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“and coming in now, jason mayfield from the university of south alabama…”

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so full disclosure, I ran Talladega this morning – all 13 miles of it – so there’s no telling where this blog will go…

“the element” – basically, a book about doing what you love – and getting into it – that most adults give this idea up – there were some good moments in the book – the thing with the planets that the writer borrowed was ultra neat – basically, that the earth looks big compared to other planets – but compared to all of them – and stars, we’re like less than a spec on a picture – gives you perspective

“scene it, be it, write it” – I think this was the title – basically, a book that teaches you to teach kids writing prompts by having them act out the question – it obviously works well for stories – for a literary prompt, i’m not sure how well that would go – that said, i’d love to try it some time so remind me if you want to have acting/theater class some day with a quiz:)

“winning character” by tommy Bowden – former Clemson head coach – I enjoyed this book – I read it in a day – basically, just good advice about what it takes to be successful – to be a man – to be a leader – and a lot of that comes from the three priorities in your life – coach Bowden said that most people say 1. God 2. family and friends 3. something – but that the no. 3 is typically no. 1 – a realization that caused him to decide he couldn’t just give lip service to no. 1 having never read the Bible all the way through – so he started at age 40 and it took him three years – I thought that story was good

I finished fourth, by the way, in my age group – fourth is possibly the worst position ever:)

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72 thoughts on ““and coming in now, jason mayfield from the university of south alabama…””

  7. Ugh of course I came on here a few minutes before you posted your blog. And of course I said id remember to get back on so I could be first and then forgot. Ugh to bad. 7th grade still rules

  8. While Steven was waiting for the bus people were asking why him mom pulled him out of the dance. When he sat down Annette came over to his seat and asked if he was all-right? He said, “Everything is fine”. She cept on and on, but she new something was up. The next day the intercom asked Steven to go to the counselor. When he walked in Mrs. Galley said. ” Steven i called you in here because some of your teachers
    are concerned about you.” After a while he stilll did not tell her about Jeffery. Then the bell rang. Steven said, “Well I better get going!” Mrs. Galley said, “Not so fast!” “Do you know what the teachers do when your in P.E.?” Steven said, “No” Mrs Galley said, “they have a teacher meeting!” “Today you are going to be attending it!” When they get there he was forced to tell them about Jeffery.
    That is all for today read tomorrow!

  9. Steven had no other choice but to tell the teachers about Jeffery. Then he yelled my little brother has cancer. Jeffery thought in his mind, “If you ever want to shut up a room full of grown-ups that is what you say. Then all the teachers frowned and agreed that they would make fun packets to help him make up all the work he did not do. When he walked out Miss Palma followed her for a minute. He turned around and said in a stern voice, ” You read my journal, didn’t you!?” she said she did not read his journal. She said it was a student. Instantly he thought of Annette! So during math class he went to the bathroom and then stormed into the band room. She said, “Oh, hi Steven, are you ok?” He said sarcastically, “Oh yes I’m fine I’m more than fine– I’m peachy. I love getting led into a teacher meeting and dragged over the coals by half the grown-ups in the school because SOME GIRL RATTED ME OUT!!! She said, “What are you talking about?” Steven replied, “Oh, like you don’t know? I’m talking about how you ran and told Miss Palma!” She said, “Told her what?” he said. “About Jeffery’s cancer!” Annette stood still and quiet until she broke the silence by saying, “Jeffery has cancer!?” Steven said, “Oh my gosh, you really did not know!” Then on his way back to math he asked himself if it was not Annette who was it??? That is all for today read tomorrow!

  12. Can anyone figure out my name-quote today? This is sad. Why am I the only one blogging? This is Horribadible. Yes, that does come from the Delly-ictionary.
    Good luck with my quote… Whoever figures it out is a genius.
    TRUMPETS UNITE!!!
    Rachael

  14. rachael, novels will be turned in at the end of november – so plenty – sort of:) of time

    no clue on the quote:(

    so glad sarah b could work us into her busy schedule

    i’ve about finished my first – and probably last:) stephen king novel – i hate made up books:)

  15. No one knows where my quote originates…except Nicole.
    I am blogging in math while everyone els retakes a test.
    Cool! I’ll be back later… I’ve got to finish Ender’s game…

  16. Hey DUDES IM BACK!!! I am reading a new book but I haven’t gotten very far into it. so I am going to do one of my famous POEMS!!!

