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Okay, This is a story written by Greenville Elementary School, 6th graders. It's called The Desert War. The authors were James Mitchell, fatima, Sanchez, Cameron augusto and Michaela Baizley and Darby George the desert. The Desert War dedicated to all the teachers at Global School. There once was

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a terrible king named keith who had a sweet tooth. He made the townspeople below his giant castle. They desserts for him to eat. They were forced to make them chocolate cream pies, but the chocolate was too hot and burned his mouth. The desert was deadly and

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dripped onto his shirts, which created a small hole. The cinnamon palmer cookies were perfectly sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and baked just right with a chewy center. But the townspeople of Lawrenceburg hated it because they had to use the town supplies just to make these desserts each

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week. For the king, Wilbur was one of the people who made desserts for king keith. He owned chickens and barely had enough food to eat because he was using the eggs to make desserts for the king. He went to bed every night hungry. He was furious

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when the king said they had to make twice as many desserts or his birthday, but king keith was chasing desserts, Wilbur angrily stood up and yelled, I will not do this anymore, kinky's threw him in jail for three months just because Wilbur didn't want to make

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desserts anymore. When Wilbur was thrown in jail, he gotta hurt toe because he was forcefully pushed pushed into the dirty, yucky warm cell, He could barely walk because of the pain, but then his cell mate, Doctor Valhalla sang Wilbur a song and his foot felt better.

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Wilbur said thank you, miss who are you? Hello, my name is Chiara May and my last name is via Holla Wilbur started talking. Oh man! She interrupted, I know your name, I know what your name is. Your desserts are famous, he said, Oh well, both of

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their stomachs rumbled. He was hungrier than ever. He was in the last cell of the back of the jail, so he got the least amount of food. Wilbur had to eat small crumbs or leftovers. Right next to Wilbur cell was a man who had some big

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tattoos. He was a top chef put in jail to make the best dessert for the king every day. He and Wilbur talked all day about the deserts they were forced to make for the greedy king. One day, someone in town noticed something. Well, where's Wilbur? I

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haven't seen him in days. So they went door to door trying to find Wilbur. No, look, they noticed that after King King case took well over, they didn't see him anymore. The town put two and two together and noticed that they had taken Wilbur to jail.

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The townspeople were so angry that they planned something to get their power back. The townspeople went to storm the castle, gathering every person they could find to ride back Wilbur Yeah, to take back Wilbur and the deserts once and for all the town went to the

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castle chanting, Take them back, take them back. When they got Wilbur and the others from the castle, the townspeople ran out of the town so they could so that they could build another town where they could live happily. But then the king got so hungry that

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he went to the other town and said, spare me, please, I'll give you whatever you want. I'm so hungry, Please help me. They made him work every day in the kitchen and they gave him leftovers. But one day, King keith got sick from the deserts. The

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town had given him too many desserts, kinky felt sick and cried. He asked for some vegetables, please, I beg of you. Can I have some broccoli? I will work all day and night just for one piece of green vegetable. The challenge, people decided he had learned

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his lesson. Wilbur, who was now elected mayor of the Newtown, forgave the king and showed him how to be a good leader. You must work, you must work your fair share and get your fair share. You don't have to work all day and night. Just work

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the same as the rest of us, and we'll all share that uh veggies and desserts. Oh, thank you! Cried King keith with the, with the sigh of relief, you are much kinder leader than I was. I hogged the power. But you share the power that makes

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you a great leader. I'm glad you understand that now, said Wilbur. And since you seem to have learned your lesson, I will give you some veggies and let you work with me in the pastry kitchen where we cook for all the challenge. People, not just one

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person. When the townspeople saw that Wilbur had forgiven the king and was working side by side with him. They were too, they were to able to forgive him and accept him into their town. And it turned out the kinky made the best cookies anyone had ever

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tasted. So he ended up becoming a very popular baker. Yeah, thematic concept concept is equality and the automatic messages. Good leadership means making sure everybody gets equal access to resources. Thank you for your reading, Cameron. Um I want to point out that this group created a

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plot diagram to map out and organize where they were going to go with their story. They decided on there, thematic concept, their big idea as equality and then their thematic message or thematic statement is what they want to say about equality. And they achieved that by

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coming up with a conflict, deciding how there was going to be a turning point and what the resolution would be and then going in and putting in points of rising and falling action. They also afterwards developed some levels of thinking to help to digest and process

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the message of their story and the content of their story. So um if you're doing Level one thinking, it's where the answers are straight from the text. Their questions were where is the town located? Name Wilbur Cell mate, describe the pastry given to king keith. Moving

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into level two thinking is where you process the information that you've gathered. So their questions are described kings keith mood. King keith's mood and attitude when Wilbur stood up for himself by referring to the text and then inspect the text. What year do you think the

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story takes place in Level three is where you apply or create something new with what you've gathered and process their questions are, what would you have done differently if you were the king? Do you agree with Kinky's attitude? Why are why not? And how would you

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deal with king keith if you were in Wilbur's place? And lastly, if you were there, would you stand up for Wilbur or king keith explain your answer. I hope you enjoyed the 6th grade children's book project and that it inspires you to read, write and think

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all the good stuff that English language arts provide for us.