Day 121 Sophie's Blog: Write a detailed book report on Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone was an audio book that we listened to on our way down to Virginia and Florida. Here is my summarized book report on this well known fairytale about the young wizard Harry, who escaped from the dreaded Valtamore: It was a dark cold night, Professor Dumbledore and Professor McGonagall were walking down Douglas street with a small infant with a lightning scar formed on his head. They left harry lying down on the door step of the family of the Durzley's. Vernon, Petunia, and Dudley Durzley were Harry's Aunt Uncle and cousin. There was a note taped to Harry asking if the Durzley's would take care of him, they didn't want to at all but they could use a servant so they took him in. for 11 years harry had been treated exactly like a servant. He slept in the closet under the stairs. He always had to let Dudley and his friends tease him. He had no friends and lived all those years without knowing he was a wizard. Then came Dudley's birthday. The Durzley's took Dudley and Harry to the zoo. When they went in to the reptile house something strange happened. After Dudley got bored of the snake they saw and started tapping the glass he went on to look at other animals, Harry stayed behind and said sorry to the snake about Dudley, the snake started talking back! The glass keeping the snake in was gone and Harry let the snake go! When Dudley was curious he went inside the glass and it formed itself back up making Dudley stuck! Things got even stranger after that. An owl was flying over their house one day, and at the same time a piece of mail came flying through the mail slot, the letter read, "To, Harry Potter" but of course uncle Vernon wouldn't let Harry open it soon after that another owl came and the same letter came through the mail slot. In that week the house became infested with the same letter. More than 5 dozen owls were putting letters through the chimney under the door and everywhere you could imagine. Harry secretly opened one, "Dear Harry, You have been accepted in to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Before you start please pick up a wand, schoolbooks, and remember to stop by Gringotts in Diagon Alley. School will start on September first of the new year. Please arrive at the London train station, platform number 9 and 3/4 Signed, Professor Albus Dumbledore" Professor Albus Dumbledore thought Harry who's he. Harry's 11th birthday was finally here, not that Harry was looking forward to it because it just meant another day with the Durzley's, but the Durzley's traveled to a little island in the sea to "celebrate" Harry's birthday. There was a storm outside and Harry couldn't get to sleep. Instead he lay awake thinking about Dumbledore's letter. "Diagon Alley" Harry thought, where might that be? At that very moment a very large man came in to the hut with a box that said Harry on it. He gave it to him and wished him a happy birthday. Harry thanked him and opened the box, inside was a cake. Harry questioned how the big man knew his name and who he was. The big man said," I'm Hagrid, former wizard Animals and games teacher at Hogwarts" The Durzley's were terrified of Hagrid and told him to get out. Hagrid didn't listen and asked Harry if he had his school supplies yet. Harry said no so he hopped on to Hagrid's, "FLYING MOTORCYCLE!" The next day they arrived in Diagon Alley. First they went in to the lounge of the hotel they stayed at and met some of Harry's teachers that he would have at Hogwarts like Professor Quirell. Then they went to the wand store. Harry tried out a few wands finally they found the right wand for him. Harry was amazed at this world. Then they went to get his school books and supplies. Last but not least on their shopping spree stopped at Gringotts bank. Harry asked Hagrid why everyone knew his name and Hagrid told Harry the story of how he survived Valtamore, who they could not name in the wizard world. Once they got in to Gringotts they went to vault number 687 to get Harry's money for Hogwarts. On August 31st Harry was so excited; tomorrow he was going to Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry. Tomorrow finally came and the Durzley's dropped Harry off at the train station. He got inside but could not find platform number nine and three quarters. He saw a family of red heads, 4 of the kids looked like him with a cart with an owl, a pet, the books, and their own wand. They knew that it was Harry's first time. Harry asked the lady how to get to the platform she recognized him immediately and introduced her kids. This is Ron, Fred, George, Percy and Jenny. Harry watched Percy go through the brick barrier, "Oh I get it now, said Harry" So him and Ron, his new friend ran through the barrier and boarded the Hogwarts express they met a genius girl named Hermione on the train. They made friends with her. Harry loved Hogwarts he got put in Gryffindor by the sorting hat with Ron and Hermione. Harry liked all his teachers except for one, Professor Snape, the professor of potions. He liked all the people at Hogwarts except for one Draco Malfoy who was put in to Slitherin. After 3 months of school Harry learned a lot. During flying lessons when madam Hooch was gone, Harry retrieved Nevil's rememberum. Professor McGonagall saw and immediately put Harry in the quidditch team. Quiddetch is the most popular wizard sport in the wizard world. Harry is the seeker, his job is to catch the snitch and win the game. The most difficult position in the game. Harry was the Gryffindor Seeker; he was as good as his father James Potter who was also the Gryffindor seeker. So after 2 semesters of learning spells, fighting giant trolls, going to Hagrid's hut, and making new friends. Harry found out something, Hagrid accidently told him about the sorcerer's stone. Fluffy, the giant three headed dog was guarding it. Once harry figured out how to get past fluffy he found it. He tried to grab it. After fighting Professor Quirrel, he recovered the stone safely for Professor Dumbledore. The day finally came when Harry had to go back home to the Durzley's. After all this, Harry, Ron, and Hermione gained points and won the house cup for Gryffindor. The next year is another story to come. If you want to know just a little bit more, read Harry Potter and the sorcerer's stone and for the second book of what to come in the next year, read Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Day 122 Sophie's Blog: Write good 30 + sentence blog about Epcot—how about Spaceship Earth and The Land—also write a detailed blog about the Kim Possible adventure.
