The “Creative Academy” is the homeschool at the Applewhite’s home. Jake ends up going there because his parents did something bad so they are in jail. He burned down his old middle school and know he got put in the Applewhites home school, but he also got put there after he got kicked out of the Traybridge Middle school. The Applewhites have a home of no smoking but Jake smokes. He wants to run away but he decided not to. That is how he got to the “Creative Academy”.

Wow! You want ME to explain the Applewhite’s family?! Well, the Aunt and Uncle of E.D. are Lucille and Archie. Cordelia is a dancer. Randolph is the father of E. D. Zedediah is the grandfather of E.D. Destiny is E.D.’s little brother. E.D. is a part of the Applewhites but she is technically the special one. Hal is the food steller and E.D.’s older brother. Sybil, although she doesn’t have the last name of Applewhite, she is the mother of the children. The dog is Winston. The parrot is Paulie. The goats are Hazel and Wolfbane.
E.D. thinks that she is different because when they had the interview they didn’t even ask for her name and what she is. She has to be partnered with Jake Semple and she doesn’t like him. The applewhites are very different. They have their own rules that E.D. hates and so does Jake. E.D. is different than the applewhites. She thinks that if she had a different life it would be better. She thinks that no one cares about her and they never ask her to do anything. She never sticks out on anyone. That is about the book Surviving the Applewhites.

“Ahhh! Eli is coming!” shrieked Baby Liza. She’s a baby fish. Hi! I’m Eli, the shark every fish is scared of because I’m the biggest hammerhead. I don’t understand, though. Why are they scared? I am a vegetarian, somehow. I mean, if they really got to know me, they would probably like me. All the meanness started when my sister ate a fish while eating coral, (it was tasty!) but then the mamma got angry because she saw it!

If we would be an animal, we would be a tiger. It is horrible to be in my domain because there is metal bars that cage me in. Also, I get watched every day. I also think that it is nice to be in my domain because I am protected from all those evil humans that killed my family. I hate being watched so I roar and bite at them but they’re too high to get after.

The reason my domain is horrible is because there is no room to roam around. Also you can’t go hunting because there is no Springbok to hunt or deer or even monkeys.
I feel weird when people walk by staring. I feel like they might do something bad to me. I am a tiger and some people hate that. They are the ones who took my family away from me. I also feel scared that someone will hurt me like they did to my family. I feel mad at being watched because they killed my family and locked me in my domain. I wish I had a friend or another tiger to play with.   Tambako The Jaguar via Compfight

So that’s how I feel about being caged and being watched. Being watched at is creepy and makes me mad. Being caged is like being trapped in a little box that you can’t get out. When people stare, is scares me because I feel like they can hurt me. And that’s why next time you go to the zoo look how the animals look at it not you.

The End

“Watch out! Reese is chasing Olive again!” Uh-oh! I think. Hi! I’m Olive the cat. Sorry, I don’t have time to explain my life.

So, it was a nice summer day and I was eating my food until I finished. Then, I went to Reese the dog’s food bowl and ate some of her food. The only bad thing was was her watching me eat her food. That’s why she’s chasing me for the second time, I did it again.

I jump onto the table: she jumps on it too. I jump on a human: she does it too. It’s like there is no way to stop her! I wish I remembered how I stopped her the first time. I try more things: she does them too. She won’t stop chasing me! I wish I wasn’t so hungry and selfish. Maybe Reese will stop if she hears me out! Never mind. It’s just like saying to Tom, “Stop chasing Jerry!” I wish they weren’t stubborn on the TV, but that’s life sometimes.

What would life be like without a voting system? That is a great question. There may be many different opinions but this is ours. Without a voting system there would be chaos and the government would pick the people they only want. People would start revolting against the government. So we’ll tell you why we think that and give details.   

It would be total chaos because people would have to go through things they don’t want to. They would have to have to follow laws that the people didn’t vote for. The laws could also be stupid laws like no ice cream every day. They would not get a say on new laws because the government picked the representatives for each state. Also the people would feel like the government would be like a king.

The government would only pick the people they want to because they would favor people. They would do that and then they would find out that the person they picked is horrible. Then when they get old and need to retire they pick people that will make horrible laws. There would be taxes on everything and there would be laws on all most every thing. There would also be fights and the people would revolt against the government. They would be like the colonies when they wanted freedom from England.They could also start a war but that wouldn’t happen. People might not be safe even on the roads! So that’s the few things that america would be like.

