Writing 1

Basketball vs. Football


Since I was a little kid I loved sports. As a child growing up I played lots of sports. I played soccer, football, and basketball. I really did not like soccer. It was too much running for me. I loved football and basket ball. They were the most fun sports ever. I played little league football for my uncle Gene. I played for the local little league team called the East Athens Dolphins. I played football for the Dolphins for four years. I liked football until I started basketball. Basketball just took over my life.

I have been playing Basketball for around 11 years. I think basketball is much better than football because I can play by myself, and I really could not play football by myself. It is more difficult to get better in football because you must practice many skills with the rest of your team. In football you can’t get better by yourself, but you can practice basketball by yourself. I remember that when I played football it was hard to remember the plays. I played wide receiver, but it was sometimes confusing. Sometimes I would do the wrong routes. If I ran the wrong route I would mess up the whole play

Basketball is easy to learn, because all someone has to do is to learn how to dribble and shoot the ball into the goal. Football is hard to learn, because players have to know all the plays, and learn how to do certain things. A person must learn how to block right so the officials won’t call holding. Football players must practice blocking, catching, throwing, and running. In Basketball all the players must work on is dribbling, passing, and shooting. When I first started playing basketball, I did not have to go find friends to practice with like when I played football. I just went to the basketball court and practice on my basketball skills. I could learn from my mistakes when practicing by myself. When I’m working on my free throws, for example, I just go out there and shoot. Practicing football requires more people, because practicing by yourself is a big waste of time, and people who try will never get better doing that. That’s why I chose to play basketball, and plus it’s good to my pockets.

Basketball is cheaper than football. Football players must buy a helmet which costs between 30 and 60 dollars, and they must have pads that cost a good 20 to 30 dollars. They also must have cleats that cost 45 dollars and up. Basketball requires only shoes and a ball. Then you can play basketball any time during the year, indoors or outdoors. When it come to football, it’s more comfortable to play in warmer weather.

These are some of the reasons why I like basketball over football. Basketball is just less of a hassle than football. I save money and I play by yourself. Plus I can play anytime of the year, no matter raining or snowing, I can just find a gym to go to. For a parent who wants to put their children in sports, I suggest basketball. Basketball is a great sport for kids to play while they’re young. I bet they fall in love with the sport like I did.

unit 2

ELAALRL2 The student identifies, analyzes, and applies knowledge of theme in a work of American literature and provides evidence from the work to support understanding.


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The student should identifies the theme and analyzes whats going on and whats happening in the story and the student should apply the knowledge of knowing what the author is say without him saying it directly.



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in the story rip van winkle i found two examples of romanticism. one is that he feel asleep for 20 years. its kind of crazy to sleep for 20years with out waking up.to rip van wrinkle is that he was only sleep for one night but it was 20years. "Rip’s story was soon told, for the whole twenty long years had been lost to him but only one night". This is and example of (Logic to imagination theme). Every change of season, every change of weather, indeed every hour of the day,
produces some change in the magical hues and shapes of these mountains. ( Nature )

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imagination- "All that tread the globe are but a handful to the tribes that slumber in its bosom." this is an example because how can a handful of tribes sleep in the earths bosom. you need to use your imagination to think about how many people have died compare to the people alived.it

Nature- "Nature holds communion with her visible forms, she speaks she has a voice of gladness, and a smile and eloquence of beauty." it is making nature look good and peaceful

common people- its say when you die the same thing gone happen to you that will happen to a king ain't nothing gone be different. when you die you are going to decompose and be come soil like everybody Else."Thou shalt lie down , With patriarchs of the infant world--with kings The powerful of the earth--the wise, the good, Fair forms, and hoary seers of ages past, All in one mighty sepulchre."

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ELAALRL1-I think this standard is good to know because it is helpful to know what you looking for while read if you just reading the words and not taking in the what it say its a waste of time.When knowing the evidence will help you out alot because you know what u looking for.

i used this standard because i had to find evidence in the poem. to look for the themes.

ELAALRL3-this standard explains what you should do when reading a book form a different time period, and how to compare them to now. When reading a book form the old days it great to think about the old time like how they lived and what they did compared to now.

they talked about how life was in rip van winkle life


" NATURE "


5. this story i agree with him, because nature is a nice place to just sit and think. he said nature was a great place to be when you need to get in touch with your inner self, but nature can be bad sometime. it reminds me of my grandma's house in Greene county. when I'm down there i be stress free I don't have to worry bout nothing. her house is in a little city called union point. the city is so claim. like at night i don't hear cars and people yelling, all i hear is bugs and silence. i love being down there. sitting outside just watching time go by is relaxing, but when it rain nature can be boring. i hate being down there when it rains. in the story this stuck out to me " Nature is not always tricked in holiday attire"


6.this is a good piece of transcedentalism, because they Believe god talked to them thur their minds. in this story he feels he is a part of God, beacuse he left society to be alone and think about nature, himself, and God. for example he says " I am part or parcel of God".


