Eleven Writing

Prompt: 4) How would the story have been different if Bobby came home but not Alex's Dad? Write the new ending.

Alex was waiting. Waiting and hoping and praying that his dad would come home. “I mean how could he not come home? I had even hung up a banner! He has to come home! That’s it, this is nonsense, he is coming home!” Alex thought to himself. He really hoped that he was coming home and that when NuNu woke up he would be home. He made dinner, he cleaned the dishes, and he put NuNu to sleep. “Come on universe help me out!” Alex thought. After a few minutes past, Alex got worried, he was starting to lose hope and all he could say was “Please come home dad, please.”

Mack was waiting, and waiting, and waiting. He was just staring out the window waiting. He was hoping that Bobby would come home, but just like Alex, he was starting to lose hope. What if Bobby didn't come home? What if I will never see him again, what if he and Dottie wouldn't get to say goodbye? These were all thoughts that were rushing through Mack’s head. He tried to think about other things, but he just couldn't. He couldn't take his mind of of this thing that was weighing him down. It was just so awful to think that Bobby might not come home. 

Waiting, still waiting. Just hoping that Alex’s dad would come home. “It’s my fault. This happened because of me, all because I said that I hated him. None of this would have happened if I didn't say that. Just please dad, please come home. I miss you. I don't hate you, so please.” Alex said to himself. There was still no sign of his dad. “Come on, first my dog runs away, then my dad isn't home yet, come on!” Alex thought as he was biting his nails. He and his mom were so nervous that he might not come home. Alex was starting to gain a little more hope. He started to think that maybe his dad was coming home and the bus was just taking a little longer, or if he was walking, he might have stopped to pet a dog, or even find Radar! For Alex, things were looking up.

“I want Robert! Where is he?” Dottie exclaimed. Mack didn't know what to do. He saw people covered in dust and debris walking down the street to their families. He wasn't sure, but he didn't think that Bobby was walking down the street. Out the window, Mack could see footprints of dust scattered on the street. It was just so hard to imagine that your son is not coming home. He saw a whole clump of people walk onto the street, but he was almost positive that he wasn't coming home.

Alex was, once again, starting to lose hope. Maybe his dad was not coming home. Maybe he was gone. “The last thing I said to him was I hate you, I DON’T hate him. He’s my dad, I love him. What if he can never find out that I wasn’t being serious, it wasn't true.” Alex thought. What if that was it? It was getting late, but Alex refused to go to bed. He had to wait and see if his dad would actually come home.

Mack basically knew that Bobby wouldn't be coming home, but he still had a sprinkle of hope that he might be. He saw a man, who was covered in dust and debris, walking on the same side of the street that Mack’s house was on. He was wiping his eyes clear of dust and started to look around. “His eyes look like I have seen them before. Who is that?” Mack thought to himself. “No, it can't be. Is it? Wait, Bobby?” Bobby sprinted to the door, tears rolling down his face, and he ran up to his father. Now both men were crying. After reuniting, they headed inside. Dottie even remembered who he was. To Mack, everything was perfect.

“AGH, I wanted this day to be perfect, then this happened.” Alex said to himself. Ring ring ring ring. The phone had just gone off, Alex just thought that it would be a salesman or something so he didn’t think much of it. His mom got a worried look across her face, but Alex had not realized. She slowly walked over to the phone, debating with herself if she should pick up the phone or not. She quickly reached for the phone and put it right against her ear immediately. “What happened to him, where is he? Tell me!” She exclaimed. Alex jerked his head to his mother and started listening in on his mother’s conversation. Tears streamed down his mother’s face and she started sobbing. That is when Alex knew that his dad was gone.

Persuasive Writing

 Should College Athletes Be paid

Should college athletes be paid? What do you think? Don’t worry. I will give you some time to think. Few minutes later: I think college athletes in very popular sports colleges should get paid. What I mean by that is that there are some colleges and leagues which are really popular and good in college sports. So I think that the athletes in those colleges or leagues should be the ones who should get paid. If not every sport, then at least pay the athletes from the the 5 major sports (basketball, baseball, football, hockey, and soccer). I hope after this you read this, you will think just like me on this topic.

On March 13, March Madness (NCAA Division 1 Championship) begins with Selection Sunday. Like the name says, the tournament is “Madness” because 68 teams (they made it by either winning  their conference or getting an at- large bid which is that you are one of the best teams in the country but you don’t win you conference tournament) compete in the tournament. Even by getting this far, the athletes don’t get paid. They go through the madness but get nothing in reward. Also many people bet on which team will do what. Tv companies and colleges get paid for the “Madness” too!

