Final Project on Growing up

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Growth, Slow and Steady:

An Essay on Growing Up

An Essay by Gaelen Frink

Eighth Grade English

Pine Point School

April 20, 2011

          Growing up is something we do everyday. We learn new things, things to do things not to do. We also learn knowledge everyday at school and every time we learn something we grow up a little. There is also growth in Romeo and Juliet as well as in To Kill a Mockingbird. Growing up can be shown and wrote about in many ways. I show growing up in a grocery list, a letter to Juliet from Romeo, a thank you letter to my childhood, and a book cover for To Kill a Mockingbird.  Growing up is never straightforward there are obstacles in life that you have to hurdle and these make you stronger and help you grow.

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A grocery list on growing up

·        Two pounds of prunes for courage to step up to challenges in  life

·        Three quarts of chocolate for love so you have a piece of love in your life for other people

·        An ounce of chili powder for anger and hate so you can have more feelings than love

·        Ten pounds of assorted fruits and vegetables for strength for doing the heavy lifting in life

·        Twenty energy drinks so you have energy to do things in life

·        Eleven pounds of sugar so your life is sweet

·        Nine gallons of milk so you can have strong bones

·        Four lemons for some sourness in life to contrast the sweetness of the sugar

·        Six ounces of envy and jealousy

·        Five to twenty pounds of knowledge of yourself and the world around you so you are not blind of what is happening in the world and n yourself

·        One gallon of maturity so your personality can change

·        Six feet of growth so you look like you have grown up

When all of these things and others are combined you are growing up. However growing up is a slow process so it doesn’t happen all at the same time. Even though you want to grow up quickly you might regret this in your later years when you wish you were younger and could do the things you used to be able to do. Here is a quote on growing up “Growing up is never straightforward. There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you’ll never get back and certain people that are going to change. And the hardest part is knowing that there’s nothing you can do except watch them.” Alden Nowlan

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Dear Juliet,

I am growing up, but yet I do not want to because I am not growing up with you. When we grow up I hope that we can be together forever. The situation we are in is tough one, and I do not know if we will be able to grow up or not. When you grow up your father will make you marry County Paris, but this is not what I want because this is set up love and we fell in love. A few days ago I was locking myself into my room and creating a fake night, and in the night I would go outside and cry my heart out. This has all changed with growing up a little and going to a party. When I was at this party and I realized that all I needed was to fall into love and grow and I did this by meeting you. Fair Juliet we must grow up together or else our personalities will change and we might not love one another anymore. Please we must grow up together.

Love,

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Dear Childhood,

I would like to thank you for all of the fun and happy times we have had together. Even though all of the times weren’t happy and fun I feel like our years together are irreplaceable because I will never have experiences like those childhood ones again. I will never have the no fear, daredevil feeling again, or the feeling of invincibility. When there are good times there are also bad times. Feelings of anger, hate and dislike are still here. The feeling of love is also with me. So don’t worry that I have lost everything from those childhood years. Another thing I still have with me is all of the memories I accumulated over all those years, and some days I will remember one and a smile will come on my face. Alas we must part because I am a teen and even though those childhood years are still with me I am creating new years, the teen years. Thank you again childhood and goodbye.

Sincerely,

Gaelen Frink

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To Kill a Mockingbird To Kill a Mockingbird has many themes and one of those is growing up. One big moment that is throughout the book is the physical growing up. Jem turns twelve and Scout turns 10 in the book. There is also the mental growth or maturing. Jem when he first got his gun he shot the birds with it, but when Scout was going to kill a pill bug he wouldn’t let her do this. Dill also has to grow up because of his parents. This is because he has to figure out things about his parents like do they love him or do they just buy him things and then don’t pay attention to him. Another theme in To Kill a Mockingbird was the theme of circles because everything seemed to happen and then come to a close in seemingly a circle. Sometimes these circles happened twice. Growing up happened in a circle.

Essay Number 13

True Love Built up or Fallen Into:

An Essay about Building up True Love

An Essay by Gaelen Frink

Eighth Grade English

Pine Point School

April 20, 2011

When you think about love you always think of how it happens in the movies, but love like that doesn’t last, but when you build up love this love lasts and this is called true love. When I am older I believe I will have to build up my true love because when I see a captivating girl I do not immediately love her because I have not built any love with her. Also, a couple that I know that truly loves each other is my parents and there are many reasons why. Love is a tricky subject, but when used with care love can be wonderful, but this love must be built up because if it isn’t love won’t last.

Love has to be built up until it reaches the point of true love for you cannot fall into true love. When you talk about true love many people do not have a Romeo and Juliet case of falling into love, people forge this love. Sometimes people have known each other for a long time and already know many things about each other. Since you already know many properties about this person, this takes care of the unpleasant moments in your relationship. Real love will probably happen to me by, building this love up, constructing trust inside of my love and reaching the high point of true love. Even when you see someone who is captivating you do not love them because you do not know their personality. You need to build up your friendship with them and learn about this person before you can say you love them. Love can’t be made or fallen into; love must be built up, and then once love is constructed this love can only be called true love.  

