Tuesday, November 13, 2007

November Stories

This week's writing guidelines required that students write a story with this week's vocabulary words while actually imagining that they were a character in the story.

Adventure in the Everglades
By Luis

There was a man called Juan Manuel Marquez. People call him the “Adventurer” because he likes adventures. The only adventure place he loves is Lake Everglades. There is no day that he forgets about the Everglades.

He always wrote a multitude of poems, books, and he also makes “Figurative Language” about it. He especially uses “Hyperbole” because he also likes to exaggerate. He never loses time there in the Everglades.

Since he was little he was always in his little canoe. Now that he is an adult and he has a wife, he spends more time with his wife that in the Everglades. When he was little, he made a promise to himself that he will be in the Everglades for eons. Now he told his wife, “Let’s move to Baja, California because I want to know another peninsula. I got tired of this one.”

They moved to Baja, California and then they had kids. The kids heard about the Everglades and one of the kids said, “Dad, could we go to the Everglades please?” Juan pondered and said, “Let’s go then.” When they got there the kids scurried to the lake. Juan still had the canoe and they barely fit. They took a little tour and on the way they saw a plentitude of white egrets. The kids were amazed. Their eyes almost popped out and their couth was as big as a hippo’s mouth. They saw all kinds of animals. Now those kids will pass to their kids and those kids will pass on the experience.









The Island
By Jose Carlos

In the 1860’s a girl named Karina and her brother named Carlos lived on an Island named Island LYR. They lived in a lair. Carlos ate a lot of abalone and gorged carbs and Karina felt forlorn because they did not have any family. Karina was overcome by the sharks.

One day a lot of people came to the island and asked if we wanted to go to another place. We said yes. So we went aboard. I took my equipment. Carlos did too. I knew he forgot something. I thought he was just going to leave it there so I did not worry about it.

When we left the Island, the boat started pitching and it pitched and it pitched. Carlos said, “How come you have more stuff?” Carlos didn’t understand. He jumped to the land and got his spear and some clothes. The boat started going fast and he tried swimming but there were sharks.

He returned to the Island and we never saw him again.









Trapped by the Ice
By Hillary

It all started in 1874. I was going to see the penguins with my family and my friends. We realized there was a hole under the ship and we were sinking. We had to jump out because the ship was hurting the penguins. It was perilous. If we jump with lots of stuff, we will maybe not make it to the ice and fall in the water and freeze to death.

The penguins were getting hurt so we bailed out and made it. One of the penguins got hurt so we took care of it. It was a good thing that we tool everything out. It was impossible to walk the ice because it might. We had to start walking because we were standing next to rancid things and it was freezing cold.

I was starting to get dehydration from not drinking anything or eating. I was starting to catch a fever and the ice was melting. We had to get to a safe place because we could drown. We saw a ship but it was so grueling to get on so we started lunging each other into the ship. We were safe and the penguin was happy with his family. It was the most grueling adventure I had ever had!