Jireh's Biography

Adolf Hitler

Adolf Hitler was born on April 20 1889 in brauna Austria.

When he was a kid Hitler always wanted to fulfil his dream of becoming a professional artist, but his dream didn’t come true and he did not do art any more. In 1939, When Adolf Hitler became the leader of the Nazi’s he invaded Poland and World War 2 began. Adolf Hitler and the German army soon had control over most of Europe in 1941, As a part of his plan Hitler ordered an attack on Russia. in the end Hitler died by committing suicide.

By Jireh

Chinese Cinderella Book Review - Fern

Chinese Cinderella is a autobiography about Adeline Yen Mah as she captured her childhood in words. Adeline describes her life as she struggeled to be accepted in her own family. Her life at home was hard and she wasn't allowed to go to friends houses or to have them over at her own. For quite a lot of her childhood she was sent away to boarding schools and usually only sent home for a family members death. Whenever she was home she was treated as if she wasn't part of her own family. When she was eight years old she was given a duck which became her best friend until one day her fathers and step mother Niang's dog tore it apart eating it while her father just said something like ok it must need more training. Chinese Cinderella is a very inspiring book and a great read.

Midnight Fox book review

Midnight Fox is a good book its about a boy going to his aunts farm because his mum and dad were going on a holiday to Europe. He didn't want to go to his aunts farm he just wanted to stay home but in the end when he liked the farm. While he was on the farm Tommy saw a black fox creeping down to the farm to eat the hens. Tommy watched the fox while he was at the farm and when he had to leave the farm his memories were of the sneaky black fox.

By Faith

Novel Study Book Review

Don't Call me Ishmael is a novel written by Michael Gerard Bauer. This book is part of our classes novel studies, the group that have read this book is Christi, Rowan, Zara, Thobie, Michael F and Renaye It is about a boy called Ishmael Leseur who gets teased about his name by a boy called Barry Bagsley until a new boy named James Scobie arrives. He said that when he had a brain tumour removed the operation did something to his brain and made him fearless. Barry Bagsley and some of his mates thought this was a joke so they put heaps of bugs in his desk (James said that he was scared of bugs before the operation). When he opened his desk all the bugs jumped out and landed everywhere. He ended up with a giant Mexican Bird Eating spider on his face. Then Scobie decides to make a debating team. He holds a meeting and only 3 other people show up. He puts Ishmael's name down without asking him and so Ishmael had to do it. Orazio Zorzotto (Razza), Ignatius Prindabel and Bill Kingsley were the only ones interested. On the way he met other people such as Kelly Faulkner who he saw at a debating workshop and couldn't stop thinking about her.

By Renaye.

Callum's Biography

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 4^th 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

Rowan's Biography

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

Fern's Biography

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