The Patriots (PB)

My favorite sport is football. Since I was a little kid I always liked watching football. I liked how the whole game was entertaining. I was never bored when I watched football because every play was action packed and exciting. I remember going to super bowl parties and people would scream at every play. There was never a moment in a football game where people never screamed.

Something I am passionate about is the Patriots. The Patriots is a football team in the NFL. In my opinion the Patriots is the best football team in the NFL. One of the main reasons why I like the Patriots is because of their quarterback Tom Brady. I became a fan of the Patriots after I used them in a madden game and won. After winning with the Patriots I watched them play a game and I liked them. I thought they were a really good team and I instantly became a fan of them and Tom Brady.

To me Tom Brady is the best quarterback in the league. He has led the patriots to three super bowl victories and he is the fourth quarterback in NFL history to do this. He is also the only quarterback in history to lead three game winning drives in the super bowl. He is a two time NFL MVP and a 12 time patriot’s team captain. Under the leadership of Tom Brady the patriots was the fist team in NFL history to complete a regular season undefeated after the regular season was changed to 16 games. They lost in the super bowl to the New York Giants and there record was 18-1.  Although people try to hate on the Patriots and say they are trash, they are the most entertaining team in the NFL.

Writing Essays (CRR)

For the past couple of days we have been working on writing an essay for the AP exam. In class we were given back the essays that we wrote about Mosses. We learned that we should pre-write before we write our essay and we created a mind map based on the passage.  Then we were given a packet of other people’s essays about Mosses. We had to read every essay and give them a grade based on the rubric that is used to grade the essays on the AP exam. After that we had to create our own rubric based on what the graders are looking for in the Mosses essay.

Rubrics are useful because they help you write your essay, but I don’t use it. When I’m given a rubric on how my project or essay should be I don’t refer to the rubric. I have seen a number of different rubrics and none of them have helped me with my writing. In my opinion rubrics are useless and a waste of paper. I know what my essay needs to have in order for it to get a high score, but when I write my essays I never get the highest grade. When I read essays that got the highest grade possible, I know my essays won’t be like that. They write like five pages in 45 minutes and the way those essays are written it is like a teacher wrote it.

I don’t like creating our own rubrics in class because it is difficult. It is hard to write what a good essay needs compare to an excellent one and a bad one. I also don’t see the point of us creating our own rubrics. It is not like it is going to help us write our essays or make us look at rubrics more when we’re writing our essays.