The Sea of Monsters Overview

In this fascinating follow-up of the "Lightning Thief " Perseus Jackson (a.k.a. Percy or Seaweed brain) Takes on another breath taking quest to find his friend Grover and save him from a mythological beast called Polyphemus (He is a cyclops). On this quest Percy also has to find a cure for the pine tree that guards Half-Blood Camp. The borders are getting weaker and monsters are trying to attack anytime. Percy finds out that his friend and the golden fleece( the cure) are at the same place: an island in The Sea of Monsters-or-The Bermuda Triangle. That place is full of mythological monsters and all sorts of other creatures. He also uncovers a surprising thing about his family. Read the book to find out what amazing things happen to him!

The kids business book

In this book they show people ( mainly kids ) who started their own business. The kids started their business mainly because: Money and more Money! When they get enough money for the thing they want most, they'll close down their business, or keep on going. They started particular businesses because of what their city needs, what they enjoy to do, and what they're good at. The important things I think is important are 1. You should always find something that's helpful or useful to your city or the people their going to be working for. 2. you should think about your price and how much money you're going to spend on the accessories tha you will need later on when you start your business. 3. You have to think about how to attract the customers by posting ads and telling friends to tell other people. I think those are the important things you need to learn. Some risks the kids fell into was the price and loosing people. They also had trouble doing it by themselves because sometimes they had trouble doing it all by themselves. So they asked for help from friends or family members. Some productive resources they needed was help from people, advertisement, and resources they needed to keep their business going. Profit is what you have left after you subtract your expenses from your income. If you don't make any profit then you should raise the price or start a new business instead of quiting and never coming back to the business world again.

Why "Picture" America

We went to a site called "Picturing America". It shows and gives you facts about the amazing pictures about the American history. They created it because "Picturing America" brings our common heritage and ideals by bringing us face to face with the people, places, and events that created our country. It provides an interesting way to experience America’s history through our nation’s art. You can learn about American history that provides students with a way to the entire universe of the humans. The pictures that Mrs.Dresler gave us was there because she probably wanted us to see different varieties of art. Like I said i like the quilts picture. If you don't know about it gocheck the early posts I wrote  

Painting with a hammer

In Painting With a Hammer Their is an old man who is a silversmith. He loves to build silver stuff like cups or teapots. I think it's called Painting with a hammer because he used a hammer to create this wonderful cup. It's just amazing with what he makes with a hammer and some other old stuff from the past.

Picturing America and Silver in the Virtual Field Trip

There is a virtual field trip that you can take to go see how a silver mine works. I will link it to my post later. There are interesting stuff in the virtual field trip and here are some things that I will tell you about. Did you know that back then miners had to use candle lights to see in the dark?Wouldn't that be hard for you? I know that would be hard for me. Did you also know that miners used sledge hammers and they had to use dynamites to blow up the rocks that they did not use?That's what I learned just in stop 2. And in stop 5 they showed a change room. The change was for the miners to change clothes. They changed clothes because they would come to work in their everyday clothes. So when they came to work they had to change their clothes into mining clothes. When their shift was done their mining clothes would be wet, but they would put their mining clothes by the fire and when they came the next day their mining clothes would be dry.That's why they had change rooms. In stop 12 I found out how the mill was powered. Do you know how it was powered? It was powered by water. That's so cool! If you want to go see it for yourself, here it is.

Picturing america and Silver

These are some amazing silver wares'. Though they have different shapes they do have some things in common. The first thing they all have is that the are all silver wares. The sacond thing is that they all have handles that are unique. The third and not the last thing is that they are really amazing and they are made to be kept or used for people who buys them. Their are more they have in common, but I only listed some for you. They also have differences, too. One thing is that they are created by different silversmiths. Another thing is that they have different shapes and for sure they aren't all the same size. The last thing I can list down is that they are used in different ways. It probally took the silversmiths different amounts of time for them to make it, too.

"Sans Arc Lakota" Ledger book

The first pattern I see is that they're all Native wearing feathers on their head. The next pattern is that they are all bunched up in groups. The last thing is that they look like Native Americans.It also looks like they're doing a ritual.

Quilts: 19th-20th century

I like the one with the circle and the spikes that are coming out. I like it because it has my favorite color: blue and red. The designs also look cool, too. And if you look at it for a long time you can get hypnotized( that's only what happened to me... I don't know about you people.). that's why I like it.

