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My Mini-Saga Eric, Halt, Drew and Phil are the smartest in the US. They all came from different elementary school and as they met each other at college. They went to college at the age twelve and they have their own strength and weakness. The could not even lose a single one. **__ The Four __** **__ By: Alan Tong __**

 Halt, Phil, Drew and Eric were all from different elementary schools and they all thought that they were the smartest of the city but as they go into to college they met each of them and became friends. They were at the age of 12 when entered Cambridge University. They were the smartest. Every one of them has different weakness and strength. Eric is the one that is the smartest at reading and could read a 200 page book in less than 30 minutes. Phil was the one who excelled at combustion and technology. Drew, who is the one who knows history more than most of the professors in college, was also the best in rhythms and count, so he is also the best in music. Halt was the best of the four, his logic solving skills are unmatchable, and he is the best in math, medical and chemistry.  One day in Cambridge University, A college professor, Dr. Castello in the hallway said “The four of you are invited again to go to a program called IEP (International Education Program) You four won many trophies in the US because of your education and president around the world want to send their most educated and talented students to challenge you four. Also, you four are known as “common enemy” because you’ve been in this program for three years and no one had won the trophy except for you. I think that your biggest rival will be the Asian countries because of their strictness in education. So this is not only about education, it’s about representing US.” The four of them were thrilled to have such an opportunity to be in it again. “The International Education Program is where the top sixteen group with the highest IQ gets invited to challenge each other with varieties of subject question. The challenge will be on June 6th 2012, which is exactly 5 months away. It will be held at Harvard University.” Dr. Castello continued, when he was done he was called by one of his assistant “Yeah… we already know all the rules” Eric bragged “Well done… all of you. We made it this year again” said Phil loudly “Yeah, I hope we will win the trophy and even if we don’t then we will still be the smartest in this city.” Halt said hopefully, Eric nodded. “In the meantime, we will have to study to get the trophy… or if we do get the trophy.” Drew pointed out, everyone laughed. They went into one of the library in the university and they found a quiet place to study with a few people near them. They pulled from their backpack, textbook after textbook and when they were done, they had 11 textbooks on the desk.  Months flew by and they were only 5 five days away from the challenged. They were in the hallways when they saw Dr. Castello. “I received an e-mail from Dr. Cooper, the IEP director that the four of you will be leaving on a plane to go to Harvard on June 4th, 7:25 am. And also I e-mailed every one of you the admission ticket and a pass to go through the borders of US without a passport.” Dr. Castello said happily. “Alright, thank you for telling us because I haven’t checked my e-mail for about a month. I didn’t really have time because of all the studying.” Halt replied. “Wow…that’s impressive.” Dr. Castello said. “Well, we do want to win the trophy…but it’s alright if we don’t.” Eric put in. “Good luck to you four, I have some papers to do.” Dr. Castello said, patting on Eric’s shoulder as he turned back to his office. Then the four of them quickly rode their bike to their dormitory and began packing. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;"> As they were in the plane…Halt who felt a little drowsy, closed his eyes and when he opened it, Halt felt his forehead, it was like a metal pan fresh out of the oven. He then told his friends next to him they all said at once. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;">“Not right now…we are about to have a challenge.” The four of them blurted. But they know it wasn’t Halt’s fault. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;">“Sorry, I can’t believe that I will miss out on the challenge and leaving you three out there.” Halt gulped. He pulled a stethoscope from his backpack and listened. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;">“It’s nothing but a common cold but I sure it won’t be gone for at least a week. That means I will miss the IEP, I’m sorry.” Halt sobbed. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;">“It’s okay, just feel better.” Phil said. Halt took his backpack to his lap and search for his emergency pack and found an Acetaminophen and took it with water. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;"> They were at Harvard University. Eric, Phil, and Drew walked up toward their desk as their name gets called up. There were sixteen other groups when Dr. Cooper finished. Most of them were in groups of two, one group with four and two groups of five, not including their group. Dr. Cooper announced the rules of the game. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;">“All of the questions will be about anything and the top eight teams advances to the next level, and then the top four teams will advance to the next level and so on until we have the winner. Each question is worth 10 points and each wrong answer will be -10 points. When all groups finished the answers, all of the group’s answers will be shown on the main board in the front of the room. The points will carry on to the next level. Now, we will assign colors to represent your team.” <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;"> They were assigned the color green. As the game finish the first 10 question, there were eight groups left and it was the group red, blue, green, yellow, white, black, brown, and gray. The group that had the most points was red, followed by green. The group red was leading with 90 points and green was followed by 80 points. Level two ended and green was back on top, while red keeping in touch. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;"> Then it was the final question with group green and red in the final. They were tied at 260 and then Dr. Cooper announces something different. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;">“Since these two groups are so close together the next question will be a bonus question and it is worth 50 points but if you answered it wrong you will lose 50 points, so the team that knows the answer and get it right to this question will win the IEP Cup.” When he was about to announce the last question… one of the assistant came up to whisper something in Dr. Cooper’s ear. Then Dr. Cooper announced <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;">“A former green team member is going to help his team for the last question and the reason why he wasn’t here in the beginning is because he was ill.” Then, Eric, Drew, and Phil were surprise by what he said. Then about a moment later Halt walked towards the green desk with a blanket covering him. Halt arrived at his teams table and all hand clutch together as Dr. Cooper announced the final question. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;">“Name the ionic compound of NaCl.” Then both teams closed their eyes and they think really hard about chemistry and how to change ionic compound into chemical names. They went on for a minute, then one member from the red team opened his eyes and wrote the answer down. Halt also opened his eyes but not because he got the answer but because of the distraction that the other team was doing. They were trying to distract the green team from getting the answer. Halt knew they lose, this would be the first time in three years. Halt tried to think but can’t because of the burning sensation is his forehead. Then Halt wrote an answer down. Then when it was shown on the board that the green team put down //lead chloride// and the red team put //sodium sulfide// but the real answer was //sodium chloride//. This is the first time in years that the green team tied with the red team. They shook hands and suddenly… <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;"> “Help! I need to go to the emergency room” Halt yelled loudly and then he dropped to the ground. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; text-align: justify;"> **The End**

