So, I am beginning my expedition to nowhere. I have been so stressed out lately I have decided to just completely shut down. No more, done, goodbye. I am just going to totally drain my mind and see what I begin to think of. I can smell the sweet pine scent of the Everglades out Read More…
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Riley- Reading Letter #6
I have already done a reading letter on this book but I read more this week because its a good book with wonderful reflecting material for this reading letter. The book is A Complaint Free World by: Will Bowen. I read pgs. 87-96. As you may know this is a self-help book that teaches us Read More…
Riley- Reading Letter #5
Last week my mom suggested a book called, The Shack, by WM Paul Young. I continued to read it this week and it is very fascinating. It’s a religious based story. Though it’s religious it’s quite comic mainly because God is pursued as a black woman. I read the first 32 pages of this story Read More…
Riley- Student Writing #4
Oh no! It was Friday the thirteenth. What was I going to do?! “I can’t leave the house,” Jim said. All of those black cats, and broken mirrors, and upside down pennies. I feel like I need to go back to bed and cover myself in Styrofoam. You see Jim Corbin is one very superstitious Read More…
Riley- Reading Letter #4
Hannibal: Great General of the Ancient World By: Karen Clemens Warrick pgs. 25-32 First of all I know what you are thinking, and no i am not reading about Hannibal Ector. Im reading about the general of Rome. It is a lot more fascinating of a topic then I tought it would be. So far Read More…
Riley- Student Writing #3
It was dusk on a Wednesday, September 6, 2008 at exactly 6:13 pm. Ivan was riding through town in New York City in the back of a yellow taxi cab and he couldn’t just shake the feeling that somewhere, somehow danger was coming. All of a sudden the cab came to a gentle stop. Ivan Read More…
Riley- Reading Letter #3- 4th Quarter
Roofless Paul Volponi pg. 1-199 This week I read the entire book of Roofless. It is a Gateway Award Nominee book, and was excellent! Clay and Addison Reynolds are cousins that grew up together in the housing projects, and were later ripped apart by a family argument. When they become reunited in a drug-treatment program Read More…
Riley- Student Writing #2
THE MAGICAL JACKET, AND LUCKY $100 There was once a child named Wanda. Wanda was a very happy person but has always wanted this one jacket in the store Teen Scene down at the mall. She wish she had enough money but she only had 3 bucks! The jacket was 103 bucks and it really Read More…
Riley- Reading Letter #2- 4th Quarter
Into The Mist Patrick Carmen Pages 1-20 read I’ve just started this excellent book. So far it is a continuum of the Land of Elyon book series and the chapters are divided into each perspective of Alexa Daily and Roland Warvold. Right now Alexa, Roland, and Yipes are on the Warwick Beacon heading toward a Read More…
Riley- Student Writing #1- 4th Quarter
Holocaust Documentary Script Riley de Leon Heil, Joseph. The Final Solution. Austin Holocaust Studies , n.d. Web. 4 Mar. 2010. <http://www.shoaheducation.com/endlosung.html>. I believe that the main focus of the holocaust is overlooked. People don’t understand that, “Hitlers first and foremost task will be the annihilation of the Jews.” Millions and Millions of Jews. What is Read More…