Easter Holiday Homework

Dwayne “The Rock” Douglas Johnson was born on May 2, 1972, in Hayward, California. The grandson of professional wrestler Peter “High Chief” Fanene Maivia and son of wrestler Rocky Johnson, the young Johnson grew up watching his father perform in the ring. With no plans to follow in his footsteps, Johnson played college football at the University of Miami, showing promise with his size and athleticism until being slowed by an injury that ended his football career.
After his injury,he entered the ring with the World Wrestling Federation. As “The Rock,” he famously feuded with wrestler Steve Austin and won the WWF/WWE Heavyweight title numerous times. Johnson then parlayed his wrestling fame into a film career, appearing in projects like 2001’s The Mummy Returns and 2010’s Tooth Fairy. Later projects include the HBO series Ballers and leading roles in The Fast and the Furious and Jumanji franchises.
In 2006, Johnson founded the Dwayne Johnson Rock Foundation, a charity which works with children with illnesses, disorders, and disabilities to improve their self esteem and help empower their lives. It also helps with physical fitness and nutrition programs for children.
Dwayne Johnson once said,“Success isn’t always about ‘Greatness’, it’s about consistency. Consistent, hard work gains success. Greatness will come.”, this quote inspired many people to be hard working, so that success will come.

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Joanne Rowling, also known as J.K. Rowling is now an award-winning british author, gaining a lot of recognition from her classic Harry Potter series. Joanne was born on the 31st July 1965 at Yate General Hospital near Bristol. Her father, Peter, was an aircraft engineer at the Rolls Royce factory in Bristol and her mother, Anne, was a science technician in the Chemistry department at Wyedean Comprehensive. Because both of her parents work, Joanne went to school herself. Joanne’s mother Anne was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis when Joanne was a teenager and Anne died in 1990. Joanne also has a younger sister named Dianne. Joanne’s childhood was generally happy, although she has stated that she used to be made fun of, because of her first name “Rowling”. Joanne studied at St Michael’s Primary School in Gloucestershire, before moving to Chepstow, South Wales at the age of nine. She grew up around books, from going to the nearby library to her room at home. From an early age, Joanne had the passion to be a writer. She often wrote little short stories on paper. At the age of six she wrote a book about a rabbit titled “Rabbits”. After her mother praised her efforts, Joanne replied ‘well get it published then.’ She still admits it was a bit of an odd thing for a child of six to think. Joanne would always go to the library nearby, causing her to have creative brainstorms and very familiar with writing fantasy stories. She soon fell in love with fantasy creatures and magic stories, which caused her to write fantasy short stories more often.

(used multiple books)Book name (main): Who is J.K. Rowling? Author:Pam Pollack and Meg Belvisom.

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Dear Mrs.Beer
Today I will introduce a book called Who Was William Shakespeare by Celeste Davidson Mannis. It is a biography of Shakespeare. In the book, it’s about Shakespeare’s life and family.
He was born on 26th April 1564. The Shakespeare family lived in Stratford-upon Avon, England. When he was only a few months old, there was an illness throughout the country. It was the black death. His parents were called John and Mary Shakespeare. His brothers and sisters were:Joan Shakespeare, Margaret Shakespeare, Gilbert Shakespheare, Joan Shakespheare, Anne Shakespheare, Richard Shakespheare and Edmund Shakespheare.
Shakespeare started school when he was five years old. He learned Latin and he had grammar schools at that time
When Shakespeare was 18, he married a woman called Anne. Anne was twenty-six years old. Six months later, their daughter Susanna was born. Hamnet and Judith Shakespeare were twins and were born a few years later. From 1585 to 1592, there is no account of him. He seemed to have disappeared. The years between 1585 and 1592 are called Shakespeare‘s lost years.
Shakespeare created Sonnets that were according to the iambic pattern ( da-Dum, da-Dum, da-Dum, da-Dum, da-Dum ) and it’s in ABAB-CDCD-EFEF-GG form. In his late years, the Old Globe Theater burned down and he wrote his last play–The Tempest. Then, his son Judith Shakespeare married in 1616 and Shakespeare died in the same year. Shakespeare lived for 52 years. To remember him, there is a festival called Shakespeare day. It is held on the 23rd of April.
Shakespeare is still very important these days because he created 50 plays.. He also created 1700 words like Bandit, Lonely, elbow, unreal and more.

