Sonnet of Friendship

Friends are the most important things to me
They share your deepest troubles and your joys
They open your eyes to possibilities
When you are too caught up in your minds noise
They're always there to catch you when you fall
To laugh with you and wipe your tears away
No matter what they will give it their all
As fresh with you as the seas salty spray
When I was little, I had one wish
Not to own a horse, or be royalty
Now my dreams consist of scoring a swish
In a basketball game, but they were loyalty
And friendship back then, someone like a fish
Always constant, like salmon swimming upstream
Back then that was my only, and greatest dream.

Love

An Essay About Love

By Jennifer Carroll

8^th Grade

Pine Point School

April 20, 2011

Love can be described by many different things. It can be sound, a sight, a smell and an emotion. There are loving people, there are foods and places you can love and there are even animals and pets you may adore. Love is infinite. True love can withstand storms, betrayals, fights, time and anything you throw at it. This essay is all about love, especially true love.
 “The only way to love is to fall headfirst into love.” This quote describes my feelings towards love. People don’t work to love each other; they don’t slowly create enough affection over a course of time to be in love. You are either in love when you first see someone, or you aren’t.  You cannot build love like you would a house or building, brick by brick. Tenderness may be slow sometimes, but it’s always there in a person’s heart. You might ignore it or pretend it isn’t there, but eventually, at the right moment, you’ll see affection inside you. Love, that giddy feeling when you spot a crush, the butterflies in your stomach, the blush on your cheeks, the ache in your heart, that’s something that can only be experienced by tumbling face first.
A couple that has a truly loving relationship would have to be Beauty and the Beast. I mean, if that's not a loving relationship based entirely off love and not looks, I don't know what is. One, Belle helps the Beast immensely. He thinks he's hideous and that no one will ever love him because he's so ugly, so he's extremely violent and angry. At first, Belle thinks he's just cruel and mean-spirited, but as time passes, she learns that he has a truly caring heart and shows him how to accept his looks and be a good person. Also, they save each others lives. The Beast rescues Belle from being devoured by a pack of wolves when she's running through the forest outside his castle, looking from her father. Then, Belle saves the Beast after Gaston, an evil suitor, stabs him in the back before falling off the castle to the jagged rocks below. She admits she loves him, and he is healed by the fairy's curse lifting. These characters, one ugly, the other beautiful, nevertheless share amazing chemistry together and are an admirably loving couple. 
 Love isn't bought. It isn't sold. It cannot be traded, borrowed or stolen. Love is not a tangible thing, something to be held and caressed, to be tucked away safely in a small nook or cranny in a persons heart. Love is swimming in the sea that reflects the stars at night, like tiny diamonds speckled on the dark water. Love is eating ice cream cones in the hot summer sun. Love is laughing as you squint on a bright beach and it is resting in the cool, sweet grass that ripples in the breeze. Love is everything important to you in your life. 

Self Assessment: I really like my closing paragraph on this essay for its detail and descriptiveness on what love is to me. I need to work on making my sentences flow more smoothly, especially in the second body paragraphs, as I seem to lose focus in that area usually. I would give myself a B+ for this essay.

Outline: Essay 13

TS: You fall into love

            SD: I think I will fall into love.

                  CM: People don’t work and toil to love one another

                  CM: You are either in love with someone or something or you aren’t.

         SD: You cannot build love

                  CM: You can’t build love like you do a house, brick by brick.

                  CM: Love may be slow sometimes, but it was always there in a person’s heart. Sometimes you just don’t see it until the right moment.

CS: I know I will fall into love, because that’s the way all of the famous couples throughout history loved – Cleopatra and Marc Antony, Rome and Juliet and even Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere.

TS: A couple I know that has a truly loving relationship would be Beauty and the Beast.

