In my opinion, I’m really bummed out that Rick Riordan had to end his amazing series, “Heroes of Olympus” (I’m on the last book). But at least the series was totally awesome!

Rick Riordan has finished his dramatic “Heroes of Olympus” series! The series has classic Percy Jackson and the Greeks, but it also has all new characters, Jason and the Romans! The series is all about teamwork. Percy, Annabeth, Jason, Piper, Hazel, Frank, and Leo are all children of Roman and Greek gods, along with many more! But these 7 are chosen. They need to come together and stop the evil goddess Gaea from awakening and destroying everything human civilization has been creating for 5000 years.

A picture that I think of while reading the article is 7 heroes fighting off giants and trying to get to an evil goddess. I pictured this because that is what the article explained. There are giants because those are Gaea’s sons and daughters. Their mission is to kill the team before they reach Athens in Greece.

A question I have is, “Will Rick Riordan write another book series based on greek and roman mythology?”  I had that question in mind because if there is another book series based on Greek/Roman mythology, I really want to read it! A second question I have is, “If there is a second series, will the same characters be in it?” I ask this question because I love the regular characters and want them to stay in the series!

This article was super awesome!! There is a karate grandma that teaches kids with special needs how to kick-butt like she does. Her name is Helen Dugan. She runs an academy called Champs Achievers. It’s based on teaching kids with special needs karate, and those kids sure do love it!

A picture that came to mind when reading this article was an old lady kicking a guys butt. I did that because the article was about- a karate grandma! She is kicking the guys butt because she is a third rank black belt who could probably easily beat that guy.

A color to explain this article is black, which is the color of Helen Dugan’s belt. She has been training for a couple decades and now she’s a master! A symbol I think of while reading the article is one of those wheelchair signs, reason being that Dugan teaches special-needs kids. I also think that considering her age, she should be in a wheelchair, not teaching karate!

This word cloud shows the greatness in a slaves freedom.

This is a word cloud that summons up the treacherous idea of slavery.

Have you experienced a sister thats absolutely perfect for you? Thats what Via is to August in Wonder. I don’t think there could possibly be a better sister in the world for him! She’s comforting, defensive, and available for him.

 

First of all, Via rebuilds Auggie’s strength. On page 112, Halloween, she found out why he was so upset, and she knew the best way to snap him out of it was to convince him to go to the Halloween Parade. After agreeing to give him all her candy, he finally agreed and they went.

 

Secondly, Via is very defensive. Whenever people are being mean to Auggie she gets mad at them. One time, these teenagers made weird noises when they saw him, and Via yelled her head of at them! Also, Auggie himself stated that she was really defensive. And that’s her brother talking!

 

Finally, Via is always available for Auggie. When their favorite/only dog, Daisy died, Auggie and Via were both really sad. But when they got a new dog, Bear, they both skipped school and played with him all day!

 

In conclusion, Via is the perfect sister for August. She is comforting, defensive, and always available for him. Auggie would definitely agree to that!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In the amazing book Wonder there is a totally normal boy named August. That is, on the inside of course. He’s only different on the outside. People see him as scary. Shocking. Ugly. Horrific. Everything mean. He has a very deformed face, so he’s used to people doing mean things behind his back. But then, everything changed when his mom enrolled him in Beecher Prep Middle School. He freaked out. Can he adopt to all of the sudden change?

 

My 3rd Novel Update:

So far, August is really liking school. However, he realized that there was a lot of homework, he had to wake up early, and there was no free time. But he did become best friends with Jack Will. He began to trust him a lot. On October 10th,he had a really great 10th birthday party with his friends and family. On Halloween, August heard the unthinkable. He had to go in a different costume, so no one knew it was him. As he went into homeroom, he heard Jack Will talking with Julian, a really big jerk. And they were talking about him. Jack said some really mean things about him. August faked a stomach ache and went home. He missed Halloween, and was sad for the rest of the weekend.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are many types of dangerous natural disasters! Some are deadly landslides, lethal earthquakes, and magma spouting volcanoes. They’re all cool but extremely dangerous!

First of all, treacherous landslides are incredibly dangerous! Landslides usually occur in the Appalacian or Rocky Mountains, or the Pacific Coast. Some states where they occur are California, Oregon, Hawaii, and Alaska. In Switzerland there was a rockslide called the Goladau Rockslide and it destroyed 4 villages! That’s really powerful!

Also, powerful earthquakes are lethally dangerous! There’s a book called Earthquake Terror that’s about a big earthquake on a remote island. Abby and Jonathan Palmer have to survive a huge earthquake on the very remote Magpie Island. They just barely made it out by taking shelter under 2 fallen trees stacked on top of each other. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was even worse. It had an unbelievable magnitude of 0.8! But it’s really sad because over 5000 people died. Earthquakes can be extremely dangerous.

Lastly, amazing volcanoes are beautiful but dangerous! There is also a book called Volcanoes that talks about volcanoes. It stated that volcanoes are usually on the line of fire, which runs along the pacific coast. It also talks about how Hawaii was formed. Volcanoes grew through cracks in the pacific plate and kept erupting until finally the cooled lava built up to the surface to make land. That’s also why Hawaii has volcanoes. Then there was the Mt. St. Helens eruption. It happened extremely suddenly and the eruptions force was equal to 10000000 tons of dynamite. Geez!

In conclusion, natural disasters happen all over the planet. They may hurt sometimes, but they also can help. The ones stated are just 3 from a large spectrum!

In science, our table groups were growing plants for a project. Most of the time, they died, so I’m gonna write how I think ours died. I think ours died partly because of water. For instance the got almost no water on weekends. And I know sometimes we didn’t we didn’t water it in the mornings. Furthermore, it grows in a cardboard box covered in aluminum foil, so the lighting might of been bad at times. And these are the reasons I think our plant didn’t grow!

 Here is my Renaissance summary!

The Renaissance was golden age where Europe thrived with art, poetry, sculpting, inventing, and many other traits. One of the 3 main cities, Florence, has a geographic advantage of a river, so they can trade more, so they became powerful. Another one of the cities, Venice, is surrounded by a lagoon so it’s extremely hard to attack. But the Muslim Turks took control of being the center of trade and things didn’t shift Venice’s way. The final city, Rome, had many popes. One of them was Lorenzo De Medici. He tried to help Rome by living the life of the Renaissance, but he ended up raising taxes too much and things didn’t work out well. Then there was pope Clement III. He wasn’t exactly the best pope. While he was pope, Rome got attacked a lot and he lost authority.

There was also 2 great artists I’m going to write about, Leonardo Da Vinci and Michelangelo. Leonardo Da Vinci has many amazing paintings such as “the Mona Lisa” and “the Last Supper”, both of which are masterpieces. He also carried many other traits. Michelangelo also was a-jacck-of-all-traits. His most famous works of art were “The Statue of David” and “The Roof of The Sistene Chapel”, and again, both were masterpieces.

In conclusion, I think the Renaissance was amazing period of time with many different traits!

AND THIS IS MY SUMMARY OF THE RENAISSANCE!

Dear Lucy

I am sorry to hear Lucky Diggins is not working out for you. I will always address you as Lucy and am happy you are writing me. I think some of the miners might be nice to you and some of them might be mean. I am sorry for mama’s worries, the miners attitudes, and pa.

I am very proud of you. When you start lose faith remember that I have faith in you. I believe  that you will receive tho letter and  the many more that will fill up that herring tub you have in your room.

sincerely,

Grandpoppie Bennie

PS: I’m glad your doing your moms cooking, i’m not sure that you’d want the boarders eating that………except maybe Mr. Coogan!