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The Bet & Power

September 28th, 2007 by kdanielle

In the story The Bet a banker and a lawyer get into an argument over which is worse, being put in prison for life, or being executed. The lawyer thinks that prison would be better because he thinks it’s better to live someway than to not live at all. But the banker has another idea about things. He believes that execution is a better choice due to it being a quicker death rather than dragging all of the life out of a person in the matter of years.

After the argument that the two powerful men had discussed, the banker made a bet to the lawyer that he couldn’t stay in prison for five years. The lawyer told the banker that he could stay in prison for fifteen years for 2 million rubles (this is Russian money). The bet is made and the lawyer goes to prison, but the twist is that it’s not really a prison…it is the bankers house and this means that the lawyer can walk out any time that he desires.

Throughout the lawyers first year in prison he starts to read short novels and play the piano to pass the time away. On his second year the piano was heard no more and the lawyer started to read classic novels. By the fifth year the piano was heard again, and he was known to weep in the night more than once. I think that he did this because he knew it was his fifth year, and if he hadn’t made the bet for fifteen he would have been walking out the door.

Nearing the end of the story the banker loses all of his money gambling and making deals that went sour. So the banker comes to a decision. It had been 15 years and the lawyer will be gone in the morning. He decides to kill him. He walked into the damp dark room and sees the sleeping man whom he made a bet with for 2 million rubles…and finds a note. This note explains what the lawyer thought of the banker and what he planned to do.

“Your books gave me wisdom. I know that I am cleverer than you all you are mad and gone the wrong way. You worship things, not ideas. You take falsehood for truth and ugliness for beauty. So do I marvel at you. You have traded heaven for earth. I do not want to understand you.”

“ To show that I despise all that you live by, I give up the two million I once so desired. Can your money buy wisdom? No. I shall come out of here five minutes before noon tomorrow (this is when they made the deal) I shall thus break our agreement.”

This is not the complete letter that the lawyer to the banker but just the important parts. When you really start to think about it, who has more power? I believe that the lawyer has more power over the banker because it all depends on him…if he stayed until noon, or if he left, he really decided who got the money.

I think that this story is a great one for any age group to read because it can really send a message to just about anyone. It teaches us about who really holds more power, what you can do wrong with your life, and what the important things are in life.

P.S.- At the end of the story…the lawyer walks out five minutes before noon.

Katie

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Volleyball Update

September 27th, 2007 by kdanielle

 

Well…here it goes, we didn’t do so well, well not well at all. We didn’t win one set because no one on our team was calling the ball. But throughout the game the coaches mixed us together for fun. What this means is they took some Cranberry players and some Snow Lake players and just mixed us into two teams, and we played together for the rest of the time.

Some good news is that we are going to Cranberry Wednesday and we are going to play them again, and hopefully we learn some more play before we go there.

Hope your looking forward to the next volleyball update, bye!

 

Katie

 

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Volley-Ball Tournament

September 26th, 2007 by kdanielle

My life has been pretty interesting since the last time I wrote a post, we found out that our volley-ball game would be switched a day earlier, that we are going to be playing from 2:30 to 6:00, and that we are going to have homework!

Yes I know it’s a lot but I’m sure that I will be able to get through it…hopefully. The first thing that I’m really scared and excited about is playing against Cranberry, they are only coming here for the day I’m hoping that they aren’t a pro team. As you should know by now I’m on a volleyball team, but only juniors. It’s been really fun so far but we’ve only had 5 practices and we have to play against another team already!

I have been playing for…I think this is my third year in volley-ball, and on are team there are some beginners, who I think are going to do really well today and throughout the season, but they are nervous like anyone should be for there first tournament. I mean come on even I’m nervous lol. Anyways, we are getting out early today so that we can go and play and I’m really hoping that we do well.

Cranberry is supposed to be just a beginner’s team; well that’s what we have been told. But my team from last year was pretty good and we couldn’t even beat them when they had just started out. Ugh I think I’m jinxing it but I haven’t been nervous until now and now I’m just kinda like freaking out here.

So I’d better go before I carry on to another paragraph, wish me luck! Bye! :)

Katie

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Teaching Young Students About Societies

September 21st, 2007 by kdanielle

Sim City:

What do you think of when you hear the word Sim City? A thought that you may get may be a worthless video game that you waste your time on.When you really start to think about what you do on Sim City is, you are running peoples lives, you are building there houses, and even making them roads to get to one place to another. You are the one making all the big decisions.

By teaching adults of the future things like this you are teaching them how to run a society, and that is exactly what my teacher Mr. Fisher is doing. He is slowly helping the class understand what a real society is, and what it takes to make all these important decisions.

Google Earth:

Not only is he teaching us how to do this he is actually taking us to some societies in Asia, no not really, that’s where Google Earth comes in handy. We are right now finishing up a project on answering some questions about real societies that exist today. We are learning many different things about them and what they do have in common and what they don’t have in common. And after looking at all of those societies and seeing what people in North America and Asia don’t have between each other is a huge amount of things, and that made me realize that some people have to live with what is given to them.

I think that this is a very good thing to learn, and for a small town teacher who is able to make 13 and 14 year old junior high students realize this is a very good thing.

Hope you are looking forward to the other different things that we are going to be learning in this class, bye!

Katherine

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Societies and Cities, What’s Really Important In Them

September 19th, 2007 by kdanielle

Societies and cities have a lot to do with who runs them and what goes on in them. When a society is run by the government they provide certain things that that society needs and or wants. The things that are provided are different in all societies, this is because different societies have different beliefs and different ways of living.

