The Big Dipper

THE BOY HITCHHIKING on the back-country Kansas road was nineteen years old. He had been dropped there by a farmer in a Model T Ford who had turned off to the north. Then he waited for three hours. It was July and there were no clouds. The wheat fields were flat and went straight to the horizon. The boy had two plums and he ate them. A blue Plymouth coupe went by with a man and a woman. They were laughing. The woman had blonde hair and it was all loose and blew from the window. They didn't even see the boy. The strands of straw-colored hair seemed to be waving to him. Half an hour later a farmer stopped in a Ford pickup covered with a layer of dust. The boy clambered into the front seat. The farmer took

There was a couple named Kiowa and Muraco. They've been together for 8 years. They had a beautiful, healthy baby girl. Her name was Cherokee. Kiowa and Muraco loved Cherokee so much but they knew they couldn't keep Cherokee because they were poor. They had no money to take care of Cherokee. Everyday they struggled to find food and water. Days went by and Kiowa was starting to get sick. Each day it got worse and worse. Her skin was turning red, her eyes were puffy and she constantly coughed and sneezed. Kiowa told Muraco she didn't feel good and she felt like she was going to die soon. On the fourth day, Kiowa died and Muraco was left to raise Cherokee by himself. Muraco knew nothing about raising kids. He was scared. He didn't know what to do so he decided to find help.

During the days of sitting bull there were three boys, and the chief and all the men had left to go hunt, but the three boys had stayed behind because sitting bull had said the boy weren’t men yet so they had to stay back and watch the village.The three boys had decided that they were gonna go and prove they were man enough to hunt so the boy’s had left when the tribe was sleeping so they tried to go hunt and prove to their tribes chief sitting bull that they were men.

Once the mother turned on the tv all you heard was screaming. The mom screamed ”look what it's doing!!!!” her husband to come down stairs. When he came down stairs he was frightened. The Dad replied by saying “We need to move” the Mom and Dad started packing up their clothes,and all their supplies. Once they were all packed it was too late. It was already in there city. The parents sat down on the couch. The Mom screamed we're all going to die!!. The bus arrived at there house. There kids bursted through the door,crying their eyes out. They ran and hugged their parents. After a while they calmed down and watched the tv. The Mom was mostly scared about its huge feet. The dad wasn't worried about the feet he was scared on its teeth. The son asked why it was stomping on all the buildings. The

Sam was a very boy but he was very strong. He used to toss around and play with all the other kids even though he was the youngest boy in the tribe. One day after the men of the tribe went hunting a family of bears roamed into the area. Everyone started to panic. Everyone went and hid, except young Sam. Sam went right up

Brother is highly driven by love and carries deep connections to the outdoors and nature. Although, he also has difficulty with insecurity issues, guilt, and takes “the walk of shame” once his younger brother Doodle dies and guilt eats him alive. Out of all the stories we have read in class, and all the characters that came with them, Brother is the one that stood out to me and that I connected

Once he got home, he greeted his sister Ann. He joined her and their mother at the dinner table. Mother said, “How was work today, dear? I understand you must be hungry. Let us ait a while for your father to come home.”

There once was a boy named leafy who loved riding his bike. one day he was riding around and out of nowhere he hit a penny on the ground while he was braking. It made the back tire slide out and he fell. When he got back up he noticed that the penny was face up. He put it in his pocket and kept riding. As he turned the corner to his house he heard a noise as he looked back before he could see it there was a crow chasing him. he pedaled as fast as he could then an ally came. he crossed without looking and BOOM! Leafy was hit by a car. Leafy died in the hospital the next day. The next Friday was his funeral. when they were done they got to carrying the coffin. when they were carrying the coffin they said they could hear something but they thought

