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.

Astronomy

Hello, my name is Elsa and I'm going to teach you what astronomy is and what it was used for long ago.

In ancient times clocks and calenders didn't exist, so people would have to see the way shadows were pointing like we use compasses, clocks and calenders to tell what time it is and what direction we are going.

Today, me and my mom did a science experiment to tell time like ancient people. The experiment is: You take a big piece of paper and a ball of clay. Put the paper in the sun outside and put the clay in the middle of the piece of paper. Poke a long stick in the clay so it stands up. Then grab a compass. The shadow should point in the same direction as the N on the compass. This must be done at noon to one o'clock. When we tried it worked perfectly. Later on at night we went outside to try to see the Big Dipper.

The Big Dipper told people from ancient times what season it was because of how it changes in the sky. Right now in September it stands upright.

The first astronomers name was ptolemy, he believed that the moon, sun and stars circled the Earth and that the Earth stood still. The second was Galileo, he invented the first telescope using lenses. The third astronomer was Isaac Newton, he invented a telescope using mirrors instead of lenses.

Well it was fun writing about astronomy. I hope you enjoyed it and learned a lot.

Short Story: Zoey in the Forest

Once upon a time there lived a ten year old girl named Zoey Linter. She had eyes a foggy yellow, very pale pink lips and bright orange hair. Today she wore a pink shirt with a picture of a turquoise cat on it. Her pants, as usual, were a funny color like a greyish pink .

One night she stayed the night at her grandma’s house, which always had all sorts of books and things . She always ended up taking something home to study , maybe a rock , maybe a trophy , just like the one she found tonight with the initials M.S. ‘Grandma’ Zoey yelled from upstairs . Her grandma came upstairs. “ Whats this “

‘ It ‘s the Strider Bother’s father’s trophy he won before his boys died.’

“Who are the Strider Brothers?” said Zoey

“They lived in a mansion on Strider lane named after them. There were three brothers and they died mysteriously in a forest.”

Then they decided to take a night time walk, and her grandma took her to the last place she would EVER want to go.

“Grandma are you crazy ? Are you nuts ? You’re going to take me strate down the middle of the forest of screams?”Zoey yelled. But it was no use, her grandma just kept going.

When they got inside the forest , many strange beasts would pass by that nobody knew existed . “In this forest there is an animal called a ninya and it eats people. this, is a ninya cave” said her her grandma pointing to a small dark cave. And these , said her grandmother, are the skeletons of the Strider Brothers , now do you understand ? “

“Yes I do , The ninya ate the Strider Brothers “ said Zoey.

“Come we must go now “said her grandma.

“Lets get out of here “ said Zoey.And Zoey ran out of the forest as fast as she could through the trees. Then when Zoey got out of the forest she realized :

“Oh my dear grandmother you’re not with me. Where could you be?”said Zoey.

“Help HELP!”yelled her grandma. Zoey ran back into the forest as fast as she could until she found her grandmother half unconscious laying on the ground “I’ve injured my leg ,” her grandmother said.

Then Zoey called the ambulance.

Zoey stayed with her grandpa instead, the next morning her grandpa took her home
After that her grandma’s leg healed and they NEVER NEVER NEVER went into the forest EVER again.
THE END

Biographical Essay: Charlie Chaplin's Career

Charlie Chaplin was one of the most famous movie stars in the world. He acted in over 100 silent films.

When Charlie was 14 he got his first chance to act in a real stage show as Billy the page boy in a play called " Sherlock Holmes." Then started his career in Vaudaville, which eventually took him to America. Then things got better and better. he was offered a motion picture contract. he agreed. He was paid one hundred fiftey Dollars a week. Then he got another job doing the same thing. Then his brother Sidney Chaplin took his place in the job he had had before.

At his new acting job he acted in a lot of movies like "The Florewalker," "The Fireman," "The Vagabond," "One AM," "The Count," "The Pawnshop," "Behind the Screen," "Easy Street," and "The Cure."

Then Charlie Chaplin wanted more Freedom in his acting and started making his own movies and acting in them. The first film he wrote was "A Dogs life." Also he wrote a movie called "The Bond," both released in 1919.

Charlie Chaplin died christmas day 1977.

Charlie Chaplin acted in movies until he was very old, and married 18 year old Oona o'Niel. His last movie was "A countess in hong Kong."