Monday, November 5, 2007

November 5 Journal

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  1. Benjamin Franklin thought that the turkey would make a better national bird than the bad eagle. How might Thanksgiving be different if a turkey was the national bird of the United States?
  2. A common saying is "Home is where the heart is." Describe what you love about Joliet.

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53 comments:

Anonymous said...

The thing that Ilove most about Joliet is that there is much stuff close to your house. alos a llot of my family is here.

Anonymous said...

It would real different if a turkey was our national bird of the United States because you always think its Thanksgiving.

Anonymous said...

What I love about Joliet is that to me its my home and that all hat matters. Joliet dosent have to have no fun amusment park....or carnival to be a fun place...I just love it because its where all my family is at and I love it very much and I hope to stay in joliet so I can make it a better place for the rest of my fanily!

Anonymous said...

Thanksgiving would be very different becuase we can't eat our national bird! we wuold probally eat chicken or something like that. It would be really strange though if we ate eagle on thanksgiving!

Anonymous said...

The one thing I love about Joliet is that its not quite ike some southern town but we also dont hear gunshots every 3 minutes like Detriot.

Anonymous said...

Thanksgiving might have been different if the turkey was the national bird because then Thanksgiving could have been a national holiday to celebrate like Labor day or the Fourth of July.

Anonymous said...

What I love about Joliet is that my whole life is here and all my friends and family are to.Also Joliet is small and most of the time safe.

Anonymous said...

Well Thanksgiving would be majorly different because if the turkey was our national bird we wouldn't eat it on Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is only Thanksgiving when you eat turkey, its just not the same if you dont eat it.

Anonymous said...

If the turkey was the National bird of the U.S then we wouldn't eat turkey on Thanksgiving. We probly wouldn't evening have a Thansgiving anymore because you always eat turkey thats the "BEST PART". But anyways i woudln't want the turkey to be the Natinal bird because i rather eat it and the bald egael is a wonderful bird.

Anonymous said...

If the turkey was the national bird instead of the bald eagle, we might not be able to eat it or people just won't care at all. So we would be consuming some national meat.

Anonymous said...

If the turkey was the national bird of the United States people wouldn't kill the turkeys for thanksgiving because they might get fined.

Anonymous said...

How might thanksgiving be different if it was national bird day is it might be celebtated differently. Such as different food like bird.

Anonymous said...

A saying "Home Is where the heart Is" Is basically saying thats where u know the most where u live and can be u. The things I love the most about Joliet Is there are things u can actually do unlike some coutry sides. You can go skating maybe to the movies.You can go to the mall there's haunted trails and fun things to do and with me I know alot of people and I know how to have fun without getting into drama this Is what I like about Joliet.

Anonymous said...

if the turkey was the national bird there will be alot of killed turkeys for alot of families.

Anonymous said...

If I can get one type of candy on Halloween it will be reases because there the first thing I eat when I caome home from trick or treating and I by then every time I go to the store.

Anonymous said...

I think that thanks giving would be deferent by the way that the turky wouldnt be the most famous food would to eat any more it. we would have to eat the some thing other then that. Also the flage would look diffrent the todays. For thanksgiving people would have to selabrate everything much more different then what they do today. The story about the famous feast would be toled defrent then who it was toled to day.

Anonymous said...

What I love about Joliet is that it's a small place the neighborhoods are safe most of the time so you can walk around. Theres barely any violence that you hear of. Also it's the 2 year that I live here and so far everythings good. All my friends and some of my best cousins live here. I would really like to finish my High school years here.
I just love Joliet!

Anonymous said...

What I love about joilet is that there are a lot of places here. What else I love about it is that I have a lot of friends and that I know a lot of people here. Also because my familey is here and that everything is so close to my house.

Anonymous said...

Thanksgiving would be different if a turkey was the national bird because the. meat would taste different,and the bald eagle would be endangered aniamal.

Anonymous said...

What I love about Joliet is there are a lot of places to go,and things to do.

Anonymous said...

