VV+Daniel

Hi! My name is Daniel. Our class is taking part of the 1001 Tales. My story is finished and you can take a look at it below. Our class also has a blog and all of the people in my class have their own individual blogs. Here is the link to [|my blog] and here is the link to our [|class blog]. My favorite things to do are to play video games or to play with my friends at the park. My favorite video game is Kingdom Hearts 2 and my favorite TV show is Two and a half Men. I would say that my favorite drink is either Mountain Dew or Sprite, but I think Mountain Dew is a little bit better. My favorite food is sushi. I think it tastes really good. I like football a lot because it is really fun to play. My favorite subject at school would probably be math or science. Science is a lot easier but I think math is a little more important. At school me and my friends always play outside when it’s recess. In the future, I would like to travel around the world visiting different places and learning new things.

**//__ The Way the World Ends __//** Today is going to be the last day the humans ever saw the desolate wasteland that we call Earth. Today the last survivors of Earth’s population were going to be sent to a new place to call home. Today is the day the world ends. You are probably wondering what this means. Well, it is the year 2710, and Earth is so horribly polluted that it has killed off many of the animals and people on Earth. The last few 10,000 people were forced to live underground for the past 40 years. We have managed to get many spaceships from NASA’s headquarters. NASA had developed 10 spacecrafts that were capable of traveling through space and each of them could carry about 100 people if needed to. They would still have to do a few trips to get everyone to the new planet, but we would be able to. About 1 year ago 3 people went on a special mission that would decide the fate of the human race. These 3 people were sent on a mission to find a new planet to live on. They found 2 planets, but they had to explore them to see if there was anything wrong with them. They called the first planet they went to Lexoromino. It was a planet of water, but all of the water it had was fresh water. It seemed as though nothing had been on the planet, but the little land that was there was a mistake to go to because something else had already decided to live there… Luna, Jacky and Dewey were the 3 people that went on the mission. The planet was much too hot for them because it was close to the sun in the galaxy that it was in. Dewey said that his head felt like it was raining because it was sweating and dripping so fast. Luna had gone to find some food for them, so she had to search the strange, unknown jungle. Dewey and Jacky had noticed that Luna had been gone for a very long time so they decided to search for her. What they found made them both so scared that they couldn’t move. They had seen Luna tied to a tree with cuts all over her, and a giant rope around her neck. On the rope there was a sign tied to it that read: “Leave this place, don’t come back!” Once they had finished reading the sign, they could hear what sounded like a herd of cows rushing straight for them. But, it wasn’t cows. What they saw were these weird looking creatures with spears and flaming torches running for them! They started to run away from the creatures to get back to their ship. They made it just in time! They left Lexoromino and found another planet. They called it Trero because of all the trees on it. There were no traces of other creatures, so they put it’s coordinates in their ship’s computer and started back for Earth. Once all of the people were on the new planet, they shot nuclear missiles that would blow up Earth entirely. Once they had done that, all what remained of Earth was a few asteroids from the blast.

**Questions for Peer Reviewers**
(Think in terms of questions you would like to ask the author.)

1. Think of plot—is it original? (If an adaptation, is it creative or interesting to you?) What suggestions do you have for the author(s)?

2. Think about problems that the characters face. Are there complications that add enough suspense, tension, or interest? Is there a climax that satisfies you? Is the resolution satisfying? What could be added or changed?

3. Think of characterization—are the characters life-like? Are characters likable and enjoyable? Do we get a good sense of character from many of these: description, dialogue, narrator's opinion, discussion from other characters, the character’s own actions?

4. Think of imagery and details. Do they help you //see// and //hear// and //experience// the story? What details would you like to see in the next revision of the story?

5. What areas of the story need the most improvement? What suggestions do you have for the author?