Maria's Language Arts

Thursday, October 11, 2012

Conflict & Resolution: Forgotten

Author's Note: This book is started off with... At 4:33 am London's memory will be erased and she will not remember anything to help her with this she finds some friends and finds a boy that will help her and encourage her.

In the book Forgotten, at 4:33 am everything in London's head is erased . As she enters the day she can't even remember what she did the day before. London and her mom aren't super close; which this means that it will be harder to talk about these things with her mom. On the other hand she doesn't have many friends to fall back on.

In the book she has to find some way to help herself remember things. To solve conflict every night before she went to bed she wrote in a journal to remember the things that she did that day. Later in the book London has found a guy that likes her for who she is and is willing to help her remember the things they did together and even just to remember what she did that very day.

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

The Truth With Being Wrong

Author’s Note: Will anybody know what the difference between right and wrong, a lot of people will think its wrong but who is to tell you it’s not. I wrote this piece because I really needed to get this story out. I think people need to know not everybody is going to think everybody is right. Many people will think that you are doing something wrong but you really aren't.

Right and wrong. What’s the difference? Some people may think you are doing something wrong, but at the same time you probably wouldn't care what the punishment is. Take it from somebody that might know what it feels like. I can tell you a little bit of my story that reflect right and wrongs and what your may be punishment.

My friend and I had gone to Fox Brook Park and it was around middle of March where the water was still frozen. My friend had suggested that we go on the ice with our bikes and at that point I did go but I knew that there was some type of feeling inside of me telling me not to go, Idid it anyways. My friend was already biking on the ice like there was no tomorrow.... then was that weird feeling in me that I knew that something wasn’t right, but instead I totally ignored that feeling. Then at that moment I hear my friend shout "Come on Maria, it's not like we will get in trouble for doing this" "Brooke shouted to me.

As I was waiting on the edge of the ice I heard Brooke call me again “Maria come on, nothing is going to happen.” I went on the ice not even thinking about what is going to happen. Just a couple minutes after I was on the ice with Brooke we heard something shout in the distance “You guys better get off the ice before I call the cops.” We didn’t think that she was going to call the cops, but we did as she said and got off the ice. As we were biking home we saw a cop driving through the walkways asking people if they knew who was on the ice. When the cop made it to us he first asked us if we were the people on the ice. I didn’t know what to say so I lied and said no we were not on the ice with your bikes. Then he asked if we knew the people on the ice and we answered no we did not.

Me and Brooke raced home, we didn’t know if the cop was going to follow us or not, we just didn’t know what to expect. When we got home we promised each other that we wouldn’t tell anybody this story. From that day forward I have not told anybody this story, until I wrote this piece. When Brooke left my house and went home I really didn’t know why I was that scared we couldn’t have gotten in trouble for doing something that we didn’t know that it was wrong.

How are people supposed to know that they are doing something wrong without knowing it is? That’s the problem, Brooke and I didn’t know that it was wrong until somebody said we were not supposed to go the ice. Even though we didn’t know it was wrong other people thought it was. Which is perfectly okay because not everybody will think it is okay to do things that we are doing.

Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Book Ad: The Hunger Games

Author's Note: This is a retelling piece about the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. I really enjoyed doing this because I had a super fun time reading this book.

The Hunger Games: 24 tributes fight until the death, until 1 tribute is left standing. A young girl has volunteered to fight in The Hunger Games to take the place of her sister. In the battle she fights herself, other tributes and the forces of nature. In the battle she learns that she will have to open up to people.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

What's Really On the Inside

Authors Note: Friends... there are so many things that can start a fight, even the smallest things in the world. It is okay to get in a fight with a friend once and while so whatever you do don't put the weight on your shoulders. It may turn around and help your friendship or it may lead your friendship to an end.

"Friends show their love in times of trouble." Euripides has an amazing point. It may seem to be the hardest thing in the world to understand but it is 100% true. Take it from somebody that knows what it feels like to be in a fight with a friend. In a best friend relationship it is perfectly normal to get in a fight with a friend, but in a fight it’s typical to team up on each other, that’s how my first fight began.

Most of the time, friends will tell the story to their other friends eventually they will team up on you until you finally…break and you have to apologize for something that you didn’t even do. Every day I come home crying. This fight was not getting any better. Eventually we had finally ended our friendship because all we did was we got in fights with each other and we just couldn’t stand the fact that every time we turned around we were back at a fight, but the exotic part was I still can remember the whole conversation word for word.

It was in the middle of 6^th grade and we were outside waiting for school to end and I was playing on the playground. My friend at that moment walks over and we were in a fight and she goes “If we are never going to get along, why be friends?” She says to me. Then at that very minute I knew that this conversation was going to go south rapidly . As she said that, a lot of things were floating through my life like what am I going to say to her question. Then when I had finished thinking I had to break it to her “I’m sorry but if we are going to keep on fighting I just can’t be your friend anymore.” I said to her while I was still on the playground

That year I had I found out how to pick out my friends with picky mind. When you are in a fight with a friends not only love will come through but friends may show their true colors. When I say your true colors may show, I mean they aren’t the same people as they were before you were fighting. Or just in general. Things may happen with friends that may put you relationship to the test.

Fighting can be the most annoying thing in the world because its everywhere. Tons and tons of people are fighting, whether or not it has to do with money or what clothes to buy at a store. It’s everywhere. There are many things to do to resolve problems. Finding the right friends. But finding a friend may seem easy, couple months hang out with your friend may be the biggest nightmare you may have but not in all circumstances. I could very well be the best dream you have, but it all depends on your decision.

Monday, June 4, 2012

So Love Really Does Never Fail

Author's Note: You know when people say "the best why is to let your anger out is by expressing it." Well I tried something new and I worked pretty well. The thing is I wasn't mad or upset. I felt love and by doing this, it was my only way of expressing it

You know that feeling where somebody says they can’t be together because of the “long-distance-relationship” I know that it is impossible to go through something as hard as that.Do guys always do you that just say that to make you feel better because they really don’t like you or is it really because of long distance relationships? Nobody will really know the answer...except for him.

Love could be the hardest thing is the world to get over. Especially if you think this could be your chance of finding that love that will never leave you. Guess again. Love could ever well be the hardest thing to understand but who will ever know that. Only you. Well it kind of depends, anybody can really feel it but who will ever know that you feel it.