Post by Kholdstare01 on Jan 31, 2007 22:26:53 GMT -5
Tuesday was our TAKS English and Language Arts Field Test (I dunno why they do a field test... it doesn't even count towards anything...)
Anywho, no one wants to take this test so most everyone skipped school that day (there were only 11 people in my testing room).
Everyone is at school when they don't want to, doing a stupid test that they don't wanna take.
Therefore, the essays that they write usually reflect that. Instead of answering the prompt, they write about how they don't want to be there or they write something totally unrelated (my friend wrote his essay in German).
So for mine, I decided to answer the prompt, but in a different way. I wrote a short story that seems to have no meaning, but in the end it all comes together!
So read on! And you're 95% guaranteed to LOL.
MARY OF BLAH
PROMPT: Write about a time when you made yourself heard.
Mary lived in the wonderfully nondescript town of Blah. She was an orator, and had many revolutionary ideas that could change the world. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, she was also a mute, so she had no way to communicate her ideas.
Oh yeah, and did I also mention that she had no hands? Because that’s kinda important. That way you know that she didn’t use sign language and couldn’t write.
So… Mary; mute; minus manus.
GOING ON!
It was sunny out in Blah, which was perfectly normal. It was also 73 degrees, which was also normal. A man was falling out of the sky, which was not.
This man’s name was John. As he was falling he let out his parachute, which did nothing. John fell, and fell, and fell, and with no more polysyndeton, hit the ground, dead. Luckily a backup man fell out of the sky with a parachute that did work. His name was Luke. Luke and Mary had never met. They were like two butterflies who had also never met. Luke let out his parachute and floated gracefully down to earth exactly the way a whale wouldn’t.
He landed near Mary’s house and rang the doorbell (I said she was mute, not deaf). Mary opened the door and looked out at Luke, who stood in front of her about as tall as a 6 ft. tree. She kicked the door three times, which in her own language meant “Who are you?”.
Luke told her that he was from the future and knew that it was his destiny to come to Mary, because in the future she would become a great orator. But in order to accomplish this, Luke had to come to her in order to give her the Subcutaneous Laryngeal Amplifying Peripheral, or SLAP for short. This device would enable Mary to speak.
In order to keep from explaining all the time paradoxes involved with time travel, Luke affixed the SLAP to Mary’s throat and left.
Mary then went on to become a great orator, ending violence on earth and saving the world with her revolutionary ideas.
Anywho, no one wants to take this test so most everyone skipped school that day (there were only 11 people in my testing room).
Everyone is at school when they don't want to, doing a stupid test that they don't wanna take.
Therefore, the essays that they write usually reflect that. Instead of answering the prompt, they write about how they don't want to be there or they write something totally unrelated (my friend wrote his essay in German).
So for mine, I decided to answer the prompt, but in a different way. I wrote a short story that seems to have no meaning, but in the end it all comes together!
So read on! And you're 95% guaranteed to LOL.
MARY OF BLAH
PROMPT: Write about a time when you made yourself heard.
Mary lived in the wonderfully nondescript town of Blah. She was an orator, and had many revolutionary ideas that could change the world. Unfortunately, as fate would have it, she was also a mute, so she had no way to communicate her ideas.
Oh yeah, and did I also mention that she had no hands? Because that’s kinda important. That way you know that she didn’t use sign language and couldn’t write.
So… Mary; mute; minus manus.
GOING ON!
It was sunny out in Blah, which was perfectly normal. It was also 73 degrees, which was also normal. A man was falling out of the sky, which was not.
This man’s name was John. As he was falling he let out his parachute, which did nothing. John fell, and fell, and fell, and with no more polysyndeton, hit the ground, dead. Luckily a backup man fell out of the sky with a parachute that did work. His name was Luke. Luke and Mary had never met. They were like two butterflies who had also never met. Luke let out his parachute and floated gracefully down to earth exactly the way a whale wouldn’t.
He landed near Mary’s house and rang the doorbell (I said she was mute, not deaf). Mary opened the door and looked out at Luke, who stood in front of her about as tall as a 6 ft. tree. She kicked the door three times, which in her own language meant “Who are you?”.
Luke told her that he was from the future and knew that it was his destiny to come to Mary, because in the future she would become a great orator. But in order to accomplish this, Luke had to come to her in order to give her the Subcutaneous Laryngeal Amplifying Peripheral, or SLAP for short. This device would enable Mary to speak.
In order to keep from explaining all the time paradoxes involved with time travel, Luke affixed the SLAP to Mary’s throat and left.
Mary then went on to become a great orator, ending violence on earth and saving the world with her revolutionary ideas.
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