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms',cursive; font-size: 22px; text-align: center;">STORY IN A WEEK Tales of Utopia My Mini-Saga It was a Sunday afternoon is Barcelona, Spain. I was at Camp Nou, the largest stadium in Europe. I was facing the opponent that would change history. It was just me and the goalie as I kick the ball that was next to my feet and it slowly went in. Dean Groom Activity Two The two brother had just walked into their room, when four spiders crawled out, when they saw the spiders the were scared and starting to panic, Moving around carefully, avoiding to touch the spiders with their bare legs. Nathan went quickly to the restroom to find a tissue, and then he went back into the room and killed the spider. At the last moment Wei, the smart, college boy who then felt very foolish inside because he didn't help during the situation.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">MIDDLE _ BEGINNING _ END Work Sheet


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Describe the start of your story. || * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Introduce your characters: Halt, Drew, Phil, and Eric. They are all from different elementary school and they became friends in college school. They all are interested in solving logic puzzle and medical.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What do they want? They are very independent but as they meet each other they worked together in every thing. The want to become detectives.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Where are they going?They are challenging every one in the world in the category education. ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">What happens in the middle of your story? || * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How will all your story and characters devel op? They are children in the beginning and as they grow older they become more and more intelligent.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Plot Twists and Turns? They meet the other four smartest person in Asia. Halt who was the smartest and cleverest of the four, got really sick and was mostly the smartest of the four


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">How will you lead up to the climax? The three of them meet a question they don't know the answer ||
 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Outline the climax...How does the story end? || * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Is your ending what your readers are expecting? No, well everyone thinks that the three of them will win because they are the hero and like most stories they win but in my story no one wins and no one loses


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #000000; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Have you used foreshadowing throughout your story? No ||

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