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Content | Role sheets for Literary Circles | Readings: Part One -Two | Final Project & Sign-off Form Newt's Journal Entry | Read Newt's Journal 2  | 1 firstname: will themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 11:03:45 journal It all happened so quick. I payed no attention to the storm outside because I was gitting some from big mapel, and then I just looked over and saw a house fall on this guy firstname: Nicole themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:53:50 journal I never realized how close you could be to life and death at one time. I watch those ants all the time, I just watch umm go about there regular bussiness. Now the ants home it's ruin,some are dead and the others are scattered all over the place. If we woulda made it to that barn we would been dead, but we didn't make there and we lived ( we really lived). It really makes you think firstname: Chris themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:52:43 journal Today my presious ants were killed by the brutal storm. I tried all I could but they all blew away I couln't save them.As mabel was carrying me away I watched in horror as they were blown all over the place. firstname: Shelly themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:51:16 journal I, Newt think if big Mabel never saved me I mite have been fubared,dead. I mean the storm ruined everyone it scattered the ant hill after the ants had worked so hard on it we find the dog sitting by his dead owner. The facts is that death is all around us no matter were you go if your time is up there is no cheating death. firstname: Michael themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:51:05 journal I can't believe that I destroyed those poor ants house. My own hand crushed their house like dough getting smahed under a rolling pin. Now they are probbly dead from the storm, just because of me ruining that ant hill. I hear a faint soud of a dog barking in the corner of my ear. Big Mabel and I rush over to a pile of rubble to see what happend. We stood there in shock seeing a man crushed to death, while his faithful pet lies beside him. I go to see if the man has any sign of life in him while the dog still stays at his side. If only I was able to be here earlier he would have probbly been alive now, playing with his dog. The sound of the storm rips threw the old fractured boards, as rain and wind whips past our bodies. I feal as if Big Mabel had taken advantage of me then. Just because I was seven years older doesn't mean that I don't have fealings too. I hated every minute of what she did to me. Afraid of telling her to stop, I went along with it. Now that the storm is over I am back to normal, but I will always have this memory in the back of my head. firstname: Krystal themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:49:13 journal I am lucky to be alive Jack dies today the big storm killed him. His house crushed him. Big mabel And me stayed really warm though. I had my first experiance with a women. I am now a man. And I feel like i've grown up all the sudden. It is all new and weird for me. firstname: Tim themes: Heroism Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:48:05 journal Today was an exciting day. It's a day to remember. Big Mable and I shared the most wonderful expirence in the cutting house. It was just magic.And just as the storm was tairing houses apart and killing people. even the ants I was playing with got blown away. I tried to save them but I couldn't. firstname: Shelly themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:47:12 journal I, Newt think if big Mabel never saved me I mite have been fubared,dead. I mean the storm ruined every it scattered the ant hill, we find the dog sitting by his dead owner. The facts is that death is all around us no matter were you go if your time is up there is no cheating death. firstname: Craig themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:46:51 journal I really love ants, I like to watch them build their mounds, and to watch them work except when it rains then I try to help them build their mound back up. It seemed like I could do nothing to help them because every time I built their mound the rain washed it away then Big Mabel came and made me leave the ants and as we were leaving I hit my leg on a plow and cut my leg open with out me knowing it untill I looked down and saw blood. firstname: lindsey themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:46:25 journal I saw a very sad sight today, my nieghbor wascrushed by his house. His house was crushed by the tonado that happened today. the man lay deadin the rubble of his destroyed house, yet his dog stood over him barking in confusion without a strach on him. They were in the same house and i dont understand how the dog lived and the man was killed. Pa sa says it was the mans time to go and not the dogs. He said god took him away. but i wonder how god desides when beings time to go is. firstname: Amber themes: Heroism Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:43:51 journal Ever since I was five I loved just to sit down by a ant hill,and watch the ants get to work Builing little houses. Then one day seven years later there was a cylonie. After seeing your ants for seven years evryday it was very hard for me to just get up and leave the ants and let them all die.I tryed to save the ants but Big Mabel wouldnt let me.I would of died.Then have the ants die firstname: Monica themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:43:31 journal I was so upset the day that the ants were blown away by the storm. I played there and watched the the ants working hard all day. Then it started to get windy and my ants' hill blew away. All ofthe work, days of it probablyseeing that they're so small and all. It made me realize about how quickley something can be taken away from you after you worked so hard for it. firstname: Mark themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:41:29 journal I think it is really strange how one minute I was sitting on the ground watching the my friends the ants and the next minute I was being carried by Big mabel searching for safety from the horrible storm that blew in so fast. The when we got to the Killin House another un-expected thing happened. So it's been crazy how my life has been all turnaround in a matter of a few minutes. I still think it's amazing how fast things in my life changed. Same thing happened with the ants and the man who got crushed in the house. Our whole town has been turned upside all because of this storm. It's fascinating how the world works isn't it ? firstname: Ian themes: Heroism Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:40:47 journal I, Newt, think that the scattering of the ants is a very unfair thing. I like the ants. I think they are remarkable creatures. I want them them to live. I want to save them. But I know I can not. It saddens me to think that ants will die and I can't do anything about it but