            A truly loving couple that I know is my parents and even though they seem to have fallen into love they are still a truly loving couple. A reason that I think that my parents are a truly loving couple is because they are still together and not divorced even though 50% of couples get divorced these days (Mr. Salsich). I also think that even though they have bickered before these fights actually can make a truly loving relationship stronger than it was before. I also think a testament of their true love is that they have been together for 19 years. If they have been together that long they are obviously still in love because they wouldn’t still be together if they didn’t love each other. My parents are an example of falling into love this proves that love can be formed many different ways and this is one way. Even though they fell into this loving relationship, lasting years, withstanding the many fights accumulated over the years they are still together not separated and staying contented together. My parents love each other deeply and will continue to love each other until the end of their lives because they are in a truly loving relationship.

            Romeo and Juliet fall into love when they see each other for the first time and this is much different than the real world because we have to build our love. Love must be built until it reaches the highest point of love and only at this point can this love be called true love. My parents truly love each other because they are in true love, and I hope they continue this love for many more years. Love in its many different forms can be love but not true love because building love only creates true love.

Self Assessment

1.      An issue in my writing that I am still working on is my transition words from sentence to sentence because some of my chunks jump from one another without a word in between.

2.      A strong point that I see in this piece of writing would probably be my concluding sentence on my first body paragraph because I think that this sentence really sums up the paragraph.

3.      A weak point I see in this piece of writing would probably be my redundancy in my intro second body paragraph and my conclusion.

4.      I would give my self a C+ - B- for this essay.

Outline for Essay Number 13

TS: I think that with love you have to build it up till you reach the point of true love

Bell word: Build

Echoes: Forge, Construct, Build

SD: When you talk about true love most people do not have a Romeo and Juliet case of falling into love, people have to forge this love

CM: Sometimes people have known each other for a long time and already know many things about each other.

CM: Since you already know many things about this person this takes care of the awkward moments in your relationship

SD: Real love will probably happen to me by building love up

CM: Even when you see someone attractive you don’t love them because you do not know their personality

CM: You need to build up your friendship and learn about this person before you can say you love them

CS: Love can’t be made or fallen into; love must be built up and then once love is built up this love can only be called true love.

14 Line Sonnet

Friendship is like a plant ever growing
You only get out what you put into it
You need to take care when you are sowing
And during this friendship you need a wit
The best friendships sometimes last very long
Lasting friendships need to learn to endure
Hopefully you can see your friends lifelong
During the enduring time friendships mature 
When I am feeling down and I am blue
I turn to my friends for a bit of help
They sometimes pick me up from where I lie
This will help us stick together like glue
This also means they answered my cry for help
This means our friendship will get to Shanghai

Essay Number 12

Food is like:

An Essay about Metaphors Related to Friendship 

An Essay by Gaelen Frink

Eighth Grade English

Pine Point School

April 18, 2011

Metaphors are everywhere, sometimes hidden from the careless ear, but some can be discovered by any who hears them, and my metaphors on friendship are those kind. Metaphors on friendship to me are like different foods. Foods come in billions of different kinds, flavors and also sizes. Friends are like food.

For everyone who knows me, they all know that I love food, so it is only natural that I relate my essay on friendship to different foods. The first food that seemed to relate to some of my friends is chocolate because chocolate is a quick pick me up. Chocolate is like a friend because it can help you when you are feeling down. Once you have chocolate you can get a little hyper and energetic from the sugar buzz and, this is a big difference from how you were feeling before, but chocolate can also help you indulge in life. Another food I was able to relate a friend to was friendship is like an Oreo. While I am the inside, the filling, my mate, Charlie, is the outside, the two cookies. I find an Oreo to be like friendship because this friend surrounds me and helps me when I am lost. Lastly I can see friendship like pizza with all of the toppings. I can see this because I would be the crust and if I was the crust I would be supporting everything else on top of me, holding up the sauce and the cheese, supporting the pepperoni and sausage and bearing the weight of all of the vegetables. This is the other side of friendship where you help your friends by helping them feel better or keeping their spirits up because you support them. Friends can have many different disguises or ways to be described, but in the end they are all the same, thoughtful, caring and just good old friends that you have known for a long time.

            Metaphors are everywhere, different types and different meanings, but some can mean the same thing, but under a different cover. I connected friendship with food, but you could connect friendship with many other things like flowers, a tree and literally anything else. Friendship is like food it can be related to any type. Friendship is like chocolate, an Oreo and a pizza.

Self Assessment

1.      One writing issue I am continuing to work on is my use of commas because I think I have a few unnecessary commas in my writing.

2.      One strong point I see in this essay is my long sentence because it really helps explain that chunk.

3.      One possible weak point I see is that I might not have enough details to back some of my chunks.

4.      The grade I would give myself would probably be a B- to a B

Outline for Essay Number 12

TS: Friends to me are like different foods

Bell Word: Friends
Echoes playmate

SD: Chocolate can pick you up

CM: This is like friends who help you when you are down

CM: Chocolate is a sugary food which gets you hyper and helps you indulging life.

SD:Friendship can also be like an Oreo

CM: I am the filling while one of my good friends, my playmate surrounds me.

CM:This to me would be my best friend who I have

SD: Friendship could also be a pizza

CM:If I was the crust then everything on top of me would be stuff that I would be holding up.

CM: I only have a few friendships where I encourage someone to do good

CS:There are a few things that I can relate to but food is something that I can find many metaphors inside of

Outline for Essays

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