Nature Essay

Cauley, this is so cute! I want you to incorporate at least one quote from Emerson and one from Thoreau that suppports what you are saying. -Kristinaturner 10/17/07 6:15 PM
Nature Essay
By: Cauley Simmons

Today in English class, we went outside, then walked around to these woods that I never even knew existed. I heard on the Weather Channel earlier this morning that it was supposed to be pretty hot, but I never imagined that it would be this beastly hot in the middle of October. Immediately as you stepped outside the door, sweat began to condense into little beadlets on your forehead. gross -Dylan Jarrett 10/12/07 11:34 AM . Beating off the heat was like being a ninja and trying to beat off the evil samurai. I LOVE this part!It's a really good simile, it's funny too. Kirsten McGehee 10/12/07 10:59 AM When we walked outside of the school, we had to walk down to the softball field, then through this gate in a fence, then up a hill to get to the woods. When we went in, we were supposed to walk around by ourselves and become "transparent eyeballs" so that we could really connect with the story Walden. At first, I tried to go alone in the woods, but the some factors deprived me from seeing such "romance" and "joy" in these woods. For one thing, there were candy wrappers and broken beer bottles in every which way. Also, we were right next to what I would consider one of the top five five write out numbers 1-99 busiest roads in the whole town of Anderson. I was pretty bored and extremely sticky, and so blazing hot, I felt as though someone had cruelly lured me into an oven, shut the door, then turned the heat to, I don't know, maybe about five thousand and one degrees. Then, to my relief, I heard someone say "Woah look at this!", and of course, being the curious cat metaphor and alliteration, intense-Dylan Jarrett 10/12/07 11:35 AM that I am, I scampered friskily off yes Cauley you are a curious cat. my other favorite part is how you scampered friskily -CHELSEACHARPIA. toward the initial direction of the scream.Haha this is my favorite part it kills me! :Meredith Looney: The scream turned out to be from a girl in my class that I like to refer to as "Allie Elrod". This is my favorite part. and also i'm in love with the part of the ninjas. oh how i love the large wooden plank. -Allieelrod 10/11/07 11:33 AM I ran over to see what all of the commotion was about, and as it turned out, Allie and friends had found a large carpeted wooden plank leaning against a tree. You had to hold onto a rope to be able to walk up that tree. Once you reached the top, you got the reward. You got to jump from the top of the plank into a rope net below. It was part of a ropes course that I later learned was for the ROTC members. Of course, I scurried up the plank like a chipmunk being chased by a rabid squirrel. I LOVE THIS PART! I love the simile!-JordanThrasher As soon as I reached the top, I courageously lept into the simple, yet great weave of ropes that caused oh so much joy and delight. The effect on my jumping were rope burns and rolling and almost taking out Allie, but clearly I simply felt as though I had to do it again. That caused even more flaming rope burns on my back. I can't say I had an experience quite as bad as Hank's though, where he got his head stuck in the ropes and the force of a little thing i like to call "gravity" flipped him over. i like this part because i like the way you talk about that little thing called "gravity" -CHELSEACHARPIA I have to say, it was basically a great side-splitting experience for all of us watching below. After the hilariousness reached its amplitude, Mrs. Turner decided that it was time for us to recede into the classroom to reflect on our experiences. While walking, Drew geniusly decided to climb a tree, which had some limbs not quite strong enough to hold him. This kept us stunned and we stayed in the woods, eyes peeled, for a few more minutes. Once we decided for the final time that we had had enough of the excruciating heat, we decided to drag our feet back to the classroom. As all of us were standing in the hallway waiting for Mrs. Turner to come with the key, we all noticed something. When we all looked up above our heads, something was missing. That something was Luke. After further investigation, we noticed that two more vital members of our class were missing. These two would be ShyNiqua and India. We all began to freak out. Questions were whizzing in and out of our heads. "Where were the three poor little lost souls?" "Did they get kidnapped and taken to a truckstop in Taladega?" "Did they feel as though they connected with Walden so well that they ran away forevermore to be free and one with nature?" We soon calmed down as Mrs. Turner told us that this was a normal occurance and that if they did not come back she would look for them during her lunch break. We could not wait that long. She soon send David and Hank out into the woods to heroically search for the strayed individuals. They returned minutes later with the three wanderers. We all breathed a heavy breath of relief. So, all in all, this was a pretty awesome trip, even though I didn't get much "romance" out of it. I think that if Emerson or Thoreau went into the woods where we were now, I'm pretty positive they would have gotten distracted by the rope course. I mean, how could you not, really?

It was the truckstop - So Says the beast that is luke.