When they had all the cattle about 1,200 they head out on a long trip. The cattle drive was going as planned getting about 10-15 miles a day to get to a farm where they would get money for bringing the cattle. But two days in too the cattle drive there was a storm that started just with rain but started getting worse. It was so bad that the lighting and thunder made the cattle turn into a stamped. The cowboys tried to calm the cattle and keep them in a group it just wasn't working. When the storm was over they noticed that they had been missing 50 cows this was the worse thing they could ever encounter on the drive. So before going any further the 5 cowboys split up why one stays to watch the cattle. The four cowboys all came back that night with just 34 of the cows. The cowboys head on trying to find the cows again and still found nothing but in the distance there was a cliff leading to a valley. When they arrived to the valley to see where the cows were they saw nothing but 3 dead cows on the ground of that valley. When they went on there way again they saw nothing but flat land and the rest of their cattle this made the cowboys really happy that they could still get most of their cattle drive there safely. When they got to the farm the farmer gave them their money were they split between the 5 of them. Then they go to back home to see there children

During recess one day at school, Henry, being the little bear he was, felt like climbing a tree. Except, there were no big climbing trees on the playground. In fact, the only tree on the playground was a very small tree that was just planted. Henry walked over to it. He looked around to make sure there was no one watching him. He really wanted to climb it. I am sure this tree is strong enough to hold me, Henry thought. He reached up and grabbed a low branch and began to pull himself up.

It was a cold day in fall, jerry was planting crops. He needs help to plant and grow crops so his dad and jerry went to town to buy a horse. He gets a plow horse to held plow the field so they can plant seeds and grow food before winter destroys the the farmland. Jerry was in middle school, everyday after school he comes home to water the seeds he had planted. When they get the horse the horse is stubborn to get the collar around his the horse was jumping up and down. After a while they finally got the collar on the horse. His dad became very sick so he could not help him. They started to lose money because they had to buy medicine and seeds, jerry had to do something to help his family get money. So jerry went everyday after school to work

Me and grandfather were on our way to New York, and suddenly we started to hear a “crack” and then a “pop” and I was then getting worried. Just a few minutes later we heard a “pop” again and we went down hard. We crashed, the horse just gave up and went down. The farmer, his wife, and the baby died in the crash and thankfully me and grandfather survived. We took our belongings and walked through the woods to find a village. We saw everyone working, running, and yelling. We found someone and we asked him, “where are we?” He then replied in a frightening tone, “Football State, Yellow fever is here now!” Then me and grandfather went into panic mode…

The duck still sitting there like a dead fish. I stared at it. I started to think there was something fishy going on. I grabbed my net and I was getting ready to swing. I balled up my fist and, WAM! I got it in the net. For some reason it wasn’t moving at all. I pulled it in and realized it was made out of metal. All of the sudden the metal duck jumped in the water with the net still on its head. It only tugged me enough to get my feet wet, but by the the net had broke. The metal duck swam under water and for the rest of the day It was under the water. So the next day I came back to the pound to see if the metal duck was there again. When I got there I heard a stick brake so I looked when I looked I saw a glimpse of the duck so I decided to head back home and make a net. Not just any net a net made from vines. These weren’t normal vines they were these thick vines. The vines were as thick as a tree

One night the wife of the ancient chief had a dream about a Great Tree uprooted. So the next day they took out the tree from the roots and as the wife was looking down hole, she leaned to far and fell into the hole. As she fell from the sky the animals seen her fell and wanted to help her out. Once she fell down they realize that she could not survive in the water, so they wanted to swim deep into the water so they could earth for the woman so she could survive. Each animal took turns trying to swim into the water, each one got deeper and deeper but they all failed. A Muskrat wanted to try it out, the Muskrat set her mind into helping out the Sky Women so she could survive. As she got deeper and deeper and it was even pitch black in the water,

All four known early versions, including the 1045，1167，Yuan small font version, and the 1504 version, printed the same word of sinan zhī zhuó. The old character zhuó was replaced with the modern character sháo in the Tongjin version of the Ming Dynasty. Both zhuó and sháo were read as same meaning of the spoon instead of its handle. The character de of second phrase means the ground instead of bronze earth-plate. The character dǐ of third phrase means the spoon handle instead of spoon bottom. Mr. Liu Bingzheng and his sons believe that the sinan means the Big Dipper. Their opinion depends on no literature basis because of misunderstanding the Lun heng and "Big Dipper fu" written by Cui Shen. Prior to the Biao fu of the eighth century more