Travel Team

I am reading the book Travel Team by Mike Lupica, this book is about the main character, Danny Walker getting cut from travel basketball. Danny gets cut because he is so short, but he is a great player. Danny’s father then comes to their hometown and stays for a while. After Danny’s father Richie learns that Danny didn’t make travel because of his size and not how well he plays ball, he starts a travel team his self.

The travel team is made of the players who didn’t make the official travel team, so they are not the best players. Then one day Ty Ross, a great player for the actually travel team, comes into the gym while Danny and the rest of the team is practicing and joins in, Danny and Ty make really good plays and can understand what the other has in mind and Danny knows that he is on the wrong team. Ty and Danny become really good friends and then they have a scrimmage between Danny’s team the Warriors and Ty’s the Vikings, Danny keeps getting fouled by the same person and decides to foul back, but instead of hurting the kid fouling him, he hurts Ty… Ty can’t play until the end of the season, and Danny feels really bad. Danny will have a lot of other challenges and hardships in the near future and I’m sure he will get through them.

My Destiny, Do I control it?

In The Reading Workshop we had to comment on a blog post asking us if we control our destiny and what we are doing to steer our lives toward it. This is what I said:

I think that you control your destiny if you want to. I think this because I have seen kids who just mess around and don’t even try to do their best and control their destiny. I have also seen and know kids who work very hard at school and get good grades and don’t give up.

What I am doing to steer my life towards success is trying my best at everything I do in school at home any where I have to do something. I try to have fun while I’m doing it though and sometimes it gets too fun and have to bring it to a level where it is fun but still work that needs to be done and will be done. Like with the tests coming up I am trying really hard to do everything right and not to make any mistakes.

What do you think? Do you control you destiny? If so how?

My Potential

In The Reading Workshop we had to tell what we think our potential is, this is what I said.

I think I’m close to reaching my potential but also far away from it. I think this because I know how to do the test and I have prepared for it since the start of the year, but I know I can learn more and achieve even more then this. I know I can do it and I know I will but I want to do more then this I want to blow this test out of the water. I want to score high and use the knowledge I have and the knowledge I will learn in the next two weeks. If I just keep pushing myself and have the support from family and friends the test will be hard but easy in a way. I’m so close I can feel my full potential showing but getting it out will be tricky. There is one thing that I know for sure though, my  full potential will be here on April twenty-seventh when I really need it.

Thanks for reading, please comment and tell me what your potential is.

My Saturday

It is Saturday and guess what I’m doing? No I’m not sitting around at home or out with family or seeing friends. No I’m in school! We went over our snow days and landed four Saturdays that we had to come to school, it isn’t bad because I get to see friends but still it’s Saturday. Today is fun because we are having pajama day, and two of our others we had mix matched and hat day. I would still rather be home playing basketball or riding my bike or just hanging around, but I guess I got to be here so I will live and we get out early so I might be able to do something afterwards.

Wolf Rider

“I killed someone” how would you respond to that? In the book Wolf Rider by Avi, Andy Zadinski gets a phone call by a man  and the first thing he says is “I killed someone”. Andy gets his friend Paul to call the police and trace the call, but the cops don’t believe them. Andy then tries to find out who the man is and what he is talking about. Andy’s life gets turned upside down by this call, he then discovers the man didn’t kill the person. Andy knows this because he tracks her down and finds her. Will Andy figure out this insane mystery?

No More Dead Dogs

I have just recently finished the book No More Dead Dogs by Gordan Korman. In this book a high school boy named Wallace Wallace goes from a football star to a drama nerd in a couple of months. This happens when Wallace turns in a bad report on a book that his teacher really likes, so when he turns this report in he is put in detention until he turns in a good report. Wallace hated the book and never tells a lie and when his two best friends Rick and Feather want Wallace to turn in a report that they wrote Wallace will not do it, because he didn’t think the book was good at all. Wallace’s detention puts him in the school play for the same book that he hated and he is kicked off the football team until he turns his report in.

After a couple of days in detention Wallace starts helping the cast of the play with lines and scenes.Wallace then starts to become a part of the crew. Wallace doesn’t want to be there and neither does the rest of the football team and the cast of the crew, but then the play starts getting attacked with jokes like marbles on the stage, shredding the scripts, and everyone blames Wallace and Wallace denies everything. He knows he didn’t do it and he has a whole football team that would want Wallace back and would do this to the play. Wallace never lies so will the cast believe him? Will he get back on the team? Wallace wants to know, do you?