Mr Wrinkle's Class Writing Page 2006/2007

No Hitting

mrwrinkle — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:05:36 +0000

No Hitting

Luckey Luckey don’t hit me rub rub against me all because you hit me rub rub aginst me if you don’t

I’ll go back to play

Step

Rub

Back

And forth

Rub, rub, rub aginst me

Ellen Craft

mrwrinkle — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:55:01 +0000

Hi I am Ellen Craft. I am a slave for the family the Collin’s. Christmas is coming and that means twice as much work for me.Walking trough the cold foggy night to my cabin, kind of creepy. I still don’t believe that I was sold to like an animal to the Collin’s. When I was a little kid I was taken away from my mom. When I married William we made a promise to never have kids in slavery.William and I have been talking about going to Philadelphia, but Philadelphia is hundreds of mils from Georgia and mast slaves who try to runaway get caught or killed! We talked for hours thinking about our ideas to runaway. Then William took my hand and said “I can travel around as your slave.” A black woman would not travel around with a black slave”. Will said “you will be a white man”. He said. We had to try it. The next day Will and I asked for our Christmas passes. Christmas passes are passes that let you visit their familys.Will and I going to Philadelphia on December 20 to fight slavery. I sowed for how and Will got me a men’s shirt. Then Will cut my hair. Then I put on some of Wills pants got some bandages for my face. Because my face is smother than a mans face. Then I put my arm in a sling because slaves don’t learn how to write. My eyes look like woman eyes so I have to where black sunglasses. The night got darker and colder and it started to snow. Rite before I left I looked at the fire and imaged a house with kids running around. Then will and I walked to the ticket man and asked for tickets to Philadelphia. The ticket man said nothing more than “have a nice day”. I thought he would say ‘runs away slave”! I said I was “Mr.Jonhson”.Will had to ride on a “slave train”. I got to ride on a “Masters train”. So from there I was on my own. I looked at my seat and then Mr. Clay came out of nowhere and said “Is this seat taken”? I was popping out of my skin with fear! Does he recognize me? I had nothing to say but “Um, no”. To this day I still think about it. We got of the train and we went on a boat. I got a nice comfy bead. Will had to sleep outside on the bow. We got something to eat at a diner. Everyone called me “Sir” and Will called me “Master”. The water that served me said “You’re spoiling your slave. You must treat slaves like dogs”. I felt like screaming “Slaves are not dogs!!” But I would blow my cover. In Charleston we went to another diner and got gray food. Will had to eat of a broken plate. My waters where slaves so I gave them an extra tip. They seemed very nice. When Will and I went to the ticket man to go get tickets for the next train he wouldn’t believe me that Will was my slave. Because some white people would sneak slaves to freedom. Thank god some man from the train came and said “That is Mr. Johnson’s slave Will. So the man said “fine I give up”. It was Christmas eve and we had to go on one more train to get to Philadelphia then some guy goes up to Will and says “Where do you think your going boy”? Will almost panicked “um… to Philadelphia with my master”. Will said with total fear. “You have to be approved first” the man said then he took will to the office. I went with Will to the office to try to convince the man that he was my slave, but he wouldn’t listen to reason. The man wanted proof that Will was my slave so I took out my 2 tickets to Philideliaphia and said “Is that enough proof for you”? The man looked at me and said “Is there anyone in Baltimore that knows you”? “No” I said angrily. Then Pow a crowed of people came to the office door. I tried so hard not to panic then I took out the tickets to Philideliaphia I twisted my voice and said “I bought the tickets to Philideliaphia and you can’t keep me in hear”! I herd the crowed out side say “Yaahh. Let them go”! So he looked at the tickets and let us go. I hoped that the train did not leave yet! Will and I jumped onto the train and I sat down buy the window and thought in a few hours it will be Christmas and we will be in Philideliaphia. I woke up to the nice Christmas morning.

Wilbur Wright

mrwrinkle — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:53:30 +0000

Looking at the News Paper and the front headline it said that it would take 1,000 years to build a flying plane. I thought and wondered if my brother and I can do anything to find away to make a plane. I walked to “Kill Devil Hill” a little cloudy on this day but just what I and my brother wanted. I let the camera people get ready to set up. I hoped, it would stay up for the camera people or I would be just wasting their time. Now it was time. My brother and I tried to decide who would fly the plane. We choose my brother Orville to fly the plane. Before I even knew it, I saw my brother two feet in the air. I heard in the back round the camera people taking pictures and they said “oooooooo” and “wow”! Then after 12 seconds it lands and my brother and I started to laugh and clap with excitement. I helped my brother get off the plane and then he hugged me and he said “you did well”. I choose to make this plane because I always thought that my job was boring and I wanted to make a change in people’s lives. When I made that plane people started to notice me more. I tried to look a little nicer, trying to look more famous. But sometimes I want to go back to my old life and be a normal person. But I made a decision to make a plane and that is what I choose. I always thank my brother for stuff that he did and how he dedicated himself to make this plane.

