Kneesocks 2017-18

Wonder Versus Wonder By Claudia Flood 4G

I thought very strongly that the book Wonder told Auggie’s story much more effectively than the movie did.

One reason is that the movie left out information about how Auggie didn’t want to go to school at first. A time Auggie didn’t want to go to school was when he and his family went to Auggie’s old friend Christopher’s house. Auggie heard his parents and Christopher’s talking about him going to school and he was very angry to be finding this out for the first time. This scene was not included in the movie. A second reason is that the book really explained how bad the war at school was when it started. A time where the war was really bad was when Auggie’s friend, Summer, was writing down both sides of the war and then Auggie and his other friend, Jack, saw how uneven the sides were. Again, this was absent from the movie.

Although the movie was great, I think the author of the book did a better job of explaining Auggie’s story.

Interior Plains - Oil Pipelines Is It worth It? By Grace White 4C

Is it worth it for Canada to continue building oil pipelines across our country?

I definitely think Canada should build pipelines.

Firstly, oil is so important. Think of your everyday life. When you go somewhere by car, gas is oil. When you read a book, the book got to your house because of oil. Oil is very helpful. It helps us to do stuff that if we didn’t have oil we wouldn’t be able to do. Secondly, lots of countries would benefit from our oil. We have something other countries don’t have so it would be nice to share all of the oil that we have. But, we would have to do it in the most efficient way possible. This is why we should use pipelines. If we really want to build pipelines we will want to take all safety measures to make sure we don’t cause any explosions. I get that British Columbia doesn’t want to build pipelines because something could go wrong. But, I would say if I was the Prime Minister, “If anything happens Canada will pay and clean up. We can make up for it.”

This is why I think that we should build pipelines. They are so important to our world, and I really think this could work well.

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