Genre: 5th

EZRIE ZINCHIK

Chef Ezrie’s Adventures in Confectionary Creation When I think of where all the desserts in the world come from, I think of some fancy chefs with hats that reach almost the ceiling, and I think of long handled brass kitchen implements and fancy whisks and copper bowls, all required for the production of delicious sweets, Read more…

LOCHLAN McCARROLL

Thomas Edison Introduction Did you know Thomas Edison became nearly deaf as a child? How about that he nicknamed two of his kids from telegraphic terms? Or that he created a lightbulb filament that would last for 50 days? These were just some of Thomas Edison’s greatest accomplishments and challenges. In this essay you’re going Read more…

LOCHLAN McCARROLL

The Hagfish: a living wormy fossil Scientists estimate that the hagfish has been around for 300 million years and has barely changed. They are the only animal with a jawbone but no spine. They are so interesting and unique and must be studied for their ways of helping our world and for their unique characteristics.  Read more…

MICHAEL AARONSON

The two novels, Stuart Little, by E.B. White, (1944), and The Cricket in Times Square, by George Selden, (Newberry Honor Award, 1961), are similar in some ways and different in some ways. I think there are three main ways that the texts are similar. The three ways they are similar is that both of the Read more…

EZRIE ZINCHIK

HUNDRED CAT This is Hundred Cat. He has 100 lives. Hundred Cat has only one problem though, it’s that he is really dumb. “Doy,” says Hundred Cat dumbly. He is soooo dumb that he likes to waste his lives. For example, it was Hundred Cat’s 99th life as he got ready to jump off a Read more…