Taylor

When we enter the year 2060, if we ever do, life should be amazing. That doesn’t mean it will be. But here is my version of the future: I woke with a start. The nightmare that haunted my dreams had been a very realistic one. I pressed a button on the side of my bed, and my mother brought me breakfast. No robots in our house, but other people had them. Robots scared me when I was around them. Especially from what I’d seen in the old movies like I robot, robots take over and try to kill everyone. I don’t want to see them malfunctioning. But current technology can still help a lot. For example, my room has many buttons on the wall. One is for opening the door to let the dog out, another is to make food in the kitchen and have it delivered wherever I am. But that doesn’t mean everyone does everything for me. I still have to exercise, and if I don’t exercise at least once a day, the switches and buttons on my wall will stop working for me until I get that exercise. If I am sick, and can’t exercise like usual, my mom scans her finger, which confirms my sickness, and the switches still work. I like this because then everyone in our family won’t gain too much weight. One day, while watching TV, it immediately shut off because I hadn’t exercised all day. I never really leave the house, technically, because when we go outside, it is still considered our house because there are domes around the lawn. But we still get oxygen from the air because these domes have no tops to them. So bees and birds and other animals can still fly into our yard, which is nice. Remember the buttons I talked about earlier? Well, we have many of them all over the inside of our house. My mother’s room, my room, the living room, and even the kitchen. We only leave our houses once in a while to buy food. But even that doesn’t happen very often, because we only get groceries ourselves when the machines in our house malfunction. That is my fabulous life in the year 2060.
 * The Spectacular Life of 2060**

BOOKS I LOVE AND HAVE READ...

- Thirteen Reasons Why - Stray - LOVVEDD IT!!! - Stargirl -Love, Stargirl - The girls - Maniac Magee RA - Schooled RA - Molly moon - Micky Minus and the Mind reading/rading machine -Reality Check - Barefoot

BOOKS I AM READING... - Drums, girls and dangerous pie RA - A week in the woods

Taylor Cameron, April 19, 2010

11:25 a.m

THE HISTORY OF REESES PEANUT BUTTER CUPS

http://www.thenibble.com/reviews/main/candy/old/history-of-peanut-butter.asp http://www.hersheys.com/products/details/reesespeanutbuttercups.asp

1. Who was the Reese’s peanut butter cup named after? RT 2. What is one variation of the peanut butter cup? RT 3. What changes did Reese have to make during World War II? T&S 4. The history paragraph said that Reese had many varied jobs before he sold Reese’s, what were three of them? T&S 5. Why do you think the author explained that Reese was not very fond of farming? A&M 6. Why was it important for the author to tell that Reese was a former employee for Milton S. Hershey? A&M 7. What would your first candy be if you were H.B Reese? OYO 8. Do you think the Reese’s peanut butter cup was a good invention? Why or why not? OYO

smileytiedie6 Feb 3, 2010 11:27 am

I am planning to sneak onto the Endurance tomorrow night. The captain will not notice anything if I hide in the right spot. I plan to hide in a barrel of rope under the deck. I will bring with me enough food to last two days. There will also be food on the ship. I hope.*
 * Dear Journal,

re: I am the Stowaway smileytiedie6 just now

Dear Journal, my plan was a success. I have been on the ship for over six hours now, and the cook found me. The captain Earnest Shackleton told me that if we were in need of food, I would be eaten. That shook me a bit. But I am not giving up on this adventure, as my mother tried to persuade me to.I miss my mother dearly. My father also. But there is no reason to leave now. Another thing, I can't. The ship is fifty miles from land, and I am not a good swimmer myself. The ship is stocked with books. Books,books and more books. When we have free time, we read, and even if we don't have free time, we read. There are also plays we act out. Well, not me. I watch and laugh at the absurd scenes. One night, being bored to tears with re-doing plays over again, we dressed up as ladies and drank tea with the gentlemen. It was ridiculous! I laughed until my sides hurt. Then we ate a meal of rice and the little meat that we had. We had an almost-endless supply of rice. Or so we thought. For the next few weeks we had unbearable hunger.

Dear Diary, we have landed in the center of an ice flow. The exact center I assure you. The ice is surrounding the ship, and we can hear the wood of the bow creaking from the force. I, and the crew, will rue the day we left the safe, non-floating ground

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JAPANESE AMERICAN QUESTIONS and ANSWERS

1. When did the Imperil Japanese Navy attack Pearl Harbor? RT December 7th, 1941

2. What did Executive Order 9066 authorize? RT It authorized the U.S military to evacuate any and all persons from “military areas” and provide accommodation for them elsewhere.

3. What happened to Japanese Americans after the attack? T&S

They were sent to internment camps across America.

4. What was life like for those in the internment camps? T&S

The relocation process was a nightmare of dislocation and uncertainty.

5. Why does the author describe the internment camps as follows, “they must have seemed as alien as the surface of the moon?” A&M People didn’t know what to think of the Japanese Americans. They were afraid that the Japanese Americans would attack them again like Pearl Harbor.

6. Why does the author describe the camps as concentration camps? A&M

Because the Americans treated Japanese the way Hitler and the Germans treated the Jews in concentration camps and we tried to help stop the Holocaust but created one of our own. We are such hypocrites!

7. Do you think that it was fair that the Japanese Americans were rounded up and put into internment camps? OmO No, I think we should have just put up places around the country where we could search Japanese Americans for weapons and terrorist attacks.

8. How would you feel if your family had to sell everything and move to an internment camp such as Heart Mountain? OmO

I would probably cry for a few weeks because I would leave my American friends and family and be treated like a dog.