The book I was talking about in the last entry is called Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. The story starts off with Mrs. Frisby in her winter home, a cinderblock in the middle of a garden. She has to move to her summer home in five days because that’s when the owners of the field will plow it. Unfortunately, one of her sons is sick and wouldn’t be able to survive walking to their summer home. Mrs. Frisby goes to the rats of NYMH for help. They move her winter house and tell her their past. They were captured by a laboratory and experimented on to make them smarter, but they escaped. The book ends with the rats of NYMH moving away and Mrs. Frisby and her children wondering what happened. This is a really good book and I recommend it to everyone.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
Friday, July 9, 2010
Basic Paragraph Structure
A paragraph, like many things, has a structure; a structure that you should learn. The previous sentence is a topic sentence. It opens up the paragraph and introduces the topic. After that, there are at least three details. They are the body of the paragraph and they provide information about the topic. The last sentence in a paragraph is the closing sentence. It closes up the paragraph, sometimes restating the topic in the process. Then the paragraph is done. That is its structure.
Rat Civilization
Much of the rat population lives on the edge of human civilization. Those rats live a simple life, digging holes in people’s homes and steal food, but what happens when you mix rats with intelligence like that of a human? I read about something like this in a book. At first, the intelligent rats lived the same type of life as the normal rats did, stealing everything they needed from humans, but to the intelligent rats, this type of life was much easier for them than the normal rats. Their intelligence made finding food much easier, but they were aware of how much wrong they were doing in stealing everything, and if the human race died, how would they ever survive? They wanted to change the way they lived so that it would not involve stealing. They took up farming as the first step toward an independent rat civilization.