It Feels Like So Long Ago

So today I was looking at my blog, because I was trying to find pictures from the sixth grade.While looking I realized how it seems like it was so long ago that I was in sixth grade and I was performing double dream feet in Ms.Ullners class. In memory of the good times I posted this blog for old times sake.

Double Dream Feet

Here is my video.

Ella Enchanted

In Ella Enchanted,  a 240 page novel by Gail Carson Levine, is about a girl who was enchated, by a fairy, at birth to be obediant. Ella cannot diobey any command and in this book her obedience brings her A LOT of trouble. When she is sent to finishing school , Hattie, Madaum Ulga's daughter, soon figures that  Ella has to do everything she is told and makes Ella give her, her lost mother's necklace.When Ella runs away from finishing school she runs in to ogres and they give her commands and she is forced to obey them, but luckily prince Char comes to the rescue and sees her off to the Giant's wedding that she is trying to get to. At the wedding she asks the fairy that gave her the terrible gift to take it away, but she is just commaded to be happy about it! So when Ella reaches home Char has to leave in two days but he promises to write and her father has big news. He has to get married to Madaum Ulga!!! When Ella moves to Madaum Ulga's house they make her a slave, but when she goes to the prince's ball they fall in love, Ella breaks the curse, and Ella and Char get married and live happily ever after.I recomend this to everyone who likes to ready it is a great story.

Mockingjay

 Mockingjay, a breathtaking 390 page novel written by Suzanne Collins, is about Katniss continueing the rebelion of the rebels. She is taken to many of the districts to help give the rebels inspiration, she does this by fighting by there side and by just appearing there. Near the middle of the novel Peeta is saved, by the rebels,after being tortured and interrogated by the Capitol. Katniss is overcome with joy, but when she goes to see him he trys to strangle her. The medical crew tells her that he has been hyjacked, the process of having your good memories turned into bad ones. Katniss gets really angry and goes to district two to help the rebels overcome the capitol. After, Katniss goes to the Capitol to provide inspiration to the rebels, but Katniss disobeys her command and sets off on a journey to capture President Snow. Katniss and the rebels finally capture Snow, but what will they do now?? Read this amazing series to get the whole story, I recommend this to anyone who has an open mind, loves to read, or loves thrillers.

Sea Glass

Sea Glass, a 248 page novel by Laurence Yep*, is about a boy named Craig who is forced to move to Conception from his home in Chinatown. When he arrives in Conception he is singled out to be "Chinese" and no one wants to be his friend. His father tells him to earn Westerners respect and friendship he had to be good at sports, like he himself was. He meets his grandfather delivering groceries and relizes that his father only wants him to do sports because that is how he "fit in".Craig is not good at sports but, earns friends by trying and being himself and in the end he has all a kid ever needs, friendship and the love of his parents. I recommend this book to anyone eager to learn about Chinese culture and how some people can be really prejudiced at times.

*This book is double pages at this time.

Catching Fire

Catching Fire, the 391 page sequel to The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, continues the story of Katniss's very action filled life. When Katniss finally returnes to her home in district 12 she is know all over Panem,the country, for she and Peeta were the winners of the hunger games. As Katniss's atempt to spare her's and Peeta's life she and Peeta pretend to commit suissude so they can both live, the action is interperated as rebelion in the other districts and provides a spark. This spark makes rebellions from the district against the capitol happen. President Snow personally threatens Katniss to fix it and make it look like it was an act of love not rebellion. Will Katniss succeed in her new mission? I recomend this book to every one.

The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games, a 374 page novel by Suzanne Collins, tells the story of Katniss Everdeen a sixteen year old girl who has to compete in the hunger games to save her life. Katniss lived an ordinary life barely scraping by, then the day of the reaping her sister,Prim, was called to enter the hunger games*. Katniss out of love leapt to the stage to take her sister's place in the games. In the interveiw before the games Peeta ,the other tribute from district12, declared his love for her, but it was "supposedly" to get donors form the rich Capitol residents for neccesities needed in the arena. In the arena Katniss did her best to stay alive, and along the way there is a rule change so that she and Peeta could stay alive and she had to maitain the star-crossed lover title so she set out to find him. When Katniss finally found him he had blood-poisoning,burns,and  tracker-jacker stings Katniss needed to heal soon or he would die.Will Katniss and Peeta stay alive? I recomend this book to any one who likes science fiction, romentance, adventure, historical fiction, or people who just like to read.

* the Hunger games is where you go in an arena with 23 other tributes and try to stay alive until you are the only one left. If you win your district is showered in riches each month.

 My Holocaust Project

The Devil's Arithmetic a 166 page novel by Jane Yolen is telling the story of a Hannah,a young girl, who travels back in time to during the Holocaust in place of a girl named Chaya. On the way to Chaya's uncle's weddeing she and all the other Jews are pursued by Nazis who tell them that they are being "resettled" and need to climd aboard theirNazis trucks. When the trucks finally stop moving the Nazis tell the Jews to get out and give all their possetions worth anything to them for "safekeeping". After, the Nazis herd them into the tiny cattle cars that will carry them off to their new homes, in other words the concentration camp, where some of the Jews will meet their horrible end. In the end Chaya saves her best-friends life in the concentration camp by dying her place. When Hannah dies in the concentration camp she wakes up  at her Aunt Eva's for Passover with her families eager faces surrounding her. The Devil's Arithmetic is a great story and I recomend it to anyone intersted in historical fictionor or in adventure.

Vocab.Project

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Abraham was the founder of the Hebrew culture and religion, Judaism. Judaism is monotheistic: the belief in only one god.

Moses was a great leader and lawgiver of the Hebrews, who led them out of the Egyptian pharaoh's clutches to safety. This was the exodus, a departure usually of a large number. The exodus caused the Diaspora, the spreading of the Hebrews.

The ten commandments are a set of rules for living and for worship god revealed to Moses on Mt. Sinai.

The Torah is the entire body of Jewish religious literature, law and teachings, contained in the Old testament and the Talmud. The Talmud is the collection of Jewish law and tradition consisting of the Mishnah and the Gemara.

A synagogue is a place used for religious worship and instruction. Rabbi and prophets often work in the synagogue: the rabbi delivers the sermon at religious services and performs ritualistic pastoral, educational, and other functions in and related to their capacity as a spiritual leader of Judaism and the Hebrew community. The prophet speaks and guides the people of Israel.

David was the second king of Israel and organized the Jewish tribes into a national state. David's son Solomon also became a king and was famous for his great temple which he had built in Jerusalem.

Dead Sea Scrolls were used for recording all of the Hebrews knowledge.

Zealots were warriors that rebelled against Romans because they did not believe in there being more than one god.

Hebrew holidays are: Chanukah, Yom Kippur, Rosh Hashanah, and Passover. Chanukah ,the feast of lights, is a holiday celebrated in the month of December and is eight days longs. Chanukah commemorates the victory of the Hebrews in the second century.  Yom Kippur is a Jewish high holy day of fasting to atone sins. Rosh Hashanah marks the beginning of the Jewish new year. Passover is a festival that celebrates the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt.

Some Language of the Hebrews is Yiddish:

kvetch: to complain

verklempt: overcome with emotion/clenched

chutzpah: gull, audacity

glitch: a defect or malfunction in a machine or plan

schlep: to carry;lug