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Reading Week 6

     Horrible History England

            Terry Derry Martin Brown

At one point in the book it talks about how in Colne Bridge in West Yorkshire there was a weaving mill. In 1818 the girls who worked there were ‘trouble’ The owner decided to keep them under control. How? He let them in for work, then bolted the doors. They couldn't get out till they had done their day's work. Sadly that was the day the mill caught fire seventeen girls died. The youngest was just nine years old.

Reading Week 5

      Horrible History England

            Terry Derry Martin Brown

One part of this book talks about how back in 1742 about 5 million English people were drinking 20 gallons of gin every year. In the 1870s a Russian visitor was shocked by what he saw in an English pub... Everyone is drunk but unhappy and gloomy and strangely silent. Only swearing and the odd bloody fight breaks the silence. Everyone is in a hurry to drink till they are senseless. The wives drink as much as the husbands and they all got drunk together while children crawl and run about among them. 

Conservation Week Poem

 Life of a Mountain

I am a  Mountain 

being a mountain I can not do much  

I like to dream 

I can get up and wander

 but all I can do is sit and ponder. 

I like to watch. 

I like to gaze 

but sometimes when it's stormy 

the lightning sets the trees ablaze 

in a thousand years I might be gone 

but you can still remember 

all the birds and bees and trees 

so just remember 

I might be gone 

but the rest of the forest 

continues to breathe.

Reading Week 4

      Horrible History England

            Terry Derry Martin Brown

One part of this book I like is Filthy Food Andrew Borde was right about poor people eating little but porridge. In the Middle Ages the poor cooked in the kitchen with a big pot (cauldron) that always hung over the fire. Every day they lit the fire and added things to the pot. They ate mostly peas to make pease porridge and didn't get much meat. 

Reading Week 3

       Horrible History England

             Terry Derry Martin Brown

One of my favourite parts of the book is about how at the Battle of Marston in 1644 Prince Rupert fought for the King. Oliver Cromwell defeated him and sent Rupert’s horsemen galloping away for their lives. They reached a farm where luckily the farmer's servant was a great fan of Prince Rupert She threw open the gate to let the runaway Royalist through. They didn't stop to say thanks in fact they were in such a hurry they trampled her into the ground Oooops!

 

Reading Week 2

     Horrible History England

            Terry Derry Martin Brown

I have been reading Horrible Histories England one part of the book I enjoyed reading is when it talks about The Civil War of the 1640s it ended when Charles 1st had his head chopped off because he argued with the Parliament then the king’s men (The Cavaliers) fought against the Parliament (The Roundheads).