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Illustrated

By: Jay, Celia, andAlex

12/12/08

Volume 3 Issue 2

JAC

The King, Parties?The royals and a party just dont mix. On Sun-

day, King Lion held a divine party. All of the animals

of the kingdom were invited. This was a law, (the in-

vitation meaning) and the animals couldnt turn

down the invitation. After the animals: The Bucks,

Leopard, Rabbit, Zebra, Mole, Elephant, Polecat,

Snake, Baboon, Donkey, Rock Rabbit, Hippopota-

mus, Rock Lizard, Hyena, Jackal, Horse, Cow and the

Lynx had arrived and had partied the King had a special surprise. The King

was trying to show all the animals what a great King he was. So he cleared

his throat and said I have gifts to show you what a great king I am. All of the

animals got presents, and were very pleased. But it wasnt easy for the King

to give out the presents. Everyone wanted one that was better than his or

her neighbor. But when the King roared it settled down. The hardest presentwas the coats. The Cow and the horse went to the King and the Horse said

We work on the Farm, And we have to dress neatly every day, added Cow.

One suit of clothes is not enough, said Horse. We surely dont want the

farmer to laugh at us animals, said Cow. So the Lion gave them many beauti-

ful suits. The frogs clothes got stolen. He was getting hot waiting for all of

the other animals. So he took off his clothes and jumped in the pond nearby.

When he was about to come out his clothes were stolen. He is very self-

conscious, so now he only comes out at night. Towards the end the King got

very cranky, and hungry. But in the end it was very lovely, and most of the

animals loved their presents. By: Alex U.

King Lion saying hello to his guests

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Hare Jumbles Message, Moon

Mad!!!

Last Monday there was a huge fight be-

tween the hare and the moon. The hare has

a cleft on his face from where the moon hit

him. The moon is now very scratched up

from the hare scratching his face a lot. This

story starts in Cairo, Egypt with the Moon

sending an insect off with a message to

mankind. The message is As I die, and dy-

ing live, ye shall also die and dying live. As

the insect was travelling farther along the

hare caught him and found out why the in-

sect was traveling. The hare decided to take

the message and deliver it himself so he

could get the fame and glory. But as the

hare travels he mixes up the story and once

he finds man he tells him this as I die and

dying perish ye shall die in the same man-

ner and wholly come to an end. When the

moon heard of the mix up that the hare had

made it was outraged and hit the hare in

the face and left a cleft there. The hare re-

taliated and scratched and clawed the

moon leaving marks on its face. By: Jay R.

Devious Bullfrog Abscond Kings

Flight

An ap-

palling scan-

dal has oc-

curred in the

country of

South Africa.

The mischie-vous bullfrog

lured the guards away from our king, Oom

Leeuws cave yesterday afternoon while the

lion king was hunting on the savannah.

When asked their feelings about being

hoaxed they two white crows responded that

We were told that we worked too hard and

needed a break. Obviously, Bullfrog wasnt

planning on just doing our job while we

were away...... Bullfrog told these guards to

leave their position in front of Oom Leeuws

lair to fly off to the sunset. When they re-

turned they said to have seen Bullfrog devi-

ously laughing on upon a pile of bones from

Oom Leeuws previous meals. Has anyone

really ever questioned why Oom Leeuw is

the only lion king that could fly? Apparently

not because upon questioning, Oom Leeuw

revealed that the reason he could fly was the

power of the bones. When crushed, so was

our great Kings power of flight.

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The Lion is upset because he has lost his ability to fly.

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Newsletter Date

Volume 1, Issue 1

J C M N E WS P A P E R

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KINGS PRIZED RAM MURDEREDJackson Duke Reporting

It was reported that yesterday at around 4:00 pm the prized ram belonging to

the king was murdered. The ram was grazing in Anansis crops and Anansi was very

annoyed by it so he threw a rock at it hitting it between the eyes killing it instantly.

Then Anansi went to the king blaming that the spider for what had happened. The

king believed him but later was advised by his wife that obviously Anansi did it be-

cause theres no way a spider would have killed a ram. The king then found Anansiand kicked him so hard that he exploded leaving him to appear as if he was spider.

Anansis family has been fined $1,000,000 to pay for a new ram that the king will

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Banished Sheep and Ram Cause Trouble in

Local VillageYesterday the banished Thunder a mother sheep and Lightning her

son a ram gave the small village that they used to live in revenge. Lightning

sent his fire down to the village destroying all the crops then his mother

made it worse by shaking the whole village with her loud rumbling voice.

The story of these two goes back to two months ago when people started

insulting Lightning; this was a big mistake causing Lightning to fly into a furi-

ous rage burning everything in his path sometimes killing people then his

mother would stop him with her loud voice. One of the only survivors of

these attacks was Fred the Farmer whose crops were all burned down wit-

nessed one of these rages and explained that Lightning was going to have

to be banished. The next day the King banished Thunder and Lightning to

the bush, but this was a big mistake because Lighting flew into one of his

furious rages and set the whole bush on fire because it was the dry season

burning crops and houses to the ground. The King knew this was bad sohe and his advisors thought of a plan and they made one. This plan was to

banish Thunder and Lightning from the earth and send them to the sky.