    Uh-Oh

    dropping puppies on key boards (Inside joke)
    mistaking homework pages
    losing pencils
    making spelling errors in English
    falling at random in font of a lot of people
    stuff spilling out of binder
    snapping at a teacher
    screaming your head off on a roller coaster
    again dropping puppies on keyboards svjhdgfbilfjhbsdkjfhgehj ( sorry )
    getting caught chewing GUM
    pulled aside by principle/teachers for your clothes
    mistaken some for someone else
    hug someone who doesn’t hang back
    forgetting some ones name and then guessing but guess wrong 🙂
    waving at a stranger they don’t wave back
    go for a hive five and then get shot down
    asking a teacher to go to the bathroom when they say no the walk of shame back to your desk :0

    SHOUT OUT 2 MY HOMIE Mr. Mayfield !!! ” The Ninja master Plan” still in action or A.K.A ” Forrest Gump”

  17. So…… first blog of my tiny seventh grade year. Woopty do. Okay back to writinng something MEANNINGFUL that might help improve my own education.

    From my book “Patterns for Colledge Writinng”(thanks to Mr.Maf), I’m now up to the technique of “reading visual text”. which is like 30 pages in( yeah comitment).

    *visual text-a photograph, an advertisement, a diagram/graph/chart, or a work of art.

    *instead of identifying elements like particular words or ideas, you look for visual elements.

    *visual elements include
    -use of color
    -arrangement of shapes
    -contrast of size or lightness vs. darkness

    The rest of that section is just a bunk of stuff concerning the “questions” that the reader may have about the visual text( better known as a picture).

  18. hi people. I dont get to read much b/c marching band controls my life right now. 🙁 So I get to do a poem! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!

    Kelli sighed before she headed to class, “Biology. I can’t stand it.”
    As she walked to class, everyone around her started to snicker. Kelli was confused. “Why is everyone laughing at me?” she was asking herself.
    Kelli could feel her face getting red. She walked to class and all the students and lockers turned into a blur around her. Finally she sat down at her desk as soon as the bell rang. During Biology, Kelli couldn’t think straight. She kept wondering why everyone was laughing at her. “KELLI! snap into it! If you want a better grade in here, I suggest you get with the program!!!” The teacher said.
    “Sorry Mr. Seda,” Kelli replied.
    Kelli moped through her work for the rest of the day. When she got home. she rushed to her computer to e-mail her best friend Kendall… But her older sister Kaitlynn beat her to it. Kelli muttered some words at her sister as she walked back to her room.
    “Well, I guess it’ll have to wait ’til tomorrow,” sighed Kelli.

    That’s all for today!!!! P.S. band peeps: I DID NOT BREAK THE CAMERA IN NEWS CREW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IT JUST RAN OUT OF BATTERY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
    geez how many times do i have to say that.

  23. Rachael, I cant believe you said horribadible. Terrabadible for Tre. Those were great days. (the ice cream was best) SWEETTHANG! no one will ever know unless they went to Shelby and was on the B.O.B team, or if you were on the Wilsonville B.O.B team- and Rachael as for your “name quote” yes, yes I do understand!

  24. Time passed Jeffery is still sick. Steven’s parents weren’t paying any attention to Steven. Steven said, “I could have sat in the middle of the kitchen floor rubbing 2 sticks together over a pile of dynamite blocks and gasoline cans. He got all his make up work done. He asked himself why are they making me do all this busy work while Jeffery’s white blood cell count is still low? who cares about listing the 1st 10 presidents when my brother has another spinal tap on Friday?What possible use is the FOIL method of multiplying binomials, when my brothers gums are bleeding every time he tries to brush his teeth? Now when everything is clearing up with Jeffery and his school Steven gets the flu!:( His mom did not want Steven to get Jeffery EVEN MORE SICK!!! So he went to go stay with his grandmothers house. Lets just say they do not have any electronics!
    That is all for today read tomorrow!

