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I really liked blogging this year. I hate printing word after word in those journals it is torture. Typing makes me free to write it is my story telling voice. It will keep me going it is the fuel to the world of literature. I cannot and will not write in a journal that is why you are reading this on the Internet. No offence to all those authors because I love to read but if you white everything in pencil the final book is still typed. The world of designing type is endless everything can be different. Have you ever even tried?? I loved writing it was so much fun. Some posts were fun I wrote allllot. Some there just wasn’t enough information. Ether way it was great.

The MGM movie of The Wizard of Oz has been a classic movie for ages.  But what about the book?  Originally written by L. Frank Boum it is a pure American fairytale of lands you could only fly to in a house.  But a movie can never be exactly like a book (e.g. Alice in wonderland.)  So considering the all the factors of imagination and such the movie is one way that is not terrible to adapt the book.  But in the movie one of the biggest differences is that the shoes of the witch of the east are red while the shoes in the book are silver that is ok I think because the emphasis of color is important to a movie.  One of the things that I don’t like is that in the movie the whole Land of Oz is a dream in the books there actually is a cyclone.  In the book Dorothy goes to Oz!   Also in the poppy field the field mice help them not in the movie.   Other wise the movie is good, for a movie.

I am back from the Plimoth trip and I had a great time and it was so much better than I had expected.

We got off the bus and immediately started doing activities. First we went on a tour of the actual place where the village was and saw the site of Bradfords, Billingtons and Brewsters house. Then we walked up burial hill and back down again and saw Plimoth rock!

After that we got to go onto an almost exact copy of the Mayflower. On it there were people who acted as the people on the Mayflower would have. We got to go to the masters cabin and see how the sailors would steer the boat and change the sails.

After that we went to a barn and saw little baby ducks and goats.

Then we went to the Wampanoag homesite and saw the Native Americans: Burning a canoe, cooking and just talking about their history. These people are not like the ones on the Mayflower. These people do not pretend they really are just regular people preserving family traditions, so you can ask them about life in the sixteenth century and about their life today.

It surprised me that there were actual houses not exhibits like last year when we went to Waterloo Village. These houses you could actually go inside and sit down to listen to the people talk.

In one of the houses you just went inside. In the other big house there was someone talking. It was very interesting.

In that house there was a little game that I played, it goes like this: there are five pieces in the bowl; one side of the piece is white and the other side black. There are twelve sticks, each person starts with six sticks. You hit the bowl down three times. Depending on which side the pieces land on you take one or two sticks. The game is a lot of fun and they had it in the house and I played it.

Next we had dinner, it was normal with a big twist. It was Pilgrim style!

Menu for a Pilgrim style Dinner

Turkey Pottage

Buttered carrots with salt and pepper

Cheese, Grapes and Prunes

Bread and butter

Pear tart

The pilgrims ate with their hands and had no forks.

After dinner we did some evening activities. First we got to play some Pilgrim games like bowling and bubbles! After that we looked in 2 Pilgrim houses and tried to figure out how many people lived in each house. Then we wrote with quill pens and after that some people got to dress up as pilgrims. Then it was tome to go to sleep. The next day we packed our things and went to breakfast, bagels and Frosted Flakes. After that we played some games (witch I thought were very boring), while some classes went into the gift shop. Finally it was our turn to go into the gift shop. I got a Native American arrow. After that we waited in the place where we ate for the other people to watch a movie.

After the movie we went to the sixteen-twenty-seven village and it started to drizzle. One Pilgrim man told us all about the militia and how his gun worked. We also met Francis Billington who almost blew up the Mayflower. We saw lots of animals: goats and sheep even cows!

Then we went in for lunch and we had a pizza party!!!!!!!!!! The only bad thing about the pizza party was that I really did not like the pizza. But they had lemonade and cookies and I had some. Then it was time to head home. We got on the bus for the five hour ride home.

Natasha Trethaway won the Pulitzer prize for poetry!!! That is exiting to me because she helped me with my poem called Teme. She is very good at poetry and deserved the prize.

