A Fly's Last hours

The Death of Sparkly

One day me and my dad found a dead bottle fly. A bottle fly is a fly that has a blue or green shell. Our fly had a green one.  We put it under my microscope and what did we see on our fly? We saw a terrible wound on her head and  her whole body was in pieces. Our green bottle fly's body sparkled and shined so I finaly dicided to name her Sparkly. Her body was so gross and her legs were hairy and even her wings were hairy. I think that she was quite hyper when she was alive because she was moving around even after we got her under the microscope.

Now we will reconstruct the last hours of Sparkly's life.

Sparkly was having a nice day and while we had our door open she flew right in not minding us. She flew into the living room and then a fly named Blackie Winger flew by and said- "I like your green exoskeleton!"

"Why thank you," Said Sparkly, "I get that quite a lot but it's always nice to hear! What's your name?"

"Blackie Winger of course! Haven't you heard of me?" said Blackie.

"OH YES OF COURSE! BLACKIE WINGER!" Yelled Sparkly blushing deeply as she landed. Just then Big Fat Matt stepped on her and Blackie helped her to the windowsill. Within an hour she was DEAD.

Blackie Winger's Death

We found the dead body of Blackie Winger after my father had gone CLAP! and killed him. We think Blackie made my father kill him on purpose because he was both sad and angry about Sparkly's death. We also think Blackie made my father kill him because Blackie did not have any family or friends. My father is also known as Big Fat Matt.  Well I hope my science fantasy trickery was funny enough to make you smile.

Sparkly in her prime

THE END

FLY FACTS
1. Flies only live about 30 days and depending on the fly maybe a little bit shorter.
2. Bottle flies have what looks like a shell and that shell can be green or blue.
3.There are about 120,000 different species of flies.
4. Houseflies are some of the most common insects of all time. They can live almost anywhere.

Biographical Essay: Jesse James

Jesse James at work
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Jesse James was famous because he and his gang did more daring robberies than anyone had ever done and they escaped every time.

Jesse  learned  to guerilla fight in the civil war. The south had lost the war.  Jesse and his older brother  Frank James were angry because they wanted the south to win, not the north. So they started to rob banks and trains with the Younger brothers, some other outlaws.

After  many years of crime they robbed a bank in Minnesota and everything  went wrong and the Younger brothers were killed. Luckily Frank and Jesse stole two horses and rode back to Missouri, their home state.

Then Jesse  got married and had two children but soon got bored so he  went back to crime. then he started a gang with the Ford Brothers, two young outlaws.

After Jesse came home again the governor said "If you can kill or capture Jesse James you will receive 10,000 dollars." So one day after breakfast Jesse saw a picture that needed to be hung properly and while he was fixing it he was shot in the head by a man in his gang named Bob Ford because Bob wanted the reward money.

           

Jesse James was a brilliant man but horrible at the same time.

The Legend of the Trojan Horse

A proud Greek posing with the large wooden horse

The legend of the Trojan Horse is a very interesting legend. Some people think it really happend because some of our scientists have researched enough to find out.

The war, in the legend , was fought for a Greek princess named Helen who was kidnapped by the Trojan king, Paris. Helen was the most beautiful woman in the land. Some people now think that the war was fought for treasure and gold because the Greeks didn't have that stuff. So either for treasure and gold or for the love of a princess the Greeks set off with their leader Agamemnon to surprise the Trojan people with their bow and arrows and other weapons.

The war went on for ten years and never stopped until they finally came up with some nasty trickery and built a gigantic horse. The horse was made of wood and could fit thirty men. Some of the Greek army crawled inside the horse. The rest of the army left on a fleet of boats.

Then the Trojans, not seeing any Greeks, opened the city gates and saw the giant horse and, thinking it was a gift, they pulled it inside the city. That night the rest of the army came back and the men in the horse crawled out and let the army in the gates. Sadly they killed all the Trojan people. Also they took Princess Helen home.

Princess Helen was also called the face that launched a thousand ships because they say her beauty made a thousand ships sail to fight the war.