Monday, January 31, 2011

Telling Your Tale

Often times in our lives, certain events, people, or moments have defined who we are as individuals. Your task today is to write a narrative story about a moment in your life that helped make you who you are.

Your story is going to be written in NARRATIVE form, so it should be told like a story NOT a letter.
Requirements for your story:
  1. 3 – 5 paragraphs long

  2. Story includes a beginning, middle, and end

  3. Use 3 – 5 words from Context Clues

  4. Use Subject-Verb Agreement

  5. Tell the story about something, sometime, or someone that influenced you!

Rubric for Story:
Proficient
– 4+ paragraphs, identify the major points of your life (events, people, etc), is written in narrative form, written in clear, logical sentences, student utilizes at least 3 new words
Non-Proficient – less than 4 paragraphs, not written in narrative form, writing is not clear or logical

11 comments:

Bridgette said...

Last year I went to my friend Amandrah’s house. So when I got to her house we called her ex-bouyfriend and told him to meet us at Woodrow Wilson High School. So we went to the park across the street from the school to see if he would show up and he did with some friends. So me and Amandrah started to play in the park and I threw a big snow ball at her. So after I stop laughing I had to go to the bathroom. So as we’re runin threw the snow she tripped me and I fell to my knee’s. Then she kept running and left me there in the snow. So when I finally got lup to chase her she ran across the street and I chased her across the street and almost got hit by a car. But she was being so cruel to me . When she got to the house she tried to lock me out the house.

m.delrossi said...

How did I become Myself, That is a good topic. Well, I don't know where to start but When I was little I was always getting hurt, scraps and cuts. Let's just say the crazy kid who is always outside. I am still crazy and always out-side playing the snow,rain,summer and anything else.S, I don't know what I did to become who I am now, But I do know now that I am having fun, Active and anything my mind outs me too. Also, when I was little I would always read, Word finds(that I still do now), anything I still like. I was the outsider kid. Always running around, riding my bike, everything. Everbody thought I was Crazy but I'm still "Crazy"some people still say. I'm not crazy I'm just like the ouside weather and outdoor activty. Everything like camping, hiking, riding bikes, climbing and another outdoor activty you can do Is what I do. Another thing I always do when I was little was eat. Maybe that's why I would like to become a Chef. Eating is my happiness/World. Cooking just calms me down when a day is not the way I want it or When I'm hungry lets just say. I way 125 pounds but I don't look like it. It's strang but that's what it is. Anyway, Maybe my outdoor adventures and eating habbits made me be me now. Nobody will never know. But if you think and want to believe what you believe, then go ahead and explore it. Take that advange forth and make it come true.

Tyrone said...

During these high school years I have changed juristically even though it’s only been 2 years, thanks to the girls I have spent a portion of my life with. Last year I came into this school feeling like I would never make any new friends because this wasn’t the school in my district and everyone seemed to have a different personality being that there were from all over New Jersey. I really did not want to come here because I had a girlfriend that I was with for 3 months and we were going well until I attended this school and then everything changed.

Anonymous said...

In this world I have had many personally revolutionizing experiences. Many of these experiences came from one single person.
Tyler Drzewucki has taught me so many new things that change the outlook I have on life after high school. College is a great way to start off in this new world. But before that even begins he taught me something important that would give me as many options as I’d like for my future. Grades should be the easiest thing to keep up with.
In high school you do your homework, study for your tests, and do your classwork as close to “on time” as possible. These all contribute to great grades. Great grades equal a wide variety of choices for your life.

Alex R said...

In year 2001, I was at school in 1st grade, and I had a bad temper, I had a lot of anger when I was younger. But one thing.. Person always made me happy when I was younger. Her name was Deanna, she was in my class at school and we always talked. Whenever I got home I would walk right down the street to hang out with her. A lot of my friends lived right near me, I could see my future starting there. One day after school I was on my way home and I got jumped by two kids, one was older and the other was my age. My brother was there but he didn't help, he just walked away. But lucky me some older kid helped me and probably saved my life and got them both off of me.

Since that day I realized how bad philly was for me, even tho I really like Deanna. My family wasn't so great, my oldest brother, he was a half brother, always hit me and tortured me, he almost killed me and I almost killed him too. My other brother was 2 years older than me and we had a lot of fights but brothers do, we were pretty close though.

Three years later, after my mom and dads devorce and all the fights and drama, like two baboons fighting, he had to live on the streets and at relatives houses for about a year or two, we finally moved to a nicer area in Bucks County. It was pretty nice, people were sissys but I found it nice being the toughest in a suberban area.

A few years after that I started to mature and get in fights, drinking and started smoking a little. These were some nice fun exciting days, but also very stressful days. Lots of drama in high school. But I made it, had lots of friends, had lots of fun.

Now I am a nice mature young man, I got my permit, friends, a great life, the only problem is that finding a job is harder then breaking a brick with your head. Once I get a job and make some money I'll be on top of the world! I might start sales, theirs just a lot I still need to learn, and more matureing to do. I'm ready for it, in May I'll be driving, with my own car and definatly have a job by then. It's my life summerized.

Tha Connect said...

