Expository Paragraph - My Hobbies

                                                     My Hobbies

          I like doing a lot of things when I have free time, in other words, I like to do my hobbies. My hobbies that I like to do are listening to music, swimming, and read books.I like doing these hobbies, because they are relaxing, to me. Also, I do them because I don’t have anything to do, most of the time. So this is my essay that gives reasons of why I like to do these things.

          I chose listening to music as my hobby. I like listening to them when I do my homework, when I don’t have anything to do, or sometimes when I eat. I like almost all types of music; pop, country, rock n roll, and other type of music. I like to hear them because some songs bring me back memories. Also, because it gives me energy to clean my room. Most of the time, I like hearing music when I’m doing my homework. The music makes fun the homework. Listening to new songs is awesome, because you haven’t heard the song before. This is the reason why I like doing this hobby.

          I also picked swimming of one of my hobbies. I like going swimming, of course when the day is hot. The apartments where I live have a swimming pool (the one which we usually go) and are only for the ones that live in the apartments. I always like going to the pool because I spent more time with my brother and friends. Swimming is good for you, because while you swim, your flexing your arms and legs, to make it short, you exercise. Sometimes is relaxing, but when there are a lot of people in there, for example like little kids, it gets noisy. But still I have a lot of fun. That is my number 2 reason why I like doing this hobby.

         My last choice of my favorite hobbies is reading books. I like to read books when I feel like it or when I have assignments. I like reading books that are comedy, mystery, or scary. Reading books that are comedy is fun for me because it makes me laugh. Mystery books leave you wondering. Scary books terrify you and sometimes don’t make you sleep at night. Reading books at home warms up your brain for school, and makes your reading better. I like hearing or reading stories of any kind. No matter if the story is fantasy or real, I would probably like it. This is my last reason of why I like doing this hobby, reading.

         These are the reasons of why I like to do these hobbies. I like to listen to music because it helps me get energy. I like swimming because I have fun and it is exercising. Also, reading is cool because it helps your reading to get better and learn more new things. So this is my essay of my three favorite hobbies that I like to do when I have some free time.

Social Studies Summary - 10/19/11

                                       Hadar

             

                                 Exciting New Discoveries

            Donald Johanson was an anthropologist in 1974. An anthropologist is a scientist that studies lives of human beings. Hadar is a place that is located in Great Rift Valley in Africa. Before long ago, Hadar was a forest and grasslands that had lakes. That year, Johanson and his team were working in under the hot sun, when Johanson was digging, he found bones of an early ancestor.

                                        Putting Together the Pieces

              Johanson and his colleague, Tom Gray, dug the bones carefully. A colleague is a coworker. When they had done digging, they had collected 46 parts of bones of one skeleton. When all the parts of bone were reassembled, he realized that he had found 40% of a skeleton, a small type of Australopithecus. The bones of the skeleton, which Johanson found, was the most complete skeleton of Australopithecus ever found. With all the parts and sizes that he found, he knew that he found a female one. So he named her Lucy, but her scientific name is Australopithecus afarensis.

                                           Walking on Two Feet

               After the scientist tested Lucy, they discovered that she lived in between 3.2 and 3.8 million years ago. This is the oldest ancestor that was discovered. Older than the Nutcracker Man. Johanson discovered another important thing, Lucy had walked like a normal human, with both feet, scientists call it bipedalism.

                                           The Importance of Bipedalism   

                Bipedalism is so important because walking upright on both their feet, is a considered one of the basic traits of human beings. Trait means is a quality that makes something what it is. Anthropologists never found tools old enough like Lucy, so now scientists think that the earliest ancestors walked upright with both feet before they use any tools or could speak, or as Johanson says, the discovery of Lucy proved that walking upright with both feet was the first human trait.

Little Tree Summary - Monica Arreola

                           THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE

          This story is about a boy named Little Tree who was raised by his Cherokee grandparents in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee during the 1930s, after his parents died. Little Tree’s usually daily life was helping his grandparents, learning how to stand up for their rights, and learns a great deal about standing up for his own. Little Tree describes the simple life lessons he learns by living in touch with Nature. 

          Little Tree’s parents died when he was very young. His Cherokee grandparents took him to live with them in the mountains of Eastern Tennessee in 1930s. Every day, his grandfather took him out in the woods, and taught new things, for example, how he makes money; by making whiskey. During that day, he met a special person, Willow John. Willow John, is also an Indian, was a very good friend of Little Tree’s grandfather. Willow told a story to Little Tree that he had to know from the past. He told him about how the white people treated the Indians.

          After days, the government had bad news for Little Tree’s grandparents; they are going to take Little Tree to an orphanage. Little Tree first day at the orphanage was hard, he got punished for correcting the teacher and thought that wasn’t fair. In the night, his grandfather couldn’t let Little Tree in that orphanage anymore, so he snick in the orphanage and took Little Tree home with him.

          After a few days, Little Tree’s grandfather died, in the same day, her grandmother also died. His grandmother left him a letter, before she died, that said that they will always be together. Willow John took care of Little Tree, after his grandparents died, but not for long.

          This story was mainly about Little Tree, who was raised by his Cherokee grandparents and Willow John, in Tennessee. Little Tree was an Indian boy who learned how to read, and stand for his rights from his grandparents. Little Tree was taken to an orphanage by the government. But luckily, his grandfather took him out of there. After days passed, Little Tree’s grandfathers died, and also Willow John, Little Tree was now all by himself, and after all the things Little Tree’s grandparents taught him, I think he will know how to take care of himself and become a responsible person.