Context and Reflection:

The assignment the I will be using as my 2015 English Final Exam is one of the many Slices of Life. This assignment revolves around baseball tryouts for modified that took place in March of 2015. Slices of Life teach us about grammar and different ways to write paragraphs. I think that what made me chose this piece was the fact that the story is nice and short and more than easy to work with, because it's what I made up anyways.

This is my Slice of Life that I have revised and took lots of time and effort creating.

Slice of Life

“ It was monday, the 16th. Tryouts were today. I was in fact a little bit more nervous than I thought that I might be, but I knew I would have the skill and ability to make the team. Once practice started, the other boys in 8th grade who made the team last year warmed up with the other kids who were trying out, kind of like a mentor teaching it’s apprentice to do something new. After stretching out, we went to the huddle and broke out into groups where we would then break out into groups to field ground balls. Now it was my turn to take a ground ball, life seemed great at the moment and if I messed up as I was about to get my first one, maybe this would go so fast that I wouldn’t have to worry about anything for the longest time.All that I could think of was the way Coach.Z was going to see my skill and maybe start me in the field.He hit the ball, Life seemed seemless at this point.  Now the ball was in my glove, I grabbed it out of my glove and threw the ball at the first-baseman at what felt like 100 miles per hour,and the ball got there in no time. I was right, I didn’t mess up and things went by quickly , and I never had a worry for the rest of the tryout. After practice Coach came up to me and told me in his office that I had made the team and that I was a nice player. I went home had my daily hot cocoa and then went to bed. “

About the Author:

My name is Andrew Alise, I am a student at DeWitt Middle School located in Ithaca, New York. Through out my young years on this Earth, I have learned and still have many things to learn as an English student. All of my English teachers including Mr. Scott and Ms. Redfield have taught me lots this year about the subject. Last year, I wasn’t the best in English, every marking period, a high eighty percent at best is what I would receive from the district. But over the SUmmer, I had time realize that the grade I got wasn’t where it needed to be so I studied and when it came time to come back to school, I really hit the nail and did everything that I could to do my best and outperform the other kids and so I could do much better than last year. and as the year went on, I achieved my goal and here I am now  with an achieved goal. Thank you Mr. Scott for all the things that you did to help me.

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