Four men when in a rice field seized me.
Leaving behind my wife and child.
It was the worst day of my life.
I was two weeks in traveling to Lomboko.
Who were those white ghosts putting me on the slave ship?
I was so tired and hungry I thought I might die.
Now I am in a jail in a strange land.
This jail is terrible. I can’t even think what ill happen to me.
I just want to leave this horrible place.
Will I ever be free?
Sarah Margru Kinson is a great book by my teacher Monica Edinger. The African language in this book is different than the English language that we all know. I like this language because it is different. The language in this book is Mende. Here are some numbers in Mende “One — e-ta_two — fe-le_three — sau-wa_four — na-ni_five — do-lu_six — we-ta_seven — waw-fe-la_eight — wai-ya-gba_nine — ta-u_ten — Pu “. It is very hard for Sarah at first to understand these white strangers’ language but she managed to learn it.
There is also some great literary writing like, “What are those strange people who look like ghosts?”
This is a very good book so when it is published you should definitely read it.
This is a report from my third grade buddy about New Orleans.
My third grade teacher created a relationship with the Lushure School in New Orleans. My class has sent them letters with curriculum, social and poetry. They write us back about their curriculum and social and poetry.
They sent us a king cake and a beignets mix. We sent them sent them New York City bagels. I am excited because my dad went to college in New Orleans, Louisiana. My goal is to make sure they recover from Hurricane Katrina. I am not sure how but I hope my class and I will find a way to help New Orleans recover from the hurricane.
In school I saw a great play called “Half a Sixpence”. It is a musical about a boy named Arthur Kibbs, Arthur is pour and lived in the store he worked in. But later he gets rich and gets 1200 pounds a year. And then Arthur moved and got married to a girl named Anne.
I thought it was very good because it took place in London and they were good at British accents. It was very long but good.