Dreams, of becoming a superstar going through my head as ah slurge through my mother's abdomen. Cut open from her stomach, I knew greatness was destined to be me. Growing up, in the tough streets of Los Angeles, I wondered what would it take to change how my stars were alligned. In this life, and the environment I was in, who knew if I would make it to 21. Thats just how life is. I remained focus. As a child, my mother noticed I had gifts. One brisk morning, 3 years after my birth, my mother noticed me with a newspaper in my hand, reading every last word as though it was my own. Excitement? Or just plain genius. I don't know but from there I was destined to do something in life.
I grew up with two brothers. Juan, and Jermaine. One on my dad side, one on my mother's including me. They were both older than me, and bullied me alot. I grew out of it, and so did my brother. He left with his mom for most of my childhood, at once I didnt see him for four years. In the late stages of my childhood, we had a bunch of fun. We went to the lake, every Fourth of July, and the family was tighter than ever. Soon as I hit 12, thats when my life change.

Jaquay Green said...

I always wounder why when you have that speacil someone somebody always have to try to brake you up. I mean like I'm going though a relationship right now, that I think is werth being in. But, I did crazy thing in so did she but we have gotten past all of that in we really do what to be with eachother.
When you do things for your love one and something crazy happends like somebody rubb on what is yours you get mad of course, but you hold back because you dont want to lose her. Men stuff is real non-adays.You always love that person or you alway have felling for her or him nomatter what happends!

miguel said...

boy!!!...i remeber on my eighth birthday, my older brother and i were walking around east camden. my brother was only thirteen and i was just turnung eight. he told me that it was time for me to man up. now i thought i knew what he was talking about but i was so wrong. he walked me to harrison park and told me to go and talk to the girl that was with the older guy.
me i listin to whatever my brother says. so i did it and her dude caught feelings. he got in my face n pushed me. i feel to the ground and when that happined my brother told me to keep hitting him or he was going to keep hitting me. so in fear i did what my brother said. i got hit twice but only on my stomach. the third time he tried to hit me i just swung with all my might and the punch connected to his face. he dropped and my brother rushed over and started hugging me telling me how proud of me he was.

marissa said...

The day i was born

When i was about two years old.I was playin on the bed.My mommy sharmone and my daddy john was there. They said that i was just jumping on the bed and i went down. Kerplop on the floor.MY mom said that she picked me up, and I started crying real bad. "blood started running like a water fall" my mothr said.

She trid cleaning me up, and rushed me to the hospital. I spilt my touge down the middle. The doctor said that I might have to lose my tough it was that bad but they tuck tissue from my cheek. Thats why one dimple is deeper then the other.

2 days later my mom said i was up and running. Till this day my toung will never be the same lol

cassandra said...

I have alot of moment in my life that made me the person I am today. Well im about to take you on a trip of my life. Frist momment is when i was a a baby. My mother left me for drugs and left my dad for another man. That really torn me up in side. I couldn't sleep or eat at night.It hurted tew grow up not having your mother around and then havin your family talk about your mother like she was a pet or somthing. There was one good thing that came out this and it me being so close to my dad. You think you know my life but you have no idea.At the age of 7 I was a good girl that gone bad. I was always fighting and cursing people out. Even when that peron didn't do anything to me. As the years go on. I kept getting worster and worster to the point where I tried to stab a girl .For just lookinq at me wrong. I didnt care bout anyone especail when I knew they didnt care about me. I went to a place that my dad sent me to so i can get myself together.Their seen all these woman who was 30's or 40's. They sat their and talked to me about how they use to be me. I sat their takin everything they were saying to me into consideration. They told me that "the streets anit nothing but trouble thats goin to leave me to death & being tuff , hard and bad is nothing either".Everything I been through as a child MADE ME THE PERSON I AM TO DAY.IT MADE ME REALIZE THAT I HAD TO CHANGE NOT BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO BUT FOR ME. I KNEW I WAS SENDING MYSLF DOWN THE WRONG PATH. AS I THINK BACK TO WHAT I WAS TO WHAT I AM NOW. I CAN SAY I PROUND OF MYSELF. NOW I'M A ROLL MODEL FOR OTHER KIDS WHO'S GOIN THROUGH WHAT I WENT THROUGH.GOING THROUGH ALL THAT INSPIRE ME TO GET MYSLEF TOGETHER SO MY FULTURE KIDS WONT HAVE TO GO THROUGH ANYTHING LIKE I DID. NOW FUNNY,KIND,AND COOL,DONT FIGHT AS MUCH AND TRY TO AVOID PROBLEMS.WELL MR STAG, MRS.FERRI AND CLASSMATES THIS IS MY LIFE STORY

Darien said...

Smack! It felt like a slap in the face. The news I got that day was the worse news I ever had. But at the same time I knew this was going to happen. I been mentally preparing myself for this moment for months now. The day finaly came.

They told me they were splitting up. There has been hints for about 3 months now that something big was going to happen. I never said anything I just watched what was going on. My mom moved out. She said it was only for her job, but I knew it was a lie jus like a lot of the things she tells me. My dad walked around sad and confused. I would ask him if he was ok and he would reply "yes." Everything they told me was a lie.

My mom would act so heartless to me, my brother, my sister, and my dad. I would tell her I need her to come back and she would look at me and laugh in my face, as she always does when she knows she is getting to me. I told her I need my mother expecially at this point and time in my life. So what did she do again? She laughed.

My poor father is still the sweetest guy he has always been. He still takes care of me and my brother. He trys to make us feel better about our mother abandening us, but it dosent work.

I would like to say to conclude, the ones you love and trust the most are usually the ones that will also let you down the worst. Once you finaly let that person go they always try to come back. You can forgive but never forget!