  28. Heyyyy!!! I know all yall missed me on here yesterday. But that’s okay, IM HERE!!!! I’m going to do two blogs today for yesterday’s ill do a poem and then for today I’ll talk about to new book im reading

    Monday:
    It’s a sunny day,
    happy and warm.
    You wouldn’t think something so bad could happen,
    on such a beautiful day.
    I’ve cried I don’t know how many time,
    that’s why I wish it was raining,
    so the rain could disguise my tears.
    But I guess i try to smile,
    I know you’d want that.
    I’ll smile away the tears,
    while your absence tears my heart a part

  29. PAGE 29 AND STILL LEARNING!!!!! So now the new technique of the day is invention(aka prewritng). Most people know prewrighting as the build up of an essay or passage. It is……… but you also have to know the material, what the essay is suppose to be about, and its the limits the assignment has.
    Understanding it as soon as you start it will save alot of time and stress.

  30. Today:

    I am reading that Steve Jobs book you talked to us about and so far it has talked about his childhood and one of his past memories. That memory right now is just pretty much about when he was in grade school/middle school. He was like a lot of kids these days: He was smart, but he really didnt feel like learning. His dad was a mechanic so he was always around stuff being built PLUS when he got older he met this guy who taught him stuff about taking stuff a part and putting it back together and stuff like that. And he got into a program where he later on saw a real computer (laptop) thingy.

    SOOOOOO yeah, sorry this blog is so bad, I’ll do better ones the rest of the week i promise, I just am in a hurry

  31. since of coarse my last one was short and pitiful(that and there weren’t any definitions), I’m going to the next term.

    newest term is…(drum role for three secondss and)… LENGTH!!!

    The length is basicly just all of the work al how many pages you write. the lenth is clearly said by all your teachers, whether its the # of pages or how many paragrapes. The yunger you are the less the teacher gives you. Mainly because the level you’re at.

    When in colledge, it’s no longer 5 paragraph essays, the standard writing is about 4 or 5 pages. the professors do this 1.)to test your abilities and writing level 2.)to get you to be very discriptive and detailed about the subject of which you are writing about.

    If there is no real limit to paragraphs/pages you have to write, try concidering what the assignment is asking. If it’s just a summary of a chapter or an article, it should at least 2 paragraphs, just to be on the safe side. If it’s an analysis of a peom, it should be longer than the poem itself.

  32. Heyyyyyyyyy peeps! So looking for a new book to read any ideas Mr. mayfield? Or anyone? So here is a poem.

    “Dawg”
    Dropped on keyboards. (Hehe)
    A way to greet ‘SUP DAWGGGG’
    Always has the WIREdest name (see what I did there?!)
    Like Forrest, Muffins, and Nicholas?
    Full of passion and love.
    A great friend and companion.
    Always by our side

  33. Still working on Tom Sawyer, unfortunately my Kindle died while i was at band practice (Trombone: wah, wah, waaaaaaaaaah). Rain is awesome! Mr. Grigsby, who didn’t eat Amanda, let us all go at least 20 minutes early (Except for Amanda, I don’t know her whereabouts…), after we did a full run of the most awesome song we play (musically and choreographically, TRUMPET SUICIDES, THE SWAY, AND THE POWERBLOCK! Marching band rules!) named Dream On by Aerosmith, though Mr. Mayfield you probably already knew that. Even though we’re going to get our heads handed to us on a silver platter, We the band are going to go out there and rock them away… TRUMPETS ASSEMBLE!

