FREE WRITING
This is the Room 50 Free Writing page. Each day the students are given a prompt to write their thoughts about. They have a website where they can write their thoughts. The Website comes with a timer which allows them to write non-stop for 10 minutes, not stopping to make corrections, just write whatever comes into their minds non-stop. At the end of the 10 minute writing period they copy their writing, paste it into a word document and then do their editing. What you see below is the final product. I'm really proud of their first effort and look forward to seeing them improve as they do more and more. If you would like to leave a comment for a particular Student/Article use the Comment Form below and I will make sure they recieve your feedback.
What is the meaning of this quote to you - Feb. 27
“A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future.” ~Author Unknown
Number 1
If you lie you are stacking lies on top of lies. If you make up a lie you need a lie to back up that lie. If you tell the truth then you will only have one answer. Not the stacked up lies that you have to make up all the time to save yourself from your other lies. Then you are caught up and could be lying for the rest of your life. If you do that than you will never be trusted if you get caught in the lie. You will make up a stupid lie eventually and say something that doesn’t match. If you are going to lie at least make it believable. Don’t make up different things. Stick to the same story. Don’t change it. But you can save yourself from all of this, you can just tell the truth and then you will not ever have to worry about getting caught up in something like that and you don’t have to worrying about remembering what to say. Just tell the truth. |
Number 2
To me it means that you can lie every day and get away with it but eventually those lies will come back to you and you will have to pay the consequences. |
Describe an uplifting experience. - February 22
Describe an uplifting experience.
up·lift·ing / adjective inspirational; offering or providing hope, encouragement, salvation, etc.: an uplifting sermon. This word uplifting and the definition reminds me of when I was in my cooking class. I was partnered up with Skyler and Brianna. We had to use certain ingredients and the ingredients were a red pepper, orange juice, chicken, Zucchini, and that was it. We made a really good salad. We used the pepper as a garnish and put a metal custard cup in the middle of the plate in the middle of the thinly cut pepper. We made an orange chicken breading and a citrus salad dressing. Then we fried the breaded chicken and cut it into little small strips and put that in the salad on top. We put the dressing on the salad and put the extra in the metal custard cup. Then what we did with the zucchini was we cut it into thin circle slices and cut little slits in the zucchini. We attached the zucchini circles into the slits that we which made zucchini jacks. We put those around the plate and that was our salad. We got first place out of the whole entire class and that is how I got more hope, and encouragement because I realized that I am a good thinker and know what foods to mix with what. The next day we got first place in out desert. So we took an overall first place. |
What is your perfect World - February 20
NUMBER 1
A perfect world is where nobody argues. People will always respect each other. Everybody would get along and tell the truth, and nobody would care what you did because it would be perfect. If you wanted to do whatever you wanted you could. People wouldn’t underestimate you and they would respect your opinions and do what you want when you want and how you want something done. But, there would never be a perfect world. Because if everyone was perfect than there wouldn’t be as many jobs. Then people would be jobless but happy, which isn’t perfect. There would be no economy, it would be ran by the people, and everything would be voted on by the people and everything would be corrupt because it is “perfect” so I would not want a perfect world, because if it was perfect it wouldn’t really be perfect. Everybody would think the same and there would be no personality, and that is not good, with no personality, there would be no point to life except to breathe, which if the world was perfect than it would be boring. |
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Me Having Money, With No drama |
VALENTINE'S DAY - FEBRUARY 8
NUMBER 1 Valentine’s day is over rated. People spend 17.9 billion dollars on it. That is ridiculous. I think people should not spend that much on all that stuff. If people are going to do that than they should just show their love to them and do something together. That’s how their love should be shown. Instead of blowing their money and buying their love. They should just respect each other enough instead of buying stuff for each other.
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FREE WRITING UPDATE
We took a short hiatus from this activity. Today we took a stab at it again. I normally give the students a prompt to write about and I did it again as well. The prompt they were given was:
There’s a little truth behind every [just kidding]
a little curiosity behind every [just wondering]
a little knowledge behind every [I don’t know]
and a little emotion behind every [I don’t care]
At the beginning of the activitiy I was asked if they had to write about the prompt. Since I haven't heard a 'I don't know what to write about' for a long time, I said okay. One did write about the prompt and the other two chose their own topic. I am particularly proud of the first one posted today and I want to share it with you.
