Archive for January, 2008

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The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung

Hi it’s me; here is a historical fiction book called The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung by Laurence Yep. In it I learned that in 1849 miners had found gold at the Golden Mountain in California. I also learned that people could not get into America because you had to take a test to get into [...]

From the Red, White, Black, and Yellow to the Red, White, and Blue

For my oral history book I interviewed my sitter. I had to write a book about immigration because in school we are studying immigration so our teachers thought it would help us learn about immigration. My book is about my sitter immigrating from Guyana. She said it was hard but fun [...]

“My First Blog Post!”

Hi this is my very first blog post! I have just read one of last year’s kids blogs and it was pretty good. I liked it because he wrote about interesting things like Cinderella, forced immigration, how friendship is important, and The Wizard of OZ. He wrote with good punctuation, spelling, [...]