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Book name : Taylor Swift:Famous people timelines
Author: Lily Woolfy

Taylor Swift was called Taylor Alison Swift in her full name, she was born in December 13, 1989, in West Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S., She was a American pop and country music singer-songwriter whose tales of young heartache achieved widespread success in the early 21st century.She lead a good, privileged childhood that she has been very lucky and blessed with. Her parents were wealthy with her dad’s work as a stock broker, and Taylor had a brother, Austin, who is a few years younger than her.

When she was 13, her parents sold their family farm in Pennsylvania and moved to Hendersonville, Tennessee, so she could pursue a career in country music in nearby Nashville. Swift signed a deal with Sony/ATV as a songwriter the next year, in 2004.At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Music publishing house and, at age 15, she signed her first record deal.

Taylor Swift became a country music sensation, but she did not stay in that genre for long. A couple of songs from her first album were also played often on mainstream pop radio and acquired many fans who did not normally listen to country music.When Taylor Swift released her second album, she continued to see success with the general public. Her singles were hits with young girls everywhere and helped make Taylor Swift a household name.In subsequent years, the trend would continue and, at some point in the early 2010s, Taylor Swift transitioned fully from being an artist with country influence to becoming a full-fledged pop singer with songs such as “I Knew You Were Trouble,” “Shake It Off,” and “Blank Space.”

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Title: All about Helen Keller
Author: Chris Edwards

Helen was born on June 27, 1880, in the town of Tuscumbia, Alabama. For the first year and a half of her life, Helen was a healthy baby. She crawled on the floor, cuddled with her mom and dad, and played with the other kids in the house. She learned how to ask for water by saying “wa-wa.”Then, when she was nineteen-months old, she got very sick. In modern times, most babies get vaccine shots against dangerous diseases. In 1880, these shots had not yet be created. It was common for kids to get sick, and they often die from diseases. The virus had made Helen sick gave her a high fever. She got so hot that for many days her forehead was too hot to touch. Finally, the fever broke, but Helen did not respond to noises and moves her parents made. She became deaf and blind. When Helen was older, her parents found a teacher to teach Helen, who is called Annie Sullivan, she taught her lots of stuff and changed her life. When she was seven years old, she became a miracle, even presidents wanted to meet her. As she grew up, her friendship with Anne Sullivan grew stronger. Helen simply called Anne “teacher”. As she become a teenager, she always keep herself busy by doing stuff, and love learning even more, she spent even more time studying and reading. She also developed and love of animals. She often travel with them. She also met the famous America author, Mark Twain, and become fast friends.

Helen had earned a lot of fame outside. She entered a school called Horace Mann School for the deaf. Teaching someone like Helen would be hard to do. But the principle of the school decided that she would try. Micheal Anagnos at the Perkins Institute kept writing stories for readers that were eager to hear more about the miracle girl that he told them Helen Keller was. Helen was not a child genius, and she could not do many of the things Mr.Anagnos wrote that she could. To the public, she was a legendary deaf-blind girl who seemed to have a special power for learning new talents. Helen was so well known that when she caught up in a scandal, it blew into big news. Micheal Anagos included that she wrote a story called the Frost King and was accused of copying the work the Frost Faries. By the time she was fourteen years old, she needed to attend a more advanced school. She entered Wright Humason school for the deaf in new york. Her goal was to speak in a total “normal” way so that anyone listening to her would not suspect that she was deaf. When it is about time to enter college, she applied for the all-girl Radcliffe college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which was a top school like Haward University.

