Monthly Archives: October 2013

The Lorax

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My favourite picture book from a long time ago is called The Lorax, by Dr. Seuss. IT’S SO AWESOME!!! I still like it. I have the book with me RIGHT NOW. And I’m reading it RIGHT NOW.

The reason why I like it? It’s kind of because it rhymes, and kind of because I really like the story. Even my tutor said that that book is cool. The rhymes are really creative.

This book is about the Once-Ler chopping down Truffula Trees to make Thneeds and being all greedy and selfish. Then the Lorax pops out (literally) and tries to tell him to stop. But the Once-Ler’s like, “It’s only one tree, I’m doing no harm.” Then the Lorax keeps saying, “I speak for the trees! For the trees have no tongues! You are crazy with greed, no one will buy that Thneed!” But the Once-Ler doesn’t stop and keeps making his company bigger and bigger and he plans on biggering and BIGGERING no matter what. Then he cuts down a whole bunch of trees, and the Bar-Barloots have to go away because there’s not enough Truffula Fruits. Then the birds go away, then the fishes. Then the last tree gets cut down. The Once-Ler doesn’t regret anything. The Lorax is really sad and flies away or something. Then the Once-Ler tells a boy many years later about that and tells him to plant a Truffula Forest. 😀

It’s cool how the author makes up random words. Like Swamy, Bar-Barloots, Truffula, Grickle, Gluppity Glupp, and Sloppity Slopp. He does that in like every book!

I think the Once-Ler is waaaaay too greedy. I feel like it shouldn’t be only the Lorax protesting, I feel like the whole world should be. The Once-Ler in the beginning only chops down one tree then says there’s no harm. AND LOOK AT IT NOW!!! The sky is all grey, the grass looks grey too, almost no life, no color, no Truffula. The ponds are all brown. HORRIBLE!!!The-lorax-book-images-8f321 thisthneedsto this

If I was the Lorax, I would walk over to the Once-Ler, scream at him, punch him in the face, then push him off the building, I mean seriously, you’re rich, you should buy a railing. AND LOOK AT THE BIRDS!!! They can barely climb the stairs and your making them fly for a long way to find clean air. And you’re making FISH WALK over to another body of water. 🙁 He should at least keep some SEEDS to plant them. And also save a lot of the trees. Like destroy I don’t know 20% or them. Not like 100%!!! Seriously…That doesn’t help anyone.

And it’s cool how there used to be a line in the book that was removed 20 years after it was published. It’s on the page where the fish are walking because the pond is so polluted. The removed line is, “And I heard things are just as bad up in Lake Erie.” In Geography class, I learned that in the 1970s, the Great Lakes were seriously polluted. Now it’s better!!! 😀 <3

Peace out!

Claire

Being Caring

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Being caring means that they are kind and care about the feelings of other people, not just themselves. They aren’t mean, rude, or ruthless. They are nice and help others. If the world doesn’t have caring people, the world would be miserable. Being caring makes you feel happy after you help someone and it makes the person you helped feel good too.

I am a caring learner because I am nice, not mean, and I like to help people. Like when it comes to homework or classwork. Yesterday in the library the 4th graders asked me about 30 questions about the Earth and about math. My friend ignored them so I helped them even though they keep asking the same questions. Like they asked, “What does solstice mean?” or “What does equinox mean?” I answered them and Camille even gave me a chocolate. 🙂 And lots of people say I’m really nice like Jeffrey.

I could improve by helping my brother more and not just telling him to ask my mom. And I should also be more kind to him than just ignoring him and going into my own little world.

The Parts of the Movie

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So we’ve written a few parts for the movie. They’re not in order, they’re mostly just ideas and stuff. We aren’t going to start filming until we get more of the dialogue done.

We will start the filming when we finish at least 15 minutes of the movie.

We decided that at the beginning will be Tammy and Rebecca walking to school. And Travis and Connor won’t be Claire all the time. They can be Teresa, Connie or Nanako too. Then when Rebecca and Tammy get to school they see Mackenzie and Kate gossiping and putting on makeup and stuff. Then Mackenzie and Kate say mean stuff.

Some ideas are when Kate and Mackenzie are trying to impress Travis on the basketball court and Connor is being funny trying to impress people and yeah. Also them trying to impress Travis in running but they’re wearing heels. And in volleyball they don’t even TOUCH the ball. Connor, Travis, Rebecca play really well. Tammy is pretty good.

CAST:

Travis Valdez(Popular guy)-Claire/Nanako/Teresa/Connie (Picture of Louis Tomlinson)

Connor Jackson(Friend of Travis)-Claire/Nanako/Teresa/Connie (Picture of Niall Horan)

Tammy Santiago-Connie

Rebecca La Rue-Claire

Kate Lorraine-Nanako

Mackenzie Everdeen-Teresa

Inventions-Good or Bad?

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This story takes place before the television.

The Professor always made me feel awkward with his crazy inventions, and this time is no different. He invented something called an iPad. He claims he’s the smartest person in the world, but I don’t really think so. Yes, he invented the television, the computer, call phone, and calculater. But he doesn’t make them good to use. I have no idea how to use them. And they make my eyes burn too. I just wonder when he would stop inventing stuff that are so hard to use. He invented something called and XBox and he wears these thick round glasses all the time. I wonder why. It’s heavy and when I wear them I get all dizzy.

At class, he started demonstrating how to use his inventions. This is weird, he usually never tells us how to use it, mostly just what is does and all the good things about them. He said that the radio is the easiest to explain. He explained how we use the remote to switch the volume and track. And how we put the CD inside. And then he explained the television, then the computer, then the iPad

It turns out that his inventions ARE good. You just have to know who to use it. Now I know how smart he is. He told us to not use it too much or we’ll have to wear glasses like his. I don’t think I will though.

FF-DA CHARACTERS

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We haven’t started filming yet. But decided that the shy girl’s name will be Rebecca La Rue. She will be played by me, Claire.  The mean girls will me Nanako and Teresa. Their names will be Kate Lorraine and Mackenzie Everdeen. The boy’s name will be Travis Valdez. It will be played by Claire with a picture on her face. The picture will either be Niall Horan or Louis Tomlinson. I will be the editor. Rebecca’s best friend will be played by Connie. Her name in the movie will be Tammy Santiago. Kate and Mackenzie are friends but fight a lot. Travis is good at everything. And he has a brother named Connor. So in the end Travis will like Rebecca instead of Kate and Mackenzie. Like Cinderella. I want Tammy to like Connor. Connor will be played be me again with a picture of either Louis or Niall on my face.

What the Project Will Be About

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For my topic I’ve decided to focus on making a short movie. Before we we’re going to do a song but decided that it was kind of hard. We’ve decided that the movie is going to be 30 minutes and it’s about two girls fighting over a guy and there is one shy girl and then the boy falls for that girl instead of the other two and yeah, like Another Cinderella Story.

This topic is important to me because I really like making videos and I was the one who suggested this.

I hope to learn about movie making, and stuff famous actors and actresses. Like what movies they played in.

I will know when we succeed when we don’t look nervous or look like we’re acting and we remember what to say.

We have already accomplished what the movie is going to be about. It is going to be about LOVE and you know.