Gossip got your tongue?

If everything I said was triple filtered, everything would probably be totally different. The triple filter test would take away any unnecessary details from what I was about to say. I think people gossip for a number of different reasons. Some do it because if someone else is being put down it makes them feel better about themselves. Some do it because it has become a habit they have done it so much. And some just do it because they think they should share the knowledge they have with you even if it isn't true.

Literary Elements: TAKS PT 3

1. Satire-a literary work in which vices, follies, etc. are held up to ridicule and contempt

2. Irony-expression in which the intended meaning of the words is the direct opposite of their usual sense

3. Analogy-similarity in some ways

4. Foreshadowing-indicate or suggest beforehand; prefigure

Figurative Language

Figurative-representing by means of a figure or symbol

Figure of speech-an expression, as a metaphor or simile, using words in a nonliteral sense or unusual way

Imagery-1. mental images 2. figurative language

Trope-figurative language or a word used in a figurative sense

They all compare something by using a figure, symbol, or mental picture.

Story Spinners: Option 1

As the old man approached my friends and me began to wonder what he was doing. The old man was talking gibberish and we couldn't tell what he was saying. Finally he went back to his house and later emerged holding a pen, paper, and a flashlight to see since it was beginning to get dark outside. Our friend Jordan's mother called him back to his house so he picked up his shoes and ran barefoot to his home. The old man began to come closer and closer to us.

We looked at the old man to see what he was doing when we realized he was trying to tell us something. But what? When he got close enough to us so that we could see him good he began to write something. He handed us the paper and the flashlight so that we could see what he had written. It was a note saying that he needed help mowing his lawn. Since it was dark outside we kindly told him that we couldn't at the moment but we would be glad to help him tomorrow.

The next day we went to the old man's house to help him out. But he never did answer the door. Worried something might be wrong we went into his house and looked for him. The old man was nowhere to be found. Since we couldn't find him we just went back home. When I got home I went to get my bicycle from the garage. I rode my bicycle down to my friend Jordan's house where I found him and the old man talking gibberish. I ask the man if he still needed help with his lawn. He said that he had done it last night. I said okay and was on my back home to eat some food.

Heaven

I believe that heaven is a place where people who accepted Jesus on Earth go when they die. It is hard to think of what a perfect place would be like. It would include people that you loved on Earth and God would be there. Other than that I don't really know what else there would be. In a perfect heaven it would include things that you liked to do on Earth. Things that you liked might appear. And probably a lot of heaven would have to do with God since he created it.

lovely bones

When Susie's father says that the penguin is in a perfect world he means exactly what he says. He says this because the penguin is in the snow and that is where the penguin belongs. I think that since Susie can't do anything about what is happening on earth that she feels trapped. Susie doesn't see her heaven as a perfect world since she isn't with her family.

10 nouns: dog, cat, people, Jordan, football, bat, baseball, grandma, Dairy Queen, dugout

5 adjectives: hairy, smelly, big, nasty, ugly

3 adverbs: carefully, quickly, diligently

2 conjunctions: and, but

3 verbs: play, watched, ran

2 prepositions: beside, inside

1 interjection: Wow!

2 pronouns: He, she

Jordan approached the plate as he was watched and laughed at. He was beside the plate trying to play baseball with a football. He quickly and carefully ran inside the dugout. There he found hairy and smelly dog and an ugly cat fighting. Wow! He exclaimed. Picking up the bat he diligently began trying to impress his grandma by winning the game. It looked as though Jordan's team would lose, but out of nowhere his grandma yelled, "go get em' Jordan." She was quickly looked at and she distracted everyone. Jordan hit a home run and the team won. They all went to Dairy Queen where Jordan ordered a big and nasty cheeseburger and they all lived happily ever after.