BA#23/National Geographic

1ST story
Who? A Gila Monster appears in a woman's backyard.
What? The Gila Monster threatens her dogs.
When? This video did not say when it happened.
Where? It  happened in the lady's backyard in Arizona.
Why? It was a venomous lizard that needed something to eat.
How? It was hiding in some bushes waiting to attack.
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/


2ND story
Who? Bison trying to impress females.
What? They butted heads in battles for their mate.
When? It happens from mid July to mid August.
Where? They fought in Yellowstone.
Why? They wanted to impress females so they could mate.
How? They found mates by battling.
http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/player/

3RD story
Who? NASA is discovering new stars.
What? They discovered the"RCW 86", which is a star that Chinese astronomers discovered earlier.
When? The Chinese astronomers found the star 2000 years ago and NASA found it not to long ago.
Where? They found it with their telescopes, when they looked up in space.
Why? They did it to learn more about different things in space.
How? They did it by looking in history and in space.
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/10/pictures/111028-best-space-pictures-comet-mars-saturn-satellite-167-science/

BA#22

A Teen’s Take

          Claire Young says,” I love being a junior volunteer! I like knowing that I can make a difference in my town, even at my age.” She is volunteering at woman’s hospital at only age 14. It is her first year in the Junior Volunteer program there. She has been placed in the GYN/Oncology Department for her first two rotations. The program is for high school students in Baton Rouge and the surrounding parishes.

         Ashley Slario says,“I love volunteering at Woman’s Hospital every summer. It gives me an opportunity to work as a nurse or a doctor. I would really like to become a doctor when I grow up.” She is seventeen and she is also volunteering at Woman's Hospital (just like Claire). It is her fourth year in the program as well. She was placed in the Maternal/Fetal Medicine department for her first two rotations.

        Caroline Schulenberg says,“Being a part of the Baton Rouge Ballet Theater’s ‘Nutcracker’ is truly an amazing experience and something I am very passionate about. I have been a cast member of the ‘Nutcracker’ since I was 8 years old, and I have come a long way since my role as a little lamb, but getting where I am today definitely did not come easy. It takes countless hours of training, dedication and hard work. With the amount of time I spend at the studio, it begins to feel like a second home with an incredible group of dancers and teachers that have become my family.” She is very dedicated to theater and she will probably get far with that dream. She is seventeen and she has been there for almost ten years.  

BA#20- America

Past-

              In the past they had some things that we have now, but they are much better upgraded. Some are the T.V., the computer, the typewriter, and the phone. We have also some great history in the past. The history is like when we won the World War 2, when Christopher Columbus showed up, and when we got our first president. These pictures represent some of the many things we had in the past. We also had some great things happen when we got our first colored movie and when the Beatles came and started to preform their music.
Present-

     Today the president is Barack Obama. We have better refrigerators, computers, T.V.s, and phones. We also have toy robots. wehave CDplayers. In 2000 our twin towers got burned down to dust and more than 50 people died. We have better movies like The Karate Kid. We also have better music artists like Mandisa.

Future-

                    In the future, I believe there will be lazer ovens and refrigerators without a door. I believe there will also be eye cameras amd fimgernail watches. There will be flat computers and smelly T.V.s. On the IPhone there will be a keyboard that will come in a lazer. There will robotic legs. The future will be awesome.