  34. Sorry i am blogging kinda late i was completely swallowed up in a book 🙂

    any way i have gotten farther in Wonder. August is kinda moody ever since he started going to school. He decided he would wear his BLEEDING SCREAM costume instead of his BOBA FETT costume for halloween at the last minute. So his best friend thought he wasn’t there that day and starts talking about how weird his face is. August gets so upset that he fakes a stomachache to get out of school. He avoids Jack b/c he is soooooooooooo mad at him. I really like this book because the point of view changes to other people during the book. the point of view changes to the sister via. Via has been moody as well. Her best friend since kindergarten starts hanging out with the “popular group”. So she is left with no one. she then becomes best friends with the nerds–like me!! 😀 So this is where i’ll stop 4 now!!

    by the way…. I LOVED the claim/rebuttal thing today. THAT WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😉

  36. I’m reading ground zero and it’s about this guy who was in the twin towers when they were attacked. He is one of the people that survived the perilous attack. It starts when his boss calls him in on his off day and he gets there and they hear an explosion in the other tower and Wayne, his boss says somebody brought a bomb in only to view a new video of the plane crash.

  37. What I’m Reading:
    This week I’m reading a book called I Funny by James Patterson. this book is about a kid in a wheelchair who moves from his old home Corwall to Long Beach, NY. He lives with his aunt and uncle who are not funny at all. They don’t even smile. The reason the book is called I funny is because in the book the kid in the wheelchair wants to be a comedian.
    If I had to pick a theme for this book I would say that this book is humerous, and that it was written to entertain you. The reason i think it is humerous is because one, it is full of jokes and two, aside from the jokes there aren’t really any serious moments in the book.

  38. Hey you guys I AM FINALLY AT SCHOOL !!!:) Haven’t had much time to read but I will tell you some about what I am reading so far. Its called ” Hearts in Atlantis” by Stephen King 🙂

    Bobby has an adult friend so to speak that moved In up starts. Bobby loves to read and his mother is this woman that has this air about her, she has many secrets, she loves her son even though she may not show it all the time, and she works a lot and has trust issues. Bobby has a select group of three fiends including him self and the only girl in his excluded group of friends likes him like a lot but bobby is a type a how do you say ummm…. oh yah a NERD his other friend S.J well he is a typical kid but he cusses way to much :). Now back to bobby’s adult friend “Ted” his wear a bouts are kind of unknown this far into the book. Bobby is saving up for a bicycle ted offers him a job to read the paper to him every day his mother agrees with hesitation. Ted tells bobby one more thing to do circle the block one time a day for ‘ Low men in yellow rain coats” bobby though he was talking nonsense but he was describing the same thing his friend S.J had saw at the park he told him to watch out for certain signs that is how you know they are ” here”. Signs – Lost pet posters ” call IRoquois 7-7661, hand printed notes thumbtacked upside down, hopscotch patterns moons or stars chalked near them, kite tails hanging from telephone lines.

    SHOUT OUT TO MY HOME SLICE Mr. Mayfield 🙂

  39. I’m reading ground zero and I’m to the part where John has just heard about the crash and he then sees another plane and it crashes above them. The girl he likes goes to the widow and tells him goodbye and that she’d been planning about committing suicide for a while. He tells her that he loves her and then she reaches for his hand and a passerby bumps into her and you know what happened next. He grabs the guy by the sirt and hangs him over the side, the dude starts crying and john slams him into the wall, sparing his life because he didn’t mean any harm even though what he did was a terrible mistake. There’s ten minutes

  40. Steven got a really low grade in math because he missed when he was out when he got home he was mad at his mother so he did not call he when he got home she was in Philadelphia. She was so scared that she made Steven’s dad come home to see if everything was ok. When his dad got home and found Steven practicing in the basement he was angry. Then 2 more days after that Steven’s mom came home. Steven explained that the only reason that he scored low was because Renee (his tutor for math) had a cold and he had to protect Jeffery so he sent her home. His mom understood and said, “Just don’t let it happed again.” He was trying to figure out how to raise money because the cost of Jeffery’s treatment was really high! Then he had the perfect idea and then Annette fell down a flight of stairs! Read tomorrow!

