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Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Diabetes Festival Animoto

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I will use a variety of sentence structures by making different lengths of sentences and techniques in my writing pieces.


I will incorporate climatic pattern, repetitive initial pattern, and parallel pattern syntactic devices in my next few pieces of writing.


I will begin incorporate synecdoche, metonymy, and periphrasis semantic devices in my writing pieces.

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  • Ambiguous: adj. unclear, unprecise
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May the odds be ever in your favor.

Love to Ski

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"Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg." -Author Unknown

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Team Peeta!
"I don't want them to change me in there. Turn me into someone I'm not." -Peeta Mellark, Hunger Games

Without You

Without You
"If you live to be 100, I hope to be 100 minus one day so I will never have to live without you." -Winnie the Pooh

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Hmm...

Hmm...
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When We're Sad...

When We're Sad...
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Just Us Three

Just Us Three
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Friendship

Friendship
"Though miles may lie between us we are never far apart, for friendship doesn't count miles it's measured by the heart."

Our Friendship

Our Friendship
"There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship."

Leap for Mankind

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My Sis' and I
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Best of Us
"My best friend is the one who brings out the best of me." - Henry Ford

Success Achieved

Success Achieved
"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through the experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved." -Helen Keller

Friends!

Friends!
"My best times have gone from laughter to memories. My best friends have gone from friends to family."

Cross Country

Cross Country
We survived Mount Minooka!

Besties

Besties
"Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget."

Books I Recommend

  • Animal Farm by George Orwell
  • Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
  • I,Robot by Issac Asimov
  • Jack's Run by Roland Smith
  • Percy Jackson Series by Rick Riordan
  • Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare
  • Tentacles by Roland Smith
  • The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
  • The Calder Game by Blue Balliett
  • The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon
  • The Giver by Lois Lowry
  • To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
  • Zack's Lie by Roland Smith

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