And worse! I start to hear noises, strange noises indeed. I start to shake and tremble at the sounds. I start stomping and stomping. Covering my ears from these noises! It sounds like a plastic bag when you squeeze it but this gets faster and faster. And faster! I scream "It hurts! It hurts!" but how strange. The police officers already left out the door. They are mocking me outside I thought. I run at them as fast as I can saying "You can't mock me, I will tear you apart!" The officers seemed to not have seen me coming. I guess they would have not guessed a positive mad with a clear mind running at them with a stick would just be behind them as they stand. They where just on the hill. A few feet away the house. It may have taken me 10 min to get to them. The roar of my foot steps must have scared them off. I mean it was already morning.

Journal 71: Hints and Foreshadowing

One of the first sentences describes ",but why will you say I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses" This gives us a clue that he is not in his right mind. He also described "It took me an hour to place my whole head within the opening". This sentence describes that it took him an hour to look inside the room. He a certainly insane, he also said "but I found the eye always closed; and so it was impossible to do the work." This states that because of the old man's eye was closed he would not finish his work. All of these three sentences shows and prove he is truly  insane. This sentence shows how he was obsessed with the old man's eye "One of his eyes resembled that of a vulture---a pale blue eye, with a film over it.Whenever it fell upon me, my blood ran cold;" The over all feeling of this story was mostly obsession. He killed the old man for no reason, only for his eye. He could have just stayed away from him. There was allot of things he could have done besides that. It was also greed, greed for the eye. This story was also unhappy and mad at the same time.

Journal 67: Betrayal

Her friend simply left her in the dust and did not want anything to do with her, then she was left alone. She responded by morning about it. She did not getting super mad at her and saying mean things, but she did explain her feeling I mean this is how I know in the first place. It may have been an effective response if her friend that betrayed her saw what she wrote. She may have had feeling about it and changed her mind. I have felt betrayed by a friend once he led me literally into a pond and he mocked me on front of my face. At least I had a nice bath, I got back at him but that is another story. Or I can explain it now I responded with a hurtful blow including his room. He responded back with another hurtful blow this time it was my room. It just kept going on and on. Another time is when Steven (In Alaska, not the Steven we all know ) pounded me in dodge ball I mean wow. He was on our team and switched manually to the other team, I mean its now 13 to 11. A great battle was taken. Well, we lost but I can say it was a good experience.

Journal 71: Hints and Foreshadowing

He said that hes not insane but the fact that he opens the door slowly for an hour just to peak into the room and then leave is a little crazy. It explains that he wants to kill the old man and that it also showed that he is crazy because of how he talked I mean who would explain on the first words that he is not crazy? Its crazy to say that, he also stated that he has obsessed with the old man's eye. The eye is what he was always talking about. His mood is always describing how he is obsessed with the old mans eye. It is the eye is is worried about. He claims it may have some kind of power on him. He is also 'mad' through out the whole story. He talks in a strange way and he even acts in a strange way. This is also a reason the narrator is unreliable.  He talks like someone who is mad, even though he claims to not be crazy or mad. He still explains some stuff that gives us some clues that in fact he is mad. In opinion he killed a man for no reason at all only because he was obsessed of his eye.

Journal 70: Narrator

The narrator describes it in such a unprofessional manner and describes stuff like "Go get ya door". In others words this would mean "Go get the door." This is an example of unreliability. The narrator also explains stuff in a sorta of odd manner. The author probably wanted the reader to figure out what he is saying. It's like a puzzle, a hard puzzle. I have read cat in the hat a long time ago. The narrator seems to have a odd since of humor in the sentences. Any Dr. Sues book has strange sentences that make the narrator unreliable. I can tell how they act, if they are series and mad and I don't know them. Then they are probably telling the truth. If I know who they are and I know they cant be trusted I don't think I will believe what they are saying. I can also tell by how they speak, if they are depressed its a 50% they are telling the truth. If they are crying its a 90% chance they are. If they act like a punk then they are most likely not telling the truth. If it is a normal conversation then its a 60% chance of them telling the truth.

