Book Review

June 9, 2008 at 4:45 pm (Uncategorized)

 

 

This is book is full of helpful stories of teens that have gone through troubles in their life. Some of the stories that are in this book are about secrets we keep and tell, relationship, lessons and learning, family and obstacles that we face in life. This book has helped me realize that I’m not alone. Other people in this world feel this way to. So if you every need advice or just want to read a helpful book, I suggest that you read a chicken soup book. They helped me.

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May 18, 2008 at 6:32 pm (Uncategorized)

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Nothing gold can stay by: Robert Frost/ SOAPSTONE

May 14, 2008 at 1:49 pm (Uncategorized)

Enjoy Maine fall vacations at The Cozy Moose on Moosehead Lake

Nature’s first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf’s a flower;
But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing gold can stay.

 

S- A garden of flowers during fall

 

O-The poem is during fall in a garden of flowers

 

A-People who care about the nature

 

P-To get people to understand nature and how hard it is to make it beatiful and how in fall it all dies and then it has to do it all over again.

 

S-Robert Frost/ A person who cares about nature.

 

TONE- Grieving

 

 

 

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My Essay

May 8, 2008 at 10:25 pm (Uncategorized)

Elie Wiesel

 

 

By: Michaela Sullivan

 

Period: 5

 

4/5/08

 

 

            “Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies I saw turn into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky.”(43) This is from the book Night, where the author/main character, Elie Wiesel, had to live during the holocaust. Elie Wiesel was a young Jewish boy, who had to go to a concentration camp. Just not any camp, but Auschwitz, the biggest and had the largest number of deaths. During his stay at Auschwitz he was brave, loyal, and very, very, VERY lucky to survive all that stuff that happened.

 

            Elie Wiesel is brave because he survived the Holocaust and didn’t go crazy after what happened. He father, mother, and sibling dyeing. “Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, which has turned my life into one long night…” (43). This quote shows that he is brave and not going to give up. This is significant because he gets braver towards the end of the book. If I had to go to a concentration camp, I would be scared out of my mind.

 

           

Elie is also loyal to his dad. He also is kind of loyal to his religion. “I did not fast. Mainly to please my father, how had forbidden me to do so. But further, there was no longer any reason why I should fast. I no longer accepted God’s silence.” This is important to the book because he stayed loyal through out the entire book.

 

            Last, Elie was very lucky to survive the holocaust. Only 67,012 out of the estimated 4 million prisoners survived Auschwitz and Elie was one of them.  When he first arrived at the prison camp he and his father were asked their age by the SS officers.  Elie told them that he was 18, so the officer believed that he was 18 and not really 14. “No not fifty. Forty. Do you understand? Eighteen and Forty.”(39). The younger prisoners were told by the older prisoners to lie about their age so that would not be killed.  The younger prisoners along with the older prisoners were executed right away.  This was a great thing to learn because Elie survived and lived to tell his story.  He is still living to this day.

 

            Elie Wiesel is brave, loyal, and lucky person.  All three are important because they helped him survive the Holocaust and the aftermath.  Elie changed throughout the book.  He grew from a young boy to a man.

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Athena

March 30, 2008 at 2:02 am (Uncategorized)

athena.jpg       Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, the arts, industry, justice and skill, was Zeus’s favorite child. Athena’s mother was Metis, Zeus’s first wife. Fearing that Metis would have a son stronger then Zeus, he swallowed her. Metis began making a robe and helmet for her daughter. When Zeus was suffering from horrible headaches, he cried out in agony. His son, , came to his father’s need. He split open his father’s head and out came Athena, all grown up and dressed.

   Her and Poseidon loved a city in Greece. So they both claimed the city and they decided that the god to give the best gift would have the city. So Poseidon hit a cliff and springs fell from it, but the water was very salty and useless. Athena gave them an olive tree. The olive tree gave the people food, oil and wood. So Athena won and named the city Athens.

I found this information from : www.pantheon.org/articles/a/athena.html                          

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About my page

March 18, 2008 at 7:41 pm (Uncategorized)

Hi there, Welcome to my blog. This blog is for Ms.Matzke’s english class. Also this is to write essays, poems, quikwrites, and many other things on. I hope that you find my stories good. Well enjoy my page.

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