Moses and the Escape from Egypt. By:Camille Butera.

Moses was born as a Hebrew in Egypt. At the time he was born the Pharaoh of Egypt hated Hebrews and used them as workers and threw Hebrew babies in to the Nile. To protect Moses his mother made him a little basket that she put him in and floated down the Nile. His sister Miriam was watching him and saw when the princess of Egypt found him and needed a nurse for him. Miriam got her and Moses mother the job as nurse. When Moses grew up, he fought strongly for the Hebrews freedom. To prove that the Pharaoh must let the Hebrews go god sent 10 plagues to the Egyptians. Here they are in numerical order:
1.The Nile was turned to blood.
2.Frogs ran around every where.
3.Lice and Gnats rose out of the ground.
4.Swarms of Flies came.
5.The Egyptians Animals got sick.
6.The Egyptians got huge incurable boils.
7.It rained fire and hail on the Egyptians crops.
8.Locusts came and ate the remaining crops.
9.For three days it was always pitch black.
10.The death of every Egyptian first born.
At last the Pharaoh was fed up with Moses and let him and the Hebrews go free.

One great thing Moses did was to bring from God to the Hebrews the ten commandments at Mount Sinai.

Ben Franklin. By:Camille Butera.

Ben Franklin was one of the most amazing geniuses ever. Ben was born in the year 1706. He grew up being educated and reading all the time. Later he was apprenticed to his brother as a printer. Then he ran away to Philadelphia. As an adult, he had many parts to play in the making of America. One of the most important things he did was to sign the Declaration of Independence. Once the war had started, he was sent to France to encourage the French to be allies of America and to help fight the British. While he was in France, spies were watching him. He knew he was being watched so he decided to never do anything in private that he wouldn't do in public.

Apart from helping out in the war, Ben Franklin invented numerous things and had many ideas: Bifocals,glasses that had nearsighted and farsighted in lenses in each frame;
the Glass Armonica, a musical instrument mad up of 27 glass bowls that makes a beautiful noise.
Poor Richards Almanac, an almanac full of humor, wit, and wisdom;and how lightning is electricity, which he discovered in a storm when he was flying a kite with a small metal bar on top.

The Beginnings of a Nation. By:Camille Butera

The Americans were angry at the British for they were being taxed for tea without a representative in the Parliament in Britain. Some of the more angry people gathered together dressed as Native Americans, and boarded a ship to throw boxes of tea into the water. Many people called it the Boston Tea Party. Another incident happened in Boston - the Boston Massacre. One snowy day in Boston, a local threw a snow ball at a British solider. Soon, armed and confused soldiers were firing wildly into a crowd of locals. Five people were killed. These two incidents probably spurred the people of America against Britain even more. Things were also happening in the city of Philadelphia.

People were writing the Declaration of Independence. What was it? Well it was a very polite way of saying America is free,free,free! After that many battles were fought and only after great effort with the help of the French,the Americans won! After the war important people wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights to give Americans rights.Two very important people are Thomas Jefferson, one of the writers of the Constitution, and George Washington, a general in the Revolutionary war army and the first president of the United States.