Journal 69: Scary Stories

I think the elements should unknown objects accruing out of no where. Some of the un-dead people would be an element. Also some nasty zombies might do the job a little better. Maybe a hand popping out of the wall maybe a little scary. Ghosts maybe included in this, but ghosts are getting a little old. I like classic death scenes or death mystery scenes. Also to be a horror story? It takes allot to scare me, but I think the main element would be a haunted house mystery scene, its old and classic. I don't really have any fear of really anything. Perhaps in Alaska the bears come out at night and they might tackle the tent. The fact that a robber was sneaking  into our house and ran out very fast was kind scary. There was also a time when 4 moose was in front of me, they could charge. I would not move a bit or it would happen. The thing that scarred me the most today was my worldly wise, a living night mere. I think its just the thought that its going to happen, scarred me for a whole week and when it happens its just OK.

Journal 68: My Style

My style is to dress where I am presentable and to look nice. I walk like a normal person... I eat like a normal person... I also think in higher expectations than a normal person would. An example of this is knowing how to survive in certain conditions in the wilderness. I am energetic some times but I mostly just want to lay back and play the Xbox or something. I am mostly neat an I clean my room once a day or at least though away most of my trash. I also like classic music and my mom plays it every time I come home, most people like rock but in my own words I think it destroys your brain and I am having enough trouble with Algebra already. I am not sure this is an opinion but can I be a cool computer nerd? I think I am one I may not be much of a Microsoft word nerd since I never really used it in the US for my work. I am however I am a total programming nerd. I am a nerd and I am cool at the same time and that is my final answer.

Journal 66: Real American

According to the poem, she eats an american food item. (For example, hot dogs)  He has a White girl as her friend. She was also born in america. She choose to include these details because she wanted to state that she was an american. They are convincing, born and lived in the ways of an american. The first thing I would say is "Look at the color of my face." and then I would show them my american passport. I would show them some products we bout in america. I choose these details because these are all relate to america. In fact they would find items that can only be bout in america. I showed the my passport to prove that I am an american. I would show them american items because some are rare and only can be purchased in America. I would also say to look at my face because this is the living proof I am an american. This is the best piece of proof I have that I am an american. The proof of american items is also helpful if I have one in my pocket. I really hope I have my passport in my pocket when this question comes up!

Journal 63: Camp Pictures

On page 471 the picture has a lightly clouded sky. A small mountain over the horizon. A few log cabins on the desert plains. Only few, but a few people walking outside. Large mountains of trash that almost cover the road. Power lines just across the road. A small but rare, stop sign for the military when they pass by. The houses are long but not very high. They have 3 pipes that have smoke coming out of them. Cant keep bragging about the stop sign since its so rare. It has 'Stop' in front and the top is red. The stem is yellow with red a red ribbon spiral. The place has ponds that do not glare in the sun lite. In fact, there is no sun at all, you cant see sun because the clouds cover it. Everyone is indoors for safety reasons, the reason I say this is because its day light and no one is even outside. Everyone has their windows open for the fresh air. Everyone is probably morning that they came to this place. This place has a few cactus there and there and you see shed that is white and small. Everyone right now only wants their sweet bed.

Journal 62: Spring Break

I mostly spent my time during spring break going to places in taipei. I went on the subway and went on a very very fast train. It was so fast that I took a few steps back. I went to Taipei then on.  My family and  went to Taipei 101 and there we went to the grand world market. Then we traveled to the top then we made reservation for the restaurant then we ate there. The food was very good, we could see our house from there! I did some things I wanted to do, but money stood in my way.  I could not go to the graduation trip because it cost way too much money to go there. It cost over 100,000 NT, this is what stopped me from going. I guess happy is not what I had in mind, I am some-what glad to be back in school, however the homework is sometimes hard. I am happy to finally come back and hope for the weekend. School is exciting some times, some times its well, boring. You can say I am in-between happy and mad about going back to school. I love school because of all the friends I have there. I am unhappy because of all of the hard work I need to do.

Journal 43: Elements of Poetry

Some elements of poetry are imagery, similes,metaphors and some use setting,plot and character. I like to use rhymes in my poem, in my opinion it allows the reader to be interested in my poem.Some poems use a fantastic beat in them, and some poems are like a puzzle. You need to place the pieces together to form the image in your head. Also in some past poems I have read, they have imagery. Imagery is the mental picture drawn into your head by words. They also have similes and metaphors, poems usually have a metaphor. This allows the poem to be more exiting. I like the fact of most poems rhyme with the word above, some poems extend the rhyme by the title rhyming with the last sentence of the poem. I think imagery is helpful in poems because it allows me to paint a mental picture in my mind, explaining what their environment or character may have looked like. For example, "The mountains are as bright as the sun and as white as snow". This paints a mental picture into your mind by explaining what the mountain looked like. This is imagery. So poetry has allot of elements, and there is more to be discover about the different kinds of poetry.