There’s a little truth behind every [just kidding]
a little curiosity behind every [just wondering]
a little knowledge behind every [I don’t know]
and a little emotion behind every [I don’t care]
At the beginning of the activitiy I was asked if they had to write about the prompt. Since I haven't heard a 'I don't know what to write about' for a long time, I said okay. One did write about the prompt and the other two chose their own topic. I am particularly proud of the first one posted today and I want to share it with you.
FEB 7 NUMBER 1I wonder if they passed with a smile on their face
They should be down here 'cause I don’t know if they are in a better place I don’t know why everywhere I look I see their face I wonder why god took them so early life isn’t a race I wonder if they can see us cry from where they are at I wonder if I walk forward you’ll come back |
EDUCATION - JANUARY 16
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Everyone needs education. It’s annoying. I hate sitting there getting lectured. It wastes my time when I could just be doing work and actually learning something in the process. You need education to go to college and consume your career. Even though it’s hard at times you got to make it through the tough times and look forward to brighter days. Everyone when you were in elementary school and everything thought that high school was the hardest of all grades. It’s not really that hard, it can be if you make it hard. But most people try not to make it hard that’s why it’s not hard for them. Education is boring. It’s something everyone needs though. I wish I could go back some years and change my ways and actually go back and listen to my teachers. The smart ones in elementary school. They warned me that if I made bad choices that it would be harder. That's why high school is harder for me. Now, I have to make up on credits and it sucks. It scares me that I might not graduate on time. Which, I hope I do. It would be a shame for me to not walk across the stage with my class of 2014. It’s my goal to walk across the stage with my graduating class. I look forward to graduating and going to college. I’m not sure what I’m going to go to college for yet but I will figure that out in the next two years. I don't want to make one decision now because I may regret it in the next two years. I always have had my mind set to do certain things but my mind changes throughout the years. Especially in high school when you see all the opportunities you can peruse. It worries me that I may not graduate because I’m looking forward to going to college and getting the career I want to do when I grow up. Everyone worries about that. I just have to worry about my education right now, more than ever. Of course I worry about my education in the future, but my education now, is by far more important. |
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Education is a very valued thing in life. Without education you would have to work very hard and have a lot of stressful events and could have further medical problems because you have to start from the bottom up and it is a much harder way to do things. I value education because if I didn’t have something to do during the day I might be out getting in trouble. Also with education comes with responsibility. If you have no responsibility you may not learn the value of life until it hits you hard in the face. Then you could have already done all these wonderful things with your life and have a good job, good career, nice house, nice car. But now you choose the hard way without the education. Now you have to prove yourself even more than the others. You may get more respect with education, and you may not. In most cases education is good, but for those people that get the education and don’t take advantage of it don’t understand the value. They don’t value the fact that they have the education to go out and do these things that others may not, than they wasted the money on all their classes and don’t know what to do when they could have been at work making a lot of nice money, they chose to go off and do other things that others may not have the money for. That’s another things with education, if you don’t have the money to afford the education you need, it may be very hard to get the proper schooling for your career life and career path. |
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Education IS a good thing to have. It will help anybody succeed. I myself, plan to get a good education. School is a part of getting a good education. Lots of people think that a good education is rarely needed for what’s out there today. A good education is needed to gain knowledge on what you want to do in life and to achieve your goals. It is always best to have a good education for the experience. An education will also help out with Jobs. If you get a job that requires things you've learned through having a good education, you will be prepared for it. When you get older your knowledge from your education may be able to help your kids. To me, it feels good knowing that working hard towards a good education will help me in the future |
LUNCH - JANUARY 17
