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Hello!! This is a new series called All About Alice. I’ll be writing about Alice every Tuesday!( That I have the blog period.) Now to get writing. At School we have been doing a big project. Try to guess, I’ll give you a hint: It’s my teacher’s favorite study of the year. Do you know? The answer is : Alice and Wonderland!! If you have never read the book, you can read it by clicking here! Well the first thing that we did was read the book. Well we didn’t read it, Ms. Edinger read it and we just followed along. While reading the book we learned about Lewis Carrol and Alice Little.  We also watched a few movies about Alice. e.g. The 1900 House, and Betty Boop in Blunder Land. Right now we are making comics for Alice.

During the past few months I have been writing a Cinderella story. If you want to, it is below for you to read. I have also included a pod-cast of my favorite part. Well here is my story:

The Amazon Adventure

A Cinderella re-telling

once upon a time there was a little boy named Freddie. Freddie was a tall nice, nature and environment loving nine-year-old boy. He lived with his two mean, ill-mannered stepbrothers named Spencer and Franklin Dublin.

They lived in a cave deep in the Amazon Jungle. Just about everything in that cave was nice. They had a nice fireplace, a nice burner, nice straw pallets, and best of all they lived in a nice convenient place.

There were tons of trees to use as firewood, and plenty of animals to hunt for not only food, but the bones as well. Of course Freddie didn’t want to do any of this but he was forced to or else he couldn’t survive, because he was in the middle of the wilderness.

One day right before Freddie, Spencer and Franklin were going to hunt, a messenger came with a message.
The message said, “Meet at 24 longitude 36 latitude at 7:35 am tomorrow for a whole day trip around the Amazon River!”

The next morning Freddie asked his brothers, “Can I go?”

“No!” sneered the brothers “You can’t go, you aren’t proper like us! You stay and do the chores.” That made Freddie very, very sad. So as soon as his brothers had left and were out of sight Freddie crept into the woods and he started crying.

Suddenly he heard a rustling noise. Freddie got very tense and drew his knife, given to him as a gift when he was five. It had a sacred engraving on it, “May you go fourth and do many great things in the future.
“The rustling grew louder. Freddie started sweating. Finally the rustling stopped and out of the bushes came a strange man.

Freddie did not sheath his knife. The strange man said, “Who are you, laddie?”
Freddie replied. ‘I’m Freddie. Who are you?”

“Why,” the strange man said, “I’m Bear Grylls, wild life explorer.”

“Wow!” said Freddie.

“Mr.Grylls, can you get me to the Amazon Adventure in five minutes?” Freddie asked.

“Sure, what’s the address?” he asked.

“24 Longitude by 36 Latitude.” Freddie said defiantly.

“Well sure I can, but you have to be back by 5:30 PM,” he said.

“It’s a deal!” Freddie said.

A couple of minutes later, they arrived at the dock just as the boat was leaving.

“Thank you so, so, so, so much Mr. Grylls!”

So Freddie got on the boat and sat down across from his stepbrothers, who didn’t recognize him one bit, thanks to Mr. Grylls and his dirt disguise. The dirt disguise was a layer of dirt over his face to make him look older than he was.

As the boat sailed down the Amazon River, Freddie saw amazing things, such as flowers, nutmeg trees, mountains and the fascinating river life.

At about 12:45 the boat docked 33 miles from where it left. Freddie and the other passengers got off the boat and stared in awe. Ahead of them was the most beautiful valley they had ever seen! With flowers and trees of all sort.

The captain of the canoe said in a very baritone voice, “You may stuff your self with all the food you want. But stay away from that bunch of plants and trees over there. They’re poisonous.”

The passengers yelled with joy and completely stuffed themselves. About 45 minutes later they got back on the boat for the ride back to the dock.

The boat arrived at the dock at about 5:00 and all the passengers got off the boat. The second they got off the boat a jaguar attacked them. Freddie was the only armed one so he drew his knife and battled the jaguar to the death. It was a close battle but finally with scratches and bruises all over his body Freddie killed the jaguar.

Freddie looked at the sun. It was almost 5:25! He left the jaguar with his knife protruding out of it and ran home. He got there at 5:29. Oh no, he forgot his knife with the sacred engraving on it!

Soon after, his brothers got home and told him about the greatness of the ride. “Tomorrow they are going to gather all the people who went on the trip to see who owns the knife.”

So the next day his brothers and Freddie went to the dock he remembered so well from his battle with the jaguar the day before. Freddie was the only one who could recite the engraving! His brothers and the other participants of the expedition were flabbergasted.

