Authors Note: My story is about… A girl that moves into a new town and the house she moves into is Haunted. Some parts of the story somehow connect about how I moved to Wisconsin but, there were no haunted houses.

          What’s scarier than seeing a ghost? I have no idea but, it was pretty creepy. It all started on a Monday morning. I just moved to California. Living in a small town named Holtville, right on the border to Mexico. I just moved here. I use to live in New Jersey. Had awesome friends and lived in a awesome house. But, my dad had to take a new job to get paid more. Only about $300 more then what he was getting paid before. I’m pretty upset about this move but, I’m the kind of child that doesn’t complain out loud.

          We just pulled up to the house. It was all old and rusted. “Not to happy right now.” I told my mom. "Oh come on Stephanie. This will be so much fun!” My mom told me 24/7. I rolled my eyes as she smiled at me. Then I turn around. My annoying little brother Max runs by and pushes me out of the way. I fall to the ground with my suitcases flying everywhere. “Max! What’s your problem?!” I screamed. I got up and dusted myself off. My mom gave me the look to help me but I gave her a look to just go away. She frowned and then she grabbed Max’s hand and went inside the house. I turned around. I ran over by my dad. “Need help?” He looks over by me with the boxes in his hand. “No thanks sweetie” I smile. Then, I hear my mom scream. I jump out of the truck and run inside. She was lying on the floor and I look up the stairs and Max is up their crying. I yell for my dad. He runs in and calls 911 and I try to calm down.

          All I could remember from last night was how my mom ended up in the E.R. How horrifying. Today I was supposed to start my first day of 8th grade and Max first day of 3rd. But dad let us stay be hide for mom. When she woke up she told us what happened. Max only told us she fell down the stair but mom said. “It was weird. Max and I were exploring the house together. Then I felt pushing in my chest as we walked up the stairs. Just when we got up to the top of the stairs, something ran up to me and pushed me down the stairs.” I was scared. What would do something like that?

        The next couple days went by. By then it was Thursday. I decided to go to school. When I got there everyone was so friendly. By first hour I had to friends. One was named Katie. She had long brown hair and she was Mexican. My other new friend was Sara. She had orange hair and was very sweet. I loved this school everything was the same as my old school. The town was so small. It had flowers everywhere. Everyone was so happy. Until, it came to a stop. Sara and Katie asked me where I lived and they frowned. Katie asked “Did the ghost leave?” I looked puzzled. Sara punched Katie in the arm. “You idiot you don’t ask someone that!” They looked at me. “What ghost?” Sara and Katie looked puzzled to. Then they sat down, looking upset. Then a teacher ran over to me and whispered in my ear. I jumped and ran with her out of the room.

          It was when my dad picked me up from school. He yelled at me to into the car. I jumped in. He was crying. “Dad, what happened?” He looked at me and then looked back at the road. “DAD!” I knew it wasn’t mom… I look into his eyes. Then I thought of Max... I got to the main street entering my house. All there was police and a car crash. Only my mom’s car flipped upside down. My dad told me that Max was sitting in the car waiting for my dad to take him to school. All of a sudden the car started to roll or I should say, the car started to drive. Max wasn’t paying attention till it started to go faster and faster than normally. Max was fine, just a broken arm.

The Spring Assessment.

            Do you ever wonder what’s it like to take orders from someone and listen to their every command? In the short story “The Hundredth Dove,” the king’s fowler named Hugh was a hunter. He hunted birds. Hugh used a bow for the larger bird and he used a silken net for smaller birds. There are two major themes you must think about after you read this short story. The two themes are Love and Magic. You may think at some a part of the story, Hugh is a bad man but really he is caring.

            The first theme is Love, in the beginning of “The Hundredth Dove,” the king summons Hugh to go capture 100 doves for the upcoming wedding. Lady Columbia, the new queen does not want this Action to happen but, the king says “I have spoken. Do not fail me.” At that part you can realize that Lady Columbia has a heart and does not want to hunt that many doves. As Hugh went to go capture the doves, every day he was catching a beautiful white dove. The white dove escaped through the small net, when there was no hole inside. At the end when Hugh has captured all 100 doves he stops hunting and lives off of fruit and vegetables.  In this moment of the story, you know that Hugh feels terrible about his previous actions.

            As the first theme is important the second theme is also very important. The second theme of “The Hundredth Dove,” is magic. When Hugh captures the 21 birds the first day all them are grey/blue but only one is white. The white dove somehow escapes. Hugh wonders and studies the net to see if there were any rips inside it. Then he realized there were no holes. For the next day he caught 21 again. All the birds are the same but, only one white. Again the white dove escaped. This same pattern happened over and over again till the last day he was one away from 99 doves. The only dove left was the white one and he caught it. The dove somehow spoke and was saying “Master fowler, set me free.”  He wanted to set that bird free but he said to the king “Servo” which means “I serve.” So he killed that dove.

            Those are the two themes of “The Hundredth Dove.” Having Love about nature, when Lady Columbia didn’t want to kill or serve any doves ate her wedding. That is probably why there was no wedding after all. Yes, at the end of the story Hugh goes back to the castle with all the birds and it turns out there was no wedding. Also the second theme is having Magic with a very tricky bird to catch when the bird flew out of the net.

