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Aztec Adventure Story

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The Life Of the Ballgame
By: Brian Lin

One day, at Darren’s house, Jerry, Morgan, and Darren and I were all busy testing Jerry’s new invention, The Time Machine. Then, an Aztec Tenochtitlan picture accidently touched the time machine.
“AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!” We all shouted.
I saw a few branches in front of my face. It took a few seconds to realize that we are in a tree.
“Where are we?” Darren asked.
“Tenochtitlan” Morgan Shouted.
“What?” said Jerry.
“Tenochtitlan is the Capital of the ancient Aztecs!” I said.
“What a beautiful place!” Said Darren.
“Let’s get out of here.” Said Jerry
When we climbed down from the tree, we heard someone yelling, “Capture them!” We turned and looked.
“An Eagle Warrior!”
We stood still, so does the eagle warrior.
“What’s wrong with the wearing of the eagle warrior! murmured Jerry. “We would be bloody if we touched the clothes that is made out of sharp stones.
“And the feathers everywhere!” whispered Darren.
“Look at his shoe! its made out of woods” I said.
“I think we better start running.” said Morgan
We ran, and the Eagle Warrior shot spears and arrows but he missed. Morgan tripped and fell down to the ground. The Aztec warrior caught Morgan and tied him up with a rope, turned around, and started walking back.
“What should we do?” Darren asked.
“I think we should go after the Aztecs and save Morgan,” said Jerry. “Or trade Morgan back with something.”
“What thing should we trade for?” I asked, “I have nothing interesting for the Aztec people, and I left my backpack downstairs!”
“Maybe we should look for something” Jerry suggested.
“What should we look for?”
“Gold or diamonds?”
“It will take forever for you to find golds or stuff like that,” Darren replied. “And you know, Aztec people are not interested in things like that.”
“Or maybe just say where we came from and half the chance, they would give Morgan back.” I suggested.
We gathered our ideas together and chose the one that we think it would work. “The Aztec Ballgame.”
We arrived at the ballgame court and it was 200 feet long and 30 feet wide at its center section. It is shaped like an capital “I.” This shape represented the universe.
Suddenly, a six-inch round rubber ball (which symbolized the sun) went flying with rocket speed towards us. It hit Jerry in the stomach. Hard.
“Ouch!” Jerry shouted, “Who did that?”
The Aztec ballplayers came rushing towards us. Darren shivered.
“Let’s play the ballgame,” said Jerry. “If we win, give Morgan back to us, if we lose, then you can capture us.”
“Who is Morgan?” The Aztec ballplayers asked.
“Our friend, who you guys just captured a few hours ago.”
“Alright, Let’s start the game!” they said.
“Wait.” Said Darren, “I don’t even know what the rules are and how to play.”
“Ok, now this is what you wear. A headdress, a hacha, a yoke to protect your waist, these wooden shoes, palma, manopla, yuguito. And here are the rules. You only can use your waist to hit the ball through the hoop that is large enough to accommodate the six-inch rubber ball. No hands, no feet or stuff like that, only your waist,” explained one of the Aztecs.
We wore the uniforms. The game had now begun. It was 3 on 3. The score kept tied until the jaguars got a point. The score was 1-0. Just one time, just one time, Darren shoot the ball into the hoop. The score was 2-1.
“Yeah!” Jerry and I yelled at the same time.
Five more minutes were left, the score was 9-7. I’m glad that we practiced the Aztec Ballgame at recess.
Jerry and I scored 2 more lucky goals to make the score tie. Finally! Darren scored the final goal as he hit the ball through the hoop with his waist.
“Now, give us back Morgan!” I yelled.
Two Aztec Warriors walked with Morgan to the ballcourt. “You’re free now,” they said.
We ran back to the forest and went up to the tree that we came from and put a picture of Taipei on top of the time machine. The wind blowed so hard. I opened my eyes and looked around. We were on the high speed rail, heading for Kaohsiung.
“What a day! We shouted together. “I bet we are going to be the role model of our Aztec project.
The End

This is my Aztec Adventure story. We learned MANY facts at Social Studies class and made a story with MANY facts in it. Enjoy reading it!!!

My Book Trailer and Book Review AND my Book Presentation

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Book Review

No Talking

By: Brian Lin

About Andrew Clements: Andrew Clements was born in May 29, 1949, is an American author of children’s books. Clements grew up in Camden, New Jersey and Springfield, Illinois, United States. As a child, he enjoyed summers at a lakeside cabin in Maine where he spent his days swimming and hiking and water skiing, and his evenings reading books. After graduating, he worked as a teacher sharing his love of reading with elementary, middle, and high school students. In 1985, Clements added his own work to the market with a picture book entitled Bird Adalbert. His first novel was the award-winning Frindle, which has won sixteen state book awards, as well as the Christopher Award. Clements works have been translated into several languages including German, Italian, French, Korean, Portuguese, Basque, Hungarian, Japanese, Dutch, and Spanish. Clements lives in Westborough, Massachusetts, with his wife Rebecca and his 4 children. This book is about the fifth-graders war, about boys vs. girls. The fifth-graders are the loudest class in Laketon Elementary school until when Dave Packer challenges Lynsey Burgess to a boys vs. girls “no talking” contest. It is not going to be easy for either sides. No talking for 3-4 days! Not even at home. The teachers and principles of Laketon Elementary very shocked to see this situation. They thought they are being quiet for no reasons, until Ms. Hiatt noticed that when someone said a word, someone will take out a notebook and write something in it. At last, the principle went shouting at Dave for not talking, Dave shouted back. Dave was right but learned his lesson. The score was tie, after Lynsey said a few word to make it tie. It was over… all over.

This book’s main character is Dave and Lynsey, who had been challenging the boys and girls into a “no talking” contest. It all happened in school. Dave had been enemies with Lynsey since the time that Lynsey said that boys are so loud. When Dave accidentally heard it, it caused the whole story to begin. Dave was now arguing with Lynsey. Which caused the contest. A no talking contest with 3-4 days not even talking at home! The contest stopped when Dave yelled at the principal when the principle is yelling at him. eventually, Dave was right. We have the loyalty to not talk, which is not true because they are having a contest. But Dave had learned his lesson and the contest had stopped. The score was tie.

This book’s message is that don’t challenge your friend, when you challenge he/her, the person will think you as an enemy. The story’s theme of this book is friendship. Lynsey had made the score tie, because she still think of Dave as a friend.

I liked the book No Talking because it is interesting because his project is about Gandhi. The person that does not talk to think. Dave had wanted to try that too. I liked this book also because it is about friendship. I think friendship is the most important thing an all of the themes. I recommend to all of the people. This book is very interesting.

This is my Book Review and my Book Trailer AND my book presentation, it is all about the book No Talking.

How to make an Aztec Mask

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In social studies class, we learn about the Aztecs they made masks out of jewels. We created the Aztec masks by painting and gluing them, try making one yourself!

Step 1: Paper Mache a Ballon, Step 2: After it is dry and hard, cut the shape in half and you can take out the balloon. Step 3: cut a few pieces of blue paper. Step 4: stick it on the mask with water glue, no overlapping. Step 5: Wait till it dry.

Remember: Never put your mask into a shower.