Camren

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Baseball
hrough the year With my friends In the dugout Next to the feild On the bench In the mood //We will win the game!//

Baseball is my life
As long as I am playing baseball, I will always be complete, and my life will be whole. Through the years, I have struggled. Tested my ability. But yet to fail. I have always loved baseball, Because, Baseball is my life.

Rational
1 line that begins with a subordinating conjunction= As long as I am playing baseball.... as long as is the subordinating conjunction. 1 line that begins with a preposition= Through the years where through is the preposition. 1 line that ends with a coordinating conjunction= I will alwas be complete, and...where and is my coordinating conjunction. My 2 lines that count as dependent clauses are An Adverb Clause which is But yet to fail. And A Noun Clause which is tested my ability. My 2 lines that count as independent clauses are I have struggled and I have always loved baseball.My 1 compound-complex sentence clearly identifiable over at least 3 lines is As long as I am playing baseball, I will always be complete, and my life will be whole. My final line that is an independent clause is baseball is my life. Finally, my meaningful title is Baseball Is My Life

Hint Fiction
Charlie walked into the cave, and discovered a feeling that has never been discovred in all the land, he discovered courage after the MONSTER retreated.

Original post
Crank By: Ellen Hopkins I chose this book because it was reccomended to my by my fried and it looked very appealing to me. It made it apealling to me because it is very different od in a way. The time was in the year 20090 and took place at couple places one in Reno Nevada where her Dad lived and at her moms house. Bree is the main character her real name is Kristine. When she ent to go visit her Dad he got her hooked on a drug. Another is her Dad and he is an addicted mess. Her mom is the clean one who wants to help Kristine with everything. Kristine was an odinary teenage gil she had a job and a boyfriend. Until she wanted to go see her Dad because she wanted to meet him for the first time. When she went down to meet him, he tricked her into something that she would regret later. Once she tried it she was hooked and never stopped. After a while she was caught up into the drug community and had associates which led to alot of things. And after her encunter with her Dad her life went South........

Revised Post
__Crank__ By: Ellen Hopkins I chose this book because it was reccomended to my by my friend Abby and it looked very appealing to me. It made it apealling to me because it is very different odd in a way. The time was in the year 2009 and took place at couple places one in Reno Nevada where her Dad lived and at her moms house. Bree is the main character her real name is Kristine. When she went to go visit her Dad he got her hooked on a drug known as Crank. Another main character is her Dad and he is an addicted mess he has no contact with anybody. Her mom is the clean one who wants to help Kristine with everything. Kristine was an ordinary teenage girl she had a job and a boyfriend. Until she wanted to go see her Dad because she wanted to meet him for the first time. When she went down to meet him, he tricked her into something that she would regret later. Her Dad tricked her and once she tried crank she was hooked and never stopped. After a while she was caught up into the drug community and had associates which led to alot of bad ﻿ things. And after her encounter with her Dad her life went South. "Hello my name is Kristine. I know my name sounds sweet and frankly I am very sweet. I have never met my dad and I live in a house with my mom and sibilings. Very soon my name will turn into something that I have regreted my whole life." The theme in this book is life lessons. What I got out of this book was that drugs can take your life over and it's not worth it at all. I would reccomend this book to teenagers because there is adult language and adult content that I would hate for it to take the meaning away from it. But if you can be mature about it you could possibly read it and love it. I hope you enjoy it! Red = Added stuff. Blue= Fixed spelling Green= Deleted stuff

Tone Analysis
//"Watching the price of oil go up these days is a little like watching a river rise. At what point do we need to get the sandbags? When should we sound the warning horns? What is flood stage?"// This section was taken from the article [|Spiking Oil Prices: Time To Worry Yet?]by Linton Weeks. This section was written to show that Linton Weeks is shocked at the oil prices increasing. I think what the author is trying to say is that when is the oil prices going to stop increasing. This is affecting everyone because the high prices are spreding nation wide. I like how the author uses a similie to compare watching the oil prices go up to a rising river, and I think that his example was a good way to describe the outrageous prices of oil. I also love how the Author wonders in a sarcasim like way when will we need to sound the warning horns.

Suicide
Suicide is a con-artist, The words that the artist says, That tricks you, into something you regret later.

The idea that sounds great, Is bait Until you come into realization, And that deal that you thought was great, Is not a great trait. Suicide is a con-artist.

Home at Last
Home at last The hard work paid off As a team we came together Strength First base, Third base. Catcher, Outfield. Exciting Getting better To make sure I’m ready when I Get there.

