Malala News Article Nobel Prize Winner

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WHO?	Malala Yousafzai.
WHAT?	She has been nominated for a nobel peace prize.
WHERE?	She is from pakistan but at the moment she is living in England at the moment.
WHEN?	At the end of october if she has won the prize.
WHY?	She was nominated because she was fighting for education for girls in pakistan.
HOW?

                                                                                                                                            

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Headline:

Malala nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

Summary:

15 year old Malala from Pakistan has been nominated for Nobel peace winner.After she tried to fight her way through obstacles for girls education in pakistan.Even though she has been shot by the Taliban for speaking the truth about girls education,she still is fighting for equal rights.At the moment she is living in England because her life is in much more danger and because she is waiting for an opperation. The winners will be announced at the end of October.

Opinion and Why: What do you think about this news and why

I think that this girl is Kind,Humble and a generous young girl,And I reckon that she deserves to win the prize for 1rst place.

Questions What are some questions this article has prompted tat you may like to find out the answers to

What is the lifestyle of girls education? how long did Malala stay in hospital for and how long did the surgery?

Thanksgiving Wrting

Thanksgiving day is a holiday celebrated in United States on the fourth 
Thursday in November. It has been an annual tradition since 1863, during the civil war, President Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national day of “Thanksgiving and praise to our beneficent father who dwelleth in the Heavens”,to be celebrated on Thursday,November 26.

As a federal and popular holiday in the U.S,Thanksgiving is one the major holidays of the year.Together with Christmas and new year,Thanksgiving is a part of the broader holiday season.The event that Americans commonly call the “First Thanksgiving”was celebrated by the Pilgrims after the first harvest in the New world war in 1621.

The feast lasted three days,and was attended  by about 53 Pilgrims and 90 American Indians.The New England colonists accustomed to regularly celebrating “Thanksgivings day of prayer thanking God for blessings such as military victory or the end of a drought.

Rugby Writing

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WRITING

On a early sunny Saturday morning,Saturday 13th September 2010 it was time.
Today was the day for 2 competitive teams to go head to head in the semi finals.
Mount Wellington Vs Manurewa Marlings.

As the referee blew the whistle for the first half the ball goes flying in the air from one side of the field to the other.”SLAP”the ball lands right into my hands and off I ran straight to the first 2 players I see.”BOOM”goes down the first player than the second,still running fully on the burst.”NEK MINUTE”I get tackled from behind and on the ground I go,seeing all the forwards drive over the ruck and retrieving the ball.

As time slipped by the whistle finally blew for half time.With only a short amount of break time our coach gives us a few tips on defense and attacking.

“BOTH TEAMS BACK ON THE FIELD FOR SECOND HALF”.The ref blew the whistle for second half “BOOM” goes the ball flying in the air once again,hoping that the ball will come to me again,but no it goes straight to the fullback.”SLAP”the ball lands in his hands and of he goes.He fends one,fends two,steps one then gets caught from behind and down he goes on the ground.as time goes by with only 30 seconds left on the clock the halfback gives a short ball to the number 8 then gets tackled,20.The half back gives a long ball to the wing he steps one and hes of 10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3 passes the ball to me and I bump the fullback off worrying about the time 2,1”TRY”!!!!!!!! the whole team ran on the field full of excitement.Looking at my coaches face seeing tears rushing down from his face and had a big smile on his face.The final score was 40-33 it was a very close game.We were through to the finals.

This morning we did a 40 minute writing.

to write about anything we wanted.from this we are going to set some writing goals for the term.Here is what I wrote.


These are my term 4 writing goals:
To add ore punctuation,Grammar,and Vocabulary.
To add more similes
To use more descriptive words.