Writing Competition

So, I'm entering a writing competition. Here's my story so far:

The Mysterious Break In

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You’re lying there on your comfortable bed, trying to sleep. You close your eyes and count to ten. One…Two..Three..Four… You’re asleep. “ BANG” You suddenly wake up startled. It’s 2:30am. You don’t know if that was a gun or a bear banger. There’s a disturbing rustling in your kitchen that you hear all the way down stairs. You slowly crawl out of bed, making sure not to make any noise. You’re trying to grab your knife you had hidden, in case someone ever broke in. You open your door. “CREaK” You tip-toe up the stairs. Its pitch black in your house, like a black panther. Your stairs moan as you walk up them. As you head into the hall, you turn on the light. You clutch the knife tighter in your hand. There’s a guy in a black mask standing in front of you, gun tucked away in his pocket. You scream and run for the phone. He grabs you, and then puts his hand around your mouth. “ SHH” he whispers. You bite his hand and run to the phone, quickly calling 911, terrified. “How may I help you” the operator asks. “There’s a killer in my house” You sob. The police arrive in 5 minutes, the man is gone. The window is open. He crawled out. You go to your parents` room, only to find a shocking discovery. They are still alive. They come out of their closet. “We put manikins’ in our bed” your parents exclaim. “We heard him come in through the door, so we hid.” You hug them tight. The

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police investigate the house.  “Force entry.” They say curiously. “But how?” You ask with worry. “The alarm was set; it surely would've gone off if it was force entry.” Your dad replies very concerned. “Well.” the police start. “WELL WHAT?” You yell. “He could have killed my parents and me.” “He has this tool to break the signal in the alarm to power it off.” “He most likely used that.” The cops stated.

 “Why us though?”  Your mother asks, shocked. “We aren't sure ma’am.” They say. “It could be because you have a lot of money so he figured you had a lot of valuables.” “I don’t understand though. How’d he find us?” Your father replies helplessly. “He followed me home a few times.” You reply scared to death. “Why didn't you tell us?” Your mother replies. “I don’t know. I didn't think he would harm us. I thought he lived on our street.” You say ashamed. “My main concern is where he got in.” You say. “Look at this!!” Your mother exclaims. You look at the door, and see a huge gap between the door and frame. There’s still a crowbar outside. “He must have taken my crowbar that I had set outside and forgot to put it away.” Your

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father says, looking very puzzled.  The cops sit you down and ask you many questions. You feel like you’re about to faint. Your parents send you back to bed. You stay home the next day only because you aren't feeling good still. “What a night.” Your dad says to your mom. “I’m just glad no one was hurt.” She smiles.  “Me too.” You say laughing. 

Please comment if you have any suggestions :D Its due tomorrow so comment ASAP!!

MY AWESOME XXC'S

1. I believe I have demonstrated outstanding in communication skills because I always talk to people to ask questions whether I need help or to see if they need help.

2. I've shown outstanding Personal Responsibility skills when I keep my locker clean because then this way I can find all my supplies I need for class so then I'm not late, or then I can quickly go grab it if I need it. 

3.  One example of when I demonstrated outstanding creative thinking is when I helped make my groups model for over consumption because I had to plan out what we were going to make. 

4. One example of when I demonstrated excellent social responsibility was when my partner and I each had a part to do in the model building and we had to show social responsibility by seeing where the other partner was and what else we could do if we were done. 

5. One example of when I demonstrated excellent critical thinking was when I had to figure out how to get from one number, to an even bigger to figure out how to build my model and graphs for over consumption. 

Goal: For the rest of this year, I would like to develop my critical thinking skills by asking deeper and thicker questions and by thinking harder and longer when I`m asked a question. 

Gardening!

On Friday March 15, we planted seeds for our garden! Over the holiday, we have to watch them. After Spring break, we are bringing them back to school to see how much progress they made over the break.We will be planting more seeds in the next few months for our green house!! So excited!! :D

Over Consumption Project Update!

We are officially done our over consumption project!!

In this project, I demonstrated communication skills by talking to my group and making sure we know what to do, and when we presented to another group. Something creative I did in this project is making the back ground and grass which had a river and flowers. A problem I ended up solving was how to do my graph for my countries. I only chose 1 country instead of all of them. Something I did that shows social responsibility was making sure I was fully prepared to work on this project and that I had all my materials that I needed. I showed social responsibility by making sure everyone had a job to do, and if they didn't, I found another part they could work on.  I enjoyed this project because I got to learn about how many trees people over consume in a certain amount of time and I got to use clay to build the models so we used little paper.

Some Things That We Have Done So Far!

Since the beginning of the year these are some of the projects we have done..

1.  Shore line clean up
2. Terry Fox run. We donated 50% of our earnings to the cancer research
3. We visited CKPG
4. Eye dissection ( grade 8)
5. Chemical Demonstration ( Grade 9)
6. Darkroom
7. Pinhole cameras
8. Memoirs
9.  Maps of where we come from
10. Movie
11. Over consumption
12. Light investigation ( grade 8)

Movie :D

Hey. In English and Socials, we are making a movie based on our novel study book. Mine was Chains by Laurie Halse Anderson. For this, we had to do a lot of research. My partner and I are almost ready to film. Just have to add to the script. This movie is important because it talks about slavery and the american revolution and how they tie into each other. I will keep you all posted!! Here are a couple examples. 

Over Consumption Project

Hey guys. So for the past couple of weeks, we have been working on our over consumption projects. In order to actually do the project, we had to research a topic that we wanted to find out how much of it we over consume in a certain amount of time. Then we had to write all the numbers in out tables, make graphs and now we built our models to show what we researched!! This coming week, we have to bring it home to show our parents and they get to mark it, and how well we present why we chose it and how else could we graph it. For my groups project, we chose over consumption on trees (paper). Our model was a clay tree that was half way cut down to show that it was about to be used for things that we don't need or already have enough of.. I will put a picture up of our model ASAP!! But for now, here's a sample of our work..

Introductory Post

What are the cross curricular competencies are any why they are important?

• Cross curricular competencies are our rubrics that we mark what we think we are for each category. They are : 

• Communication

• Critical Thinking

• Creativity

• Personal Responsibility

• Social Responsibility

Cross curricular competencies are important because we can mark how we think we are doing and then our teachers can see what we put and either agree or disagree and this way we both can come up with our overall mark. 

Your goals for your learning throughout high school (and how it will be shown through your blog)
My goal is to get principals list and I will show it on my blog by posting my really good marks.

Anything else you want to say about the purpose of your blog
The purpose of my blog is to show my progress throughout school