Orville Wright

mrwrinkle — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 18:51:38 +0000

It was a fine morning. The wind was blowing at a good speed. So I went out to find the Glider. I found the glider buried in the sand form the night before. I dug it out. I and Wilbur fought over who would fly the glider first. But I said I I’ll do it. I got strapped in to the glider. “Woo I’m flying.” Wilbur tried to keep up with the Glider. The wind in my face was hurting; I hit my head on the Glider. The sand came on my face and in my mouth in one seconded the Glider dropped on the sandy sand. I couldn’t see anything I herd voices it sounded like Wilbur and Bill Tate. It was Wilbur and Bill Tate they came running at the Glider. Are you okay asked Bill Tate? Yea I’m fine I said. Soon a bunch of reporters came and asked lots of questions we answer all of them accept for one (how did it fell to fly.) I guess I could say how I felt in words. Riding on that plane changed my life. I was scared when I flew that plane. I thought I was going to go down with a SPLAT! But I didn’t. My longest flight was 56 second’s long. That flight went on to change me because I went on and improved the glider and got a recorded flight of 56 seconds. But that recorded didn’t last for ever. Thanks to me and Wilbur there are planes that travel farther then we could ever imagine. And it all happened on that one day at Kill Devils Hill.

The First Lady

wrinklestudent — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:55:52 +0000

I remember one August day in 1904 I was secretly engaged to my cousin Franklin Roosevelt in Campobello Island. Franklin was my cousin once removed. Franklin and I had to keep our engagement a secret before we

could tell anyone because I was only nineteen and he was twenty-one. Our engagement wasn’t official. Our official engagement was on December 1, 1904. Finally we decided to have our wedding on March 17^th 1905, St.

Patrick’s Day, because the president would be in town here in New York City.

I was known as the First Lady in American History. I was the first president’s wife to make my own money by lecturing, writing, and broadcasting. I had my own newspaper column and several radio stations. I traveled back and fourth across the country on fact finding trips for Franklin. But one day I found there were love letters in Franklin’s luggage. I revealed an affair between Franklin and my secretary Lucy Mercer. I was steamed up. I was so mad at him. That Lucy Mercer went behind my back dating and flirting with my husband. “Why would you do that to me,” I asked her. I fought and argued with Franklin too. “I don’t want to be married to you anymore,” I screamed at him. I demanded a divorce but his mother threatened me with the prospect of raising five kids on my own resources. I really didn’t want to talk to Franklin’s mother, and yet she threatened me. “I just want to get away from him,” I told her.

I was determined that mine and Franklin’s marriage would be fake. I was glad by the way I never wanted to be a president’s wife, and especially Franklin’s. From now on I would have my own separate house from Franklin. That moment changed my life forever.

Harriet Tubman

wrinklestudent — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:51:12 +0000

When I was younger, 15 to be exact, I injured myself which caused me to want to help slaves escape to freedom.

I was working in the field and the sun was scorching hot. The overseer was watching us to make sure that we didn’t escape. A tall black man started sneaking away from the group. From a sneaky tiptoe to a run that seemed to be as fast as he can. I stood there watching the overseer noticed the man and sprung into action. The man was already half way down the path leading to a shop. The overseer started to screaming out swears to give the man the whip and a ton more cruel punishments, I was curious and wanted to know what was going to happen. I stared at the man running for his life and then the furious overseer. I dropped everything and started to run after then. I was just about to run out of breath when we reached a shop. The man started running up and down through the ales and I hid in the corner so the overseer wouldn’t see me. I started to sneak out of the shop when the overseer got really mad and grabbed a lead weight trying to throw it at the man but it hit me instead. I was unconscious for some time. It’s been about 30 years from when this happened. I still go unconscious when I’m in the middle of a sentence. I developed a strong hatred of being treated badly or other slaves being treated badly. As I realize that if that didn’t happen I wouldn’t have leaned towered being a under ground train conductor. By: Harriet Tubman

Alexander Graham Bell

wrinklestudent — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:48:36 +0000

When I was 29 years old I earned my patent for the telephone. On March 7, 1876, the patent office exclaimed I, Alexander Graham Bell with the patent number of 174,465. But yet, my device didn’t quite work. Elisha Gray claimed to have invented the telephone. Three days after I earned my patent, my device actually transmitted my voice.On March 10, 1876 I spilled acid on myself. My assistant Tom Watson was working another part of my house but luckily I connected an electrically charged wire and a receiver. Tom clearly heard my call for help over the now patented telephone. “Mr. Watson come here I want to see you.”The court would now rule I, Alexander Graham Bell have invented the telephone. “It was one of the best moments in my life.”On June 25, 1876, the day general George M. Custer and his troops were demolished at the battle of Little Big Horn in
Montana, the new patented telephone was demonstrated at the Centennial Exposion in
Philadelphia to a small group of judges. They gave me credit for my fabulous work. Among one of those members of the committee was Elisha Gray. Elisha Gray incidentally was not among the other people that contested my claim to be the telephone inventor. I always look back for what I have accomplished when I use the telephone; it tells me that I have invented something useful in the world. I chose to invent the telephone because I wanted people would notice me more and make a difference. When I earned my patent number it struck me that I should work harder to prove that I could invent the telephone. Now I think I could prove anything if someone gives me a challenge.

