Globe

 A few weeks ago Mom, Dino, Dante, Dominic, Mrs. Esposito and I went to Globe and saw lots of cool stuff.

We went to Besh.Ba.Gowah and climbed the houses that the Salado Indians lived in 500 years ago! Besh Ba Gowah means "place of metal" or "metal camp".

We also went to see the Roosevelt Dam and rode across the HUGE Roosevelt Lake bridge.

Also, we saw a village in the mountains called the Lower Cliff Dwellings. We had to climb a long time to get there and once we got to the top it was so cool!  The people who lived there, over one thousand years ago, made their village in the cave out of bricks!

At Besh Ba Gowah

Besh.Ba.Gowah

The 700 year old house 

Inside the house

HaHa

Me touching a 700 year old stone

700 year old STAIRS?

Turn your head and look, It's a twin!

The Lower Cliff Dweling

The kitchen

The very small door (2 feet tall and 1 foot wide)

I call this cactus "Robin Hood"

The HUGE Roosevelt Lake Bridge

The disappointing Dam (thought it would be bigger)

All of us in front of the Dam

All of us in front of the bridge

Two awesome pictures from the cave! This is from the Lower Cliff Dwelling looking out. That's Roosevelt Lake off in the distance!

This is looking out onto Roosevelt Lake!

P.S These pictures were taken by yours truly, ME!

Happy 107th Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Dr. Seuss was born in Springfield Massachusetts on March 2, 1904 and died on September 24, 1991.
He wrote many books including: The Cat in the Hat, Horton Hears a Who!, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! And many more.

He went to Oxford and took classes to become a Professor, but his studies bored him so he left Oxford. But while he was there he met a girl named Helen Palmer who not only became his first wife but was a children’s author and a book editor!

After returning to the United States, Ted began a career as a cartoonist. The Saturday Evening Post and other publications published some of his early pieces, but the bulk of Ted's activity during his early career was devoted to creating advertising campaigns for Standard Oil, which he did for more than 15 years.

As World War II approached, Ted's focus shifted, and he began contributing weekly political cartoons to PM magazine. Too old for the draft, but wanting to contribute to the war effort, Ted served with Frank Capra's Signal Corps (U.S. Army) making training movies. It was here that he was introduced to the art of animation and developed a series of animated training films featuring a trainee called Private Snafu.

While Ted was continuing to contribute to Life, Vanity Fair, Judge and other magazines, Viking Press offered him a contract to illustrate a collection of children's sayings called Boners. Although the book was not a success, the illustrations received great reviews, providing Ted with his first "big break" into children's literature. Getting the first book that he both wrote and illustrated, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, published, however, required a great degree of persistence - it was rejected 27 times before being published.

The Cat in the Hat, perhaps the defining book of Ted's career, developed as part of a unique joint venture between Houghton Mifflin (Vanguard Press) and Random House. Houghton Mifflin asked Ted to write and illustrate a children's primer using only 225 "new-reader" vocabulary words. Because he was under contract to Random House, Random House obtained the trade publication rights, and Houghton Mifflin kept the school rights. With the release of The Cat in the Hat, Ted became the definitive children's book author and illustrator.

After Dr. Seuss’s wife died in 1967, Dr. Seuss married an old friend, Audrey Stone.

She not only influenced his later books, but now guards his legacy as the president of Dr. Seuss Enterprises.


At the time of his death on September 24, 1991, Ted had written and illustrated 44 children's books, including such all-time favorites as Green Eggs and Ham, Oh, the Places You'll Go, Fox in Socks, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. His books had been translated into more than 15 languages. Over 200 million copies had found their way into homes and hearts around the world.

Besides the books, his works have provided the source for , eleven children’s TV sires, two Broadway Musicals, and two full length movies!

His honors included two Academy awards, two Emmy awards, a Peabody award, and a Pulitzer Prize.

Cat in the Hat (2003)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Seussical the Musical on Broadway!

Dissecting a Cow's Eye!

A few days ago, my friends and I went to Usery Park and we dissected a cows EYE! I know, DISGUSTING!!the Professors

the eye

yuck! Taking off the fat! Oh there's a bubble!

Ewwwwww the eye is cold!

the lens

cool, the vitreous humor!

inside the eye

The Future Photographer

I like to take pictures of Barbies and my creations.  Here are some of them:

I like this one

She looks sooooo dreamy!

I like to call this one " The Oprah magazine cover"

"It dosen't matter if you're black or white!"

say "cheese"!

wow!

Wow what a big bow!

Princess Rapunzel and her horse!

I made this little buddy out of playdough!

Princess Tiana

And these too!

Daisy and her baby!

Teen Pact

A few days ago my friends Dino, Dante, and I went to the State Capitol to go to a 7 hour event called TEEN PACT. This is where we learned about the Government, how to write a bill, and how to give speeches. Here are some pictures:








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Talking and debating about my bill

Giving my speech

William Taft, the "biggest" president ever!

The Court Room















Cool Facts about Robin Hood

Well I think people don't know about Robin hood because everyone just thinks he's a bandit (steels from the rich and gives to the poor) but here's the real story:

Robin Hood is NOT his real name. His real name is Robert, Earl of Huntington. The story goes that Robert was engaged to MAID MARIAN. On their wedding day the Sheriff of Nottingham stopped the wedding and said that Robert was not loyal to Prince John so he must be arrested. But Robert fled to Sherwood Forest and changed his name to ROBIN HOOD. When he got there he saw familys kicked out of their houses because they couldn't pay their taxes. Prince John ordered the Sheriff of Nottingham to triple the taxes so he could be more powerful. So Robin Hood didn't steal from the rich. Prince John and the Sheriff of Nottingham were the robbers! Robin Hood took back the money that rightfully belonged to the people that got kicked out and gave back their money. He wasn't a bandit, he was helping the citizens of Nottingham get their money back. When King Richard came back from the Crusades, Maid Marian told her Uncle everything that happened. King Richard said to Robin that he did a good deed and saved Nottingham from chaos. So Robin's name was once again Robert, Earl of Huntington and he then  finally married Maid Marian. Now tell me what you think, a bandit or a hero. For more information go to wikipedia.

   

Robin Hood 

Yeah! =)

Yeah! Today was theater and we are doing the play ROBIN HOOD. We did the auditions and I got the part of MAID MARIAN! This is the part I've been wanting for two years!!! So we read through the script today. The play will be in May.  I'll be sure to put the pictures on my blog!
                                     
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