Sacrifice in Ribbons

Author's note: I wrote this piece to demonstrate my understanding of sacrifices.

What if you had to sacrifice most of the objects you liked?  In “Ribbons”, by Laurence Yep, Stacy’s grandmother comes to live with her and her family.  Both Stacy and her grandma had to sacrifice a great deal of their things

For Stacy she had to sacrifice most of her objects.  The objects she had to sacrifice were ballet, her favorite TV shows, her room, and her ice cream bar.  She may get most of her objects back but of course not her ice cream bar.

Stacy’s grandma also had to sacrifice plenty of her things too.  The grandma had to sacrifice her feet, her furniture, and her home.  She may get some of her objects but not all of her stuff back.

In “Ribbons” there are an abundance of sacrifices by Stacy and her grandma, but both of them will get most of their objects back.

Percy and Jason

Author's Note: I wrote this piece to demonstrate my understanding of  intros

What if the two main characters of The Mark of Athena started fighting to see which one was stronger? In The Mark of Athena by Rick Riordan, the two main characters, Percy and Jason, sail to Rome to stop Gaea's forces. In trying to do this, Percy gets into trouble and Jason tries to save him. Throughout the book there are many similarities and differences between the two strong characters, Percy and Jason.

One similarity is that they're both sons of the Big Three. Percy Jackson is the son of Jason, Grace is the son of Zeus. Both gods broke their promise by having Jason and Percy.

Another similarity is that they both went to each others camp. Jason went to Camp-Halfblood while Percy went to the Roman camp. Hera, the queen of the gods,put them in the other’s camp to make peace between both camps.

One last similarity is that they both have special horses. Percy has a Pegasus named Blackjack. Jason has a Storm Spirit Horse named Tempest.

Besides similarities, there are also differences between these two characters. One main difference is how they got their horses. Percy saved his Pegasus from Luke,while Jason took control of his Storm Spirit Horse. Another difference is that Jason’s dad is the king of the gods while Percy’s dad is Zeus’ brother. The last difference is that  Percy is Greek and Jason is Roman.

Even though Percy and Jason may never fight, both of them are strong and heroic characters. I will continue to read more of Rick Riordan's series to see what will happen to these two characters.

Dewy and his rubber bands

 Oh no dewy give back that rubber band Dewy is a library cat that likes to steal rubber bands and eats  them he once stole a giant rubber band we thought we hid all the bands but in a coffe mug there are  rubber bands in it. So we put a cover on it and the next day latter there were bite marks on the cover

So it was the coffee mug was dewy source of rubber bands. 

Now dewy  loves catnip give him a little bit and he will go crazy and start rolling around on the floor.

He even snakes around like he has no spine. After while he calms down . Dewy  loves the needles on a fake Christmas tree.

Thanks to dewy antics the library is more fun. Dewy is not like any other cat, he is a friend.

One Piece and Letter Bee

Author's note: I wrote this piece to demostrate my understanding of compare and contrast

What if One Piece and Letter Bee were pitted against each other to see which book is better? I am comparing the two books One Piece and Letter Bee and their two main characters. The two main characters are Luffy and Lag. Both characters have many similarities and differences.

One of the similarities is that they both have really strange animals. Luffy’s strange animal is a deer that can transform into all these cool forms including a giant deer form. Lag’s strange animal is a creature called Steak that when someone cooks him, his fur curls.

Another similarity is they both have strange powers.

Lag’s strange power is he can make a piece of his heart resonate in monsters, which destroys.Luffy’s strange power is that he  can stretch his body like rubber.

They both have friends that they count on. Luffy counts on his first mate, Zoro, who is a swordsman. Lag counts on his friend, Niche, whose hair is the golden sword.

A difference is that Luffy is more courageous than Lag. Luffy is more upbeat than Lag and because of that, Lag cries more than Luffy. This last difference is that Lag’s mom is alive and Luffy’s dad is alive.

Luffy and Lag may be two different characters but they have similarities and differences. One Piece and Letter Bee may be two different books but they are very good books and I will continue to read them.

gs rock

What would it be like if you were a girl scout? You would have a lot of fun being a girl scout, here let me tell you.

The First fun thing we do is we go on all these cool trips. One of The trips we went on was going to Chicago. Another trip we did was going to a recycling center and seeing how they make soda bottles into carpets. A third trip we did was laser tag i got a some prizes

The second one is we can hang out  with all our friends. How, we have regular meetings every month and silver award meetings. The regular meetings are for girl scout matters and the silver award meetings are for planning our projects.

In the summer we go to all these fun girl scout camps. The camp i attend is called Camp winding river. I am a PA there. I get to swim , canoe , and do all these fun crafts.

One last thing is the awards. The three awards are The Bronze Award , The Silver Award, and last but not least The gold award to get these you have to do a lot of work however when you do it with your friends it’s like a party.

In the end with all these things to do ,Girl scouts is the best thing ever invented.

RIP Rachel

In life and in death she was nice, pretty, and very fun loving. She will be missed. Without her, there will be a great hole left in the town. Rachel  had so many friends and liked to just have fun. We do not know why that man shot her. Let us hope that the police are looking into the case.

Rachel Ward, age 14, left behind her mother, her father, sister Stevie, brother Vince, two pets Oscar and Jessica and many friends.  Rachel was a 8th grader at ASA Clark Middle School.  She was a cheerleader and a Girl Scout.  Some of Rachel’s favorite things to do were to paint, watch videos on her Ipad, read, and run around like a crazy nut.  She also liked to swim, ride her  bike and make up stories.

Rachel will be missed greatly by those she knew.  They will miss her laughter, silliness and creativity.  Let us hope that she may rest in peace and the person her took her from her loved ones is in jail.  Continue to have fun in heaven Rachel.  

Prince Trellis

Author's note: I wrote this piece to demonstrate my understanding of Character Development


If your father was the elf king what would you do? In the Amulet by Kazu kibuishi Trellises father is the king of elves.In the begning  of the Amulet Prince Trellises  is evil. However he  changes into a good person in the end.

Trellises is stonekeeper like Em. A reason that Trellises is evil is because he took em’s mother.
Another reason that he’s evil is that he attacked Em and tried to make her evil.  Finally he sent some of his men after Em to kill her but she got away.

The catalysts in this story is when one of his own men attack him and left him in a forest to die.
trellis saved Em from another evil stone keeper. He also saved Em’s  mother from a man who was trying to kill her.

In the overall story Prince Trellis changed. If Trellis changed then anyone can change for better or worse.