Sophie's Blog: I'm going to let you in on a little secret…. "I LOVE DISNEY WORLD!" And one of the things I love about Disney is one of its theme parks, Epcot. Epcot stands for "Experimental Prototype Community of tomorrow." Epcot is an educational theme park with fun thrill rides such as Soarin', Test Track, Spaceship Earth, and Nemo. But all of them are educational. Epcot teaches people of the future world and how we can make the future world a better place. One of the other thing's I like about going to Epcot is Kim Possible. Kim Possible was a T.V that was on a couple of years ago. It was about this teenage girl named Kim Possible who was a Secret Agent saving the world from super Villains. At Epcot's World Showcase You can help Kim Possible out as a secret agent. In different places around "The World" On my missions I went to England, Mexico, and Germany. In England I had to stop Duff Killigan from turning the world in to a giant golf course. I followed Wade and found golf balls in a telephone booth, saw robot butterfly's move and even talked to a clerk in the tea store and found out where Duff Killigan was hiding so I could stop him. In Germany I saw steins sing and stopped the Dementor by chasing him inside a big clock! I don't remember the rest. There was a ride we did this time that we never did before, it's called… "The Land". It teaches people how recycling and growing your own crops will help the environment. Inside the symbol that recognizes Epcot, The big golf ball, is a ride called spaceship Earth. Spaceship Earth teaches you that the future is really in the past. At the end they added this cool thing, here let me tell you how they do it. At the very beginning of the ride they take your picture. I made a funny face. J At the end they have a computer screen. You answer questions and they built our future. Mom and I made our future all about recycling. They put the pictures from the beginning and put them in cartoon bodies, it was HILARIOUS!
Day 123 Sophie's Blog: Disney World. Write a convincing blog (30+ sentences) about why going to Disney World can be considered a learning experience. What did you learn at Disney World?
- Backstage Tour: During the backstage tour I learned how they made movies. This is at Disney's Hollywood Studios next to the famous stunt show, "Light's, Camera's, and Action". At the beginning of this educational tour, they pick 4 guests in line and get them dressed up in water suits. When the tour finally begins, these 4 guests go out on set. The director tells you what's going to happen and tells the "actors" what they're going to do. One of the guests, in this case Mike, sat in half of an office. Suddenly, water came splashing in through the window and mike got soaked. The other three, Claire, Rick, and Peter were on the set of a ship. Special effects sounded like cannons and blew up in the water, fire was on the ship and it was so cool. After that we boarded buses and looked at all the props from the movies, such as herby the car, planes from pearl harbor, and even the figure head from pirates of the Caribbean.
