Writing Sample

Shawndi Heidegger
Writing Sample
Sophmore English
1 September 2007
My object is a picture from a family reunion. It is all of the grand-children and great-grand-children on my mom's side.
It is the summer of 2006 and my grandparents 60th wedding aniversary. All of my mother's brothers and sisters were there at the KOA that summer. It was at a KOA campground in Astoria, Oregon. My mom was planning for it to be at a campground on Flathead Lake, but it wouldn't work for some of the family to make it out from Washington. So she and her sisters from out there planned it for the campground in Oregon.
One of my favorite memories from that summer was going shopping the day before in Seaside. We had went to Seaside wiwth our older sisters and walked around town before heading down to the beach. We were all wearing pants and didn't have our swimming suits with us and really wanted to go in the water, so we did! It ended up, being around our waist, the highest the water got. Still having to walk back downtown we hung out on the beach taking pictures and trying to dry our pants. It didn't work. We walked through town with our wet pants rolled up, and then falling down, I think people were thinking we were crazy by the weird looks we were getting. Nike was our first stop on the way back, seeing as we saw an outlet mall along the side of the highway. Coming out with our new shorts we were ddry and ready to roll again.
This was one of the few times the whole entire Uskoski side has been together in a long time, and it will be for a long time.
Acually not all of the kids were there, some of my oldest uncles' kids weren't there and some girls waiting for their clothes to be done in the dryer.
I think if I lost this picture I would not freak out, but just get another copy from my cousin seeing as that's where I got this one.
This reveals that I have a strong realationship with my family and like to be with them.
The next Saturday, the sisters held a little get-to at this hall in Washington for all the friends of my grand-parents and brothers and sisters that are still alive.
The grand-children and great-grand-children on my mom's side of the family are posing for this picture at a KOA campground in Oregon. At a 60th weedding anniversary and family reunion.

My Response to Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery"

Shawndi Heidegger
The Lottery
Sophomore English
24 September 2007
“The Lottery” was stupid, barbaric, had kids involved, and had a strange culture. The characters were stoning people for the harvest, and it was the luck of the draw killings. The kids would gather stones beforehand. Then everyone would take these stones and kill the certain someone even if it happened to be your mother! It was nothing I had ever heard of before, and was not a common, everyday story. “The Lottery” was bad because it was vulgar, had younger generations involved, and had crazy traditions.

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