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__Why I chose it:__ The song I have chosen is “Princess” by Short Stack. I decided this song it because it is mine and my best friend’s song. We were, and still are sooo addicted to it because we love the band and they are really good looking guys in it! Whenever we hear Andy (the base guitar player) sing, we just flop and sigh with adoration and feel like jelly all gooey! What I think it means to me: I think this song mean s everything to me because every time the song would come on the radio, my best friend and I would text each other and say “Guess what Princess is on LISTEN TO IT!” We are obsessed! Another reason why I chose it was because think he is diffidently is a role model for other guys, on how to treat a girl. I would like someone eventually to treat and talk to me like that. J I was going to choose a few other songs that would have been sad and about someone but I felt this one meant the most to me as my best friend means the most to me. __ What I think the artists wrote it about: __ I think Short Stack wrote this song about the lead singers’ girlfriend. To let her know that everything will be ok and that she is very special to him. __ Song lyrics: __ This incentive represents this dimly lit room just a minute in My heart beat beat climbs in sync with captivate me as you she'd your skin

Princess Why you so contagious? Every single step Breaks every single breath [2x] Tell me anything and everything will be okay It's exclusively illusive Loosely wrapping scars

Tell me anything and everything will be okay Tell me anything and everything will be okay

Eighteen clenches clash where we lay, overboard You took my breath away

Tell me anything and everything will be okay Tell me anything and everything will be okay [Clap clap] hey... hey... hey Princess Why you so contagious? Every single step Breaks every single breath [2x] Tell me anything and everything will be okay.

Hey... hey... hey Princess Why you so contagious? Every single step Breaks every single breath

Princess Why you so contagious? Every single... Buhbuda Buhbuda Ooooh

Princess Why you so contagious? Every single step Breaks every single breath [x2]

Tell me anything and everything will be okay Princess Why you so contagious? Every single step Breaks every single breath Tell me anything and everything will be okay And everything will be okay. Tell me anything and everything will be okay. __ By Hayley McNeill 7B __

__**I AM DAVID**__

  

This term we are studying the novel I am David. //I Am David is a fiction book written by // [|Anne Holm] in 1963. It is the story of a 12 year old boy named David, who escapes a Communist labour camp, with the help of a prison guard. His only possessions given to him by the guard are a compass, a pocket knife, a sealed letter, a bar of soap, half a loaf of bread, and instructions to go to Denmark. For the first time in his life, David is thrust into a world with freedoms he has never known before. He travels across Europe during the cold war. David's journey is one of discovery - during which he loses and gains trust for humanity, learns about true beauty and finds the ability within himself to smile, share, trust and ultimately to love. I am David explores many themes such as genocide, racism, warfare, and resilience.  

man and believes the man hates him, too. He cannot understand why the man helps him escape. 
 * MAJOR CHARACTERS **
 * David **is a twelve-year-old boy who has been imprisoned in a concentration camp since infancy. When a guard helps him escape, David is able to get away and to survive, but he has much to learn about himself, other people, and life. 
 * <span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The prison guard, **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">or “the man,” as David refers to him, is seen by David as very bad and cruel. David hates the
 * <span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Johannes **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">is a man who was at the concentration camp for a time and who befriended David. He was the only person David ever got close to, but he died in the camp.
 * <span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Carlo **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">is an Italian boy who beats David up for trespassing on his family’s land. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Maria, **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">Carlo’s younger sister, is a beautiful little girl whom David saves from a fire. David immediately feels love for Maria, and this feeling causes him to smile for the first time in his life. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The father **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">of Carlo, Maria, and their three other siblings is a decent, fairly wealthy man. Deeply grateful to David for saving Maria’s life, the father shows David kindness and hopes he will live with the family at their home. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">The mother **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">of the children is also grateful to David, but she becomes distant with him after he rejects her attempts at affection and because she finds him strange, mysterious, and difficult to understand. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">Signora Hartmann **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">is a Danish woman who has David stay at her home overnight, paints his portrait, shows him kindness, and doesn’t ask a lot of questions. Signora Hartmann is the first person David meets who he thinks understands him. <span style="font-size: 12pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">
 * <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">The farmer, **<span style="font-size: 14.5pt; color: black; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-fareast-language: EN-AU;">a mean-spirited, cruel man, finds David just as winter is starting, and he imprisons David in a stable all winter, forcing him to do work and feeding him very little.

1. Roughly fifty million people died as a result of World War 2. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 2. A dictator: absolute ruler, usually temporary or irregular, of State, esp. one who suppresses or successes a democratic government. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 3. The two dictators were Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin and they were from Germany. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 4. The expression “iron curtain” I think means the barrier separating those countries and it was first used by Winston Churchill. <span style="color: black; font-family: 'Arial','sans-serif';"> 5. A labour camp is basically a prison where you are forced to do hard work,  tortured and sometimes even put to death for their beliefs. The people that got put into the labour camps were the people  that disagreed with the government. The Soviet Union were the people that put people in the labour camp. David was in the labour camp for not believing in the governments belief. 6. What did Joseph Stalin promise the allies? Joseph Stalin had promised the Allies that as soon as possible he would allow free elections in these Eastern European nations and withdraw his soldiers.

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