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In class we read a great book called When You Reach Me. When you look at other blogs of our from 2008-2009 you will see the same type of titles. That is because the mother of Miranda, a sixth grader, entered in the $20,000 Pyramid. What this book is based on is a girl, once [...]

A Mango Shaped Space is a book written by Wendy Mass about a girl who sees colors for letters, numbers, and noises. Her cat, mango, wheezes and when he wheezes, Mia (the star character) sees orangy, yellow mango colored puffs coming out of his mouth like puffs from a train in a cartoon. I enjoyed the [...]

Right now in Alice we are making comics of one (or two if the setting stays the same) chapter of Alice. We can almost totally change the chapter except for keep the same subject. The one that me and c17ar, is about the first chapter. Our twist is that Lorena, Alice’s oldest sister falls down [...]

For writing skills we had to read a book call The Green Book. Then we had to compare the characters in the book to the pilgrims. The characters in The Green Book had to travel from where they live to another place, although unlike the pilgrims they actually had to go to another planet rather [...]

As you might know, our class has been studying Alice in Wonderland. First, we mostly started learning about Lewis Carrol (The author who’s real name is Charles Dodgson) and the real Alice (Liddle), his favorite student. In Alice in Wonderland Lewis made many jokes about things in his actual life, and used people in his [...]