A Real Football Champ

Author's Note: This is a piece about how people can be whatever they want to be.  If you work hard and have big goals you can be very successful.  

Football Champs by Tim Green is an outstanding story of how a 14 year old boy, Troy, posing as a water boy is the defensive coordinator for the Atlanta Falcons.  Everything was going good until one day a reporter found out his true identity.   The whole team goes on a wild goose chase trying to keep the news reporter from ruining Troy’s reputation.   The author teaches readers that you can be whatever you want to be if you work hard.  

Troy knows what he wants to do and he just does it.  Not only does he help coach the Atlanta Falcons ,but he also plays football for a Junior Football league and his team is going to the state championship game.  But the news reporter, Pele, could ruin all of that by exposing Troy.  Everyone on the team has to be on top guard to help find Pele before he can ruin Troy’s future.  Just like this story another football superstar JJ Watt followed his dreams allowed him to have a first round draft pick with the Houston Texans.  He now even has bracelets that say “Dream Big Work Hard”. 

Even though those people were really good in football everyone can be good in what they want to do.  For example, the people who invented Google had to work really hard to create that amazing search tool.  The whole thing started off with two boys and their huge dream.    Also, in the book Pele got to be what he wanted to be, he wanted to be a reporter all his life and he finally got the job.  Another example is myself when I didn’t make the basketball team in fourth grade.  I worked really hard and tried out for the team and made it the next year.

In your life you always need to have big dreams and then work hard to achieve the goal and Tim Green teaches readers how.  If everyone in the world can work a little harder and achieve some of their goals we all can be very successful.

I am Found

Author's Note: This is a piece about me responding to the book Found.  This piece talks about bravery and why and when we need to use it.

“Nine-one-one, Jonah thought, of course.  His knees almost gave way at the thought that a bunch of police officers in dark uniforms would soon come swarming the cave, saving them all, saving Jonah from having to make any more choices, any more mistakes.” (272)  Found, by Margret Peterson Haddix, is a thrilling mystery that begins with an unidentified airplane filled with babies landing at an airport.  The story describes how two kids from the plane try to find the truth about their past. The author teaches readers you have to be brave when times are hard.

In the story the characters need to be really brave because they encounter some really scary things like ghost, crazy janitors, and a bunch of other weird people who try to stop them from finding out who they really are.   Also, in a different book called Among the Hidden by Margret Peterson Haddix the main character has to be very  brave too  because he shouldn’t even be alive.  Another example of bravery in the book Found is when the two main characters ,Johan and Catherine, have to fight off the wicked JB from sending them back in time.

Even though the characters in the story have to be very brave people in real life have to be brave too.  A few people who have to be very brave are anybody who has a disease.  If someone in your family has cancer or that is really sick you have to be very brave.  Plus, in the book the kids have to be brave because if they try to get back to their normal time it might break the future making everything a lot different.  Lastly, people have to be brave because if they were afraid of planes and they had to do a business trip they would have to brave and go on the plane.

In your life you always need to be brave and the Margret Peterson Haddix teaches reader why.  All of us need to be more brave in life.

Team Work is Key

Author's Note: This is a piece about the book Into the Ravine is about three characters.  Their names are  Jules the smart one, Chris the athletic one, and Cory the weird one.  They go on a thrilling adventure encountering snakes, water rides, and zombies.

Into the Ravine by Richard Scrimger is a mischievous tale about three boys and their journey down a ravine.  The trip requires a lot of team work to overcome all the obstacles thrown at them.   Into the Ravine teaches readers that team work is a skill you will need for your whole life.

There are so many things you need team work to do for instance, if you were on a basketball team and there were seconds left and you were swinging the ball around.  If someone on your team wasn’t paying attention they could lose the game because they dropped the ball or let the other team steal it. But if you had teamwork and everyone was paying attention you could win the game.

Even though sports is something you really need teamwork for, you also need some teamwork when you are in a job.  In a job you might have to work together with someone to write a paper. If you don’t do it together it could be really hard to do.  But if you did it together you if would be easier than spreading butter on toast. Also, if your boss sees you have teamwork you would likely get a raise. 

That’s not all; everyone uses teamwork in their daily life.  When I am folding cloths and my sister helps me and we get the job done faster.  In addition if I were making a project for school, I would likely have a friend help therefore we would get the work done twice as fast.  Finally if I needed to unload groceries from the car it would be a lot easier with a buddy to help me carry the bags in.

A skill you need your whole life is teamwork and the book Into the Ravine teaches reader why.  We all need teamwork in our lives to succeed.

Snow

Author's Note: This is a piece about what everyone does when snow comes.

Snow is so peaceful, descending from the sky.  It showers over buildings, cars, and people giving them a coat of white.  When it falls, kids build forts and go sledding.  Adults shovel the driveway and hope that the road will be clear when they drive to work.  School gets canceled and everyone jumps for joy.  Snow plows are at their finest working day and night, plowing the streets for us.  Snow will not last forever though, by the time April comes all the snow will be gone.

I am an I-Pod

Author's Note: This is a metaphor piece about what being an I-Pod is like.

I live in your pocket.  I can speak loud or soft.  You can plug me into a computer.  I thrive on electricity.  I am bright.  You can put a case on me.  I am always there.  I will go on all the trips you go on.  I am tough.  I can be dropped.  I am very light.  I come in an assortment of colors.  I am an I-Pod.

Live On

Author’s Note: This is a cool quote I found on the internet that I will resond to.

“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”- Robert Frost

                I like this quote by Robert Frost a lot.  Whenever something bad happens everybody always tends to keep that bad memory in their mind and their life changes from being always happy to always sad.  This quote tells people to let that memory go and live on with their life.  If anything bad ever happened to you, you have to push through because after it is passed, you can still live a good happy life.  I know it is easier said than done but, if you try to let the past go you will have a better life.

The Christmas Car

 Author's Note: This is a piece about the point of view of a present before Christmas.

Finally, the time is here Christmas Eve.  I’ve been waiting in that kid’s closet forever, but now they finally took me out and wrapped me.  The anticipation is killing me; I want to get played with so badly.   For the last few hours (which felt like days) the kid kept looking right at me, shaking me and trying to figure out if I was socks or the awesome race car he always wanted.
On Christmas day the kid comes down with his parents and rips me open.  The kid looked like he was going to explode he was so thrilled, he didn’t even look at the other presents.  I was the race car of his dreams.   He got a race track and me and the neighbor car raced.  I met so many other toy friends and we always played together, it was so fun.  I can’t wait for next Christmas so I can see all the new toys.