Her determination of learning and succeeding her goal even though she cannot see nor hear had made her famous. What she did for the society, for example helping the blind and the deaf, arguing that women should have the right to vote, affected the society. Today, deaf and blind students have a choice. They can attend special schools for deaf or blind, or they can attend normal schools. If the students cannot see, then the school must help the student to learn in ways that do not involve sight. Also, now schools have to be accessible to wheelchairs so that people who cannot walk can learn. Woman can now go to college and become whatever they want. (In Helen’s life, woman cannot always get into college or find a job.) It is important today, because, without it, woman might not have the freedom, and the disable might not be able to learn better. She also inspired me to not give up when doing something. I really admire her.

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Helen Keller (1880-1968)

Helen Keller was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was born on 27 June 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, U.S. She died in her sleep on 1 June 1968 (aged 87) at her home in Arcan Ridge, Easton, U.S. When she was about one and half years old, she got sick with high fever. After she recovered, she was found she lost her sight and hearing forever. She felt lonely and frustrated. She kicked and threw things. When she was six years old, her parents found her a teacher called Annie Sullivan. She was a nice teacher and taught Helen finger-spelled. Helen learned 900 words in one year. They worked together for 49 years.

At that time, few disabled people could go to college. But Helen did. She went to study in high school with Annie when she was fourteen years old. Then she went to study in Radcliffe College in Cambridge. Helen learned to ride horses, swimming and sledding. She also learned to read and write French, German and Latin. Helen had a keen sense of vibrations around her and could identify people and pets by their footsteps. Helen wrote 12 books and many articles on newspaper and magazines. When Helen was 29 years old, she practiced speaking. She got help from a singing teacher. She kept practicing and could make speech in public few years later.

In 1903, Helen was 23 years old, she was invited by the U.S. president to visit White House. She also worked to make braille the standard system of reading and writing for blind people. She traveled more than 40,000 miles across Asia to speak about fair treatment to disabled people. She spoke up not only for disabled people but also for children and the poor. She tried her best to help all other people in the whole of her life. She created miracle by herself.

I am inspired that Helen never gave up and stop learning, even she was blind and deaf. It is miracle that she learned how to speak. She respected life and realized that all people should have fair treatment. I should learn from Helen to be eager to learn and a helpful boy.

Book : Helen Keller by Kitson Jazynka
Book : Helen Keller by Margaret Davidson

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Name of the book : Stephen Curry Author: Eric Braun

Stephen Curry was born in 1988, March 14, his hometown is at Akron, Ohio, US. Stephen Curry was admired by his father– Dell Curry so he started to play basketball at the age of 6. Besides Basketball, he also played soccer and american football but he still likes basketball the most. He has been practicing and playing basketball ever since and he often plays with his father. He practices at his shot on a ricky hoop behind his grandpa’s house in carolina. Then, he went to Davidson College and was the school’s top scorer in basketball. He broke the national record for three-pointers in a season and took his small school to the NCAA tournament.

In 2009, the golden warriors picked him as he was one of the great players. In 2014, the warriors had hired a new coach named Steve Kerr who changed how Stephen’s played. From this time Stephen became more than just the best shooter in the game. He had injured his ankle then he had surgery to repair it and he hurt it again. And had the surgery again. While he was rehabbing his second injury, he met a new trainer who showed him an unusual way to train. Since he could put too much weight on his feet he tried to dribble a basketball while catching a tennis ball thrown at him, that makes him get better at control of the ball. Many point guards work hard to not let the other team score. But Stephen Curry is the best player in the NBA at the position. That’s because he has taught himself to do two things at one time better than many players can only do one. He was married in 2011, they have two daughters -Riley and Ryan. He often brings Riley to interviews after games. Like the pro athletes, Stephen Curry endorses sports brands, he used to deal with Nike but that ended in 2013. When he was founding another company he still wasn’t a huge star or a MPV, so the company rejected him. At last he signed a deal with Under Armour instead.

