4. Fourth Week

Vacation with my family

When I was a child, every year when the school was finished, we were going to visit to grandmother and my uncles.   That was amazing!, because every end years my sisters and me were ready to set out.  We had our suitcases close to door. This was a tradition in my home.   My parents are teachers, then they always have had their vacations as us, it has been great to plan our vacation together.   The first stop was in grandmother’s home. She had a store and when we came at her home, she gave us candies. We played with her in her big home. That was one of better memories that I have in my childhood. We visited her in order to know how she was.  She was my father’s mom.   The second stop was in the town close to grandmother’s town. We needed about 45 minutes more to arrive there. There, we visited  to my uncles; they were my mother’s uncles in reality.   This town is called Quetzaltepeque, it is a small and quiet town, at less it was a few years before.   In this home, there was a tree 100 year old, its trunk was really big, and we played with it. That journey was too excited for us.   It was necessary for my parents to know how their family, our family was, and It was important for my sisters and me that journey.   Now, all that environment not exist, because my grandmother and my uncles are died, but this will have in my memory all my life.   I learned of this experience that keep the family together can help you growing up like that tree with 100 years old and with big trunk. You will have more stability in your life.

AMELIA EARHART

AMELIA EARHART WEBQUEST WORKSHEET   http://www.schooltube.com/video/705cc18dab9bc86b98de/Amelia%20Earhart

1.      When was Amelia Earhart born? July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas.

2.      Why was the year 1915 a difficult year for Amelia? Because she left the school in the middle of her second year to work as a nurse’s aide in military hospital in Canada during WW1.

3.      When and where Amelia take off in an airplane for the first time? At a long Beach air show in 1920, after moving to California, Amelia Earhart took her first flight in an airplane.

4.      What else happened in that same year in the United States? The economic grew.

5.      When and where did Amelia first see an airplane? When she was 10-year-old.  In Des Moines, Iowa

6.       What else happened in that same year? Amelia moved to Des Moines, Iowa

7.      When did Amelia start flying lesson and with whom? On January 3 ,1921 Amelia Earhart began flying lessons,  from Anita "Neta" Snook

8.      What else did Amelia do later in that same year? Amelia Earhart bought her first plane.

9.      How old was  Amelia when she was admitted into the Aeronautical Hall of Fame? When she is only 26 years old, in 1923, Amelia is inducted into the Aeronautical Hall of Fame for her contribution to the aeronautical field.

10.  When did Amelia set her first flying record and what was it? Amelia Earhart set an unofficial altitude record for women, 14,000 feet -- the first of her records.

11.  When does Amelia marry and to whom is she married to? February 7, 1931 - Amelia Earhart married George Palmer Putnam.

12.  What association for women pilots did Amelia Earhart help to organize and in what year? On November 2, 1929, she helped found the Ninety-Nines, an organization for women pilots.

13.  What else happened in our country in that same year? In 1929 California to Cleveland were the start and end for the first Women's Air Derby, which developed into the All Women's Transcontinental Air Race, nicknamed Powder Puff Derby, that featured well-known female pilots such as Amelia Earhart, Pancho Barnes, Bobbi Trout, and Louise Thaden. The 1929 winner was Louise Thaden.

14.  What year did Amelia become the 1st woman to cross the Atlantic in a plane? June 17-18, 1928 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the Atlantic (she was a passenger on this flight with pilot Wilmer Stultz and co-pilot/mechanic Louis Gordon). She met George Putnam, one of the sponsors of the flight, a member of the Putnam publishing family, and himself a publicist.   May 29 - June 22, 1931: Amelia Earhart became the first person to fly across the content in an autogiro.

15.  When did Amelia go to the White House and meet First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt? In 1933, she was a guest at the White House of Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt

16.  What did Amelia receive as a gift on her 39th birthday and when? 1936 (July) - Amelia Earhart received a new Lockhead twin engine plane, an Electra 10E, financed by Purdue University.

17.  What else happened in that same year? Amelia Earhart began planning for a flight around the world along the equator, using her new (and unfamiliar) Electra.

18.  What year did Amelia fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean? 1932 (May 20-21) - Amelia Earhart flew solo across Atlantic from Newfoundland to Ireland, in 14 hours 56 minutes.

19.  When did Amelia take off for her flight around the world? 1937 (March) - Amelia Earhart, with navigator Fred Noonan, began her flight around the world along the equator from east to west, flying from Oakland, California, to Hawaii in 15 hours, 47 minutes, a new speed record for that route.