Hmmm. Let me think. Oh, yeah! Nothing would be protected and everyone would just pick the worst person when they think they are the best. The laws wouldn’t be right, the president, government, or anything else like that would be right for us most of the time and who knows, they could be mean or bad! America with be pretty much nothing without a voting system. Also it would kind of hard to figure out who won presidency because the people couldn’t vote.

Lost at Sea   Part 1

There once was a mermaid who loved to swim away from home, but one day she swam too far out to hear her parents call. She was also very, very lost. She was lost for over a month, and at that time the search gave up. Then, all of a sudden, a stranger came up to her and invited her to his house. She said no at first, but then thought about her situation and said, “You know what? Sure, whatever.”

Sometime soon he told her his name was Dr. Octo, but she thought something was weird, bad, SCARY about his house. He had a knife collection and scale collection on his walls. She also remembered the story Ma told her about the psycho octopus who hurts all mermaids. She thought it was fake, but this octopus seems to be the guy in the story

“Would you like some fish to eat?” he asked strangely.

“You know, I should really get going.” she said afraid. She really wishes she listened to Ma and Pa.

For me, I would just say that “How to Become a United States Presidential Candidate” is just the steps to become one, but that wouldn’t be enough information, would it? No, so in the following paragraphs we will include more details about the passage. The article is split up into four sections and each section has information about the steps to becoming a presidential candidate.

The first section is the introduction of it all. It starts off with saying how you become one by you having to be born in the state and lived there for fourteen years. Next it continues explaining how you need to have support by one of the major parties in order to do it with an easier method. This is because they provide more opportunities for the presidential candidate like “funding, opportunities to easily send messages and ideas to many people, and access to research and workers.”

This next section is about different changes in history. It begins telling about when George Washington was president he was selected by delegates to be a part of the Second Continental Congress. The delegates finally agreed that Washington should become the next president.

The third section is about the state primaries and caucuses. The first sentence in that part says that if you want to be president, you have to be chosen by a political party before hand. When it is election year, each state has a primary or caucus and this happens usually every 4 years. Most states have primaries. In a caucus, they have meetings and give speeches to support whoever they want like a specific candidate. Then they vote for whatever candidate. In a primary, the voters go to polls to vote for a specific candidate. In both primary and Caucus, they vote on whoever their opinion reflects on for their specific party. Based on their result, the delegates are supposed to go out and vote and select the party’s candidate at the national convention.

This last selection is about the national convention. Each major political party attend a national convention every year of election. Every state sends a delegate to attend. The delegates confirm the votes for the party’s convention. The candidate who receives the most votes will officially be the party’s candidate of the president of the United States. National convention’s are usually very crowded. The delegates are passionate about supporting their candidates. The conventions are usually on the television, which gives tons of spectators an opportunity to watch democracy in action, as Americans decide who will run as president.

Max Goldberg via Compfight 

Thank you for reading. We hope you liked our summarizing of “How to Become a United States Presidential Candidate.”

Natasha: Winter Blue Tanner: Cold Cyan  Noah- Snowy Gray

Best Thing(s) to do on a Snow Day

For me, the best thing to do on a snow day is play in it with my family. I like to play with my brothers, and now including my step sister, with our sleds and behind our house on the hill. We usually play out until dark. Sometimes we have snowball fights, build forts, and other things like that. I love it when we play with all of our neighbors. They are always making us laugh, happy, and want to play. I also love going inside to the lingering smell of hot chocolate.

The second best thing to do on a snowy day is………THE SNOW CHALLENGE!!!!!! If it is snowing really hard and you are completely plowed in go to your highest floor and jump into the snow and hold there for at least 15 seconds. You might also do it for a little dough (if you know what I mean) or maybe chocolate, or really anything. Here’s something if you are really daring, you could could go in you bathing suit It feels like you are jumping into straight a sheet of ice!!
The best thing to do on a snow day for me is to do the snow challenge too, but since Tanner already said that, I will go with the second best thing for me. Snow blowing. I like to snow blow because I aim the chute at my dad so he gets covered in snow. Another reason I like to snow-blow is because I get payed a TON of money. I usually get around $25 to $30 every time it snows. My last reason why I like to snow-blow is because I get really hot and get lots of 15 min. breaks (and I still get payed a lot).