26 - Foxes

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Red fox are the most. common foxes that live. in North America Europe Asia and in the deepest wilderness. If you are lucky you might see them in your own backyard ! They dig their own den. For shelter and protection .

The red fox has. a reddish coat with white underneath and big bushy tail with a white

· tip at the end. Red Foxes have a under fur called guard hair. It protects it from... snow and rain but soon in summer it will shed. Not all Red Foxes are red some are black or silver. They are a size of a large cat.

Foxes are omnivores eating berries, worms and small rodents. They hunt in the early mornings and hunt all year long. Most foxes have 42 teeth. Their teeth are different from other meat eater's teeth.

Their

Long sharp teeth in the front are called incisors and are used to

Catch and hold the prey. Foxes can run for about.., 1hr. at a speed of 45 miles.

They are shy animals so they wait until mating season. Some they breed during Dec. - To Feb . Male I foxes are called dog foxes. Female foxes are called vixens and baby foxes are called kits. Dog foxes use their scent to attract the vixen produces about 4 to 5 pups once a year in spring. When a fox is born, the mother fox curls her pups in the den.

Finally where the pups are a couple weeks old, they will go outside. For the first time. Then they will be teached from their dad about hunting.

Foxes have several ways to communicate with each other. They mark places with their scent and make sounds.

There are many several factors that cause death in foxes. Animals that prey on foxes are hawks.

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Aung San Suu Kyi

Have you ever been locked inside your room for a punishment? You guys were probaly locked for a few hours, but have you ever thought about being locked inside your house for more than 15 years? Well let me tell you this, Aung San Suu Kyi, a buddhist burmese politician, was under house arrest for more than 2 decades! 21 years to be exact! Aung San Suu Kyi was born on June 19, 1945, now 65 years old. She was born in Burma, or now known as Myanmar(Myanmar is located in Southeast Asia). Her father, Aung San, was a Burmese soldier, and helped fight for the country's independance in 1947, and was assinated also in 1947 by his enemies. Myanmar's government is Republican, but San Suu Kyi was a Democracy leader. She made speeches about how she thinks Burma should have a Democratic government. One of her most famous speeches was the "Freedom From Fear" speech. It starts off as,"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it." In 1988, NLD, or National League of Democracy was formed, with San Suu Kyi as general secretary.

Suu Kyi entered politics to support Democracy, and was then put under house arrest in her house in Rangoon, Burma on July 20, 1989. House arrest is like federal prison, but instead of being in a jail cell, your locked inside your house, but food is still served. The country offered her freedom if she left the country, but Suu Kyi refused the offer. She believes that one fear of the many world leaders' is to lose sight of their purpose. "Goverment officials are amazing," Suu Kyi had once said, "So often it seems that they're the last to know what people actually want." Still during her arrest in 1990, Suu Kyi recieved the Sakharov Prize, for "Freedom From Fear". Just the year after, she recieved the Nobel Peace Prize, in which her 2 children recieved both of these awards on her behalf. Suu Kyi used the 1.3 million USD prize money to arrange a health and education trust plan for all of the Burmese people. Suu Kyi did an interview (after she was released, of course), and said that during her time under house arrest, she read about philosophy, politics, and biographies that her husband had sent her. Occasionally, she was allowed to have visits from foriegn diplomats, and her personal doctor. On September 22 2007, she made a breif apperance in front of her house in Rangoon, Burma to accept the blessings of the Buddhists monks, who were marching to support their beliefs of human rights.

On May 3, 2009 there was a tresspass incident. An American man, identified as John Yettaw, swam across the Inya lake to go to Suu Ky's house without being invited. He was arrested when 3 years later he attempted to do the same thing. Suu Kyi was arrested for violating the terms of her house arrest, on May 13, 2011, because she let John Yettaw into her house when he was exhausted from swimming across the lake, and was supposedly swimming back home.

