From Best to Worst
Jake

When I first saw that we would be under thirty feet of water I made a milk jug raft. I used an old gas chainsaw for power. I added bucket seats, a ceiling fan for a propeller, a cargo hold, and a parachute. I could’ve used Dad's van. However I thought it was too heavy. I found an abandon houseboat with a dog. He was very thin so I fed him. I started the forty-year-old boat. It actually ran. I was quite comfortable. It also had a TV. The TV had a satellite. I also fund a fairly new computer. I noticed it was somehow connected to the Internet. Boy life was good. It was not long before I found my aunts and uncles. I also found a large boat containing my other relatives. I then went fishing. A shark saw me. I swam to the surface. I snatched a machete and stabbed the shark. I was alive. I was alive and well. The water level came down. It turned out the polar Ice caps had melted.

The Dome
Duane

Today I heard something bad. The whole world was going to flood because the sun got too close and melted the polar ice caps. We would have 30 days to prepare. First I built a huge dome with my friends Zach, Jared, and Chris. It was about 3,000,000 yards in diameter and air resistant. Then we built a bunch of homes, roads, buildings, and generators and put them in the dome.

Next we grew crops, put in a solar sun, hooked up the generators, and made an airhose. We connected one end of the airhose to the dome and put the other end 40 feet in the air. Finally with only a few jobs left we had 5 more days.

We got all our friends and family into the dome. We finished making the tools, weapons, and turned everything on. We had 3 minutes till 30 feet of water came over us. We were under the water! Our dome held up and so did the airhose. Then we checked everything we built to make sure it still worked. After 13 long months the water went down to 15 feet! We used the dome to its full extent to last another 21 months. Finally the water was gone and we got out of the dome.

All the cities, streets, and homes were fine, but the plants weren’t. We regrew the crops and started life over again.

Santa's Domination
Chris

The polar ice caps started melting because SANTA turned up the heat, and his house got flooded. I found out because Rouldough told everyone in Food Ville. Then the flood happened and Rouldough and I ganged up and found food, and shelter in an underwater cave. We heard SANTA and MRS.CLAUS in the far end of the cave. They were talking about world domination when Rouldough stabbed Santa with his horns. Then Santa flew across the room, slipped on an acorn, and fell in the water. Rouldough said he never did like Santa. Rouldough and I stayed there for five months. Then G.O.D saved us by drinking all the water. Then Rouldough grew wings and gills and turned into a pig. After that everything was back to normal. --Except for Santa…

World Girls
Alexis

One nice day me and my friends went to the mall for shoes, clothes, hair and face supplies. Then we went to the store to get chips and dips, because were having a party over night at Taylor’s house. Then we went to her house. It started to rain very hard. After that night it was still raining hard. We looked out the window, there was water covering the roads and all the houses in Manistee , It was like a giant pool. Then we got scared because the power went out .

We went to the door and Yumi said, "we have know choice ladies we have to find a way out of here!" Then when we got to Yumi’s car, but we have to swim at it. So when we got her car we open the door, the car was filled with water. After we got of the car, we swam in to town. Then the girls and I came up to breathe.T hen we noticed that we were growing fins and long strait blond hair. And after a minute, the town started to change. Then the people started to change too. Then we said all together, " were, were, were Mermaids! Then after a couple weeks they got use to it.

My Survival Island
Ashley D.

I found out from my teacher, Mrs. Eldridge, that we’re going to be flooded with water. The reason is because glaciers melted. There are lots of ways I will survive on the island. There are ways I can get food by making little sticks then stick the fish with. There are lots of dangers that could kill me, like jellyfish, or sharks, and octopus. I will try to build a little house out of sticks, or I might even be able to live in an underground cave. I will go to the bathroom in the water, or some of the woods if there where some tree’s on the island. I will try my hardest to survive. That’s my survival story. I hope I survive!