Journal 45: List Poem

Time for blood and gore

Call of duty 4

Now lets get some more
Flight simulator

Now get the communicator its time for
Final Strike

No time to make a kite its time for
First Person shooter

Time just burst its time for

Super Mario 3 4D

Just super dooper I just ran out of memory
40G+ Memory usage pack

No time to chat time for
Plants vs Zombies

(*Puts on a mask*)
Hover tank 3D

Now lets make this happen
3D screen

Ew! Its green! Time to get the
Cheat Card

Now I just beat the game

Journal 44: My list

?

-Call of duty 4

-Flight simulator (Coming soon, US)

-Final Strike (US)

-First Person shooter? (US)

-Super Mario 3 4D (English)

-40G+ Memory usage pack

-Plants vs Zombies (I personalty don't like this game I just... put it up here.)

-Hover tank 3D (Coming soon, US)

-3D screen

-Cheat Card (US)

Journal 48: Haiku

Art is colorful
A man on the mountain side
Blowing his cool flute

The dessert is plain
A few bones here and up there
A plain tan color

Beautiful water
A glare of the morning rise
Small fish swim there waters

Journal 41: Poetry

It has unique forms of writing, standing on a subject and explaining it top to bottom. Poems have similarities to other forms of writing because they use something like a paragraph. They use stanzas, just like paragraphs but a little smaller. They also have imagery, which generally this is taste,smell,sounds,sight, and emotions.  They use some vocabulary as well as some grammar. Yes, they can that type of poem would be an ode.
 A poem does not need grammar or vocabulary. I see some poems on the internet, these are famous poems and are used for making money. Poems are a very stylish way of writing, poetry should be something every won should practice once and a while.

Journal 42: Ode

The cool mountain wind
A cool breath of fresh air into me
Oh how refreshing

Boiling desert wind
A cruel harmful wind of death
Oh how refreshing

A nice cool smoothie
A fine brain freeze of the morning
Oh how refreshing

Journal 56: Lost in the Woods

I would quickly build a fire to stay warm and to keep the bugs out. I would build a shelter out of  branches or build on a tree. (This depends where I am at.) It would take hours but for my survival I need to get water, you can survive one month without food. I don't want to munch on worms just yet. I would make a spear for defending myself, just in case. After 1 day I will go south, or north depends where I am at. I can hike my way to safety in about 4 days. Or 3 weeks if I am in Canada. I know allot of survival tactics, I know how to make a fire in about 30 min. with just wood. I know where to find water, you just need to dig a hole in the ground and you will find water, even in the desert. I also know how to kill a bear with a spear very easily, when the bear stand and about to pound on you to kill you. You put that spear on the ground and the spear will go right though the bear.  It does not depend which environment I am in, I know skills for each one and I have tested them; being lost in the mountains and being lost in a desert use two different survival skills. I was never really lost but there was this one time in Idaho, I was lost in the woods and there was no sign of home. My brother was with me; I knew that the foolish thing to do was to build a shelter and prepare for the night. We were to close to home; so we shouted "Help!" "Help!" Constantly. This seemed to do the trick my parents found my brother and I and there we go.

Journal 61: Film v Book

The story generally is the same, the characters seem to say the same things as in the book. There is a boy hatchet and the wilderness as the book described.  The boy Brian did not softly land on the water on purpose. In the movie the boy Brian runs out of fuel and leaps the plane into the lake. The boy Brian had his mind tell him all these things. I saw none of that in the movie. Another thing different is the hatchet looked way smaller that I first thought. I expected a large metal ax. Brian also looked different in my head than in the movie. In the movie he is blond, but on the cover of the book he has black hair. The author has the original picture in hes/her mind. The filmmaker has a different view. The author  has the picture in his mind, but maybe not in our mind. The filmmaker pictured a blond boy and a tiny hatchet I guess. I pictured a black-haired boy with a large hatchet swinging it around. This means there is a unknown mystery, we don't know for sure how or what it looks like, we can only imagine it...