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Lunch is a good thing. The good things about lunch are that you can take a break from school. Then you are not always learning the whole time because nobody will do all that work and not get a break or have to eat during class. It’s good that our school offers hot lunch because I know that some schools still don’t offer hot lunch so the kids have to bring their food from home and I don’t like that idea. It’s a lot easier to come to school and not having to remember to bring lunch to school. Also with a break in the middle of school the kids won’t always be so wild and antsy in class. When the kids get that break they will probably pay attention better. If they sit in the class and just listen all day they will get more bored than they already do when they do get the breaks. Without that break they would cause more trouble and not want to do anything with school at all. It also gives them time to hang out with their friends and talk to them. I like lunch because our school lunch is pretty decent. So the food isn’t always bad like some other schools. |
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Lunch is to me is the best part of the day hands down!! When we I get to school I walk around and talk to friends so I get hungry. When the clock hits 11:37 and Mr. says we can go I rush out the door and make a b line towards the lunch line. When I get there I go to the front of the line and talk to the lunch lady who is working the computer. I like all the ladies down there and I’m pretty sure all of them look forward to me cracking jokes every day. When I sit down with all my friends and we talk about our first 2 blocks and we talk about what we did that weekend and what our plans are for the day and the rest of the week. We laugh at the dumb things people say and do. I love lunch time because all my friends are in one place and we all have fun. Not to mention the girls walking around looking good. |
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Lunch is very important. It helps you get the food satisfaction that you need. It helps you get your learning in. When you don't eat it messes with your brain. Your brain is what controls all the things you need to know. Lunch is always good to me, except food at this school is gross half the time. They also don't give us enough food. They must think were like 7 or something cause we only get this little amount of food served to us. It sucks. Half the time I don't even get full from lunch. I have to buy more stuff after just to get full. This school needs to get us more food. Or, at least give a better proportion. Ha-ha. I like to eat, it may not look like it, but I love food. Food is the best thing in the world. Everyone needs food to live, if not you will die from starvation. When you don't eat your brain doesn't function like it normally would when you do eat. You should always have three meals a day, Breakfast, lunch and supper. I always eat snacks between them too. I think that I should weigh more than I do because I eat sooo much. It’s also because I have a huge metabolism also. Food is the most important thing that you need in life, besides water and an education and a roof over your head. I love lunch. |
WINTER - JANUARY 18
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I hate winter, it’s too cold. If winter was like 50 degrees it would be fine, I just hate the coldness. The only good parts about winter is being able to go snowboarding, making snow angels, and snowmen and being able to have snow days. The worst part about winter is shoveling and the cold. I hate being sick. Always sniffling and blowing your nose. I think that if we had winter like for only 1 month than I would like it, but that not how it works. The bad thing about snow days though is that if you do have snow days than you have to make it up in the summer time. I hate being in school during warm days. It sucks. I like snow because you can do more stuff like snowmobiling, four wheeling, sledding, snowboarding, snow shoeing, and all that good stuff. I hate freezing. Being cold sucks. I love sleeping during the winter though because I get to cuddle up with my blankets and get all nice and warm. The best thing about cold weather is cuddling. Cuddling is always the best and warmest thing that you can do in winter. |
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Let it snow let it snow let it snow that’s usually what people think of when they thing of winter "snow", but this year we really didn’t have any. I don’t like winter at all I’d rather it was hot and sunny all year around it just puts people in better moods. When I think of winter I think of people walking up and down the streets singing with their rose red cheeks and their candles shining bright in the moon light I think of opening presents and talking about the star, grandparents cooking the best food and family coming from a far. |
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FRIENDSHIP - JANUARY 19
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Friendship to me means a lot more than a person to talk to. A friend is someone who is always there for you when you need them and is always willing to help you with your problems. A good friend is someone you can always be yourself around, someone you can talk about anything and everything at anytime. A true friend is someone who will never lie to you no matter how much the truth hurts. The word friend ship is more than just a word it’s a special connection you share with another. |
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Friendship. I have many friends. Some friends you think are your friends but really, they use you. Friends are fun to do activities with, games, sports etc. Friends are supposed to be by your side when things are tough. Friendship is a symbol of trust and honor I think. I learned recently a lot of people who I thought were my friends, really weren't. Your real friends enjoy doing things with you. Friends are people who share similar interests. A true friend will call you anytime, not just to ask if you have something or not and if you don't, they will not want to hang out. |
