There's A First For Everything

Author's Note: I decided to write this story because it was actually one of the better days of my basketball career, I'm saying this because I usually get yelled at during basketball. It was one of the days I will never forget. Make sure to pay attention to how me and Haylie became closer just by basketball. 

It was the first day of basketball try-outs. There was a lot of people trying out, a lot of which I knew. There was this one girl who stood out, at least to me. It was the first time I was seeing this girl. Everyone seemed like they knew her. I was really confused, so I went up to Kenzie; one of my friends and asked her if she knew who she was. Kenzie replied with a yea, thats the new girl from Arrowhead that our coach was talking about. Just as I was going to reply the coaches blew their whistles and said that the try-outs were going to begin. We were in line getting our numbers, when I said my very first words to Haylie. I remember saying Hi, my name is Becca, I hope we get to play together.

We got our numbers and the coaches told us to line up in number order, as we were finding out the order, I realized that I was 2 people away from Haylie. As usual they split us up into even teams. They didn't know what Haylie was like, whether she was one of the better players or one of the not so good ones, so Haylie and I got put on the same team. For me the tryouts were the same as they always were, for Haylie you could tell that at her old school she did something different then us. We got started right away and after a little bit of playing time with Haylie I could tell that we were going to be on the same team. 

When we were about to leave the tryouts one of the coaches told us that we would not find out the teams until the following week. So we all waited and waited and waited until, we finally got the packets we were all waiting for. The moment of truth was going to be revealed, would we be adding a new teammate and losing one, or will we be the same old team we are known for. I opened my packet and read Congratulations Becca Groer you have made the Pewaukee black team. As soon as I finished reading mine, I turned to Haylie to ask her what team she was on but I figured out the answer immediately, I could tell it was good because she was jumping up and down with excitement. 

It wasn't too long after finding out the teams that we had our first practice. The first time being together is always the worst and the best practice. It's the worst because its the first time being with your team and coaches; its the best because all you basically do is go over simple drills. Haylie caught onto the drills pretty quickly, not saying that the drills are like rocket science, but it took me a couple of times to perfected them. It only took Haylie 2 or 3 times to get them perfect. Once I saw what Haylie can do with a basketball, I knew that we were going to be even better then we were the previous year. 

It's a couple years later now and Haylie is still apart of our team, she still is one of the better players on our team. Haylie will have a good future playing basketball and I hope that I will be able to play with her in high school. Haylie and I can help each other out with more stuff and make each other better. I hope we will play basketball together for a while. 

The Voices

Author's Note: I wrote this prediction because we had to. Also because this is what I thought was going to happen in the end of the movie. 

What I think that will happen is that the kids will figure out a way to tell someone-- like another teacher or the principal, so that the teacher will get in trouble. I think that it is going to end like that because I have a gut feeling that the teacher will get in trouble for having such a creepy thing in his classroom. Cause I feel like the teacher always gets in trouble. 

My prediction was was incorrect, because the teacher didn't get in trouble. But I still do think that is going to happen, because as I said before I feel like the teacher always gets in trouble. 

Crazy, True, Sad and Happy

Conflict: The main conflict in Heaven is for Real is that there is a little boy name Colton who is going through a pretty rough time. This would have to be a person vs. self because it is him and something in HIS body there for making it be person vs. himSELF! He is not yet 4 years old and his appendix irrupted. There are many conflicts in this book such as the fact that his parents didn't know what was wrong with Colton, until after about 20 hours of miserable pain, they took him to the hospital. He was throwing up consistently, and he was like in a daze the whole time; it was caused because of all the "poison"   leaking out of his appendix into his body. 

Resolution: The resolution here is that his parents got him to the hospital just in time, to get the "poison" out of his little body. I guess you could say that he was one very lucky duck that he is still alive. He must have been very brave also because he had to go through surgery, if it was me I probably wouldn't have gone through with it, even though it means life or death. To me the real main resolution here is that the doctors got the "poison" out of him and was able to safe the kids life! 

