I'm Afraid This is Goodbye... Thursday, June 12th, 2014

I'm afraid this will be my last post... ever... in the school year. But then there's summer, so who cares!! I was going to write about something, but I have decided not to so I don't know why I'm still typing this, but whatever.


Well, I finally have my firs debit card!! Technically! And it only works at Starbucks. But (w)hatever, I don't really care, it still counts. Yeah...



Well I hope you all have a wonderful summer, and I'll hopefully keep you guys, the people reading my blog, posted on what's going on.


Sincerely,
Simon

P.S. Peace out.

LOOK WHAT I FOUND!! 6-9-14 Edition____Year Round Schools 1.15.14-Draft

    Michigan's should NOT go on to a year-round school schedule, because they would end up learning less. The year-round schools give kids too much stress, and makes it hard for them to work for a long time. And the more vacations allow more chances to forget classes, though the traditional schedule has less vacations, meaning less chances to forget.
      Lots of people don't go on vacation during the school year, because they will miss a lot of work, and have to make it up, so that's why lots of people go on vacation over the summer, because then they don't need make-up work. Another thing is Summer Camp. Lots of kids go to summer camp, so they can learn more on a topic in school, like music camps, or art camps and lots of other things, like math camp. Kids also like to be on a swim team, but that wouldn't be possible if there was a year round schedule.

Literrary Essay-2014-6-9

Blood on the River:

Literary Essay by:

Simon Oliver Stevens

(Claim)

“I take another deep breath. My anger is focused. I have made a decision. I have a plan. I believe Reverend Hunt would approve-I have made this decision out of love.

I am going to steal a baby.”

This is quote out of Blood on the River, Chapter Twenty-Five, page 208. It helps support my claim that 'Samuel has found a new family, and he very dearly cares for them.'

(Reasons)

(Reason 1) “I take another deep breath. My anger is focused. I have made a decision. I have a plan. I believe Reverend Hunt would approve-I have made this decision out of love.

I am going to steal a baby.”

One reason, Sam steals Ann's baby, Virginia, and brings her to Point Comfort, is to force Ann and John Laydon to follow him to Point Comfort, because he wants them to be safer. Sam does this because he believes that Point Comfort will be much safer than the palisade, which it ends up being.

(Reason 2) Another reason, of why I think my claim is genuine, is that, in the book, it says “After she heard what happened to Captain Ratcliffe, Ann begged Captain Davies to retract my sentence,” (Page #216). Ann does this, I think, because Sam is the people of Point Comfort's only chance to survive. Another reason I think Ann did this, is because Sam was like a son to Ann and John.

(Reason 3)

(Conclusion)

In conclusion, any of Samuel's intentions, we meant to help his new family, because he loved his new family, because he had been an orphan for most of his life, and he finally found a family that he loved, so he didn't want them to get hurt and die, so he was trying to help them, which, in the end, he ended up doing.