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In Social Studies we read The Green Book. We read it because it is related to the Pilgrims. They had a lot of similarities and differences in the both of them. They both were going away for a better life an it was a long journey. 

My class learned about Alice in Wonderland and the author Lewis Carroll. in that study we learned that he based the story on a real girl named Alice who actually had brown hair. We also read the original poems that he made parodies about. We watched a movie called “The 1900’s House” because it was based to be close to the time of Alice in Wonderland. Now we are studying comics to help us make Alice comics later on and chose our favorite chapters to make one about and with a partner we developed the scene and are writing the scripts.

In Social Studies our class is learning about the pilgrims. In the class we got a part from Mourt’s Relation (a Pilgrim’s journal) to draw a picture about.

house 43 in the Dalton School has a relationship with a with a school in New Orleans and my buddy and the rest of her class each wrote a paragraph about it:

I have learned that this place (new Orleans) has been through some troubles.

I have learned that it is a good school it is very different from ours but it is a very good school. It was very fun planting the flowers in Isham Park, we all had a good time. I am very glad that we did this. Me and my buddy’s relationship is very close it is nice to have a person some where else to like the same things.

Gracie was in a crouched in the tall golden grass hunting a gazelle , she didn’t move a muscle she started creeping forward then she heard a twig snap and the gazelle sped of, she groaned, Gracie had never actually seen a gazelle or any kind of animal in her life. She was blind. She had a very good sense of smell, she had a tawny colored pelt and striking blue eyes. Although she couldn’t see she a very impressive hunter.

As she padded back to the territory she noticed that there was a lot of noise and arguing until she heard the leader silence everybody. I think it would be good for you to know that leader of the pride was Gracie’s father and that she had a step mother, Alice. Alice was a stuck up mother with two daughter of her own and their names were Lillie and Mary an they were just as bad there mother. “ Gracie,”Mary called,”go hunting for me I’m to tired!”Gracie turned around and called back “Wait, I think my dad is about to say something.” Then she heard someone announce,” look the leader is about to say something!” Gracie’s father began to speak.”It is a tradition that we annually have a competition with the rival pride to see whose pack has the best hunting skills. From now on we must practice very hard.” He turned his giant golden head and left. Right after that every body went completely bezerk, they were all literally climbing over each other to get to the hunting grounds, even Alice who did absolutely nothing all day was walking toward the hunting grounds.

While trotting over to the grounds Gracie thought she smelled something. She crouched down and creeped towards the strange scent, she gasped,it was the son of the leader of the rival clan! She ran back to camp to inform her father they had already arrived then she stopped short, her father, “Oh, look your just in time Gracie, I wanted to tell everybody that th prince is looking for a wife,” he continued,”I wanted to have a meeting with Richard, the leader of the other clan that the competition will not only be to see who is the best hunter but also who is good enough to be the prince’s mate.” Gracie got up and nodded, she was about to turn away when Richard said,” Why does your daughter stare at you like that?” Gracie felt her father’s muscles tense,” She’s blind he said simply and walked away

Gracie decided to go hunting for a little while to get her mind off of all the drama going on in the area. She dropped into a hunting crouch and and slowly moved forward she could almost see the zebra oblivious that she was there, she bunched up her muscles, lashed her tail and leaped, leaped as far as she could. She felt her self get knocked to her side. She instinctively jumped up and bared her teeth,”Watch where your going,” She heard a voice whom she recognized to be Mary “I could have had that zebra if you hadn’t jumped out in front of me!” Gracie was used to Mary always being irritable, so she simply said”In case you forgot I’m blind I couldn’t of known I you were after that zebra anyway, plus I’m very surprised that you could tell a zebra from a water buffalo.” Mary walked away with a huff.

It was the day of the competition and everyone was nervous that they might show that they didn’t know anything . Everybody was standing line waiting for there turn,suddenly Gracie padded up to the end the line which – if you’ve ever read a Cinderella story- was a bad idea. Alice completely blew up.”WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE I WILL NOT ALOW YOU TO ENTER IN THIS CONTEST, THERE’S LOT’S OF BEDDING TO CHANGE AND ALL YOU’RE DOING IS STANDING THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Gracie,Mary, and Lillie were a little surprised to see Alice get angry like that, Gracie quickly backed away and ran into the den area and stayed there until her to steps left.

