Fox story rewritten

That night when dog was asleep, I whisper to Magpie“I can run faster than Dog, faster than the wind. Leave dog and come with me.”Magpie says, “I will never leave dog. I am his missing eye and he is my wings.” 

I decided to leave Magpie alone and try again tomorrow. The next day dog went to the river,I asked again using a different approach, do you remember what it was like to fly? Truly fly?”Magpie replied, “I will never leave Dog. I am he’s missing eye and he is my wings” Later that day Dog left and as he was running through the scrubs I was looking around outside wondering if I should try one more time to night.And sure enough dawn came and I whispered to Magpie for the third time.To my surprise she replied, “I’m ready” 

We crept silently out while dog slept unknowingly what I was about to do……….. I ran so fast, faster than I had run in my life.I could tell Magpie was ecstatic, she managed to speak and said, “At last I am flying, really flying!”This bought a smile across my sly slender face.I run ever faster through woodlands, the dusty plains, through salt pans, and out into the open, hot red desert.Suddenly I stop panting frantically. There was silence between us. Nether move, nether speaks.I shake Magpie off my back like I would a flea and I pad away swiftly with one movement. 

I break the silence. “Now you and dog will finally no what it is truly like to be alone………..” 1 MONTH EARLIER……… I was racing across the open dusty red plains trying to get away from the fire that had erupted. Suddenly something catches my eye…………….It’s a vibrant blue, with purple wings, it looked magnificent like nothing I had ever seen before I had to go over and save it, whatever it was. 

Parrot and I became best friends! Parrots beak was badly damaged through out the raging blaze and my teeth are extremely sharp and vicious so they make up for it. Although my neck is short and even though I can run I can’t see what is ahead of me so Parrot, every so often fly’s on ahead and warn me of any dangers. We made a great team Parrot and I. “I will never leave you Fox you are by best friend and always will be!”A smile came across my sly face and I replied, “You have also been the best friend that I have ever had I promise to never leave you either.” 

Next morning Parrot and I glided through the shrubs and the rocks and swiftly through the remainings of the trees and out onto the dusty red plains. As usual Parrot flew on ahead but this time quickly returned, “Fox, Fox, Snake is lying down on a rock beside some trees, it looks like it need help!”With that I ran as fast as I could with Parrot guiding me to where snake was lying. Parrot and Snake sat on my back whilst I took them to our den. 

Snake was staring at me all night, I was scared. I moved closer to Fox.When fox was sleeping Snake came up to me and whispered, “Come with me, instead of living with Fox.”I answered forcefully “Fox is my best friend and I will never leave him.”The next day when Fox was down at the waterhole, Snake came up to me again.“Why do you want to live here with Fox?” I replied, “I can trust Fox and he will never leave me and I will never leave him.” I came back and there seemed to be an awkward silence in the den. I looked at Parrot, Parrot looked at me.She whispered to me. “Snake is trying to tear us apart.”I replied “He is just a little odd leave him alone.” 

Parrot thought long and hard about what Snake had said and wondered if he would ask him again tonight. And sure enough Snake slithered over to him and asked for the last time, “Leave Fox and come with me.” To Snakes surprise Parrot replied, “I’m ready.” Off Parrot and Snake went through the salty pans and scrubs. Suddenly there was a loud bang and Parrot fell from the sky. Snake slithered over to him and said, “Now you and Fox will no what it is like to finally be alone…………………..”

foxes and friendships

Q1). Write a short piece on your blog, explaining what “friendship” means to you. Who has been a good friend to you? When have you been a good friend to someone else? What does it mean to be a “good friend” to someone?

Friendship means to be a loyal friend and to hang out together and to always to be there for each other. Like my best friends Dannii, Tania and Ashliegh.k they are my best friends they are always there for me and I love them heaps!! I have been a good friend when one one of my friends had a fight with another person I was on her side because I knew she was telling the truthand had done nothing to hurt the other person! Ashy has been a best friend to me all my life and we were born on the same day! When I had gastro she came over and sat with me and got me anyhting and everyhting I needed untill I got better. Thats why I luv them all xoxoxo I have heaps of other awsum friends i luv them heapz 2!! xoxo

2) Do you think it’s important to have good friends?

I think it is very important to have good friends because it is good to no that you can rely on people and trust them.

3) Why is Fox described as a ‘flickering tongue of fire’? What does this tell us about the effect he will have on Dog and Magpie?

