Me,+Myself,+and+I

//The Soundtrack of My Life // //﻿//

I, -, am an ordinary teenage freshman. I have a lot of great experiences in life, but also a lot of bad ones too. Each person plays apart in life. Every person has their own way of dealing with life. My way of getting through hurtful experiences is by escaping into music. I listen to music everyday and every minute of my spare time. I love hearing a song that instantly reminds me of a time in my life just by a couple lyrics. The three memories that come to mind most are when my aunt passed away, when my cousin was taken into child care, and when my twin siblings were born. “Got the news on Friday morning, but a tear I couldn’t find. You showed me how I’m supposed to live, and now you showed me how to die.” “I was lost till Sunday morning; I woke up to face my fear.” “I’m gonna miss that smile, I’m gonna miss you my friend and even though it hurts the way it ended up I’d do it all again, so play it sweet in heaven ‘cause that’s right where you’re gonna be. I’m not crying ‘cause I feel so sorry for ya. I’m cryin’ for me.” Lyrics from the song “Cryin’ For me”, by Toby Keith. I woke up to my mom’s cell phone ringing with the hospital on the other side of the call. My aunt was having troubles with her brain. I started to worry. My family visited her every week after that morning. We hated the hospital almost as much as we hated seeing my aunt stay there. I fought my fear because I knew we only had a few more visits with her before she passed. I was trying to hold off the morning I woke up and found out we wouldn’t be visiting my aunt anymore. Once that day came, I stayed strong and tried to only cry for myself. Toby Keith song, “Crying for me” explain how I dealt with my aunt passing away and how I felt. “I’m going home to a where love and feeling good don’t ever cost a thing, and the pain you feel is a different kind of pain. Well, I’m going home to a place where I belong and where your love has always been enough for me.” “I don’t regret this life I chose for me, but these places and these faces are getting old, so I’m going home.” These lyrics are by Daughtry in his song “Home.” This song explains my life experience of seeing my cousin of only three being taken from her mother. She finally was taken into a stable home where everyone loved and cared for her without her mother paying to stay at random places. She got used to seeing random faces everyday. The phone rang blasting through the house. I watched as my mom paced from room to room. She was softly, quickly, and nervously talking to the lady on the phone. When she got off she let the family know we would be going out to lunch and then to the park the next day. The next day came and we headed out for the day to find that my cousin, -, of only three had been taken into child care. We ate lunch and played at the park with her. I knew by her laugh she was in a better place with us. I was ready to give her the love of an older sister. June twenty-fifth in two thousand two, I found out I had not only one new sibling, but two. The drive to the hospital seemed like it lasted forever. Once we arrived my dad took me to the waiting room to sit with my grandparents, old and boring. It was only four in the morning, so I decided to take a nap. What only seemed like twenty minutes was really two hours. I woke up and walked with the rest of my family to go see my new born brother and sister. “How it amazes me, you’re changing with every blink. Faster than a flower blooms they grow up all too soon. So let them be little ‘cause they’re only that way for a while. Give them hope, give them praise, give them love everyday. Let them cry, let them giggle, let them sleep in the middle. Oh just let them be little.” Lyrics from Lonestar’s song “Let them be Little.” This explains my life of watching my younger siblings, from the time of their birth until today, grow and learn ways of life. They are only little once and they grow up in the blink of an eye. Throughout my life so far, I have learned a lot. I have made many mistakes and I have tons left to learn. I do not usually tell people how I am really feeling I know I can count on music to get me through my hard times. The three experiences that came to mind most have really impacted my life. Even the good people die young, but new people are born everyday. It also made me realize that I do have a good life, and there is people out there suffering through a hard life everyday with no place to go.

//Glogster Word Problem// //﻿//

Our school was trying to host the annual basketball tournament, but there was one problem. Was our gym big enough? Our gym is very small, it is very dirty, and it is very out of shape. The school board did not think our gym could stay alive during the tournament. There would be so many people it would be as hot as a summer day. There would also be very little sitting space. The gym would be as squished as mashed potatoes. The only way to decide if our school can hold the tournament was to find the area. The gym had a length of 25 yards. It also had a width of 15 yards. The gym area needs to be at least 170 yards to pass the test as hard as rocks. Using the equation, area equals length times width, would it pass?

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Express The Music

They spend another day in the dry and dull boot camp. They are always practicing for the real fight. The hard working determined men and prepared women waiting to risk their lives for their country. They are always waking up early with no extra time and on the go until bed time later that night. The risky job is a danger, but they're doing what is right. The job of being a soldier is as risky as jumping off a cliff into water. The everlasting and painful training must be hard, but the dangerous job is even harder. They will always be recognized by the nation they fight for. They are not forced to do this job, but they choose to. There is pain and hard work dedicated by them. They lead themselves up to the fight of breathtaking war. Once they are ready they begin their journey. The journey is a monster.

1-2-3 WRITE ABOUT. * Expressing five examples of Hyperboles  ﻿ What was that? The walk to school takes forever. I walked the same boring route everyday leading me to school. My backpack usually weighs a ton, but today I only had my lunchbox and my huge sandwich that could feed an army. Out of no where I hear a voice that could be heard from a mile away. I turned around and saw no one. I hear the same voice again and again. Finally, I notice it's coming from my backpack. I rip out my lunch box at the speed of light. As soon as I opened it, my sandwich went rotten, and started screaming at me. Luckily, my wallet was about to explode with money from my allowance last week, so I wouldn't have to eat that rotten, screaming, mean sandwich for lunch. The trash can rumbled as the sandwich hit the bottom, and I walked on.
 * ~ Genre / Format ||~ Protagonist (Main Character) ||~ Conflict / Situtation/ Complication ||
 * A silly story about || A rotten Sandwich || That is able to talk ||