Virginia Dare

for her dad. She blocked out everything else and just focused on getting there. Also, at the beginning of the book Caitlin sucked on her sleeve when she was nervous and throughout the book continued to do so. For Caitlin sucking her sleeve is a comforting like sucking your thumb is comforting for a baby. Caitlin sucks her sleeve whenever and wherever she feels insecure and uncomfortable. The kids at Caitlin’s school think that sucking your sleeve is a weird and unusual thing to do but, the sucking her sleeve is apart of what makes Caitlin special and unique. The disorder, Asperger’s syndrome effects include light to be really bright and noises to be too loud. At the end of the book, Caitlin decides to donate or give Devon’s chest to Virginia Dare Middle School. And because of Caitlin’s generous donation, a ceremony was held to present the chest in front of the whole community. “I DON’T LIKE THE BRIGHT LIGHTS of the middle school aurodium……” (221) “ The noise keeps making me want to jump out of my seat and I can’t hold myself down…..” (222) Caitlin still cannot stand loud noises or bright…

him and he catches it then the flame in it erupts huge making a blinding light. She tells him he has the power to channel energy, and the reason people don’t touch him is because his echo hurts others it’s like a jolt of pain almost like electricity . Then the pirates who previously didn't step on Roanoke island because they thought the plague was on that island attack, so Thomas and Alice distract the pirates while everyone else travels to the pirate ship to save the guardians. Thomas and Alice…

supper at my house. After supper we played counterball. Clowey and I where on a team, and Dobby and Caliban were on a team. I didn’t want to eat chalk so I went on top of the big desk at the front of the room. The person sitting in the desk screamed and ran outside I sat on her shoulder until she calmed down and went inside then I climbed down. She started screaming again and ran to the lunchroom. We then went to bed for the night. The next morning was Clowey birthday, we had a party above the…

"Guys! Guys! Can we buy some stuff before we go?" Qaw asked, looking around at the freshly set up marketplace. As if it were a question, Genees pondered this for a moment. "Well we've got quite a ways until the next city, so I don't see why not-" "Genees come take a look at this!" Maxia called as he finally realized that no one had waited for a response for an answer and had already left to do some shopping without him. “Guys, what should we get? We don't happen to have too much gold and will…

John White traveled with the expedition that brought the first colony to the Americas in 1585. His duty during this expedition was to draw what was in the New World. His drawings would be used in the homeland so the people knew the inhabitants and what the environment was. He was also given the responsibility to chart the land. The colony was unsuccessful and the people returned to England the next year. During 1587 however, John White led a voyage back to make another colony. Here he would be…

mysteries of the English colonization of the New World is the mystery of the lost colony of Roanoke. It has been centuries and no one truly knows what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke. In 1585, around 20 years before the famous settlement of Jamestown, the first English settlement happened. This settlement was called the colony of Roanoke which is modern day North Carolina. Roanoke like most colonies had a rough start when they suffered from Indian attacks and lack of food. The colony…

A few miles north of Charleston, West Virginia are massive tree covered mountains. Small towns peppered the mountains except for Putney, and that mountain had only one town, Howardsville. Mysteries and old wives tales swirled around the mountain as long as anyone remembered and it’s probably those same tales that isolated the Putney Mountain. The residents of Howardsville had learned years ago to live with the legends. They just accepted that “things happen” and structured their…

consisted of what is now currently Connecticut, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island. The Chesapeake region was mainly Maryland and Virginia, even though the Carolinas and Georgia were considered part of the Chesapeake region as well. Although the two regions were both settled by Englishmen, the regions possessed major differences that could be traced back to the varying motives for colonization, the various settlers, the geography and climate of the New…

freed land became scarcer and less fertile because the great fertile land had been all bought up, and the only land that was left where bordering the Appalachian Mountains and Indian territories. Indentured servants were often outraged with the less than ideal plots they were given after working in horrible for so long under abusive Masters. If they chose to not move out to the dangerous frontier lands, they were forced to be tenants on the fertile coastal land, either case they were still at a…

The founding of the Jamestown Colony in 1607 was an incredibly difficult feat that could not have been accomplished without the sacrifice and grueling work of the settlers. They left relatives, acquaintances, and most of what was familiar to them behind and braved the rough sea voyage to the New World. When they reached Virginia, the colonists of Jamestown were forced to construct shelters and procure what they needed to survive, in addition to adjusting to an unfamiliar climate. They also…