Monster

Monster is what Lady Gaga's fans are called. I have a friend, no, a best friend who is a die hard fan of Lady Gaga. If she met Lady Gaga she would cry of so much joy. I hope one day she meets her and if she doesn't i hope i can some how get Lady Gaga to see Avery. I'm not that much of a fan of the famous lady Gaga but i know for a fact that Avery is a little monster and maybe her number 1 Lady Gaga fan.

The Lottery

There are a lot of things in the story that symbolize something such as the black box that was black and represents death. The stones are another big one because they were used in the end of the book to kill whoever won the lottery. They didn't have good leadership and that's why people were murdered because of the lottery. A woman named Tessie showed up later and ironically she was the one who won the lottery and got stoned to death.So for the next time you are late or speak when you shouldn't, remember karma will find you and hunt you down and you could end up dead or maybe you might just lose both of your hands.

The last Lonely Flower

            I'm all alone now; everyone else is gone. All my family and friends and even the people I'm not so fond of. I am a flower and the last one in this big flower bed with no one to talk to, play with, just nothing to do in general. Why am I the last one to be picked? I'm just as pretty of a flower as the others. Right? Or am I still left her all alone because everyone is better than me? I can't change for other people because I am who I am and that might be the reason now one picked me. One of my friends, Bailey,  had 5 different people fighting over her to see who would pick her. Another one of my friends Navy had 4 different guys fighting over her also to see who would pick her. Oh and don't let me forget my friend Tani who had this dude pick her and then the dude quickly ran away before anyone else could snatch her up. But no, nothing like this happened to me.

            I was the only flower to get picked the put back into the ground because the dude that picked like this other flower and he tried to have both of us but it wasn't working out so when he told me about the other flower he put me back in the ground. I was so sad and he had the nerve to come back and take me again then he put me back in. You might think that is bad but then he came back one more time and picked me and then I thought everything was going to be fun and great this time but then he put me back in the ground and now I'm here all by myself with no one but my sad helpless self.

            Why am I the one that gets left here all alone? I'm just as fun, just as pretty, and just as nice as everyone else. At least I think. What's wrong with me that nobody has chosen me? That nobody fights over me. I guess until I find out what is wrong with me I will be her in this huge flower bed all by myself.

Response to the poems "Big Yellow Taxi" and "Field Below"

The mood and tone between the song and just reading it on paper is very different for the song "Big Yellow Taxi". Just reading the words you would think of it as a very sad or depressing song but if you add the music they had for it, it would sound joyful and cheery. It throws people off when they hear it and it's happy when the lyrics are sad. I think they should have made it a more slow and sadder melody than what they had.

For "Field Below" the mood and tone was not the same. Just like "Big Yellow Taxi", it was happy music but sad lyrics. The difference is that this music was even more happy for a reason i cannot think of. The tone and mood should have been made more to match the lyric, not to throw people off and confuse them. This should also have been more slow and sad music than they had.

Gummy Bear Poem

Gummy bears

are very rare

from way over there

but why would I care

about those bears

that are very gummy

and are so yummy

and go good with honey

which is good for bears

because they do care

about there honey

that is so yummy

because they are dummies

for that delicious honey

that would make them money

if it wasn't so yummy

because those dummies

ate all the honey

as well as the bears that are so gummy.

Mother to Son

There are many different examples of figurative language in the story. from no crystal stair to no carpet on the floor. They help get people's points across by naming other world examples to compare to their situations and not to mention it also could make it funny or even serious. The mood the poem was in was love and helping her son to don't give up and to push down the barriers out head because you can succeed if you try hard and never give up.

Character Decription - Junior

            Arnold Spirit, who everyone calls Junior, is the guy everyone picks on and pushes around. He only has one friend, Rowdy, who turns into an ape when he beats on people, but never does anything to Junior, but protects him from everyone or anyone who bullies him. In all fair in love and war it’s not Junior’s fault he was born with too much water in the brain and because of that he now has lisp and stutters a lot. He also has seizures but hasn’t had one in 7 years but is still capable of having them.

            But on the bright side he is really smart. In fact he is one of, if not the smartest kid in his reservation. The thing he really loves like monkeys love bananas is drawing. He dreams of being an artist because pictures show more than 1,000 words and since he has trouble speaking it’s the easiest way to get out what he is thinking.

Speak Creative Piece (Letter to Andy Evans)

2/23/12

Dear Andy Evans,

            I want to start off by saying you are a nasty jerk that sickens me! The way you take advantage of people just makes me want to gag out all of my insides. You should feel ashamed of yourself and if you don’t you need to see a therapist because you have some major issues.

            I have questions for you that need to be answered that I bet money other people want to know as well. Why did you do it? Are you sick in the head? How would you feel if someone took advantage of you like that? Do you only think about yourself? Why would you try to do it a second time? Have you done it to another person before? What would your mother think?These are questions that need to be answered and you can send me your answers at www.andyevansanswers.com.