My second reason I think that college athletes should be paid is that everyone else gets paid except them. Tv companies and other broadcasting companies get paid by showing them on TV. Colleges also get paid for the athletes work. Even coaches get paid though they do work hard coaching the players so they deserve to be paid. The athletes work hard too but they don’t earn money like the coaches.

That now gets us into my third reason that I think college athletes should be paid. Like I said in the my second reason, the athletes work really hard but they get nothing in reward (money). The athletes go to hours and hours of practices a few times every week until the season is over. They get some stress because they have to travel all over the country (or part of the country because it depends on conferences) for games. The athletes  also put in all their effort to win and they even have to face injuries along the way.

People have told the NCAA corporation a lot of the similar reasons I have told you , but the NCAA says that the top colleges give free scholarships just for sport talent. The NCAA corporation says that the the free scholarship is just like earning money from playing a sport. That means that the scholarship covers the cost you would earn if you played a sport. I think that college athletes should earn more than the scholarship itself.

Think about Lebron James, David Ortiz, Tom Brady, and Patrice Bergeron. All of them went to college and continued their sports career. Imagine the people who were really good at sports but did not want to go to the next level. They had a really good talent for sports but maybe they wanted to do programming. All of their talent went to waste. If they would of got payed, they could have at least used their talent to use. 

That concludes my persuasive writing. I hope you understand why I want college athletes to be paid. I wish that you are on my side after you read this. This went into court and is still being decided. It is good to know that people are thinking just like me. You should too! I hope it happens and I wish that you do too!

What happened this year in the College Basketball Division 1 Championship is:

 

As you can see, the Final Four teams were Oklahoma, Villanova, UNC, and Syracuse. Villanova won the National Championship with a game winning 3-pointer. Kris Jenkins made the 3-pointer on the last second. It was awesome. The College Basketball season began in November and it finally ended  ended on April 4. It was a great season but like I have said many-many times before, it was bad that the college athletes did not get paid.

Bibliography:

Pictures:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PemrxrmwJAo

http://www.ncaa.com/

Information:

ww2.kqed.org

printyourbrackets.com

 

How to Make Cupcakes With Words/Symbols

Have you ever seen a cake or cupcake with words inside? If you have you probably wondered how you can make it, it's actually pretty simple if you have the patience. Here you can learn how to make cakes and cupcakes with words inside. 

1.You need to make a cake in any color you want, but you have to bake it in a brownie pan. The reason you do this is because this will make the words/shapes. 

2.After your cake is done baking you put it in the fridge for 15 minutes so that it can cool and harden a bit. The reason we want the cake to harden a bit is so that there are less crumbs.

 

3. Once 15 minutes has passed you can remove the cake from the pan(if you haven't already). Now you can start making your shapes, but make sure if you're  making cupcakes that the words or shapes can fit inside the cupcake and still have room.

4. Once you finished cutting out your shapes you put them in the freezer until you finish this next step.(We are putting them in the freezer for less crumbs again). After you put your shapes in the freezer we will make the actual cupcakes/cake. 

5. Now you can make you cake batter and start filling the cupcake tray. Tip;Don't fill your tray up all the way, or it'll overflow when you bake it.

6. Once  you've filled your tray, you can add the shapes. You will need to make sure you're  putting them in the right way, you can also use a toothpick to move around the shapes and make sure they are standing upright.

7. Now you bake you cupcakes or cake. You don't need to worry about the cake we already baked burning because, first it's cold, and second, it's inside the batter and it'll take longer for the heat to reach it.

8. Once your cupcakes are done baking you can decorate them however you like, you can even out the word or shape that's inside the cupcake on top so people would know what's written inside. If you want you can even just decorate it normally and surprise people.

9. The last step is the way you present them, you can just leave people to bite into them, but it's hard to see what's written. So instead you can tell them to cut the cupcake in half.

Sources;

http://www.curbly.com/m/11222-how-to-bake-a-heart-or-any-shape-into-a-cupcake

How to Throw A Curveball

How to Throw A Curveball

You will need:

 -a baseball

-a target/catcher

-a baseball glove(optional)

Have you ever wanted to learn how to throw a curveball. Well if you have then you should keep reading. The point of throwing a curveball is to get side and down spin. That is what makes the ball move. Most pitchers in the MLB have this pitch because it is very effective. 

Grip

-You will need to place your fingers like a two-seam fastball 

-Then you will move your middle finger to the same seam as your index.(Or you can keep it the same

Pitching motion 

-By now you should be in the wind-up or stretch 

-now you should start throw the ball the normal way

-Now before you release the ball you act like you are turning a door handle

Follow through 

The follow through is very important so you don't hurt your arm

-After you want to go half way across your body

-Lastly you would want to bring your back leg inline in an athletic position with your front leg

This is how you throw a curveball you should not overuse this pitch or you will hurt your arm. 