My Side of the Mountain Ch. 22

Summer was finnaly here. The warblers came back. They perched in the trees and flew around the forest most of the time. " Hey wild boy" called a voice. There were Photographers in the woods. They were taking pictures of Sam and Frightful. Then a reporter came up to him and talked to him. Sam didn't talk much though, then he went to his tree and rolled on his stomach and thought about something. Four days passed and Sam got in touch with many reporters and photographers. Then he heard a voice that sounded familiar, who could it be? that's it, it was his dad! "Dad!" he yelled with joy. As he was running towards his dad he heard twigs breaking, flowers being crushed and smooshed. Then he stopped and thought if he should run back or go to his father. He ran back, but he changed his mind and went back to greet his father and the photogrphers and reporters he saw with dad. Then he heard his brother and before he knew it he saw his whole family. He hugged everyone and they all hugged him. Sam reunited with the family now. Then the family said they were gonna live with Sam( I think only for a few weeks or mabye forever) in the forest and they did just that. Sam taught his brothers how to live on land and how to hunt food.

Now thats a happy ending People...RIGHT?

Migrant mother

I think the mother is thinking about what should she do to get a home and food for her children.I think she's thinking about that because if you look at the background you see no home and the kids are leaning on their mother. It looks like the kids are hungry and the mother looks depressed about something. That's why I think she is thinking of that.

Benjamin Franklin

These are the three reasons why you can tell this person was from a long time ago.

1. The first thing is that not many people have that hairstyle anymore.

2. He is also wearing old fashioned clothes that has a lot of buttons.

3. The third thing is that his shoes are from the old times.

I also wonder....how long did it take the artist to build the sculpture?....If anyone knows comment me......ok.

My Side Of The Mountain Ch.21

Jessie never came by anymore because she was busy getting food for her babies. Now, she has a family. So was the baron weasel he wasn't around anymore. But Sam wasn't lonely just because The Baron Weasel and Jessie didn't come by anymore. Sam met a guy named Aaron, Aaron was hiking in the woods and he was a good hummer. Sam couldn't help it so he went and talked to Aaron. They became friends soon afterwards....but Aaron had to leave so they said their good byes and went there own ways.

On April twelfth at three-thirty Sam met Matt. Sam used Matt's handkerchief and tied it around Matt. Sam led Matt to his house and loosened the handkerchief. The second Matt saw it he screamed and shrieked with joy when he saw the tree house. Sam showed Matt around telling him about the inventions he made...everything Matt saw he shouted out with joy. While Sam was preparing dinner Matt told him about all the trouble around the world. The next week the spent there times fishing, hunting, trapping, and collecting plants that were edible.
Later that week they found Bando sleeping in the tree after a fishing trip. That night Bando and Sam played the reed whistles for Matt by the campfire. Matt and Bando also decided to build a guest tree for the people who were gonna visit. The rest of the week they spent their time building the guest tree. Soon after the they built the guest house Matt had to go back to school, but Bando stayed a while longer to help Sam build another guest tree. But Bando had to leave soon, but that didn't mean Sam was lonely he met Mr. Jacket while trying to fish out a colossal snapping turtle( it was just a huge one not a colossal turtle). Sam found out what Mr. Jacket real name was, it was Tom Sidler. Sam rafted to shore and invited Tom to help catch that big ol' snappin' turtle. About an hour later they caught it and cleaned it. Later that day Sam showed Tom where his house is and what it is. They made dinner and ate it all. That night Tom slept with Sam in the forest. Tom now came more often to Sam's house.... it was mostly the weekends that he came. After a long time Aaron came back and called Sam to come. He stayed a week mostly playing around with the willow whistle. Bando got a car and came more often since he has the car.