Fox is described as a flickering tounge of fire because he is red like the fire and he can run as fast as the fire that flickered through the desert.

4) Think of five words that describe Dog, Fox and Magpie

betraial, trust, friends, animals, different.

5) Magpie feels that Fox’s smell fills up the cave. She isn’t really describing his smell, but how she makes him feel. What does this tell you about how she feels about Fox?

I think that it makes Magpie feel insecure, because of the way fox kept staring at her throughout the day. Also if Fox trys to attack Magpie will be helpless because she can no longer fly, especially if Dog wasn’t around.

6) Why do you think Fox splits up Dog and Magpie? Would he have done this if he had more friends of his own?

I think Fox split up Magpie and Dog because he has had past expperiences and now he is alone and seeing Magpie and Dog so happy together made him remember of his past and couldn’t stand it so he had to split them up!

7) Why would Fox’s scream be a scream of despair? Why would it be one of triumph?

I DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS QUESTION!!?!??!

Do you think Magpie was really good friends with Dog? Why/why not?

I do think Magpie and Dog were good friends because through out the book Magpie kept on saying to Fox “Dog is my missing wings and I am his missing eye.”

Stalker-writing activity

Q. Write a letter to one of the characters, talking about what they’ve been doing in the book.  What would you want to say to them?

Dear Lucy,

It’s Maddie and I’m writing to you about the book ‘Stalker’. It is a very interesting book so far and I was just wondering if I could ask you a few questions about it.

I would like to know if being stalked makes you act more cautiously in what you do and why?

Lucy, you said in the book that you felt special being stalked because it meant someone wanted to follow you and watch your every move , and that they thought about you all the time and listened to you on your radio station druing your graveyard shift! I wouldn’t feel special if I was being stalked. I’d feel scared and knowing that they knew where you lived and what you were doing  every second of the day. If I were being stalked I would change my locks and get an system in my house so if the stalker tryed to break in, the alarm would go off and hopefully they would catch the stalker!!

One final question for you. How does it feel talking on the radio and having your own station? Interviewing people and answering all the phone calls sounds like the funnest part of the job!

Plaese try and get back to me if you have time

lots of luv

luv mads

xox

Being Bindy

Q. Describe one of the charactors from your book. What do they look like? What was your charactors purpose in the book?

The charactor that I have chosen to write about is Bindy she is the main charactor in the book. Bindy has green eyes, long brown hair and she usually wears it up because she doesn’t like the way it blows in her face. Her best friend is Janey and they have been best friends since they were born, they did everything together fro hanging out at school to doing chores at home! But so far in the book Janey has become friends with Hannah and Bindy doesn’t like it because Janey is spending more time with Hannah then her. Janey and Hannah organised to go to the movies and invited her. They got ready at Janey’s and Hannah and Janey picked out clothes for Bindy to wear. Bindy wore a black top that looked like a tiny bit of material and a skirt that was 30cm long that was like a belt and every outfit needs shoes Hannah gave her some stilletos and Bindy could hardly mowalk in them!! Bindy, Hannah and Janey took a cab to the mall and when they were inside Bindy was constantly trying to pull her belt like skirt down, Thats all I’ve read so far but I’ll keep you updated about Bindy Hannah and Janey! xoxo

POLITICS

Today we learnt about politics and at the star of the lesson I didn’t know what it was. We started off saying all the things that Politics were involed with like Policy, Police, Politicions, they all start with the prefix ’Poli’. We moved on to explain the levels of Government, Fedral, State and Local. I learnt that there were more parties then Labor and Liberal, like Green, Democratics, National and Family First. There are also alot of other indepentent arties that arn’t as popular or as well know.

Yr 7 english

Last year for year 7 english my teacher was Miss Pryor and we were her first year 7 class and she was a really good teacher. My favourite project that I did was the Jurasic park film study as one of the follow up activitys we produced Jurasic Park 4!! Its a really good movie but I wasn’t there for the filming of it because I was sick I watched the end product and I really enjoyed it. Another thing we did that was new to not only us but the whole school it was the laptop program and we were the first year to test it out! On the laptops we had Digital portfolios led by us. (Student Led Conferences). Student Led Conferences are the same as parent-teacher conference but the students lead them and they are on a projector screen and you talk tyour parents through what you have done throughtout the semester I really enjoyed decorating them and I’m looking forward to continuing with the laptops this year. lots of luv me xox