  41. Now on journal three! wooh. New accomplishment, accpecially for sad ophan girls. Okay……..brain fart. Wait, I got it, the purpose.information

    *purpose-reason why you right it; limits what you say and how you say it; determine what information to include or evoke a particular respose in a specific audience.

    *classifications of purposes.
    -expressive: conveying thoughts or feelings
    -informative: informs reader about something
    -persuasive: trying to convince reader
    *besides these basic purposes, you can also right to…:analyze, entertain, hypothesize, assess, sumerize, question, report, recommend, suggest, evaluate, descride, recount, request, instuct, and so on.

    *Also, you can have multiple purposes. For example if you write about the Jacks in Columbiana,you are not ronly trying to INFORM the reader, but you are also ANALYZE the service and overall food and RECOMENDING that the reader try there foods.

  42. Monday- Soapstone
    S- The speaker is First person when the chapter is about Alex Cross but changes to third person limited when the chapter is about The Butcher
    O- James Patterson could have written this story based off of a certain case on a serial rape/murderer or just because he had the idea
    A- the book was meant for teenagers and young adults
    P- James Patterson’s purpose for writing Alex Cross was to tell readers a story about a cop and the criminal he is chasing
    S- crime, justice, law
    TONE- The tone is suspenseful right now because the butcher just got trapped by a mob’s hitmen and one of Alex’s friends got stabbed and almost died

    Tuesday- The Butcher was almost killed by two hitmen from a mob that he made mad. The Butcher’s name is Mike Sullivan and he has a family for his cover. He has three sons and they all play baseball and soccer together. One day at the baseball field with his sons, his oldest kid asks him what’s on his shirt. He looks down and it is a laser sight for a gun. He ducks and bullets hit the backstop. His sons run for the dugout and he runs the other way so that they don’t get hit. Sullivan got behind his humvee and shot one of the men in the ankle. He went down and the other took a few steps back. Sullivan got in his car and drove at the man as he was running towards his kids. Sullivan pinned him against the backstop and killed him.

    Trent

  43. Heyyyyyyyy peeps. So still thinkng about a book to read so nothing right now. So here is another poem.

    “Survivor”
    One stands above the rest.
    One made his way to the top.
    They brought power and skills.
    At first stranded.
    Now high class living.
    How?
    Because of one.
    He started with one hut.
    Now he’s sitting in a skyscraper.
    How did one get to tons?
    He built it all.
    All of This city.
    One person.
    Shows courage and no fear.
    One person..

  44. Wednesday- Alex Cross’s new job as a therapists gets him involved with a lady and her abusive husband, who is a cop. After a few sessions, Alex decides that he needs to go and talk with her husband. He is in the locker room with a bunch of other cops when Alex gets there. Alex embarrasses him and he throws the first punch. Alex hits him back and beats him up, only getting hit once in the jaw. Over the next few days, His client never called him and on their next visit she said she moved out. Then Alex told her about their fight and she hadn’t heard about it. That was their second-to-last visit because her problem was solved and she was ok. Alex’s old partner, John Sampson, asked for his help on the serial murder rapist case and he agreed, even though Nana mama told him to get out of that line of work.
    Thursday-Creative- My little brother and sister, who are twins, love watching CSI and shows like that. Christmas was coming up and I got them an amateur fingerprint kit. They decided that they should start with the attic door. They found a lot of prints on it because we never cleaned all of the fingerprints off of our doorknobs like normal people. After they took the prints they cleaned it with an alcohol wipe and moved on. They did every other doorknob in the house, along with many other things, and had the same results. They went back to the attic door and dusted it again. There were six sets of fingerprints but we only have five people in our house and no one else had been in that we knew of. My mom saw them and told us not to touch the doorknob and to clean it off. After that we waited a few days and found a set of prints, meaning that someone was coming in our house. My dad sat with a gun one night and when he saw somebody he unloaded his whole clip. He shot the man at least seven times through the chest but the stranger was unfazed.

