Archive for January, 2009

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The Historic Moment

President Barack Obama’s inauguration was today. It was incredible how many people there were in the audience! I really liked when Aretha Franklin sang “My country tis of thee”. I noticed that Obama stumbled while reciting the oath of presidency. I think that he stumbled because he was trying to remember his speech.
I think that [...]

My First Blog Post

The blog I just looked at belonged to c16rc. It is an interesting series of blogs. It has blogs on many different school events, like Plymouth, Alice In Wonderland, the Wizard of Oz and many others. I learned that over the semester I will write many blog posts about school activities. It will be a [...]

Oral History Project

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At the Dalton School, all of the fourth graders interviewed an immigrant for a school project. I interviewed my grandfather, who came from China in 1951. I had to transcribe my interview, make changes to the text so that it told a clear story, and then make a book dummy. After I finished my book [...]