Category: Cattafi

May 4, 2016

Shabanu Diary/ How to survive and perpare for a sand storm

Hamir’s Death.

Dear Diary,

Today I awake to the sound of rain outside and the voices of Mama, Dadi, the rangers, and Murad. I hope we can return home today after the wedding, oh wait there is no wedding. I remember getting the news last night of Hamir’s death. I feel so bad for Phulan I know she loved that man. Questions race through my head of what happened. I go up to Mama, she has bags under her eyes. I know the adults did not have very good sleep last night, they where up late on the radio contacting the other rangers. I ask Mama of how the death of Hamir happened but she does not know. I know not to ask more questions because I know that Mama is sad and tired, but my curiosity flows anyways. “What will happen Mama?” I ask. “We will see Shabanu we will see” she replies. I climb back into my tent and find Phulan still sleeping. She was also up late crying. Her eyes are sore and bruised from crying. I come back to Mama making chapatis, milk, and tea over the fire. The men and Auntie join us for a quick meal. Later Phulan joins us she drinks a cup of tea and eats some bread. This is the first thing Phulan has eaten or drinked in two days. Phulan and mama talk about how she feels. “I feel empty” she says. We gather up our things and start heading to Derawar. It will be a ten hour journey back. I hope Sakina tells me what happened to Hamir. That is all I can think about on the way there. That is it for now diary talk to you later.

It seems like a sand storm is coming near us. We must prepare for the sand storm. Here come with me and I will show you how to prepare and survive.

The first thing you should do is make a survival kit. It is very important to have a lot of water because the sand storms are long and you will not be able to get any. Water here is very limited so you must save a lot. You can get water from the toba. Also make sure you have something to cover your face because sand can get in your eyes. Most importantly you must have food, such as chapatis and Biryani.

Always make sure to stay inside. If you do not have a hut or a tent make one quick out of sticks. To make sure your animals are safe gather them together and keep them safe. Make sure everyone around you is inside. Now that you know what to do start preparing for the storm.

April 29, 2016

My Haiku

Haiku: Running into water

I feel the splash

On my body.

A haiku is a 3 line poem. The first line consists of 5 syllables, the second line of 7 syllables and the third line of 5 syllables. Haiku can be about anything, but is often about nature. My haiku was about going into water and feeling the water. This was my first time writing a haiku and it was not that challenging because it is a simple step by step process as shone above. I feel that writing haiku’s are fun and interesting because you can say what ever you want to say. I will continue to write more haiku s over the year because it is fast, easy, and fun. Here is an image of haiku representing nature.

December 3, 2015

Parzival essay

When we had to write an essay on Parzival I am very proud of my piece because I had a good thesis statement and strong body paragraph’s also I had good evidence to back up my idea. I learned that TEEAC (topic sentence, explanation, evidence, analysis,conclusion) makes your writing a lot better. I can continue to do my best work in the future by having good and strong body paragraph.

Asking questions in life is very important because it leads to learning. In Parzival by Katherine Paterson, the main character, Parzival, does not know much about life, as he lives with his mother in the middle of the forest. When Parzival goes off to the real world he has no “street smarts” whatsoever and is very naive. Parzival goes on many adventures and his asking questions helps him in many ways. Sometimes Parzival does not ask questions,and he faces many consequences. Parzival’s ability to ask questions in order to gain knowledge helps him a lot, including becoming a knight, a king and finding his siblings.

Parzival asked questions to some knights he saw in the forest he found out more about life and was destined to be a knight. Since Parzival was raised alone in the woods with his mother he did not know of God and knights and when he met the knights and asked questions about being a knight he was destined to become a knight. As soon as Parzival got home he asked his mom about knights and wanted to be one. “And then ran to tell his mother all that he had seen and heard.”(p.9)One day Parzival came to Arthur’s court where he could become a knight, and he was very eager to become a knight. “Make me a knight!”(p.24) Also he wanted armor very eagerly so he kills a red knight right who has armor right away.”The red knight fell to the ground.”(p.28)Here Parzival asking questions helped him in many ways such as becoming a knight. Asking questions helped Parzival to become a knight which eventually made him a king.

When Parzival was at wild mountain he asked the question why the king was so hurt, which made him a king. Parzival arrived at wild mountain one day, and he asked the question why the king was so sick. The king became better because the question heals the king, and Parzival was king.He came back to ask the question and became king “The grail knight had come.” (p.122) Parzival healed the king and became the king. “Anfortas was no longer king. Glady, he gave crown to Parzival and became one of the templars whose life was devoted to the grail.” (p.123) Asking questions helped him here because he soon was king and helped Anfortas.Asking questions helped Parzival because he was a king and later found his siblings.

Later Parzival meet some of his siblings he did not know who there were and asked questions. Posterior he found out that they were his siblings.Parzival has meet a lot of his siblings over time, but did not know it was them so he asked questions and found out that they were his siblings.Parzival meets his brother and asked to know who he is. “Who are you bold knight.”(p.114) As well he meets his uncle by asking questions about god. “God will help, but where was his help for me?” (p.101)When Parzival meets his siblings he soon finds out who they are by asking questions, and that helps him. Since he meets his brother by asking questions he goes on a journey with him.For Parzival asking questions helped him meet his siblings and much more great things.

Because Parzival has not much knowledge when he leaves his mother as young boy asking questions helped him a lot for example becoming a knight finding his siblings, and becoming king. When Parzival does not ask questions he faces hard times and many consequences such as wild mountain he does not ask the questions and many horrible things happen.