While reading the book The Last Cuentista, by Donna Barba Higuera, we created ideal world books. In the book, a group of heroes and antagonists venture to a new world. So, for a fun project, we created small pamphlets (we just called them books) about worlds WE, the 6th grade class, would like to live Read More…
DA Sixth Grade Planetarium Visit
All in all, the visit to the UNC planetarium was fun. However, It was against my ethical code—let me elaborate. The DA sixth grade went to UNC’s (the University of North Caroline in chapel hill, a town near Durham, were my school is) campus to visit a planetarium they had. But, I’m a Duke fan, Read More…
Will Boston Finaly Get The Chip?
Looking Forward: the Celtics have multiple offensive threats. Derrick White, Andrew Holiday, Jaylen Brown, Jayson Tatum, And Kristaps Porzingis— the starters—come to mind first. And if one of those players is having a bad day, the other stars can fill in and make sure that they get the Dub. Usually. Although all Celtics players are Read More…
Tree Planting
Keep Durham Beautiful is an organization meant to grow plants and trees around Durham, the city I live by, to keep it, well, beautiful, as the name suggests. I was definitely raring to go when I heard that DA, the school I go to, was going to partner up with this cool organization, because when Read More…
Adam Gidwitz—DA and Duke School’s 6th Grade Author Visit
Adam Gidwitz, a successful author, came to visit my school—DA. Duke school also attended the visit. The Durham Academy 6th graders coalesced into the massive Horton Hall, DA’s auditorium, and the Duke School students sat at the very left of the auditorium (from the perspective of an audience member), past the communal walkway. Adam Gidwitz Read More…
LA Novel: The Last Cuentista
Given that I’m talking about my LA class, it doesn’t take a genius to understand that my fellow students and I are reading a book. Specifically, The Last Cuentista by Donna Barba Higuera (if you wondering, cuentista means storyteller in Spanish). I’m not going to give a summary of the whole book, in fact, I Read More…
My LA Comic
For LA, my class (D period) read wisdom tales. These tales serve the purpose of teaching younger generations ethical morals and principals. Likely, you might have been told or read a wisdom tale by your parents when you were little. These tales can take many forms. Tall tales, fairy tales, fables and apologues (shorts stories Read More…
My Science Project
Alright, this post may be a bit belated, but I have to talk about this none the less; my science project. It didn’t have to be my science project, but we had to post about something cool we did in another class for LA, and although mostly everybody posted about the science project, there’s a Read More…
Why Basketball Is Better Than Baseball
Now I know I’m going to make a lot of enemies, and I’m fully prepared for that. My only ask is that you don’t walk into my house and bludgeon me with a baseball bat. my argument, of which I am presenting before you, is why Basketball is better that Baseball. Now no matter if Read More…
Thanksgiving 2023
I talked to my classmate & friend 30Garrett who has a history blog (check it out!!), and he gave me some history on thanksgiving. I can rant, so I asked him for some pretty vague history. But, from what I got, here it goes! (Again, please check out his blog!!!). In 1620, as you probably Read More…