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My Last Blog Post

c17nl — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:21:58 +0000

I am very sorry to say that this will be my last post. I know it’s so sad. So here is my reflection of my blog. I really loved being able to comment on other people’s blogs. I also loved getting comments. I thought it was also fun that you could post and other people could see it. And I liked that instead of writing down your homework and handing it in you could just post it and get comments from your teachers. I really loved being able to blog!! And now this is c17nl signing off.

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Hawaii

c17nl — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:42:02 +0000

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.

Pilgrim Story Podcast

c17nl — Fri, 15 May 2009 21:28:05 +0000

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…

Maine

c17nl — Thu, 14 May 2009 23:08:35 +0000

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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Things That are Hard to Explain (Like this Book)

c17nl — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 18:04:39 +0000

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!

The Green Book

c17nl — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:24:50 +0000

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.

The Sisters Grimm

c17nl — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:06:04 +0000

The Sisters Grim is a book series written by Michel Buckley. In this book two sisters (Sabrina the older one and Daphne younger) have the sad tragedy of their parents being kidnapped. At the crime scene was their parent’s car with a red hand print in it. They are orphans until there grandma (who they have never met nor heard of) tells the orphan edge she will take them. She tells Sabrina and Daphne they have two famous ancestors the Brothers Grim. They meet all kinds of strange characters such as Snow white, Prince charming, Jack from Jack And The Bean Stalk, and many more. I think it is a very good book. At the end of each book like some other series it says to be continued. It makes you want to read more.The fairy tale characters are not how you would suspect them to be. If you like mystery, suspense, and fairy tales you would like this book.

Amistad Poem

c17nl — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:41:37 +0000

We wrote Amistad poetry inspired by Elizabeth Alexander. My poem was about Teme a little girl, and she got kidnapped. I wrote my poem first person. Here is my poem

Remember

I remember when the men came.

The way I tried to call my mothers name.

The way they put their hands over my mouth.

The way they hit me.

The way I cried for my mother

cried for my brother

the way I cried for Africa.

I remember the way I left

the way I left home.

After we wrote the poems we made collages. Here is my collage ….

Historical Fiction

c17nl — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 15:03:42 +0000

Karen Hesse wrote Letters from Rifka using he own families stories. She interviewed he great Aunt Lucy about her experiences of immigration. She changed some of the details and names but as she wrote “But this story is, above all else, Aunt Lucy’s story.” She is using quotes of Pushkin at the beginning of each letter at the top of the page. This is good historical fiction because she uses language that would be used at the time like she met a little Russian boy and she called him a Russian peasant. She is also using real places such as Antwerp Belgium, and Berdichev. Also at the beginning of each letter an the place she was in like in the first letter it said September 2, 1919 Russia. If you would like to read a book abut a little girl and her journey going to America read this book.

Sarah Margru Kinson

c17nl — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:29:46 +0000

The story of Sarah Margru Kinson is abut a girl from Africa and she gets then on a boat to Havana to be a slave and then she go’s to America. Only my class got to read it. Right now it’s just a manuscript. I really liked reading about the story of Sarah Margru Kinson by Monica Edinger. I thought it was very good. I liked that John Quincey Adams was their lawyer. In one part Margru thinks “Will I ever see Africa again.” I felt really bad for her. She was with two other kids Teme and Kagne. I really like how in the book there are poems about how she dreamed of home. And when they get captured she every one is thinking “What do these white men want with us.” In the end she is okay.