We did a Raft (Role, audience, format, and topic) on Sir Walter Raleigh, John White, or Virginia Dare. I choose John White. We did the format of a Journal entry.
March 30th, 1587 My good friend Sir Walter Raleigh has asked me if I wanted to be captain of the colony Roanoke. Now I am Captain John White of Roanoke. Walter Raleigh did not choose fit men the first time, but I will choose fit farmers, hunters, and other skilled men. I thought it over and I will bring 100 men with me to Roanoke. I wish that no one will get hurt and nothing bad is going to happen. John White December 8th, 1587 We are running low on supplies at Roanoke. I fear going back to England because Walter Raleigh might get mad, but I have to go anyway. I am leaving later today after I tell the people of Roanoke that I am leaving. John White January 6th, 1590 I have just landed back in Roanoke again after 3 years of waiting for the war to end in England. I am looking for the settlers, and I have found a fence post and I see that someone has carved the word CROATOAN in the post. I hope that my friends and other settlers are not injured. I should start looking immediately but the weather is poor, I cannot look now. I hope they are alright. John White
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On thanksgiving day all of my family that could come came to my house for thanksgiving. We either had to help cook or buy something. We had to put an extra leaf in the table because it was not enough room for all of us. After we ate we watched movies and put the left overs in the fridge. We all had a good time on thanksgiving and visited with each other. We also were getting ready to put the Christmas decorations up in the living room.
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I think one thing I should say more often my sports team is not always the best sports team. I think I should say that more often because it applies to a lot of things. Recently I won a game against my cousin and she was not that happy, now I wish I would have said "I am not always the best at games." That is a lot like saying my sports team is not always the best sports team. You can say it if you win at something and the other team or person is not happy you can say it but change the words. Today in school we did nonfiction summaries again and did topic sentence.
"Harbin's 30th Ice and snow Festival is Spectacular!" by dogonews describes the ice festival in china. The way it described the Ice and Snow festival I really would like to see some of the statues and touch the ice castles. And I really want to go on the Ice side I think you would go down pretty fast. |