In Defences of Skateboarding: A teenager's manifesto

In Defences of Skateboarding: A teenager's manifesto!!! Skateboarding might be one of the most stereotypical sports there is. If you play basketball and someone says "how, your to short?" you can just be like there is other positions. Skate boarding is completely different because people do not think of tall people, or fast runners. No, they think of nasty, sweaty, tattoo covered people who say rude things and have rude actions.

Most people that skate started off as kids going to a local skate park and learning a few tricks. Then, they grow up fall in love with it and do it until there 50 just like some old guys at the skate park. Everybody loves it that's out there. It is really dangerous, but that's just like soccer, or volleyball just in different ways. I think because so many people are concerned about obesity and still preventing their kids from exercising. I guess I'm in between being in defence of skating and fitness.

Through the upcoming school year, i have two English goals. The first one is to be able to spell better and put it into my writing. Right now its best that i type everything because my spelling and handwriting are both so awful. I just need to practice and hopefully learning new words will give me more options that it could use to both spell more words correctly and improve my writing with a better broader vocabulary.

The other thing is to read faster, more, and comprehend it better. I read extremely slow and do not absorb all of the information that is in the text. I feel like the more i read the better I'll get because practice makes perfect. I also need to read out loud when I'm at my house so if it is asked in class one day I'm not frightened. I think that both of thees goals can be achieved through just class room activities with some extra effort, but will be things we do in class.

In the novel The Absolutely True Story of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie, a young boy named Jounior is faced with difficulties throughout his life and now faces starting high-school. The one problem is that he is an Indian and wants to get a better education then on the reserve were nobody cares about education and nobody even cares about leaving anymore. Almost everyone on the reservation is poor, addicted to alcohal, or beats family members, its really rough. The kids grow up in hostial enviorments so they do the same things their parents did. Jonior sees things deffrently and finds hope for himself to get out. He also was born with fluid in his brain witch makes him more easy to head tramma, seziers, and has poor eye sight. So Jonior moves to a small privet white school and has major issues thrusted apon him.

Once he moves to his new school he has a hard time fitting in. It turn into a classic new kid story, were he does not fit in then meets a pretty girl and tries to impress her,then he gets into a fight what someone because thats all he knows, that makes people scared of him but sorta respect him at the same time. He tries out for the basketball team and makes the varsaty team in 9th grade witch is impressive. Things end up pretty well at school, but home is a compleatly differant story. His best friend, and the whole reservation despise him and beat him up because he "ditched the reserv. for white people." All together its a pretty great book that you need to read to compleatly understand, it has lots of twist and turns and funny details inbetween with a tarific ending that has to be read to be belived and enjoyed.