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Upcoming prompts

12. Hunting. Share your favorite hunting stories, or tell how you feel about hunting. Alternate: The Big Loss. Describe a moment in which your team lost and what happened. Deadline: FRIDAY.

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Matt Eaton

God 1 and 2

God 1 and 2
Matt Eaton
English Honors
4/30/08

God 1 and 2.
Brothers in arms.
Kill streak buddies.
Adrenaline junkies.
40 to 5 is the least we can do.
Better watch out man we’re coming for you.
God 1 and 2.
Brothers in arms.
Brothers for life.

The Last Time. . .

The Last Time…
Matt Eaton
English
2/6/08
This is the last time I’ll ever sit in the washing machine.
This is the last time I’ll ever drink and drive.
This is the last time I’ll ever read a book in old English.
This is the last time I’ll ever skip homework.
This is the last time I’ll ever trust someone with a secret.
This is the last time I’ll ever write a poem.

Faking It

Faking It
Matt Eaton
English Prompt
1/29/08

Don’t fake a piece of work.
A fake is just a quick escape from the truth.
Sooner or later your “fake” will catch up with you.
You can’t fake something forever.
Eventually you make a mistake.
Then you try to hide your mistake so people don’t know you faked.

If you make a mistake don’t cover it with another fake.

Who I look up too

My Greatest Influence
Matt Eaton
12/11/07
Application

The greatest influence in my life is my Dad. He is always there for me and is always looking ahead of me to help me to make the best choices.

Who I look up too

My Greatest Influence
Matt Eaton
12/11/07
Application

The greatest influence in my life is my Dad. He is always there for me and is always looking ahead of me to help me to make the best choices.

Backyard

Backyard
Matt Eaton
12/11/07
English
The back yard is a place for many activities.
Back yards are places for friends.
Back yards are our home field for sports.
Back yards are a great place to practice almost any activity.
Back yards are safe familiar places.
Back yards are many different sizes and shapes.

A back yard is the back bone of any child's creation.

Closet

Prompt 12
Closet
Matt Eaton
English
11/27/07

surviving

Surviving-The Flood
Tapping
Druming
Pounding
Thundering
These are the sounds of the rain.
Swishing
Swirling
Gurgling
These are the sounds of the water as it rises.
Looking
Gathering
Preparing
This is what people are doing.
Running
Sloshing
Stubbling
Wading
This is the sounds of people running from the flood.
Climbing
Waiting
Hoping
Watching
This is surviving the flood.

Performance

Performance

By Matt Eaton
Woodstock Union High School, Grade 10

Performance is key.
Performance is necassary for life.
Performance is what we need to be better than someone else.
Better your performance and win.
Never lose.
Never give up.
Always try your best.
Better your performance.

JFK Assassination

JFK Assassination
Matt Eaton
9/8/07
History

Ghost Poem

Prompt 4
Ghosts
By Matt Eaton

G is for ghastly creatures that haunt late at night.
H is for hellish, devilish, beasts.
O is for oh snap.
S is for Shazzam get away from me!!
T is for “that’s what you get ghost”.
S is for silently creeping through the night, circling around for another attack.

Point of view

Promp3
Point of view
Matt Eaton
9/30/07
English
Point Of View
My name is Jon Smith and I’m going to take you through a tour of my daily life. I live in Chicago during the early 1930’s. Chicago is getting colder as winter moves into the city. The lake is sending cold air whipping into the very middle of the city and the snow is starting to fall.

Expectations

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