Reading – Nicole knows It all

Refugee

In the book, Refugee, all the characters experience power in different ways and that power changes for each of them. All three of the characters have to take care of their families. Josef and his family flee Nazi Berlin in 1938. Josef has to take over for the family because his father gets ill. The father used to make the decisions and take care of the family until he got ill. Josef then had to make the plan of escape for the family. Josef has to figure out what the family will do next.

Isabel and her family leave Cuba to go to Miami. Isabel’s grandfather does all the work for the family. Isabel knows when to help, like when she traded her instrument for an oil cans. The journey was rough. At one point the boat is surrounded by sharks and water in the boat is up to the family’s knees. Isabel knows when she has to do something and she’ll do it. She’s very young. She makes sacrifices for the family, like when she gave the kitten her food and then she didn’t eat at all. Isabel gets more respect after giving up her trombone for the cans and saving Senior Castillo.

Mahmoud and his family flee Syria in 2015. Mahmoud had to take care of his whole family, including his siblings. He went through traumatizing times when a soldier got hit in the face right in front of the whole family. Mahmoud had to save his family from dying at times which meant that he had a place of importance in his family and had to know the responsibilities to take care of someone.

May 31, 2019 5th Grade, Reading No Comments

Refugee #1

Today in class we read three chapters about each of the charters. All three of the charters moved away the reasons are, Josef left because his family is Jewish and the Nazi are attacking them and there family doesn’t want to be next, Isabel left because of her father he started a riot and was going to go to jail for the rest of his life, Mohmoud left because of dictators and what they where doing to there house and family.

April 3, 2019 5th Grade, Reading No Comments

Refugee #2

In the story refugee there is a lot of bad things happening to Josef,Isabel,Mahmound. The author wanted to alternate the tree stories because they wanted to show how they where connected and wants the reader to realize all the stories connect in the beginning.

April 3, 2019 5th Grade, Reading No Comments

Breakout – Summary

Breakout is about how two dangerous men broke out of a high security prison!😮 The class of seventh grade is doing a project and they are documenting every thing that happens. They are trying to fund out where they would go?All day the girls/boys are sitting around there house scared and anxious to see what will happen!

March 5, 2019 5th Grade, Reading No Comments

The Magnificent Boys by Nicole

Have you ever had to wake up and make your own breakfast? That is easy, right? For these boys in a small floating village in Southern Thailand in the story of panyee fc, they started with nothing and built a champion soccer team. The boys had to work extra hard because they had to do everything for themselves.

The boys had to build their own pitch, they had no space where they lived so they thought and thought until they had the idea .They had to strategize ways to build the pitch. “We started by collecting some old wood from around the village.” “The pitch did not come out so good because it was shaky,uneven, and had some nails sticking out everywhere.” The boys had to use what is around them to build the pitch. They were very creative in what they did. This show they did all the thinking and planning for themselves.

Do you play soccer? And do you have a soccer coach? Well for these boys they had to be their own coaches. In the text it states “the pitch was small so our footwork was really good.” This shows they learned to use a small space. The pitch was small so when the ball went in the water so did they that made the pitch wet. In the text it states “so we had to learn to play on a wet slippery surface. When one of the boys got a flyer from the mainland to be a part of the Panyee FC cup, they decided to play and had to enter themselves because they had no coach. When they were in the game it started to rain really hard “our boots filled with water which slowed us down,” this shows that they had to strategize ways to not make them slow down. So they thought back to when they were on the pitch “so we got rid of our boots.” “Playing in bear foot is more comfortable for all of us” This shows they had to use what they know.

Have you ever been told by someone that you can’t do something? Well that what all the boys got told by the villagers “look around. Look where you live” this shows that they did not think that they were not capable to play soccer and build a pitch but they ignored them and said. “We’re starting a football team. We are going to be in the world championship” This show that did not pay any mind to what they had to say. At first it took awhile to figure out what they were going to do’’ Panyhee Cup “should we” “I’m not sure” “we didn’t know if we were good enough to enter” this show that they where unsure of is going to happen next to them. The boys had themselves to go to because all of the villagers did not believe in them.

The boys learned that no matter what happens that there is always to solve problems and to sick together and not let someone tell them what to do. What I learned form Panyee Fc is to set goals for myself and never give up on my dreams.

February 11, 2019 5th Grade, Reading, Writing No Comments

Nine,ten – Summary

In the book “Nine,ten” by Nora Raleigh Baskin, there was a terrorist attack with the twin towers on September 11.The book is about four children and how there life was before this whole accident and what affected them. The names of the main charter is Sergio,Will,Naheed,Aimee. Sergio,Will,Naheed,Aimee don’t know what is head of them and how the world changed forever.

