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Week 14 – Personification

Once there was a butterfly named Elizabeth. She was ready to come out of her chrysalis, but she didn’t want to! It was cozy and warm in there, and she didn’t want to come out where it was cold.

“It’s dark in here. And I’m starting to get bored,” thought Elizabeth.

She started to push her way out of her chrysalis. Soon she felt a tickle on her back. It was her wings! She started to flap them and when she looked down she saw that she was very high above the ground. Elizabeth was very happy that she was out of her chrysalis. And it wasn’t even cold out.

Week 8 -Story Starter

Once upon a time there was girl named Emma who wanted to go into the forest because there were lots of animals there. So at night time she snuck out of bed and quietly opened the door and went down the stairs and went outside. It was dark and cold outside. She wanted to get a blanket, but Mom and Dad would hear. So she went to the dark forest without a blanket. When she was in the middle of the woods she heard a sound. She went closer and closer to the sound. It was a deer sitting alone behind a tree. It had gotten lost from its parents. She wanted to help it find its parents but as soon as she came close to it it got scared and ran away. She ran after it and when she got close enough, the deer did not run away. When she did not harm it, it did not run away. She put a collar on the deer and trailed grass behind her to make the deer follow her home. She named the deer Emmalyn and took care of the deer herself. The end.

Week 2 – Definition Essay

Courage is fearlessness, or acting in spite of fear. The soldiers on D-Day were courageous, charging a bloody beach with men, friends, brothers, fathers, falling all around them, bullets whizzing past, machine guns tearing into people with no cover to hide themselves. Courage has always been honoured and is one of the greatest qualities a person can have.

Courage is standing up to danger, facing fear and strife without backing down, doing what you know is right when all odds are against you. It’s being brave, noble, Honorable, doing what you should and have to. Following your conscience in the face of death. It’s determination to do what’s good and just no matter what. That is courage. That is honorable. That is what to strive for.

Josiah Klaassen is courageous. He joined the PPCLI, Canada’s infantry Battalion and will soon be going to Iraq to fight for people he doesn’t know. That takes courage. That standing up for what is right in the face of danger or even death. He knows he might not come back. But he’s still going.

Courage means different things to different people including the dictionary. The dictionary says courage is acting in spite of fear. I agree. But I take it farther, courage is acting in spite of fear to do what’s right it’s not courageous if, in spite of fear of the law, you murder someone. That is evil and courage is noble. So strive for courage, strive for honour , strive for what is good and right.

Week 2 – A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words

Once upon a time, a boy named Nathan and his dog were walking by the construction site. Suddenly, the dog leapt into a bucket. Nathan had to follow the dog and so he did .

The dog would not come out. Then the bucket started going and started to move forward. “What was going on?” exclaimed Nathan. They were going up and up and up. Soon the bucket was being dumped into a dump truck, and they were taken off to the dump, to be dumped in the dump. “Oh No!” shouted Nathan. “We’re going to get dumped in the dump.” The dog had fallen asleep and now had woken up because of Nathan’s shout. The dog was scared, for they were up high, very high.

And the dump truck had already reached the dump and they had gotten dumped out into a pile of garbage. “Yuck! This stinks!” yelled Nathan. “We’ve got to get home before mom gets worried.” And they brushed themselves off and went home. Nathan told mom the whole story and she was glad he was safe. She told him never to go to the construction site again and sent him to have a nap with his dog.

The End

Week 34 – All a Dream?

Once there was a boy named Caleb. One day he went to the beach At the beach he boarded a ship. The ship was big,and the night he was ship on the there was a big storm. He had to jump off the boat, Just then a strong Killer whale came and made it so Caleb could come down safely;Just then they saw a fin in the water The killer whale swam faster caleb noticed what it was it was many sharks then the killer whale used its tail and hit a shark,All the sharks swam away they swam for miles and miles Just then there was another ship;the ship picked up Caleb and Caleb and the killer whale lived happily ever after.

The End

Week 34 – The Painting’s Story


Once upon a time there was a mom. She had children and was going on a picnic with them on the Prairie. It was warm and sunny. The sky was blue. There were flowers everywhere. It was a beautiful sight. Then suddenly they heard a rustling in the bushes. It was a bear! They started running. The bear started chasing them. It was big and bulky. Then the bear saw a rabbit. It started chasing the rabbit instead of the people. But they didn’t know that the bear was chasing the rabbit. It got the rabbit instead of the people. The bear went back into the bushes. They had their picnic and they lived happily ever after. The end.

Week 24 – Give a Character Advice

Dear Donald Roger Cabot,

You shouldn’t have killed Mr. Kildee’s raccoon. Mr Kildee was so sad that you killed his raccoon. It is not nice to kill raccoons because they might be somebody’s pet. It I were you, I would just leave them alone so Emma Lou wouldn’t be mad at you and Mr. Kildee would still have his pet.

Please be careful what you shoot at. Maybe you should shoot at targets instead.

From A.E.S.