        

         SD: Belle helps the Beast

                  CM: He thinks that he’s evil and should be alone forever

                  CM: She originally thinks he’s evil as well, but comes to view him as a kind person at heart and makes him see it in himself as well

         SD: They save each others lives

                  CM: When Gaston, a jealous narcissist who wants to marry Belle, stabs the Beast when he is protecting her, she tells him she loves him and breaks the curse upon him

                  CM: The Beast rescues Belle from being eaten by a pack of wolves when she is searching for her father in the forest.

CS: These characters, while they are not real, are a truly loving couple.

A Sonnet of Friendship

Friends are the most important thing to me

They share your deepest troubles and your joys

They open your eyes to possibilities

When you are too caught up in your minds noise

They’re always there to catch you when you fall

To laugh with you and wipe your tears away

No matter what they will give it their all

As fresh with you as the seas salty spray

A Sonnet of Friendship

Friends are the most important thing to me

They share your deepest troubles and your joys

They open your eyes to possibilities

When you are too caught up in your minds noise

They’re always there to catch you when you fall

To laugh with you and wipe your tears away

No matter what they will give it their all

As fresh with you as the seas salty spray

A Sonnet of Friendship

Friends are the most important thing to me

They share your deepest troubles and your joys

They open your eyes to possibilities

When you are too caught up in your minds noise

They’re always there to catch you when you fall

To laugh with you and wipe your tears away

No matter what they will give it their all

As fresh with you as the seas salty spray

Friendship In Wonderland

An Essay on Friendship and Metaphors

By Jennifer Carroll

Pine Point School

8^th Grade English

Wednesday, April 13, 2011

         Friendship holds the world together. Without friendship, nobody would have someone to trust and rely on, everybody would hate everybody, we'd probably be in one giant World War and eventually die out as a species because of all the bombs and weapons. Friends are people you can count on to be there for you, and they're people who can make you smile in the worst of times. Basically, without friendship, and without friends, human existence as we know it would be infinitely worse.

         My friend and I share a great camaraderie, the kind that brings out the jealousy in others, the type that inspires great tales and poems written by famous authors and the style that makes every famous friendship in history look like a speck of dust beside ours. We are much like Lewis Carroll’s famous duo, the Mad Hatter and Alice, from the classic book and now hit movie, Alice in Wonderland.  She is a lot like Alice in many ways. One, she is always helping, or trying to help people around her. And two, she loves animals of all kinds, but especially rabbits. I think of myself as the Mad Hatter. I love to laugh and smile, and can be considered slightly insane by many people. Also, I drive her crazy, much like the original Mad Hatter did to poor Alice when he invited her to have a tea party with him and his good friends, the March Hare and the Dormouse. The Mad Hatter and Alice are to unlikely friends, but they have wonderful amity. They may fight and bicker and argue and madden each other to the breaking point, but in the end, they always have each other’s back, no matter the situation. While they are two incredibly different people in their believes, ideas, thoughts and personalities, that's what makes them friends. People like the Mad Hatter and Alice and my friend and I share a common connection that is the root for fantastic friendships.

         My friendship with my friend is something very important to me. Without it, I think I wouldn't be as happy as I am now. In fact, I'd probably be on the verge of depression. Friendship connects people and countries is positive ways, and provides a structure of support. Friendship paves the way to peace and contentment among the world.

TS (Main Idea, Topic, or Thesis): Friendship- My friend and I are like the Mad Hatter and Alice from Alice in Wonderland

Bell word: Friendship

2 Echo words to be used: camaraderie, amity 

   

SD: She is Alice

        CM: She is always helping and trying to help people

        CM: She loves animals, especially rabbits

    SD: I am the Mad Hatter

        CM: I like to laugh and smile, and can be considered partially insane

        CM: I drive her crazy

    SD: The Mad Hatter and Alice are two unlikely friends with amity

        CM: They have great camaraderie, even when they are in tough situations

        CM: They fight and bicker, but in the end, they always have each other’s backs.

