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My Three Favorite Post:

                                       "Step Up!!!", My Trip To D.C, and Xavier's Bruised Finger
"Step Up!!!" would also be an example of my creativity because it made me start trying new things like adding dialogue into that story.
Xavier's Bruised Finger  shows proof that I'm a thinker/learner because I thought of describing how my ride to D.C. was.
My Trip To D.C. shows evidence of my growth as a writer because this story had alot of adjectives describing how my finger looked when it was bruised/jammed in.

"Step Up!!!"

Twoooooo points!!!!! Cavaliers 40 Lakers 29.

“Dang man they can’t be scorin’ like that. Come on guys!!! We can make a comeback.” I knew we couldn’t the other team had too much momentum and kept scoring. My team and I were getting beat by our rival. It was time for me (Xavier) to step up but we would have to do it after the half as the clock went to zero. BEEEEEEP!!

“Come on guys,” said Coach. “We need some new plays to win this game.”

My friend Kyle and I were furious we were trying real hard. We each had 14 points but we were still down by double-digits.

    BEEEEEP!!! Time for the second half of the game. Luckily We got the ball to start the half. I dribbled down the court and passed it to Kyle. He took a three and made it! That gave us the momentum to start coming back. The score was Cavaliers 58  Lakers 57. We had ten seconds to score. We got the ball and Kyle threw me an ALLEY-OOP it to me with two seconds in the game. I was being guarded by the best two guys on their team, but I wasn’t scared I went up for the ball and......
BOING!!!!!!!.....BEEEEEEEEP!! The ball went in we won the game 59-58!!! I made the buzzer-beater dunk.
             “Yay Lakers!!”, said the Crowd.
             “Nice dunk Xavier”, My dad told me.
             We won the Conference Championship. The finals will be next week against the Celtics.
             “Come on guys, I said, We need to practice. We got a huge game next week.”

My Trip To D.C.

           One January day I was in my room watching tv. Then my Mom and Dad called me into their room. They said we were going to take a vacation somewhere. I had heard about the Martin Luther King Monument in Washington D.C. My Aunt lived in Maryland which was only twenty minutes away. We all agreed and got our things ready for the trip. I packed some clothes, my games, and a book to keep myself busy on the road. We also packed some snacks for if we got hungry. We were all set and we took off.

While we were on the road we stopped to see my sister at the University Of North Carolina In Greensboro. They call it UNCG for short. She wasn’t there so we decided we would come back after the trip. We also passed a city named Graham. My Dad told me that Kannapolis High School came here to play in the Championship game against Graham High School when he and my Mom were there.. He told me they had lost but he didn’t know by how much.

We finally got to my Aunt’s house in Maryland! I survived a seven hour ride. We got our clothes and electronics out the car and came inside. It was 9:00 so there was no way we were going to the monument today. We planned to go see it tommorrow after we went to church. It was 1:00 pm the next day and we were ready to go see the monument. We made it near the monument but we saw everything else like the white house, Abraham Lincoln’s monument, the Capitol, and finally the Martin Luther King Jr. Monument. That was the best day I ever had and I got a lot of pictures. The next morning was the day we had to leave. While we were leaving we did some last-minute sight seeing.

We arrived back home safely and will be able to tell my friends. That was a vacation I will never forget. I had a lot of fun and I can’t wait to go back.