1. I love music
2. I play basketball,surf and longboard.
3. I am a steelers fan
4. I hate chocolate.
5. I am an only child.
6. I know how to play the ukelele
7. Im a girl scout
8. I love the beach
9. I like to draw
10. My favorite color is gold
11. I love corny jokes
12. I absolutly hate stink bugs, they are gross and they are every where.
13. I love scarey movies
14. My favorite types of music are hip hop and rap
14. I love justin bieber,Mac miller,and wiz khalifa
15. I have 3 surf boards
16. I hate math and im really bad at it.
17. I went to Saint Margarets from 3rd-8th grade
19. When i grow up i want to be a marine biologist.
20. I've played basketball since i was 6
21. I only have 5 cousins overall, a pretty small family.
22. I can't stand when people yell or talk really loud
23. I absouluty adore puppies.
24. I dont like cats
25. I have REALLY REALLY REALLY bad allergies

Kate

Person: Kate- the daughter of Brian and Sara; the middle child
Age: 16 years old
Physical Description: no hair, thin and pale, and very sickly looking
Profession: a student
Personality Traits: really emotional and very dependent
Interests and Hobbies: watching soap operas
Quirks: she jokes around a lot
Character closet to in the book: Anna
Direct Quote: "huh"
Anything interesting: has lukemea

similies and metaphors

similies-
* Normal, in our house, is like a blanket too short for a bed. (page:11)
* It is exactly the kind of case I avoid like the Black Plague. (page:25)
* Instigating a lawsuit because your parents won't let you get birth control pills or go to an abortion clinic is like using a sledgehammer to kill a mosquito. (page:21)
* They come in like a hurricane. (pge:53)
* It's like riding a bicycle (page: 82)
Metaphores
* My apartment, it is a work of art (page: 75)
* Flames are licking at your heels you've got to break a wall or two if you want to escape (page: 13)
* Her voice is a feather, a thread (page: 70)
* When she is tied to the bed, I am her eyes and ears (page:58)
*The room is a sea of dirty clothes and magazines and leftover Chinese take-out cartons (page: ?)

Similies and metaphors

similes-a figure of speech in which things that are different are compared by the use of the words "like" or "as"

metaphors- a figure of speech in which is similar to a simile, but does NOT use the words "like" or "as"

Are you somebody's keeper?

I'm not really any ones keeper in my family. I guess I'm a keeper of my dog,Lilly. Whenever she needs to be fed,walked,or washed i always do it. It a chore in my house for me to take care of Lilly.  Also when lily needs extra care, i am always there. That is why i think of myself as Lilly's keeper.

My Sister's Keeper- Jodi Picoult

My sister keeper is written by Jodi Picoult. Jodi was born on May 19,1966 in Long Island, New York. When she was 13 she moved to New Hampshire. She grew upo there and is now currently living in there. She has 3 children. When Jodi was 6 years old she wrote her first story. She likes to write about ethical issues.
I think the book will be sad because I think the sister dies. I think its kinda weird and mean to have a baby specifically only to be a donor. Also, i heard this is a sad book, so I don't really want to read it. I don't like sad movies,books,etc, but I also heard the book was really good, so I'm excited to read it.
picture- http://robertarood.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/jodipicoult_narrowweb__300x4680.jpg

 

My Editorial Paper

Chris McCandless: Courageous Hitch Hiker on a Journey

By: Rita Watson

            From canoeing in Arizona to hitch hiking in Alaska, Chris McCandless takes a leap of faith leaving his home in Virginia to live in the wild. Leaving everyone he loved and a chance to go to his dream college, Chris embarks on a two year long journey. Chris set out on this journey and lasted 113 days until he died of starvation. He was very determined and ready for this trip into the wild. People heard of his expedition and claimed he was crazy, but he did something no one would ever dream of, he was a courageous hero.

       Chris was, “five feet seven or eight with a with a wiry build, he claimed to be 24 years old and said he was from South Dakota”Krakauer (4). He wasn’t very social, but was very intelligent. He was always smart and top of his class. He graduated college and was all ready to go to Harvard University, until he left his family unexpectedly on a journey to Alaska’s wilderness. Chris wanted to live life to the fullest and he wanted to do everything he could to make his time on earth worthwhile.

     Chris had other reasons to be upset, release all of his stresses ,and leave his family. When he found out he was born when his parents were not married he wasn’t upset. He was. He was upset and didn’t want to forgive hid dad, he wasn’t ready. He was shocked.

     People often thought of Chris as an amateur or unintelligent. They often said he was unprepared and he was crazy for doing this when he wasn’t. “Gallien thought the hitchhiker’s scheme was foolhardy and tried repeatedly to dissuade him” (5). There were many reasons they thought that he was crazy and not smart. First With the caribou and the moose. Chris killed a moose, well at least that what he though, other people thought he killed a caribou. People said the difference between a caribou and a moose were very distinctive and you’d have to be pretty dumb to not be able to tell the difference between them. Though later in the story Krakaur found out that Chris did in fact kill a moose and not a caribou, proving he was right. Another example was when Chris ate the wild potage root. Everyone thought he was dumb because he couldn’t tell the difference between the identical poisonous and non-toxic potatoes root, when really it wasn’t his fault. He ate the root that had mold growing on it because of the moister in the bag they were in. These people were wrong and wrongly accused him things that didn’t happen.

       Chris did not have many supplies, he didn’t take food and he burnt all of his money. This was definitely not smart at all. That made him somewhat unprepared for his journey. This was a risky move,and in the long run food and money could have helped him out.

     Overall, Chris was courageous and did something no one would ever think of doing. He was smart and he knew what he was doing. People didn’t believe in him, but in the end he did everything he could to survive. He was a courageous hero.