  

How to Add Effects on iMovie

How to Add Effects on iMovie:

Hi, today I will be showing you how to do effects on iMovie. I will give a few simple steps for each effect. You will learn how to add filters, speed up or slow down a video, how to put a video on the screen at the same time as another video, how to add text on the screen, and finally, how to split up a video!  If you look at the diagram, you can see the buttons that you will need to click if you do these effects. You can do these effects on as many clips as you want! You won't really need any materials all you will need is a device where you can download the app iMovie. Let’s get started!

How to Add a Filter:

First, you are going to click on the clip you want to add a filter to.

Next, go to the bottom of the screen and press the button that says filter. That button is highlighted in my diagram.

Finally, once you click it, it will show you the different filter options and you can pick one. You can repeat this on as many videos as you want.

How to Change the Speed of a Video:

First, click on the clip you want to change the speed of. 

Then, at the bottom click on the speed button. You can see the button in my diagram.

Find the scroll bar and move it so you get the speed that you like.

How to Put a Video on the Screen at the Same Time of Another Video:

Click on the video that you want to insert another video onto.

Next, press on the button that says video.

All of your videos will show up and you can press the one you want.

Click the button with the three dots.

Finally, a few options will come up and each option will show a different way to place the video on the screen, pick the one you want and you are done!

How to Add Text on the Screen:

Select the clip that you want to add text onto.

Go to the bottom of the screen and select the button that says text.

Choose the kind of text that you want and you are done!

How to Split Up a Video:

Press the clip that you want to split up.

Press the button with the scissors and you should see the word “split”.

Press “split” and your video will be seperated into two parts!

I hope that you have learned how to do some cool effects on iMovie today!

Sources:

I used iMovie to get the diagram.

http://www.peachpit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=2246405

Desserted Island

Once upon a time, in land far far away, there was an island. Now, this wasn't any ordinary island. So, you might be thinking that I spelled ‘deserted’ wrong in the title but,  this island has living things on it. So, why is it a desserted island? Well, this island has a curse. Every day at dawn, it will pour all kinds of desserts down on the Island. So today, I'm going to tell you how this came about. 

Once, a really long time ago, on this desserted island, there lived a nice sorceress who everyone on the island knew and loved. But, as she grew older, she began to crave dessert every day. She began to study up on The Magic of Desserts. Soon, she discovered how to make it rain anything she wanted. She made a spell to make it rain dessert every single day. It rained dessert for the rest of her life and she was very happy. when she an old lady she died. The rest of the islanders didn’t know how to stop it from raining dessert and they didn’t have the sorceress to help them eat it. For the rest of their days the island was covered with  desert and soon it became deserted because everyone became tired of all the dessert. Years later, the island became repopulated when a band of pirates ran across the island. Luckily, all the pirates had sweet tooths and ate all the dessert every day. 

AND THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!

-Allison    

Whatever After

           

Whatever After is a great series written by Sarah Mlynowski. Whatever After is about a ten year old girl named Abby who focuses a lot in and out of school and loves fairytales. Her seven year old brother Jonah loves ketchup, climbing, and does not pay attention to fairytales. They have a magic mirror in their basement that only they know about.

 Maryrose is a fairy who lives inside the mirror. Any random day at midnight, she lets Abby and Jonah in the mirror after they knock three times.

 On the first knock, the mirrors starts to hiss. On the second knock, the mirror turns purple, and on the third knock, the mirrors sucks in everything, including them and they land in a fairytale. They never get to see Maryrose, but they know she's there because after their first journey, she spoke to them. The mirror brings Abby and Jonah into any fairytale and it could be any fairytale there ever was. 

If they want to go back home, they have to find a way out by trying to find an object that will bring them in. The problem is,the object can be anything! Before getting out of the fairytale, Abby and Jonah usually mess things up or try to fix them. In the end, they always find a way out. 

One time, they got sucked into Beauty and the Beast. That was one story! Everything there is named for what it is or how people look. Abby and Jonah have to make Beauty (you probably know her as Belle) fall in love with the beast. Apparently, you cannot force love like how Abby was doing it. A lot of wacky events happened and Abby got. . . .  well I’ll let you find out yourself!

You could say the series is called Whatever After because in the end, it is not happily ever after, it's whatever after! This series is great for kids who love fairy tales and adventure because that is what this series is all about! Whatever After is totally worth your time!

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 The first book in the series!