My grade was reading a book called The Westing Game and there was one character who used the stock market. So we made a stock market sheet and had formulas to help us make it easier. I invested in Visa, Starbucks, Nike, Bank of America and ABC. My stocks did not do that well and I lost $790.38. It did not go well but at least Turtle did better than me. I learned how the stock market worked and how hard it is to find a good stock.
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The book I am reading is I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011 by Lauren Tarshis. The genre is historical fiction. I chose this book because I like learning about tornadoes and natural disasters. I also really like action and I survived books that are all about action and natural disasters .
There are books that are sometimes like you or nothing like you. Mirror is when a book or character is like you. Window is when a character is not like you. My book is a mirror and also a window. It is a window because I have never been in a tornado and never experienced a really dangerous tornado. I have also not been with a storm chaser, not gotten injured in a tornado and not gotten bullets of hail knock on my head. It is a mirror because I like learning about natural disasters and like seeing tornadoes happen on TV or see videos of it on my iPad. I also like seeing if a tornado will be bad or good and just seeing if any places will get destroyed by a tornado. Most I Survived books are windows.
I did a wisdom tale project with Thomas and Cayden. It was really fun. We made a script and did an act. The wisdom tale we did was The Tiger’s Whisker. There was a tiger, a mom, a husband and a love potion guy and narrator. The husband just came back from a war and his wife missed him so she was always being with him and would never leave him alone so he got mad. So the wife went to get a love potion but he said no. The moral was to be patient. It was super fun being the wife and talking in a girl voice. We all enjoyed it and I think it went pretty well.
In the book Finding Someplace written by Denise Lewis Patrick the main character Reesie had to pack a backpack. There was a hurricane coming in New Orleans called Katrina. There was really bad water up to the roof at people’s houses and trees everywhere on houses in the streets. The power is out and nothing works. The only shelter people had was going to the SuperDome where the Saints play. Thousands of people were in there and it was crazy trash all over the place and people were crying and depressed. So you need to get everything to survive. She had to get things fast and get ready.
If there was a hurricane in Durham, North Carolina, I would put a protein bar and barbecue Lays chips because I need food to survive.I would also need Deer water to stay hydrated and live. I would bring clothes and a flashlight with batteries if the flashlight dies. There is even more to bring like a Gatorade, a blanket, a pillow, a birth certificate and a passport. If Reesie did not have food then you will die but you want healthy food so that is why I have a protein bar. I need water so I don’t die and so I can be hydrated. That would be all I would bring if there was a hurricane.