Journal 60: Hip-Hot Language

Oh yeah I have a gangsta language
But not a hamsta language
I am tough on the street and on the road.
I do not jump around
Hey fools get off my lawn
They call the cops and I am gone.
Lets go hang out and have some fun
Hey fools get off my lawn

I am the master of immortality
I dont play world of war craft
Because that is for babys
I fight Chuck Norris everyday
and I beat him everyday
Hey fools get off my lawn

I play basketball everyday
I never go and play
I stick to the tack
and I wear a mask
and don't ask me why
because I will just makeup a good lie
it doesn't matter if you cry
I will just say "Suck it up boy, don't cry"
I eat anything I want and do what ever I want
It doesn't matter if you go by
Hey fools get off my lawn

I am the master at video games
I am greatest and the fastest
I clap the loudest
Hey fools get off my lawn

I am the captain of dodge ball
as well as basket ball
as well as captain ball
I am tall and I say "Play ball!"
Now I start to call I only choose the best
I made a team crest
Hey fools get off my lawn

Journal 59: Epic Language

The TV is so handy
so I named it so.
with it we can watch the the cool wind as soft as snow
my brother likes to watch TV shows about candy.
some times the shows are slow
some times we can get TV on the go
The TV is a handy gadget.
It is almost like magic.
As my eyes watch it.
While my ears hear it.
I start to cry
Justen bieber is on TV
So I clear the building.
Or I can just change the channel
I do so with a pleasant smile.

The TV is very handy
I put away the candy
But the TV is still handy
I turn it back on
Hey where is sean
I turn on the next channel
I hear a strange tune then I hear these words "Baby Baby Oh Oh Oh"
I unplug the TV
I plug it in and change the channel and watch a movie
I take out the candy
Then my mom starts cooking
For some reason my brother starts choking
It turns out he was just sick of Terminator 2
I ponder in my mind "Why did I start at number 2?"
and in my own words I say "This is what the TV was not meant for."

Journal 57: What Makes Fire?

Brian explained in the book he needed oxygen, heat and a spark. Without the oxygen to keep the fire going the flames will choke and there wont be any heat or any spark. You need a spark to light the fire but its easier to light the fire with heat but in Canada it is very unlikely to get much heat to start the fire easily. Brian tried making a fire by rubbing two sticks together if somewon where to make a question of this I would have said it would take hours to make a fire that way. Brian needed heat mostly, it was too cold and making a fire with wood and rubbing them together would take even longer. Brian failed to start the fire because he needed heat, no heat no fire. There needs to be heat to start any fire. If you turn on a car in a 50 below weather in Alaska, there is a good change it wont start since it takes a spark to light the fire, without heat you cannot create a fire.

Brian also tried using a friction method, he failed big time he needed more heat as I described. I also saw he did not gather any materials to burn the fire, he then gathered some leaves and twigs but none of those worked. Leaves are the hardest to burn. But if its dead leaves then it burns quickly and this does not help Brian.

Journal 58: Luck?

Yes, his chances of surviving depends on his knowledge, his skills, and most important, luck. Brian watched TV 

shows that gained him experience in the wilderness this allowed him to find his way to rescue are the end. Brian develops new knowledge while in the wilderness because he watched the birds and memorized new tricks while in the wilderness. I experienced some wilderness when I was in Alaska I learned how to make a fire easy. (Not rubbing two sticks together.) I have got out of a situation simply by luck. Two moose was at my front door and I mean they where really close, they could have charged and gave me a really big browse. They left and every won was fine.
Another time was when I was in Idaho we had a male goat that was really protective, by luck he did not attack me for 3 whole years, But what bad luck he attacked my brother. He is fine but it was a very dangerous situation.
I have experience for making a fire you simply skid two sticks together. Very quickly it will start smoking and you can handle it from there. A fire can be used to keep animals away and to keep the bugs from biting you while you sleep.

Journal 55: Personal Assets

In the book Hatchet; Brian watched informational TV shows and he had a hatchet. He has knowledge and perseverance.  The secret, divorce, etc. Survival skills and knowledge in computer science. My greatest asset is knowledge and perseverance. (Like the boy Brian in hatchet.) My knowledge in computer science helps me succeed in life because it allows me to get a A in my computer class. My survival skills would allow me to survive in the wilderness because I have 3 years of constant survival training in the wilderness. I might have a problem with the water supplies because I do not have the experience to collect it.

