Our Founding Father

Author’s Note: This essay is for Patriots Pen. I wrote about  what I thought about them. If we wanted to we could choose to enter this into a contest.

Do you know who the founding fathers are? The fathers are George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, John Jay, and James Madison. Therefore if you had a chance to tell them what you thought about them what would you say? I would tell them that they were successful in forming our government, religion, and freedom.

In the year 1920 women of America were allowed to vote. If it wasn’t for the founders then men would only be the ones to vote. One reason why the  fathers were successful was in our government because of being able to vote. And without being able to vote then the people of America wouldn’t get a chance to elect who they want for president. Then there probably wouldn’t be demarcates and republicans.
   
Religion is a big part of the US, and without it then people today wouldn’t be who they are. Every Sunday there are people who go to church, Sunday school, or bible study. Almost every summer for one week my friend Molly and I participate in a bible school event. It’s called Vacation Bible School, and you do a bunch of religion activities such as; crafts, games, sings songs, plus more. This is one example of a religious activity.      

If we didn’t have freedom then what would we have? Without it we very well could be slaves right now.
But since we do there’s so many possibilities as to what we can do. In July 4, 1776 the 13 colonies declared themselves independence from the English.      

Maybe not everything the founding fathers did was successful. But overall they were doing well with our government, religion, and freedom. However if they didn’t exist then this country wouldn’t of been as successful as it is today.    

What's the cause and effect?

The Hunger Games 

Author’s Note: For reading lab we got to chosen if we wanted to write about a book or a really life situation. I chose to write about the The Huger Games (book). In this piece we had to explain the main event and what the effects were.  

The main cause of the story is every year, once a year the Capitol holds the annul Hunger Games. Which is a games where one girl and one boy from each district get chosen randomly and, they have to compete against everybody. From district 12, Peeta and Prim were chosen. But Katniss didn’t want her little sister to go so, she took her place.

The effect of this story is when Katniss and Peeta win the Huger Games. They were the second people to win the Huger Games from their district. Normally there could only be one winner but, the Capitol let them both win. If this event didn’t happen then there would have been one winner or maybe even no winner. If that were the case then the whole ending of the story would have to change.

Have You Even Been Stalked?

Author's Note: We had to write a short responds to a cause and effect. I wrote about a book that I read last year so, see if you can look for my effect on the cause.  

In the book Deadly Little Secret by Laurie Stolarz, the main conflict of the story is that Camelia is getting stalked. And this mysterious person was Matt, Camelia’s ex-boyfriend. Yet she doesn’t know who this person is or how closes they used to be. So during the book as Camelia is getting all of these strange phone calls, letters, pictures of herself, plus he broke into her room. The only reason as to why Matt did this was because he was mad at her and he wanted her all to himself. Towards the end of the book is where the conflict mainly happened. While Camelia and Matt were talking he handcuffed her wrists together and carried her to the trunk of his car. She tries to fight back but her smacks her across the jaw and knocks her out. And next thing she knows is that she wakes up and finds herself in a tiny room.    

This conflict gets resolved by when Ben comes and finds Camelia and Matt fighting. So Ben starts to fight Matt and eventually he passed out. After that Ben called the police and Matt was taken away. And then Camelia never got another weird letter or phone call again.

Deadly Little Secret

Author's note: For Reading Lab we had to write and tell about a book we read. This had to be a retelling. 

Author: Laurie Faria Stolarz

Genre: Mystery, romance, and suspense

Camelia lives a somewhat ordinary life; she has two best friends; a job, and loving parents. But when there’s a mysterious new guy named Ben, who is starting junior year at the same high school as Camelia, her live becomes far from ordinary.

On one afternoon when Camelia was in the school parking lot a car came out of know where and almost killed her. But luckily for her Ben was there and pushed her out of the way. 

At the beginning of the year Camelia was receiving mysterious notes, photos and phone calls. Some of the notes said that she should watch her back, or I’ll be watching you at all times. And later on someone breaks into her room and vandalizes it.

And Ben knows something is up, because he’s psychometric, which is the ability to sense the future through touch.

“A cloud of rumors swirl around Ben’s arrival.” He’s accused of killing his girlfriend, and no one is happy that he is there. Yet Camelia is drawn to Ben because of when he saved her life. So as she gets to know him and spend more time with him the stalking escalates, “Camelia doesn’t know who to trust. “        

I liked this book because there wasn’t too much going on, so you could understand what was going on. Also because there was a lot of detail and so you could picture things in your mind.