Viking Raiders

1/31/2013

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It has been a long day in the fields and I am on my way back to the village.  I am thinking about how hard work is and how cruelly we farmers are treated.  Then something very strange happens.  As I near the ridge that my village lies behind, I smell smoke.  I figure that some weary traveler is just building a fire for himslef until a big cloud of smoke rises from my village.  I begin to run.  Faster and faster I go until I reach the top of the ridge and look over my village.  I realized I was right about there being a fire, but it was not at all what I had imagined.  I have heard various stories from travelers about these deadly, greedy destroyers, but never really believed them to be completely true.  I heard they come quickly and unexpectedly with absolutely no warning, and destroy everything they see.  Well, my worst suspicions and nightmares have come true.

My entire village is gone and not a single structure still stands.  Everyone is dead, as far as I can tell, for it is so silent.  In the distance I see the Viking sails.  I run down to where my home once stood, and I find nothing but ashes.  The Vikings destroy all in their path, and are mainly after silver as I have heard.  They have also gone hundreds of miles up rivers because their ships are built to not dip under water much when they are all inside one.  I never thought I would experience the Viking's wrath, but today I was proven wrong.

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Charlemagne

1/24/2013

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Charlemagne was a Frankish king during the Middle Ages, and is also known as Charles the Great.  At the time when he was the king, Europe was divided into many small kingdoms, that always fought each other for power.  Charlemagne eventually conquered most of the kingdoms that were part of the former Western Roman Empire, creating his own huge empire.  Later, he became the first Roman emperor since the fall of Rome.  

Charlemagne's empire consisted of almost all of Western Europe including Northern Italy, modern day France, Germany, and many other western European countries.  He took over everywhere he could!  This meant that Europe was finally unified after so many years of internal war.  That made him a very important figure in the Middle Ages.  Eventually Charlemagne was crowned as the first emperor of the Roman empire since the fall of Rome.  These events made him very famous and are why we study him now.
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My New Years Resolution

1/17/2013

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This year my new years resolution is to be more proactive when it comes to school and other stuff.  Sometimes I get kind of lazy and I wait too long to do projects and other school work which sometimes causes late and very stressful nights.  I also want to try to do things like read or go outside more, and play video games and sit around doing nothing less.  I think if I can achieve this I will become a better student and hopefully a better person.  That is one thing that I would like to try to do better this year.

Another resolution I have is to be a more caring and generous person to my family, friends and other people that I may not have been nice to before just because we were different.  So this year I will also try to be nicer to people whether or not I know them or are friends with them, and to not judge people based on only what I can see from a distance.
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