Walt Disney's story: In Disney's Hollywood Studios there is a movie called Walt Disney's story. He told it himself for his guests like me. He was born in Chicago Illinois, and then moved to Missouri with his Parents and his Brother Roy. He grew up there. When Roy got a job in the navy, Walt didn't know what to do with his life, So he decided to go in to the animation business. When he was about 24 he married one of his workers, Lillian. Lillian and Walt were very happy together and they lived a great life. On their way back from New York city after visiting Roy, Walt started doodling a mouse. He doodled and right then and right there, came Mickey Mouse. Walt first decided to name Mickey, Mordemer mouse. But Lillian liked Mickey. Soon after that came steamboat Willy, Mickey's first animation. Walt did the first voice of Mickey mouse. (Which is hard to believe because Walt had such a low voice.) Steamboat Willy was an animation showing the hilarious personality of the Mickey mouse we all know so well today. After Donald, Goofy, Minnie, and Pluto, Walt had an even bigger dream. Walt had an idea of Disneyland, a place where Dreams come true. He first got the idea because of his two little girls; He wanted a fun amusement park where the whole family could have fun together. He made some of the famous Disney movies in this time and in 1955 Disneyland was opened. With the Cinderella Carousel, Peter Pan's Flight, The Haunted Mansion, and many other famous rides we all know today. More movies came out and Walt had his newest dream of Disney World. A place in Orlando Florida, bigger then Disneyland with more rides and different theme parks. Walt passed in 1974 so the imagineers worked harder in June that year Disney World opened and has improved amazingly until this very day.
- Hall of President's: The hall of Presidents is in Liberty Square of the Magic Kingdom. It first starts out as a movie telling you about very important presidents such as George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Kennedy and FDR. They tell each famous Presidents story and what they did for this country. At the end they have all the Presidents of history in a room together and name them in order. At the very end president Obama comes and says a speech and that's the finale.
- Animal Kingdom safari: We did the Animal Kingdom Safari, also known as the Kilimanjaro Safari the second week we were in Disney. It was raining so there was no line. We got on and all the animals were active, we even saw the cheetahs! (which we never see.) The idea of this ride is that you're in Africa on a week vacation on a safari; At the end you stop poachers from capturing a baby elephant.
Day 124 Kennedy Space Center. 30 sentences
On Thursday, March 31st, Dad and I went to the Kennedy Space Center. This was the day of the tornado in Florida, But the cool part about that is that I saw the lightning hit the lightning rods! The first thing we did is we saw a show called star trek live. An alien came to Earth and Commander Chris found out. The Aliens name was Orca and she needed a volunteer to time travel to space with her, they picked me! We went back stage and she asked me to start fanning myself with a shell. We ended up on a "beach" and I was over heating myself. Finally we arrived in space. We did our mission and returned home. Me and Dad went in to the Rocket Garden, did the bus tour, the space shuttle launch experience and we even ate lunch at the lunching pad! The shuttle launch experience was like a Disney ride, I think that they copied it from Disney. It was really realistic according to the astronauts who tried it. It flips you vertical and launches you through different phases. The shuttle launch experience is exactly like how the astronauts train. We went to where the shuttles actually launch and could see it on our Bus tour. It was really cool.
Day 125 Write a good book report on Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets: This was the summer after Harry's first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Harry was turning twelve years old this year and this would be his second year at Hogwarts. He met two best friends there Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. He had been writing to them through the summer and they haven't responded. There was a month before he went to Hogwarts again and that night at the Durzley's house something weird happened. A House elf named Dobby from the wizard world. The Durzley's had a family from next door come over and they were selling something to them. Dobby warned Harry not to go to Hogwarts this year and when Harry refused to listen to Dobby, Dobby spilled cake on The Durzley's guests and they didn't get their deal. After this the Durzley's refused to let Harry go to Hogwarts. Harry found out that Dobby was stealing his letters from Ron and Hermione. At that very moment Ron, Fred, and George came by Harry's window in a flying car asking if he wanted a ride, they knew what was happening. Harry escaped with them in the car. He spent the rest of that month there at the weasley's house. They went to Diagon Alley to get school supplies but Harry went the wrong way and got stuck he ended up in a store and saw Malfoy and his dad. Luckily Hagrid found him and lead him back to Diagon Alley. He saw Hermione and they went to go see Gildeory Lockhart.
Day 126 Jamestown
We went to Jamestown Virginia on April 3rd. We first went to the original Jamestown. After Emma had a talk with one of the park rangers about building his house, we moved on to the Jamestown fort. We talked to a guy there and he gave us a lot of information. I videoed and then we went to the archearium which is a museum of archeology. We saw a skeleton of a 1607 killed boy. We saw lots of other old stuff found in the ground at the archearium. Then we went to the place like Plymouth. (except I didn't like it because it wasn't at all as authentic as Plymouth.) But I learned a lot and we filmed there. There were replicas of the three ships and we watched a movie and I did my interview.
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