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Friendship is important to me; everyone needs a friend or two in their life. Friends are someone who is there for you NO MATTER what. Friends stick together through thick and thin. They tell each other everything and they know they can trust him/her to not tell anyone. I have 3 best friends that I can trust with anything. I tell them my deepest darkest secrets and they don’t tell anyone. They have been there for me since elementary school, Alyssa since 2nd grade, Cassy since 6th grade, and Brianna since 6th grade. Brianna and I just started hanging out again this last past summer. But she is my number one best friend and I can trust her with anything. It’s nice knowing that you have a couple friends you can trust. To me, friends are the only people I can trust, unlike some of my family members. I like knowing that my friends are there for me, but it’s also nice knowing that they know I will be there for them. I love when people tell me they can trust me, its nice knowing. People should trust me, because I’m not like most of the people in the world that can't keep a secret. |
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SHOULD MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY BE AN OBSERVED HOLIDAY? - JANUARY 20
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Martin Luther King Day should be celebrated and everybody should have off due to the fact that there is only one difference between a black man and a white man. The only difference is skin color. The skin color of another man over another should not mean anything. A black man can be just as intelligent as a white man. No man or woman should be segregated from doing something just because the skin color. Martin Luther did something very special. Not only for the blacks but also for the whites. For the blacks it showed that they do have a say. For the whites, it shows that even somebody that doesn’t have anything, or won’t have any freedom, like it was back then, can still change the world. It shows one person can do something. You don’t need more. It took one person to free the blacks, something that nobody wanted, nobody wanted a black man to be successful, and nobody wanted to listen to a black man, even if the black man was smarter, more intelligent. Even after the law was passed, blacks still got treated wrong after that. The day should be celebrated in remembrance of all the blacks have gone through, and all the things that blacks have done to become something in the world. You shouldn’t be neglected because you are a different skin color. Nobody should be called a dumb nig**r just because of a man’s skin color. That is terrible and should never be put on somebody. |
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Martin Luther King Day should be a holiday for so many reasons we could write a book on it, but I’ll tell You a couple of reasons why. First martin Luther king Jr is a very big reason we came as far as we are today he was a man who stood up for what he believed in and knew what was right from wrong. Martin Luther king represents a whole generation of young black men, He tried to teach every one that what people where doing back then was wrong and we didn’t have to solve our problems with violence, We could always use our words come up with a reasonable conclusion and never our fists. Ta spite all things he went through like his house being bombed and constant beatings he stayed strong and never once raised his hand. I have a dream, those where martin Luther king’s famous words he dreamed that one day all this madness would stop and white people and black people will finally be able to go to the same schools, have the same rights as and being able to interact with each other. So on January 20 we celebrate a man who made a difference in the world today and still does who knows where we would be without MARTIN LUTHER KING |
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POOR CHOICES - 25 JANUARY
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I have made so many poor choices it is ridiculous. I’ve been in fights, stole things, broke things that don't belong to me, said the wrong thing to the wrong person. Through all the things I have done and dealt with I learned that you have to take the punishment and accept that you did was wrong. Learn from your mistakes and move forward. Everyone makes mistakes and people will understand that as long as you show that you feel remorse and right your wrongs |
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Poor choices are when someone makes a choice that gets them in trouble or sometimes even worse. Poor choices are the same as dumb decision. So I have a little story to write of a poor choice and then with a better choice. So Jimmy was walking to his locker and saw one of his friends drop $20 so he picked it up and thought for a bit and then decided to keep the money cause he thought well free money. So now let’s put it in a good choice. Jimmy was walking to his locker and saw a friend drop $20 so he picked it up and instead of keeping it he made a good decision and went up to his friend and said hey you dropped your money. So I put the progress as he made a poor choice at first but we went back and he made a better choice by taking the money to his friend. So what I think is that we all make poor choices. And we can learn from our choices and make them better than to make them worse. The best option you have is to make the right choice instead of making a poor one because you will like the outcome of the better choice than the wrong choice. |