Next Thursday our class is going to Plimoth Plantation.  I expect it to be fun and we will learn a lot about the pilgrims that sailed on the mayflower from England.  Since we already have been studying the pilgrims for about a month now we will understand better the pilgrim way of life.  I think we’re going to get to go on the mayflower 2!  (I just hope it doesn’t leave the dock or I might vomit .)  in a book Ms. Edinger read to us it said to barf with the wind blowing away from you, (the man in the book learned the hard way).  We read in mourts relation that the bay was “[circular]”
“The bay is so round & circling, that before we could come to anchor, we went round all the points of the Compasse”.  I think I might have been there once because I have been to Cape Cod.  My mom always urges me to like the trips but I’m not sure that I want to go.  I’ve always wanted to learn my mom pushes that so maybe I should go.  I’m interested in the Native Americans and they half accounted for thanksgiving I remember in preschool eating turkey in a mini sort of tepee and realizing what cool people they are and this is the very place the famous Squanto helped the Pilgrims survive!!!  The pilgrims on the other hand were the 2nd settlers from Europe to go to North America!!! These people basically started our continent!!! After considering it it’s very important in American history so now I’m pretty exited.  I’m not sure what will be there but I’m ready to take it on!

We the fourth grade students of the Dalton School have learned a very important piece of world history over the winter of 2006-2007.  Our teacher Monica Edinger has chosen to teach us about the topic of her book, forced immigration.  Forced immigration is more widely known as slavery.
Ms. Edinger’s book is still in the making but we have read what has already been done.  We have also had two workshops with poet Natasha Tretheway.  In those workshops we created a group poem and later wrote individual poems about people on the Amistad, for instance Cin-que, Teme and Margru.  The poems were really interesting to write because we had help from a professional poet.  Our classmate brought in artifacts from Mali such as clothes, dolls and jewelry and Ms. Edinger brought some items from Sierra Leone.  Another classmate of mine said, “I thought the things [that were brought in] were really cool,” and I agree with him!
The Amistad has been one of our major focuses of the unit.  The Amistad was a ship that was illegally carrying a group of slaves born in Africa, from Cuba to America (Amistad in Spanish means friendship).  I think it was an important event in American history (1837-1839) and lots of kids should know about it because it was an act that involved both white people and people of color working together.  One of the white people was the former president of the United States of America, John Quincy Adams!  It also helped show the people of the time that slavery was not a good thing at all.
It is a very serious topic but I thought that my class handled it well and that we had a learning experience.  One of the ways we can benefit from this experience is that we know just how unfair and what an injustice slavery was.  Now when we are being unfair for a very insignificant reason, we will remember this study.  No matter what the time, maybe even eighty years from now, we will without delay stop unfairness even if it is not our doing.
I hope everybody in my class benefits from the complex but fascinating unit of forced immigration in the same way I did.  I hope, even if you don’t know much about the topic, if you ever are in the situation I described, you will remember this article and stop the injustice.  If you stop unfairness, then you should feel good about it, because you are making the world a better place to live.

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix is a book about Harry Potter and an Aurors who try to stop the again power full Voldemort.  Harry learns of a prophecy made by divination teacher Professor Trelawney that could change his life forever, but the Dark Lord wants it to.

The 5th book in the Harry Potter series is the best so far!

I read Harry Potter and the goblet of fire.  It is the 4th book in the Harry Potter series.  It is about wizards at a school called The Hogwarts school of Witchcraft and Wizardry.  That year something will take place that has not taken place in a very long time.  Harry also learns occlemency to keep the dark lord who is as close to returning as ever before out of his mind.

This book is by J. K. Rowling and you should read it!!!!!