Stephen Curry was a really famous player, In 2016, he made a record of 402 three pointers. No other players had ever made that much in a season. He was also known as the three point hero, He also made several records. He Practices a lot everyday and always continues to try better. Cleveland has NBA FInals competitions with the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland won 93-89. Stephen Curry scored 17 points and made only 4 of his 14 three- point shots. “It hurts, man,” He said after the game. But he promised to remember what he did wrong or what he could do better next time and use it to drive him to improve next year. I learned that I shouldn’t give when I lose, I need to find my mistake and correct it.

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Raina Telgemeier (born May 26, 1977) is an American cartoonist whose works include the autobiographic webcomic Smile (A Dental Drama), which was published by Scholastic Press’s Graphix imprint as a full-color graphic novel in February 2010. Smile, as well as the follow-up Sisters and the fiction graphic novel Drama have all been on The New York Times Best Seller lists. She has also written and illustrated Ghosts and four graphic novels adapted from The Baby-Sitters Club by Ann M. Martin. A sequel to Telgemeier’s Smile and Sisters titled Guts was released in fall 2019.

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Book name: Cristiano Ronaldo Author: Laura K . Murray

Cristiano Ronaldo was born on February 5, 1985 in Funchal, the capital of Madeira Portugal. He has two older sister an older brother. When Ronaldo was small, his parent worked hard, but they did not have much money.Ronaldo began playing club soccer when he was eight. At the age 12 he left home to play with a youth team in Lisbon. Some people thought that he was too small to be in youth team. But Ronaldo dribbles so fast and his technique is good, and he scores a lot of goal.Ronaldo had heart surgery at age 15, he got better quickly ! And he earned a spot on the club’s first team two years later.

Ronaldo joined Manchester United and 2003. And he kept improving and created a lot of incredible skills that makes people unforgettable, and he scores a lot of incredible goals. And he helped Manchester United to win the UEFA champions league. Ronaldo set a season record with 33 goals, he won a lot of awards like the european golden shoe. Ronaldo left Manchester for Real Madrid in 2009. He won more and more awards and the golden shoe award, he scored 69 goals in 2013! And he helped Real Madrid to win 5 UEFA champions league trophies and UEFA super cup! Ronaldo led Portugal’s national team too. Ronaldo not just busy in soccer he also stays busy outside of soccer, He models. He collects cars. He even has his own clothing business. More than 40 million fans follow him on twitter. His son was born in 2020. Ronaldo is hard working anytime even outside of soccer he will always train and exercise in his home.

The skills and the power that Ronaldo shows, the unbelievable number of goals that he scored, the bunch of awards that he got and the spirit of him etc… make him famous. It is still important today because all the things he does are good for us to learn from him, he is a legend that makes us all love soccer, and makes all of us proud of him. And his spirit and respect we must learn from him. He is always a legend even though he retired!

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For my blog entry, I have chosen this book named “Fame, Game” the Lady Gaga Story by Tim Footman.

Lady Gaga is an international iconic pop singer, songwriter, record producer, business woman and a successful actress. Her real name is Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta. Since she was inspired by the Queen song “Radio Ga-Ga”, she decided to be known as Lady Gaga. She is an American. She was born on 28th of March, 1986 at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, to a catholic family. Her parents came from the lower- class families and worked hard for everything. At the age of 11, she attended Covent of Sacred heart school. During her childhood, she took a piano lessons and practiced a lot. The lessons taught her to create music by ear, which she preferred over reading sheet music.

Eventually, since her parents knew how good she was in music, they encouraged her to pursue music, and enrolled her in Creative Arts Camp. And when she was a teenager, she played at open mic night. By her age of 17, she had gained an early admission to New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. When she studied there, she was sharpening her song writing skills, and composing essays and analytical papers on art, religion, social issues and politics. At her age of 19, Lady Gaga withdrew from her studies and moved out of her parents’ home in order to pursue her musical career.

During this time she started a band which began to gain local attention. Her first song, ‘Just dance’, became popular throughout the united states and Europe and eventually landed at number one on the Billboard Pop songs chart. Three other songs: “Poker Face”, “Love Game”, and “Paparazzi” also reached number one on the radio chart, making Lady Gaga, the first artist in the 17 year history of the chart to have the four number ones from her debut album. The fame was well received critically and proved enormously successful commercially, selling more than eight million copies worldwide by 2009.