She was finally released on July 10, 1995 after more than 5 years, but continued doing protests and speeches, so was put back under house arrest on September 23, 2000. After 19 months, she was released on May 6 2002. On May 30, 2003 she was put under house arrest for the same reason. On May 27, 2005, her sentence was extended by 1 year. And now here's the checkpoint, on October 24, 2007, she has reached 12 years of house arrest. During that time, there were protests held in 12 different cities around the world. Now, just because you have the checkpoint, the game isn't over. On May 27, 2008, her sentence was extended for a WHOLE 'NOTHER YEAR, which is illegal by international law, AND the Burmese law, because a sentence can only be extended 1 time. Okay, I'm almost done, on August 11, 2009, her sentence was EXTENDED FOR ANOTHER 18 MONTHS, because of a violation of arising from the May 2009 tresspass incident, as I mentioned before. Now, finally, on November 13, 2010, she was released from house arrest, and was NOT put back. Yeah, do the math, she was put in house arrest for 21 years, but due to many gaps of putting back in and out of house arrest, it is technically a little bit more than 12 years. Suu Kyi then recieved 20 other awards, because the organizations of those awards wanted her to make a big acceptance speech. Suu Kyi also wrote a lot of books after her release, about what it was like to be under house arrest.

I really want to follow Aung San Suu Kyi's foot steps. I want to send a message to everyone just like she did, to not give up, and show all others that you will keep fighting, even in the darkest times. I hope that Suu Kyi will have a great and happy future, with her husband and 2 children, because I think she's already been through enough. And that's the end of my speech about Aung Sang Suu Kyi, thank you.

18 - The Adventure in Time

Billy Morenzo walked through the tower of the old house’s attic. No one had been there for years. The tower was covered with vines and 50 feet high. He tried to find a way out but it was no use. An old gnome had locked him in there, after he figured out his secret.

That night Billy shivered under his thin blanket, as he watched the bats fly around. All the nights he had been locked up, he had thought about his family. Billy had a brother Justin, a sister Margaret, and his parents Kyle and Alexandra. He wondered if they missed him or, if they did not remember.

In the morning the gnome came with Billy’s breakfast. It was bacon, eggs, orange juice, and toast. As Billy ate, the gnome handed him a blanket and green clothes. Billy hadn’t got a clean pair of clothes for a week.

‘’We are going out,’’ grunted the gnome in some language. Somehow Billy understood. Billy was glad to stretch his legs.

Outside, the gnome, who Billy called George the Grump, attached a backpack to Billy’s back with a string. On the backpack there was a rope that George was holding onto. As they walked the gnome instructed him to do push-ups, sit-ups, and jumping jacks.

They walked into a forest that Billy had never seen from the tower window. George seemed to read his thoughts.

‘’ It’s a magical forest called the Feeling of Fairies.’’ George said ‘’If we are lucky, we might see a fairy.’’ Billy hoped that they would see one. He had never seen a fairy.

About 20 minutes later they neared an old oak tree.

‘’I want you to see something’’ said George.

‘’Okay,’’ said Billy ‘’Is this another magical thing?’’ he asked.

‘’No,’’ replied George. He knocked on the tree three times. A door opened and Billy gasped.

What he saw was unbelievable. It was Willy Wonka!!!!!! Mr. Wonka was nursing a small oompaa-loompa back to health. Billy could see a deep bite mark on the oompa-loompa’s arm. Billy twitched.

‘’Hi Mr. Wonka,’’said George. Wonka did not here him. Billy was confused.

‘’Well, I’ll be on my way,’’ said George, and they left.

On the way back, Billy saw something flutter beside him and land on his palm. It was a fairy. The fairy was blue and had pink wings. The fairy moved around and layed down. Soon she was fast asleep.

When they got back, Billy made a small bed with his old thin blanket and put the fairy down.

‘’Better get some sleep,’’ said George. So Billy went to sleep.

In the morning the fairy was 6 feet tall and 6 feet long. Billy was amazed.

‘’Maybe I can escape on her,’’ he thought. Then he thought of a plan. When George came with his breakfast Billy ate it all.

‘’ I got to go take care of my wife,’’ said George. ’’ Hope you don’t mind.’’

‘’ I don’t mind,’’ said Billy and thought ‘’Game time.’’

When the gnome left, Billy jumped on the fairy. He tugged her wings and she lifted up into the air. They flew through the high window and over the gnome. The gnome shouted and cursed but it, but his words could do nothing.

‘’Bye,’’ screamed Billy.

