My weekend

This weekend I was suppose to have a game but it got cancelled because of all the rain we have had. It sucks we didn't get to have a game because we have had probably at least 10 games cancelled already and were not even half way threw our season. On friday are game got cancelled so I went out ot eat and then after that we went to the store and we bought an iPad which I am doing my homework on right now. These things are really cool, they are like a laptop but only a little smaller like a notebook. They are also really expensive but they are definitely worth it. Then on Saturday we were suppose to have a double header but once again it got cancelled but instead of staying in all day me and my brother and my friend went to the airport golf course and golfed 18 holes. After the first nine we went home and had to come back later because we got caught out in the rain and got drenched. When we came back we were the only ones on the course and it was fun. Then toddy for Easter we went to my grandparents house like every Sunday and my whole family ate dinner and it was really fun. After dinner we went and golfed again and this time we golfed another 18 but we didn't get rained on so it was all good. Now i am sitting at home watching the reds and cardinals play and i am hoping the cardinals win. Well thats what happened over my long weekend

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My week

    This week in class we started reading Julius Caesar and the book I think is not interesting because we already watched the movie and now were reading the book. However there are some things in the book like the bad omen's that weren't mentioned in the movie. Also the way that the girl finds out that they are going to kill Caesar is different. On Friday we got to come to school late which let me sleep in alot later than I usually do and it felt really good. Then on next Friday we don't have school because of good Friday which I can't wait for because we only have a four day week. Over my weekend we were supposed to have a double header against Marysville which ended up getting rained out which sucks because are team was looking for a win because on Friday we lost our first game of the season which we shouldn't have lost but we did. Tomorrow we have a game against Pick North which we need to win this game because it's are biggest game of the year. That's all for this week.

My weekend

 So this week when we got back from spring break we started watching the Julius Caesar movie and it is pretty dumb. The acting is so bad and the movie just isn't good to me. Then after we watched it we are going to start to read it which I dont want to do because I don't like trying to read an older language. Over my spring break we started our baseball game's but they were only scrimmage's and not real games just yet. So far we are undefeated in the regular season and are team is pretty good. I think we have a chance at being the best team in the league. I have played baseball my whole life and I deffinetly don't think I will be stopping any time soon. Also over my spring break I watched some basketball game like the Miami heat. They are my favorite team because LeBron James went to them and they are now really good. I think they have what it takes to win it all and I deffinetly think they are going to be in the championship game. Well that's what happened over my spring break.

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Friendship-My Genre Project

Dear Reader,

    The theme for the book Al Capone Does My Shirts is friendship. The reason that I chose this for my theme is because in the beginning of the story the main character Moose has to move to an island called Alcatraz because his dad has just got a job there as an electrician and now he is forced to make new friends. This is where friendship comes into play because he meets a lot of new kids on this island. He meets Piper who is the warden’s daughter. Then he meets a girl named Theresa and her brother Jimmy. Jimmy loves trying to build new machines and Theresa likes to play with Moose’s sister Natalie who is mentally challenged. Then there is another girl named Annie. Then when he goes to his new school he goes to school with Piper and when he first goes he shows up to class late and the teacher is kind of rude to him. After this he meets a kid named Scout who is a pretty cool kid. The reason why Moose likes him so much is because he plays baseball and that’s the sport that Moose loves to play. Back on Alcatraz no body plays baseball so he can no longer play like he used to be able to back in San Francisco with his friend Pete. As the story goes on Scout invites Moose to come and play baseball with him and some other kids after school every Monday. This makes Moose happy because he is tired of living on the island and not having friends who play baseball. This makes Scout pretty much his best friend because he is the only kid now that Moose knows that actually likes to play. As they play he also gets to meet more kids that he starts playing baseball with on Monday. He also meets a convict which at first he doesn’t like because he thinks that he is trying to rape his sister, but after he realizes that he isn’t trying to do that convict 105 helps Moose get his letter to Al Capone that helps his sister get into a mentally challenged school that his mother has been trying to get her into for the longest time but never could. This in the end kind of makes Al Capone a new friend of Moose as well. This is why I picked friendship as the theme of the book I read.

