Dad
Cheerful,determinated
Outgoing, hyperactive, mindless
Dreamer, funny, lovely, caring
Shy, passive, misterious
Serious, insecure
Mon

Fanny
Smart, sincere
Strong,weak, delicated
Ignited by the sunshine
Unique

Letter to the editor

Olivia Coolidge Arachne
http://morganparkcps.enschool.org/ourpages/auto/2012/4/29/44663231/Arachne%20guided%20reading.pdf

Myths and legends in literature are excellent ways to catch reader’s attention, the harmony of the words developed by authors and writers, most of time make readers want to have more of the piece of literature they are reading. Arachne is a legend which we personally loved from the very beginning to the end. The way the story is said and how the characters are described, it gave us a clear picture on our minds of how the girl and the other characters involved looked like. Most time we felt identified with the strong personality of the girl and her attitudes toward her amazing, incomparable skills as sometimes we humans are.

We think that the way the story was developed was simple but clear and gave us fair enough details to understand some elements of literature as the presentation, setting, foreshadowing and the most important, the conflict and the climax. It was extremely interesting how a simple maiden challenged the skill of a Greek goddess. However, we think that the story has a lot of difficult vocabulary, if it has to be read by children. The vocabulary seems somewhat antique and complex even for adults.  

On the other hand, we feel that the story brings a great message to the reader at the end, because it sets some qualities that a person, even a good skilled one should have, like humility, but in our opinion, Arachne should return back to her normal way, demonstrating that for goddess Athene is ok giving second chances to others. For example we consider that Arachne could give Athene an apologize for her words and attitude and become a girl again.

Thus, Arachne has a complex vocabulary and a sad end; we cannot deny the great set of the story from the beginning to the end. The elements of literature and the stunning message that provides and the imaginative development of their deeds grabbed our attention and enthusiasm through the whole story.

Sincerely yours.

Fanny Hernandez, Mayely lopez, Nasly Moran

Short Story

Sushi and the clever bunny

    This was once, a little clever girl named Sushi, who was very talkative and inquisitive that no one of her friends could stand her for more than three minutes, because she was always asking about everything, but Sushi was too stubborn to accept that fact. As she had no friends to trust or to play with, Sushi liked to go to the forest every morning to see the animals and every living thing there was, because Sushi thought that as animals could not talk, they would not get annoyed with her comments.

     One morning, Sushi was sad, sitting on a rock at the edge of a river in the forest, watching the fish passing by; when sudden a little pink creature came out from the grass, it was a bunny. The animal was quite small but it could jump very high and it had big ears, a pinky noise and a very fluffy tail. Sushi thought that it was very cute and funny and decided to take it home, but when she was about to pick it up, for her surprise the little bunny spoke, leaving out these words “I don’t think that's a good idea to take me with you, I suggest you to leave me here and come to visit me as much as you want” to what the stunned girl responded “Unbelievable that a fool bunny is talking to me, I must be out of my mind now” and the bunny said “No, you are not, I can talk because I am a clever bunny, there is no other like me in the world, but I only talk what is necessary and when is necessary”. Sushi was really surprised and delighted with the bunny who also told her that he was not allowed to talk much otherwise he will lose his power and become a simple bunny.

     Sushi understood that she must be quieter if she wanted to have the talkative bunny for a while, but in an instant she had forgotten about the warning the bunny made and she surrounded him with a lot of silly questions, which the bunny had to answer, because he always answered questions. “You should remember that I cannot talk that much dear” the bunny reminded Sushi, but as she was excited she told him “Don’t worry, a few more questions will not harm anyone” and she kept the questions, as the bunny always answered questions, he continued too.
After a while talking, the bunny became to feel tired and his throat began to swell. The bunny told sushi that he had to stop talking and that she had to stop doing questions, because the bunny always answered questions, but Sushi did not listen to what he said and she continued.

     The bunny’s tongue became purple and swelled; and when Sushi finally had a good question to ask, that was “how can I stop talking too much and stop asking people about everything?” the clever bunny wanted to answer, but was too late. The bunny had lost his power of talking, he moved his mouth, but from his throat nothing came. Now Sushi was sad because she had nobody to talk to again. She felt guilty because, she knew it was her fault that the poor bunny was voiceless, but then the bunny started to write in the sand, “I’ll get my power back when you answer yourself to your question” because for the bunny, questions should always be answered. And Sushi started thinking, which would be the answer for her question. 

     Finally Sushi understood that the only one way for her to stop talking and asking was observing more, listen more and talk less and suddenly then the bunny could talk again, telling Sushi this last words “You finally understood, talk less, listen more, otherwise you won’t be able to hear others’ answers”, and Sushi went home cheerful, promising the bunny she will follow his advice.