Lady Gaga is still one of the legendary pop singer in history, and people are still admiring her songs including me and my family members. She is still important today, because she is an inspiring pop singer who brought new taste to the music world. She has treated music as art and she always sings her songs from her soul which have deeply touches people’s hearts. Lady Gaga does not only care about her career and money, but she also cares about other people like she has been supporting LGBTQ community and some other poor people in need. Therefore, after researching more about Lady Gaga, I am completely inspired by her and her hard-work.

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Dear Ms.Sandra,

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”
-Mother Teresa-

This quote is from Mother Teresa and she’s the one that I am going to talk about.The book name is Mother Teresa.Mother Teresa, born on August 26 in 1910.Actually Mother Teresa’s real name is Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Mother Teresa (Agnes) first changed her name in 1929 to Sister Mary Teresa.She chose the name Teresa because her favorite saint was “Saint Teresa of Lisieux”. Mother Teresa then started teaching childrens and every day more children gathered for her lesson.

She joined the religious congregation. First she went to Dublin, a city in Ireland before she went to India. Soon she became a nun although her brother didn’t agree.She found the Dioceson Congregation “Missionaries of Charity” after she secured permission from the Vatican. She took care of all the people that are unwanted, unloved and uncared for throughout society. Mother Teresa lived a short life of discipline. She believes that aportion was the harsh deeds to do. She received a pretentious nobel prize in 1979 and more than a hundred other awards during her lifetime. She was also involved in internal charities from Beirut, America, Ethiopia and Operated over 500 missions in more than 100 countries. In 1997, there were more than 4500 nuns under Mother Teresa’s charity.

Mother Teresa became very famous because she helped the poorest of the poor and many people were touched because she was so kind-hearted and cared so much for people. Unfortunately in 1997 she died because she had a disease called “Heart failure”, poor Mother Teresa. After reading this book I want to try to be like her. Such as: helping others when they are needed and even more. I really appreciate Mother Teresa for taking care for the people in need. Actually many people, especially in India, have been and always remembered her excellent works towards the underprivileged. Nowadays, her spirit has inspired others to continue to care for others.

Thank you! Hope you liked it!!!

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Book: The Diary of a Young Girl Author: Anne Frank

The Diary of a Young Girl is a biography by Anne Frank, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl. It is a captivating book because it keeps me reading what happened to Anne during World War II and how she felt during their little ‘flee’ in the attic in Amsterdam.

Anne was born in Frankfurt am Main in Germany in 1929, three years after her sister, Margot, was born. When Anne was four, their family moved to Holland to escape from Hitler’s horrible rule. Anne studied in Montessori School and had a lot of friends (and admirers too). Seeing what she wrote in her diary, her school life was quite interesting and funny that I could feel why she felt home in her school, just like many of us do too.

The most significant point in her life is probably the day when her sister, Margot, received a notice from the Central Office which called her to admit to a Jewish work camp. Since then, their family moved and hid in the Secret Annex, at which the door is covered by a bookcase. She then had to spend years living and hiding there, and talking to Kitty, her diary, and lived under the threat of being caught one day. Her life was not as fruitful as a lot of normal people. But I believed that what she went through made her grow up and built a positive mind for her. In her diary, she was always hoping for the day she could return school and have a happy life. Somehow writing the diary transformed her into a young diarist, that very passage keeps me curious to know more about her. However, when she was fifteen, the Nazis stormed into the Annex, and got Anne to the concentration camp. In the camp, they had to do a lot of labor work and were tortured since the food was scarce. Not before she was sixteen, she had already died because of the infection of typhus.