20.  Near what island in the Pacific was Amelia’s final voice transmission received from? July 2, 1937 - Amelia Earhart was in radio contact with New Guinea for about seven hours.

Bibliography:

http://www.biography.com/people/amelia-earhart-9283280#synopsis&awesm=~oDTCHrJqTSKjEm

http://www.biography.com/people/amelia-earhart-9283280#early-life&awesm=~oDTDtQ2YW1yrfq

http://www.softschools.com/timelines/amelia_earhart_timeline/22/

Mystery History

The Woman Of The High Road.

The mystery woman with gold teeth who appears in the high road at night. She is a mystery woman who appears in a point specific of the high road near coastal of the Atlantic in Guatemala. She wears a white dress and she is asking hitch-hiking of the cars that they pass for this point.  My best friend told me his experience… One time, when he was coming back at home from Atlantic coast, he passed for this point. That moment was a dark night and he was going with his friends in his car. Suddenly, a woman asked them hitch-hiking, they didn't remember exactly the time, but they had forgotten that place was haunting. Then, they stopped!. They parked beside the high road… In that moment, they felt chills in their bodies and then that strange woman was talking towards them… The moon was behind the clouds and the night looked dark. They were four men in the car, but they had scare. That moment was spine-chilling!. They asked themselves, What does she alone in middle the high road? Who was she? What did she happen? The woman was with them!. She stood beside the window of the car. Their chill was growing up and suddenly she showed her gold teeth! That woman was the strange woman who a lot of people talked… She told them, excuse me, ”Do you can help me? I need to come back at my home”… then, she started to walk at the original place where she stood. They didn't believe that they were happening! They were paralyzed!. After the one moment, they could continue their journey. People say that, this woman died in traffic accident in this place, and every night she appears in the same place and she asks hitch-hiking cars passing by this place and she asks for help. That woman is a mystery, anyone knows What happens with her…

GHOST DISCUSSION

Ghost Discussion

1.      Do you believe in ghost? Perhaps, this is the most mystery example, because a lot of people claim to have seen ghost. I think that it could be true.

2.      Do you believe that dead people come back to life as ghosts? I think that sometimes they cannot leave, but it’s only a matter of time, they will be able to do it and they never return.

3.      Would you talk to a ghost? No, I would not it.

4.      Do you know any good stories about ghosts? Yes, I know a lot of histories of people claim to know any ghost.

5.      Do you know anyone who has said that they have seen a ghost? Yes, I know a friend. She told me about her experience.

6.      Have you ever come in contact with a ghost? No, I have never been in contact with anyone.

7.      If one of your friends told you they had seen a ghost, would you believe him/her? a.      Why/Why not? I prefer to keep a neutral position, because it’s a mystery and it can be true or not. Maybe it’s true for my friend.

8.      What is the scariest ghost story you know? My friend’s history, it is about a ghost who was inside of her aunt, and she lived this situation.

9.      Is there an area where you live (park, house, etc.) that is known to be haunted? If so, what is the story or legend that makes people believe this area is haunted? Have you ever visited this place? Yes, my older school. In this place can hear horrible sounds in at night. But I didn’t hear anything. But I have never visited this place at night.

10.  Do you believe that houses can be haunted? Have you ever been to one? I think that there are mystery things and that they are difficult to explain.

3. Third Week

Describe one of your grandparents. What has she accomplished in life?

My name is Elena such as my grandmother... I would like to write about my grandmother, my mother’s Mom. Her name is Elena.   I called her “Mom” like my Mom.  Unfortunately, she was died in 1995, but she left me a lot of thing that have marked my life.   My grandmother, now called in this paper “Mom”, had different talents, such as play different music instruments, organize events, create histories of children, make dresses and she was a good teacher too.   During her life, she worked with my grandfather in the church. My grandfather was an important preacher, and he preached for different countries in the world.   So that, sometimes my Mom was with him and her four sons, they are my uncles. My Mom organized all the events in the different churches where they were working, such as Christmas, Thanks Giving and others. She organized the music in the church and she played the piano, concertina and organ. She was really talented!.   She organized the theatrical activities and she made the actors’ dresses. She could do everything. I am really proud of her.   I always have been impressed with her, because her original histories of children were amazing!,  We needed to write about her histories, but maybe it is late to do it.   One time, she passed the Christmas in our home, and she discovery that I had music talent, since this moment, my parent gave me more opportunities to learn music.   Would you like to be like her?   Yes, I would like to be like her, sometimes when the people say my name, I remember her, I would like to have her talent in different things, but she had left me a big heritage, her name and I can play the piano.