My mom is a beloved lady. I feel as now that dads gone it is my job to protect her. I can’t let the red guards take her. I’ve already lost on person I can’t lose another
After dinner I called my wife.” darling sweetie we need to talk” I told her” today at work I heard that the red guard will arrest anyone with pictures showing richness because it considered four olds” we both nodded. We knew what we had to do. I smile at mom and she told the kids to go play. “Mom” I said. “Go sit on the couch so you won’t worry. I ran around the house looking for any picture showing my past.
My wife and I went into the bathroom. One after one I watched my past swallowed into flames. I saw pictures of my dad and I wanted to keep them but then I thought of my mom, wife, and kids. I had to protect what I had. The air was thick with smoke. My wife asked me to open a window. I told her “darling we can open it a little but not wide” She cough then left the room to get a glass of water. I heard the door open and I froze. Then I heard the laughter of my children. I smiled as I toke a sip of water. We continued to burn pictures. I smile as I remember every moment of my past.Ji-Li is the oldest
By Luca Libralato, San Felice Circeo lazio, Italy What a sight!
Good night city
Good night place
I’ll see you again when the sky’s awake
Over the ocean
Quiet breeze
Fill the air oh pretty please
Just wait — hold on
Don’t move
When the sun comes up I’ll be there soon
Good night moon
I’ll see you soon
Tomorrow when I’m awake I’ll be with you
In my poem ” Good Night Moon”, I created a story in which the speaker is going to sleep after a long day. See is saying good night hoping she will see everything again when she wakes up. The theme of my poem is when something bad happens everything is not over. This is inspired by when you go to sleep you say goodbye but soon you wake up to say hello. I used a few poetic techniques Including rhyme with the breeze and please. I also used some rhythm with the syllables matching 4,4,10.
I looked through many places in Edo (now Tokyo) and I found Edo Jo the most helpful to understand Edo. Edo-Jo shows the way that Japan was in the 1800. In Edo Jo was the Edo Castle. It was first built in 1457, and then it was a small foutress on top of a hill. It was built by Ota Dokan, a small local ruler who served the daimyo of the Hojo family. During the 1800 and so on the shogun lived there. In 1603, Ieyasu defeated all other rival daimyo in the country in a great battle, at Sekigahara, and he was named Shogun . The first thing he did was to order all other daymio in the country to prove their loyalty by helping with the construction work on his castle. Each of the daimyo was assigned a portion of the construction work. Sadly the project was so huge that Ieyasu himself did not see it finished. Part of the castle burned down in the Great Meireki Fire, and although most of the buildings were restored, the main tower was never rebuilt. Very few people get to see the inside of the Shoguns residence today. When people went to Edo many of them went to Edo-jo to see the Edo capital.
The Mayans played the first organised sport in the history of sports.The ballgame had some dangerous and exiting components. The game was about shooting a ball into a hoop. s. In the Mayan language the ballgame is called Ah Pitzlaw. The ball was used as a bouncy ball. They used heads as the center. The range was from the size of a softball to the size of a beach ball. The ball weighed about 8 pounds! The Mesoamericans wore 3 different style of clothes. Each outfit consist of a headdress, a jade necklace, a yoke, lion cloth, some knee and shin protection, and rubber shoes. The court was shaped like a capital I. It was built out of stone and had many different colors. The ball court symbolized a city’s wealth and power. They had a god called Xochipilli that was the patron of the game.
The Mayans were very religious in everything they did, even sports The game was a ritual because if the Mayan team lost then the captain would be sacrificed or if the other team lost then there team captain would be beheaded. The game was a big part of the Mayan creation story called the Popul Vuh. The ball was religious because they used human heads for the ball. The human heads represent the maze god and how his head was cut off. The uniform had hats and other things that represented the gods. The teams had mascots that were god. The court had many religious glyph’s that represented many things. The court was for battle and also sacrifice.
The charger store project went great. My absolute strength was learning from my mistakes. During a portion of the project my group had to figure out another groups question. When I finished a problem Matthew or Emma check my work and see if it was right if it was wrong then they would explain why it was wrong. What I learned about decimals is that when there is a number with zeros that you don’t have to stress yourself out. I mastered adding and subtracting decimals.
The stereos and I became successful because we all got to be leaders. Every activity I learned more about that it’s okay to mess up. An example is that when I messed up in the maze and everyone had to start over my teammates still cheered me on and we ended up succeeding. We were the first team of the day to succeed. I encouraged everyone. My friends may have messed up but I messed up too. Every one helped me. Today I think that I understand more about team work and letting other people be in charge for once.
The Activates
The first activity I got to be a leader. It was the marble lunge. At first we tried to make a big line. But since that wasn’t working we did my idea. We passed along the tube. We did that in one try. We celebrated and everyone thanked me. The next activity was hog call. We easily got through the first one by choosing a leader. The leader was the only one who moved. Some people had trouble with that. They didn’t trust the leader. The second round we were better by trusting everyone. I helped check the work just in case. We used team work and we finished fast and accurate. Overall I think that I learned a lot. We laughed a lot because having fun with our friend helped us succsed.
