ELA

For this day. Duncan wanted to do a challenge that was based on Piper and her squad. So he asked Lev for an idea since he does many roles like being a teacher or a judge. Lev recommends doing something related to school. So Duncan came up with the idea of putting his squad’s literature to the test.

There were two choices the members could make. One would be about their favorite squad member and the other was an essay for a video review.

The first one was Polly and she did a video review:

“My New Music Video Got DELETED” by Piper Rockelle was an awesome video. It was very emotional and sad at the same time. Here are the reasons why this is such.

The first part of the video started very happily. Piper, Lev, Emily, and Elliana had their costumes on from the music video Tea Party talking about when it was going to be released and the other songs that Piper’s director, Nick had produced ever since her career. The music video was scheduled to be released on the last weekend of May.

Things had gone well until Nick showed up. Hunter had opened the gate for him. He said at the 2-minute and 34-minute mark, “I think we need to talk about something before I talk to Piper and everybody.” Hunter thought the video wasn’t complete, but Nick only repeated what he said last time. So, Hunter then told Nick to discuss the secret issue in his office. When they both were in the office, Nick confirmed Hunter’s claim about the video being unfinished. Hunter wanted to add finishing touches to have it completed. But there was bad news that Nick gave starting at 3 minutes and 48 minutes. Which was “Some of the footage had got deleted.” Hunter was silent, and then Nick continued and said that it was the majority of the footage was lost. He claimed he never used a backup drive and Hunter not only panicked at the director’s words but at how Piper would react when she heard the news. The screen then fades out instead of Frank’s usual timecards or the rainbow image.

The scene then switches to the living room where all the squad was, except Jenna due to personal reasons. When the two adults come, the kids were so happy to see Nick, and he in return looked a certain way and Jentzen noticed it. Hunter told them at first that there wouldn’t be a vlog for the day. When he was asked why Hunter tried not to make Piper panic so soon and started saying stuff that was the issue divided into puzzle pieces. This continued until Piper wanted to know the truth, so Nick told her what happened. She started freaking out and also said that she didn’t know if she wanted Nick to be on her team anymore. No matter how much they try to explain, Piper just didn’t want to hear it. Ever her best friend Emily tried to help her calm down, but she then left to go to her room. Nothing still had changed after that and the group was still worried until Nick stopped to tell them the real news, “I’m just kidding. This was a prank.” However, although all the footage was there, the video was still incomplete. The reason why he did this was, “...I wanted to make Piper feel a little bit worse so when I do give her the bad news, she would feel a bit better about it.” Everyone was confused by his ‘Method Madness’. Lev then came and confirmed that Piper was crying. Nick told him about the Method Madness and Lev was relieved that the footage wasn’t deleted.

When Lev and the adults went to Piper’s room, she wouldn’t let Nick in. But she opened the door for Lev. When they were able to get in, he admitted that it was a prank and then began his method madness ploy. Piper didn’t change emotions and Nick described what the real problem was and why the music video would be delayed out of schedule. He wasn’t satisfied with the animation due to it being a solo person doing it. “The original animator that I got, it–didn’t just work out.” Piper revealed the name as ‘Uber’. Then everything worked out in the end with Piper saying that Nick was going to be fired for being ‘unprofessional’ which was a prank and Nick’s heart had beat fast. Then Hunter said that a vlog will be made but in the placement where the music video would’ve been which Piper had screamed due to the twistedness.

This video was emotional damage and zig-zag overall. Lots of confusion, worries, and pranks occurred in this video. It’s also one of the rare times that a team member pranks the squad or Piper herself.

This is the end of the essay.

The next was Jamison and she did a favorite squad member:

My favorite squad member is Emily because she’s so sweet and lovable. She’s like an angel and the #1 best friend to Piper. She does TikTok hacks and challenges with her friends and I enjoy every moment of her content. I relate to her because I’m a fun person and also like to do challenges in my free time. I’ve done plenty of those and the same ones that she does. I and Emily look the same because of our blonde hair.

The next was Cody and he also did his favorite member:

My favorite squad member is Jentzen because he’s very funny and an awesome person to hang out with. I love his voice and I like him and Lev’s friendship even if they don’t agree with stuff at times. Jentzen is the one that spreads happiness anywhere and his fun personality would make anyone’s day. He’s such an awesome young man and I hope others will think the same.

The last member to do either of the two options was Alex, but he didn’t want to do anything. Jamison convinced him to at least do the favorite member since he would only have to do 5 to 8 sentences instead of three paragraphs. Alex agreed and did his assignment. But due to him not wanting to do it for so long, he only had five minutes to complete it. So he got started right away.

My favorite squad member is Lev because he’s very truthful and a loyal person to Piper.

That's all he wrote and he then waited for the 5 minutes to end and he considered it done. He flipped his paper over to attempt to hide the unfinished paper which worked successfully at that moment. The assignments were handed to Duncan so he could take them to Lev to be scored.

Once Lev had finished grading the papers, he passed them out to everyone. Here were the results: Polly: 95 (There were errors, but overall good job on the details and citing evidence.); Jamison 100 (Nice work!); Cody 80 (Took points off due to reaching 5 sentences and some word choice errors.) Alex 20 (One sentence really?)

Everyone except Alex was proud of their scores. As for Alex, he would have to rewrite a few sentences 5 times each in a separate room while everyone else had got prizes for their good grades.

Back in the room with Alex, he was thinking about how he didn’t do his work when prompted and waited till the last minute to do it. He felt horrible and wanted a second chance. But he knew that this assignment was the last chance to redeem himself. This was timed for thirty minutes and he completed all the sentences in twenty-five of them. After that, he showed it to Lev who was blocking the doorway. Lev gave him a perfect score but has never received a prize. He knew the reasoning and then hung out with the rest of the squad.

Today was also Elliana’s birthday, so for extra credit, the squad would make short paragraphs to show appreciation to her. Some had put that she was a good dancer, a general happy birthday paragraph, or that she was an awesome friend to her ringleader and squad. These would be delivered to Elliana by mail. When the notes were completed, Lev went to the post office to have them delivered. Due to the mail being slow, she didn’t get the mail until the next day, but she still thanked the Pollyinators for the birthday notes via a story that was sent to Lev to send to the group individually. They cheered when they received the message and said happy birthday to her again despite it being a recording and her birthday being the day before.

When the Pollyinator group was together, Lev had come back over to ask the group if they enjoyed the summer school roleplay, and they all did. Some said that it refreshed their brain on the ELA subject. Lev then asked if they wanted to do more subjects, and the group agreed, so Lev started planning challenges or games for the next few subjects.