Owl City

Owl City is my favorite Artists! They sing popular songs like, Fireflies, Vanilla Twilight, and Hello Seattle! I love their music because they have messages in them! Hello Seattle is about a person talking about whatever or whoever you are you have a good life and a purpose in life! I also like Owl City because their music is pop but a little bit of techno! I love music with a little twist, It’s Like, How should I say it? Strawberry ice-cream, with star fruit! Odd in every way, but they work together! The techno part of the key board and soft melody of the piano, in every song works perfect and gets you attached to the songs!

They also sing one of my favorite songs, Dental Care, Rainbow Veins, and Swimming in Miami! My Favorite verses out of Swimming in Miami are “I’m alone above the atmosphere, and no one looking up can find me here! ’Cause I can close my eyes, and disappear! When I climb the stairs to watch the sun; above station walls, the colors run to fill the swimming pool when I am done!” I love that verse to Swimming in Miami because the singer shows power! My favorite verses out of dental care are “I’d rather pick flowers; instead of fight! And rather than flaunt my style. I’d flash you a smile, of clean pearly whites!” Those are my favorite verses because this person is saying that he would rather do the right thing than the wrong thing, and get in trouble! My favorite verses in Rainbow Veins are “Cheer up and dry your damp eyes! And tell me when it rains and I’ll blend up that rainbow above you and shoot it through your veins! ‘Cause your heart has a lack of color and we should have known!”

Fisrt Semester Portfolio- My piece i would like to revise

The genre of my story is a free write. It’s about a teenager that lives their whole life in sin, and would like to learn how to be a good kid. They do not know how to become a good kid so the wonder how and why. They ask someone and they know the answer to their problem. I got my idea by sitting in math class, my homework all done, and didn’t know what to do. I thought of writing a poem about my old life, and how I worked my way through hard times, by going to church and having god and friends help me along the way. I would revise my poem, by rephrasing some parts, replacing commas and other punctuation, and probably fix my spelling.

“Stuck in Black and White”

Your eyes, I do not own
Your mind, I do not control
Your ears are not to hear, there to listen
Your body is black, full of sin!

You sit upon me
Wondering why,
Why must you be black,
Or why must you be black?

I say show me the way
The light, the grand entrance.
But you can’t, you wonder, where is the light
You don’t know what the light is.

You’re caught up in sin,
You do not realize there’s a light,
It’s golden, like your eyes!
It's warm. like your hugs!

Give up the life you live now,
Live with me, I’ll take you into my home.
You wonder where?
The light is my home!

You wonder, am I good enough?
Child, yes you are good enough!
You are my child; you have always been good enough!
You will never be less than what I think!

I am not your Child,
You are not my father!
You haven’t raised me,
You have not been there for me!

Where were you when I cried?
Child, I was holding you in my arms,
You were crying I helped.
I was here all along!

You just have never believed!
I will save you from the sin now,
Just ask me, I will save you!
Just pray to me!

Father, I want to be saved,
I want to be loved,
I want to live with you!
I want to be white and full of you hope!

Fisrt Semester Portfolio- My favorite piece

The genre of my story is a place poem. It’s about my aunt’s sewing room, and how I make a quilt. This poem is my favorite; because it’s when I accomplished a task I never thought I would do! I knew I would make a quilt, but I never knew I could do it at a young age! My idea came from, when I was working looking at my quilt at home, wondering what to do for my poem, and decided to write about the day I sewn my quilt.

“My Aunt’s Sewing Room”

As beautiful bright fabric hang in their places,
I wonder what I will use next,
I stare at the bright colored buttons,
They look like bright shining stars on a jet black night.

The smell of lilacs from the mist I spray,
Is a crown of gold fit for a queen upon my head,
The warmth of the fabric saves me from the chill,
As if I was in a cold frozen forest.

The vibration of the sewing machine massages my hands,
It sounds as if a roaring lion was let out of a cage.
As thread and fabric meet and they become inseparable,
Like two little girls in kindergarten.

The sound of scissors snipping at threads,
I think what a beautiful quilt I have made.
The feeling of the patches closely stitched together,
Like a hopscotch board, close and perfect.

Fisrt Semester Reflection

Before I came into 7th grade, I wasn’t the best writer. I often left out punctuation, never capitalized my letters, and never wrote in good paragraphs! When I became a 7th grader, I learned about a ton of new tricks, and tips to being a better writer. My favorite trick was imagery, because it makes your story livelier than what it sounded. I could see what I was writing, because it was very well described.

This year has been harder than ever. A couple things I learned about myself this year is I need to ask more questions and I need to pay attention more. I have also learned that I can be a better writer, by taking my time and not speeding through an assignment. One last thing that I have learned is that I can help other students and that helps me become a better student.

I want to be a successful student, but I have to work to become a successful student. Some things I might do to become a successful student are, to ask more questions, pay more attention, and do my very best. I need to ask questions more often, because I don’t understand a lot of things that teachers tell me. I might understand half of what the teachers are saying, but not all of it. I also need to pay more attention to teachers and other students. They might say some information that I needed to finish an assignment.