Soon after that outstanding day, Freddie and Bear Grylls went to live together in a cave next to the valley that the Amazon Adventure boat docked at about a month ago. As for the brothers, they stayed in the cave and wept till they couldn’t weep no more.

The End

Here is a pod-cast of the first two lines of the story.

 

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As you may know, my teacher, Ms Edinger was on the Newbery Committee. You may also know that the book that won the Newbery award is a book called Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! a medieval poetry book by Laura Schlitz. On Friday March, 1 we each picked a piece of poetry from that book and read it aloud to the class. We also pod-casted it. I picked Piers the Glass Blowers Apprentice. Here is my pod-cast.

 

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In the past week or so, Edinger House have written poems for the Amistad! To add a little sparkle to the project, Ms. Edinger decided to do a collage for the poems. Now all of the collages are completed and they all look fabulous! If you want to see mine, look below and leave a comment by clicking on the title of this post. My poem is a little hard to read, so look above it for a translation.

Sarah Margru Kinson

Mango trees sway in the wind,
I enjoy climbing up them,
Yet I don’t know,
That rough times await me.

A Spanish ship comes to shore,
And white men take me by my neck.
Yet I do not know,
That I might never come back.

Later in life,
After many hard times,
I go home.
I now tell other children,
Don’t stray from your father,
Because if you do,
You may never see him again.

Today I’m going to write about my teacher’s book Africa is my home a slightly fictionalized story about Sarah Margru Kinson. It is still in a early stage but still quite good. It is kind of related to Cinderella because: the Africans were being mistreated (as was Cinderella), the Africans in the book went from normal, to bad to kind of good ( so did Cinderella). I suppose you’ve heard of John Quincy Adams and when he argued a case? Good. My last connection is that numerous people (including John Quincy Adams) helped Margru and even though only the fairy god mother/father helped Cinderella, it doesn’t make much of a difference. The book also includes literary stuff e.g. mutiny, robust, hilarity, and aforesaid. So now that you have heard about this fantastic book, the next few times you go to the bookstore, look for it!

Hi everyone! Today I’m writing a post with my 3rd grade buddy Ben, about his buddy in New Orleans. Well here it is: When my teacher Tracy told me I was getting a buddy from New Orleans, I was worried. I didn’t know if they were going to like me or not. It is very fun for me, because I get to learn about New Orleans from now and the history, but from a person lives there instead of books or something like that. It is a new way of making friends for me, because I only had friends that live near me. I got to see friendship in a whole new way. I used to not know how you make buddies from so far away. Our buddies are making a tree nursery to save the wetlands because an animal called Nutria is eating the trees, and people are draining the trees to make buildings. That was my buddies story about New Orleans.

On Thursday, January 31 we went to see the Tempest, a play by William Shakespeare, preformed by The Dalton School’s grades 6,7 and 8. The Tempest is a play that takes place in the medieval times. It is a really good play, only about a hour and a half and I strongly suggest you go see it!

Esperanza Rising by Pam Munoz Ryan is a historical fiction book about a girl named Esperanza Ortega who immigrates to California with her mom to work at a Mexican farm labor camp. Pam Munoz Ryan uses lots of great writing examples like similes and alliterations. e.g. “This whole valley lives and breaths” page 1. , “Finally Folding” page 39, and “staccato breath’s” on page 93. She also uses historical facts like dates, place names, and other information. E.g. El Rancho de las Rosas (which Pam changed from El Rancho de las Trinidad) page 105. There were also big dust storms in Mexico, page 150. Esperanza Ortega (Pam’s Grandmother) was the influence for this story. Altogether this is a great historical fiction book.

In my Oral History Book ‘From Nicaragua To America’ I wrote about who, what, where, when, why, and how my sitter immigrated. She immigrated from Nicaragua to the United States by plane. She came in the year 1987 for a better life. I also wrote a few fast facts about Nicaragua, some global info, some historical info, and some of my immigrants hobbies. Now my sitter is the Cafeteria Manager a catholic school in Union City, N.J.

That’s a summary of my book.

The Cover

This is my very first blog post and it is about a c15 (class of ‘15) students blog. In his blog he doesn’t only use words, he has a few pictures too. On his blog he includes paragraphs about different field trips including Edinger houses trip to Plymouth Rock. He also includes his Cinderella story and his reflection on making his very own blog. What I have learned from his blog is to go into great detail especially on your Cinderella story. Now that you have read this blog post I hope you will look at some other peoples blog and then hopefully make your own blog. Bye!