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Journey 2 The Mysterious Island (G)

May Frighten Young Children
94 minutes
Dwayne Johnson, Josh Hutcherson
Directed by: Brad Peyton
In Technicolor 3D!

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My Short story

Treblinka Concentration Camp

          It was July 23^rd 1942. It was minus six degrees. We were at the concentration camp in Treblinka. The camp’s perimeter was surrounded by electric fences that measured up to six metres high. And if any of us were to try to escape, we would get a painful zap that would sting for a while. My name is George Caleb. I am twenty years old. My brother’s name is Joseph Caleb. He is nineteen years old. He and I are brothers.

We used to live in Munich, Germany with our mother Adina, our father Michael and our twin sisters Delilah and Davina. Our sisters are both fifteen years old and they both have long blond hair, blue eyes and snow-white skin. Adina is thirty-one years old and she has brown hair, green eyes and fair skin.

Michael is twenty-four years old. He has short black hair, light blue eyes and fair skin. My brother has the same colour of eyes as our father and the same skin colour as our mother. His hair is kind of like our fathers only instead of black, it is strawberry-blonde. I look exactly like our father (light blue eyes, fair skin and short black hair).

Life was great until the Nazi’s invaded. We didn’t hear them come in. Mother was helping Delilah and Davina with their homework in the dining room. Father was playing cards with Joseph and me.

Then we heard a knock on the door, and when father opened the door…..there hunched over and out of breath was our next-door neighbour Mrs.Golda. “You and your family have to get out of here” said Mrs.Golda breathlessly. “Why?” questioned my father. “The Nazi’s are looking for Jews and if they find you here, they are going to take you and throw you out of your house!!!” yelled Mrs.Golda. “Alright then, I guess we got to go.” my father replied sadly. We all went to bed that night. When we woke up, Joseph and I were alone. I looked up at the sign above us and realized we were at Treblinka concentration camp.

Joseph and I were sitting in our cell. We were minding our own business, reminiscing about how great our lives were before the Nazis came and invaded our homes. “I remember coming home after working at the animal shelter. I walked through the streets of Munich and we were free to do whatever we pleased.” I said happily to Joseph. “Yes, I miss not having to worry about being a Jew and people arresting, beating or making fun of you” replied Joseph with an unhappy sigh. We kept talking back and forth.

When one of the guards knocked on the cell door and before either of us could get up to go open the door the guard opened it and entered the room. He walked toward me. He said his name was Alfie, Alfie Hertz. Alfie was very mean. He had dark brown eyes and a pointy nose. He also had a slight temper. “Christ-killers!” he yelled. “You are a psycho” said Joseph.

Alfie reached into his pocket, pulled out his knife and was ready to stab Joseph when Karl grabbed Alfie’s arm. “Who would have thought” said Karl. And he dragged Alfie out the door. Alfie came back to the cell a bit later and walked over to where Joseph was sleeping. Joseph felt like someone was watching him and woke up. Alfie noticed that he was awake and hit him multiple times. Joseph continuously pleaded for Alfie to stop.

When I realized I could not sleep with all of the noise, I woke up and my eyes right away noticed Joseph’s injuries. I whispered “who did that to you?” and Joseph just pointed in front of him and that was when I finally saw Alfie. I got up off of my bed, walked over to Alfie and spat in his face. I knew right away that guaranteed that I was going to die.

Alfie grabbed me and Joseph and dragged us out of the cell and over to the middle of the yard and had us stand on chairs. He looked at all of the other prisoners and guards that were in the yard.

“This is what happens when you disrespect us” said Alfie.

 Then nooses were thrown onto our necks. Alfie then had called two guards over and they kicked the chairs out from under us and once the chairs were moved out of the way our feet were no longer touching solid ground. With the nooses around our necks, breathing became really hard to do. We tried to get the nooses off of our necks with no change at all whatsoever. Finally we just gave up and let death take us away from the world.

By: Chanel

My New years resolution essay

New Year’s resolution essay-Chanel

Resolutions are like promises you make to yourself to keep. You can have as many resolutions you want. I have made a few resolutions this year for myself. These are the resolutions I have made for myself this year.