My Side Of The Mountain Ch.20

It was finally the end of February. During the end of February Sam and Frightful saw the forest changing. It was melting slowly and animals were coming back. The edible plants that Sam had longed for returned. He grabbed all the edible plants he could find or get. Sam would never forget this day I bet.
One day Frightful spotted another duck and flew up to the sky and Sam said " Frightful...you can't leave me now!". Then Sam quickly held out a piece of meat, hoped Frightful would come back to him. Frightful looked the hawk for a moment and then she folded her wings and dropped down fast and landed on Sam's fist. Right after that a young man about the same age as Sam said " I saw that...your the wild boy, aren't you?". Sam spun around and saw him shivering in the cold. He told Sam his name was Matt Spell. Matt stayed with Sam for a while and asked Sam if he knew anything about the wild boy. Sam paused for a while and then said " Yeah I've seen him around here. Then Sam spent the rest of the time telling Matt about how the wild boy looks like and how he survives in the wilderness. After Sam told Matt about the wild boy they made a deal...the deal was that Matt wanted to spend his spring vacation with Sam then he won't print anything, he's just going to write the stuff down. That night Sam imagined Matt, Bando, and Dad. He was wording the article for Matt. When he went back to his tree he saw his old friend, Jessie Coon James the raccoon. Sam never saw him for months. He was laying on the bed. Soon he left and disappeared into the forest.

My Side Of The Mountain Ch.15

The hunting season began early november. Sam decided to go to the library because he needed to get some exercise and he also wanted t go see how Mrs. Turner was doing. Sam didn't go to the library cause there were hunters all over the Catskills and he almost got shot by a hunter. It was like an inch close to his elbow and if he moved any closer he could've lost hi hand or broken a bone and go back to living in the apartment. But he didn't. The hunter who almost shot Sam wounded a young buck badly. after that incident Sam climbed up a tree and Frightful flew into the sky for a while. The man who shot the deer gave up because he couldn't find it, but Sam saw everything he even saw where the deer went. Soon SAm thought to himself.... he was going to use the hunters to kill deers and then Sam could cover it with stuff like tree limbs and bushes. Later that month sam caught two deers. Sam did not have to smoke the last two deer cause it was cold enough that it would just freeze. They were hard to tan because they kept on freezing.

My Side Of The Mountain: Ch.14

Sam was racing/competing against the squirrels when he was gathering nuts. He would put Frightful on top or make her guard the tree Sam was getting nuts from. She would scare the squirrels and make them wait until Sam gets all the nuts from the tree. The next thing he did was getting apples. Sam prepared his apples by cutting them in slices and putting them on a boulder in front of the sun. Sam had a Halloween party and served cracked nuts, smoked rabbit, and crayfish. Sam found a ox bowl bow at the stream and there was wild rice inside of it. During the Halloween party the raccoons found his cache of nuts and threw them on the floor and all over his bed. Sam did four things to get rid of the guests. First he laced the door the door shut. The second thing he did was he threw wood and made a bigger fire. Next he shouted at them fiercely.  Then the fourth thing he did was snarling, hissing, growling, and he also snorted at them. The last animal to leave was a bat. Would you be scared that happened to you? Well anyways, Sam now knew that don't try to celebrate Halloween in the wilderness....... or else.

My Side Of The Mountain: Ch.13

In chapter 13 Sam was storing food for the winter. He smoked fish and rabbit, dug wild onions, and it said Sam raced September for her crops. The baron weasel was shedding his summer coat into his winter coat so was very itchy and he looked moldy. All the animals were also getting ready for the big winter, too.
After he managed to find enough winter food he went down to the bank where Bando go the clay and dragged a whole lot of clay. He brought the clay to his house and he was planning to make a fire place. He made one but the fire took up all the oxygen in the tree and Frightful got sick. She was toppling a lot, she jerked her head out of her feathers, and her eye's looked glassy. So Sam took her out of the tree and out to the forest. Sam thought for a while then said "Air!.... the fire place used up all the oxygen. I've got to ventilate this place.".......That's about all that happened in the chapter.

My Side of The Mountain: Ch.12

In this chapter Sam Gribley finds a raccoon who is a good digger. The raccoon's name is Jessie Coon James. Jessie digs out mussels. When they found him he was a skinny ( probably orphaned raccoon) raccoon,but when they took him in he became fat and looked like any other raccoon now.

After that Sam finds a man in the forest and thought he was an out law or a bandit, but he was a college teacher. Sam calls him Bando and Bando calls Sam, Thoreau. Bando was out for a hike and suddenly he was lost, so he saw a fire and thought it was a scout club that was there. He slept until the scoutmaster came, but it was Sam's fire. So he met Sam instead of a scoutmaster. They soon became good friends and Bando was good at making stuff. He helped Sam make a raft so sam could go to bigger water and catch bigger fish. Bando also made blueberry jam and a couple of pottery jars for jam. On September third Bando leaves and says "See you on Christmas."

That's it.