Category Archives: English 8

The Kingdom of Misery

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This story is in the world of Geronimo Stilton. So everyone is a mouse

There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. No fear or pain for the Queen at least. Queen Kabra punishes her people unfairly.

Queen Kabra

Queen Kabra

If you drop a slight piece of a candy wrapper 2 miles away from her castle, you will have a line burned on your arm. That also happens if you talk when you’re still chewing. There are many more rules. She has guards all over the place to watch you. The only place with absolute privacy is the bathrooms. But you can’t even be sure of that either… Once you get 10 burns you will be executed painfully. The Kingdom of Misery has a large population, but we are still losing citizens rapidly. I just hope someone will save us from out misery…

Boom! The speaker always scared everyone. It made that sound to make sure we pay attention. I expected Queen Kabra to go on about how she expects us to be miserable and to not break the rules or else. But I was surprised when it wasn’t the Queen who squeaked, “Queen K-Kabra is out of town. A-And I-I n-need all the c-citizens of the K-Kingdom of M-Misery to come to the c-castle at o-once.”

I wondered why the voice was so nervous and shakey. But anouncements on the speaker were always important and were expected to be obeyed. I hurried over to the castle and saw others doing so too. When I arrived, I saw a mouse I’ve never seen before. He wasn’t the Queen’s guards, I’m sure, what he wore was differend. He was wearing shiny gold and silver chainmail armor with a sword strapped into his belt. He had on a gleaming helmet with a orange feather in it. But with his glasses on his snout, he looked more like a professor than a fighter. I wondered what he was doing here.

“I h-have come to tell you about my q-quest,” he stammered, he looked so nervous he looked like he was going to pee his pants!, “a-and my name is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton.”

Geronimo Stilton

Geronimo Stilton

“The knight that saved the Fairy Princess and Sterling?” someone shouted.

“Um…Yeah…And my q-quest is that I-I-I a-am,” he cleared his throat, “I am going to save you from your misery while Queen Kabra is out of the Kingdom.”

There was a lot of applause. When it died down the mouse continued, “I am going to the C-Cave of Fear, to retreive a half of a ruby heart that w-will reverse this place and make it The Kingdom of Happiness instead of Misery. But I also have to go to the Waterfall of Pain, which has the other half of the ruby heart. And I am letting you know so that y-you can assist me any way you c-can.”

Half Rubie Hearts

Half Rubie Hearts

There were lots of cheering and shouts.

“Th-Thank you for listening.” He scurried away and reappeared at the bottom, “Well, my journey starts! Where can I find some horses?”

3 Days later
The Queen has already returned a day ago, but people were still cheerful as they walked around carrying out their daily routines. We were confident that Geronimo will get the job done!

Crash! The sound echoed from not very far away. I turned and saw Geronimo hurdling towards me! I dodged just in time for him to fall right on his snout onto the ground. This must happen a lot in Geronimo’s life since he simply picked himself up, blushed, and hurried to the castle. Curious, many followed him.

After we came 2 miles from Queen Kabra’s magnificent castle, we hid behind bushes in case Queen Kabra were to punish us. I was on my 9th line. One more, and I’m dead. So I climbed a tree and concealed myself behind the leaves and peeked out.

Geronimo hesitated at the door…and hesitated…and hesitated some more…until finally…he hesitated a bit more and thatwas when he called for the Queen and waited. The Queen sat on a gold coloured throne being carried by 5 men.

“For what reason have you called me?”

“See Your Highness,” he didn’t finish the sentence. He touched the half hearts to the Queen’s heart.

Suddenly Queen Kabra did something we have never seen her do before. We didn’t know she was even able to do this. She smiled. A happy, pleasant, non-fake smile. She beamed at all of us and then all our sadness just faded away into nothing. We didn’t know what sadness was. Everything was awesome! The Queen happily anounced the new changes for the Kingdom. This will be The Kingdom of Misery no longer. Instead it will be The Kingdom of Happiness!

Ruby Hearts http://www.bigblingapp.com/2014/02/rubies-are-red-sapphires-are-blue/
Geronimo http://www.angusrobertson.com.au/book/geronimo-stilton-the-kingdom-of-fantasy-the-dragon-prophecy/30214382/
Queen Kabra http://disney.wikia.com/wiki/The_Evil_Queen/Gallery

Be My Valentine!

