Do I care about the upcoming presidential election? Of course I do! Just because I am a kid and I am not able to vote yet, I still care about the presidential election. If the new USA president is a person that doesn't care about education that is going to effect lots of children's lives and chances of what they want to be when they grow up. There are lots of children in the USA and not having most of them educated can effect the future, too. If the new president doesn't care about jobs, our parents might not be able to get jobs and some families can starve and be homeless.
Plus many adults know how to do things that we really need in the USA and is the new president is not going to let them have jobs, there can be no food to eat, water to drink, clothes to wear, and other stuff. Those things are very important, and it will be sad for not to have people make them. Well this is why I care about the next presidential election.
So today in CORE class we had our very first simmulation. It was about the Roman Empire, and it was great. I thought it was going to be those boring acts when you have to embarrass your self but it totally wasn't! I never felt embarrassed and bored. I have a great feeling that all the other simulations will be awesome, too.
When I was at the door to my first and second period class, Mrs. Baird had a bucket full of sticks. I got one out and my number was 2. I was a Roman with three other class mates. We had to wear a leaf crown. It was cool, because I felt like a Roman Queen.
First of all did you know that Africa had four climate regions? Well, you know now and they are the savannah, shahel, deserts, and rain forests. I think it'll be hard to live in all of them, because they each are made of one thing. But I think the savannah would be the easiest to live in because there's grass, trees, amd water. The desert would be hard to live in because the climate there is extremely hot, and it is hard to find water and shelter.
Living in a rain forests may be fun, but I would'nt want everything to be wet all the time. The sahel is just a strip of land that looks like a dead desert with dead, yellow grass. So now you know what I mean, the desert is just sand and hotness, the rain forest is all wet and cold, the sahel is dry, dead grass, and the savannah is beautiful grass, trees, and water.
So far I have been reading Hunger Games. I picked this book because the movie was awesome and everyone says the book is even better so I gave it a try. Right now I am at the end of chapter 3, and it has been going great. My favorite part is when the two tennagers from District 12 is on the train, the author added lots a good details about what was happening. So far, I don't have a least favorite part because I think all the parts have been going great.
One thing I learned from the book was that, never be afraid to show how brave you are. Well I can't wait to read the whole book. I hope they have a second movie and book with some new characters. If that happens, that will be the best book I've read and the best movie I have ever seen. Since the beginning was very fascinating, I have a feeling the ending will too.
When the attack happened, I was one years old and didn't know what was happening. The first time I heard about this incident, i was about in the third grade. I was so shocked, and sad because many people passed away in the Twin Towers. I said to myself who could do such a horrible thing like this. Lots of children lost their moms or dads. Fire-fighters lost their lives to save other human beings.
I thought something like that was going to happen in every state in the United States. The people who did this should regret everything they did. They killed lots of people! The population of New York decreased big time that day.
If I had another role in the Fall of Rome simulation, the role would be being one of the barbarians. I would of chose to be barbarian because during the simulation the barbarians took all the provinces gold and items. They never got beaten by any Roman except the the eastern part of the Roman Empire, which was me. If I was a Barbarian, I would of been a Hun. There are the meanest in Barbarian history. That's a reason why I want to be one, but they are nasty! The Huns put their cold meat between their arm-pits or thighs. Who can eat cold arm-pit meat?! That is totally GROSS!
If I couldn't be a Hun, then I'd be a Visigoth. They beat the Roman Army, but the Roman Army was still the best. The Visigoths defeated the Roman army because they were so sick of how the Romans treated them! Parents that were Visigoths had to give up their children to be slaves so they can stay alive. That is pure torture! The Goths that were in the Roman army had to be in the front so they can be killed first. The Goths got sick of how they were treated so they went to the Roman Empire entrance door, and broke in. They destroyed everything.
One day as I was walking home from school, I saw camels and a group of people. I thought they were going to kidnapp me, but as they got closer I found out it was my uncle! I ran to him and gave him the biggest hug he had ever had from me. I haven't seen my best uncle in years! I asked, "Who are all these people?" with a suspicios look on my face. He replied, "My friends in my caravan." "Caravan?", I said awkwardly. He had to leave so I continued walking home.
When I got home went on my computer and found out what a caravan was. It is a group of people with camels. I thought to myself. "Do I want to be in a group of people that are as old as my uncle and with camels?" Well I am a girl that goes actually no where. I have never been to that fast food restaurant called McDoodle! Waith, is it even called McDoodle? Whatever. So if I never been out of my house, saying yes to my uncle would be a good experience for me going ou on adventures.
The next day I go out the door, start walking to my bus top and my uncle and his caravan randomly comes. I say, "What you doing here again?' He replies, "Well you never answered my question," "will you join my caravan?" I think for a moment, and say, "Yes!" with excitement. I run back to my house telliing all my parents the news. There reaction was nothing that I ever expected. They were so happy that I was leaving. What did I ever do to them? Well, I still have a grin, the fact that I get to explore out in the desert. The next day I am already packed, my uncle and his caravan aren't here yet. I wonder to myself, "How did they get here," "where did they sleep at?" He answered, 'Don't worry little one."
Before our big trip my uncle taught me how to ride a camel. It was a piece of cake. It was exactly like riding a horse but camels have humps. I was shocked when my uncle told me that camels can still live without water. I wish humans and all animals were like that. After all the short training, my uncle told me I had to by appropriate clothes. I had to get a whole new wardrobe.
Muhammad started off as a nobody, but then every changed. One day Muhammad went in a cave to pray. Then he saw an angel! I know you are probbaly thinking "an angle?" but yes and the angel spoke to him. The angle told him everything to say to the poeple of were he lived. He told his wife and she undderstood everything. His wife's reaction was very irregular. Wouldn't you freak out and thought your husband was a lunatic? But Muhammad's wife did not do that. She encouraged him to tell everyone in Mecca. He told everyone and they thought he was insane!
I think Muhammad was a great leader with many followers. Today he has even more! He achieved going from Mecca to Medina. He added a new religion to the people. I think everyone listened to Muhammad because they thought, "Hey, this guy might help us.", and Muhammad did.
Today's "Core Concentration" and I am going to talk about one of the Five Pillars of Islam that is difficult to me. Well I think three out of five of the pillars are very difficult and they are Salah (praying five times a day), Saum (fasting during Ramadan which is Islam's holy month and you can only eat at night), and Hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca at least once). I think these pillars are very difficult because praying five times a day takes up lost of time in your day. Each prayer is about ten minutes, so that takes an hour of your day.
Fasting is the most difficult to me because I am a type of person that loves to eat. So if I become Muslim, I'd hate it because I can only eat once day. On Tuesday I watched a movie about three people that are going on a Hajj, but they don't live in Islam.
Trade helped Islam have a very big growth in their expansion. The reason why was because trade brought lots of different people and things. The Muslims saw many great valuable objects they didn't have and they wanted to make it better. Islam is in the the middle of continents such as Asia, Europe, and Africa. Poeple from Islam have a better path to trade markets, so it makes it easier for them.
Trade helped lots of this dealing with Islam, like their religion. Arab Muslims exampled good demonstations of morals. Their were very honest and tolerent. Non-Muslims liked that, so some decided they wanted to become Muslim. Muslims also said that drinking alchohal is very bad, and non-Muslims repected that. They especially liked the Qur'an and the Five Pillars of Islam.
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