Archive for January, 2008

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The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung

The Journal of Wong Ming-Chung by Lawrence Yep is a historical fiction book about a Chinese miner-boy during the Gold Rush. Wong sails to America on a ship called the Excaliber. Many die on the ship. Once in America, Wong finds that the Americans beat and attack the Chinese, making the journey to [...]

Our Immigration Books

OK. This year each of us wrote a book about someone we know immigrating to America. I wrote about my grandma. She came to America from India in 1946 when she was 9. Her parents were Presbyterian missionaries who were from America, so she was actually American. It was [...]

Hi!

Hi! This year everyone in our class gets their very own blog! Hooray! We were each assigned one of last year’s student blogs to read and to get ideas for writing style for our own blogs. Mine was c15jg. I noticed:
-c15jg wrote a lot of different things, including book [...]