Choices

If i can’t do
what i want to do
then my job is to not
do what i don’t want
to do
It’s not the same thing
but it’s the best i can
do
If i can’t have
what i want . . . then
my job is to want
what i’ve got
and be satisfied
that at least there
is something more to want
Since i can’t go
where i need
to go . . . then i must . . . go
where the signs point
through always understanding
parallel movement
isn’t lateral
When i can’t express
what i really feel
i practice feeling
what i can express
and none of it is equal
I know
but that’s why mankind
alone among the animals
learns to cry

Written by Nikki Giovanni

What I think about the poem “Choices” is that in life you will try to make good or bad decisions. Those decisions can help you or hurt you, and you make the chioce if you want to travel the road of success.

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“Success is counted sweetest”

Success is counted sweetest
By those who ne’er succeed.
To comprehend a nectar
Requires sorest need.

Not one of all the purple Host
Who took the Flag today
Can tell the definition
So clear of Victory

As he defeated-dying
On whose forbidden ear
The distant strains of triumph
Burst agonized and clear!

Emily Dickinson

What I think about this poem “success is counted sweetest” is that success is important in this world. To do well means to succeed. Before you can succeed you have to through obstacles and when you go through obstacles you succeed. I always want to succeed in everything that I do, don’t you?

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The Journey

One day you finally knew
what you had to do, and began,
though the voices around you
kept shouting
their bad advice–
though the whole house
began to tremble
and you felt the old tug
at your ankles.
“Mend my life!”each voice cried.
But you didn’t stop.
You knew what you had to do,
though the wind pried
with its stiff fingers
at the very foundations,
though their melancholy
was terrible.
It was already late
enough, and a wild night,
and the road full of fallen
branches and stones.
But little by little,
as you left their voices behind,
the stars began to burn
through the sheets of clouds,
and there was a new voice
which you slowly
recognized as your own,
that kept you company
as you strode deeper and deeper
into the world,
determined to do
the only thing you could do–
determined to save
the only life you could save.
Mary Oliver

What I think abot this poem “The Journey” is that we all go through obsatcles in your life but at sometime in your life someone will help and guide you through the rest of your life you just have to believe for yourself. Not only want to get through you have to stay positve and never give up.

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Sleeping in the Forest

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Start of Spring!

This weekend will be beautiful and wonderful. It will be beautiful and wonderful because on Saturday it will be the first day of Spring. This weekend and this Spring season will start off great because I will be so warm outside. My family and I might ride down to the boardwalk and get some fries, ice-cream and pizza. Then on Sunday my friends Alie, Christina, and Tania will go around the town of Lewes and see if different stores or buisnesses would like to donate to the Chinese Auction our schools Honor Society will hold. We will have fun spending time together. This is a way for us to earn hours for our community service. Then Monday we will once again return back to school:(

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The DSTP

The DSTP was kind of easy for the math part. Next we have to take the reading part of the DSTP. The Math part is my favorite. Math is my favorite subject. I do  good in it and hope I get a high score in this subject. The math part was so small. It didn’t have a lot of parts to it. But I think the DSTP is pointless. It’s not fair how we have to show off what we learned when you learn stuff in class. We just have to get good grades not prove everything to everybody. I’m ready for the reading part of the DSTP but I’m  not. I am because I believe I can do really good but I’m not because I know it will have a lot of big words I will  not understand and also I will have to write and be really detailed and specific and I’m not good at that but I will try. I am Ready to get

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Terrible Snowstorm of 2010!

You know its good things towards snow and bad things towards snow. Especially when it’s a snowstorm. Snowstorms are ways of losing your electricity, spending time with your family and getting warm, and also getting to play in and shovel all the snow that the snowstorm brings. But another bad part about the snow is that you have to stay away from your friends at school and stay off the roads.