watch. It would be impossible to save them. The storm will destroy the ants and their colony. I hate the storm for that. What is the storms place to determine the fate of these innocent creatures? firstname: Bobby themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:04:53 journal I could have died that day if big mabel wasn't there for me. I wanted to save those little ants and rebiuld their home. I started to get scared as we ran home . The sky was black as a midnight sky with no bight white moon to guide the way. why we were running i cut my leg really bad on a old plow so big mabel dragged me along while I limped. it got really bad so we ran into the old smoke house. I was freezing, big mabel told be to get naked while she wrapped me up in a old quilt. The next thing I knew was that her and I were both naked in this quilt and she was groaning. That was my first expierence with sex! when we woke up and looked outside everthing was apart it was a disaster! firstname: Bobby themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 10:04:38 journal I could have died that day if big mabel wasn't there for me. I wanted to save those little ants and rebiuld their home. I started to get scared as we ran home . The sky was black as a midnight sky with no bight white moon to guide the way. why we were running i cut my leg really bad on a old plow so big mabel dragged me along while I limped. it got really bad so we ran into the old smoke house. I was freezing, big mabel told be to get naked while she wrapped me up in a old quilt. The next thing I knew was that her and I were both naked in this quilt and she was groaning. That was my first expierence with sex! when we woke up and looked outside everthing was apart it was a disaster! firstname: Adam themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:52:47 journal I dont know why people die. They just do. Like when we found the dog and his owner. I can't figure why god would take him and not the dog. I mean he was a good man so why take him? Why not just take the dog and leave him? Dad always says god takes the good ones first. Why? I just can't put my finger on it. firstname: John themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:52:29 journal Big Mabel and I went inside to stay away from the storm. We got so cold that we had to share body warmth, you know got naked. We then made love, it was the best time of my life When we came out when it was safe, some drunken man was trying to shoot God. My father told me that everyone dies someday. firstname: brooke themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:52:17 journal It just happened. We didn't plan it at all. It was just the right moment. We where both naked, and I was turned on and I know she was too. I mean she wanted me to move closer to her. It just happened. I feel pretty good about it too. My first experience was with an older person and all. So lets just say Im pretty dang proud. I could just do it again. firstname: jamie themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:49:21 journal I really regret alot of things that I have done, expecially me and Big Mable, or the ants. I could have saved some of them at least. Big Mable was a very big mistake I should have never got with her, but I thought that it ws going to be thelast day of my life, so why not? firstname: Cal themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:48:08 journal pealpe should exept peaple for who they are and not for how much money we have or are nationalty. If we all exept instead of cousing war the world ould be a bettwer place tro live. firstname: Trevor themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:47:57 journal I feel terrable for all those ants that were swept away from the storm. I tried my best to save them, but I was forced away. If only big Mabel hadin't come, they mitght still be alive. Before the storm, I destroyed the hole, leaving no space for the ants to retreat to. Some must still be alive, not all could have died. firstname: jake themes: Heroism Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:47:41 journal when the storm came throw I was in the corn feild watcing the ants. i saw the wind blowing them all over the place I was up set, because there home was getting destroyed and they have just as mutch right to be hear as those selfish white folk that they are to good to get hurt by the storm but just as the ants did so did those white people. firstname: Kathy 5th hour themes: Heroism Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:46:00 journal I watching the ants when mable came and wanted me to leave I couldnt leave the ants they were a part of me and I grew up around them. If mable was going to save me then I felt as though I had to be a hero too and save the ants the deserved it just as much as I did. I saw them running for cover and at that point I had no choice or chance of daving the ants I had to go Big Mable was making me go. I fee as though a part of me is gone I wonder if they are all right? firstname: Andrew themes: Heroism Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:42:40 journal As i sit here and look down at my helpless little companions, i can't help but want to save them all. They have alwasys been here for me to observe and as the storm is rolling in I decide that I will risk my own life to help them. The wind is blowing them all around and ther mound is destroyed. What am I to do? All i know is that they are depending on me so I can't let them down. No, i have to save them... firstname: Lee themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:40:27 journal I felt that I was bringing a life into the word wile I coulde be dead at any moment.The storm was above us, we were making love to each other and not worrying about the storm outside. After the storm I took a look around. A dog was sitting next to a fallen house. I went over to investigate the are. The dog was sitting next to his dead owner. He showed threw sitting there that he cares for his owner in death as well as in life. investigate. firstname: Sarah:) themes: Acceptance: Self & Others Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:39:43 journal I left those ants scared that they were not going to make it through the storm. It was a good thing I did leave with Mabel though, if I wouldn't of I would have never expierenced what I did that night. It would of just been a plain boring normal storing that I would have told my friends. I still felt bad about the ants drowning in the water but God luckily chose them instead of me. firstname: jaysen themes: Heroism Date: 04 Mar 1999 Time: 09:35:18 journal I am actually willing to sacrifice my life for what other humans would call a low form of life. That's may sound outrageously non selfish, but why wouldn't you, you know. Even if I have a bashed leg, it doesn't matter. I want to try to save these ants. And this is a major storm too. I am also like alittle persauded espeallially when it comes to that part that happened in the barn!   Return to The Learning Tree