"Closing our mouth and opening our ears is the only way, we will understand others"

By Fanny Hernandez

Fanny Hernandez

Autobiography

        My name is Fanny Lorena Hernandez Lozano, I was born in February 26th, 1992 in La Ceiba, Atlantida. My parents are, Lucas Javier Hernandez and Lorena Suyapa Lozano. I grew up in a little town named Saba Colon, where I had primary education, firstly in Maria Montessori Kindergarten for two years, then I started school in Francisco Morazan School where I finished elementary school.

I entered high school at "4 de Septiembre" institute in 2004, spending three years there; in 2006 I finished it.

In 2007, being only fifteen years old, I moved to Catacamas Olancho to study Elementary School Teaching, for three years at Escuela Norlmal Mixta de Olancho; there I lived with an aunt of mine. I graduated in 2009 as an elementary school teacher. In Novemenber of the same year I returned to Saba to live with my family. Later on, in April 2010, I applied to enter to UPNFM to study Food and Nutrition Security in La Ceiba, where I was accepted.

After two years studying that carrer, in October 2011, I decided to change carrer and study English Teaching as a Second Language in the same university, and I started the career in February 2012, where I am still studying. 

Love Takes Wing

Chapter 1
The end of a long day

 In this Chapter a girl named Belinda, was taking care of a family farm in the countryside, she was stressed out because of things that happened in the farm recently. Jamie a worker had cut his hand in a  piece of farm machinery. Luke a guy that was studying medicine helped to cure Jamie and tried to save his fingers. But Belinda was focused on the event that had been filling her with exciment the whole week, the returning of Melissa from the city, Melissa was her nephew but they were like sisters. Belinda was thinking if Melissa was the same or if had the city changed her; she was now finishied wit her teacher's training in the East and would be spending a few weeks at the farm before continuing on to her home in the west. Belinda glanced down at her soiled dress, she hated to leave Luck with the cleaning, but she did need a bath to freshen up to wait for the arrival of Melissa at the train station. Meanwhile Luke was practicing a surgery to Jamie to try to save the fingers.

All the family was going to go to receive Melissa at the station. They were there until Melissa finally arrived and Belinda wanted to hug her but everybody was sorrounding Melissa and Belinda just could not wait to talk to Melissa and discover if she was still the same and if they could be closer as in the past. Finally when they got home they could be alone and share time together. "Oh Belinda" Melissa exclaimed "Look at you!- you are so-so grown-up. And pretty! Ih, I just-" But Melissa did not finishe her statement. Instead, she threw her arms about Belinda, and the two girls held each other tightly. But they could not had that much time together because all the family had questions for Melissa and the end the day passed by and Belinda could not had the deep conversation with Melissa that she wanted because at the end of the day, Melissa was tired and all she wanted was to get rest.

Mahatma Ghandi... an altruist person

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar, India. He became one of the most respected spiritual and political leaders of the 1900's. GandhiJi helped free the Indian people from British rule through nonviolent resistance, and is honored by Indians as the father of the Indian Nation.

 

The Indian people called Gandhiji  'Mahatma', meaning Great Soul. At the age of 13 Gandhi married Kasturba, a girl the same age. Their parents arranged the marriage. The Gandhis had four children. Gandhi studied law in London and returned to India in 1891 to practice. In 1893 he took on a one-year contract to do legal work in South Africa.

At the time the British controlled South Africa. When he attempted to claim his rights as a British subject he was abused, and soon saw that all Indians suffered similar treatment. Gandhi stayed in South Africa for 21 years working to secure rights for Indian people.

He developed a method of action based upon the principles of courage, nonviolence and truth called Satyagraha. He believed that the way people behave is more important than what they achieve. Satyagraha promoted nonviolence and civil disobedience as the most appropriate methods for obtaining political and social goals. In 1915 Gandhi returned to India. Within 15 years he became the leader of the Indian nationalist movement.

Using the principles of Satyagraha he led the campaign for Indian independence from Britain. Gandhi was arrested many times by the British for his activities in South Africa and India. He believed it was honorable to go to jail for a just cause. Altogether he spent seven years in prison for his political activities.

More than once Gandhi used fasting to impress upon others the need to be nonviolent. India was granted independence in 1947, and partitioned into India and Pakistan. Rioting between Hindus and Muslims followed. Gandhi had been an advocate for a united India where Hindus and Muslims lived together in peace.

On January 13, 1948, at the age of 78, he began a fast with the purpose of stopping the bloodshed. After 5 days the opposing leaders pledged to stop the fighting and Gandhi broke his fast. Twelve days later a Hindu fanatic, Nathuram Godse who opposed his program of tolerance for all creeds and religion assassinated him.