Presenation of "The Twelve" with Angel

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Cleats and Touchdowns

            We ready, we ready, for yall! I remember these words clear as day running through the tunnel of smoke, crowd of people yelling. As I ran through the end zone I remember the first time I made my first touchdown ever. We were lined up for kickoff return. It was our first game of the year.  Christian Brothers walked out across and lined up to kick the ball. The crowd started to make this noise aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh and when the ball was the crowd yelled yuuuuuuaaahhhhh.  

            Standing on the ten yard line beside Andreas and Jalen turnt around looking back at us. ME! ME! ME! I called the ball and it came down like a diving show plane pop right in my arms and the race was on. I took off running and in front of me was a crowd of blue, white, red, black, and gold. I closed my eyes and I ran through untouched I opened my eyes and saw I was in front of everybody. I took off running full speed and I started to get tired and my head started to till back as if I was shaving under my chin. The crowd roared as I hear over the speakers touchdown Patriots! Standing in the end zone looking for the referee so I could return him the ball it all hit me I just made a touchdown and I was so happy.

            Walking out the end zone just making the mistake of letting Jarvis make a touchdown. I ran to the sideline and Coach Gray said”What happen son.”

I replied “I tried to split the defenders and he cut outside and took off.”

“Well damn son that don’t mean just go running in and remember don’t give up your outside shoulder.”

I walked down the sideline and they told me its okay and don’t worry about it. The offense was unable to make a touchdown or a field goal so defense had to go back on the field. So I was running back on the field and when we lined up they shouted “we got to score its 30 secs left.”  They took the ball to the air and it was batted down by Brian Scott. The buzzer sounded meaning the end of the first half and I was walking to the locker room talking to Kenneth Connely bout the game and he said “ don’t be nervous just play yo game and think about it as pre game or practice.”

I replied, “I ain’t nervous.”

We got in the field house and we were still talking and he reminded me just think of bout the time you spent chilling in the locker room. That’s what I did as the coaches were talking.

            Sitting down thinking about the before the game I remember coming from the church with Ashton Heard by the tailgaters of West Memphis giving them the finger and shouting at them. We get up to the gravel road walking up behind the West Memphis buses, looking at them as we walked past them. Right before I got to the field house Jakyra walked up told me good luck and kissed me.  I walked into the field house and I chilled before the game and going to the game behind the tunnel of smoke they started chanting we ready, we ready, for yall!

           

My Reading Journey

I was just a toddler when I learnt how to read, I remember reading all the Dr. Seuss books. I enjoyed reading as a child. Just like many kids in the United States I learnt how to read in the first grade I remember learning the alphabet in kindergarden and in first grade putting them the putting them together to make word, which later I learnt how to read.
      As I grew up I started to develop a dislike for reading and I only started to read the stuff I thought was important. I enjoyed reading as a child picking up books that amused me and that I thought would be wonderful but, as I got older the teachers started to push reading on to me trying to make me read every minute of the class. I always wondered why teachers pushed reading on to the students. It like they don't understand that the more you try to push on to us we're not going to like it. I dislike reading unless I'm doing it on my own which means without it being told to.
      I love mystery, fantasy, and adventure books, I just get lost in the words of the book and it feels like I'm actually apart of the book. I never really understood the poems or books teacher had us try to make us read, the books they read in their teen years. I really don't find these books interesting that's why I read the mystery, fantasy, and adventure. The books the teachers try to have me read I just don't like the type of genre they set out to be. When I learnt how to read I was just a toddler and interested in all the Dr. Seuss books and picture books. Sometimes I wish I could just go back to read all the little kid books without being expected to read all these enormous books. That's "My Reading Journey."

Licoln's 2nd

Licoln created a tone of rightousness indignation by strongly expressing his feelings about slavery in the South through the speech he gave when taking the office of his second term. He didn't like the fact that people had other people doing there job for them and not getting paid for it. According to Licoln, "one- eighth of the whole population was colored slaves..... localized in the Southern part of it." Licoln was trying to get his point across by saying the North had no slaves and they felt it was wrong for the South to have another man or woman to do their labor and not get any money or anything else in return. The passage also stated, "the object for which the insurgents would rend the union, even by war;while the government claimed no right to do more than to restrict the territorial enlargement of it." This line shows that the Union was surly willing to fight for the freedom of the slaves in the South. They felt that the South was giving injustnation to the people they kept to work for them.

I am

I am funny and extremely awesome

I wonder what color a zebra is

I hear the stands roaring with fans
I see the white strips on the field

I want to all ways win

I am funny and extremely awesome

I pretend to be the only person in the world

I feel the stress of teachers

I touch the warm hand of a friend
I worry what tomorrow brings
I cry when I lose a loved one

I am funny and extremely awesome

I understand life isn't fair

I say live for the good times and turn from the bad

I dream about a cure for breast cancer

I try to do what is always right

I hope one day the world would be a better place

I am funny and extremely awesome