c16tk

A few weeks ago, my class and I finished writing true picture books about immigrants that came to America. Mine was called,”From Russia to America.” It is about my chess teacher, who, as you may have noticed, is from Russia. We wrote it because we are studying immigration. This is what it looked like:

(Of course, not only my initials were on the actual copy.) We first recorded an interview with a tape recorder. Then we transcribed the interview by hand. My transcription was about eight pages. We wrote a lot of drafts and then drew skeches. My point is, we did a lot of work on the book.

Now we are studying forced immigration. A good example of that is slaves being brought back from western Africa. Half of them died on the journey, and were thrown overboard without a thought. They were all in chains for the whole ride. The ones that survived were sold at a slave market and treated very badly. My class recently read a book called Amistad Rising. It was about a person named Cinque who was taken from his home in Sierra Leone into slavery. I won’t tell you the rest or otherwise you might not read it and just take my word for it. Another book is called Henry’s Freedom Box, which is more about a true story, unlike Amistad Rising, which is a good story but only based on a true story.

That’ll be it for this post! I’ll make another soon. Here’s a sneak peak. The next is about a historical fiction book called How I became an American. There’s your sneak peak. You want more? Well too bad, you can’t have more! Bye!

Hello readers! This is my first blog post (as you can see in the title). My name is c16tk. Well, that’s not my real name. I have a different one (obviously). There will be many more posts, so I don’t have to put everything in one post. I love books. I have some suggestions for some good series, if you want them:

1)”Horrible Histories” Some examples: -The Angry Aztecs -The Storming Saxons -The Incredible Incas

2)”Horrible Science” Some examples: -Evolve or die -Chemical Chaos -Explosive Experiments

3)”Horrible Geography” Some examples: -Monster Lakes -Intrepid Explorers -The Odious Oceans

4)”Murderous Maths” Some examples: -How to +-x/ -Do you feel lucky? -The Phantom X

5)”Dead Famous” (these are about, as you may see, famous people who are dead.) Some examples: -Queen Victoria and her amusements -Cleopatra and her Asp -Joan of Arc and her marching orders

Believe it or not, these books all have different authors! They are very good for humor and you learn from them too! Each book has about 150 pages. To order them, click here.

In fourth grade we are studying some Cinderella stories. We have noticed that although some are like the most common Cinderella (mistreated person goes to ball and falls in love with prince. She loses slipper while running away at midnight…), there are a lot of other kinds, which also include stories making fun of the first kind. We will soon make our own stories!

I might look at another blog from last year in the future to get ideas for what to write about. They wrote about stuff that they were doing in school. That will be what I’ll write about too. They also wrote about their Cinderella stories. Sometimes they would even write their whole story! Anyway, I hope you will enjoy that stuff.

That’s all for this post! The next will come soon enough. Don’t worry, you won’t die waiting. Probably!