Just yesterday on 4/29/09 Ms. Edinger finished reading a book to us When You Reach Me which is by Rebecca Stead a Dalton parent. This story is about a girl named Miranda and one day she gets a note saying:
I am coming to save your friend’s life, and my own.
I must ask two favors. First, [...]
We now have got more ahead on Alice in Wonderland. When we finish all ten pictures we scan them all in and save it in the house account. After that we go into comic life, make a comic, Make a blog post featuring the comic, have a party, and be done. My partner c17ap and [...]
This post is once again about Pilgrims. It will tell you all the differences and similarities I noticed between the Green Book’s story and the Pilgrim’s story.
Some of the similarities are that people from both stories traveled to unknown places. For the pilgrims it was America and for Green Book people it was Planet [...]
My newest school project is Pilgrims. It is another year long study. We studied a book called Mourt´s Relation and had to make a drawing that goes with the phrase and everyone in my class had to. I took the exact words so don´t think I have spelling problem. So here it is.
My buddy R.G. has another buddy in New Orleans in Langston Hughes Academy. This paragraph is the point of view from my Buddy.
“I learned that New Orleans is a very nice place where jazz started. It also has lots of wetlands. Parks. It also has down sides like occasional hurricanes but New York [...]
The Lucky Ball
It was the last inning of the World Series game, the bases were loaded, and the best hitter was up to bat. The score was 9-8. The pitcher was sweating bullets. It was 3 balls, 2 strikes, and 2 outs. He pulled the lucky ball out of his pocket and started feeling [...]
That is my poem I wrote for a study of forced immigration. I was inspired by my teacher and Elizabeth Alexander. It was from the point of view of a slave who was aboard the Amistad cargo ship.The slaves were not supposed to be on that ship. We completed the poem and all on 2/11/09. [...]
This week my class and I read a story called Africa Is My Home. It was brought to the world by my teacher, Ms. Edinger. It was poetic, but she is going to have to take away some of the poetry and inside thoughts to make the story completely factual.
I learned how to count in [...]
Elizabeth Alexander came into the Dalton school on 2/6/09 to read us poems and talk about them. She was the poet at the inauguration. She read her poem in a bland voice. She said she spoke in a simple voice so that you could hear the words clearly. But I think poems should be [...]
Yesterday 1/29/09 my grade saw the school play Oliver. The character that played Oliver was a girl! The person that played Bill Sykes is c17sp’s brother. The story is about a boy named Oliver Twist who lives in an orphanage owned by Mr. Bumble (who was very funny!). Then he is sold to Mrs. and [...]