Thunder and Lightning agreed to go to the sky and they did. The King

thought that this had solved the problem until today. Further news tomor-

row.

Tortoise and Baboon Fight Once Again

It was reported yesterday at 12:00 in the evening, busy neighbors were pull-

ing some pranks on each other. The two witnesses in this story were the ba-

boon and the tortoise. We sat down and interviewed the baboon about how

you felt about tortoise. He said that he wanted to strangle the tortoise be-

cause the tortoise told him he could share his scrumptious lunch with him.

After my long journey to his house my hands got dirty and he would not let

me eat. He told me to wash my hands and I washed my hands in the river

but on my way back, my hands got dirty again. He would still not let me eat

the lunch if my hands were dirty. Then I realized I was tricked. I have no

idea why he tricked me. Then we interviewed tortoise. We asked why did

you trick baboon? Tortoise answered I only tricked baboon because he

tricked me first. After interviewing the tortoise and the baboon we think thedispute between tortoise and baboon will never end.

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4/7

Final Edition

The African Times

Group Members: Ashley, Cohen, Andrew

12/15/08

WHO SHOULD HE KILL? Kayatae and The Ostrich

Cohen Dworsky Reporting Andrew Kenyon Reporting

Involved at the scene was a rich Arab, the ground One day near the watering hole the

young squirrel catcher, and his son. On the day that it all bushman Kayatae saw the ostrich pull

went down, the ground squirrel catcher took his fire out of her wing and use it to cookyoungest boy to catch squirrels with him. He told

his son to wait for the squirrel to try to escape and

catch it. So the father started digging, soon enough

the squirrel came rushing out the back exit of his

home, but the son was distracted and did not catch it.

The father was so angry he knocked his son senseless

with a hoe. This news reports has been brought to you

from the great country of Saudi-Arabia.

The Boogey Mans WifeAshley Corn Reporting

One day a witness noticed that a man was staying at the market way to long. The man took the

elephant path home and became quite frightened to find a lion noise. The man started crying for

help and a man named the Boogey Man let the other man in. The other mans name was Da. Da

promised the Boogey Man that if he let him stay the night at the Boogey Mans house than he

would give him his daughter Goma for a wife. The Boogey Man agreed. The next day Da told

Goma to go home with the Boogey Man. Goma followed the Boogey man down the elephant

house to his path. When they arrived the Boogey man talked about how there was never a wife

to clean the house. He told Goma to start sweeping. Goma refused so the Boogey man went to

Das house and Da made Goma start sweeping the floor. The same thing happened over and

over for the yams, to hoe the yams, to fix dinner, and even to eat. Finally the Boogey Man told

Goma to go home and she did. A witness nearby though that the Boogey Man was silly because

right as he sent her home Goma started obeying him.

The Boogey Mans Hut

The Squirrel that got Away

her meal. Kayatae did not have the fire,

so he tricked the ostrich into opening

her wings and when she did, he took

some of the fire that the ostrich had.

The ostrich was embarrassed and didnt

open her wings ever again because she

might lose whatever fire she had left.

The ostrich said I didnt know

that he was going to trick me, but when

he did, I gave him a sharp nip on the ear

to remind him not to trick or steal again.

The Ostrich


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Volume 1, Issue 1New African Times

Friday 13, 1,234

Thimsen African Story

Written by: Rachel Thimsen

Yesterday afternoon at approximately 2:31 PM, scientists discovered

why the frog and the snake are enemies. Scientists hid behind some

bushes and watched the scene. Frog walked out of a small hut and met

up with a snake a few minutes later. The watchers were puzzled..... The

two animals started to play with each other. At 2:00 PM the animals

went back to their small huts and a weird crying sound was heard from

the frog hut. The watchers started walked in a little further and looked

at the scene in the hut. The mother Frog had told the frog that she cant

play with the snake the next day because snakes are supposed to eat

frogs. When more investigators watched into the snakes hut they found

out that almost the same thing was happening. The mother snake told snake that she must eat the frog the

next day because snakes are supposed to eat frogs. The next day at approximately 8:30 AM, the investigators

came back to the scene and saw the snake go over to the frogs hut. But the frog fled and escaped from the

snake. Then the two animals went different ways. The scientists are now making a book about this discovery.

Sotolongo African Story

Written by: Silvia Sotolongo

Two days ago, in a small village in Africa, the king announced that he must have wife. A

man named Mufaro, has seen this as a chance for one of his daughters to be queen.

Manyara and Nyasha are his daughters. Manyara wanted to be queen very much, and

wouldnt stop to become the kings wife for anything. Nyasha would be pleased to serve as

queen, but is also fine with being a village member. The king l ives about half a days journey

from the village so Mufaro thought it was right to walk there yesterday. It seems unfair

that any other girl should become the kings wife, when I want it most, Manyara quoted.

