Kelbi Ms. Lehmann English 1-1A 12 March, 2019 Summer Basketball It was the summer of my 8th grade year. The summer i left 8th grade and was headed into 9th grade. Summer basketball started. I was super excited. Basketball was my favorite sport. I was on the JV and Varsity teams. We had a couple of games. We traveled to a lot of places, never super far, but a couple of hours away. We were at Carry playing for the Varsity team. We took a couple of campers up there because we had to stay for a couple of days. I was playing. Me and this girl ended up running after the ball and I fell. I remember I was embarrassed, but at the same time, I didn’t care. All I could feel was pain in my knee like I was being stabbed. I’ve never been stabbed before, so I wouldn’t know how it actually felt, but it hurt really bad. I remember feeling my knee cap move when I hit the floor. I got up, trying not to cry, but I couldn’t help it. I got pulled out. One of my coaches was feeling around my knee, and my knee just went numb. After that game, I went to my camper and iced my knee. My coach told my dad to take me to the doctor if it kept hurting. There was one more game that day. I just sat on the bench and iced my knee. We ended up losing, but that’s ok. We got home and my knee felt worse, so my parents took me to the emergency room. They got x-rays and felt around my knee. One of the nurses came in the room and said they think I though bone had cancer. At that moment, my heart dropped, and I just looked at my parents, trying not to cry. The nurse went out for a few minutes to go get a brace for my knee. All I could do was look down. I was shocked. We went home. Everyone was quiet. Nobody said anything. Everyone was crying, and my mom told me “Everything is going to be alright”. I went to my room. I thought to myself, “I could possibly die”. That was the worst thing I could think of at that time, but I couldn’t help it. I just thought it. I tried to think positive, but I just couldn’t. It didn’t help that about a month before that, my cousin passed away from bone cancer. Her name was Mia, and she was around 14 or 15 when she passed. Thats what I thought of. Pretty bad, huh? We waited a couple of days so my mom could get me an appointment with my doctor. It felt like years, just waiting, thinking I might have cancer. Mia’s doctor wanted to look at my knee to see if it was cancer, so they sent the x-rays to him in Utah. He said as far as he could tell, it wasn’t bone cancer. He thought it was a tumor. I was just hoping I could still run and do sports. It was really good news that it wasn’t bone cancer. My mom got an appointment with my family doctor, and he said he though it was a tumor, but it might be a cancerous tumors. We needed to get it taken out. We went up to Utah, and the doctor said it probably was not cancerous and to just leave it alone and wait 6 months go get x-rays, then go back in a year just to check up on it. Life started to get better. I held on to every good thing for as long as I could. We went in 6 months later to get an x-ray. The doctors said everything looked good, just to come back in a year. Now we had to wait a year and then go back. I ended up running cross-country, and I even ended up playing basketball and doing track. From this whole life experience, I learned that even though you fall and get hurt, you need to get back up because life is full of amazing things and fun times. You shouldn't just quit everything because something bad happened in life. When something bad happens, you get up and learn from it, and good things will come out of it. I thought I could die, but I didn’t. I got back up, and I’ve had the best 9th grade year I possibly could have. Reflection 1. List one thing you've learned from writing this paper that you can apply to other writing assignments. What will that look like? ~I learned that I need to reread my papers before I turn them in. 2. Identify a specific revision you were asked to make and explain why (this can be at any stage of the writing process). How did you revise? What did you learn? ~ I had to fix a lot of my periods at the end of my sentences. I fixed them by putting periods and making sure I put periods. I learned to double check all my stuff. 3. What are the conventions of a summary and how did you meet those in this assignment? ~Summaries include the title of the work and the author that wrote it. Summaries also include the major events that happened throughout the story. I was able to meet these conventions in this assignment by including everything I needed and by trying hard and focusing on my paper. 4. Given more time to work on this assignment, how would you improve it? ~ If I had more time to work on this assignment, I would read it more times to make sure I had everything on my page. 5. What is one thing you're proud of in this paper? ~ I’m proud that I got the whole paper written and included everything that was required.