Because societies are different from each and are provided with different things. With these different things they live a different way. Some of the different things that go on in societies is their schools and they way that they decide to educate the people and children. Also there religion and beliefs, and how and who they choose to dedicate a small or big part of their life to.

These two things that are different between societies aren’t the only things that are different. One other important thing that is different is the respect that certain people are given.

In some societies a man is considered more important than a woman, but in some places it may be the other way around. The respect that people are given lead a big impact in a persons life. If a young girl was treated with no respect and a small boy was treated with a lot of it, who do you think would turn out better in life and be able to respect others with the respect that they need.

Think about this question and leave comments on blog with your answers, gtg bye! :) Katie

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Changes Over the Weekend

September 17th, 2007 by kdanielle

Snow flakes falling onto the rock hard ground, cold wind blowing in your face causing your nose to turn red. No, this isn’t a line from a book like The Hatchet; this is what happens here when it’s winter. It’s not quite winter yet but trust me the winds a blowin. To some people it’s so cold outside they are already wearing their winter jackets, I’m not…but when do I ever unless it’s 30 below out.

The weather isn’t the only thing changing around here. Let me just say people have broken there legs in the past week. My friend Randy just got back from Winnipeg and he is wearing this huge cast, and he’s even in a wheel chair. Poor guy, if it wasn’t for that dirt bike…lol.

The class is now going to stop silent reading, which means I have to stop typing. Well bye, I’ll write soon! :)

Katie

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Around and About

September 14th, 2007 by kdanielle

Hey,

So far this year has been…pretty interesting. The class is back on track and tired as ever. We never get any sleep; I hope most people know what I’m talking about. Us teenagers love to stay up and watch T.V. I would know seeing has how that’s all I do at night. :)

Our classroom is decorated really nice so I don’t really mind coming to school. We have pictures all over the walls, computers to well…go on your blog like I am, and we also have a couch that looks like it was shipped from the set of Austin Powers.

Everyone is silent reading right now, but my typing isn’t so silent. I won’t be here this afternoon, because I’m going to Thompson to get my new glasses and contacts, I’m really excited. Hopefully Mr. Fisher doesn’t give me homework, he said that he wouldn’t but I guess I’ll just have to suck it up like he says, lol.

Now that you know a little bit about our classroom and what really happens around here I better get going. I only have a couple minutes left to get my dose of blogging, cya! :P

Katherine

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Reading, Writing and…Blogging???

September 10th, 2007 by kdanielle

When you first think about reading and writing you think about reading a really long book and writing this huge essay that you have no choice but to do because it’s worth 30% of your mark….right? Well not to Mr.Fisher that’s for sure, the first thing that he thinks about is blogging.

The reason why he thinks of it this way is because when you think really really hard, blogging is a text of reading and writing. When you first look at a blog post you may think, oh well that was just something that was done on the computer…its not like they work hard. Well…think again ladies and gentleman you try writing paragraph after paragraph of things that will keep people interested.

So now everytime you look at a blog post that someone has written think of all that hard hard work that they had to do for you to spend your quality time reading it. It not only takes up your time, but…educates them in some way because now you know that reading, writing, and yes…blogging have something in common.

Katherine

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Introduction Post For The New Year

September 6th, 2007 by kdanielle

Heyy,

I have some good news to tell all my readers, we are going to start writing in are blogs again. But with some new additions…and I mean by that new students. Which means for all the readers out there that they get to read some new and very interesting blogs. And don’t worry I’ll link to them.

Not only are we starting are blogs again, we are starting a new year. This year I am in Mr. Fisher’s class again, due to the splits in the class. I love how he lets us blog and really lets us speak our minds.

So far class has been going good…well the two days that we have been here. I really enjoy still being in junior high because I’m a little scared to go into high school, but I guess I’ll get over it.

I’m excited for junior volleyball to start because I really enjoy playing it, we played last year which was really fun. So I’m hoping that t will be even better this year.

 

This summer I didn’t really do much, the only really exciting thing that I did was go to a concert. I went to see Nickelback and they also had two opening bands which were State of Shock and Yellowcard. It was really fun and I’m excited to go to my other concert in October with my friend Elaine. We are going to see Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, and Rodney Adkins.

So that’s how my summer went, not that interesting but I’m just glad that we had summer break. Well I guess I’d better get going, bye.

 

P.S.- Think of this post as a divider…from all the old stuff I wrote.

Katherine

 

 

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News

September 6th, 2007 by kdanielle

Heyy,

I have some good news to tell all my readers, we are going to start writing in are blogs again. But with some new additions…and I mean by that new students. Which means for all the readers out there that they get to read some new and very interesting blogs. And don’t worry I’ll link to them J .

Not only are we starting are blogs again, we are starting a new year. This year I am in Mr. Fisher’s class again, due to the splits in the class. I love how he lets us blog and really lets us speak our minds.

So far class has been going good…well the two days that we have been here. I really enjoy still being in junior high because I’m a little scared to go into high school, but I guess I’ll get over it J .

I’m excited for junior volleyball to start because I really enjoy playing it, we played last year which was really fun. So I’m hoping that t will be even better this year.

This summer I didn’t really do much, the only really exciting thing that I did was go to a concert. I went to see Nickelback and they also had two opening bands which were State of Shock and Yellowcard. It was really fun and I’m excited to go to my other concert in October with my friend Elaine. We are going to see Taylor Swift, Brad Paisley, and Rodney Adkins.

So that’s how my summer went, not that interesting but I’m just glad that we had summer break. Well I guess I’d better get going, bye.

P.S.- Think of this post as a divider…from all the old stuff I wrote.

Katherine

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