Story Symposium Presentation

Our group consists of Chris Anderson, Sam Higginbotham, and Kyle Keehan. We were thinking about doing a talk show where someone would be “the author” of The Most Dangerous Game, someone would be “the director” of the movie The Most Dangerous Game, and someone being the talk show host. We will have to work hard and efficiently in and out of class in order for this presentation to work. We were planning that the author would explain the plot, main characters, setting, conflict, theme, ect. Then we would show a clip from the movie on youtube, and then get the director’s perspective on all of those things. He will then also point out the literary devices found in the story. Then the talk show host will finish things up saying how he thinks it relates to the human experience and why he thought it was a good story/movie. 

Zombie Attack Plan Blog

When I hear that the zombie apocalypse has begun, I will quickly get all my food in my house and start organizing it all into crates. I will also grab all of my guns and ammo in the basement of my house. Along with all of my knives and hunting tools too. Then I will get in my car and drive down to Ephraim with all the supplies that I have gathered. I will go to where I work (South Shore Pier Boat Rental) and throw all of the supplies on the biggest pontoon boat. Then I will take all of the gas cans from the other boats and put them on the boat that has the supplies. This will turn out to be 26 gas cans. Which will be about 52 hours of full throttle riding. After that I will leave the dock and ride all the way to Washington Island. There I will loot some of the local stores as long as they are abandoned and get as much food as possible. I will then drive it to the Chambers Island in Fish Creek and build myself a sturdy shelter and set up a new home. Some other people live on the island, so hopefully I can team up with them. If not, there are plenty of other islands around Door County. Occasionally I'll ride the boat to nearby towns and look at everything through binoculars. If everything is clear, I will dock and try and get some more food somehow. We will survive and build a safe haven on the island. I will also get different boats from abandoned marinas. We can fish for food and hunt too. The winters will be very harsh but with the right gear and clothing, we will live on. I am happy that I have a good plan for a zombie attack, I really hope it doesn't happen though.

Box

We all jump backward as the box suddenly shakes. I cautiously approach the cardboard container and flip open the lid. A small doll size human is running around the box. It swiftly hops over the walls of the box and starts running out the door of the classroom. I start to chase after it, as soon as I turn the corner out of the door, my teacher is standing there with an angry expression. I go back to the room and sit in my desk. My teacher explains to me that the small man is a scientific experiment that her husband accidentily made. He was working on a cloning machine when his daughter dropped her toy doll into it. Somehow it went through the machine and came out alive on the other side. Her husband hasn't told anyone about it but somehow the F.B.I. found out about the man. This morning when they came to take the little human, her husband panicked and made her take it and go to school so that the F.B.I. couldn't take credit for something he did. That's why she dropped off the box and went to call her husband to tell him it is safe and in the room. Now the little man is lost somewhere out in the school and we need to help her find the mini human. We search for an hour and a half and find nothing but one of his small shoes. Then suddenly I see him running in to the science lab. I can tell he sees me too, and he drops a beaker onto the floor. Glass shatters everywhere and my leg is full of glass shrapnel. He jumps into the sink full of water. I am just about to grab him from the water when he swims down to the bottom and pulls the plug holding the water from draining. Then he is gone, down the drain forever. That is when I wake up from my dream about the little human. I walk to my bathroom to brush my teeth. When I spit the toothpaste in to the sink, I am surprised to see two small eyes looking up at me.

Author Bio

Hello everyone, my name is Sam. I am 15 years old and live in Northern Wisconsin. I am a sophomore in High School. My favorite classes are History and English. When I’m not in school, you can find me golfing, working, or hanging out with friends. My favorite sports are golf, basketball and football.  Right now, it is football season and I have practice after school every day, so I don’t really do anything besides homework and go to practice.  On weekends I hang out with friends and play videogames and watch football. My favorite color is blue and my favorite food is nachos.