One was to not fight with my sister. When I made that one I thought “that won’t be too hard to keep. “But trying not to fight with your sister who won’t leave you alone is really hard because she only wants to see if you will do something so that she can get you in trouble. I made another one to not eat junk food. But let’s face it, how many teenagers has anyone met that can give up junk food easy. Not very many are able to do that because us teenagers are always have either a Dr.Pepper or some sort of Junk food in our hands or stashed in our bedrooms. I also made a resolution to eat healthier because you can’t eat junk food all of the time and not eat anything healthy. I made another one which was to save money because I am always spending it every time and I am saving towards getting my own computer and cellphone minutes. Another one I made was to not watch television so much and that is basically wishing when you make a resolution like that because watching t.v is what kids do the most.

I also resolved to walk my dog more than I usually do. I will be able to keep that one because it is an easy one to keep and my dog has been running over to the porch and grabbing his leash with his teeth and dragging it over to someone to show that he wants to be taken for a walk. . I have also made one to ride the bus. But riding the bus is not exactly all that easy because I find when I walk to school I get there a lot faster than I would if I was riding the bus and it is also easier. Another one I made was to remember to turn the lights off before I leave a room unless someone else is in there. I am always leaving my bedroom light on and my older sister continuously tells me “turn off your lights.” Also I resolved to hang out with my friends a lot more. An easy resolution because I have all of their phone numbers and I can call them to see if they want to hangout. I’ve resolved to keep my room clean which at first seems not all that hard to do. But if you are somebody who rushes around in the morning to get ready for school, a once clean room transforms into a danger zone real quick. Clothes, shoes, backpacks, papers, and it’s being tossed around my room every single day. I have made another one which is to keep my desk and locker clean at school because stuff just gets thrown in there and keeping a desk and locker clean is simple because you just take everything out of your desk, throw the garbage into the trashcan and put the school supplies back into the desk. As for the locker all you have to do is put your shoes at the bottom of the locker, hang your sweater and backpack on the hooks and your locker is cleaned. I have resolved to try and get good grades in school because I want to pass grade eight not be in it for another year because really who wants to be in the same class twice. I made another one which was to remember to bring my homework home because I am always forgetting it at school or if I do bring it home, I forget to bring it back to school. One is to hand in homework/assignments because I am always finishing an assignment but I keep forgetting to hand it in so that I can get a mark for it. I have made a resolution to try and not use the computer so much. But a computer is one of the main things teenagers use a lot. So trying to use the computer up until a certain time limit is not too easy because after you have used it for whatever you needed to use it for, you will want to stay on the computer longer than you were supposed to and log on to Facebook, Hotmail or YouTube. Another resolution I made was to recycle more because recycle is better for the planet than throwing stuff away into the garbage. And my very last resolution that I mad for myself is I to keep my cellphone with me everywhere I go, because a cellphone is a teen’s prized possession and to have a cellphone go missing is kind of like an “it’s the end of the world” type scenario for a teenager. And those are all of the resolutions I have made this year for myself. I hope I can keep all of them.

The Wave Questions

                                                  Wave Questions

1.) Movements like the wave can be defeated by going against it and not worry about what may happen to you. You could form a group of people who agree with your opinion and band together against the leader of the movement. You could also try to talk to the leader and ask if he could end the movement. Another way that movements like the Wave could be defeated is you could announce an assembly for only the members of the movement and then when everyone is seated, tell them that the movement has come to an end and they can go back to how everything was, like the movement never even existed. Those are ways that movements like the Wave can be defeated.

2.) This film says that authority and power can be a bad thing if you use it to manipulate people into joining a movement like the wave. At first they might agree to it, but as it continues they'd realize that the joke should have ended right away. Some people might continue to go along with it but, others will try to bring it to an end. Authority and Power are nothing if you don't know how to use it for anything other than manipulation. That is what this film says about authority and power.


3.)What the experiment says about the cause of the Holocaust is that Hitler went after the uneducated people and told them how the Jews were the reason they lost the war and that all of the Jewish people should be killed.  The Nazis all believed that Hitler was telling them the truth. Hitler despised the Jews so much that he blamed them for losing the war and wanted them dead. The Wave was an experiment that got out of hand just like the Holocaust became a dangerous time for all of the Jews. That is what i think the experiment says about the cause of the Holocaust.

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