Jackie Robinson

wrinklestudent — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:47:46 +0000

When I was just got my job with the “Brooklyn dodgers” Branch Ricky (the owner) told me no to fight back with the people who called me names so, I didn’t. Just like that the season started we were celebrating after today’s win. We were having a good time getting ready to go in restaurant when a man said “can’t you read black” said the man. “The sign said NO BLACKS” I was stunned. Branch said “sorry Jackie, if I new we never would have came here. W… well its ok I lied, I’ll go home and eat. So while I was walking home I thought about I watched all the signs that said “whites only” or “blacks only.”I felt so alone like the only black person in the world then I realized that I past my hotel. When I got home I thought about segregation I didn’t think it was right but it was happening. If men like the one at the restaurant never said that I never think I would have got so mad and try to stop segregation to break the color line.

Walt Disney

wrinklestudent — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:46:40 +0000

I can remember it like it was yesterday. One day in 1919 my friend and I started a business called Iwerks Disney because the other way sounded like an eye glass company. After a couple of months drawing cartoons for Iwerks Disney with my friend Ub in that old tall brick building, unfortunately we couldn’t stay in business very long. I thought that my career was over and I was still thinking about a place that I wanted to make. Later on we got a real job in 1920 for the Kansas City film company for 40$ a week. My friend Ub also joined me a couple of weeks later. In 1924 my friend Ub followed me to Hollywood where we became partners in Disney Brothers studio. Before I worked for Laugh-O-Grams, my family moved so I bought a room in a rooming house. I made up my mind to start one of my own animation companies which didn’t go so well then I found Laugh-O-Grams when I was only 20yrs old. Soon Ub, Iwerks Disney and other folks joined me. My first project I wanted to do was make a series of cartoons based on classic fairytales. I made a deal with a company called Pictorial Clubs which they had promised me to disturbed my films to theaters! At the same time I also became the Kansas City correspondent for Universal films shooting life footage. Later I started to use a little girl for Alice in Wonderland. By July 1923 Laugh-O-Grams was out of business and I sold my camera. All that was left was a cardboard, suitcase and a change of clothes. Did I give up? No I went to Hollywood!

The only thing in the world I wanted to do was be a director. I knocked on every door in every studio I could find and they all rejected me. Then I realized I should do cartoons. My uncle saw that that’s what I wanted to do so he turned his garage into a studio. I went to visit my brother in the hospital and I told him what I was going to do. He agreed that that’s what I should do and he wanted to join me. A couple of days later my brother came out of the hospital and joined me. The next day Disney Bros. studio was born again. I bought a 2^nd hand camera for $200. After that, I set up a little shop at 4649 Kingswell

Ave. By Feb. 1924 the Alice series was in full production (it means it’s underway.) A few months later Ub joined me again with Iwerks too! I had to convince my little star to move to L.A. and she did.

A couple of years later I had children which gave me a big idea in my life. It was a hot summer day and my girls were on the carousel, smiling, having fun and a great time. Meanwhile, I was sitting on a park bench just watching them when something hit me (I mean I got an idea) I thought to myself maybe if I make a place where kids can go on rides. Then I thought to myself I can make a place where kids and adults can go on rides. As my girls were on the carousel I kept on getting more ideas like it’s should have more entertainment and much more! The park started to get crowded my kids wanted to go. As we were walking with the wind blowing in my face I kept on thinking and thinking until we got to the car!

Now looking back, by doing Iwerks Disney to Hollywood and watching my kids on the carousel! Wishing I was on it with them. It leads me to a very important thing in my life! If I didn’t own Iwerks Disney or even to go to Hollywood. Who knows were I would be today there will be no Disney Land or even Disney World. Now look I can go on rides with my children an have a blast and so can you!

First Flight

wrinklestudent — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 16:41:58 +0000

On December 17, 1903 at 10:35, I said “Our dream starts now”. The first flight was with Orville at controls the flight only lasted 12 seconds. I was crossing my fingers hoping that my brother is safe, finally he was done. I ran to hug my brother and said “Thank god you’re safe.” It was my turn after we had our rest. The second flight only lasted a second longer then my brother Orville. I flew the fourth time around, I got 852 feet, and 59 seconds we made a huge improvement.

Unfortunately, after I landed safety, the wind blew our plane over. It went tumbling breaking the wings, the motor got damaged, and the chain guides got bent.

But after the day we discovered that no mankind will have to envy to birds as wings. My brother and I both look back on that first flight. We are so happy we are brothers or else we would of not work so hard together.