            I’m not done yet there is an important message from me to you I would like to say. If I ever meet you I will take the liberty to kick you where you breathe. That’s right the groin!

Not sincerely,

Taylor Rajchel

           

Invisible Part Two

Wednesday February 15^th, 2011

            As I walk to the doors to the school, I’m looking in my backpack for my phone that I can’t seem to remember where I put it. As I walk through the doors, I bump into someone and our stuff drops and mixes together.

            I bend down on my knees, to help sort and pick up the stuff, I tell the person “I’m so sorry!”

            “It’s fine, it was an accident, but we gotta stop meeting like this.”

            Of course I didn’t even look to see who I bumped into because I was so focused on picking up the stuff that dropped to the floor like it was hot. I look up and see Luke sorting our stuff. I did a little flirtatious laughed and said “Agreed.”  

            “So, since we keep meeting like this do you want to hang out during lunch or a free period? For lunch we can leave the school and go out somewhere like Panera,” he said in a sweet voice. I didn’t know what to say, I mean I want to say yes, but not sound desperate at the same time.

            “Um, sure let’s go to Panera,” I said in the best way I could not to sound so out there.

            “Great meet you by your locker around, let’s say, 11:15?”

            “That’s perfect, see you then!” when he walked away to go by his friends he gave me a charming smile. I wanted to tell Avery so bad, but she was at home sick, but I know she was faking it so she can go on a date with her date to the dance, who is now her boyfriend. I’m so happy for her. I would call her up, but I’ll let her focus on her date with Alejandro.

            It’s now about 11:13 and I’m waiting by my locker. I put on my jacket and fix my hair and organize my locker a little bit more. After all that it's 11:15 and I see Luke walking this way. I’m so excited his eyes are just so attractively big and blue.

            “Hey girl, ready to go?” He said happily.

            “Yeah,” I said not knowing what else to say.

            “Cool, if you don’t mind we’ll go in my car,”

            “That’s fine with me!”

            We get to Panera, and order our food. We chatted about school, while waiting for our food to come, and I do, but yet don’t want the dance to come up in our conversation. Our food gets here and he talks about where he came from and I talked about how I’ve lived here in Pewaukee my whole life. Then the “topic” came up. He started talking about how his old school didn’t have any dances. Then he asked me if I was planning on going. I got so nervous and said, “I don’t know it depends,”

            “Depends on what?” he asked me.

            “It depends if all my friends have a date and I don’t,” I said quietly.

            “Well I can solve your problem for you if you want?” I hope I didn’t sound desperate because I didn’t mean it like that.

            “What do you mean?” I asked him.

            “I’ll be your date. In fact I’ve been waiting the whole week to ask you.” he said

            “Really?”

            “Yeah… so, will you go to the Valentine’s Dance with me?”

            “I would like that” I said happily.

            Wow! Who would have thought I would be going to the dance with the hot new guy Luke? After that we talked about things we like and dislike and had a spectacular time before we had to head back to school.

Thursday February 16^th, 2011

            This morning I woke up happy as can be while getting ready for school. I normally am not a morning person, but today nothing can make me feel down in the dumps. Now I’m off to school looking forward to a magnificent day a head.

            I go to my locker to get my stuff and while I open it a note falls out. I pick it up and open it and it was a small poem and note from Luke!

Roses are red

Violets are blue

I can’t wait

To dance with you!

I’m looking forward to going to the dance with you tomorrow. I’ll meet you by your locker today before lunch so we can eat and talk about it together.                                 –Luke

          Awe this is so cute, and unexpected! I’m speechless I have no idea what to say or think! I see Avery walking towards me

            “Hey sweet thang” she says as we give each other a friendly hug.

            “Hey Booga la boo,” I replied. 

            “So how was it yesterday since I was sick?” asked Avery.

            “First of all you weren’t sick you little faker,” I said while laughing.

            “It went great I went to Panera yesterday during lunch with Luke and he asked me to go to the dance with him!”

            “Taylor! I’m so happy for you! It’s extraordinary! I told you it would happen. Didn’t I call it or what?”

            “You called it,” I admitted while we did our happy dance.

            “So what did the note say?”  Avery asked. I showed it to her and she thought it was so romantic.

            “We should get to class before we get a lunch detention” I said. It would not be good if I get a lunch detention because then I can’t talk to Luke at lunch.

            It is now lunch and I go to my locker to put my books away and get all prettied up before Luke comes. I fix my hair and put on more lip gloss and then I see him walking toward me. He is so cute that when he is walking towards me it’s like in a movie where the hot guy is walking in slow motion and does a hair flip then a big smile with a sparkle in his teeth. When I see him I can’t help but smile.

