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This is an 8th grade children's book project written by students at Greenville Elementary School. Their story is called Time Travel and Meteors is written by Eva Ho Hater, Fatima minnows, Emma, Murphy calista, Redfield Khloe Massacre and joseph Marrufo, dedicated to Miss winter, not just an ordinary

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english teacher also that hits all time traveling dress and dinosaurs. Hi, my name is PICO. I'm a 15 ft tall purple giraffe who wears glasses that some say do not match my spots. I'm a 16 year old scientist who travels three time. This is my tale

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of a crazy adventure I had last time I took a spin with my time machine one sunny Sunday morning. Not long after finishing my new invention, time travel machine that I call the time twister 4000, I started to take it for a spin. I pulled out

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a hand held controller only as big as a phone. It was the color of forests, leafy green, dirty brown and a top crack up with purple electricity. I nervously spend the time twister 4000 around a few dozen times and then hit the huge red buttoned up

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would make it go and with coaching glow glow glow swish. I was off. My machine, spun me through time and space and suddenly trump. I landed in a sticky mud with a moist squelch and a shutter wow. I made it instead of seeing buildings and smog

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in the air. I was created with a fresh damp jungle breeze and strangely the smell of fire. I looked around and I saw a T. Rex browning and a small pink dinosaur smiling at me. I couldn't believe my eyes was I in the age of dinosaurs.

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My excitement and joy fizzled a bit when the T rex suddenly laughed at me rudely and trumped away, The small pink one skittering after him. I realize our guest was everywhere and they were roaring, running, flapping and screeching. It's like an earthquake. What's happening? I heard

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Baby Dino's crying trees crashing down other side for screeching to go injured. There were giant rocks falling everywhere, And one landed right on my time machine. I know exactly what was happening. I was in the age of the dinosaurs and we were in the middle, the

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meteor shower that was hitting the earth. I wanted to warn someone. Maybe I could save a few of these prehistoric folks. But but because the time Twister 4000 was broken. How was I going to get back? I started searching for some tools to fix it when

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I saw a T rex and the small dinosaur again. What's this loser doing? Lost her glasses, nerd t rex snickered. The little one didn't seem too happy that the T rex was being mean. She pushed around him and came over to me. Don't mind him. You

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need some help. Yes please. I said happily. Who are you? And you know what's going on? My names, Brianna And he's leo. I don't know what's going on but it's scary. If you're quite sadly I knew I had to help them, how would I get them

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to trust me? So I blurted it out. I'm a scientist from the future. My name's PICO. Right now a giant meteor is coming to crush us. I need you all the help me fix my time machine. They stared in disbelief. You guys need to believe me!

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I said no, you have to be crazy! Exclaimed leo. Why would we believe a soft little spotted Dino that doesn't even have any teeth and claws. What kind of dinosaur are you anyway? I'm not a dinosaur. I'm a giraffe. Have gone 1st issue. Well no dino

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is gonna listen to. A little giraffe will store like you right. Browner. Well he could be ready. I mean it works when all this Brianna said, she pointed to the sky. Maybe we could trust him. Brown said hopefully. Uh Whatever leo sneered as he crushed his

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way through the jungle away from my machine. I need to fix my time machine so I can get back home. I wailed. But to my surprise, Brianna was still standing there. How can I help you find in order to fix it? I only to heat source

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and some big bubbling bright pieces of bible. I told Briana. Well leo was smart enough to find a way to heat up his water. He calls it big, warm splashy was a big bubbling bright of bible. Fiona and queer. Okay, this is a sliver of bible,

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I explained an energy source like a powerful crystal. I took out a shard of multicolored red, orange and green crystal from my pocket to show her. I have good news and bad news. Arianna said grossing We have energy. The only bad news is I've never seen

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that before. Not until now. Don't worry. I said trying to come for her. I have a tracking device but it will take all the crystal double that I have to track any other bill that exists close enough to us. I pulled out my Bible tracker 3000.

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Turn it on, beep, beep beep. There were some people close but the signal was coming from an odd direction. It came from above me. It was the meteor stones. Perfect, I yelled. Those Meteors are actually the bible. We need. I told Brianna Bianna ran for cover

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but I decided to run in, knocking dozens of Little chunks down in the process. About 30 of them hit me in the arms, head and even tiny tub of my tail even though I was badly singed, we managed to collect enough people for a time. I

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couldn't save us. Now the only challenge was convincing that teaching t rex leo and uses energy save him and his friends as she made her way back down the hill. You found leo stuck under a voluntary. He wanted to help him but he wouldn't accept it.

