Week 13

My friend is very taciturn, and very rarely talks to people.

My parents always make sure I am humble and unsullied, they don’t want me to be a rude person to others.

For the persuasive essay I had to write, it was necessary to use expounding information.

As a volleyball you sometimes feel contemptuous when you make many mistakes in a game.

Week 17

Free choice-

I had my last volleyball tournament, and it was in Pittsburgh. I just sprained my ankle 3 days before the tournament, and I wasn’t supposed to play in it because of my ankle. But I convinced my coach to let me since its the last tournament. I pushed through the pain in my ankle and I still did pretty well. It still sucked though since I wasn’t able to play my actual position as an all around outside hitter. I was still glad I was able to play though. It was an emotional time for everyone on the last day since it was for my club team and the girls I’m closest with don’t go to the same school as me.

Week 16

For the book project I am reading the book Sadie by Courtney Summers. I chose this book because it talks about a girl who goes missing, and it seems really interesting.

Week 12

Free choice-

Avery and I were partners for a beach volleyball doubles tournament. We got in for free because of Avery’s club team. We didn’t do amazing, but we did pretty good for it being both of our first times, it was really fun and a great experience for us. A lot of our friends also played in the tournament, so when we were all off we got to hang out and try to go in the ocean even though it was freezing cold.

Week 15

My mom has a lot precision when someone cooks, she wants them to clean up after themselves. My brother never does, even though my brother is extremely ornery,  she is still obliged to love him. So my mom suggests they parcel the work.

Week 11

I chose the book sadie by Courtney Summers, because Mrs. Means was telling us about it, and I really thought it would be something I would enjoy. I do like mystery books and this is one that interests me.

Week 10

I wish Romeo and Juliet ended with Juliet waking up right before Romeo drank the potion, that way they are both alive and they can leave town together. If they both just told their parents that they are in love and that they got married, they could have ended the feud and left together.

Book Project

Project: Diary entry

Book: A Night Divided

Diary of Gerta, 

I was talking with Papa, Mama, Dominic, and Fritz tonight. We were discussing how we should move to the west soon. Mama wasn’t really fond of the idea, so we decided that Papa and Dominic would go and look for work. I really wish that I could be the one going with Papa instead of Dominic, but I wasn’t allowed. They’re leaving tomorrow afternoon, they say they’ll be back in two days. I’m so excited for us to move to the west. 

It’s been a day since Papa and Dominic left. They’re supposed to be coming home tomorrow. I can’t wait, I miss them both so much.

I just woke up. When I looked out my window there was a huge wall. It’s what everyone has been talking about. It’s happening, they’re splitting the east and the west. Papa and Dominic are trapped in the west and now Fritz, mama, and I are stuck in the east. Will we ever be able to be together as a family again? This is all mama’s fault. If she would have just let us go with us we would all still be together, but instead she split us up. 

It’s been two years, still separated from papa. The grenzers made it illegal to even look at the wall.

I was walking to school today with my friend Anna, I was staring at the wall thinking of when my family can be together again. When I looked up, I saw a man from the west staring back down at me. He saw me looking at him, and he waved down at me. He started dancing, and I finally realized who the man was, it was my papa. It’s the dance that he would show me every night with our special song. As I realized who it was, someone else walked up, it was Dominic. An officer noticed me looking at the wall, so I had to leave.

On my way to school today, I couldn’t help myself from looking up at the platform I had seen my papa on yesterday, just hoping I would see them again. All of a sudden, there he was. But this time he was trying to tell me something. Dig? He wants us to dig a tunnel under the wall to the west. It’s dangerous, but if papa wants us to do this, then we have to. He sent us a letter too, it just had a drawing of a building on it. The welcome building, that’s where he wants us to dig.

Mama left this morning to go visit my oma because she’s been very sick. Fritz and I took this as our chance to start digging.

2 weeks in, we’re pretty far, and doing well. Mama came home today, and we finally told her about the tunnel. She’s not happy with us, but she knows we need to leave the east. She agreed that she will help us finish digging.

Today, when we were digging we heard noises ahead of us. Someone else was digging. It could be other people from the east trying to escape, or officers. But I’m hoping it’s papa.

We’re going back to keep digging today.

While digging, we finally hit the other tunnel in front of us. It was papa. We’re finally going to be a family again. Today is the day that we’re finally going to be leaving the west. We’re going to see papa and Dominic for the first time in 4 years. 

Officers found us when we were crossing the tunnel. They started shooting, a bullet hit Fritz in the leg, but he said that he will be fine. No one else was hit, and we all made it to the west, safe, and as a family once again. 

Vocab Week 3

Don’t tread on me.

My friend sway over me when I lost her pen.

Don’t slander my name.

I had to apologize for my transgression.

During the toddler’s temper tantrum, she strew several papers all over the floor.

 

Book Reflection

The book that I chose is called A Night Divided. This book is about the Berlin Wall, and a family that got seperated between the North and the South. Two of the kids are digging a tunnel so that they can go to the west and reconnect with their dad and their brother. I think I might do the t-shirt for the project, but I’m not sure yet.