Thursday, February 19, 2009

the past

one thing that makes him look a person from a long time ago is his old fashioned hat.

the second thing is his clothing no one wares those any more except in plays.

the third thing is the wig no one wears those kinds of wigs any more except for plays 

Monday, February 2, 2009

chapter 9 (50-54)


this chapter is about Sam finding some seasoning for his food he wrights a journal about his experience in the process and it go's pritty well he tries some seasoning that he herd of and it worked and also the fire warden left thats good now he can go back to his home. This animal that he cout that was angery that Sam did that so now he wouldn't leave Sam alone.
chapter 8 (46-50)
this chapter was about a man that Sam saw and Sam thought that he was going to take him back to where he came from so Sam did not go near his tree/home for some day because he was waiting for the fire warden to leave. He was waring a forester's uniform so Sam went to the gorge but before he go there he went and checked his trap and it was a rabbit that gave him an idea for rabbit sew he put wild garlic and jack-in-the-pulpit root in this chapter Sam never got back to his home in this chapter but Sam never even worried about his home because he was taking care of the falcon.

Friday, January 30, 2009

chapter 6 (35-40)
1. the house was finished in june.

2. the kind of tree that he made his bed out of is an ash tree

3. the cattails taste like potatoes to him

4. an old woman who was picking berries 

5. picking berries and the person who was helping her was Sam

6. Sam will train a falcon
chapter (28-35)
1. in the summer, what people would visit the Catskill? 
hikers, campers and hunters.

2. what kind of work did Sam have to do to get his home ready?
he carved his tree,and sewed a leaf into a cup with strands of grass.

3. Sam also learned how to boil water and fry egg.

4. what did sam eat that tasted like lima beans?
He said that the dogtooth violets tasted like lima  beans.

5. The parts of the dandelions that sam ate are the green part and the root.

7. Sam found the eggs in a pine tree.

8. sam boiled the eggs by putting it on a leaf and over a fire

9. sam saw some crayfish


I thank civil right

the civil rights movement was one of the greatest things that happened to america and the people who fought for it like martin luther king jr Abraham Lincon. kennedy and his brother and more people I thank all of them.I am so glad that it happened if it didn't i would still be in africa.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

chapter 4 (25-28)
Sam is astonished about all this stuff he's seeing in his grandfather's farm. He go's out to catch some fish for breakfast and the fishes are not biting the line so he spots some mussel and since he was so hungry he jumped into the water and grabbed some in his hands. After breakfast he found some apple trees.... he's finding some interesting things in the farm so he go's on in search and sees a marsh and inside that marsh their was a cattail and arrow leaf those are really good starch food. At the top of the meadow he finds to gigantic maple and oak trees he had never seen trees as enormous as those this farm really getting more interesting by the moment.