CS: My friend and I are two completely different people, but that’s what makes us friends, just like Alice and the Mad Hatter

Teen Troubles

An Essay on Problems That Teenagers Experience

Pine Point School

8th Grade English

Jennifer Carroll

Everyone has or will experience being a teenager. For some, it’s enjoyable, the first breath of freedom in years and taste of what’s to come in their adult lives. For others, it’s a long string of unhappy and dark years filled with uncertainty and second guesses. This essay is about some of the problems teens may experience during their lives, and why teens may feel this way.                                                                                                                

 Teenagers are complicated and confusing creatures, at the most fragile stage of life where they feel like every single action they take or every word they speak isn’t the correct one to use in a situation. Many teenagers face serious problems in their day to day lives. Some teenagers have unstable and dangerous home life. They may put in predicaments where they are abused physically and emotionally every day. They could be neglected, therefore showing up late or not at all to school or activities some days. Also, a lot of teens have to deal with peer pressure every day. Their friends might want them to smoke, or drink or do something that they’re uncomfortable with in order to look “cool”. These messy situations often lead to the teen in question succumbing in order to keep his or her friends. Lastly, many teenagers are very self conscious. They can feel like they aren’t pretty, or strong or smart enough. These feelings can escalate from self consciousness to serious medical issues like anorexia, bulimia and even suicide. Lots of teenagers have very serious and complex problems in their life, and it’s important to help them through their troubles, whether they are your child or simply your friend.

Being a teenager myself, I understand many of the complicated problems that teenagers all over the world face. One problem that I am facing is the thought of going to Stonington High School next year. Having gone to Pine Point my entire life, the idea of leaving to go to a public high school is an extremely daunting prospect. I’m terrified for what the next year might bring. Another issue I face is going to Vermont for six weeks on my own over the summer. Usually, when I go to a camp, I’m with my twin brother or a friend, and I never stay for as long as six weeks. But when I leave this summer I’m entirely by myself, and have no one I know waiting for me at camp. These are a few of the problems I face that are similar to fears and troubles that other teens in the world might have.

            While experiencing adolescence, you will be confused at times, unsure of yourself or unwilling to believe that you can do something. These feelings of being lost and bewildered at your surroundings will fade as you gain confidence in yourself. Every teenager knows the feeling of doubt, especially when thinking about themselves and things involving each other. Problems are natural in lives, but teenagers- children- should not have to confront such serious issues as those addressed in this essay.

Self Assessment: I am working to overcome my problem of thinking things before I write and sometimes skipping words. I think I do a good job with details and elaborating on sentences. One weak point is making sure sentences fit together and flow. I would give myself an A- for this essay.

Teen Troubles

An Essay on Problems That Teenagers Experience

Pine Point School

8th Grade English

Jennifer Carroll

       (TS) Teenagers are complicated creatures, at the most fragile stage of life where every action they take or word they speak isn’t the correct one. Many teenagers face serious problems in their day to day lives. Some teenagers have unstable and dangerous home life. They may put in predicaments where they are abused physically and emotionally every day. They could be neglected, therefore showing up late or not at all to school or activities some days. Also, a lot of teens have to deal with peer pressure every day. Their friends might want them to smoke, or drink or do something that they’re uncomfortable with in order to look “cool”. These messy situations often lead to the teen in question succumbing in order to keep his or her friends. Lastly, many teenagers are very self conscious. They can feel like they aren’t pretty, or strong or smart enough. These feelings can escalate from self consciousness to serious medical issues like anorexia, bulimia and even suicide. Lots of teenagers have very serious and complex problems in their life, and it’s important to help them through their troubles, whether they are your child or simply your friend.

         (TS) Being a teenager myself, I understand many of the problems that teenagers all over the world face. One problem that I am facing is the thought of going to Stonington High School next year. Having gone to Pine Point my entire life, the idea of leaving to go to a public high school is an extremely daunting prospect. I’m terrified for what the next year might bring. Another issue I face is going to Vermont for six weeks on my own over the summer. Usually, when I go to a camp, I’m with my twin brother or a friend, and I never stay for as long as six weeks. But when I leave this summer I’m entirely by myself, and have no one I know waiting for me at camp. These are a few of the problems I face that are similar to fears and troubles that other teens in the world might have.