Archive for April, 2009

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Things You Read

When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead is an excellent book. It is about a girl named Miranda and her world goes upside down when her best friend Sal is punched by a mysterious kid. She starts getting notes from an unknown writer and hears a weird chant from a homeless person she calls The [...]

Alice Post Number 2

Now we are doing an Alice comic. All of us get grouped up, and we make a comic. First we make a script, then we make all of the drawings and art, then our group scans in all of the pictures to our house accounts, put them onto Comic Life, and then finally, we post [...]

The Green Book vs. The Pilgrims: Similar or Different

Edinger House has just finished a book called The Green Book. Our question is: Is The Green Book similar or different from the Pilgrims? I think that they are pretty similar because they both left their original homes for whatever reason, and they both very, very poor. Also, on both of their vehicles, the Mayflower or [...]

Alice in Wonderland: What We Have Done So Far

For the past month Edinger house has been studying Alice in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll (a.k.a Charles Dodgson). Charles Dodgson changed his name to write Alice in Wonderland because he was a math teacher at Oxford, and didn’t want to ruin his reputation by writing children’s literature. Alice in Wonderland grew more and more [...]

Mourt’s Relation

“And euery day we saw whale playing hard by vs, of which in place if we had instruments & and meanes to take them we might haue a very rich returne , which to our great grief we wanted.”