Barack Obama
Barack Obama is a famous man from USA. He is the first black president of the United States of America. A long time ago white were treated better than the blacks. He was born on the 4th August 1961.
Barrack Obama likes hanging out with his family. He has read all the Harry Potter books.
One of his hobbies is reading. Barack’s favourite book is Moby Dick by Herman Melville. Barack plans to install a basketball court in the White House grounds.
By Callum
Jehanne d’Arc
Have you ever wanted to lead armies as a teenager? 598 years ago, someone was born who did.
In the year of our Lord 1412, a female child was born to Jacques d’Arc and Isabelle Romeé. Her name was Jehanne, also known as Joan, or sometimes Jean.
She grew up in Donrémy, and her parents owned 50 acres of land. Another odd fact about her was: She had visions; the first one came to her when she was about 12. She said Saint Michael, Saint Catherine and Saint Margaret told her to drive the English out of France and bring the Dauphin to Reims for his coronation.
Joan d’Arc led many battles, but she was eventually captured by the English. Before her trial, however, she attempted to escape many times, one of them by jumping out of a 21-metre high tower, but was easily recaptured.
Joan d’Arc was trialled and found guilty of heresy, and was burnt at the stake on 30 May 1431. Her remains were cast into the Seine. After her death, however, a retrial was held and she was found innocent. Sadly, she never found out as she was dead crazy (in Seine).
She was an amazing figure in history, in that she led armies as a teenager, never lived to be twenty, and was also a saint.
By Rowan
Anne Frank.
How would you like being seen taking a step outside was a step towards death? Jews lives were ordinary. They played with their toys played with their friends; they would ride their bikes and go to the seaside. Until one man ruined all Jews lives. World War II was death to a lot of people but to Jews it was worse than death.
Anne Frank was one of those Jews. For the first five years of Anne Frank’s life she didn’t expect anything horrible to happen she lived in good care of her parents (Otto & Edith Frank) and her sister Margot, they lived in an apartment on the outskirts of Frankfurt.
In the year of 1933 everything went downwards because of the Nazis & Hitler, took seizure of power, killing everyone that in their view wasn’t the fitting in as the perfect race. It was then that Otto Frank fled to Amsterdam in the Netherlands, where he had business connections, soon after the rest of the family followed Otto, with Anne being the last of her family to arrive in February 1934 after staying with her grandparents in Aachen. When Anne Frank arrived she found her family living and hiding in a deserted attic with four other Jews known to the Frank family, they stayed in the attic for two years.
For Anne’s thirteen Birthdays she was given a diary (that she named kitty) which from then on she wrote in everyday and it became Anne’s best friend that she told everything. She had her diary while the hiding away in the attic. After two years of hiding the feared Nazis found all who was hiding in the attic. They were then all led to a Jew concentration camp otherwise known as a Jews path to death.
While in the concentration camp Anne caught Typhus an soon died along with her sister Margot, their mother died of starvation and their father was the only one of the family to survive. He then helped Anne’s diary get published by editing it. All of those horrible things happened because one man was the biggest threat to a lot of people. But even now that Anne Frank isn’t alive she’s still with us through words.
By Fern
