Double Dream Feet by Julianna #5 Cassidy #31

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkOo_ncooao

Bridge to Terabithia

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Petterson 128 pgs is about a girl named Leslie who meets a boy named Jess. With a little imagination, anything is possible, well at least for Jess and Leslie. They find an amazing (imaginative) world that they name Terabithia. One day while Jess goes to a museum with his teacher, something terrible happens to Leslie.

Dragon Road by Laurence Yep

Dragon Road by Laurence Yep 320(320times2=640 pgs.) Cal and Berny who live in Chinatown are trapped by racial prejudice. They both join a basketball team to get money because of the poverty in America in 1939. Soon they're traveling across America and taking on all challenges, from local amateurs to other professional teams like the Harlem Globetrotters.On that long, difficult road, they must beat difficult teams and their even rougher fans on the sidelines. Flash, and the team must also overcome terrible weather, crumbling highways, and their own disintegrating car. As the tour starts to fall apart, the tension between Cal and the team's jealous captain comes to a head. Cal now has to choose between loyalty to his teammates and the fame of his own celebrity.

Charlottes Web

Charlottes Web by E. B White 184 pgs is about a pig named Wilbur who is saved by a spider named Charlottes. He first started at Ferns barn, then had to transfer to Mr. Zuckerman's farm. Charlotte saves Wilbur from being killed and eaten. She saves him by putting character traits of Wilbur in her web.

Book Bag

Charlotte's Web by E.B White 184 pgs is about a pig named Wilbur who is saved by a spider named Charlotte. The main idea of the book is their journey through the rescue of Wilbur.

Ancient China Belief Systems/Philosophies

Here is the Ancient China video!!! sry if  it doesnt work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AkjndKSX9M

If the computer you are on does not have windows movie maker, this production will not preform the way it was meant to. If you really want to see this video, you will have to install windows movie maker.....sry:(

March

Well this month is March. I'm so happy!!! My birthday is on the 11 and noon league softball starts on the 15. March is going to be a great month!

Threads and Flames by Esther Friesner

Threads and Flames by Esther Friesner 386 pages. Raisa is from a small Polish shtetl much like the one Esther's grandparents are from. Her grandparents and their family perished during the Holocaust, but her other grandparents moved to New York City in the early years of the twentieth century. Her grandfather first made his living as a cigar maker and was acquainted with the great labor organizer, Samuel Gompers.

Crash by Jerry Spenelli

Crash by Jerry Spinelli 162 pages. Crash feels passionately about many things: the violence of football; being in charge; the way he looks in shoulder pads, never being second in anything, and the most expensive sneakers at the mall. Although a stereotypical bully, the boy becomes more than one-dimensional in the context of his overworked, unavailable parents and the love he has for his grandfather, who comes to live with the Coogans and then suffers a stroke. It is because of his affection for Scooter that Crash comes to appreciate Penn Webb, a neighbor and classmate whom for years Crash has tormented and teased about his pacifism, vegetarianism, second-hand clothes, and social activism. Penn relentlessly offers friendship, which Crash finally accepts when he sees Penn's love for his own great-grandfather as a common bond.

The Devil's Arithmetic

The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen 176 pages. Hannah Stern is a Jewish girl living in the late 20th century. She is bored by her relatives' stories about the past and not looking forward to the Passover Seder. When Hannah symbolically opens the door for the prophet Elijah, she is transported back in time to 1942 in World War II Poland. At that time and place, the people believe she is Chaya Abramowicz, who is recovering from cholera, the disease that killed Chaya's parents. The strange remarks Hannah/Chaya makes about the future and her inability to recognize her "aunt" Gitl and uncle Shmuel are blamed on the fever. At her uncle's wedding, the Nazis come to transport the entire population of the village to a concentration camp near Donavin, and only Hannah knows all the terrors that they will face: starvation, mistreatment, forced labor, and finally execution. She struggles to survive at the camp, with the help of a girl named Rivka.

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne 216 pages.Bruno is the nine-year-old son of a Nazi Commandant. He was born on April 15th, 1934 in Berlin, Germany and has a sister named Gretel. Bruno has brown hair and is constantly made fun of because he is short for his age. He loves exploring and wants to be an explorer when he grows up. Bruno is very upset when his family moves to a place called “Out-With” because he has no friends there. He goes exploring along the fence outside his new house and finds a boy named Shmuel. The two soon become friends. 

My Vocab Project

Check it out!!!!!!!!!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z79NCyh0hco