The Shoes That Changed Every Thing

      

Just think running up and down a sleek wooden floor dribbling a basketball, shooting and passing the ball to your teammate. Well in the book “Red-Hot High-tops” that exact thing happens to a girl named Kelly Roberts, but whenever she gets the ball she always freezes up.

Until one day after a game something in her locker will change her life and the others around her. The readers will learn that it’s not what’s on the outside but it’d what’s on the inside

Kelly would play every game the same, she would freeze up. Then after a tough loss to another team, she finds a pair of red Nike high-tops. She asked her teammates around her to see if the shoes were anyone’s. They all said the same thing, so she figured she would

try them on. To her surprise they fit perfect! After that game she could not stop thinking about those shoes.

The next game she asked the coach to see if she could where them for the game. She said yes but she said that if she wore them she would have to make at least one bucket. Her teammates where a little jealous though that Kelly got to where her new shoes, and that the other girls didn’t get to where some of the new stuff they wanted to where.

She was put in the game halfway through the first quarter. She threw in the ball to continue the game. Just seconds later she was open at the other teams bucket. Her teammate passed her the ball. As she was waiting there with the ball. She thought then and there that she would freeze up. But then as she heard the pounding of basketball shoe behind her Kelly got enough courage to shoot the ball. As the crowd and her teammates watch the basketball fly off the backboard into the hoop.

The point of this story is that it’s not what’s on the outside it’s what is on the inside. I believe that Kelly learned that lesson in the whole basketball season.       

Alaska's Wilderness Save or Drill

Author's Note: In this story we will learn that weather to drill or not to drill in Alaska's Wilderness.
 
I believe that we shouldn’t drill for oil in Alaska’s wilderness, because if we do drill there it will only decrease the foreign oil income by 4%. Also if we do it will destroy the environment. So I believe that we should not drill in Alaska’s Wilderness.

If we decide to drill in Alaska then it will cost billions to move equipment, ship the oil and to pay the workers. Even if it creates jobs then they will have to make more homes in the area for the workers and their families to live. When they are done drilling for oil then it will also take billions to move the materials back to where ever they got them from.

When they start to drill for oil in Alaska, then it will start to destroy their ecosystem. Plus all the animals and other things that live in the wilderness will start to die off; animals like elk, deer, bears, foxes and other animals die or move away because of the pollution. Also then the environment will start to be destroyed and they will lose some of their resources.

It will affect the people of Alaska because it will destroy some of their valuable resource. Some of the resources they will lose will be their water sources and fire wood. Also if people want to go out in the wilderness they can’t because they don’t have one.

Gunslingers Regret

Imagine a boy whose father dies trying to protect his own son. In this story of “The Dark Tower” by Stephen King, a man named Roland Deschain is following in his father’s footsteps by becoming a gunslinger. As he leaves his camp where he is being trained to become a warrior with his hawk, he knows that he needs to leave and find out what happened to his father. In this story the reader will learn about how sometimes things will happen for a reason.

In the town that Roland lives in it is a bad thing to become a gunslinger. He knows that he doesn’t want to become a gunslinger but he wants to get revenge on the man who killed his father. As he is trying to make his decision the man who is keeping watch over him is trying to kill him. That is when he makes his decision to become a gunslinger. This reminds me of when I was little my friend broke my favorite toy and so I was going to get revenge and break his toys.

His mother was never there when he was growing up so when he was growing up all he had was himself.  His childhood was hard because nobody could help if he was behind in school. As he went on through the years he struggled more and got better in school.

I can relate to this because I am having a hard time with school but I am trying my hardest to stay on topic.

In the end I believe that some certain things in life will happen for a reason good or bad. Even though his father died he still was fine.    

Gunslingers Regret

Imagine a boy whose father dies trying to protect his own son. In this story of “The Dark Tower” by Stephen King a man named Roland Deschain is following in his father’s footsteps by becoming a gunslinger. As he leaves his camp where he is being trained to become a warrior with his hawk he knows that he needs to leave and find out what happened to his father. In this story the reader will learn about how sometimes things will happen for a reason.

In the town that Roland lives in it is a bad thing to become a gunslinger. He knows that he doesn’t want to become a gunslinger but he wants to get revenge on the man who killed his father. As he is trying to make his decision the man who is keeping watch over him is treating to kill him. That is when he makes his decision to become a gunslinger. This reminds of when I was little my friend broke my favorite toy and so I was going to get revenge and break his toys.

