My Weekend Plans

Today me, John, his sister, and her boyfriend are going to hang out. Then Saturday we are going to a dance. Then Sunday I'm going to go home to sleep. If it snows then we are still going to hang out and dance.

An Angry Time

I was watching my niece for my sister almost everyday. I was supposed to get 120 dollars every other week from my sister and her boyfriend, but they always paid me late. A couple times they didn't even pay me. I got really mad and yelled at them until they finally paid me. My sister still owes me like 5 dollars though. Everytime my sister has money, I ask her for the 5 dollars that she owes me, but she never pays me. I'm happy that they finally paid me most of it.

Sentence Combining

The shelter burned and rumbled like a freight train, while the flames sucked at the air.

The shelter burned, and the flames sucked at the air, while rumbling like a freight train.

The flames rumbled like a freight train, and sucked at the air as the shelter burned.

As the flames sucked at the air and rumbled like a freight train, the shelter burned.

Circle Justice

Circle sentencing was also born in Canada, as a result of the efforts of a growing number of judges to counteract the futility of the current sentencing process, and to respect in Native communities the traditional aboriginal method of dealing with members of the community who broke the law. It begins with an offender pleading guilty in court and agreeing to accept a community-imposed sentence. Experts say Minnesota is the first state in the nation to use circle sentencing.

You can find this information at these websites.

http://www.lafsd.k12.ca.us/people/gmccalmo/page2/page9/page7/assets/What%20is%20Circle%20Justice.doc

http://freenet.msp.mn.us/~fholson/circles-mn/circ-stb.htm