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1. title or section
2. 8 sentence summary
3. 3 sentences on your thoughts reflection
4. One fact you thought most interesting!!
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Title: Rome
Today I read about the school system in ancient Rome. There were no public schools, instead parents sent their children to small local schools. Not a lot of girls went to school, school usually started at sunrise and ended early afternoon. The children had summers off. The wealthy families hired tutors to teach them at home, the tutors were Greek slaves. Fathers taught their sons outdoor skills, such as horseback-riding, swimming, and fighting with weapons. One interesting fact I learned is that the children began school at the age of 6 or 7.
- Chicken soup for the teenage soul
- Relieve
- there was this girl they didn’t say her name. She experienced a turning point in her life. It all started with a fight during a rebellious summer. She said she had lied to her mom and then they all started to pile up. She said that she drifted apart from her mother and her two best friends. One day she was having an argument with her mom and she yelled at her. So her mom made her do an essay to apologize for her behavior. At first she was so mad but then she started to write and let out all her emotions that she was hiding. The next morning when she woke up she felt better the she noticed there was a note with her name in it. In the note it said her mom understood and knew she was lost and would help her.
- I think that this story is great. I like it because sometimes I feel like that. I found it its better to try to talk it out.
- One interesting thing that I found out is that she and I both realized that its better to let people know your emotions
♥Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul
♥Going For It!; “I’ll Be Back”
♥This morning I read a true story on a 15 year old boy named Chris that almost lost hope in his dreams because of an accident. Chris loved playing basketball for his junior varsity team but one night while riding with some of his friends, he got into a car accident. One of his friends died, and the rest of his friends, including himself, were severely injured. Chris had lost his left leg due to the accident. But instead of being sorry for himself, he felt that this meant he had to try harder at basketball. Chris was already becoming the star of his hometown, so most of the town was supporting his decision to continue playing for his junior varsity team. Every night Chris would sneak out of his house and practice without his crutches on his artificial leg. Of course he would constantly fall on to the concrete but this never stopped him, he would get back up again and try again. Chris would never use his leg as an excuse, and with his great attitude he made the team. On the first pre-season game he made 11 points, this was a 50 point difference from the previous year but a lot more of a difference for Chris and the rest of his hometown. That night at the dinner table Chris told his mom he knew exactly why he survived, and he told her it was because God knew he could do it.
♥Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. –Helen Keller
♥I feel that this quote relates to the story because Chris knew that although he could sit around and feel sorry for himself, life may have been easily. But- he decided to challenge himself and overcome his injury because it was his dream.
* East Asia
In this book, you’ll explore four different regions of East Asia. You could climb Mount Fuji, one of the many volcanoes in a region of islands and archipelagos. See how people and animals survive in the cold, harsh environment of the Chang Tang and other interior deserts. You can explore East Asia’s mighty rivers and waterways. You can discover some of the unique wildlife in the rain forests of the Philippines. Licuala palms grow in the rain forests of Borneo, the third largest island in the world. The island of Sumatra is only one of the 13,677 islands that make up the country of Indonesia. There are only about 400 Sumatran tigers remain in the wild. East Asia sounds like a place I should visit sometime.
"Race" by Bart Schneider
a book of short stories
I read a short part of this book but i learned from it. In this short story, Gerald Early talks about his life as a young child. He described the first time he was told by his teacher to write an essay about Black History. It was to be about Phillis Wheatley, a noted black colonial poet. He refused to write the report and when it came time to present, he was unprepared. He said how his teacher was furriated at his decision of defiance. Although under pressure from his teacher, he did not cry out of was ashamed for not writing the essay. He said he was relieved that he did not write it because he was not interested in the history of blacks in the past. I think that what he did was right. He refused to write that essay because the purpose back then was to demoralize blacks and their culture. I learned that back then you were able to read the Bible openly and not be descriminated against.
"Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
I read a short paragraph of this book, but it was reaaly intresting.Well there is this 16 year teen who is being charged for murder and he's on trial.Now Steve must convince the jury that he's innocent, but why would anybody believe him when he looks like everybody else in jail? The only person that believes him is his mom.Also his defense attorney doubts that he's innocent which makes it more difficult for him.Steve's dream is to be a filmmaker and now he's doing his own script about his life in jail.His movie is not about bars and locked doors, but it's about being alone when you're not alone and about being scared all the time. Also he doesn't want to give up becuse if he gives up he gives up on what is real and take up something else.
I feel I could relate a lot to this story because I have been in his place.Last year on May I was charged with an armed robbery and I was really close to getting 40 years.At the end I was really lucky becuse my charges got dropped.
continue from the story "Monster"
1 fact
That not everybody gets considered innpcent until proven guilty.
♥Chicken Noodle Soup for the Teenage Soul III
♥Relationships; “My Childhood Sweetheart”
♥This morning I read a short story on a girl who met her childhood sweetheart when she was eleven. His name was Jake and although he was her brother’s friend, she saw him as an older guy. Jake and her brother would sit in his room, door closed, and bob their heads to Guns’n’Roses. She would always find reasons to knock on her brother’s door, just to smile at Jake. Jake later went away to a private school but a few months later she found a letter from Jake to her brother. At the bottom of the letter he scribbled, “Say hello to your sister for me, is she still cute?” She lived by that line for months, it was enough to give her a constant flutter in her stomach. In the summer of 1993, Jake came home and the very night he came home they went to talk at the park. But she decided to bring a friend of hers’ to set her up with one of his friends but it was obvious that Jake was interested in her friend, Mel. But eventually they broke up and they were stick best friends. As more time passed, she realized that she loved Jake. She promised herself that the next time he was in town, that she’d reveal her true feelings for him. But as soon as she tried to put her feelings, he cut her off and kissed her. It was then that she realized that they would always and only be best friends, and she was fine with that.
♥Love can sometimes be magic. But magic can sometimes… just be an illusion.
♥This quote goes well with the theme of this story because although she always had a crush on Jake, when she finally had the chance to be with him, she changed her mind.
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The book I have chosen is The native Americans. I learner that hundreds of years ago the world was suffering from the last part of the ice age. Great ice sheets covered much of north America. And the sea levels fell dramatically reveling land corridors. During this time Neanderthal developed fire for warmth and cooking homo sapiens evolved around 35 000 years ago, a big game hunter with a sophisticated tool kit and great intellectual capacity. Though less robust physically than Neanderthal man. He was more adaptable to climate variations families lived in sub sentinel dwellings and buried their dead with goods. Evidence for homo sapiens first occur in Africa Asia and near east, were they absorbed and replaced the Neanderthal population several millennia later they papered in Australia and Siberia at the time when Europe was under glaciations northern Asia was cold dry and free of glaciers. I feel that the primeval humus were very nomadic and that they were smarter than we think they set the basics for live today. early humans hunted mammoths and other massive creatures.
Do you like to eat spicy food ? Do you know what makes food spicy ? A spice is the strongly flavored part of a plant. For example, pepper is a dried berry. Cinnamon is bark from a tree. These are common spices were rare and expensive. People traveled far to trade for these spices. Countries fought wars to control the spice trade.
I read a book about elephants. It was with illustrations of elephants doing many things. It teaches me about elephants and how much they have to eat. How they travel to far places to find good water to take a baths in. How Asian elephants are good to train for circuses. African elephants are more difficult. Its like a kids books guide to knowing the common facts of an elephant. Also elephants never forget. I love elephants so I like this book. I liked the pictures. I also like the facts they gave. The fact that the book is about animals I love animals and I love elephants because they are cute.
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