Friday, April 4, 2014

Why do you play sports?
  • Have sports made you a better person and or student?
  • How have sports influenced your life?
  • Who, through sports, has had the biggest influence on your life?
  • Are sports worth playing?
  • What would your advice be to young athletes or players just starting something new?
  • Would you ever consider playing or coaching beyond high school?
  • What sports did you play?
  • Where they harder physically or mentally?
  • Give an estimate on the amount of hours per week that you put into these sports.
  • Who has helped you prepare yourself for the competitions?
  • How were you able to be successful?
  • Besides success, where there any failures in your athletic career?
  • How did you overcome those failures?
  • Any final advice?








  • Henry Francis, senior at Somerset High School, has had many success in his athletic career while attending Somerset. He has had the privilege of playing on a state runner up, state champion, and a team that played in the sectional final game. In basketball he played on the team that won the third ever conference championship in school history. They were also a three-peat Regional champions.


    "Sports have made myself a better student. I have applied the hard work that I've used in sports to excel in the classroom." Being a good student is being very important to success in athletics. If you don't have good grade, you cant participate in extracurricular activities. Sports have had a huge influence in his life. "If I hade a problem in my personal life going on, I knew that if I went to football practice I would be able to forget about it all. It can be an escape from a lot of things." Football is an emotional game. The emotions of the game can cover up other emotions and you can forget about life.


    I asked him about advice for someone struggling with sports, or a new athlete. HE said," It can be very tough at times when you're struggling with success. But, I encourage all of you, stick with it, work hard, and good things will happen." Hard work has built him up. Everyday the weight room was open, you could look in there and see Henry. Dripping in sweat, legs feeling like wet noodles, he worked harder than the people around him to excel in his athletics.

    Wednesday, February 26, 2014

    Questions for Henry

    • Why do you play sports?
    • Have sports made you a better person and or student?
    • How have sports influenced your life?
    • Who, through sports, has had the biggest influence on your life?
    • Are sports worth playing?
    • What would your advice be to young athletes or players just starting something new?
    • Would you ever consider playing or coaching beyond high school?
    • What sports did you play?
    • Where they harder physically or mentally?
    • Give an estimate on the amount of hours per week that you put into these sports.
    • Who has helped you prepare yourself for the competitions?
    • How were you able to be successful?
    • Besides success, where there any failures in your athletic career?
    • How did you overcome those failures?
    • Any final advice?

    Wednesday, February 19, 2014

    Frusteration Blog

    Writing poems frustrates me very much. They just don't make sense to me at all. I hate reading them, but I hate writing them even more.

    Friday, February 14, 2014

    Henry

    Henry is a wonderful person. He excels on the court, but he is even better off the court. His body is like that of a Greek god's, and his hair is beautiful. He has been dating his girlfriend Jenna for two years today. They are madly in love. He plays basketball and football. His skill is absolutely unmatched. He can block anyone, and at the same time, nobody can block him. In basketball he is a scoring machine. No matter where he is, he can find a way to put the ball in the net. He is truly a gift from God.

    Tuesday, February 11, 2014

    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (A)
    Thou art more lovely and more temperate: (B)
    Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, (A)

    And summer's lease hath all too short a date: (B)
    Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,(C)
    And often is his gold complexion dimmed, (D)
    And every fair from fair sometime declines, (C)
    By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed: (D)
    But thy eternal summer shall not fade, (E)
    Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st, (F)
    Nor shall death brag thou wander'st in his shade, (E)
    When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st, (F)
       So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, (G)
       So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. (G)


    Should I compare you to a beautiful summer day?
    You're even more beautiful
    You're not always perfect
    We don't see each other enough
    Your dad doesn't like us together
    He seems angry a lot
    He gets sad when he sees you sad
    We might be able to be together
    I want to be with you all the time
    I never want to be away from you
    I would defend you with my life
    Even though it will be hard
    As long as I'm  alive
    I will love you no matter what


    Monday, February 10, 2014

    Fishing
    Logan casts his line into the cool water
    All alone by the side of the big lake
    He doesn't want to hook on an otter
    But hopefully bring home a fish to bake
     
    Sitting all day in the scorching hot sun
    Henry pays him a comforting visit
    Logan was starting to not have much fun
     Although he hopes to catch his limit
     
    He could catch a bass or a small bluegill
    Nothing seems to want to take a bite
    Catching these fish takes a whole lot of skill
    It seems like Logan will be here all night
     
    He feels the pull on the end of the line
    That fish that he caught he can call all mine
     
    

    Monday, February 3, 2014

    Hunting

    List of sight words:
    • Trees
    • Tree stand
    • Gun or bow and arrow
    • Deer, turkey, ducks, pheasants
    • grass
    • leaves
    • dirt
    • cornfield
    • camouflage
    • sky

    List of Other Imagery words:
    • Gunshot
    • gobble
    • rattling horns
    • cold
    • rain
    • snow
    • crunching leaves
    • "Buck Fever"
    • hunting calls
    • Sounds of a deer (grunts, snorts, breathing hard)
     
    Other Words:
    • Patience
    • Strategy
    • Adrenaline
    • Skilled
    • Connection to the past
    • shooting
    • tracking
    • quiet
    • self control
    • discipline
    • making memories
     
    Hunting
    It's late November and there's a thick layer of frost on the dead, dirty leaves
    As you walk to your stand, gun in hand, you slowly move on
    You settle in and wait while the woods wake up around you
    As the bright sun peers through the trees
    your eye catches a bit of movement on the corner of the field
    The buck of a life time
    It makes its way towards you
    Your heart beating, palms sweating, heaving breathing wait for that perfect shot
    He turns broadside to you
    You slowly squeeze the trigger, and the rest is history