Billy woke up on the fairy’s back. She had landed. He looked around. Billy was in his town’s park!!! Billy was so excited that he jumped off the fairy and hugged her.

‘’ Thanks,’’ he said as she flew up and away.

As Billy ran home, he saw his friend Jimmy Renker.

‘’Come to my house, and I will tell you about my adventure,’’ said Billy.

‘’Sure,’’ said Jimmy. And they ran off to Billy’s house.

Thank you and update from Ms. L

I wanted to say thank you to all of the individuals who have posted comments for students over the past two years. Every student has enjoyed having outside people reading their stories. I think that both you and I have seen all of the students grow tremendously as writers over these past two years.

As you may or may not know, I am expecting my third child at the end of the this month. Due to some complications, this week will be my last week at school. I will only be teaching half time for this last week, and then am going to need to take off. I will show my long term substitute teacher how to use the blog, but I do not know if it will be updated or not while I am out.

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Once again, thank you for every comment you have made. The students love to receive these comments. This has been a wonderful experience for them that would not have been possible without all of your help.

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13 - Save Planet Earth

Save Planet Earth

1. Do you worry about the earth? My dream is that people can save the world by not using cars and things that damage the world.

2. The gas kills the earth, and the earth ends faster. The gas pollutes the air, and we die because it damages our lungs. The rainforest gets cut down to look for gas, and we get less oxygen.

3. Stop using gas on cars. Go exercise. Be the weight you would love to be healthy. Save our planet, love it, recycle. We want to have a happier life and a long one too. You have to be happy with the life you have now because when you die you are going to say ‘’Why didn’t I enjoy my life when I was young?’’

4. We all want to live longer because you will think I love my life. Don’t let the earth end. Work hard, recycle, and love. You are not bad help by doing good things. Clean your neighborhood.

In the future I would like to see our world green.

25 - My dream

How would it be if we couldn’t breathe because of the pollution from the cars gas? What if it destroys our planet? I have a dream that people will stop polluting the air. My dream includes me seeing more people walking and less people driving cars as much, so we don’t pollute the air.

I think that people should not use cars so much! Using cars is bad, but one car per family is enough. Carpooling isn’t bad either. I think carpooling with friends is okay! Instead of 3 million people in cars each day. Maybe only 1,000 or even 3,000 .

Maybe more people walking to school, or walking to the store could make a difference. I see people driving to places like to their friends house could make a difference. I see people driving to places like to their friends house even thought it’s right across the street. I’[d like to see more people walking to school or the store.

I think we should walk instead of drive because we’d be a lot healthier than before. We’d save money with not buying expensive things too! We’d be able to spend more money on things we need like clothes, food, and anything else we need.

In the future, I would like to see no more cars powered on gas. Maybe cars powered on water? Or rain water? I hope one day that happens.

15 - Stealing

Oh! No! What happened? People get robbed every day at home, stores even at schools. That’s why I have a dream that there will be no more of this stealing no more of robbing and to make sure that’s why I think there should be more camera’s everywhere. That’s why I have a little story and it was the coolest thing that happened to me.

It all started when I was in third grade. Me and my family all went to the mall I said can I go to the bathroom. Then I saw a man take something from the mall. I was scared I thought he was one of the workers, but he wasn’t. He broke all the camera’s, but good for me ,the man got caught by an officer ,I was happy so that’s why I told the officer you should buy some kind of medal camera , so you no when someone brakes in that’s when the officer said “kid you should be a police officer when you grow up.

In conclusion I think this can help the world by not being worried you’ll get robbed or stuff stolen from you. I hope that there will never be robbing in this world ever.

10 - My Dream

I have a dream that someday homeless people will have a home and food. What if you were homeless, and had no food? How would you feel? These are some ideas on how to help the homeless people.

I’ve seen people on the streets asking for money, shelter or a job. There are lots of homeless people. Some of them don’t have food or money to buy anything.

Some ways we can help them is by giving them a little bit of money or change. Maybe we can help them find shelter. You can give them food or help them get a job.

By helping them, they won’t suffer anymore. They will maybe have jobs or homes. That way they will live a normal life like most of us, and have a home and a job.

In the future, I wish homeless people won’t need to worry about getting a house or food. This way they live a normal life like us.