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Bravery is so cool. Being brave is sometimes scary. If you be brave to defend someone that is being nice. For example If some one is picking on someone and you stick up for that person that's being brave because that other person might pick on you.

Or to do something scary like side hilling a huge mountain on a snow machine, thats being brave, if you think that's scary.

Seward's Day

Why does he William Seward have a day?

He has a day because the Purchase of Alaska from Russia

What did he do?

He bought Alaska from russia.

Who was Seward?

William Seward was a guy who lived in New york. He ran for senate twice. He bought Alaska for $7,200,000. He married Frances Miller. He died on October 10 1872. People thought the purchase of Alaska was worthless. They didn't know That it had a lot of gold and oil.

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Sam
Denali Elementary School

Mr. Chief Justice, and may it please the Court,

On March 24, 1989, at 12:04 am the Exxon Valdez hit Bligh Reef, and 11 million barrels of toxic crude oil went into the ocean. Before this drastic event, the animals were clean. The fishermen had good fish to sell. The birds would dive and eat the fish. Then everything turned, in late March, 1989.

The federal jury of Alaska asked Exxon to pay 5 Billion dollars to thousands of Alaskans who got their lives ruined by the Exon Valdez oil spill and they said no, It is too mush to pay for them. Even though they are still making the most money in business. I think they should pay because a lot of Alaskans got hurt, even the animals.

On Wednesday, February 27, 2008, The supreme court is going to settle this once and for all. They will see if the punishment is OK to do or not.

Every Alaskan life had been effected by this, said Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska.

Poeple came from everywhere to get their future told. Farmers went to see when to plant seeds, and emporers came to see when to declare war. The one who told them was Pythia the priestess of Apollo.

Houses of Greece in the 5th 6th century BC were built out of expensive material. They were usually three bedroom houses.

This is all I had time for but I hope I can learn more about Greece later.

I invented a time machine. I took a rubber wheel and took it to the cavemen. and I said Ha, we made a rubber wheel and you made a rock wheel. I let Mr. Traustesten, my science teacher, in it and let him go back in time to see if there were cool plants in the old in days.

When the cavemen saw the wheel. They screamed. They weren't what I thought they would be like. They seemed to understand what I said. And they never learned how to make fire. So iI came back to earth grabbed a litter and went back. They screamed again.

Grading is not fair sometimes because no one wants a bad grade. You know what I mean. I always like getting grades higher than a C.

Report cards are not fun to look at if you have a bad grade. But they are when you have good grades. Report cards are always different. Sometimes there is H's and S's. I don't really get them. And sometimes the teacher leaves a note saying if you are doing good or bad in school.

This free write was very short. I cant think of anything to say because talking about grades and report cards is a very short subject. Fun, I would have about two pages by now.

Walls are really weird. If we didn't have walls, our houses would be flat. The roofs would fall.

If we didn't have walls, we couldn't play racket ball, we couldn't have privacy and it would be cold in winter. If we didn't have walls there would be no rooms.

I mean floors are a lot different. We could live without floors. If we didn't have floors, it would just be grass or concrete or some dirt. How ever, if you had a basement you would have no upstairs. You wouldn't even have stairs, because you wouldn't need them.

One day I was walking through the circus. There were animals everywhere. In cages. I saw a pink bright pink pony. So I went up to it. It did nothing. The sign said For Sale. And I always wanted a pony. That would be so cool to have a pet pony. The sign said it was $200.

People of ancient Egypt believed they had to mummify the pharaohs. The ba was your personality. Pharaohs had masks when they died for the Ba to come and recognize its face for the afterlife. The ka was a life force. It lived inside you. It needed food and water just like a human.

Some mummies were naturally formed by the heat and dryness. In ancient Egypt They wrapped pharaoh in hundreds of yards of linen. Then the body was embalmed, and washed out. After that they covered the body with natron. It is a natural salt that absorbs water, and to keep the body in shape forever.

My Snow machine. My snow machine is a arctic cat. It is called a Kitty Cat. But I usually drive ski doos. It is a green and purple. My sister ran into a back of a pickup and the engine cap fell into pieces. My dad glued it back together and it has black lines all over it now. But I don't care.

My mom wants to sell it but I want to keep it. I want it for my kids when I get some. here is a picture of one that is not mine.*

Look at this cool picture at. It is the first picture.

www.kittycatsnowmobiles.com/parts.htm

I have 14 pets. Two are cats, four are fish, and eight are snails. I had my cats for 11 years. I have a black one and a calico and she is 30 pounds. Thats a lot for a cat. I and one fish for a year and the others for a couple days. I got two snails in summer and one had six babies. It is crazy.

One day I was on the bus. The bus driver was playing around putting on the breaks. Every one was having fun. The bus Driver is usually nice.

The name of my book is Zombie Butts From Uranus. The author is Andy Griffiths. In my book zombie butts invade earth controlled by the great white butt. Zach is a main character and he thought he killed it. I think Zach is a good butt fighter but he doesn't believe in himself.

Games are fun. You can play a lot of games. I remember when we wrote about fun and I was talking about games. It was kind of weird. My brain controls my hands that controls a controller that controls my character in my game. That was kind of weird and confusing.

