So i completly forgot about my free choice weekly blog.. until five minutes ago.. thank gosh i rememberd!! but im tired and wanna go to bed!!
This blog is going to be about the Harlan Community freshman Englsih 9 kids and their project. they call it The Rock Project.
Heres what they do:
Everyyear for the past two years Mrs. Daniels has has every class brainstorm ideas to get the word out and collect rocks. English 9 students want to get up to 6 million rocks. Six million rocks will stand for the 6 million Jews that died during the Holocaust. It is said that when someone died, it is Jewish tradition to put a rock on there grave to remember them. Just like we put flowers on our friends graves. From the past two years the students have managed around 2667 rocks already!! They want even more!
For now the rocks are kept inside Mrs. Daniels room, but after a while she would like to but them somewhere around the schools campus and make a memorial for people all over the world to see.
Any one can contribute to this rock project. The students have sent out many letters to all kinds of famous people. Some times they get rocks back. Some people dont even reply. Some people color their rocks and some people get a message ingraved on it. Bea Karp, a survivor of the Holocaust gave her rock with the words Never Again on it.
I think this was a great project to start and I cant wait for it to reach 6 million or more!! Please tell everyone you know about this so that they can give rocks to Harlan Community's school. Thanks :)
I dont have any sites that I got my information from because this is all from class.
I dont have any pictures either.. :( sorry!! Just imagine a pile of rocks!! in a class room.
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