Digital Vocabulary

 * //Perplexity//**
 * //noun, plural;  //** the state of being [|perplexed] ; confusion; uncertainty. ]

When I started thinking about what perplexity meant, I thought about a person standing all alone in confusion. So, I thought to myself, what makes an average human confused? How do they look? The confusion of a person scratching his/her head came to mind. I tried to make the expression of a person scratching his/her head while in the background have something sort of confusing. Additionally, having a kid scratching his head while having a weird picture in the back with the word descriping him to be perplexed and ...well, that's just plain perplexity.

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Original Images: [|What is going on?] [|Wall paper]

__﻿She Is Gone__
“Mom my grades are fine.” I said

“No they are not; you have a C-“she said.

“Mom I turned in that paper that brought my grade down to a C-!” I argued.

My name is Phillip Scott. I have blond hair and blue eyes. I am 13 and I argue a lot. Yes I get good grades A’s in average. Sometimes when I miss school my grades fall behind but not too far behind because I always get them back to my awesome A’s! I guess that you could say that arguing is like a hobby for me but in reality it’s not. I want to fix my arguing problem but it is very hard for me. I don’t even have to think about it. Arguing just comes naturally.

My mom’s name is Abigail, Abby for short. To me I just call her Mom or Mother or even sometimes Mommy. My mom cares a lot about me and always tells me “you are going to go far in life” and other “inspirational” words that she believes will keep me going forever and always. I believe the words that my mom says. I love my mom, but when she starts becoming like the teacher mom and constantly freaks out about my grades I go into a mode where I just argue with her about my grades all the time. When my mom and I start to argue the fights get explosive and sooner or later my dad has to step in to control all of the screaming.

My sister’s name is Lacey. She is 11 and is a trouble maker. She has blonde hair and blue eyes just like me. I love her to death but sometimes I have the feeling that I want to kill her. Not literally kill her but you know what I mean. My sister means the world to me. I would do anything to save her life. My sister always claims that she doesn’t start the fight but really she does. When we fight it is almost as awful as me and my mom when we have our fights. As a family we love to go to the pool.

We love to have family time but on this day it was just mom Lacey and I. Normally we just go down to the local pool with the really awesome slide, but this time mom changed the plans and surprised us by taking us to the water mountain water park with the even bigger pool and more than just one awesome slide. Since mom was surprising us with this really awesome trip this meant that I would have to miss school to have a really awesome trip to the water park.

Today was the day. We were going to go to the water park and have an awesome time. We loaded up the suburban and headed East. The drive was about one hour and thirty minutes. The next day we went to the pool to have fun! While at the pool my Mom was going all teacher on me and tried to make me do all if my work while I was relaxing by the pool.

"You know if you don't do your homework we aren't going to be able to take these family trips."

"Mom we are going to take more trips because I will have my homework done just I don't want to do it right now while we are at the pool."

"I didn't say that you have to get it done right now."

"Mom yes you did and I'm not doing it right now because I am relaxing by the pool!" I said as I put my sunglasses over my eyes and let the sun rays enlighten my skin with beaming light!

Meanwhile Lacey decided that it was time to go swimming without letting mom or myself know. I had no idea and if I would have known the incident that happened would not have happened. . . .  “Mom where is Lacey?”

“She should be right next to you”

“Haven’t you been paying attention to her?”

“Mom no that’s not up to me this is my vacation too!”

My mom sat up in a panic and started looking around, very frantically. Lacey was nowhere in sight and inside I started to get the feeling that my sister was GONE! I had no idea what happened. Where is she? I got up out of the chair that I was laying on and started thinking. If she is not in the pool where else could she be? Mom ran to the bathroom while the lifeguards blew their very annoying and high pitched whistles at her just because she was running. I started pacing back and forth up and down the side of the pool. When I was about half way down the pool side I just heard a blood curdling cry of help. I looked up and this woman was trying to get a person up out of the water. I looked and it looked like a little girl. This freaked me out so I jumped in to take a look. Right there on the spot I immediately thought that I was dreaming. It was Lacey she is stuck down at the bottom of the pool. Her face looked so scared and like she had no idea what to do. I yelled for my mom and she dove in the life guards were there to help. I went under water and started talking to her in what sounded like my voice was carried off into the bubbles that lie underneath the pool surface.

"Lacey can you hear me?" There was no response.

"Lacey!" and again there was no response. My heart started to crumble like a stale piece of toast.

"Mom her hair is stuck what should we do?"

"Get scissors my baby is not going to die!!!" she said. The scissors arrived in seconds and at that moment Lacey's body went limp. Everything looked like a bad TV show. This moment was so not happening right now. The life guards got her out of the water and started CPR to try to revive her. I sat there on the pool side balling my eyes out. Praying to God, that my sister would live another day. The ambulance showed up and the words that I thought I would never hear this early in her life, the ambulance men said "she's gone." Those were the words that made me want to pass out.

My sister… is gone.