Journal 54: Solving Problems

 I remember when I was watching a history show about people hunting in Alaska. They where hunting moose in this deep snow; they said the solution was to buy snow shoes. One day I was walking in this very deep snow, it was long and hard and cold. The snow got deeper and deeper and deeper.  I remembered the show; then I remembered that I had some pairs of snow shoes at home. So I walked back and got the snow shoes; it was but this time it was 10x faster. Instead of 1 hour it took me 20 min.

One day my father was reading a survival book, it explained where to find the best berries. So my father read it out loud and told me where to find the very best blue berries! We tested this when we where camping and there they where! I remembered this and another time when my father and I where walking past this mountain. (In the summer) I said " Hey dad I bet there are allot of wild blue berries up there! " so my dad took me up there and we found a whole field filled with all kinds of berries!

Journal 53: Triolet

The floor is white stone

and the walls are red

It seems that I am not alone

The floor is white stone

My brother is standing and not lone

It seems that I want to go to bed

The floor is white stone

and the walls are red

The people are wide crowds

and the building is black

For many they see cows.

The people are wide crowds

For very few they see them bow

In the building that had a crack

The people are wide crowds

and the building is black

Journal 52: You and Nature

I feel nature as a tool, man makes buildings, cars, etc; nature helps animals, trees, grow and develop. Nature can have some properties that scares and disgusts you. This one time there where two spiders on my ceiling. It really freaked me out when I woke up and one was just laying on my hand.

Spiders seem to be the main reason for all the freaky stuff happening. It was really gross when I found out that they where breeding in the house. I found white sacks that looked like little bobbles in the shape of a round sack.

There are still some properties of scenes, creatures, and patterns in nature that fill you with wonder and awe. The mountains in Alaska and Idaho are so wonderful, it looks so cool when white snow just covers the top. The forget me not in Alaska, looks like a shiny blue flower, in fact, it is!

Nature is everywhere, in the ground, trees, even you and I are part of nature. Nature existed since the beginning of time. All it needs is a particle of anything, two molecules of any element, or even void is nature, the only way for void to exist is in a black hole, which would turn it into nature.

Journal 51

There once was a boy named bill
Who was scared of a drill
Who was very hungry
But he was very nasty

There once was a boy named Jill
Who was the master at drills
Who climbed the hill
Who fell off the mill

There  once was a girl named mary
Who was scared of fairies
Who was the master at picking berries
Who was very scary

Journal 50 : Tanka Poem

Beautiful large lakes

Lakes with warm, warm water

Blue water glare on top

Rocks cover the place with steam

Blue sparkly water everywhere

Huge rock mountains
Rocks with cold, cold stone
Grey shiny glare on top
Rocks covered the place with steam
Grey shiny rocks everywhere

High bright shiny sky
Sky with a cool, cool breeze
Shiny sun glare on top
Lots of white clouds cover the place 

Journal 49 : Cinquain Poem

he

is human.

Called Mr. McCool.

A great English teacher.

Funny.

Journal 47 : Diamante Poem

Man

Normal, Fun

Laughing, playing, Kind

Big, Smart, small, dumb

Chasing, lurking, stalking

Wrong, Hairy

Monkey

Earth

fun,big

walking,loving,caring

school,home,dirt,destroyed

unloving,freezing,uncaring

mean,small

Pluto

Water

fun, drink

swimming, caring, creating

Fountain, Park, granite,Stone

drowning, uncaring, destroying

hard, horrifying

Rock

Journal 46: Acrostic

Journal 46: Acrostic
Today you will write an acrostic poem. Start by writing the letters of your first and last name down the left margin of your paper. Then use those letters to start short sentences or phrases about yourself.


John is expert programer
on the key board 1/8 Th of the time.
homework is not my favorite thing.
not having fun all the time...


Gerry Bob is my grand father
encouraged to learn.
not regretting any thing. 
trying very hard.
right most times
yet school is very hard.


Elijah is a very good brother.
looking around for answers.
intelligent in some areas.
john is his brother.
almost always happy.
hope for a good future.


gentry goes back long ways.
events happened in the past
never unprepared in any way.
traveling to new places.
ready for more adventure.
yelling for more adventure.

John Gentry's 8th grade English blog.

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