Founding Fathers

"Authors Note:

This piece is about the Founding Fathers. I wrote this to demonstrate my understanding  of the Patriot's Pen."

Tyler Kiser

Mrs. Reagals 5^th Hour

10/12/12

Patriot’s Pen

Dear Founding Fathers,

You probably have no idea who I am, no idea what I do, or no idea where I am from, but hopefully it should be that way because I am living about a 200 years after you. Well I also know that you are dead too, but I just wanted to share some thoughts on a subject you guys completed when you were actually alive. 

After the Revolutionary war when we finally broke away from Europe you guys wrote the Declaration of Independence and The Bill of Rights, which was a section of the Constitution. In The Bill of Rights you stated many laws, in which we still follow today, we still enforce today, and we still pay attention to today. Out of these laws you have created, all of them are as important as money in an economy, but there are a few laws that come out and punch me in the face saying, "Look at me!". One of those few laws that came out and struck me in the face was freedoms, petitions and assembly. That law really came out at me because it states that we have a freedom of religion and we can choose what we believe. It even gives us the freedom of speech and of the press. Finally another law that comes out at me is search and arrest, because this means that we have the right to not have our personal items searched unless there is a probable cause. This law is my personal favorite because we are able to keep our personal items private and not have them invaded.   

Since you are already dead I am not going to be able to give you advice that you can use to make the Bill of Rights or the Declaration of Independence but I will still share my thoughts on what you should have done that would have made a huge difference. There are many things you should have changed from slavery and how we run the economy to women's right. For example when you made the laws we follow you needed to think of every person, think of every male and female, and think of every race. That caused a lot of trouble with blacks and whites, which caused a civil war over races and slavery. As a result of the war we have finally made all races equal but some people still don't think all races are equal. You also could have given equal rights to women because before uprising and boycotts women couldn't vote and didn't have rights like men do. Finally the environment should have been thought of more because now there is pollution, littering, and global warming. These are affecting the environment because of people throwing trash on the ground carelessly or factories polluting the air and causing global warming. 

As a conclusion, the laws you made and what you decided on has made our country as unique as each snow flake that falls from the sky. Even though you have no idea who I am, no idea what I do, or no idea where I am from, you have given us many freedoms and rights which have given us the ability to have opinions on anything ranging from who we want for president to what kind of food we want for breakfast. 

Sincerely, 

Tyler

Don't Worry, be Hapi

Don't Worry, be Hapi

"Authors Note:

This piece is about the cause and effect in the story The Serpent's Shadow. I wrote this to demonstrate my understanding  of cause and effect."

In my book The Serpent's Shadow by Rick Riordan one event in this book is a giant hippo attack, which is a person vs. nature battle. As Zia, Setne and Carter are traveling down the Nile River wondering why Apophis hasn't tried to kill them yet it hit them, I mean literally hit them.They ran into a humongous hippo. After the hippo gets hit by Carter's boat it unleashed its anger by adding huge destruction to the boat. Before the hippo could destroy the boat Carter calls on Hapi, the god of the Nile who picks up the hippo and throws it with ease to destroy it.

If there wouldn't have been this event their would have been a lot of effects missing. For example Carter, his friends and his boat wouldn't have got a free ride to the ruins they need to visit. Also Carter wouldn't have learned a new spell from Setne on how to call upon Hapi. Zia also took a beating when she was trying to stay afloat and in doing this she lost a lot of energy to cast spells. Finally Carter's boat wouldn't have had any damage and they would have kept strolling down the river which would have been just plain old boring. Overall if this event wouldn't have been in the book it would have been missing a lot of action and I would actually want to stop reading it.

Personal Narrative

A-Team

"Authors Note:

This piece is about a personal narrative. I wrote this to demonstrate my understanding  of a personal narrative."

"Okay mom I will be back inside in about a half an hour," I shouted.

"Make sure you drink plenty of water, because you have tryouts tonight," she responded.

         

 I grabbed my soccer ball and made my way to the backyard, knowing what drills and skills that I need to improve upon. My skills have improved a lot since I have been practicing for tryouts because if I didn't make the A team for Pewaukee Sussex Untied it was going to be a crappy year. As the time passed I worked on many moves from scissors and step overs to maridonas and cruyffs I was working as hard as ants because I knew I need repetition if I wanted to make the team. 

This was my second night of tryouts, which meant I knew what to do and it was pretty basic things. For example we did warm-ups, then first touch and we even had scrimmages with no touch restrictions. As the tryouts passed I knew there was good chance at making the team because I have been working on my skills. Although I have improved a lot there were still kids that were better than me which meant more competitions and more work to strut my stuff.

Just as I had expected we worked on the same things we did last tryouts, which meant it was going to be easy to impress the judges. Tryouts pressed on and on, progressing with drills and skills and finally a scrimmage to top it off. Finally we took our final drink break and we were done.

My mom picked me up and we took off down the road with my mom complaining the whole time, "Tyler, your feet smell like cow manure baking in the sun!"

"Ha ha it's not my problem, I guess you will have to deal with it for the rest of the ride home," I said.

When we arrived home you should have seen how fast she shot out of the car, she looked like a squirrel running from a dog.

         

After the week past the results were out and you won't even believe how excited I was. When I searched for the website I found it finally.  When the page loaded I flew through all the links until I found the correct one. Looking through all the teams, all the ages, and all the names I saw my name under a section and man was I pumped, my name was under the A team! I have done it!

"I made the A team," I thought with the sweet joy of success. "Mom I made it!" I shouted with excitement.

"Nice job honey," she said proudly. "Now how about we celebrate with some cookies."

“Wow,” I thought to myself. “Just think what would happened if I haven’t put forth all that effort. I wouldn’t even be close to where I am now.” 

Doomsday

Doomsday 

"Authors's Note:

This piece is about the conflict and resolution in the story The Red Pyramid. I wrote this to demonstrate my understanding of conflict and resolution."

In the book The Red Pyramid there are many minor conflicts like Sadie and Carter's dad blowing up the Rosetta Stone from  Sadie and Carter trying to fight off the urge to join forces with the gods. However the main conflict in this book is a person vs. person conflict because Sadie and Carter need to do defeat Set, the god of chaos and destruction before he destroys the world.

Sadie and Carter meet their dad's brother who takes them to the Brooklyn House to learn and master the power of magic. As they progress with their skills the deadline to stop Set becomes closer and closer and when the time comes they set off to track Set down before it is too late. After trudging their way to the Red Pyramid they have to make one final stand to defeat him. Soon Sadie and Carter face off with Set and with using their gods' powers they defeat Set and stop him from destroying the world.