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Heroes are people who save lives. You may not be a hero to every one but be a hero to a couple of people. A hero is someone who wants nothing in return and go above and beyond the call of duty. Heroes dedicate there lives to help others they would rather sacrifice their own life to save another life.

I am going to tell you about one hero his name is Terry Fox. You may know him as the guy who ran across Canada with a prosthetic leg. I an going to tell you more about him.Terry fox had osteosarcoma which is a form of cancer. He had to get his leg cut off because the cancer was in his knee.

After he got his leg cut off he decided run across Canada, he planed to run from St. Johns Newfoundland and run to Vancouver BC. When Terry Fox reached Thunder bay Ontario Terry found out  he had got cancer in his lungs. Terry ran for 138 days and ran 5 373 KM. Terry was unable to finish his run for the marathon of hope.

Terry was in the hospital for many of days. He went into a coma on June 27 1981. He died June 28 1981. While he ran for the marathon of hope he raise 24.17 million dollars for cancer reaserch.

4 reasons why Terry Fox is a hero is he ran across canada with a prostetic leg, he raised 24.17 million dollars for cancer reaserch, he earning money for cancer reaserch, and he died for other people. If you want tolearn more about him come here

These are the last four chapters in the book. This book was really god my favorite part was the part where the greasers beat the socs in a fight but was really sad when Johnny died. It was also sad when Dally died. Ponyboy and the others after Johnny and Dallas died. After they died Ponyboy has been getting into a lot more fights with Darry I think it is because his best friend died and Dally died. It was really weird when Ponyboy had to write a paper he rote his lie from the beginning of the book to the end of the book but the weird part was that it was the book. And that was the end of the book it was a really good book.

This is our second week working on the outsiders the book is really good so far. We’ve learn t a lot about the characters. My favorite part in this section of  the book is when they all go to dairy queen and Johnny and Ponyboy eat the most but they only go there because Dally says he is hungry. It was sad when Johnny got seriously hurt by getting burnt in a fire. Johnny, Ponyboy and Dally all had to go to the hospital because Ponyboy and Johnny got burnt trying to take kids out of the fire but Dally got his arm burnt trying to pull Johnny out of the fire. Ponyboy was the first one aloud to leave the hospital because his burns weren’t bad. It was surprising to read that cherry actually went to see Ponyboy at the east side of town. Well the book is really good so far can’t wait to see what happens next in the book.

My class is doing something in novel, it is called a response journal. The book that we are reading is called the outsiders it is a really good book. We only did the first four chapters of the novel. First I am going to tell you about the characters some characters call them selfs greasers because they put grease in there hair. First there is this guy named Ponyboy Curtis he is the main character Ponyboy has two brothers and there names are Sodapop and Darrel but everyone calls him Darry. Ponyboy is shy and is smart he gets lots of good grades, Ponyboy is the youngest in his family, Sodapop is the middle child and Darry is the oldest. Darry is the one that takes care of Ponyboy and Sodapop because there parents died in a car crash. Ponyboy’s best friend is Johnny Cade. There are a couple more greasers and there names are Two-Bit Mathews, Johnny Cade, Steve Randall, and Dallas Winston but everyone calls him Dally. There is some more people in the story but they aren’t greasers, they are known as socs, they are the rich kids. There names are Bob, Cherry, Marcia, and Randy. Cherry’s boyfriend is Bob and Marcia’s boyfriend is Randy. All the characters are nice except for Bob, Randy and there friends because they beat up the Greasers. When I read the book I liked the part where Two-Bit scares Johnny and Ponyboy at the drive in movies was funny because it totally freaked them out because Two-Bit used a different voice. The greasers are sometimes nice but they fight all the time, and some of the socs are mean because they always beat up the greasers. The setting didn’t tell much about it, it only said if it was dark, light, day, night. I also liked the part were Ponyboy and Johnny accidentally fell asleep in another lot, and when they woke up Ponyboy ran home and got into trouble, and after that Darry hits Ponyboy and Ponyboy runs away with Johnny. If you want to learn more about the story come here.

These past two weeks we’ve been doing stuff on conflicts.  Today I am going to write something on four kind of conflict. One  conflict is going to be on man vs man. Man vs man is were a man is fighting another man in a battle to see who wins it is kinda like this book I read it is called Lather and nothing else. It is were this man is fighting against another man. Another conflict is man vs nature it is were a fighting against nature. It is kinda like a show I watch called survivor. It is were this man is fighting against nature to survive. Another conflict is man vs society it is were one guy is fighting against a whole lot of people. That conflict is kinda like a story I read called the sniper. It is were this man is fighting against a whole lot of people. There is one more conflict and that is man vs himself it is were man is fighting against himself. This conflict is kinda like this novel I read called prince Caspian. When they are tiered they fight against them selfs and not give up. If you want to learn more about it come here. This is a picture of man vs nature

This week and last week  we’ve been learning about ancient Egypt. Like did you know that beer was made from barley or bread crumbs. Or that the great pyramid of Geza had a layer of fine limestome until it was used to build the city of Ciaro. Or when the pharohs died they got put in tombs. My favorite thing that we did last week was play a video game on the computer about ancient Egypt it was called childeren of the Nile.

On Friday my class had a math test. It was really cool because we got to use calculators. That is the first math test that I did that I got to use a calculator. That was the first test we did for the school year. I don’t really like tests but this one was ok. We start exams in January’s that is our mid term exams we would also have exams in the end of June. On my math test I got 77%. My brother is in the same class as me it’s a 7/8 class. Well he got 83%. My brother sits at a table with a couple of people and they all got the same mark 83%. It is really sad that my brother got higher mark than me! I really hope the next test I get a better mark than my brother.

Last Wednesday I started Tae-kon-do it was fun. I had also had Tae-kon-do on Thursday. My brother, sister, mom and cousin are in it too. There was also tae-kon-do on Tuesday and wednesday but I had to miss it because i was sick. Then  there was tae-kon-do today but I went to this one  because I felt a little better. the only reason I went to school today is because my parents went out of today and I had to choose from going out of town or go to school. I hate going out of town so I chose to go to school. So thats what happened since last wednesday.

This summer I went to British Columbia and went to visit with my step sister and her kid. We also visited with my grandma and aunty’s and cousin. It was fun i had a lot of fun camping. We went to Vancouver  to go to the aquarium. It was a lot of fun.