This diary made her famous as it reveals her life during Nazi invasion and reflects that this kind of rule should never ever exist any more. Her diary was a living proof of how horrible the Nazi rule was. This important house is now a tourist spot in Amsterdam, with very narrow stairs to climb up to the attic and experience the living environment of Anne. Anne was such an inspiration to people, and me of course, because she was so brave and optimistic amidst her tragic suppressed flee and hide in the Annex. In the beginning of the diary, you might think that she was just an ordinary girl, but at the end, you might not even believe that how this cute girl could go through all of this and become our inspiration.

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Book name: Taylor Swift: Country Pop Hit Maker
Author: Robin Nelson

Taylor Swift, Also known as Taylor Allison Swift. A famous singer in the U.S.She was born on December 13, 1989. She lived in Reading, Pennsylvania, U.S, but at age 14, her dad wants to help Taylor Swift break into country music, so her dad transferred to Merrill Lynch’s Nashville office. Taylor Swift did a very great job at Nashville. In June 2006, she recorded the first single“Tim MacGraw” this song got the Platinum Recording Industry Association of America’s Certification.

On November 11, 2008, she recorded her second album “Fearless” and the lead single called “Love Story” was released in September 2008 it goes to number four at “Billboard Hot 100” and number one in Australia. After this album, she recorded four more singles, “White Horse” “You Belong With Me”, “Fifteen” and “Fearless”. In these four songs, “You Belong With Me” was the highest-charting single on the “Billboard Hot 100”, it goes to number two. Also, Taylor Swift’s “2009 Fearless Tour” did promote the album.it grossed over $63 million. In 2009, “You Belong With Me” was named Best Female Video at the MTV Video Music Award Fearless album got a lot of awards. Until now, there are still a lot of people listening to this album.

In 2017-2019, Taylor Swift recorded two new albums “Reputation” and “Lover” and a single called “Beautiful Ghost”. It is an episode of the movie “Cats”. Also, Lover received three nominations at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards. On January 27, 2020, The song “The Man” was serviced to US adult contemporary and pop radio formats on January 27 and 28. This song was induction to the “Lover” album too.

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Dear ms.kum,
Book name :Vincent van Gogh Author :Jim Whiting
In 1853 March 30 a star who would affect the art world was born healthy in Zundert, Netherlands. The Van Goghs lived in the dutch village of Groot-Zundert, in the province of North Brabant. Hardly anything is known about Vincent’s early years, except the apparently have a happy childhood. “Little Vincent had a great love for animals and flowers and made all kinds of collections.” Vincent probably began attending local school when he was about seven or eight. When he was eleven his parents decided to send him to boarding school. It was located in the town of Zevenbergan.
Vincent van Gogh fell in love with Eugenie Loyer, his landlady’s daughter. Unfortunately for Vincent, she was secretly engaged to another man. She refused to do anything with him in spite and all his pleading. She broke Vincent’s heart and some scholars believe that this failed relationship began the later depression that would plague him. In 1875, he was transferred to the company’s Paris office. He no longer enjoyed the work of selling art. He took several weeks of vacation around Christmas that year without permission. Not surprisingly, he was fired in the early of 1876. After he got fired he decided he was back into the Netherlands and his uncle helped him get a job in the book store, although it fit in with his love of reading, the job only lasted for a few months. After he went to university and studied he found it still wasn’t his thing, so he decided to drop out a year and a little more. And he asked himself a little question “I am something good in my life and have an aim after all, I know that I might be a different man! There is someone inside me, what can it be? No longer after he wondered, he used his action to answer his question of becoming an artist. That’s how he started his career of becoming an artist.Later in his life he started to get some mental issues, and in one of the attacks of the sickness he cut off his left ears, he wrapped it in a piece of paper and sent it to a prostitute named Rachel. He got in mental hospital and one of his attacks Vincent killed himself using a gun and was shot on the tummy.
His drawing and his life made him famous and inspired a lot of different kinds of artists.

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Dear Ms. Kum,
I used the book Who Is J.K.Rowling? to collect information for the blog below. The book is written by Pam Pollack and Meg Belviso.