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Tomboy Mandy Moore
Had a crush on the boy next door
So at school she grabbed his collar
and went a bit higher than a hollar
“Hey You! Be mine!
Be my valentine!”
She scared him off
“What did I do?” she did scoff

The very next day, again she tried
She grabbed his shoulders and cried
“Hey you! Carson Dine!
Be my valentine!”
Terrified, he ran away
“What did I do?” she did say
Throughout the day, she wondered what will she say

She waited for him at class
Where she knew that he would pass
“Please Carson Dine
will you be my valentine?”
This time, he did not quiver,
instead he smiled as wide as a river
“Of course my queen
you’re the prettiest girl I’ve ever seen.”

Practicing Filming!

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I have learned that it’s hard to make a movie with what we have. Nowhere in KAS really looks like a hospital except the nurse’s room. And there’s only one place with a good green screen, but there’s also white trees on it. We don’t really have any hospital things except a stethoscope and a tooth brush. And none of us have a cane so we need to use an umbrella. And none of us has any old lady clothes either.
We have finished typing the dialogue and have practiced the script for 2 weeks. We also have some props ready. We have a nurse’s coat and also a stethoscope.
We hope to be able to start filming next Friday. And practice throughtout the week before Friday. Like during lunch and maybe afterschool. We plan to find some props to use.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mS8s_0jhYoE This is us practing.

The School Field Trip

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March 12, 2014, Mackeral Middle School, Field Trip 9:00~3:00, Capilano Bridge.

I signed, what was fun about a bridge? Sure, it’s almost the same height as the Statue of Liberty. But the Grand Canyon is even higher! And collecting stamps in exchange for a “surprise?” LAAAAAMMEE!!!

As we walked to the bridge, I read the informational signs. It could hold about 100 elephants? Well at least I’m assured it’s not going to fall. We walked onto the bridge. Jessica was snapping pictures of everything. The boys were daring each other to spit over the side or throw pennies. Of course none of them did, only if Ms. Nun wasn’t looking. Ms. Nun is nice, but not if you do something wrong. If you make trouble in front of Ms. Nun, you will wish it had been Queen Elizabeth II who saw you do it.

“Wow, it’s pretty high,” Jeff said as he stepped carefully onto the bridge.

“It’s beautiful,” I breathed. I saw green pine trees in every direction, a wide rocky river flowing underneath. The light blue sky with puffy cotton candy clouds.

“I agree,” Cassandra said.

Jeff looked over the side. “Ms. Nun,” he said, he was turning a light shade of green, “I don’t feel good.” He was hugging his stomach. Everyone knew he was deathly afraid of heights. Uh oh, I knew everyone else was thinking the same thing.

“Is he supposed to throw up over the side or right here?” Cyrus yelled.

“None! I will NOT have you getting sick over the side or anywhere! Here, do it here.” She gave him a bag. It was too late. He puked all over the side of the bridge.

“Jeff!” Ms. Nun said, “Oh, well it’s alright, I should have been faster.” She called someone on the phone and told someone to come clean it up.

“AH!!” Jessica shouted. She was leaning over the side taking a picture of a Mallard Duck far below. But Logan bumped into her. Her she dropped her camera.

“Logan! Look at what you did!!” she shrieked, “You’re going to pay for that camera!”

“Sorry geez, hey look! It didn’t fall!” he pointed. He was right. It was dangling off the wooden plank sticking out of the bridge.

“Well I was lucky, Mom will never forgive me if I dropped it,” she said, “I can’t reach it!”

It was true the chain link wall was too high, “Calm down Jess, I’m sure we can get it back,” he looked like he was trying to reassure himself.

“Yes we will get it back,” Ms. Nun said, “everyone move forward, Jessica, a worker will come get your camera. At the end of the trip, we’ll stop by the Lost and Found.”

“Fine,” Jessica huffed, “now I can’t take pictures.”

“You can use mine,” Amy said, “I probably won’t use it anyway.”

“Oh thanks,” Jessica said.

We walked across the bridge and some people got some stamps. I decided to get some too. At the Trading Post I bought a dream catcher. I got a certificate in exchange for the stamps and we got Jessica’s camera back. Jeff threw up again but this time into a bag. I think the boys threw like $10 dollars worth of coins off the bridge and the cliff walk. This field trip turned out pretty good!