Project in 9E "Sustainable development"

Our project
Class 9E at Ytrebygda School, Norway

We are working with the Comenius project of 2009. The task was to find products that were typical for our city, Bergen. Our teacher, Githa, divided our class into five groups, so the work could be done as efficiently as possible.

Here is a list of what the different groups are working with:
1. Oil
2. Hydroelectric power and tap water.
3. Breeding fish
4. Brunost (a Norwegian cheese)
5. Fruit and vegetables. Hardanger apple juice.

Each group is now working individually. They will figure out whether or not their product is sustainable, and the things that can be done to make it friendlier towards the environment. When everyone has finished their project, we will collect information from each group and create one presentation. The project will be presented at the meeting in Sweden, May 18-22, 2009.

FANTASY LITERATURE

Fantasy

What is fantasy?
Fantasy everything. Fantasy is what happens inside small children’s head at night. Fantasy is the name of a music group. Fantasy is everything.
I don’t know what I would have done without fantasy. Without that dream about standing in front of a huge crowd and play my guitar or I driving a space ship through space. That is fantasy. Without fantasy, I don’t think the human mind would have survived.

Fantasy as a genre

Fantasy is probably the most used genre in literature through time. Also in this century, fantasy is a well used genre.
There are some great examples of that. E.g. the story about Edward Cullen in Twilight, Harry Potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger in the books about Harry Potter.
Recently my class and I had a task where everyone had to write their own fantasy story. I liked the task because you can retrieve the childish in you. You can write a story where you are the person behind it all. You can write about every thing, and no one can judge your story and say it’s unrealistic, because it’s your fantasy and no one can do any thing about it.

Here is a little excerpt from my story:

Perkin looked and looked. Suddenly he felt a cold breeze hitting him from behind. He turned to check out what it was. And there, a foot away from his face he looked into the biggest nose he had ever seen in his entire life. The nose had the size of a book. And suddenly inside the dark cave the pig started to chase Perkin around. Perkin managed to fool the pig and gave him a sleeping mixture.
The big pig fell in sleep at once. And Perkin started looking for the biggest tooth in the pig’s mouth. He found it and he used a long time to pull out the tooth.
The tooth did weight a lot, and he struggled to carry it home. When he came home he didn’t have much time before full moon.

Written by Håkon

Winter holiday

In Bergen we have a Winter holiday in week 10. This year we had snow, sunshine and rain. Enjoy these nice pictures from our region!