Joanne Rowling (Jo for short), also known as J.K.Rowling, is an award winning author, and the most famous books of hers are the Harry Potter series. She was born at Yate General Hospital on 31st of July, 1965, in Gloucestershire, England. Two years after she was born, she had a sister named Diana. Jo was a girl with big imagination, and often make up stories to tell her sister. Other than telling stories, the sisters often played games together, or sometimes fought. Their fight made their mother very angry. When Jo was nine, the family moved to a small village called Tutshill, and Jo went to Tutshill Primary. The village has a huge forest, a long river, and an ancient castle on a cliff nearby. This gave Jo more ideas for her stories. When Jo was 11, she left Tutshill Primary and went to Wyedean Comprehensive School. She stood up to bullies, and told her friends stories at lunchtime. Jo was a lot like Harry’s brainy friend Hermione Granger in many ways. She got good grades at school, but in the inside, she was insecure.

When Jo was fifteen, her mother Anne caught a disease named multiple sclerosis (MS). Jo was heartbroken, and her friend Sean Harris cheered her up all the time. He was the inspiration of Ron Weasley, Sean’s car was the inspiration of the flying car, and her teacher Mrs. Morgan and Mr. Nettleship were the inspiration of Professor Snape. Jo attended the University of Exeter in 1983. She studied different languages, and this was how she came up with some of her character names, such as Voldemort and Malfoy. In 1987, Jo graduated from university. She moved to another town, and unfortunately, her mother died. One weekend when she took the train back to her homeland, she saw a boy when she looked out at the window, and thought of Harry Potter.

In 1992, Jo and a journalist named Jorge Arantes were married. Their baby girl Jessica was born in the next year, but unfortunately, Jo and Jorge divorced in the same year. After Jo finished Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, she sent it to an agent. She failed the first time, but in the second trial, the agent was happy and published the book. Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was a big hit in both UK and US, and was even sold in an auction for at least $100,000. Many people loved the book, and schoolchildren voted her for the winner of the Smarties Book Prize. Years later, there was even a movie for the Harry Potter series. Jo wrote Quidditch Through the Ages and Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them for charities. She got married with Neil Murray in the same year, and gave birth to David in 2003 and Mackenzie in 2005. Jo’s family became millionaires. In July 2007, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the final book of the Harry Potter series was published. Jo donated money to charities that helps one-parent families, charities that find a cure for multiple sclerosis, and etc. In 2011, a website named Pottermore was created, where readers could participate in the Harry Potter story. Fans were blissful!

Joanne Rowling wrote the Harry Potter series, which made her really famous and rich. She created dreams for lots of children and teenagers. By reading this great series of novels, readers can be more imaginary and can learn more English, which is really important.

J.K.Rowling is an amazing author, and the Harry Potter series truly are wonderful books.

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Dear Miss Yiu.
Book Name:Thomas Edison
Author: Cynthia Klingel and Robert B. Noyed
Thomas Edison is the greatest inventor in the 18th century, in his whole life, he invented over 1,093 patents and became the father of light, but how did he invent light blub? what is his childhood?
Thomas Alva Edison was born on February 11, 1847, in Ohio, and died eighty-four years later in 1931. most people considered Edison as the greatest inventor in history, some even thought Edison was a genius since he was a child. However, Edison only studies three months of formal school. It is because the education system was too rigid to Edison, Edison is full of curiosity child, his curiosity and constant questioning bothered his teacher. fortunately, his mother encourages him to ask questions and she always answers him. With his mother’s help, he learned how to think for himself and to search for answers.
Edison is very patient and he never give up, he made over six thousand experiments before producing the electric light bulb! He also has many other inventions such as the telegraph, the phonograph, the motion picture and the electric generator. Edison patented more than one thousand inventions.
In 1887, he Founded his own invention company, and he also made one special rules, that is ten days for a small invention, and three months for a large invention.
Thomas Edison created so many important inventions Because he made life easier and helped humankind, people began calling him the inventor king. When he was called a genius, he replied by saying that genius is two per cent inspiration and 98 per cent of perspiration.

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