Santa’s Sick
Brooke Ann

One morning I was shocked, it was Christmas morning, but there were no presents under the tree. Was Santa dead or what? All of the sudden Mrs. Clause dropped in. Santa’s very ill, she said. I have to go for him this year, but it is to cloudy. What’s that red thing? It’s Rudolph. He saved the Christmas. I’m not lost anymore. I will go get oats for jolly old Rudolph and the other raindeer. I will use Rudolph to find my way, Said Mrs. Clause. Good by Mrs. Clause and the raindeer. Off Mrs. Clause, Rudolph, and the other raindeer went.

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Adapting to Water World
By Ashie

Introduction

Here I am waiting for the world to become a place like Atlantis. The whole world only has till tomorrow morning. I am stocked up on food. I will live in a submarine. The submarine will be powered by eels. All I have to do is plug the eel in. One eel will last for about two days. I’m almost done putting in a bathroom. Any ways its night now it is almost morning. I have three hours till morning. I’m not going to let this flood kill me.

It Happened Chapter 1

Then it happened all of a sudden water flooded into the United States and the sun rose all at the same time. Then I saw a little thing floating in my backyard. Sure I was frightened and all. But it turned out to be a harmless little peanut.

The Surprise Chapter 2

Then I grabbed my wet suit and said it is time I went to my submarine. I rushed into my submarine and plugged in a eel. I sped right off. First I went to Alaska and there wasn’t any snow. There was just animals and other things floating around. I couldn’t believe it.

Trouble Chapter 3

Then I went to Antarctica and there was ice floating on the top of the water. Penguins were diving into the water all over. So I had to watch so I didn’t hit a penguin. Anyway I got past the penguins and I ran into a blue whale. It gobbled the whole submarine up. Then it spit me out its air hole.

The End chapter 4

The news said in about four or five days the water will go away. Well I went back to Michigan. Any ways I got to go. Might see you next time. That is if I live through this. Bye

FCA's for "Adapting to Water World" Oct.10
  1. Interesting beginning and ending 20 points
  2. Plenty of details that make your ideas come alive 40 points
  3. Logical sequence which can be easily followed by reader 20 points
  4. Mechanics: capitals, punctuation, complete sentences 20 points

Super Cam to the Rescue
by: Cameron

It was a warm and sunny day when the ice caps melted! The reason why this happened is because it got too hot in the Arctic and the ice caps melted. The water was heading towards Onekama. The water flooded the whole U.S. Mean while in Detroit a 1,000 foot tidal wave is going to knock down a building full of people. Then here comes Super Cam to stop the tidal wave. He used his laser beam eyes to break the tidal wave in half. Back in Onekama the people are wondering how they are going to make it with all the danger like sharks and storms. The one boy has a great idea for everybody to get in their boat and wait for the water level to go back to normal. After one month the water level went back to normal and everyone cheered for Super Cam.

The Flood

Edgar C.

On Sunday I was with my dad on the way to the store. On the radio they said it was going to rain and make a flood all over the world. Maybe even in space. First of all we were going to need food since we were going to the store we got food. That would last long enough for two day. It was so hot that I would rather stay in the rain. When we got home my dad had to swim in the water that was icy cold because when we got home there was a flood. After my dad was back there was a boat in the wet grassy yard. It was so big that we had to get a ladder. We got on the boat to leave. We couldn’t manage to get out of the horrible flood. I found a sponge I put it in the water four hours later after I found it. I just was so worried. The sponge soaked up all the water. At the end of the day the sponge let all the water out. The good thing was the water went all the way to space. Then we all lived happily ever after that day!

World Survival
Brooke So.

I found out by the newspaper that we would be covered in 30 feet of water because of the sun. We will have Dangers like sharks, leaky boats, and water pressure in deep water. We will need a lot of food so I would pack food up some food. I would get oxygen with underwater O2 generator that might help. We need a boat and we could go in a really tall building. If we could make a pressurized underwater home and if could find to use electricity. I cab get a submarine and use that but it would be hard to build. I would have made with a bathroom if we were in 30 feet of water next to us and around us. I would have been really freaked out but seems like it would be ok to be like that for a little while. So I would not like to be in it but I think I will because it’s going to happen here so that is what I think will happen and what I would have in case something happened like that. THE END!

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