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Cinder Ella

Once upon a time there was a girl named Ella. She had long blond hair and beautiful blue eyes. Her mom died from a terrible disease. Her father married a mean step mom that had two evil daughters named Sophie and Alice.
The evil step mom made her clean every part of the house. Every day the step family would say,” Scrub the floor! Wash the windows! Make the bed!” and they would make Ella do chores all day.
They did this because Ella was so sweet and pretty while on the other hand, well let’s just say the stepsisters were not. Of course Ella’s father didn’t know how mean the stepfamily was to Ella because he was so busy. One day while Ella was cooking, her Dad had a heart attack and died. It made Ella really upset.
The step mom kicked Ella off her property and into the forest. She did this because they despised Ella and they were jealous of her. And it was not the best night to get kicked off the property. It was pouring and the wind was picking up speed. Then it started to hail.
Ella’s face was stinging from the impact of the hail. Now her face was searing with pain. She tripped on a log and fell into the mud. She was wet and upset.
Then it got worse, as lighting struck a tree that went on fire, but luckily didn’t spread. Another bolt of lighting struck a tree like a bullet and it fell. Ella jumped out of the way. She wanted to go home but the step mom, who owns the property, would never let her go back.
The worst place to be during a thunderstorm is the forest. Her rags were ripping and the hail was like sharp knives on her face. Finally, the storm lightened up and after a while stopped. Of course by that time it was the middle of the night and Ella was very tired and wanted to go to sleep. She found a nice patch of moss, lay down and fell asleep.
She woke up in the morning very hungry. She decided to look for some food. She found a fig tree. After she ate the figs, Ella took a walk. As she was walking she saw a letter on another tree. She picked the letter off and it read: You are invited to the Prince’s Ball. There will be food, dancing and music. Please come to the castle on April eighteenth. From the Prince.
Today was the sixteenth, so Ella was very happy. She liked the woods but at the ball she would get a chance to be with other people. But then she realized that she didn’t know were to go and she had nothing to wear.
Ella was still hungry so she went to search for more food. She found a red berry bush. She ate some berries and then made a nice place to sleep. Ella woke up and walked around, but she didn’t go far because she had a nice pile of straw and leaves, and on the top, moss.
As she was walking she heard the sound of cries. Ella ran to see what it was and found a wizard without his wand, surrounded by a furious pack of wolves. She picked up a rock and threw it at the pack leader, who ran away, followed by the rest of the wolves.
The wizard picked up his wand and thanked Ella.
“My name is Zane,” said the wizard.

“I’m Ella and it’s nice to meet you,” Ella replied.
“Thank you! And if you ever need me then say, ‘zing zang zoo,’” said Zane, and all of the sudden he disappeared.
The next morning, when Ella woke up, she said, “Zing zang zoo,” and the wizard appeared. He asked what she wanted and she said, a dress, and to appear at the castle when the ball starts.
The wizard told her to get some red berries. Luckily she remembered where the berries were so she got them in a snap. Ella gave Zane the berries and he turned them into a dazzling red dress with sparkling red shoes. Ella loved it and thanked the wizard. He told Ella that she must be back by daybreak or she will lose the dress. Then all the sudden Zane waved his wand and she appeared at the ball.
Ella came to the castle. It had huge paintings on the walls and there was a spiral staircase. When she entered, everyone stared and muttered about how beautiful she was. The stepsisters saw Ella and thought that she looked like their stepsister! The prince stared at Ella and asked her to dance. Then Ella told him all about her evil stepfamily. They danced and talked until the sun started rising so she ran away. The prince was yelling and asking her to come back, but she was long gone.
The prince decided to throw another ball hoping to find the beautiful girl.
Before the ball, Ella said, “Zing zang zoo,” and Zane appeared. He told her to get blueberries and he turned them into a shining blue dress.
When Ella arrived the prince thought she was even more beautiful then before. It was even more crowded this time than last. They danced all night until Ella ran away. She ran as fast as she could while the prince tried to catch up, but failed.
Then the final ball was thrown and she said, “Zing zang zoo.” Zane asked Ella to get some raspberries, which took here a long time. In a flash, Zane turned the berries into a dress, shining like the stars. But there was something different this time. After they danced and talked, Ella did not run away. Instead she stayed.
Her dress turned into rags and she asked, “Do you still love me?”
And the Prince replied, “Yes I do!” They got married and lived in the castle. The stepfamily became their servants.

