Step Up!!!-Championship

    “Threeeeee! Jaylon Neal from downtown”, said the announcer. Wassup it’s me again and yes we are losing. We really don’t start games well. Anyways, “Come on guys let’s get our heads in the game and beast on this team!!”, I (Xavier) said. My team and I were losing 49 to 30. I was furious, this had to be our biggest deficit in the whole season, and this is the most important game of the whole season. “Well Xavier we will have to bring the team to another win.”, said my teammate Kyle. “ We’ve done it once so we can do it again.”, I said as the clock went to zero. Angrily, the whole team went into the locker room with our heads held down.

“Come on guys your actin’ like you just lost your best friend. Hold your heads up high you haven’t lost yet. I want dogs I don’t want cats I don’t want all that ‘meow’ nah forget all that i want ‘roof roof’, I want dog guys  now lets go out there and beat these guys.”

That gave us some momentum to start scoring. We came back and we were down by two points. The score was 79-77, we were still down and the Celtics had the ball, with ten seconds left. They tried to pass it to their guard, Jaylon and tried to take a shot, but Kyle packed his shot and I stole the ball and passed it to Kyle with 2 seconds left and he took a deep three pointer and.........SWISH!!!! He made we won our Championship Game with Kyle’s buzzer-beater three pointer. We won the game 80-79

“Yay Lakers!”, said the crowd.

We were given the Championship trophy and Kyle and I got our individual trophies. Kyle was awarded MVP of the game with 12 assist, 33 points, and 9 rebounds in the Championship game. I was awarded the MVP of the whole season with 13 assist, 37 points, and 8 rebounds. We were also invited to the the league’s first  ever All-Star Game and we would play with Jaylon. He scored 30 points in the Championship Game. Kyle and I were ready to play with Jaylon and take home the All-Star trophy.

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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.

Xavier's Bruised Finger

  

            One hot summer day my Dad and I went outside in the front yard to play football. While we were playing I asked my Dad if we could kick field goals instead. He agreed, so we got set and were ready to kick. My Dad knelt down and held the football while I got into my kicking stance. I ran and kicked the football as hard as I could. It went really high into the air. But something happened; I kicked my dad's finger on accident. While the ball was in the air I tried to catch it. I caught the ball but it popped my finger. So my Dad and I went inside the house laughing about our aching fingers.

            While we were inside the house we checked out our fingers. My Dad's finger was barely bruised. My finger was swollen purple and jammed. My Dad told me I would have to pull my finger back into place. I knew it was going to be tough to do this. I had to "man up" like my Dad always told me, so I started to pull my finger.My family was near me to give support if I needed it. I was nervous but I kept my focus on my finger. For nearly five minutes, I walked around pulling my finger, which sliding and loosening. I was almost ready to give up then....!!POP!!

            It finally popped back into place! Finally the aching and blood-rushing pain was over. After a couple minutes the swelling went down and my jammed finger went back to normal. For being tough my family let me eat some ice cream for dessert.

Tell Tale Heart Project

Hunger Games Resaerch Project

     This is a post on my Hunger games research project. One of my favorite topics in the book was how the characters were surviving in the wilderness Jungle. It had many different weather changes, and that really effected the tributes.
     The environment of the Hunger Games was a tropical rainforest. Tropical rainforest can be really hot or really cold. They could have little or alot of food growth. That comes naturally which makes the forest in the Hunger Games unnatural. In the Hunger Games people called the gamemakers make the forest heat up or cool down. It could also change the weather to pouring rain to a heat blaze.

     If you were lost in the woods then here is some steps you could use like the tributes probably used in the arena:

1. Be prepared. Make sure someone knows where you are going every time you go into  the wilderness, and how long you intend to be gone. Katniss would let Peeta know when she was getting ready to go to hunt for food.
2.  Don't Panic. Stay in one place, and you decrease your chances of being found. Katniss and Peeta were taught in the training center to camouflage themselves.

     You could also compare the Hunger Games with Survivor. CBS's Survivor has become one of the most watched television shows in America.  One of the reasons for this show's success is that there is an adventurer in all  of us and since we all cannot be in a survival situation we like to live  vicariously through the people on the show, just like people live through the characters in the Hunger Games with the emotion, romance, and the fighting.

     That is why I chose Wilderness Survival for my research project because I wanted a challenge like the tributes in the Hunger Games had a challenge to stay alive.