Gracie cried for a long time until she saw a little saw a twinkle from the corner of her eye. she turned around to see a little red Dachshund with a yellow bow and wings looking at her “You’re the the Cinderella!? I tell you it gets stranger every year I mean la- holy dog biscuits!!” she stopped”You can’t see either?! Well I guess I have more work to do!” Gracie was confused, what was this dog doing in the dens?”Um- excuse me but who are you?” the little dog answered.” I’m Pretzel your fairy dog mother!”This apparently didn’t help because Gracie said “Huh?” Pretzel explained,”A fairy god mother – or dog mother in my case – is the person – or dog – that makes your dreams come true!” “So basically I tell you what I want you do it and then…?” The little red dog was exasperated “okay, I’m going to make you able to see an hunt even better than you already did and you have to be back by midnight, Let’s get started! Fiddle dee dee, ho ho ho, do do dum, and away we go!” the tiny dog looked around ad didn’t see anything, not even Gracie!”Gracie! Where are you!?” The dog looked down to see a rat sitting on the ground.”Oh, I really need to get a new light on my wand. The dog readjusted her self redid the spell and Gracie was able to see, her tawny pelt glowed and she was on her way.

Gracie stepped out of the den and stretched, she had never known that the den had looked like that. She ran over to the line, her blue eyes (they stayed blue.) sparkling with glee as she stepped up to the starting line she looked to see her father call.”On your marks, get set. GO!!!!!” Gracie crept forward, she crouched down and creeped and pounced on to the zebra, knocking it down.”That was a record!” Gracie looked back to the crowd and saw the grinning back at her, he padded towards her. “You did a really great job would you like to join me on a walk?” Gracie was astonished that he prince was talking to her, dazzled she nodded and walked forward still not believing what was happening.

Before long Gracie and the price were talking as if they had known each other since they were cubs and pretty soon they completely lost track of time. Gracie spotted her step mother walking through the brush.” have to go!” said Gracie urgently and she she slipped through the brambles and disappeared.

Gracie ran as fast as she could and back to the dens as fast as she could. When she got there she saw Pretzel standing there waiting for her.”Hello, I cleaned the dens for you while you were gone, let’s go to the back so I could take the spell off of you.” Gracie reluctantly but quickly, went to the back.

A few days later Gracie and the rest of her clan members were called out for a clan meeting. They all went out to see Gracie’s father standing were he would normally announce things.”As you all know yesterday was the competition and during that competition we believe that the prince has found someone. Unfortunately, we cannot find her so we will gather all the lionesses in this clan to make another hunting competition. Starting… Now!” All the girls on the clan lined up to have there turn. Gracie want to the end of the line and to her astonishment Alice said.”You can go in line even though it will be wasting there time, no one wants to see you.” Gracie, unfazed no matter what waited until it was her turn to shine, she crouched down padded forward slowly and quietly and then pounced. she was done in a flash. She was made winner and lived with the prince and Pretzel and lived….

Happily Ever After

The End

On Wednesday February 4th we got a historical fiction book. The book I got is called The Captive which is about a boy who is kidnapped. I really like it because It reminds me off the story of Olaudah Equiano. It’s really good historical fiction because the author sets the time and place correctly, for example: ‘My name is Kofi Kwame Paul and I am the first mate on the brig,The Traveller. Kofi was the nae given to me by my family, for I was born on a Friday. The other two names I claimed for myself- Kwame after my natural father and Paul for the man who gave me a second life, the captain of The Traveller, Paul Cuffe…’

On Monday, February 9th, our class made poems about the Amistad. The Amistad was a cargo that held slaves. The poems were inspired by Elizabeth Alexander when she came to our school and read her poem from America Sublime.

On Friday February 9, Elizabeth Alexander came to our school to talk to us about poetry. She told us she was inspired to write about the Amistad when she was walking down the New Haven Greene and she started to think about who had been here 200 years ago. I thought it was really amazing that the whole book America Sublime was one epic poem. It was one of the most amazing times of my life!

For the past few weeks we have been reading Africa is My Home: The Story of Sarah Margru Kinson by my teacher Ms.Edinger. The story is about a girl who is pawned by her father and put on the Amistad which is a cargo that held many slaves; which as illegal because you were only allowed to have a slave who was born in America.

What I liked is how Ms. Edinger made all these poems about how she missed her family. I liked that because you almst think that Sarah Margru Kinson wrote it herself.

On Thursday, January 29th there was a play called Oliver. It was about a orphan named Oliver Twist who gets kicked out of the orphanage he lives in and gets adopted by a shopkeeper named Mr. Sowerberry to work for him. Later after that he gets into a fight and runs away. He meets a man named Artful Dodger who takes and he meets Fogin’s gang who are a bunch of pick pockets and teach him how to steal. He later gets caught pick pocketing a man who later takes him in for him to live with him. I thought it was really good!