This past week a huge snowstorm came to Delaware. I had lost my electricity for a couple of days. My family and I did have heat. We did have two ceresin heaters to keep us and the house warm. We also had heat from the generator. The generator really helped us because we wouldn’t have the nice breakfasts, which my mom prepared for us every morning. Going without the electricity was not fun because I couldn’t watch my favorite T.V. shows. Thank goodness my electricity did come back on for the Superbowl.

I spent some time with my family. We got to get closer. My family and I we all watched movies together. We even shoveled the snow together. We also helped our neighbors shovel there snow as a family. My family is important to me and I love it when we get together. Spending time with your family is good because you get laughter out of it. You should try it.

I also loved about the 2010 snowstorm was being able to go outside and play in the snow. We don’t get a lot of snow in Delaware so it was different. I liked shoveling and taking the snow off the cars. Some trucks I saw had a ton of snow in the truck bed and it looked like a snow pool. I just wanted to jump in them and just play. I like to make all kinds of things when I play in the snow. Playing in the snow is also a great way of exercise and most people don’t get enough exercise.

Whew what a time with the snowstorm. Not having electricity. But I was able to spend time with my family. I was also able to spend time outside in the snow. Even though not all good things happened during the snowstorm some things were gained throughout the experience. I will always be prepared.

Some things towards the snow aren’t so good. Especially when it’s a snowstorm. Snowstorms are ways of losing your electricity, spending time with your family and getting warm, and also getting to play in and shovel all the snow that the snowstorm brings. But another bad part about the snow is that you have to stay away from your friends at school and stay off the roads.

This past week a huge snowstorm came to Delaware. I had lost my electricity for a couple of days. My family and I did have heat. We did have two ceresin heaters to keep us and the house warm. We also had heat from the generator. The generator really helped us because we wouldn’t have the nice breakfasts, which my mom prepared for us every morning. Going without the electricity was not fun because I couldn’t watch my favorite T.V. shows. Thank goodness my electricity did come back on for the Superbowl.

I spent some time with my family. We got to get closer. My family and I we all watched movies together. We even shoveled the snow together. We also helped our neighbors shovel there snow as a family. My family is important to me and I love it when we get together. Spending time with your family is good because you get laughter out of it. You should try it.

I also loved about the 2010 snowstorm was being able to go outside and play in the snow. We don’t get a lot of snow in Delaware so it was different. I liked shoveling and taking the snow off the cars. Some trucks I saw had a ton of snow in the truck bed and it looked like a snow pool. I just wanted to jump in them and just play. I like to make all kinds of things when I play in the snow. Playing in the snow is also a great way of exercise and most people don’t get enough exercise.

Whew what a time with the snowstorm. Not having electricity. But I was able to spend time with my family. I was also able to spend time outside in the snow. Even though not all good things happened during the snowstorm some things were gained throughout the experience. I will always be prepared.

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About Ginger Kids

What I think on ginger kids is that being a ginger will not change a person because that’s the way you where born and can’t help it.Its not fair that you get treated badly just because your hair is not the same as other kids. This happens everywhere and needs to be stopped because kids are not all the same when it comes to appearances but when it comes to the inside they could be just like me and you.

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What Matters Most

What I think matters most to me is my family, my mom, my dad, and my big brother. Not only them but my best friend. I care that they care about me. They would do anything for me. They respect my wishes and don’t want anything or anyone to come and harm me. I thank them for loving me even when they sometimes get into arguments and don’t tell me every second of the day I’m with them that they love me. My friend is also what matters most to me because she thinks about me and thinks about me when she does things. Also when she does wrong I would be there to help guide her back. This is what matters to me most.

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My Theme

I love to dance so that’s the theme that I choose. When you dance it has to come natural. Dancing is something that you want to do not because you have to but even though you might start to like it. The dance techniques I do are tap, pointe, and jazz. Tap you dance on a metal plate at the bottom. The pointe shoe is made to dance on the toe(box). The jazz shoe is made to do your flexy dancing.

What Matters Most »