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Hall, Luhrs and Company was a grocer. They sold vegetables to the East. They shipped vegetables by train.
Hall, Luhrs and Company had a problem of getting their produce to the East Coast of the United States fresh. The vegetables would be spoiled when unloaded from the train on the East Coast. They decided to put ice from the Sierra Nevada Mountains on the trains. The ice melted too fast. If the ice in the Sierras was melted or the company couldn’t get to it, they went to Alaska. This was the best ice to use. It didn’t melt very fast. When the food was unloaded, it was a lot fresher.
By doing this, the food was a lot better than the spoiled food. Hall, Luhrs and Company could get the food to the East Coast way faster. This company made a whole lot more money this way.

My class went to Westminster Woods. Here are some poems I wrote about my experience there:

Cargo Net

Like a giant trampoline
Like a cloth in tatters
Like a four-sided spider web
Like a net resting in between trees
Like a leg catcher
Like a trap for animals
Like a huge piece of bouncy jellow

Tide Pools
Animals in the water
Water swat the rocks
Sprays of water on me from the waves
The salty air
The sea animals above the water

Night hike
Dark, steep
Frightening, interesting, climbing
Seeing without lights
Nocturnal walking

River
Clear, blue
Pounding, thrashing, gurgling
Flows over rocks under it
Huge creek

I like how Marden Dahlsted put so much detail in the book The Terrible Wave. She didn’t put everyday words in the book. They were words that many people don’t know what they mean. That is very good because it adds interest to the book.

The sentences are so descriptive, and they put very much feeling in the book. I really like how she put the sentence that described the tree roots o f a trunk of a tree floating in the water: “The trunk of a giant tree came rushing past, its roots waving above the water like a hundred searching fingers.” She is a very good author.

There is another sentence that I like. It describes when the wave hit the house that Megan lived in and what Megan did to protect her body,” Megan ducked her head and shielded her body against the careening debris.” This is one of the most descriptive books I’ve ever read. For example, one of the words Dahlstedt put in was “careening”, which means to swerve or lurch while moving. The sentence that gives an example of the word
“careening” says, ”When their wild careening finally stopped the young man raised his head.” The book gives you great pictures in your head.

The author is very good at putting descriptions in the book. Many people like the way Dahlstedt put so much detail in the book. I really like the wording she used. This is a great book.

The Most Important Part of California’s
History

By Master

I think the most important part in California’s history is when the Spanish came into California and then shut down the missions. I think so because when the Spanish came, they made a lot change, especially for the Native Californians. The padres made the Natives into slaves at all the 21 missions. The Native Californians didn’t like the Spanish ways of life. They had to go from their cultural way of life to Roman Catholic Religion.
When the missions were closed, the Natives didn’t know how to survive in the wild. Their ancestors were taken to the missions and they knew how to survive in the wild. The Natives who were born at the missions didn’t know how to survive in nature. Their culture had been lost. There were very few survivors of Native Californians. The rest were worked for rancheros or died in nature because they didn’t know how to survive in the wild. Others had to sell their land to other settlers.
Life was not easy after the missions were closed. Since the Native Californians lost their way of life, there was no way to know if they would ever survive.