Poverty is a world issue, it affects people around the globe. Many people turn a blind eye and have no idea that poverty is also existent in developing countries. Each day poverty claims the lives of large sums of people; children and adults. Statistics show that the amount of world wide child deaths each day are linked to [...]
Imagine… a way to lose weight without the need to exercise, a workout substitution. An excuse to eat whatever you want, when you want. And then a solution to all that weight you should have gained. Do you really believe all those commercials like the ones promising happiness and weight loss without the any amount [...]
Joanne Kathleen Rowling’s series, Harry Potter, provides hours of pleasure reading, magical adventures, and he background story is one that inspires us to follow our dreams. But sadly, the adventures of Harry Potter came to an end when she released the seventh and final book “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.” The series truly came [...]
The Year of 2011 has been eventfull; full of events good and bad. The Royal Wedding, the death of Steve Jobs, the Japan Tsunami, and the “Rapture that Didn’t Happen.” Many bad things happened, but we made it through together. Events Shown in Movie -Japan Tsunami -Death of Osama bin Laden -Libya War -The Rapture [...]
In class we have started reading books called “And then it Happened” by M & L Wade. These are some short stories that all have the sentence “and then it happened” throughout them to make the story more enhancing to the reader. In class we had to do a cold write (off the top of your [...]
J.K Rowling, Known world-wide for her captivating children’s series, Harry Potter, Joanne Rowling has won multiple awards, sold more than 400 million book copies, has had her books made into a popular series of films and has defied all the oddsagainst her, along the way. Joanne Rowling (also known as J.K Rowling) was born on [...]
1) IMPORTANT SCENE SUMMARY An important scene in a novel includes actions, thought, and dialogue. In writing/telling a summary it is important to include information from all three sources. Choose a scene from your novel which you feel was very important in the development of the novel. Write a brief summary of this scene. What caused [...]
Summary Continued… if you would like to find my first summary visit… http://olivia110gs.edublogs.org/2011/05/16/underground-to-canada/ Julilly and Liza were not choosen to help guide Mr. Alexander Ross on his journey to look at birds. Adam and Lester filled up those two spots but it turns out that Mr. Alexander Ross is not what he seems to be. He’s [...]
Victoria Day, a day celebrating Queen Victoria… or are we celebrating the three day weekend we get? Kidding! Victoria Day, a national holiday all Canadians celebrate whether it’s with fireworks or if it’s staying at home and relaxing. .:Interesting Facts About Both Victoria, and Victoria Day:. Queen Victoria was born on May 24, 1819 During Victoria’s life, the British [...]
.:Underground to Canada: Activity 1:. 1. Summarize the main events in your group’s novel after 3 days of Inquiry Circles. Julilly has been sold and taken away from her mother as well as all her other friends on the Henson plantation. She travels, along with the other slaves sold, enduring the hot blistering sun and [...]
