Comments Week 10/3

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Sydney-Sharks vs. Eagles

St. Joseph's Invitational

     Last weekend was one of our biggest races of the year, St. Joseph's. Usually every year this is the biggest meet. This meet, we had a chance to win. We were all very nervous, but we were determined to win. The weather conditions were outstanding. We all ran very well that day. Our top 5 runners were all under 12 minutes which was fantastic. I had finished with a time of 11:34 which was a season record for me. 

     I felt good about placing. I had gotten 11th overall. When we were sitting at the awards ceremony, we were confident that we had won but disappointed when it was time. We had finished 2nd. We had lost to the team in front of us by one single point. We were all sad, but we still had amazing times and did well over all of the teams.

Reading Response

     Sadly, I am still on the same book that I have been on for the previous month or so, but luckily I have done way more reading and a lot new amounts of excitement are going on. This book is, Ranger's Apprentice: The Burning Bridge. Since my last post, there have been a lot of turning points. My favorite part so far is the dramatic irony. We know stuff about some of the characters in the book that the other characters don't and it gives this book way much more suspense, but also mystery. Also, there is now lots of action involved between the main characters and the enemies.
     Over the last chapters, the war has started, but a new plan of the villains has emerged, and it is up to three apprentices to stop it, or the whole army will die. This plot line is creating a lot of tension especially because their plan failed the first time. My least favorite part of this book is the suspense. I keep wondering what will happen next but I always get cut off right at the important part. This book is very good especially because it is starting to wrap up, but I know it will still be a while before I finish.

Comments Week 5

John N - Harrison Bergeron
Gautam - The Worst Course Ever

Fictional 100 Word Story

Where the Chickens Went

     

      It was a beautiful morning. The roosters were crowing and the cows were mooing. It seemed to be a good morning until the dogs ran away. We looked all around the farm, and we found nothing. The only thing we found was piles of feathers, so then we knew where the dogs had gone. We looked in the chicken coop and there they were, but where were the chickens? All of a sudden one of the dogs coughed up some feathers and we knew that we weren’t going to have fresh eggs for a while. That is why we no longer have chickens in our backyard.

Harrison Bergeron

     When I started reading this poem, I didn't expect the plot at all. I didn't think that it was going to be about a fourteen-year-old trying to overthrow the government. The plot was a total shocker, but very fascinating. It made me think about the future and made me ask a lot of questions, like: "What caused all of these changes to occur?"
     This story confused me about being futuristic and having a society where everyone was set equal to each other. I was still mostly confused throughout the story, and it took me a lot of thoughts to figure out that everyone was set equal. I thought everyone had a disability and that is why they had hearing aids or masks. Eventually, I realized that this was because the government wanted to make all feel equal and therefore made the better people worse by making them wearing certain things and gadgets. Overall, this was a very different, but very fun and unique story about the future. It takes a lot of creativity to come up with stories like this.

Comments Week 4

Casey - Dear 11 Year Old

Alex W. - Dear 13 Year Old