January 29, 2019 5th Grade, Reading No Comments

The Witches – Summary

In the book the witches by Roald Dahl a little boy named Bruno and his grandma had been talking for while about witches and what they can do to little boys like him. After he’s grandma got sick he had to stay in a hotel with her. He’s grandma got him mice he had to find a room to play, he found a ball room where he played with them until a group of women came in!!! He’s grandma always described the witches and what they look like when they took off there disguise, and that what he saw when, he hide for 1 hour. They caught Bruno him and turned into a mouse. In the book they really have to strategies to get revenge.

January 23, 2019 5th Grade, Reading No Comments

Biography Project – Rosa Parks

Intro

Have you ever wondered what segregation was? Years ago in the United States there was segregation. Segregation was when blacks and whites could not be together

Early Life

Rosa Parks was born on February 14, 1913. Rosa was a big help in her family. The way she helped her family was she would go in the fields and feed the chicken. She milked the cows and weeded the garden.To earn extra money Rosa picked cotton on the farm by a white guy she only got paid fifty cents a day. Since segregation was going on lots of things were not fair. White people got angry when black people got some freedom. A group of white people called the kkk to scare them. When the kkk came they had burning cross. They burned black people homes, they killed people. Rosa’s grandpa stayed up all night to protect her and had a shotgun by him Rosa didn’t let her grandpa stay up all night alone she stayed with him. Her grandpa was not like alot of black people he treated everyone equally Rosa knew that he was breaking the law but she wanted to treated everyone that same to. Rosa didn’t let any white person take her dignity away. Rosa went to school and her school was segregated to. Rosa had to be separated from white people. The town was poor so they could not afford bus for the black children but the white got them and every morning when the white pass the black the throw garbage at them and called them names. Rosa knew not to talk back but she could not keep her anger in for long! One afternoon Rosa got into a fight with white boy the boy threatened her and did it back. After that Rosa ran home to tell her gramma what she did. Insead of being proud of her she got mad. Rosa when she went out side she saw white sign only. She could not rent hotels,she could not eat from most restarts or drink from the same water fountain.She married Raymond Parks in 1932.

Adult Life

After the married she decided about going back to school to get all of her degrees.Rosa hated the way black people got mistreated and the thing she mostly hated was segregation. One day Rosa paid her fare then the bus driver left her without letting her in.Rosa started to work for the NAACP she spent most of her time sewing at the Montgomery Fairmont store.After that she got tired of doing that so she went to go work at the NAACP office to voter as a secretary. Rosa answer phones and traveled town to town to meet other African Americans. Rosa talk about how they got mistreated she also wanted them to voted for them to have a better leader. Rosa had to take a test three times to be eligible to vote.

December 1, 1955 Rosa paid her fair she got on the bus.She found a seat in the middle where black and white both can sit there but if one white person wants that seat all black sitting in the row has to get off.Then a white man came on he paid his fair then wanted the middle seat. All black got up but Rosa didn’t budge.She moved closer to the window. She was tired and wanted to go home. She tired from work she was tired for getting mistreated.Rosa said No I’m Not. the bus driver said I will have to get arrested. Rosa said quietly you go do that. The police came and she got arrested. Later that night her husband bailed her out. A few weeks later ED Nixon heard what happened and wanted to take her to court Rosa said yes. Rosa trial lasted only 5 minutes. She broke the law so they made her pay a fine of $14. After that black people started a boycott where they don’t take the bus and you walk. If you wanted to take a cab you only take a person who black. The bus stays empty for a year. During the boycott Rosa got upset when she got mean phone calls and hateful letters. The black got threatened. December 2, 1956 the boycott ended. The black can sit wherever they wanted. Everything had to be fair.

Challenges

Rosa had so may challenge. She had to quit to take care of her grandma because she got ill then her mother got ill to and had to take care of her as well.In 1930 Rosa got her high school diplomas back. With education she had a hard time finding a job. White businesses did not want her. Everyday Rosa did not drink from any water fountain she wanted to come home and drink water. Inside if taking the colored elevators she walk. Black people pd 10 cents fair. Then when they do the get off the bus and go to the back door. Sometimes the bus driver will zoom off before they could get on.If a white person wanted to sit down where a black person was sitting the black people had to get up and stand.

How Rosa Parks impact the world

Rosa Parks set a good example to the world. She made schools unseated. Rosa had to fight a long time to just get bus unsigned.everything was fair because Rosa did the right thing that changed a big thing.

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