Oh no this is my final blog post! Which is really sad because it’s a really fun way to get people to coment on your writing. My favorite parts were when we did the buddy interview. If was really fun. My least favorite part was probally putting in pictures even they looked really cool in the blog. My favorite post to write was Things That Mystify. It was fun to write about a book that I really enjoyed. Another one of my favorite post is the Alice post. Well that’s all the time I have! Thanks for reading!
c17ar
Inkheart is one of my favorite book of all time. By Cornelia Funke. Inkheart is the start of it all and I highly recommend it. But Inkdeath is my favorite. It has action for people who like action, it has happiness for people who like happiness, it has sorrow for people who like sorrow and it has all that other good stuff that people like in a book. All in one book. Now what more can you want? Now this book is in book stores near you!
Alice in Wonderland one of my favorite books (by Lewis Carol) of all time was taken by Disney and turned into a movie. It was a hit! Hundreds of children have seen the movie (including myself) and have loved dearly. But here is the truth! The truth is that the movie is wonderful and magical and bla bla bla…
But they make Alice scared which she is not. They make her cry ever two seconds. They make her run away from Wonderland and like MGM did with the Wizard of Oz they made it all a dream. Which makes it less weird I guess but it takes away from the strangeness. So thank you for reading the Truth of the movie.
In the before I thought the Wizard of Oz was a good adaptation of the book. Why? I’ll tell you why because it was a good movie and it has the main point, a girl comes down in a cyclone meets some friends and goes to a wizard who can not help her. But girl was I wrong! In fact is doesn’t even have the same theme! Here are some important parts from the book that you people who haven’t read the movie missed. The lion doesn’t fight a giant spider and earns respect from all animals in the jungle and becomes king of the jungle, it turns out that in the book was not a dream and that Aunt Em and Uncle Henry shows happiness and love to see her again, Dorothy lives in a gray Kansas prairie and only lives with Aunt Em Uncle Henry and Toto, there is no golden cap that lets the owner control the winged monkeys for three times, there is no Glinda the witch of the south there is only Glinda witch of the north. These are only few of the many important parts that the movie missed. If you don’t believe now you never will! Oh did I mention that no body whats to hurt Dorothy because the Witch of The North has kissed her and that Glinda (the one they cut out) is the one that gets her home? Well good bye and if you want to see the many important parts that they missed read the book! Then they cut out the wicked monkeys getting her home and this and that and oh ya…
P.S What I am saying is that it is a bad adaption not a bad movie, in fact I love the movie!
Jacob Have I Loved is a very good book about a girl living in her amazingly talented sister. Sara Louis just can’t stand being the unloved twin! First everyone in the town but then when her best friend comes back from the army and marries her sister after a new comer gives his dead wife’s money to Caroline (the talented sister) to go to Julliard when it wouldn’t of been for Sara Caroline wouldn’t even have singing lessons. This book has won an award and is available at book stores near you.
Fact Sheet
- 4th most popular state at: 18,400,000
- Total water area – 4,424 square miles
- Rank among states in total area – 22nd
- Highest Natural Point – 345 feet
- Geographic Center – 12 miles northwest of Brooksville, Hernando County
- Beaches – 663 miles
- Largest county – Palm Beach, 2,578 square miles
- First permanent European settlement – 1565, St. Augustine, by Spain
- Acquired from Spain as a U.S. Territory – 1821
- Admitted as 27th state of the U.S. – March 3, 1845
- Capital - Tallahassee
- Population 2005 (estimate) – 17,789,864 (Rank 4th)
- Population 2004 (estimate) – 17,397,161 (Rank 4th)
- Population 2000 – 15,982,378 (Rank 4th)
- Population 1990 – 12,937,926
- Saint Augustine is the oldest European settlement in North America.
- The name Punta Gorda, which means, “fat point” when translated from Spanish. The moniker was given to the city because a broad part of the land in Punta Gorda juts into Charlotte Harbor. The harbor itself is somewhat unique, as it is the point where the Peace River meets the ocean.
- Orlando attracts more visitors than any other amusement park destination in the United States.
- A museum in Sanibel owns 2 million shells and claims to be the world’s only museum devoted solely to mollusks.
- The Benwood, on French Reef in the Florida Keys, is known as one of the most dived shipwrecks in the world.
- Dr. John Gorrie of Apalachicola invented mechanical refrigeration in 1851.
- Miami Beach pharmacist Benjamin Green invented the first suntan cream in 1944. He accomplished this development by cooking cocoa butter in a granite coffee pot on his wife’s stove.
reference
http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/kids/facts.cf…
http://www.50states.com/facts/florida.ht…
http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/Fish/southflori…
http://www.imdb.com
Article one: Florida Snakes
Mercier’s wife shouted for him to look, and he saw a stunning sight: A huge snake wrapped around an adult alligator. The alligator rolled over and grabbed the snake in its mouth. As Mercier ran down the boardwalk to keep up, the alligator swam off with the snake in its jaws. A Burmese python, a native of Southeast Asia and one of the largest snakes in the world.
There are 27 species of snakes in the everglades only four of them are venomous, cotton mouth, diamond back rattlesnake, dusky pygmy rattlesnake and coral snake. Wow right.
Butterfly McQueen and Sydney Poitier
These people were both African-American Floridian people living through hard times. First I will tell you about Butterfly McQueen and then Sydney Poitier and then I will do similarities and differences.
Butterfly McQueen was born the January, 7 1911 Tampa Florida. Her birth name was Thelma McQueen. It was changed because when she danced she constantly moved her arms. Butterfly has won one award. She went to school in Augusta Georgia and finished high school in Long Island New York. Butterfly studied dance with Kathrine Dunham, Janet Collins and Georfry Holder. She has been in movies like Huckerberry Finn, Polly and her most famous playing the roll of the whiny servant Prissy (who knows nothin about havin a baby: from the movie) from Gone With The Wind. She died December 22 1995 at age 84 from a fire. Sydney Poitier was born February 20 1927 Miami. Being born into poverty Sydney did not get much schooling until at age 15 his parents sent him to live with his older brother. At age 18 Sydney moved to New York. He got several rolls that other African-Americans at the time could only dream of. He has won one Oscar for 1963 Lilies of the Field and as won one Academy award for1950 No Way Out. Sydney is still alive.
Similarity:
- Both lived through hard times but still found away to be succesful
- Both were born in Florida
- Both have won an award
- Both are African-American
Differences:
- Sydney was born in Miami Butterfly was born in Tampa
- Butterfly has a stage name
- Sydney has won a oscar Butterfly has not
Guess what our Alice comic is finished! After all the hard work it turned out well. There’s another project we did with the comic, we made a poster it’s just like the comic on the internet except that the shole fourth grade can see it easier. There’s not alot to say except I am so happy that all our hard work paided off. I am a little sad that the Alice study is over but we get to study the Wizard of Oz. So I’m happy! If you want to see our (totally ausome, cool comic that is unique in all ways and looks very different from the book) click here. Hope you click the link and if you do HOPE YOU LIKE IT. (I promise you will be satisfied.)
My buddy c18zp interviewed me about Big Dalton and Little Dalton.
Today my class did podcasts about our Pilgrim characters. My Pilgrim persons name is Dorothy-Ann Annie Cook. This is how we found her diary (the story that I am making her about her.)
Pilgrim Podcast Person:
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