World News

Severe Hurricanes
by Julia – 3D

My article is about hurricanes. These are some of their names: Arthur, Bertha, Cristobel, Dolly, Eduardo, Fay, Gustav, Hanna, Isadora and Josephine, Kyle, Lily. Hurricanes are severe tropical storms. Four of the biggest hurricanes are Camille, Gilbert, Betsy, and Andrew. Hurricanes winds are 65-200 miles per hour! They move in a counter-clockwise direction.

Hurricanes form over warm ocean water. Hurricane damage happens because the hurricane carries water and causes flooding along the coast. A group of pilots called Hurricane Hunters fly through hurricanes to measure the size and warn the people. Hurricanes are measured with an intensity scale. Hurricanes are scaled from 1- 5 depending on how strong the wind is. Five is the worst.

In the hurricane, there is a clear spot called the eye. There is no wind or rain in the eye of the hurricane. Hurricanes are constantly moving. Sometimes they go out to sea and stay there. Other times they go out to sea and come back to land and that causes a lot of damage. The hurricane carries water and causes flooding along the coast.

I got my information from two web links: FEMA for Kids and Hurricane Katrina Timeline.

Rosa and Her Adventurous Long Life
by Lauren ~ Class 3D

The women who changed the course of History (Rosa Parks) died of natural causes in her home in Detroit. She died October 24, 2005. It was a very sad death. In this article you will learn what it was like to live in the olden days, you will experience a flash back to the olden days, and you will read where Rosa Parks went to school and why she was put in jail.

Rosa changed the course of history by refusing to give a white man a bus seat in Montgomery. She was thrown in jail because back then if you were a black person and the bus was full, the bus driver would tell you to get up and get off the bus so the white person could sit down. Rosa was fined ten dollars and four more dollars for court fees. All together she was fined fourteen dollars and back then fourteen dollars was a lot. It was so depressing reading this story about our own fighter, Rosa Parks

Rosa attended an African school that had one room and was only open five months a year that only went up to sixth grade. At age eleven Rosa was sent to Montgomery to continue her studies. Five years later she had to take care of her sick grandmother and then her mother.

I got this information from many sources. I got them from websites and a newspaper article. I got my websites from Mrs. Chauncey our school librarian at Grandview Elementary in Monsey.

I wrote the story because in my class my teacher Mrs. Danis made us do a current event which is when you pick an article in the news paper and write a summary and a personal response that's how I got The Rosa Parks story. Which I call, Rosa and Her Adventurous Long Life.