Elizabeth Alexander came to my school, Dalton, on February 6, 2009. She came to our school because she wanted to explain how she wrote and how she worked so carefully on her poems. She told us that some took years to write.
Elizabeth is very interested in her history. She writes a lot about Amistad and [...]
On Thursday, January 29, 2009, my school, Dalton, had a middle school play. It was called Oliver. I really liked the acting of Bill, but I particularly liked Oliver’s singing. It was so funny because they had to talk in English accents. The only thing that bothered me is that Oliver was played by a [...]
On 1/20/09 president Barack Obama had his inauguration. One of the things at the inauguration was the entertainment,specifically the singing by Aretha Franklin. Aretha sang My Country ‘Tis Of Thee in front of the whole country. Doing that takes a lot of courage and a great voice. When I was watching, I saw the crowd [...]
In late 2008 I, c17sh, made a book about LR. I made this book in school. It is about LR immigrating to America.I made the book because my class and I were doing this for an oral history project. It took a lot of hard work for both of us. For LR it took the [...]
I just checked out one of the blogs that my teacher, Ms.Edinger, class posted last year.The things that she/he wrote about are so interesting and helpful, especially if you’re in my class. She talked about what she did last year like Wizard of Oz, Alice in wonder land, Cinderella, emigrating to the bigger school, and [...]