Friday, September 25, 2009

ChApTeR 3 QuEsTiOnS!!!!!

1.The letter simply informed the people of Mattru Jong that the rebels were coming and wanted to be welcomed since they were fighting for them.
2.RUF stands for Revolutionary United Front. They saw it carved on a mans body.
3. They didn’t come because they were taking a long time.
4. A palampo is a single person and no my family does not worry about me being a palampo.
5.There was gunshots and people started screaming and running in every direction.
6.The carvings meaning was to scare people.
7.CRAZY…. Because there was so much craziness.
8.He was determined to keep running so that he would not get shot and if you stopped running you would be risking your own life.
9.They did not get hit by the RPG.
10.The rebels stopped chasing them.
11. So that people would get the point.
12. It was very quiet.
13. People were running in different directions and there was bombs and stuff like that.
14.They would be made to fight or they would be killed.
15. They wanted to cry they were like diving in bushes. They had been running for like an hour.

Monday, September 21, 2009

cHApTeR 4 AdObE !!!!!

ChApTeR 4 .... 6 VoCaB WoRdS

1.abandoned- to leave completely and finally.
My mother always abandons me.










2.peeped-to look through a small opening or from a concealed location.
People that peep on other People are sickos.











3.Cigarette-a cylindrical roll of finely cut tobacco cured for smoking.
Smoking cigarettes is disgusting like totally.













4.bullet- a small metal projectile.
50 cent got shot nine times with nine bullets.









5.huts-a simple roofed shelter, often with one or two sides left open.
I would like to live in a hut one day.









6.hungry- having a desire, craving, or need for food.
OMG i am so hungry right now.

ChApTeR 4 qUeStIoNs !

1.His life was going bad because him and his brother was separated from his family everything was going down hill.
2.To get some money that they had left behind for food.
3.They saw rotten pots of food, bodies, furniture, clothes.
4.The houses were looted there was bullet holes in door frames and broken glass.
5.They were happy because they had found money.
6.They did not eat becasue the people were not selling food.
7.They stole peoples food so they could get through the night.

Wednesday, September 16, 2009

ChApTeR 2

A LoNg wAy gOnE Ch.2!!!!!!! PaRt 1 aNd pArT 2

PART1
1.I have never experienced anything like that or anything close to it that has traumatized me.
2.There was dead bodies all over the place. They had burnt bodies with bullet holes all over there was a destroyed village.
3. He had been there for over a month.
4.Boys in the U.S. are lucky they don’t have to do thing like the boys in Sierra Leone they are not forced to do drugs or anything they don’t want to do they are not forced to kill people either.
5. The memories are bad he can have post traumatic stress or something.
PART2
1.The first two paragraphs are talking about death and stuff. There is a lot of blood and dead bodies. There is kids with guns that kill people. It also says that the kids carry the dead bodies and dispose of them.
2. He was in pain. They just killed people and then they high fived each other. Then they sat on there bodies and ate. He was saying how he was afraid to sleep.
3.The three world that he lives in now are these days, his dreams, and the experience of new life