Category Archives: Humanities

A Christmas Surprise

Hinges move and footsteps come out of the room next door. Then I see a big shadow. It it my grandpa. I hear footsteps going towards the front door. It opens and and then closes. The footsteps get quieter and quieter. Then my eyes close again and I don’t get up again for a while. When I do I hear crackles that sound like they are coming from the stove. The crackles sound like perfect breakfast. Then my eyes close again. This time waking up isn’t so peaceful. Beep, Beep, Weo, Weo, Beep, Weo. My mom reaches over and picks me up. She opens the front door and runs. When we reach the bottom, sirens hurt everyone’s ears. Firemen are running in and out of the “burning building”. When they all come out of the building they say “Someone made the smoke alarm go off by cooking eggs. My mom looked down at me. Grandpa slowly made his way over to the firemen. “Woops!” he said. Everybody looked mad. I looked over at my mom’s watch it said 7:00 A.M. The date said December 25th. That was a bad Christmas for everybody in the building.

Living A Nightmare

My babysitter and I were sitting on my bed, waiting for my mom to come home. I was staring at the wall. “When is mommy coming home?” I asked. I was four years old just learning my ABCs. I didn’t really know what to think of the world. I didn’t have a dad to rely on, so I only had my mom. “Mommy you’re home!” I said when my mom walked in. She put her purse down on the table. She took my babysitter into her room to talk to her. My mom didn’t look right. Something in her eyes looked like she was about to cry. I was scared. I didn’t even know how to read and now my mom is crying. I had no idea what to think. All I knew is that my life was about to change.

When my mom was done talking to my babysitter she came over to me. She had a tear dripping down her cheek. Then she pulled me into a big tight hug. I hugged her right back and we stood there for a while. My babysitter was in the kitchen staring at me. Then I started to cry. I had no idea what was going on. Fear took over me. Finally I asked my mom what was going on. She brought me into her room and sat me down. She said, “I have a sickness called cancer.”

“Are you going to get better?” I asked.

She hesitated and then said, “I don’t know.” I started to cry again.

I thought five years into the future. My mom would be all better. We would go to Disney World and have the best time ever. We would go on the haunted house at least five times. I would convince her to go on Splash Mountain. I would force her to go on it eight times. We would laugh. We would play, and this nightmare would be over. I couldn’t imagine my life without my mom.

Now six years have past and my mom is all better. The experience of my mom having cancer was a bad one, but it did make me stronger as a person. The experience also made me realize how lucky I am. It also made me be more thankful for my health. Overall it was horrible experience, but in the end since my mom is all better now it probably impacted me in a good way. The experience also made me closer to my mom.

We went to Disney World and we had the best time ever. I remember going on splash mountain a bunch of times. The first ride my mom was so scared when we went of the big drop, she roared. It was so funny. We cracked up the whole rest of the water slide. Now that is one of our inside jokes. I love my mom so much that there is nothing in this world can explain it.

Social Studies Activity

The activity that we did in social studies was to put events in chronological order. My group had trouble figuring out when the events that were smaller and weren’t talked about for a long time in the video. Such as: When coal was made. By putting these events in order I learned when all the events that weren’t mentioned very much in the video took place. It also helped remember what the words chronology and chronological meansphoto better.