            “Hey, ready to go?” he asked.

            “Heck yeah” I said being funny. We walk to lunch together telling each about our day and when we get our lunch and sit down we start to talk about the sophomore valentine’s dance we are going to.

            “For the dance do you want me to pick you up around 5:30 because the dance is at 7 and since it’s my first dance I would like to get there early?” he asked politely.

            “Sounds perfect,” I answered.

            “Great!”

            For the rest of lunch we just chatted about things we do and what we like to do and other things like that. While he is talking to me I look at his eyes and they are beautiful blue eyes that go perfectly with is blonde hair.

Lunch is now over and he walks me to my class like the gentlemen he is. I wave goodbye, and take a seat to prepare for the next hour and a half of nothing but boringness taught by Mr. Long. The only way I can get through this is thinking about Nathan and me at the dance tomorrow night.

Perdiction - Speak

I predict that Melinda will run away because all of her friends are now her ex-friends that don’t talk to her because she called the cops on a drinking party and got a lot of people in trouble. because of this no one talks to her anymore and the whole school picks on her. With no one to fit in with she makes friends with the new girl, Heather but gets annoyed with her easily. Her life is terrible and that’s why i think she will run away because she has no one and is all alone.

    she reminds me of this girl named Gabi from the book “The Beast” because in the book Gabi goes through a bunch of life changing conflicts, like Melinda, were you resort to doing something you thought you would never do. Gabi resorted to drugs and i predict Melinda will resort to running away.
    The story is realistic, and I think it will end up being a tragedy. If Melinda runs away, this will represent the death symbolism in the end.

Invisible Part One

Monday February 13^th, 2011

            “Oh… my… god! Have you seen the new guy?” Avery whispered as we sneaked a peek through the shelf in the library.

            “Well don’t stare forever you freak!” I whispered in a funny tone back. Avery is one of my best friends and I tell her everything. Of course she already has a date to the Valentines dance on Friday, which is the most romantic dance of the year! I mean seriously...wow… that was fast, she is so pretty. The sad thing is she doesn’t see it in herself and her personality is an amazing combination of humor, caring, independence, trustworthy, smart (sort of), risk taker, impatient, and very unique.

            Unlike her I don’t have a date to the dance. This guy is new and his name is Luke. He is as cute as heck!!! You can even see the six packs through his shirt. He is new and already one of the most popular guys in our school.

            “Oh, he’s wonderful… I just wish he knew I existed,” I told Avery in a disappointing manner.

            “You never know until Friday. He didn’t ask anyone yet,” she said trying to cheer me up.

            “All the other girls like him as well. I doubt he’ll ask me. Why would he ask me anyways? There’s nothing about me that would stand out unlike the other girls,” I pleaded. Avery told me not to worry about it too much like the good friend she is, but I knew I would be thinking about it till after the dance.

Tuesday February 14^th, 2011

            I see Avery in the hallway by her locker checking herself out in the mirror. “Dang shawty work dat thang!” she says to herself obnoxiously.

            “What a goof,” I told myself. As I walk towards her I drop my books that were in my hands because some idiot bumped into me!

            I started to pick up my books when all of a sudden a shadow casted over me. I hear a voice say “You need a hand?” As I look up I start to say “Please that would be nice” and at the end of my reply my voice got quieter and slower. I looked up in shock! Who would have guessed that it would be Luke’s shadow over me? Not me that’s for sure. He kneels down and helped pick up my books, and then when we stood back up he introduced himself to me saying “Hey, I’m Luke. I’m new to this school, and I moved here from Green Bay.”

            I introduced myself by saying “Nice to meet you, I’m Taylor.” He has the most gorgeous eyes and his amazing smile blew me away like a leaf on a windy day.

            “Great to meet you, I have to get to class now, but maybe we can talk sometime?” he asked me.

            “Sure,” I replied. As I walk towards Avery, he’s walking the opposite way to class.

            “Sup Aves,” I said walking towards her happy as a clam.

            “Waz up Tay?” she answered back while looking at me with a smirk.             “What’s with the smirk?” I asked her.

            “I saw you over there with Luke. Did he ask you anything?”

            “No, but he said maybe we can talk sometime!” I said excitedly.        “O…M…G! Taylor that’s great!” she replied.

            “But it doesn’t mean much I’m still dateless and there is only 3 more days left till the most romantic dance of the year.”

            “I’m sure you’ll be fine,” she says trying to cheer me up.

            “Shoot! The bell is gonna ring we gotta go to class.” I said. As we are practically sprinting to our class the bell rings we run into the class room as our teacher is shutting the door.

            “Your late,” the teacher exclaimed. “One more tardy and that’s after school detention!” 

            “Yes, Ms.Ewegly,” We both said at the same time.

            “Now class, open your biology books to page 535.