I am reading a book about zombie butts from Uranus. It is cool and it is fun to read. I play a lot of games. I have a PS1, game cube, nintendo 64, super nintendo, d,s, PSP, and a weird game my neighbors gave me. That is most of what I can play.

My friend zero. Zero is my friend because he is the coolest number in the whole wide world. I can't remember when I was zero. Zero is also cool because It doesn't have a opposite number. Like one's opposite is negative one. There is no negative zero. It is just zero. What ever you add plus zero it is going to be that number. It is the same with subtraction. When you times something by zero it is going to be zero. Zero is a one digit number.

In baseball last year my number was double zero. We got 3rd in the tournament.

Computers are really fun to work with. I don't have a favorite kind. But Office Max has a really cool computer. It is called a Palm Pal. It is really tiny. It has a touch screen. My mom won't let me get it. I said I would pay for it.

I like to work with the laptops in school because they are really fun. I like the ones with the cameras. They are skinnier and bigger. Mr Noon said he won the teacher lottery. I think he was joking. He got one of the laptops with the cameras on them. He will send his old one to the district after he downloads everything in it to the new one.

In science we are learning about Electricity. We use a D battery, two paper clips , and a small light bulb.

I think of my brain like a small office. With computers and files. One section there's guys putting coal in a tub thing and at night they go home. In the morning I am tired because all the workers that look like me are starting the computers and the coal guys are putting not a lot of coal in because they're tired too

When I was trick or treating last I had a fun time. I was a sumo wrestler. I got all the houses on my block. A lot of them had big parties and wanted to take pictures of me.

I went with my friend, Lane. He is in the same grade but I am a couple of days older than him. We were trick or treating at this one huge house. And the garage door was open with blue tarp. When I got close to the door I heard a chain saw.

In the summer I do a lot of stuff. Me and my sister mow all of our neighbor's lawns. I play baseball, and I work for Team Cutter, I now that sounds a little weird, but I work Out side of the salon. I mow their lawn I scoop there dogs pooh and lots more.

I also go to my cabin at Harding Lake. I go boating and wave running. Out there I get to go swimming, and a couple of my friends have cabins out there too.

In Science we dissected a baby pig with Mr.Tumi. He cut it with a weird looking knife. On one pig there was blue stuff coming out of it. It smelled so bad. I couldn't take it. I can't even describe what it smelt like. I saw a lot of stuff that I didn't want to see, like the heart, the liver sheep brain, and a lot more stuff.

This year in baseball my team got third place in the tournament. In the beginning of the year I wanted to switch to the Dodgers, but my parents said I can't. I am glad I didn't switch now, but back to the story.

I never hit a home run but I almost hit a ground rule double, but the kid in right field caught it. I was still happy though. I made a lot of friends. My coaches were nice. My head coach coaches West Valley's team. I wasn't the best player on the team, but I was the best center fielder.

I would like to relive. The day I went to Valise. I was only one but it was so fun. We slept in tents and my dad's friend was scared that a bear was going to come. So he slept in his boat, and the next day he had floated out in the water. But he made it back. If I got relive that day I would tell him TO STAY ON LAND. And that is the day I would want to relive.

School is sometimes fun and sometimes not. I like the specials at school.

Like gym, gym is so fun. I wonder what we are doing in gym this week. I hope we get to play dodgeball or the parachute. I have a record cd about the parachute. It is weird.

I also like science, and writers workshop.

I like to use the laptops. They are really fun. I like the newer versions, with the the cameras. I have a camera. It was expensive. It is a digital. It is a casio ex-film.

I like math, kind of. I think the math boxes are the easiest.

This is my Bean and Corn science report. In science we are working on growing plants. I am going to report to you every day that we are working on this science project.

Sept 25
My corn and beans that we have been working on are growing good. The bean has bean kind of growing slow. The corn has been growing ever since I put it in the cup full of dirt.

Sept 26

Last Christmas I went to Wrangle, Alaska. That is where my Grandpa lives. My family took the milk run down there. The milk run means you stop at every town on the way. On the Anchorage flight I saw Wyatt. When I got there my Grandparents picked us up at the airport. Then they took us to there house.

Here are some answers of questions asked by sixth graders in Australia.

What season do you have the 'Midnight Sun run'?
Answer middle end of summer.

Why do you call Autumn 'Fall'?
Answer We call it fall because all the leaves fall off the trees.

Does it rain often in Alaska?
Answer Yes it does rain often.

Is NRL a popular sport in Alaska?
Answer no it isn't popular in Alaska.

I noticed that the trees were big in the valley, and there were a lot of cranberries. At mid hill the trees were kind of big, and no berries, and no wind. At the top of the hill it was windy, a lot of blueberries, and a little of cranberries. We saw a lot of gun shells and a place were somebody had a fire.

Last weekend I went to my cabin. At my cabin it was raining all weekend. I just got a new boat called a Moomba Outback. Me and my dad went on a boat ride. It went fast. when I got back I had to hold the boat on the dock and my dad had to adjust the boat lift. When my mom got out on Saturday we went to my neighbor's cabin to eat dinner. After dinner I went to bed, I was so tired. On Sunday I played Monopoly with my sister's friend. After that I had to go take out my dock, and my dock is more than one hundred feet long. It was hard. After that, my neighbor gave us chicken noodle soup.