Breakout At Alcatraz

Alcatraz is an island which is off the coast of San Fransico. Alcatraz used to be a prison.There is three men called Frank Morris and John and Clarence Anglin who made a daring escape from Alcatraz. It was around about 1962. It took months of preparation to work out how get out of Alcatraz. They were allowed 4 hours before lights out and that was the time to work out how to get out of Alcatraz. At the end Frank's friend died in a Florida prison and Frank is lost and dies. The Anglin brothers lived in a place in South America and sent postcards to their mum and dad.
Did Anyone Escape From Alcatraz?

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Night Mail

Here's 5G performing Night Mail by W H Auden::



You can see the original poem in the Night Mail film here:

Les Miserables

The Miserables is is a book by Victor Hugo about when a man named Jean Valjean was let out of jail and a really nasty  policemen. This was set in the time of the French Revolution. When I watched the musical at the cinema there was a really funny bit where a man says "But we want our courgette back" instead of "but we want our Cosette back." Jean Valjean looks after Cosette and is the mayor of the new town. The sad part is because he dies at the end  and he changes his name to Mr.

Here is a list of the characters:

• Javert
• Cosette
•  Mr Lamere 
• Gavorche
• Enjolas
• Marius
• Madame Thénardier
• Thénardier
• Éponine
• Fantine

Here is a list of the songs:

• Work Song
• On Parole
• Valjean Arrested, Valjean Forgiven
• What Have I Done?
• At the End of the Day
• I Dreamed a Dream
• Lovely Ladies
• Fantine's Arrest
• The Runaway Cart
• Who Am I? / The Trial
• Fantine's Death: Come to Me
• The Confrontation
• Castle on a Cloud
• Master of the House
•  The Bargain / The Thénardier Waltz of Treachery
• Look Down
• The Robbery
• Javert's Intervention
• Stars
• Éponine's Errand
• ABC Café / Red and Black
• Do You Hear the People Sing?
• Rue Plumet – In My Life
• A Heart Full of Love
• The Attack on the Rue Plumet
• One Day More
•  Building the Barricade (Upon These Stones)
• On My Own
• At the Barricade (Upon These Stones)
• Javert's Arrival
• Little People
• A Little Fall of Rain (Éponine's Death)
• Night of Anguish
• The First Attack
• Drink with Me
• Bring Him Home
•  Dawn of Anguish
• The Second Attack (Death of Gavroche)
• The Final Battle
•  Dog Eats Dog (The Sewers)
• Soliloquy (Javert's Suicide)
• Turning
• Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
• Every Day
• Valjean's Confession
• Wedding Chorale
•  Beggars at the Feast
•  Valjean's Death
• Do You Hear The People Sing? (Reprise) / [Finale]

Recipe books

We've been busy cooking, eating and packaging biscuits. Here are our recipe books:

Heros of the Titanic

In this book it shows you how the Titanic sank And how long it was hoping to take but as you know it didn't make  to New York. ON the bases of that it will explain how the Titanic sunk in a few works. The boat 
took 2,500 passengers.Nearly everyone on the boat died. 705 passengers survived by boarding the Carpathia 1 funelled boat part of the RMS team. That boat managed to reach New York. Some say that the Titanc might sail again. This man found  he remains of the Titanic.


 

The Famous Five on a treasure island

Julian Dick and Anne are in tears because they won't be be going to they usual summer holiday place. The next Tuesday came and they were at their Aunt's house in about 4 hours. The next day George which in actual fact her name is Georgina but she hates being a girl and she took them to the beach. They had bath and chatted. In the  afternoon they went to the island of the coast. So they stayed there for three days. They found the treasure. But some men are in the process of buying the island. The five including Timmy of course went back home and George's Uncle about the whole story and he telephoned immediately  to the police.


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Here is a list of the whole series:

• Five go adventuring again 
• Five go on finniston farm 
• Five get in to a Fix
• Five run away together

•  Five Go To Smuggler's Top(1945)
• Five Go Off in a Caravan (1946
•  Five On Kirrin Island Again (1947)
• . Five Go Off to Camp (1948)
•  Five Get Into Trouble (1949)
•  Five Fall Into Adventure (1950)
• Five On a Hike Together (1951)
•  Five Have a Wonderful Time (1952)
•  Five Go Down to the Sea (1953)
•  Five Go to Mystery Moor (1954)
•  Five Have Plenty of Fun (1955)
•  Five On a Secret Trail (1956)
•  Five Go to Billycock Hill (1957)
•   Five Go to Demon's Rocks (1961)
•  Five Have a Mystery to Solve (1962)
•  Five Are Together Again (1963)                     Here is a link to Enid Blyton's website 

                                                                 


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The Isle of the Dead

Here's our book inspired by our reading of Odysseus, and Arnold Böcklin's painting The Isle of the Dead:

How much do you know about he Odyssey? Test you basic knowledge with a quick quiz of eleven easy questions: Click here

Insula Dulcamara

Here is our book of 100 word challenges on the theme of Insula Dulcamara:

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

                                                                             Here is a   online dictionairy

                                                                             

Characters

• Hugo Cabret
• Isabelle
• Dad
• Uncle claude
• Mama jeane
• The station Inspector
• Papa Goegres 
• Etienne
• René Tabart 

Hugo's father died in a fire inside a museum and he is now living inside at le gare de Lyon. H e has always been stealing food and water  from  a café. Méliès actually had a set of automaton , which were either sold or lost. At the end of his life Méliès was broke, even as his films were screening widely in the United States. He did work in a toy booth in a Paris railway station, hence the setting. Selznick drew Méliès's real door in the book.

