Entry 9: Girls out late- Jacqueline Wilson
Ellie is a fourteen year old girl, who goes over all kinds of teen-age problems. In this book, Ellie is starting ninth grade. This year, she wants to start a diet and stick to it, she wants to get a boyfriend and try not to fight with her friends Nadine and Magda...
Ellie meets a guy named Russell and falls in love with him!
He asks her out but Ellie feels uncomfortable, because her father doesn't let her stay out late and she must be home at nine. She's embarrassed and thinks that when Russel will discover she has to be home at nine, he will stop dating her!
She also gets caught in some family problems, because her father starts being jealous of Ellie's stepmother Anna is having a lot of success at work; she makes beautiful baby and children clothes. this makes Ellie angry and her father, Anna and Ellie have a big fight!!
At that time, even her friends Nadine and Magda have a lot of troubles in their lives:
Nadine meets a guy in a chat room and he askes her out (unfortunately, Nadine accepts) !!
Magda fights with Ellie, because she (Ellie) is scared to go on a date with Russell (the guy which she met and liked!!).... POOR ELLIE!!!

Entry on Trieste's History
Trieste is a small city near the border of Slovenia. Trieste is on the coast. It's known as the Pearl of the Adriatic! It has an unique history!

Venice had a very large empire around 1370 and it wanted Trieste too. But the people living there did not want to be under Venetian control and begged to become part of Austria, which was very powerful too at that time!

The Austrians agreed, drove the Venetians away and in 1382 a bond was created between the Habsburgs (imperial family). Trieste became Austria's port.

Trieste remained under the Hapsburgs control until 1918.

By the end of the 1800's the city numbered over one hundred and fifty thousand inhabitants.

Great writers and poets such as Italo Svevo, James Joyce and Umberto Saba lived there.

By the end of World War One, Trieste had become part of a united Italy.

In the Second World War, Italy lost the war and Trieste was invaded by Tito's Yugoslavian troops. In 1954, Trieste was finally returned to Italy. It was then that it became the administrative seat of the smallest province in Italy and the Friuli-Venezia-Giulia region.

Hello Mr. Pastore,
1.I did all 6 entries
2.I did all 6 rough drafts
3. I think that I should get an A- or an A
a. I did my work on time
b. I did my work completely
c. I used good grammard. I checked and proofread my entries. (spelling, punctuation, etc.).
e. I put my comment on France's, Magenta's, Matteo's, Sofia's and Stefania's blog entries
f. I used my time wisely in class over the last months.
g. I followed the rules for each blog entry (titles, blog length)

Yours,
Sophia

Italian Entry: Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Manzoni was a famous Italian writer. His most famous work is called:''I promessi sposi''. In English, it means ''The Betrothed''.

Manzoni was born in Milan in the year 1785. His father Pietro was a count and his mother Giulia was the daughter of the famous writer Cesare Beccaria. At the age of twenty, Alessandro Manzoni transferred himself to Paris. About that time, his father and mother divorced and Giulia went to Paris too.

In 1808, he returned to Milan and there he met Enrichetta Blondel. Later, they fell in love and married. Soon she died and Manzoni married Teresa Stampa, but their love was broken by her death. After that, even six of his eight children died.

After 1856, Alessandro Manzoni lived in Milan, where his life became adventureless, but Manzoni always followed the events of the ''Risorgimento''...

Entry 8: Eagle Strike by Anthony Horowitz

Alex's adventure starts when he sees Yassen Gregorovich while vacationing in France. Yassen is working for Damian Cray, has been sent to blow up the house Sabina Pleasure's family is renting. The target was Sabina's father. He was injured by the explosion, but not killed. Alex understands that Yassen did this, so he goes Yassen's motorboat. There Alex finds a gun, but before he can use it, Alex is knocked out by Yassen's men and captured! Obviously, he escapes quite easily... In the boat, Alex finds a telephone number and dials it. He hears Damian Cray's voice! MI6 refuse to believe Alex and alone he begins investigating Cray. Alex goes to Amsterdam, where the Cray Software Technologies are. Damian captures him and puts Alex into a life-size version of his first Gameslayer game ''pain synthesis''. Alex steels a USB drive (a vital piece of equipment for Cray's plan ''Eagle Strike'') and escapes!! Back in London, he finds out that Sabina has been kidnapped and will be released only for the drive. So Alex attempts to rescue her, but gets captured too!! Cray takes them on his jet and once on board, he orders Yassen to kill the two friends. He refuses, Cray shoots him, then Alex, but Sabina attacks Cray, who prepares to kill her. Alex gets up (thanks to the bulletproof jersey) and pushes Cray out the window!! :D

Before Yassen dies, he reveals to Alex that his father was a killer and Alex needs to go to Venice and find Scorpia, his destiny.

Entry 7: Skeleton Key by Anthony Horowitz

In the 3rd Alex Rider book, Alex is invited by MI6 and the CIA to go on a vacation to Cayo Esqueleto (Skeleton Key), an island off the coast of Cuba. They promise him two weeks of relax and he only has to get two CIA agents on the island for a mission. after their arrival, Alex discovers some facts about the mission: the CIA agents are looking for a nuclear bomb. A Russian general living on Skeleton Key, Alexei Sarov, bought some weapons-grade uranium from a salesman. The CIA agents try to enter his hiding, but they are killed and Alex is taken prisoner. He finds out that Sarov wants to adopt him, since Alex is similar to his son, who died young. After he's captured, the Russian president arrives at Sarov's palace for a vacation. Sarov soon reveals his plans: set off the bomb in a nuclear submarine shipyard in Murmansk (Russia)and reunite the USSR. Alex is taken to the submarine yard with Sarov and his men.

At the airport, Alex activates a stun grenade and attempts to escape. But a security guard stops him from calling the police. Sarov's men kill the guard and they proceed. Luckily, when the guard grabbed the phone, he didn't hang up. The police believed Alex's call was a hoax, but they alerted MI6 when they heard the guard screaming. MI6 alerted the Russian authorities and they pulled together an army to take the submarine yard. While the soldiers were fighting Sarov's men, Alex throws the keycard away, rendering the nuclear bomb useless. After Alex says he would rather die than be adopted by Sarov, he shoots himself in front of Alex.

Science entry: MAGNETS
The names ''magnet'' and ''magnetism'' come from Magnesia. Magnesia is in Greece and it's an important city, because 2000 years ago, people living there discovered an unusual rock. The rock attracted materials that contained iron. It contained a mineral called magnetite.
Magnetism is the attraction of a magnet for another object. All magnets have two ends: North and South pole. Opposite poles attract eachother, alike poles repel or reject.

The region of magnetic force around a magnet is called a magnetic field. Magnetic field lines spread out from one pole, curve around the magnet and return to the other pole.

The center (or brain) of every atom is called a nucleus.

Protons are nuclear particles that carry positive charge.

Electrons are nuclear particles that carry negative charge.

To make a magnet, you must aline the object's magnetic domains. To destroy a magnet, you can boil it or through it on the ground, separating the magnetic domains...