25 Random Facts

1. I play Drums
2. I used to swim on a swim team when I was younger.
3. I take Algebra 2
4. I live in Bel Air
5. I like hard rock music
6. I have a pool table in my basement
7. I have an xbox and a PS3. 
8. I have cracked both my Ipod and my Droid
9. I don't go to church that often.
10. I have two dogs, a boxer and a shih tzu
11. I have a BT Combat paintball gun
12. I've only been to one concert
13. I have a sister
14. my family owns an escalade
15. I've been to disney world 4 times
16. I hate cleaning
17. I love roller coasters
18. I am a Methodist
19. I take French
20. I want to be a computer programmer when I grow up
21. My favorite band is Avenged Sevenfold
22. I love scary movies but hate scary reality shows like ghost hunters, etc
23. I played lacrosse in middle school
24. my dad is away doing his job traveling around country then at home
25. I fell down the steps this morning because my ankle gave out on me

sara

• Name of character and family relationship - Sara is the mother of kate, Anna, and Jesse. she pays a lot of attention to Kate and treats Anna unfairly.
• Approximate age and physical description of character - she is 43. she has dark hair, she is short, has haunted eyes
• Profession in life - she was a laywer until she had kids. she retired and was a stay at home mom
• Personality traits -she tries to do what she thinks is best for her children and doesnt rest until she has succeeded.
• Interests and hobbies
• Quirks
• Who character is closest to in story - she is the closest to kate.
• A good direct quotation from the character himself/herself that gives a clear look at the character's thoughts.  Remember page number.
• Anything thing else that you find interesting and unique

Simile and metaphors in my sisters keeper

simile - A simile is a comparison between two different things, designed to create an unusual, interesting, emotional or other effect often using words such as 'like' or 'as'.
Metaphor - A metaphor is a word or phrase that describes one thing being used to describe another
http://www.usingenglish.com/glossary


Similies in the book -
1.it smells like the sweaty tongue of a hockey skate. page 14
2.Where your whole life stretches out ahead of you like a forked road page 22
3. When you only have a hammer everything looks like a nail. page 22
4.Anger glows around this kid like electricity. page 21
5. 4. When you only have a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Metaphors in the book -
1. The room is a sea of dirty clothes and magazines and leftover Chinese take-out cartons. page 14
2. I imagine a great battle going on inside her. page 64
3. Her voice is a feather, a thread page 70
4. When she is tied to the bed, I am her eyes and ears. page 58
5. Shame is five-fingered. page 64

keeper

I think that I am my grandmothers keeper. my dad is never home because of his job. for most of the year his is somewhere else in the country working for mitsubishi. when he is not home, my grandmother doesnt have anyone to help her around. A little over a year ago she fell and broke her wrist and a couple of ribs. she is in avendell now and i help her around.

Jodi Picoult

The book "my sisters keeper" was written by Jodi Picoult. She was born on May 19, 1966 in long island new york. she moved to New Hampshire when she was 13. She went to princeton University for colloge. after college she moved back to new hampshire, married, and had three kids. the book "my sisters keeper  is about a teenage girl (Anna) who has cancer and had it basicly her whole life. no one in her family had the same blood type or anything as her, so they could not donate to help her. her parents geneticly made another child that could donate everything they need to http://bestsellers.about.com/od/authorprofilesaz/p/jodi_picoult.htm

My Leather Belt

On my leather belt i would put on SJA, this was my old school which i went to for 9 years. i would then put on JC. this is the school i go to know. i would put on a drum set because i have been playing drums for 5 years now. i would put on a mickey mouse head. this is because i have been to disney 4 times and i know it really well. then i would put on the numbers 22896. this is my birthday.i would put the word foREVer. i would do this because this was a drummer who was my favorite who passed away. i would put on A7x. this is the abreviation of my favorite band. i would put on the number 44. this is my lucky and favorite number. lastly i would put on a raven. i would do this because my favorite football team is the ravens.

New Quarter

Yay its quarter 3 and the year is past halfway over. we are still finishing MND by shakespeare in class. once we finish that we are going to start a book called INTO THE WILD. so far john carroll has not been that bad. ive had 3 shadows including one today. i dont think that i have changed since the biginning of school, i think that i am exactly the same.

charcter sketch essay

Matt Cleary

1/14/11

Greens

Mrs. Zurkowski

90 Minutes in Heaven

The book I read was called 90 minutes in heaven. The author was the character himself. His name is Don Piper. He lived in Texas. For the duration of this book he seems to be in his 20s. Maybe even his 30s. Before his horrific car accident, he was beginning to become for involved and a full member of his church group because he loved church. Don Piper realizes how precious life is and what he has to do to improve his chances of going to heaven.

                In January of 1989, he is leaving his office. He is traveling to his church for a church service on a day with nasty weather. When he was driving over a 2 lane bridge that he said “this should really be a multiple lane bridge”, he got into a car accident with 3 other people. What happened was a man driving an 18 wheeler making deliveries was from jail and it was his community service. He swirved into the wrong lane and scraped  2 cars.(the drivers of these cars had minor injuries and didn’t have to go to the hospital). Then the 18 wheeler ran into him and crushed his car. “Because of the truck’s speed the accident report states that the truck was going 110 mph at the time of impact”. This statement means that the truck was going about 60 and he was going about 50. That would be equal to someone going 110 and someone else going 0 mph.

                After the car crash Don went up to heaven he saw all of his friends and relatives that have died in his past. They were all waiting at the gates of heaven when Don got there. They were not surprised when he came. They all just came around and started hugging and greeting each other. “One person who came to greet me was Mike Wood.” Mike was Don’s childhood friend who invited him to Sunday school and helped get him interested in the church. Mike died when they were in high school. After about an hour of them greeting people they entered the gates of heaven. “People always ask me did you walk, float, fly in there? How did you move”. Don didn’t know. He didn’t pay attention to that because he was too amazed at the sight.

                After these events Mike realized how important life was and how important it was to be involved with the church and go to heaven to be with god forever. He started changing his life a lot. One way he did it was quit his old job and got a job with the church. The rest of his life he tried to shape up his like so it was fit to go up to heaven with god. He went around sharing his story with the world. It is kind of like what the people are doing for Rachel’s Challenge.

                In the end, this story about this man’s life who had an encounter with heaven and it fixed his life. This teaches you that you have one chance to get your life right and it is so easy to screw up that you shouldn’t waste it. Through his own journey he is trying to say and show you how hard and tiring it was to change his life around. He is also saying how much fun the church is. I learned that this life is nothing but a test and you want to Ace it. The reward for Acing it would be getting to go up to heaven with god, but if you fail this test you live the rest of your life In hell with the devil. Don piper learns what he has to do to go to heaven because of precious life.