After a lot of hard work, ( to hear about it in more detail, click here, here, here, and here). C16mm and I have finished our comic and it is really great! It is called The Mock Turtle’s Story and the Lobster Quadrille. If you want to see it, click here. All of our class’s comics were so great, that we had a party to celebrate it! A tea-party, that is. It was an Alice in Wonderland tea-party, and it was really fun! We even got to play Pin the Smile on the Cheshire Cat! To see the post on that, click here!
If you didn’t know, the wizard of Oz is a very popular book written by L. Frank Baum. When he first tried to publish it, they wouldn’t accept it. But he kept trying to get it published, and one day, his hard work payed off, because someone liked it! After it got published, it became famous. So famous, that MGM decided to turn it into a movie! It was a fairly good adaptation, but remember, this was a long time ago, so most of it was black and white, but it was very surprising when Dorothy landed in Munchkin Land and everything became colored. The wicked witches also came up a little to often and Glinda forgot to kiss Dorothy. And there was never any next door neighbor that wanted Toto gone. There were never so many flying monkeys and they forgot the Golden Cap, but all in all, for that time in history, I think MGM did a very good job with their hit movie, The Wizard of Oz. Although The Wizard of Oz is a good book, I think Alice in Wonderland is a better book because it uses better words for describing stuff, it is funnier, and, (in my opinion) is more exciting. I think they are both great, and well done books.
I had lots of fun blogging this year. We got to make our own banners, write posts and even do podcasts! My personal favorite was doing the banners because we got to draw them. I didn’t really like doing podcasts as much, though, because they were so complicated. I learned that you can write posts and then add pictures. You can even add movies! If I get a post next year I would want to write longer, and more exciting posts. I really enjoyed writing on this blog, and I hope to continue blogging next year.
Our buddies from Little Dalton, are going to interview us on how we got from Little Dalton to Big Dalton. They are going to use the questions we used for interviewing our older friends. They might want to change some questions, though, like “Do you have a Visa?”. I will explain some of the differences between Big D. and Little D. :
1.Big Dalton has a lot more floors
2. Big Dalton has more food to choose from for lunch.
3. Little Dalton has those tiles that we made on the walls.
…and much more!
C16mm and I have been working really hard on our comic and, if you want to see it, I might be able to include it in this blog post but, I’m not sure if I can do that. We have started on comic life and it’s really fun! You can put in your own pictures, use cool speech bubbles, and make fun looking boxes to put all your picture’s in! You can also stretch out stuff so it looks really weird and you can color in speech bubbles! We are almost done, and I bet we’ll be finished really soon!
This is a letter, that if my pilgrim character that I designed was real, might have wrote. Her cousin, Elizabeth, from London, did not come on the Mayflower, and Alice might have written a letter to her.
Dear Cousin Elizabeth, I hope thou are doing well in London. Do not worry about me, the new land has many natural resources that we can use to pay our debt.
We have made new friends with the Indians. They are very clever. One of the ways they grow food is by putting fish in the soil and the food grows really well. There is not a very large selection of foods, but we thank god that we have any at all.
All of the men have signed a compact that says that we will stay together, for if we leave each other alone, we might get killed by the Indians. They are not too trustworthy.
We have built a town, graveyard, and fort to defend ourselves and, although people are dying, it is a free land, and I hope thou will decide to come to America.
Your cousin, Alice
We (me and c16mm) have cut out certain parts of our dialogue in our Alice in Wonderland chapter because we had a LOT of text and we just took out parts that we thought were not as important as the others. Most of our classmates are making a theme for their chapter, but we think that ours should look like the original. (Such as Alice, but with brown hair.) We are almost ready to use Comic Life!
Nobody really knows who Mourt is, but I suspect he was a Merchant Adventurer. He wrote a book about the Pilgrims and we each illustrated a part from it.
We haven’t done as much as last time so far, but we’ve finished shortening the script for the comic and we’re starting on the pictures. Keep reading if you want to see some:
This is the Mock Turtle
This is Alice.
Last January and February, our class studied forced immigration. We started by watching movies and reading books, (including a book our teacher wrote). Then we read lots more. Some books were part fiction and some were non-fiction. People back then did very desperate things. We learned that one man named Henry Brown mailed himself to freedom in a crate. Did you know that children started working as soon as they could walk? I’m glad I wasn’t born back then, aren’t you?
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