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All Alice, All the Time

c17zt — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 13:49:03 +0000

We’re back on All Alice, All the Time to talk more about Alice and Wonderland! in the past week we have been watching a movie called Dream Child which is about Alice Liddle (the book that lewis Carrol a.k.a. Charles Dodgson based Alice in Wonderland on when she was ten years old) at the age of 82 is being haunted by the ghost of Lewis Carrol along with the characters from his book.

We’ve also been finishing our comics. My buddy c17cd and I are doing our illustrations for the chapters The Pool of Tears and The Caucus Race and the Mouse’s Tail and we’re almost finished!

Oz Debate

c17zt — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:07:39 +0000

In class we had to debate whether or not the movie The Wizard of Oz was a good adaptation. We got assigned what we were debating, one side had to say that it was a good adaptation whether they liked it or not, and the other side (mine) had to say that it was a bad adaptation which I think it was because didn’t show important parts like when she got the golden cap to get to Glinda the Good Witch so she could get home, in the movie she just starts drawling stupidly “There’s no place like home, there’s no place like home.” And then wakes up and finds that she was just dreaming. The book is supposed to be heartwarming, about a girl who gets taken in a cyclone and then gets lost, finds three friends, then gets home to her aunt and uncle.

Nebraska’s State Mammal: the White-tailed Deer

c17zt — Wed, 27 May 2009 21:17:22 +0000

White-tailed Deer can can be 3-3 1/2 feet tall at the shoulder and weigh 50-250 pounds. Male whitetails are bigger and grow they’re antlers from March to August. They shed them in late winter. Very rarely females grow antlers. The deer’s coat is reddish brown in summer and turns slightly grey in the winter. The fawns are reddish brown with some white spots. The White-tailed Deer live a lot in farms, woods, parks, forest, and open areas. They have very hard stomachs and can digest twigs, leaves, poison ivy, greenbrier, wildflowers, honey suckle, acorns, soybeans, corn, and oak seedlings.

My Interview

c17zt — Fri, 22 May 2009 14:34:34 +0000

interview

Kentucky’s State Horse

c17zt — Fri, 22 May 2009 00:35:28 +0000

Thoroughbred horses can be 15 to 17 hands. The place of origin is England and there what they are known for is there speed, endurance, and heart. They thrive the most in racing, showing, jumping, eventing, polo, and fox hunting. Racing started in the twelfth century, when English knights coming back from the Crusaders brought back desert-bred horses. Over the next four hundred years, a lot of Oriental horses, stallions in particular, were imported to England and were bred with English horses to make horses that had both endurance and speed. From the the sixteenth century on, those mares came to be called as the English Taproot mares. The imported Oriental stallions are said to have been Arabs,and that was sometimes true, but a lot of times the word Arab was used to name any horse that came from an Islamic country. In general the designation of Arab was used for both people and horses from the from the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean including Iran, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt, Libya, and Morocco. So the Arabs weren’t willing to sell their good horses, especially the mares, so really the word Arab was pretty much a generic term in the history and relation in the of the horses in England. King Stephan, who ruled England from 1135 to 1154, imported both stallions and mares into his royal stables, the horses that were referred to all the time as “hot blooded” or “imported.” The records show a large number of Andalusians, Spanish Jennets, and Barbs from what is now Morocco, and Turks from Turkey and Syria. To make Britain’s horses better, the king granted all the commoners breeding access to his royal stallions, consequently England a breeding ground of hot-blooded, imported horses. While the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries rolled by, the royalty of France, Italy, and England to imported horses for the purpose of improving their horse for speed and stamina. The British royal family became involved in the racing when Charles II began going to the races at Newmarket in 1660. He was the first royal person to give big purses to the winners.

The Kentucky Derby

c17zt — Fri, 15 May 2009 15:15:33 +0000

The Kentucky derby is every year on May 1st. It’s held at Churchhill Downs in Louisville, Kentucky. The Kentucky derby is also known as “The Run for the Roses” and “The Most exciting two minutes in sports”. It’s a 1.25 mile race held for three year old thoroughbred horses. An average of 150,000 people come to see it. The first race in 1875 held 10,000 people and only 15 thoroughbred horses in a race that was a 1.5 mile course. By the early 1900’s the owners of some of the derby winners started sending there horses to run in the Preakness stakes in New York. In 1930, sportswriter Charles Hatton coined the saying “Triple Crown” meaning that the same horses would be running three times continuously.

Pilgrim Podcast

c17zt — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:05:36 +0000

pilgrimpodcast

Kentucky State Facts and Symbols

c17zt — Wed, 13 May 2009 20:19:53 +0000

Capital city:Frankfort
state tree:Tulip Poplar
flower:goldenrod
bird:Kentucky Cardinal
nickname:The Bluegrass State
motto:”United we stand, Divided we fall”
song:”My old Kentucky Home”
Fossil:Brachiopod
Butterfly:Vicroy
horse:thoroughbred
fish:kentucky spotted Bass
fruit:blackberry
drink:milk
rock:Kentucky agate
gemstone:Freshwater pearl
soil:Crider Soil Reries
mineral:coal
musical instrument:Appalachian Mountain Dulcimer
Music:BlueGrass music

Things That Make “When You Reach Me” a Good Book

c17zt — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:56:25 +0000

When You Reach Me is about a girl who get these letters from — actually I don’t think I should tell you. Well anyway it’s a mysterious book that is good for kid’s that like to have to wait till the end to understand the important things. The girl Miranda’s –or Mira for short– mom is entering a contest called the $200,000 Pyramid and has to practice really hard. All of a sudden this kid punches her best friend Sal and he stops talking to her. The boy who punches Sal turns out to have a mysterious past– and future.

Did Miranda find what the letters meant?

The Pilgrims

c17zt — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 00:13:48 +0000

In Social Studies we are learning about pilgrims. In the class we had to make a picture with something from Mourt’s Relations.