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Visit Alaska blogs. Click here to go to iRock’s blog! On his blog learn about Martin Luthers speech and learn about secret writing! Please comment!!!

I also visited people from Mamroneck, NY. Click here and visit Bruno’s blog. Read about him and his girlfriend and about the superbowl.

Visit Scotland blogs! Click here to go to Joshua’s blog! Once on his blog read about the 100 year old KODAK camera his mom got. Visit and here about that his teacher is going to try and take a class picture with it! Comment!

Today I visited blogs from a class in New Zealand. Click here to visit Tim’s (a student) blog. Tim is 11 years old. He has many pets and his dad is the teacher of his class! Also on Tim’s blog you can read the story he has been writing on his blog.Go to Tim’s blog and read his story, see some of his projects and please comment!

This is my poem about Kali who was one of the unfourtunate people to be taken on the Amistad.

I never had a chance to say goodbye.
I was in the street when unknown
Men came and took me.
I miss my mother and father the most but
I also miss my brother and sister.

I miss the palms, the grass, and all of my
Friends and animals I played with.
I miss my town and my people.

They took me on a boat named the Amistad.
Fear gripped me. I had never seen a boat this size before.
Cinque told me not to worry. But I could not help being scared.

I am longing to go back to Africa. There I was
safe, now anything could happen to me,
I never had a chance to say goodbye.

“Millions and millions of African people were taken captive during the long and horrible time of the Atlantic slave trade. Mothers and fathers, uncles and aunts, nieces and nephews, granddaughters and grandsons, brothers and sisters, friends and enemies were ripped away from their families and taken to the Americas. Untold numbers died. Countless others ended up on plantations. Very few ever went home.
Sarah Margru Kinson did.”

Sarah Margru Kinson born in Mendeland, Africa (now where Sierra Leone is) lived in a town with many other Africans. Her father had nothing. Not even food. So in this historical fiction telling of her story, he pawned Margru to work for another man and in turn the man would give her father food. He gave the man her because she was the only thing he had. Back then in Africa no one used money. Instead they traded. Someone could trade seeds for rice but there wasn’t a set price. People came and traded for whatever they thought was fair.

But one day slave traders came. How it worked was white men came to the coast up near West Africa. They got black people to go and capture other black people. Then they were sold to the white men and taken on ships and brought to America. Sarah Margru Kinson was brought onto a ship to sail to Havana, Cuba. From Cuba she sailed on a ship called the Amistad, which means friendship in Spanish. On that ship other Africans killed some of the sailors and told them to take them back to Africa.

Daytime they sailed to Africa but at night the sailors tricked them and sailed to America. Finally they were spotted off the coast of America. Read about Sarah Margru Kinson’s story and find out how she survived…

My buddy JW13 wrote this paragraph about how house 43 is trying with their buddies to help repair the damage that Hurricane Katrina did to New Orleans.

House 43 has a relationship with children in New Orleans, Louisiana. Each kid has one or two buddies. I have two; J and B. They write letters to us and we write back. We write about activities in school and out of school. I usually tell them some facts about New York City. I think that I have a very fun relationship with my buddies. The first time they wrote to us some of them talked about beignets. I wrote back to J asking what a beignet was. He said that they were like donuts except they had sugar on top.
By the way, I am JW13. House 43, my house, is trying to find a project to raise money. We will give the money to New Orleans so the city will get repaired. Some of the buddies said that the flood from Hurricane Katrina destroyed their houses. I hope that our plan to help them will be a complete success.

Half a Sixpence based on the book by H.G. Wells is about a boy named Arthur Kipps. He works at a drapery store in about 1890. The only friends he has are the other workers. But when he encounters a fortune he has to make a decision between his friends and being with rich and with all the important people.

I really liked the play. I thought that the way it was done was great. All of the songs really went with the play. Also the actors played their parts to make it very good. If you haven’t seen it I highly recommend seeing it.