    Trent

  45. HEYO :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

    Truth

    It boils deep down inside of me.
    I did it.
    I know I did.
    I shan’t tell.
    It would kill me.
    The consequence for the innocent grows.
    I am in the clear.
    Or am I?
    My conscience rages on.
    “YOU did it.”
    “HE didn’t.”
    “Your a LIAR.”
    I fight through.
    One whole week.
    Suspension, falls for the innocent.
    I am being destroyed inside by my conscience.
    I am kept awake all night, every night.
    I try to fight it off once again, every time it arises.
    I’m sure that my insides are rotting away.
    I realize that I should give up this battle.
    No.
    Not giving up.
    That thought was my plan until…hmm…about three seconds later.
    I ran to the principal’s office, yes, a full sprint.
    I told the news, and my inside felt like it grew new.
    However, it was crushed again by my consequence.
    Well, it is well deserved.
    I didn’t tell the truth.

  46. I always had an active imagination and in bad times like this it was never good. I imagined the guys heavy boots trudging around the cellar encircling us. I could just hear the sound in my head of his hands scraping against the walls. I then looked at Alaina. She put her hand to her ear and pointed to the walls. I knew that meant listen. I wasn’t imagining the sound of fingers scraping against the walls, it was really there. I smelled an odd, familiar smell, like something I hadn’t smelled since I was little. I wasn’t sure who it was. I closed my eyes and squeezed Alaina’s hand tight and she did the same thing. We were terrified tears were running down our faces. There was only one light in the cellar. Neither of us felt like turning it on or talking. We were too scared that guy was still out there. I was really scared for my family and Alaina’s as well. The whole night we sat there.
    The next day we woke up all groggy from last night. We still had terrified looks on our faces. Fortunately there was cereal in the cellar for if there was a storm or something. Unfortunately, it was raisin bran. Alaina and I both went ahead and ate it. Neither of us could eat it without spilling it a couple times from all the shaking. As risky as it was I slowly opened the creaking cellar door and slowly peeked out. I saw nothing but the leaves blowing in the wind making everything even scarier. I motioned for Alaina to come on. There was no truck out. We looked both ways as if we were crossing the street. I glanced at the front door to the house. It was unlocked and slightly open, good a quicker way to run in.

  47. TUESDAY
    What Ashleigh didn’t think of was how it got unlocked and was slightly open.
    Once they ran inside all the lights were off. Ashleigh could still feel Alaina beside her. They ran through the house locking all the doors and windows. It took a while to get everything locked because these were some hard doors to lock. Each lock had some rust on it. Alaina and Ashleigh could easily say this is one of the worst things that could happen it their life. The night before they had gotten chased by a mad-man, spent the night in the cellar, and now they are trapped in the house with no one to protect them, but themselves. The answering machine started beeping like hospital monitor.
    “Maybe it’s my parents, they always call” Alaina whispered as she pressed the button.
    A crackly voice came out of the answering machine said “Ashleigh, you have different problems now, are you happy?”

  48. Guess what day it is??? Guess. What. Day. It. Is.
    ^
    It’s the day that kids realize hump day/pre-hump day/post-hump day is a thing of the past that you don’t have to do every Wednesday.

    Ha did you know when Steve Jobs went to high school his classes were full of almost all white kids, a few black and a hand full of Asians (oh yeah, go peoples like me!!!!! People who are supposed to be smart, but arent)

    Steve Jobs also started building a computer (getting parts he didnt have from that guy that ran that program) he also started making friends with alot of people (who later on would make a giant impact on his life)

    Yeahhhhh bye

  50. What’s up guys, I am reading (for the moment) Halt’s peril. In which the main character’s mentor, named Halt, has been shot by a poisoned crossbow bolt by assasins hired by the leader of the outsider cult, Tennyson, to be his body guards. The assasin’s group had at first 3 then The first one died in a trial by combat in book 8, the second one died in the drowned forest by both Will’s (the main character) and Halt’s arrows, Will and Halt both are king’s rangers so they have trained with their longbows for years and can shoot a dime off a tee if they wanted to. The third one on the other hand died when will threw his knife at him and killed him and Will saved Halt. TRUMPETS ASSESEMBLE!!!

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