Running down the streets of Kcots, Diputs father screamed, “Stop thief!”
The thief realized that his victim was catching up and quickly dropped his stash of banana peels he had been carrying on to the street. Unfortunately Diputs father did not notice them and he tripped and landed face first on the street. Blood streamed out of his face. The next day he was dead.
Poor Diputs he was just getting good at stock, who else could teach it to him? Nobody in the county could be as good a teacher as his father and how he would miss him.
Diputs he had no mother. You see his father adopted him so he didn’t have stock buying.
Diputs was bold, the next day Diputs set out to sell and buy stock. Of course he got a little bit of a head start because his father already had all the best stock that and he inherited it from his father. So off he went right then and there down the streets of Kcots to buy and sell stock. Well what do we have here said the director of knits of Kcots when Diputs walked into the building where his father used to work. My father died last week I’m here to take his place buying and selling stock independently. Said Diputs. First step said the head of Knits of Kcots Bill and Sal talk to them….
“I sell you buy.”
“No I buy you sell.”
“No you sell I buy.”
“Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious,” chirped Sals mother.
Diputs could clearly see that these were the guys to buy from. Definitely.
“Hey guys,” He said. They immediately grew silent,
“I’ll give you all my stock for all of yours” of cores they said yes. And so Diputs made his first stupid decision.
Diputs went home feeling he had the best stock in the world.
“I’m going to make millions,” he said. The next morning the director of Kits of Kcots was frantic. “The nincompoop” he said to himself.
“Have you heard?” The Director panted. “The stock market has gone bananas! Nooooooooooo! You’re fired!!!!”
“What? What the heck? Me fired?” Diputs went crazy. “Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!” Then he fainted. Right then and there. Splat!
When he revived he found him self in a hospital. A nice looking nurse walked over to him. “It’s the middle of the night the more rest you get the better.” “What happened said the half unconscious Diputs.”
“The trade you made yesterday caused confusion and delay. But now Bill and Sal have the best stock and refuse to give it back, so…”
“So what?” said Diputs. “The whole stock market is going crazy. By the way I’m Alice I’m your nurse.” That night Diputs had a dream. He was walking with his father. He was learning about stock and his dad was saying something about it and he was staring off into space, trying to find Neptune his favorite planet. Then his dad said something about taking over the world and Diputs ears immediately started to listen.
“If you ever find yourself in a situation where the stock market crashes buy a certain piece of stock. I wrote down the piece and hid the piece of paper under the floorboard. You may keep the paper. It might just help you one day.” Diputs woke up and started screaming
“IT WILL YES DADDY IT WILL”!
“Settle down,” said Alice.
“I like pizza,” cried Diputs.
“You have a meeting at Doogs today,” said Alice.
“That’s where I want to work when I grow up!” screamed a very hyper Diputs.
“I know said Alice.” Then Diputs remembered the piece of stock he had to trade.
“I have to go home to get something,” said Diputs. So he went home and sure enough there was the piece of paper with his fathers handwriting on it. Later that day Diputs made the trade! And the Magic stock-o-meter (witch showed if the stock market was crashing or doing fine), returned too normal. He also got what he always wanted a job at the Doog company.
So it turns out that Kits of Kcots hated Drofnats (his real name) and was trying to get all his stock but Trams saved the day! Well as for Alice she turned out to be Diputs fairy god sister and moved to Madagascar and became a zookeeper and married a retired Coconut Sheller that knew how to stand on his nose with his feet touching his eyes while chewing chewing gum, whistling happy birthday to Traviselina Intranerin Edjintrumplubniancoozer of Traviselenaintranerindjintrumplubniancoozervill son of Herbervinilianmada Harriettanzemelivka Champpluniamonhesel of Herbervinilianmadaharriettanzemelivkadchamppluniamonheseltownavillianiafoko Village and Margrenalabia Nozerkacanpuengalainial Vonhengetyelvehnishinnobipquerwishinnishov of Margrenalabianozerkacanpuengalainialvonhengetyelvehnishinnobipquerwishinnishovlakevshenvilltowmonika city and balancing a magnet in his but which was pushing up a globe full of Gatorade which drenched a time bomb that never exploded. Alice thought that that was pretty cool. So every thing turned out good in the end. By the way speaking of the end,
THE END
Sorry I lied it’s not the end.
THE END