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I can't trust that giraffe. They have grown severally. You guys will die If you don't let me help you we need your energy from the big warm splashy. Please trust me. I stammered as Brianna and I lift the tree often. Please be on a bag, tears

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streaming down her face. I trust him and I know that he will help us. And what if we don't go with him and he's telling the truth, you would have died just because you didn't trust the giraffe. Just because he's a draft doesn't make him less

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smart, kind or trustworthy. Leo screamed Fiona browner. I said tend to play. Maybe we don't yell at leo. Look, that was a spiky back blue brand in the store who looked like it's usually pretty relaxed and friendly. A giant flaming rocks Come from the sky towards

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us. I speak as a whole village. I'm sure Leila screamed, warning it to the sky. Everyone besides Brianna and me, I'm preserved. Probably the food friends and frantically running in circles. Then suddenly late pulled himself up to his full height and roared, demanding order with all

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his night. Everyone including Fiona, stopped right in their tracks. What are you doing with your rumbled? This draft is the only one who can save us. Otherwise we have no chance, Brianna stepped up next to him and started directing the dinosaurs. Who immediately did what he

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said. Andre is meal and Eva you three get the big warm splashy, she demanded PICO and I can start fixing this machine so it's big enough for all of us. Okay, pick a what do you need to be on to ask? I need lots of wood.

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It took me like a wall around us as a people already and thank you. I said to Briana as Mac Alex and Eva brought over the big warm splashing. But there's an awful lot like a bathtub. Some previous time traveler may have used as part of

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the time travel machine. I attached from my backup cables from my bag to the hot part of the big forms flashy on the other end to the piece of time machine. That was the connectivity transporting mechanism. This would really be the true test of whether or

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not my time twist or 4000 to do what it was supposed to do. Transport people through physical connection. No one had to sit inside anything. We just had to touch someone else by grabbing a hand or a cloth or wing And trusted somewhere someone was touching

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the time 24,000 Brianna embryo were the last to join the connection. Quick grab a hand and everyone shut your eyes. I screamed, I could feel the heat and the smell of smoke and meteor. The heart burned at my long neck and smoke smelled like burning socks

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mixed with rubber. I quickly started the machine. We had no time to lose. Purple. Lightning struck the time machine. The wooden sides got singed, we still held together tightly thanks to max's homemade hard blue. Then it felt like we were on a roller coaster up and

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down left and right, spinning almost out of control. Then funk, They stopped living. Ryan squeezed my eyes. We're back in 2503 time I was from, How did you build this extreme leo? He saved us with it. It wasn't just me. I explained there are thousands of

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engineers and builders that work hard every day to make new technology that can help preserve the creatures of our planet and all time periods. Thank you PICO leo. Smile. That explains who abandoned was the only reason we don't like giraffes is because of they didn't the

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conqueror. He came a while ago and took our food water and heard us terribly. He had a long neck like you and also looked strange since you look so similar. We didn't trust you. But Briana knew better. I guess. I shouldn't have judged you by your

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looks. I guess my connection to you is what saved my life. We started walking to my lab, they were amazed by my inventions, robots and cameras were transportation devices and decided that they were going to be inventors like me so that they could help the new

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and changing world. What's the main idea of the story that you guys wrote? The main idea or thematic message of this book? It's not just people by their looks just because someone looks different doesn't mean that they are worse than someone who looks like you. And

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I want to point out that these students mapped out their plan. So they organized their story with a plot diagram starting with what they wanted their thematic concept to be. So they wanted to talk about friendship and bias and what they wanted to say about friendship

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and biases that you can be friends with anyone no matter how they look. And then they decided on what the conflict was going to be and the characters and of course um how that conflict was going to be resolved with a turning point and what resolution

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they would get to. So using an organizational tool, like a plot diagram is a really important step for authors so that they know they're going to get from the beginning of the story to the end of their story and get their point across. These students also

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developed cost is levels of questioning. So for anyone that wants to dig a little deeper into their story, you can activate your brain by starting with the lowest level of thinking is where you gather information from the text, where all of the answers are in the

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text. Why didn't people like why didn't leo like PICO? What color is PICO? And what is the giraffe's name? Level two takes you into a higher level thinking where you're processing the information that you gathered. So you compare and contrast Brianna's feelings to Pecos, to leo's

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feelings towards him. What's the main idea of the story and how is leo different from Brianna? And then you move into the highest level of thinking which is where you apply the information that you've gathered and then process. So there are questions for um applying this

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um story to your own life are which character in the story feels most like you and why and what do you think would have happened if nobody listened to PICO? I hope you enjoyed this. Um children's book project from the 8th grade students at Greenville School.

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Thank you Emma and Chloe for doing the read aloud for us. And I hope that this book inspires everybody who encounters it too. Be a reader, a writer, a thinker and a friend. Thank you for taking the time to enjoy our story.