Yes it is sad this is my final post. “Yay, yay” “Be quiet!!” Okay, back to my post… I did like the blog a lot although I thought it should not have been public mainly because of all these dumb people that keep on saying things in my post. I liked writing my posts a lot besides the fact of all these people saying things in my post. I thought the blog was great, because I liked writing all my work so everyone in the class could see what I did.  I learned how to write a good post and how to podcast.  Now I know it is sad, but I must leave. “Yay he is leaving.” “Stop it!”

      Well you might be thinking why is this post called OZ OZ OZ, well I will tell you why. In school we read the Wizard Of Oz you might now be thinking “why” well I will tell you why, because well, um, I ah well just because. We also saw the movie now you might be thinking ” we get it already!!!” Now I liked the book more “boo, boo books stink”  “were are all these people coming from!” Back to what I was saying now I like the book better because I thought that the movie was a bit weird but the book had great writing. It also was a better story in the book because some of the best sceens were taken out of the movie.  For excample the china world and the cap of the monkeys and the Queen of the south and “WE get it already!” So that is my post. You better like it because it is the best you will get.

I finished my Alice progect. We had a tea party to selebrate. We had cake scones tea and much more. I really liked Alices adventures in wonderland. It was a good book but I thought that at the end when it says that the whole story was a dream I think that runes the story. It is still a great book but I don’t like the end. If you want to read more about Alice in wonderland go here.

Today my buddy from house 43 interveid me. He asked about immigrating to big Dalton. I was in little Dalton and now I am in Big Dalton. He asked about the diffrences about big Dalton and little Dalton. I like big Dalton more.

 

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In order to make the comic you need to have comic life. Comic life is a program were you can make comics of course. So far my partner and I have three pages. The first page is the cover, the second page is when Alice arrives at the tea party and the third page is when the Hatter and the March Hare are saying riddles and Alice is solving them. In comic life you can do a lot of things. First you pick your boxes that your pictures will go in. Then you put your pictures in and choose what bubble you want. Lastly you put the writing in the bubbles and you are done with the page.

You may not know what the title means, well I will tell you it is the name of a book. A very good book actually. Two kids named Claudia and Jamie Kincaid go on an adventure to New York. They really just ran away and stayed in the Metropolitan Museum Of Art. Then one day they get a new piece of artwork that was bought at an auction. Claudia and Jamie saw it when they were in the Exhibit called Italian Renaissance. The museum thought it was by Michelangelo but they were not sure. The two kids were eager to find out so they studied that topic. In the end they meet the women that sold it and she told them the information. But if you want to know if it was by Michelangelo you will just have to read the book.

I went to Plymouth recently. In Plymouth we got to go to a Plymouth village, we got to visit a Native American family and much more. We met actors that would pretend that it is 1627 and act like a Pilgrim would. We saw the Mayflower 2 which is a replica of the real Mayflower. On the first day we went to visit a Native American family. There we helped work on a caneo and walked around. We also heard some Native American storiess. Then we had a fire drill. After that we had a dinner. It was Turkey, carrots, cheese, johnny cakes, grapes and bread. We didn’t get any forks only spoons and knives. Then we had four activities. In the activities we got to play with Pilgrim toys, dress up like pilgrims and much more. In the morning we ate breakfast played and went to the gift shop. Then we went to a Pilgrim village and got to do some work like cutting wood, help build a Pilgrim house and work in the garden. The village was a lot of fun. Then we played some more got ready to go and we left. I thought that Plymouth was a lot of fun and I can’t wait to go back in 9th grade.

In school I studied forced immigration. (Forced immigration is slavery.) This year the main topic is immigration and forced immigration was one of the units. We learned about how hard it was to be a slave. We also learned about some incredible slaves and captives like Cinque. Cinque freed the captives on a boat called the Amistad. There was a battle where the captives won and forced the sailors to take them back to Africa. But at night the sailors sailed towards Cuba instead where the captives were finally defeated. The captives were freed eventully. But back to what I did during the unit my class also read books about the Underground Railroad and other things. I thought the unit was interesting but it was a bit sad. I felt bad for the Africans because they were doing all this hard labor and they didn’t even do anything to the Americans. That is what my class and I did in the unit about forced immigration.

     The comic is the last step. You might know that if you read the other post. My partner and I first had to pick out ten scenes from the chapter. We chose arrives at tea party, conversation about how Alice was being rude, riddle, what day of the month, butter, watch, twinkle song, leaving party, gets key, goes to garden. We skipped dormouses story but that was the only scene we skipped. We started to illustrate the begining but we have a lot more to draw.