Monday, November 7, 2011
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Stealing Beauty
- Xiaoli is a poor village in China.
- Most of the people in the village are farmers.
- It has become hard to make money at farming, so the farmers became tomb raiders.
- Tomb raiders steal beautiful and valuable artwork from tombs beneath the ground.
- Looting-stealing things of value to sell for money.
- Little Su, a doctor, paid for his education by looting.
- Thieves have broken in to 220,000 tombs in China.
- Looting is a major problem in other countries as well, like India and Cambodia.
- Many art pieces are sent to collectors in Europe and the USA.
- Many people believe that stealing art is like stealing a country's beauty and history.
- Interpol-an international police agency that helps prevent the buying and selling of illegal art.
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
My Diary From Here to There
- overhead, opportunities, border, unions, strikes, citizen, boycotts
- Amanda overhears Mama and Papa talking about leaving their home in Mexico to move to California
- Papa lost his job and there is no work
- the boys are excited as there is all kinds of toys in the stores, escalators to ride, and popcorn to eat
- Amanda can't imagine leaving
- they decide to go to their grandparents house in Mexicali, right across the border from the USA
- Amanda is worried that she won't be able to speak Spanish and that she can't learn English
- She is also worried she won't come back or see her best friend Michi again
- Papa was born in the USA, so he is a US citizen
- he tells Amanda that she is stronger than she thinks
- Amanda takes a heart shaped rock to remember the times that she had in the park with her friend Michi
- Amanda's whole family welcomes them to grandmas house
- Papa has been picking grapes and strawberries to make money. He writes in a letter that there are unions, strikes, and boycotts going on to make things better for workers
- Nana gives her a new journal to write in and tells her to always remember where she comes from, and to keep the culture of Mexico alive in her heart
- Crossing the border into Tijuana was crazy, people were pushing and fighting to be first
- their new house in the USA has airplanes overhead and trains running by
- everyday she thinks about home and holds her special rock
- Amanda says that just because she is far away from home doesn't mean that she will forget. Home is always with her, in her rock, diary, and heart.
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