Sunday, September 28, 2008
They Poured Fire On Us Fom the Sky 4
In the next part of the book Benjamin is traveling on top of a water tanker with other kids and some rebels. At one point they stop to pick up more children and Benjamin realizes how sad the children look. They also stop in the middle of the night to find skelatons all over the ground.
Monday, September 22, 2008
They Poured Fire On Us Fom the Sky 3
In the next part of the book, Benson's village gets attacked once again. This time however, he leaves everything and runs far away from the village. He hikes through a field of tall grass until he falls asleep. He wakes up to a the voice of a man shouting, "Who are You!". He hates hearing that voice. Fearfully, he gets up to see who the people are. It's a man and his young nephew. The man claims to know the boy's father and offers the boy to go with them to find safety. On the way they run into more and more villagers who join them as well. They go to a rebels camp were they are told to make haste towards the country of Ethiopia. They also give the Convoy a cow to eat on the way their.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
They Poured Fire On Us From The Sky 2
In the next part of the book, Alepho explains how he likes to pretend to be a rebel. He'll put a stick under is shoulder and pretend its a gun. However, when he does it at one point, his mother pulls him away and tells him why its dangerous. She says its dangerous because all the chaos in their country. She also tells him if he ever hears a loud popping noise to run as fast as he can from the village. That night, Alepho is woken up by his mother and she tells him to leave the village until morning. They watch from a hill as their village burns and they hear gunshots. In the morning they return. They're parents are okay but Alepho wants to see if his friend is okay. He sees her house destroyed. and he goes inside and finds burned bodies of his friend and her family.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
They Poured Fire on Us From The Sky
In the Chapter, The Lionesses revenge, Benson and his Dad are walking through the yard when Benson sees gleaming eye in the bushes. His father tells him it is a lion and that is why his father holds him close whenever they walk through the yard. He gets nightmares that night thinking about all the creatures that live right outside his house that would kill him.
A few days later he is told by his father that the war in the North is moving down to the location of their villages. He and his four year old brother get very scared even when they are confused about what will happen. He couldn't even believe that his father would say such things to young children.
A few days later he is told by his father that the war in the North is moving down to the location of their villages. He and his four year old brother get very scared even when they are confused about what will happen. He couldn't even believe that his father would say such things to young children.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
breaking through chapters 1-6
In chapters 1-6 of Breaking Through by Fransisco Jimenez, Fransisco is 4 when his family takes across the border with them illegaly. He lives in the U.S til 8th grade before he and his family get caught. However because he and his older brother were born in the U.S, they can return to the U.S. However they must live with eachother alone. Fransisco also gets to return to his school. He struggles but manages to gradudate junior high.
Monday, September 1, 2008
INTRODUCTION TO THE WORLD
Hello, my name is Daniel. I am 14 years old and I live in Chula Vista, a big suburb of San Diego. I would like to be able to communicate with people from around the world. Especially countries in Africa and the Middle East.