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Yesterday, (1/29/09) we saw the Middle School play, Oliver! I thought that it was a great play , because they really captured the time, and the costumes were really great! All of the characters spoke in an English accent They had milk maids, and poor men and rich men. [...]
On Tuesday, January 20th, 2009 America’s first African-American president was inaugurated. Even though they were running behind schedule and Obama gave his speech as 12:15ish he was already president. At 12:00 every president elect has become president automatically. Before Obama was inaugurated vice president Joe Biden said his oath. Then the inaugural poet Elizabeth Alexander recited [...]
Making our Oral History books was difficult. First, we had to interview an immigrant, then transcribe our entire interview and highlight the important sections. Next, we made our book dummy. We laid out our book in a smaller version and sketched all of our pictures. At last, it was time to move on to our [...]
Today we got blogs. We were each assigned old blogs to get ideas from. I learned that you can write about anything you want on a blog. The blog I studied went from Alice In Wonderland to the Wizard of Oz to Forced Immigration. The blogs were really interesting and some were exciting. Having [...]