Right now I am reading a book called The Season of Styx Malone. I have not finished it but so far it has been a great read. I will give you a short summary about it right now. I will try not to spoil too much but here we go. These to brothers, Caleb and Bobby Gene are going to a party with their dad and sister. They end up trading their sister for some fireworks who some kid named Cory Cormier had. Their parents find out that they did this and are furious. They punish the brothers and Cory to one hour of chores a day. By the way it is summer. So then they have these fireworks that they have to get rid of, And that is where Styx comes along he takes care of the fireworks. Styx tells the brothers that they can sell the fireworks to get this motorcycle called the grasshopper. Anyways they end up trying to earn money. In different ways. And that is how far I have got.

Here is a photo of the book:

I took this photo myself

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Basketball

This blog is written by Jonah, Teddy and Callan. We will be talking about our basketball season. We are all on the same team with some of our other school friends and some other random people. Our coach is our friend Matthew’s dad. By the way Matthew is on our team too. So far our record is 0-11. Listen, our team’s average height is 4 foot 10, and we play against teams that are twice the height of some of our players. We have one more game coming up and hopefully we can win that, because it is our last game. Despite our frightening streak of games it has been a fun and great season with all of us improving a lot in skill, technique, and IQ of the game.

photo from Creative Commons

 Hi, I’m Jonah and my strength in basketball is defense, ball handling, and fast breaks.

Hi I am Callan and my strength is rebounding and hustling. I am also pretty good at defense.

Hi I’m Teddy and I’m good at playing defense, shooting, and stealing.

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In LA we had a project where we read a bunch of Wisdom Tales from a book of short tales that, well had wisdom and taught lessons. Any way after we read all of the wisdom tales we had one of the parents of a student in our grade come and talk to us about drawing and art. He is a super cool guy and very good at art. He inspired me and the whole grade. Any ways then in LA we chose a wisdom tale to draw and write a comic about. My favorite wisdom tale was The Prodigal Son. The Prodigal Son is about two sons who get land on a farm from their  father. One son uses the land wisely, but the other wastes his money and goes partying. The wasteful son comes back home poor and ready to work for his father. But his father is forgiving and gives him a feast. The moral of the story is be forgiving. Any way I retold the story and made it in to a comic. Here it is….

I made this comic on comic life 3.

I made this comic on Comic Life 3.

That is my comic! Did you like it? Please tell me in the comments.

This was a really cool project and I think that Our LA teacher, Mrs. Williams should continue to do it in the future.

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Video Game Tier list

Teddy and Jonah left me out so I have to do this blog on my own. Anyway for this blog I will be ranking video games on a tier list. This is my personal opinion, so do not get mad at me but please give me feedback in the comments.

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As you can see in by the title of this blog, I will be talking about A history project. We started by talking about this package called the Civilization package that had three big groups; culture, power and trade. Each group had three subcategories. For power it was social hierarchy, institutional power and people power. For trade it was resources, economic systems and innovation and technology. And lastly for culture it was religion and beliefs, identities and artistic expression. Any ways we chose one of these topics and then read a text about Ancient Egypt. When reading the text whenever we saw something that was related to our topic we highlighted it. Once we finished reading the text we wrote down ten facts in our notebook that we had learned by highlighting stuff about our topics. By the way my topic was trade.

This is a photo of the civ package.

Once we wrote down ten facts we put a star next to the one of the facts that we thought was interesting. Our history teacher then came and approved it just to make sure that we could do a project on it. If he did approve it then you could start conducting research on the topic. My topic was early Ancient Egyptian writing. I started to conduct research on my topic and put it into slides which was the next step to the project. You had to put all the information into bullet points in a slide presentation that you would have to share with the class. I stared finishing the project and revising it to put my final touches on it. Presentation day came and I was ready to present my 1-2 minute presentation on Ancient Egyptian writing. I got up did the presentation and got a good grade. A win all around.

And that concludes this blog about my presentation in history. Thank you for reading.