Self -Reliance
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This story is about a ma telling people to speak their minds. he also told people not to be influence by other do what your mind tell you to do. he said speak your mind. i always speak my mind no matter what if you like it or not, cause if you speak your mind people won't really know how you feel. like a couple years ago me and my friends was hanging together, and one of them wanted to smoke so the others thought it was cool so they was gone smoke too, but i said hell no im not gone smoke with ya'll. yall stupid cause yall gone get hooked. now they all smoke.



6.these is a good example of transcedentalism, beacuse in the story he said be yourself cause if you listen to your mind you are listening to god."A men is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done best." he is saying you should listen to your heart cause its what would make you happy.

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" society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members." in the movie Dick left society to get in touch with his interself. he went in to the wild to get his mind back on track with god. he dont want the society to mess up his mind,and he wants to be his own person. for example he built a house cause he thought about staying in the wild. he agrees with the statement cause he left society to depend on his self.

Unit One: Early American Literature.. the declaration of independence

ELAALRL3 The student deepens understanding of literary works by relating them to their contemporary context or historical background, as well as to works from other time periods.

this standard explains what you should do when reading a book form a different time period, and how to compare them to now. whn reading a book form the old days it great to think about the old time like how they lived and what they did compared to now.


Native American
Oh our Mother the earth, Oh our Father the sky,Your children are we, and with tired backsWe bring you the gifts you love.Then weave for us a garment of brightness;
May the Warp be the white light of the morning,May the weft be the red light of the evening,May the fringes be the falling rain,May the border be the standing rainbow.
Thus weave for us a garment of brightness,That we may walk fittingly where birds sing,That we may walk fittingly where grass is green,Oh our Mother Earth, Oh our Father Sky.

This example tell what the natvie american used pray to and how they prayed. They used to pray to they earth and sky everyday. They used to pray for more sunlight and rain.

4. the different these two cultures are the way they worship god. The natives believe in god as the father of the sky. he is always happpy and he love his people by giving them gifts. on example from the poem is " That we may walk fittingly where grass is green".But the purtains believe that god was angry and he wanted to send people to hell. for example " god wrath towards you burn like fire".

5. Purtain- are people who believed that if you was a sinner you was going to hell.
the declaration of independence-showing independence
God's hands- is the only thing holding me up from falling to hell
age of reason- a place in time where people was finding the reasons for things
oringal sin-


6. The purtains believed that god was in control of everything. They believed god was the reason they did not fall to hell today. on the other hand the rationast believe that god was not the cause of everything. thats why they had the age of reasons to find the reasons for everything.

7. Ben Franklin improved his life like a rationalist. He did not ask god to help him with his life he did it his self. he took data and he mad a list of stuff to improve his life. " i made a lil book , in which i allotted a page for each of the virtues."

8. 1.money. you always need money no matter what it makes the world go round
2.family. you need family for them hard times
3.love. you got to love yourself
4.happy. never have a sad day cause you never know if that will be your last
5.basketball. thats my gateway to being happy
6.future. forget the past its no way to change but you can change your future
7.foucs. never let no one knock you off track stay foucs
8.patience.things will come just wait
9.trouble. stay out of trouble
10.motavation: always stay motovated
11. shoes. got to have the latest nikes
12.food. cant live without it
13. Home. need some where to live

9.in this unit i used a couple of the standards, like for evidence you can see i had to look into the sinners in the hand of god to find what they believed in. i also had to compare the autobiography to the purtains to show the differents.

Ga Performance Standards

ELAALRL1 The student demonstrates comprehension by identifying evidence (i.e., examples of diction, imagery, point of view, figurative language, symbolism, plot events and main ideas) in a variety of texts representative of different genres (i.e., poetry, prose [short story, novel, essay, editorial, biography], and drama) and using this evidence as the basis for interpretation


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I think this standard is good to know because it is helpful to know what you looking for while read if you just reading the words and not taking in the what it say its a waste of time.When knowing the evidence will help you out alot because you know what u looking for.