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Of all of the characters from the books we have read in class, I like Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, the best. I like Milo because he looks at everything the same way: as a waste of time, like me. Throughout the book, he learns numerous lessons and meets many people. He uses all of the lessons to save Rhyme and Reason, which has shown me how these lessons are valuable. Unlike the Humbug, I still enjoy learning and keep all, well, most, (hahaha)of the things in my head. Milo is seeing the world a different way, like me, at the end of the book. I guess most people who wrote about sombody, or something, from The Fantom Tollbooth did the Humbug because of the answer he always uses for math problems, "17!" Another thing they might put in is something about his bankrupt intellect. I like Milo, from all of the characters we have learned about, the best.

If you were there with us, you would have been amazed at Westminster Woods. You can only go there with permission from David (his nature name is Coho).
People take hikes to the Overlook once in a while. The Overlook is a hill that looks over a lot of the redwood forest. While going there, you can find two types of lizards, the blue-belly and another lizard in a log pile near the trail. You may find some carcasses of dead animals that scavengers, carnivores that don’t kill, ate or will eat. Turkey hawks are examples of scavengers. Scat may look identical, but every drop is different. Different animals have different shapes of scat, but inside the scat tells people what that animal ate. Many fires can burn part of the bottom of a redwood. When this happens, more fire goes inside and burns the inside of it, making it hollow. Some Indians got used to the plants that grow in the redwoods area. Some of these plants are Redwood Sorrel and bay leaves. The Indians ate and smelled them for food and medicine. Since we aren’t used to it, we don’t do that. These are things we found in Westminster Woods and Armstrong Redwoods.
At the tide pools, we found many creatures. Bat stars and mussels was very common there. Sea anemones were also common. Sea urchin tests were found once or twice, but there were more living sea urchins than tests. Sea urchin tests are the outside of a sea urchin with holes where the spikes go through. An octopus was found alive. Seaweed seemed to be on every rock, which made it hard to jump from rock to rock. Everywhere I saw, there were some acorn barnacles. Porcelain crabs were found two or three times. A hermit crab came out of its shell and walked on my hand. In all, Westminster Woods was a great field trip to go on.

I think being a miner would be good, a little unlucky, and disturbing. My team got some luck one day and got twenty gold nuggets in the miner’s gold pan. One day, my team was unlucky and got robbed by a Chinese man. If a miner wanted to mine, he would also need some money to buy a gold pan, cradle, or a long tom to start mining. It could be disturbing by going to gamble to win a gold mine, but the gold miner doesn’t get it because the miner lost the gamble, which happened to my team. Before even getting to California, the miner would have to go from East Coast to the West Coast through Panama or around Cape Horn. My team was lucky and found 50 gold nuggets in our gold pans the second day we mined. It would have been pretty fun and yet disturbing to be in the 1849, California Gold Rush.

By: yoyo95864

The Cay, a book by Theodore Taylor, shows people that racism shouldn’t be a problem in life. Dr. King also showed the same thing by his speech, I Have a Dream, and he got into jail thirty times. The book is in 1969 because racism was still going on. Phillip is with Timothy, a black man, and Stew Cat, and they got stranded on an island. Timothy hits Phillip on the face and Phillip realizes how much Timothy helped Phillip survive so Phillip quits racism and becomes a better boy for the rest of his life. This book shows a great deal of life still today.

By: Han, Steve (yoyo95864)

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