1) I am a teddy bear being loved my everyone around me.

2) I am book pages that have not been read yet.

3) I am a song, lyrics that express the way I feel.

4) I am a kangaroo jumping from spot to another.

Inspiration!

My inspiration would have to be either Lady Gaga, LIGHTS and Selena Gomez. Lady Gaga is one of my inspirations because I think she works really hard to be a singer. She graduated college at New York University(NYU). I am totally inspired how the people I look up to has a education. My other inspiration would also be Selena Gomez because she also works very hard to be a singer. I usually like to look up to the singers that sing songs that I can relate to. That's where LIGHTS comes in. She has songs where I feel like I wrote it because I know exact;y how he feels when she sings it.

"There's A Bat In Bunk Five" Essay.

What’s it like to go camping with just knowing one or two people or not knowing anyone at all? In the book “There’s A Bat in Bunk Five,” by Paula Danzigar. A girl named Marcy is going to a creative art’s camp. Marcy was invited from her former teacher and she will be a CIT. The book mostly followed Comedy of Mode of Literature.  It follows the characteristics, purpose and the plot line of Comedy.

The book follows Comedy in the plotline of Mode of Literature. The first point on the plot line is “Normal Everyday Life.” In the beginning, Marcy has a normal life. Goes to school, has homework, hangs out with her friends.“Main Character: cause a minor conflict/problem.” Is the next point on the plotline. What happens to lead into the problem is that Marcy’s former teacher invited Marcy to be a CIT at a camp based on all Art. Marcy is so excited. Later on she meets all the kids until, one of the kids, named Ginger is a spoiled little brat returns to camp. Everyone says she’s mean and rude. Marcy doesn’t pay attention to her because of how mean Ginger is. Well the problem is when Ginger runs away. After the problem has been stated the next point is “Conflict is realized.”  The conflict that is realized is when Marcy figures out were Ginger could be hiding. Marcy was freighted. Always thinking she could of been nicer to Ginger. Marcy saw all the money Ginger brought was gone. She could be anywhere by then. So the “Resolution,” is how Marcy found Ginger. Ginger was in a small town called Woodstock waiting for a bus. The town was right outside of the camp. Later, Ginger soon realized how she was being a brat to everyone and that everything isn’t about her. Ginger and Marcy walked back to the camp and all the way back to there cabin. Later on Ginger said she was sorry to all the campers and councilors.  After all that is cleared up, Marcy goes home and tells her parents about camp. Camp lasted the whole entire summer. Back to “Normal Everyday Life,” School is about to start soon.

Even though the story follows the plotline of Comedy, it even follows the characteristics and the purpose. The purpose in the book was to make us know how to solve our own problems. For an example, Marcy is fourteen, same age as me. For the whole summer she goes to camp without her family. The characteristics are that threw out the story it was realistic. It almost felt as if I was at camp as Marcy or I was even a camper. Marcy was a CIT, I can relate to her because this summer, I will be going to camp and I will be a CIT. The other characteristic is that Marcy in the story is in control. Marcy has another councilor live with her named Corrine. Corrine in the middle of the book gets poison ivy and she is sent home. So it was up to Marcy to take care of all the campers living in her cabin.

The book I read was “There’s A Bat in Bunk Five.” I thought it was based off Comedy out of the Mode of Literature because it followed the plot line, characteristics, and the purpose. The purpose was mainly about how Marcy had to take control of the camp and take care of herself and the people around her. She needed to learn to be a adult, is not just being off on your own but it’s also about being mature and be responsible.

Writing Circle post #2

Zoos.

Animals are all around the world. We have birds, snakes, lions, elephants etc. When we go to a zoo, we see all the animals. In a zoo you can find penguins. Penguins usually need a cold habitat and the zoo keepers usually have them eat fish. The reason to have them live in a environment there so use to is so there not scared. You want the animals to feel at home. have them feel comfortable. For an example if you had a lion the probably live in a habitat where they can run. Have little ponds and grass, probably even trees. That's what the have in a zoo.

Creative Writing

My favorite childhood memory, was going to one of my brother, Nick's wedding. He lives in Denver, Colorado. He lived with me for a little while that I can remember. I met his wife, Chelsea one year for Christmas. When I got to know her, she felt like a older sister. She took care of me as if I could also been her daughter. Right away we started to treat her as family. Nick and Chelsea were together for about 4 years, till we got a call and it was official they were getting married!


My older brother Nick hasn’t lived with me for awhile. So I miss him. For about 4 years I knew his wife, Chelsea. When I heard they were getting married I got so excited. My other brother Ryan is all ready married but it was before I was born, when he decided to get married. I didn’t really learn anything from this experience. I know when, Chelsea was walking down with her dad. I started to get a tear in my eye. I loved the wedding it was emotional and fun. This memory is probably so easy to remember because my brother got married. Threw out the years when my others brothers get married, I will remember that to. My oldest brother, Dan is moving to Wisconsin. His fiancée, Emily's has family that lives in Wisconsin. In a couple years they will get married and it will be another memory I treasure.


I will always remember the time when I was a junior’s bride’s maid at Nick's wedding. A couple months ago in October, he and his wife Chelsea had a baby girl named, Kennedy. I still haven't gotten to meet her because of school but when I do. I'm going to love her as much as when I met Chelsea.