My other writing skills state was Hawaii. So here are some facts about it…
1) Hawaii’s nickname is the Aloha State
2) Barack Obama was born in Hawaii
3) Hawaii’s population is about 1,288,198
4) The capital of Hawaii is Honolulu
5) State bird is the nene
6) State tree is the kukui
7) the state flower is the hibiscus
the area of Hawaii is 6,423 sq. meters
Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. He is now our president and our first African American president! When he was one his father abandoned the family. So he grew up with his mother, grandfather, and grandmother. When he was six he briefly went to kindergarten at the Noelani elementary school in Honolulu, Hawaii . But then he and his family moved to Indonesia.
My buddy DT interviewed me with questions about me immigrating from little Dalton to big Dalton.
So here is our interview
We are writing a fictional Pilgrim story in class, and this podcast tells you about my character and some of her story.
So here it is…
In writing skills each of us got two states to study. Maine was one of mine. So here are some facts about Maine.
1) Maine is the 39th largest state out of 50
2) Maine’s nickname is the Pine Tree state
3) Maine’s state flower is the pine cone and tassel
4) Maine’s state animal is the moose
5) Maine’s state bird is a chickadee
6) Maine’s state tree is the white pine
7) Maine’s state insect is the honey bee
8 Manhattan’s population is about 3 or 4 times bigger then Maine’s
9) Maine’s population is 1,274,923
10) Maine’s state capital is Augusta
The famous author E.B. White in 1923 moved from New York to North Brooklin, Maine. He lived in Maine for 28 years. He wrote Charlotte’s Web, Stewart Little, and Trumpet Of The Swan some of the most loved children’s books. E.B. white is one of the many authors from Maine such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Steven king, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Maine’s nickname is the pine tree state. Settlers gave it that nickname because it was mostly land and Pine trees. If you see facts 2 and 6 they tell you that the state tree is the Pine tree and the state flower is the pine cone and tassel. If you go to Maine you will see lots and lots of pine trees.
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Just so you know this may give away things in the book for people who haven’t read it. This book is sort of a mystery. You can’t figure it out until you finish the book.
When You Reach Me takes place in 1979 and is about a girl named Miranda who lives with her mom in an apartment in NYC. One day her best friend Sal gets punched by some kid named Marcus. After that Sal doesn’t talk to her anymore. Later MIranda starts getting notes from an unknown person. The first one says “I am going to save your friends life and my own.” MIranda doesn’t understand what this means. The second note says not to share the letters with anyone else. Also to write this person back the story. This book is MIranda writing the letter. Every thing makes sense when a terrible accident happens. When You Reach Me is coming out in July and is funny, mysterious, and so much more. I really really love this book!
Well right now my group (me and c17sh) just finished the words and thinking bubbles and things for the comic. We started to draw pictures. Just so you know our chapters are advice from a caterpillar and Pig and Pepper. Our first picture was of the caterpillar sitting on his mushroom and Alice looking at him with an angry expression on her face. Since they are three inches tall the grass comes up pretty high. Our second picture was a close up of the caterpillar sitting on his mushroom with angry expression on his face. Then there is a close up of Alice smiling. Right now we are working on our Father William pictures. We only took the first to paragraphs and the last two paragraphs. So I’m drawing Father William balancing and eel on his nose and c17sh is drawing him standing on his head. So far it’s really fun.
I read The Green Book It’s about these people in the future and they have to leave the earth because someone is going to destroy it. So they have to go to another planet that no human has ever been to. It’s sort of like the Pilgrim journey and how they go to an unknown place. The people in the green book (the shine people) go to a different planet and when they got there they had never seen anything on the planet but with the Pilgrims they had seen grass and trees and nature before. The shine people traveled in a space ship for four years and the Pilgrims traveled in a ship (the Mayflower) for sixty six days. When both got to there new land they had a hard time. Getting food, building shelter, and just settling down. They both only could bring very few things. They shine people had more hight tec gear then the Pilgrims. They both had new friends in there new worlds. The Pilgrims had the Native Americans and the shine people had the moth people. The Pilgrims lost a couple of passengers and the shine people didn’t loose any. I think they both had similar times.
To start learning about Alice we read Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Ms. Edinger read the annotated version out loud and we followed along. She read the annotated version so we learned more about Alice and learned the original versions of all of the poems. One of the things we learned is that Lewis Carroll’s real name was Charles Dodgson. Lewis Carroll is an anagram of Charles Dodgson We also watched 1900’s House to see what life was like at the time of Alice. Then we studied comics. What the speech bubbles would look like for different characters, how to show movement and how to show sounds. After that we chose our favorite Alice chapters. We got paired up with a partner and chose the scenes. And then we started writing the script.
“Neither got we any fish all the time we lay there but some few little ones on shore” – Mourt’s Relation
