Fallout by Ellen Hopkins

The book that I read was called Fallout it is a series of two other books. Nineteen years after glass this book takes place.This book is in the perspective of Kristina's oldest children, Hunter, Summer, Autumn, Hunter is her first child. She is addicted to crank so her parents raise Hunter.

This book shows how very different the 3 kids lives are. Kristina and the children's fathers are not in their lives. Hunter is the only one that has contact with his mothers parents at first.. Then later in the book..Kristina's younger boys end up moving in with kristina's parents... Her parents are stressed...

I would recommend this book to teen age girls...... or even teen boys who like drama and books that leave u wondering and books in poems... This book is 672 pages long, but it is a very quite read because it is set up in poem like form.

World Aids Day!!!

Here are 5 to 7 facts about Aids:

~ global number of HIV/AIDS cases is 33.3 million, of which 15.9 million are women and 2.5 are children.

~Almost 2 million people die from the disease every year.

~There are over 900 children under the age of 15 living with HIV in the UK, the majority of whom are of school age.

~In 2007 over 330 gay & bisexual men under the age of 24 were newly diagnosed with HIV.

~Over three quarters of children under the age of 15 living with HIV are black African.

~There are signifcantly higher rates of HIV among prisoners than among the general population.

The History of Veterans Day

November 11 became Veterans Day because in the year of 1919 President Wilson announced that the 11th was the day that veterans were to be remembered and be filled with pride, and to be grateful for what the veterans have done for us.

Veterans Day is right after World War 1 also known as "The Great War", so many soilders died in WW1.Veterans Day is a celabration to honor the american veterans for their patriotism, and the love of the country.

Later that same year on the 8th President Dwight D. Eisenhower issued the "Veterans Day Proclamation".Which is found on this site. http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/docs/proclamation_1954.pdf

I found this information on this site http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp.

I know a few Veterans and I am so proud of what they have done. Knowing that there are people out there that are willing to serve and protect the people of our country makes me feel safer.

International Campaigner on Myanma

Glass By Ellen Hopkins

This book is the second book in the series of three. The book is about a girl named Kristina or other wise known as Bree.
The book before Glass is called Crank, and in the end of Crank Kristina was spend her money on crank and she has not been taking the best care of her son Hunter.
In Glass Kristina she starts out clean,she has not used crank in months, but then she starts to go down hill again. She is always struggling because she knows that she should not be using but she just wants to feel like she does not have any problems. She meets a supplier and gets close to him.
The closer she gets to Trey(the supplier) the more she goes down hill. Kristina and her mom are not doing so well, Kristina is pushing her mother away.Hunter is growing up and needs his mom!
This book is a very fast read, it is written is poem form. There are 681 pages but the go by fast! I really like this book, I can't put it down once I get started.
My teacher introduced me to this author, I am so glad she did

Photo Story Poem

Where are we going? How come we were all told to leave our houses? Me mamma papa and brother were just eating dinner together. I have not eaten in 2 days, my brother and I are so weak, we cant stand for long before our legs start shaking. My brother keeps telling me he hears people saying bad things about the place were are going, I hope they are not true. Im really scared, I really want to be back in our house, I want food.. I want to cry in my mamma’s arms. What is going to happen to use?????

this class

I feel as tho I learned a lot from this class. I learned how to make writing fun and colorful.....
the sky is blue the colors are bright, and it is still but just a little bit of wind and the whole thing will be a different picture. On different days in this class I learned something new, and I discovered something new about me!!! walking into this class sad was just not a option Mrs.Deraps always had something fruit cooked up for us to do.... she always had us do fun things, unless we were bad then she would have something boring planed but most the time we was GOOD for her =)