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Mythological Creatures

After meeting various mythological creatures in the book Odysseus, we created some of them ourselves. Have a look through our book (click on the image to expand the book, and then on the arrows to turn the pages. Click Escape to minimise it again):

Diary of a wimpy kid Dog Days

It's the summer holiday. Greg and Rowely goes to a country club because Rowely's family own it but they cause a load of  trouble because they have been using up Rowely's dad credit card number.To pay for all the cocktail's but if Greg get's some money  his mum  will confiscate is and put it toward's the money on Rowely's dad.Greg and Rowely come up with this idea of a V.I.P Lawn Service but is never worked out so good because he didn't know how to get it started and he left all the dog poo and then his dad cleaned it up.

At the end of the book Rowely and Greg stopped being friends and went into non-friend. He was always being nice to Rowely but he turned evil.

I would highly recommend this book to eveyone who understand's english.








Jeff Kiney is an excelllent author for books like these.

Tintin the secret of the uniorn

Haddock and Tintin are talking to each other

Tintin and the secret of the  unicorn        Here is a   online dictionairy
The book started at the flea market. When Tintin  bought a boat from a man,  there were two people who wanted to buy the boat as well and there was a scroll. Then the adventure started. Tintin and Captain Haddock  went to Baggar to find the oher scrolls. Tintin should have taken the scroll because Red Rackham's descendant has now all three of the scrolls and Sakharine (the descendant) heads back to the port. However, Tintin never gives up so Captain Haddock and Tintin managed to get back before Sakharine. Haddock and Sakharine had to find the secret. Tintin and Haddock won and went back to Marlinspike Hall and that is where the treasure layed.

Sir Francis Haddock's ship

The Characters of the films. 

The Spy Dog Series

I love the Spy Dog books because they are really adventurous. As I have the series at home I started to read them and they intrigued me into reading all the books. Spy Dog books are the best!

Spy Dog 
The family go to a vet to look for a dog. Lara the dog likes them and he wants to be with them. So he has a plan, his plan is to get the family to like him. Plan A is to do things like no other dog can do, he gets noticed but it doesn't  work. Plan B is to do loads of flips  and tricks but that doesn't work either. Plan C is to do a really cool whistle and that definitely works. I hope that they will have loads of adventures!

Spy Dog 2
In this book, the family visit the beach and there is this criminal who tries to steel dogs away from the island they are visiting,  but Lara finds out about it. This was a great book as I think Lara is a dog from the movie 007. I would like to have him as a pet. Plus at the end of the series you would like to have him as a pet as well.


Spy Dog unleashed
Spy Dog is involved in another mystery about a robber who tries to steel the Millennium diamond from a  museum. It is up to Lara to stop him . Lara puts the robber back into jail but he escapes again. I think anyone reading  this book review will love this book. Lara will stop him!!

Spy  Dog Super brain
A gang of villainous teachers  want to make their school year the best of the best . They are making a secretive formula. The final ingredient is the brain of a school child. They will stop at nothing even banning playtime .
I think Lara will not let them complete their plot.

Spy Dog Rocket Rider 
Lara has retired from the secret service but can she still sniff out the danger? This team of people want to cause trouble in space. Lara can never let  a mission go unsolved. Lara had to do something to stop their evil plot from working but Lara and his Long Lost Dad named Leo help him complete this mission.At the end, Lara has lots of puppies and Leo comes out of the  vet.

Lara:

• Lara stands for Licensed Assault Rescue Animal,
• She water skies,
•  She plays cricket,
• She catches robbers on the run,
• She drives cars,
• She`s a PlayStation champion,
• She`s got a black belt in karate,
• She`s agent GM451 or Lara to you,
•  Once a Spy Dog always a Spy Dog,
• Goal keeping Legend,
•  Language skills including Advanced Cat and Basic Dolphin,
• Ace surfer,
• Champion Juggler,
• Whistling,
• Computer skills,
• Unarmed combat,
• Five Languages.
• PlayStation grandmaster,
• and many others
• Never mind James Bond, Lara, The world`s one and only Spy Dog, is back,
• Forget 007, it`s time to meet GM451: a Spy Dog the first of her kind.

 I love Spy Dog. He is amazing!

I would recommend this series  to People in Year 5 to Year 6 in the International School Of Toulouse, France.