My Founding Fathers

Author's Note: This piece is very important because it is about our world and basically who helped create it. Make sure to pay close attention to what a founding father is. 

There were seven major founding fathers of America. Webster defines a founding father as;  a leading figure in the founding of the United States. Only imagine if you could meet the founding fathers and tell them something that you have always wondered. I would tell them many things, like that they have changed the United States for forever.

Most of the founding fathers believed that slavery was wrong, but there was one father who actually owned slavery. If I could ask one question to Thomas Jefferson, it would be why did you think that owning slaves was okay? I honestly think that slavery is brutal and wrong. To me maids are a form of slaves, but they have a chose to be controlled, so they are but they aren’t.

Alexander Hamilton; one of the founding fathers is on the ten dollar bill. George Washington is on the 1 dollar bill. You might think wow what’s so special about being on money? Actually being on money doesn’t mean much, just that it helps us remember the people who founded the United states and our the founding fathers.

In conclusion the founding fathers have changed the United states for forever. To me the founding fathers have truly changed the United states in many different ways. Their honor is showed on money, and they proved that slavery is not right, even though Thomas Jefferson still owned them.

Conflict And Resolution

Author's Note: When you are reading this make sure to pay close attention to how it really is a person  vs. society and not person vs. person.

There was a war between 24 tributes between life and death only 1 comes out on top It was person vs.society.(because they are all fighting against each other and they are all in the society) In district 12 theres two star crossed lovers. Will one give their life up for the other? The real conflict here is that the two star crossed lovers will be fighting against each other, for one will live and the other will die. This is such a sad thing that has to happen. Yet again, they both might die together. One of the other tributes from another district might win.

If only there was a way to let these two crossed lovers both live. It was becoming sudden death there was only 8 people left, the two from district 12 and the other 6 were from other districts. It was full on war. Suddenly an "announcement" came on, saying "there is a change of plans, there will be two survivors. In order for the two crossed lovers to be together forever, they would have to team up and go after the other last remainders. So they worked together to get it down to only 3 left, those two and one other from another district. They worked together and it worked one of them snuck up behind him and killed him. Just shortly after that happened another announcement came on, saying "change of plans again, there can only be one survivor. In the end they both decided to eat poison berries so that no one won. Just as they were about to eat them another annoucment came on, saying stop!! you both can survive, and that is the resolution.

Cause And Effect

Author's Note: Make sure to pay close attention to how this big incident happened.

The major event in this book is that this little boy went to heaven and back. This was caused because his appendix irrupted. This incident effected his parents also, because if say he were to die then his parents would have to make a funeral and do all this work for it (not saying that they wouldn't want to). It would still effect his parents even if he didn't die, because they would   still have him alive and there with them. 

This situation effected the little boy because he died and came back to life. I think that this will never leave him because it was a big part that happened in his life. Being the boys parents and all effected them because they had to pay for the bill to have the surgery done. Also it effected his parents because their son is still alive. 

The Hunger Games

There was a war between 24 tributes between life and death only 1 comes out on top. In district 12 theres two star crossed lovers. Will one give their life up for the other? The real conflict here is that the two star crossed lovers will be fighting against each other, for one will live and the other will die. This is such a sad thing that has to happen. Yet again, they both might die together. One of the other tributes from another district might win.

If only there was a way to let these two crossed lovers both live. It was becoming sudden death there was only 8 people left, the two from district 12 and the other 6 were from other districts. It was full on war. Suddenly an "announcement" came on, saying "there is a change of plans, there will be two survivors. In order for the two crossed lovers to be together forever, they would have to team up and go after the other last remainders. So they worked together to get it down to only 3 left, those two and one other from another district. They worked together and it worked one of them snuck up behind him and killed him. Just shortly after that happened another announcement came on, saying "change of plans again, there can only be one survivor. In the end they both decided to eat poison berries so that no one won. Just as they were about to eat them another annoucment came on, saying stop!! you both can survive, and that is the resolution.