Creative Ending To Thank You Ma'am

Author's Note: I wrote this piece to show that it is nice to thank people especially if they didn't have to do it for you in the first place. Please look at my grammar.

After the boy was given the money he decided he didn't need the shoes. He needed the knowledge that Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones gave him. So he went to the market and bought flowers and chocolate for her. He set it on her doorstep, knocked on the door and ran. He was trying to give her an anonymous present. But Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones was quick on her feet, she got up to the door looked down and saw the flowers and chocolate but no one there. She looked down the street but her vision was blocked by a truck but she could see the running bare feet of the boy.

Overcoming Conflict

Author’s Note: I wrote this because it has a clear conflict and resolution. Please look at my word choice in the piece.

In the book Gender Blender by: Blake Nelson the main characters, Tom and Emma are in an accident together and when they wake up their minds are in each others bodies. They have to live someone else’s life. Later they find that if they stay in the wrong bodies for more than three days it will become permanent.

On the third day they still haven’t found a way to go back to normal. They are at a party and feel hopeless and might not ever get back their bodies. But when they knock into each other at the party they go unconscious and wake back up in the right bodies! Tom and Emma can now live normal lives and be themselves. 

George Washington Time Travel Letter

Author’s Note: I wrote this ‘time travel letter’ to George Washington because he may certainly have been the greatest leader in the history of this nation. Please look at my word choice.

Dear George Washington,

            I’m writing you this letter so you can have an idea of how great of a president you are and I’d like you to know how the decisions you made shaped the United States of America into a great nation. I would just like to commend you on some of your greatest accomplishments. This will include war strategies and establish a federal government in an eight year, two term presidency.

Recognizing your great war strategies means a lot to me because you are one of the best in history at this and I hope it means a lot to you also. The best decision in my opinion that you made was to stay neutral during the French and British war. Swaying to a certain side could have been the unraveling of such a young country.  You were receiving recommendations of taking a side. If you did sway to a side and that country went on to lose the war that could have proved catastrophic for America.

Establishing a fair government was most likely your greatest feat, post war. Much of the laws you and some of the other founding fathers still stand to this day. Your efforts to make rights and laws is why we now have a nation where you will be punished fairly for doing something against the law.

What you have done for this country will forever be remembered and you will always be the first and one of the greatest presidents in this nations history.  You need to remember to do what you think is right because you are one of most wise men I have ever known existed. This country will become a power house around the world partially because of what you and other founding father have done. Lastly I would like to say thank you for all you have done for this country.

Into The Gaunlet

39 Clues, Book Ten, Into The Gauntlet

Author’s note: I wrote my retelling on this book because there is so much going which made this an easy book to write a retelling about. Please look and see if I held you in suspense so that you would want to read it because that was my goal.

Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix

Genre: Fiction

 A family with a long violent past, split into five groups. While Amy and Dan try to bring everyone together a mysterious prize for a cue hunt could split them farther apart. The family must learn, if they want true power they must all work together. 

White Fang

Author’s Note: I wrote this piece on this book because White Fang is an outcast and it’s sad to see outcasts in the world. Please look at my sentence beginnings.

In the book “White Fang” by Jack London the main character, White Fang was going through some problems in this book. He was abounded when he was just a little half wolf half dog puppy. White Fang went to go find a new home but that didn’t work out the way he hoped. While hunting a rabbit he finds a tribe of native Americans. The young pup attempts to run away but he can’t help his curiosity to try to find a new family. One native American takes him in but all the others in the tribe including the other dogs didn’t accept him.

If everyone in White Fang’s life that hurt him or made fun of him he wouldn’t be as furious, strong and smart as he could. The book made the Native Americans look like bad people but what they really did is turn him into a great wolf. His family wasn’t there to teach him the native Americans were the ones to do that. 

Why There Are Rails on Escalators

Author's Note: I wrote this piece because every year I remember less and less about this so if i write about it I will never forget it.

When I was four years old I was at the mall with family friends. We just entered the mall and were deciding where to go first. While my sisters were looking at a map two older boys and I decided to have a contest, who could go on the outside of the rail and up the rail the highest. I'd have no idea what would've happened to me that night.

It was the first boys' turn and he made it about four feet and he thought it was pretty impressive. I knew I could beat that. The second boy made it about six feet up I wasn't so sure I could beat that but I was sure I was going to try. I wish I hadn't though.

Now it was my turn to go and I was determined to beat six feet. I did. But I didn't come back down. When I got to a certain point it was too high to jump down! I had to keep going up. Luckily there was a lady who pulled me up over the railing and took me down to my sisters!

I was twenty to thirty feet up in the air if that lady hadn't saved me I might have died. One of the worst things about this is I don't even know who saved my life. If only I knew so I could find her and thank her.

Teepeeing Gone Wrong

Authors Note: I wrote this piece because when I thought of life experiences this stuck out. This is my first piece of the year so I am trying to have a proficient piece so I can get to advanced later in the year.

On a very swampy like early morning, two of my friends and I wanted to go teepeeing, for those of you who don’t know teepeeing, teepeeing is throwing toilet paper rolls into a house’s trees. The ground was soaking wet but only a slight drizzle was falling from the sky. Perfect teepeeing weather. My friends and I packed duffle bags and set out to teepee a house that a girl in our grade lived in. That night I could’ve gotten in the biggest trouble that I’d ever been in.

While we were walking to the house that we were going to teepee, we had two main concerns, a bar that we had to pass and any patrolling cops. We made it to the house while evading the bar and we didn’t see any cops. We set up our bags in her backyard and started throwing toilet paper rolls into her trees. We threw about ten rolls when the slight drizzle was turning into a major storm. Luckily the side of her hard had two willow trees that my friends and I used as cover for the toilet paper that hadn’t yet been thrown. Even though it was raining cats and dogs we decided we had to throw all the rolls to make this one of our best jobs yet. My friends and I were about halfway done when we saw head lights. My friend whispered to me “We need to find a spot to hide.”  So my friends and I hid on the front porch of the house we were teepeeing all we had for cover was some patio furniture. The patrol car defiantly saw that the house was teepeed and the cop must’ve only been there for two minutes but it felt like an hour.

My friends and I were still waiting behind the patio furniture and the cop had turned on its brighter headlights to look but didn’t see us. So he drove away and the only reason he didn’t get out of the car was probably because it was raining so hard. After the cop drove away we stayed in the same spot for about another minute before we decided we should move and try and get back to one of our houses. We had successfully made it through the neighborhood and now we had to get through a bars parking lot without being seen while each of us were carrying duffel bags half full of toilet paper. At two A.M. on the weekend that’s not so easy. We found an opening where no one would see us and we shot through it like a lightning bolt, just like the ones in the sky above us. We just had one obstacle left, a major street.

At the street my friends and I were just about to cross until out of nowhere the same cop car turns the corner and all of us immediately jump under a pine tree and drop to the ground. The cop car must of gotten over us and kept on going on patrol because it seemed like a very casual speed. It past us and we went on crossed the street and made it back to one of my friends house at about three A.M. and cover up our trail in the house and we went to bed and we all fell asleep within about thirty seconds of laying down.

All in all what we did was very bad and we never are going to do it again but we were bored and didn’t do the normal thing and just go to bed. We did something out of the ordinary of what we usually do. I’m not saying go and teepee someone’s house I’m just saying don’t be afraid to go against the flow. In fifty years I might tell my grandchildren that story because I will never forget that so that’s why I think it may have been worth it.

Charlie