His mother was never there when he was growing up so when he was growing up all he had was himself.  His childhood was hard because nobody could help if he was behind in school. As he went on through the years he struggled more and got better in school.

I can relate to this because I am having a hard time with school but I am trying my hardest to stay on topic.

In the end I believe that some certain things in life will happen for a reason good or bad.         

Baseball Brothers

In the story Heart of a Champion, by Carl Deuker, a boy named Seth, who lives in Redwood City, San Francisco had a pretty good life. When he was only four years old his father died because of drunk driving. Because Seth’s father died, his mother is struggling trying to feed him, clothe him and to make sure his life is normal. Readers will learn in this realistic, but fictional story, only the strongest of friendships can replace the most devastating events in a family.

When Seth’s father dies he meets Jimmy and they start to have a very good friendship.  Over time they become the best of friends. When they are together they have a special bond that no two other human beings have. Seth feels that Jimmy has filled the gap in his life for his father when his father had died. An example of this is that my friend’s dog died from cancer. But then he got another dog and named it the same name as the other one.

The baseball field has been Jimmy’s home away from home. But, when he met Seth, Jimmy’s goal was to teach Seth how to play baseball. At first Seth wasn’t good as he thought he would be. With time and practice Seth became better than he thought he would ever be. They practiced and played on the same team for years until they got to high school varsity

When Seth and Jimmy both get into high school they both agree to try out for the varsity baseball team. Seth thinks that Jimmy is going to make the team easily. Seth thought that he needs to train harder if he wants to make the team. Seth wants Jimmy to train with him so that Seth can become better. When Seth goes to try outs he ends up making the team.

At the end of the book it had a huge impact on my life.  In the end only the strongest of friendships can replace the most devastating events in a family.

                

The Halloween Haunting

    Today was Halloween night. All of my friends were trick or Treating. It was  almost the end of Halloween and everyone was leaving for home. But one group of kids was going to make a decision that would change their lives. Max, Jared, Chris and Zack were all talking about staying overnight at a house what was supposed to be haunted. The reason they were going to stay at the house is because four kids went to the same house 20 years ago. And none of them ever returned from the house after Halloween. 

  Zack said "I think that we should stay in the house for one whole night.” Everyone agreed on the plan that they would say to their parents that they would stay over at a friend’s house. It worked everyone was at the house on time. Max, Jared, Chris and Zack all set up their bags in the living room. Max set up the camera's in the Basement ,Garage, Kitchen, Bedrooms and the Bathrooms, just in case anything   Zack set  up traps and Me and Chris just watched the door just in case anybody came.

  It was almost time to get ready for the night at the house. We all said that I would sleep in the Bedroom, Zack and Chris would sleep in the Basement and Max would sleep in the Living Room. As the night began nothing really happened but a hour in to the night something strange started to happen. Max saw something in the Cellar in the Basement. Max radioed to Zack saying that he saw something in the Cellar. Zack went to check on it and he said that there was nothing there.

      He said "Everyone watch out for anything out of the ordinary." Next Max said that he saw something in my room I got up and looked around the room and saw nothing. I said "Maybe something is wrong with the computer."  The next thing I hear was the sound of Max screaming at the top of his lungs. Everyone runs to where Max was and all I see is Max's Head on the top of a vase.

    Everyone started to head to the door but then as they are ready to open the door. The door become's locked from outside. Zack said "I got to get out of here." Then Zack heads for the bedroom and me and Chris run down to the basement. I radio for Zack and the only thing that I hear is Zack screaming and trying to tell me “There is a exit in the Panic Room upstairs it will take you underground and there will be the exit.”

    Chris and I both agree that we should try to sneak past the bed room and get to the panic room. I say to Chris “I will lead and when I say to come up you can follow me up the stairs.” As I start to walk up the stairs I see the beast that killed two of my friends. I tell Chris to stay still and be quiet. The Beast walks right in one of the traps it gets hit by the hammer. The Beast is hit and stopped but only for a while. Then as it tries to get back up Chris and I run up the stairs the Beast starts to come after us. We reach the Panic Room and start to look for the exit. Then as we are leaving Chris feels something on his leg and he gets pulled back.

Chris said “Go and get some help I’ll hold him off.” As I run to the light I see that people are walking around and I yell. “Somebody help my friends are trapped inside the house.” Everyone ignores me and forgets about it. I still remember that day like it was yesterday. I will never forget my friends who died in that house.

                                 The End