A reliable source told us that Manyara was seen sneaking off late at night, to get to the kingearly. When Nyasha got to the town, she saw her sister crying. Manyara said, There is no

king, only a big snake! The snake actually turned into a king, and when Nyasha came in, he

announced her as his new wife. The new Queen of this town is Nyasha!

Weintraubs African Story

Written by: Jacob Weintraub

Late last night, Anansi the farmer was found to have killed the kings prize ram. This

happened when the ram was grazing on Anansis fields, and Anansi threw a rock at it

to kill it. He tried to cover it up by saying a spider did it, but the king knew that An-

ansi had to have done it. The king kicked Anansi into many pieces, making him a spi-

der with long legs.

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Volume 18, Issue, 16December, 12th 2008

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Elephants EnquirerBow & Arrow

Custody BattleBy: Kristin Andrejko

Mid-day on October 16, 2003 an close

to violent fight broke out between Mark

the Monkey and Brer Wolf. Earlier that

day Orang Outan, his uncle, gave

Mark a magical bow & arrow that could

shoot and kill anything desired. Unfor-

tunately, Mark didnt guard the bow

and arrow like Orang Outan said to. InVisulartun, a southern African forest

Mark was walking when he met upon

Wolf. Mark gave Wolf his bow and ar-

row to use to shoot a scrumptious

dear. They ate that deer pleasantly

together until later that night when

Wolf refused to give the bow and ar-

row back to Mark. This created a long

quarrel between these two animals. I

was just walking home from work, and

from a mile away I could hear them

two bickering. Jessi the Jackal com-

mented. Jessi, being a member of the

Animal Justice brought this matter to

court. The trial is set for October 16,

2008 and it is going to be very event-

ful. An unnamed witness said she saw

Jessi consulting with Wolf telling him

that his evidence was strong, and his

chances of winning the trial were also

strong. Monkey will have to work hard

and win the jury to get this bow and

arrow back. Be sure to guard your per-

sonal items throughout walks through

South African forests, so no cleaver

wolves will persuade you to give it to

them!

The picture shot of the wanted woman.

http://tinyurl.com/6ztgpwGirl Breaks her

Water Pot!

Impresses her Family

By: Anna Jenkins

Early yesterday morning on the

way to draw water a girl had themisfortune of breaking her new wa-

ter pot. A rope amazingly appeared

above her and she climbed up it. At

a strange gate there was an elderly

lady resting, she gave her strange

advice: let ants crawl in your ears.

The girl did not pay any attention to

her and left her in a haste, afraid,

but then remembered to report that

a crazy old lady was found she

snapped her picture. An ant did

crawl in her ear, but strangely shecould not get it out. She came to a

town, but cannot remember any-

more clearly she is under a delu-

sion, because she says that the ant

told her to sit down and then cook

for the town people, and she did!

says the girls father. The town

gave her lots of jewels and a baby

and her family is current happy for

all the jewels and that their daugh-

ter is safe, but sad that their daugh-

ter is crazy. They blame the elderlywomen who tried to give the girl

advice cast a spell on her.The old

women seen on my daughters

camera is clearly a witch, she had

to ruin my daughter because she

was jealous of her. Says mother.

The family wishes to keep all

names anemones. The women is

being looked for, but not yet found.

JOEY STEAL GOOD

SMELL; JAMES TO THE

RESCUE!!

By Tory Andrews

It happened last Monday when the

disaster struck. Joey, a poor man,

dedicated worker, and friend of Ed-

ward, a rich man who goes through

friends like the year goes throughseasons were the two sides of the

story. It all began with a vast hun-

ger that came over the whole vil-

lage, and Edward totally aban-

doned his and the poor mans

friendship, thinking that all the food

and money he gave to Joey was

just too, too much. Joey was left in

total debt of food and money, mak-

ing him have to go beg for all of his

other needs. Although he some-

times came up lucky, getting someleftover scraps from some of the

citizens. Unfortunately he had no

salt to season it and no meat to

make it into soup. This food was

absolutely tasteless! Joey walked

next-door to Edwards house, and

ate these tasteless scraps with the

great smell of Edwards always-

good food. The argument began

with Edward, getting hysterically

mad at Joey for this task, and or-

dered him to give him one goat as

a payment. Fortunately, Joey went

to James; the wise man. He asked

him to help him in this situation,

and of course he solved it. During

this live event, last Monday at

about 3:00 p.m. the court took

place, holding Joey the defendant,

and Edward the accuser.

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Mark the Monkey, after the trial.

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Joey Steal Good Smell;

James to the Rescue!

Continued from page A1

The Jury and the Judge would

decide how it turned out, and James

would be a lawyer of Joey. He

thought of the idea to pay him back

with the bleating sound of a beated

goat. James said about this case:

Well, the poor man didnt at all touch

the rich mans food, so the paymentshould be something that the rich man

will not touch. A stealer may only re-

pay as much as he has stolen. These

were his last words, and the court

ended. The rich man (Edward) took in

these bleating sounds as a payment for

the great smell that the poor man

(Joey) stole from his food.

Elephants Enquirer

A2

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