"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it be lost."
- Charles Caleb Colton

Dear Journal,

    Today was a good day. I just got to the island of Alcatraz and I didn’t think that I would like it here but I am actually really starting to like it. I met some other kids that live here and they all seem really cool. The only bad thing is that none of them really like or can play baseball and that’s my favorite sport. Im hoping that at my new school there will be some kids that like to play because if not its really going to suck. But the kids that live here are cool. One of them is the wardens daughter so you know she’s gotta be miss no it all. She’s already talking about how she has talked to Al Capone which she thinks that I actually believe her parents would let her talk to a convict. She also says she has caught a baseball that he hit over the fence to them one day but none of the other kids have mentioned it. The only bad thing is she is kinda cute and it makes me mad because she thinks she knows it all but yet she is cute. I will be writing more tomorrow to tell how my first day of school went.

"My friends are my estate."
- Emily Dickinson

Dear Moose,

    I heard you have been looking for one of those convicts baseball’s that get hit over the wall when we play. I think we might be able to work something out with you helping me get out of here. If you somehow help me get out of this place and escape I will get you the baseball for your friend and I will also get one for you so you both have one. All you have to do is come down to the same part of the fence that you and Natalie have been coming down to the past couple days and there will be all the baseballs you want. I have been watching you looking so hard for one and I felt kind of bad for you. You thought that nobody could see you down there but the truth is I saw you two down there everyday. So if you want those baseballs then write back to this letter saying you are in and we will make a plan.

Sincerely,

Anonymous

"To be depressed is to be lonely; to have a friend is to be happy..."
- Guido

  

Dear Moose,

    Thanks for getting that convict baseball for me. It really means a lot because ever since you and Piper started telling us those stories about how the convicts hit them over the wall I have been wanting one really badly. Now that I have one we can use it when we play at lunch or after school. It’s going to be sweet playing baseball with a ball that Al Capone and some other convicts have used. It must have taken you forever to find one because I know those things don’t just come over the fence every day. And about how I said you can’t play on my team anymore, I was only upset that day because you said that we could play on Tuesday’s but then you said you could only play at lunch and I kind of lost my temper. So for that I am sorry and I want you to know I didn’t mean it.

Sincerely,

Scout

"Friends are the most important ingredient in this recipe of life."
- (sent by Dior Yamasaki)

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out"
-Walter Winchell

REFLECTION
 For the first genre I chose to do a journal entry because I did one talking about how he just spent his first day on the island and he actually like’s the kid’s that are there. My theme was friendship so that’s why I chose to make a journal about how he just met new friends. The genre that I did was a ransom note from the infamous Al Capone because in the story Al and Moose never really become friends because Al Capone is in prison but Moose writes him a letter asking him if he could get his sister into a special education school that would help his sister. At the end of the story Al writes back a letter but all it says is “done”. This shows that if Al didn’t like Moose then he wouldn’t of got his sister into the school but he did like him so he did the kid a favor. Another genre I did was a wanted poster of Al Capone because he was a big gangster and was in the mob and probably the dangerous man in all of Chicago. The poster said that if anyone a\had any information to contact the number to get him off the streets. This guy had lots of money but it was from drug dealing and killing other people that didn’t pay him for the drugs on time. That last thing that I did for one of my genre’s was a thank you note from one of Moose’s friends he met at his new school. In the story Moose was trying to find a baseball that the convicts had hit over the wall and he did this for days and days just so that he could make his new friend happy. So I did a thank you letter from Scout saying thanks for getting him the ball and that he had to have gone through a whole lot of trouble to get it. While I was doing this project I never came across any difficulties because the project was all self explanatory and we had a paper that told us everything we need to do. I think that these types of projects are boring to me personally because I don’t like to read in the first place so in order to be able to do the project you have to read the book first.

WORKS CITED

 

"The Friendship Page: Friendship Quotes: General." The Friendship Page ..for Every Friendship! 21 June 2009. Web. 23 Mar. 2011. <http://www.friendship.com.au/quotes/quofri.html>.