Gillian

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=Writing Journal=

=Story Town= //**__LESSON 11__**// Gillian 3/25/11- __Prompt #3__ There are many settings that I found interesting. One setting that I found interesting was Hogwarts in the book Harry Potter. It has lots of secret doors and crazy creatures. It is a place of adventure and wizardry. Sometimes the doors lead to other magical places. Some of the crazy doors are not in the building, like a tree. If you get to a special knot alive then a door opens and leads to a secret place. Hogwarts has different houses and each house has a secret code to get in. In the wizarding world, pictures can move and talk and even go from one picture to another. They deliver mail by owl, and Hogwarts is run by house elves. As you can see Hogwarts is a very interesting setting.

Gillian 4/6/11- __Prompt #2__ Everyone has a good friend that they can always count on. My good friend is Katie. Katie is fun to be with, funny, crazy, nice, comforting, smart, and almost always in a good mood. Katie is also very trustworthy and I know that I can always count on her. If I want to tell her something that doesn't involve other people, then I know that she won't involve, or tell other people. Katie almost always brightens my mood and makes me happy. Katie also helps me a lot too. I know that whenever I need help I can always go to Katie. Katie and I work really well together on projects. Katie will always listen to my ideas and sometimes add my idea to hers. I always go to Katie for her opinion if I need one, and I can always count on her. As you can see, Katie is a wonderful friend to have. Do you have a friend as good as Katie?

//__**LESSON 13**__// Gillian 4/13/11- __Stormalong Summary__ Tall tales are a very interesting genre. One type of tall tale story is Stormalong. Stormalong is about how one day, a tidal wave crashed up in the early 1800s, Cape Cod, New England. When the wave washed away, the villagers found a giant baby crawling across the sand. They took care of him and called him Alfred Bulltop Stormalong (Stormy for short). Stormy loved the sea and became a sailor. He had a good reputation. All of the sailors thought of him as the greatest sailor ever. One time ther their anchor got stuck, so he went down in the sea and wrestled a very big octupus, and then he could get the anchor out. Stormy was always thinking of good ideas, but, eventually he became too big for Cape Cod, so he had to move to Boston. No job suited Stormy so, then he becomes a sailor again, but he couldn't do much on the ship. He had to sleep in a seperate rowboat and he felt like an outcast. He feels like he needs to be away from the sea for a while, so he walks with an oar over his shoulder untill someone asks what it is, then he knows that he is far enough away from the sea. He ends up in Kansas and doesn't feel like the place is for him, so he moves back to Boston. The sailors realize that he can't be separate from the ship forever, so they make the biggest ship ever that he can be in. Stormy gets to name the ship and be the captain, he names it the Courser. After that he feels happy again that he is back on a ship. In the end, when he dies, all the sailors, and Villagers are very sad.