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Everyone makes poor choices in their life, adults and children! It just depends on the situation you’re in I think. When you are making the choice you’re not thinking about the consequences I don’t think. Well, at least I know I don't. Everyone throughout their life makes a bad choice, weather they knew what was going to happen or not. Sometimes people make really bad choices and end up in prison or jail, I’m glad I’m not one of those people. I sometimes think before I act. Like most people, I don't like getting in trouble. When I get in trouble I get upset which doesn't help the situation any. Some poor choices that are "poor choices" to me are killing someone, doing really bad drugs, hitting your parents, getting in fights at school, cussing at an adult, making fun of someone for something they can't change; things like that. I hate when I make poor choices because when I’m done making the poor choice I think of things that could have made the situation different and what I could've done to let that from happening. I don't like making poor choices, but sometimes it happens. |
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Poor choices can get people into allot of trouble. With poor choices and bad decision skills you can get yourself into a big hole, especially when you already have people against you. If you have people talk for you that have some power you may get in less trouble and be able to finish up the good things you started and have a good life. One bad choice can ruin your whole life. If you get drunk and can’t control yourself, and you get in a fight you could end up beating the person to death. Which goes back to the bad choice of getting drunk? Than you would possibly start doing things to calm your nerves and you could run away from the law. Now all this could have been prevented if you only would have not gotten drunk that night. Now that you are running away from the law and doing bad things, you are just getting things stacked higher and higher for charges against you. You may not get caught after ten years of being running. You may think that they aren’t watching for you. All it takes is one good tip and they are on you again out looking for you and then you will run more. But when you don’t get caught for the ten years you will think that they are not watching and you will start to become looser on how you act and react to things. Then you may start getting in trouble again. All it takes is one bad night out at the bars getting a little crazy, and you are in a cop car getting your finger prints done and then they notice that you are a wanted felon and then you go to court and could get life or even be put on Death Row. |
Free Writing Update
We took a short hiatus from this activity. Today we took a stab at it again. I normally give the students a prompt to write about and I did it again as well. The prompt they were given was:
There’s a little truth behind every [just kidding]
a little curiosity behind every [just wondering]
a little knowledge behind every [I don’t know]
and a little emotion behind every [I don’t care]
At the beginning of the activitiy I was asked if they had to write about the prompt. Since I haven't heard a 'I don't know what to write about' for a long time, I said okay. One did write about the prompt and the other two chose their own topic. I am particularly proud of the first one posted today and I want to share it with you.
There’s a little truth behind every [just kidding]
a little curiosity behind every [just wondering]
a little knowledge behind every [I don’t know]
and a little emotion behind every [I don’t care]
At the beginning of the activitiy I was asked if they had to write about the prompt. Since I haven't heard a 'I don't know what to write about' for a long time, I said okay. One did write about the prompt and the other two chose their own topic. I am particularly proud of the first one posted today and I want to share it with you.
Feb 7, Number 1I wonder if they passed with a smile on their face
They should be down here 'cause I don’t know if they are in a better place I don’t know why everywhere I look I see their face I wonder why god took them so early life isn’t a race I wonder if they can see us cry from where they are at I wonder if I walk forward you’ll come back |
Feb. 7, Number 2There’s a little curiosity being every just wondering. People when they say they are just kidding they actually want to know something most of the time. People are always curious about something because they want to be involved in everything. If people weren’t curious than they wouldn’t ask the question and wonder. They must wonder something to be asking it. Otherwise the person wouldn’t ask why because than you wouldn’t say just wondering. Just be straight up with them and tell them why you are wondering. Don’t lie about it and hide it.
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Feb. 7, Number 3Music is what im going to write about today. Music can be a very soothing and peaceful thing to help people overcome grief and other stuff. Music can be fun and entertaining and even interesting. its fun to learn about the history and culture of music. i like to listen and study the history of music and musicians. i would love to be a musician one of these days. i'd love to make history to become a new punk/heavy metal rockstar.
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