The thing i love about joliet is that all my friends still live here. If they move i wouldnt like joliet as much.The schools are also alright but there could be better ones. I also love it because this is where i was born.

Anonymous said...

I think thati would be werid to eat a eagle on Thanksgiving. I would not want to eat a eagle thats why in gald that an egale is our state bird instead of a turkey.

Anonymous said...

I like Joliet because it my home town ,and i love it.I met a lot of people in Joliet.It is a small place,but it ia a great place.

Anonymous said...

IT would be alot different if our national bird was a turkey because people would probably take the holiday more serious then the normally do.

Anonymous said...

What i love about Joiet is that it is a nice place to live . Where i live there is only good things around.

Anonymous said...

Wut up doe!!!Well thanksgiving would be different because we wouldnt be eating our national bird..well probably eat some chiken!! yumm lol
besides a bald eagle is more unique than a turkey

Anonymous said...

What i love about joliet is that theres always something for people to do. Junior high kids will always have something to do. For example going to skatewest is kinda like a chill out spot or wheater its a footbal or baskeball game. Thats what i love about joliet. theres always something to do.

Anonymous said...

what I love abaut joliet its that everything is close to your house and have a mall

Anonymous said...

What i love about joliet is that all my freinds live here and they are fun to be with.Not much of my family live here only two of my aunts but the rest come and visit us and hey like joliet as well. My favorite thing about joliet is that there isnt that many fun places and i dont really care becuz being at home is fun for me and being with my freind and family.Joliet is my home and i hope not to move.

Anonymous said...

What I love about joiet is that most of my family lives in joliet.I like the stores that are in joliet.I like how we have jack hammers staduim.

Anonymous said...

what I like about joliet is it is a nice city. It is also very big,so you can visit many places.

Anonymous said...

If we had the turkey as`a national bird we might of just have ham,corn or all the other stuff we eat for Thanksgiving. And we would not have any turkey for Thanksgiving we might have some other kind of meat for Thanksgiving, or no meat at all

Anonymous said...

What I love about joliet is that i has a jewl osco i love them they good food.

Anonymous said...

what I like about joliet is that joliet is a big place to be at and that has a big mall. Also a other things that I like about joliet is that it has alot of places and resturants Thats all the thing that I like about joliet.

Anonymous said...

I dont like Joliet that much because my whole family lives in texas, except for my grandma and step grandpa that live in chicago. We dont really go to visit them that much because my dad works and he has to ride the train all the way to downtown chicago to work there. He gets home tired from work and so we cant go to chicago to visit my grandma and grandpa.I wish my parents decide to move to texas because I really miss having fun with my cousins. I still like Joliet because its relaxing and we cant hear shooting because when I used to live in chicago we used to hear a lot of shooting everywhere we were at.

Anonymous said...

it is relliy qriet and it is diffet fom caifran so it is os beffrent but will good

Anonymous said...

What I like about Joliet is that the people are so nice and polite. For example when you say hello.They will reply to you. Another thing I like about Joliet is that there is barely any crime around the city.

Anonymous said...

I think that instead of eating turkey we would eat pork or beef because you can not harm a national animal.

Anonymous said...

What I love about Joliet is that we have a lot of fast food places and because that it is things close to our homes.Thats why I love Joliet.

Anonymous said...

It would be a lot different because we would eat a bird in stead of a turkey

Anonymous said...

turkey might have been the state natinal but now Ben Frankin

Anonymous said...

One thing I like about Joliet is the nice houses.Also how everybody gets along.

Anonymous said...

What I love about Joliet is cruss nights becuse we go looking at cars and do compatishions.

Anonymous said...

I think that if the turky were are state bird we would have to eat the bad eagle. I think that it would be nasty to eat an eagle instead of a turky.

Anonymous said...

I think that Thanksgiving would be be a terrible holiday because I would not want to eat a nasty bird.

Anonymous said...

What I love about Joliet is that it has a lot of great people as in students,teachers,and friends.I love all of them teachers help you out with anything you ask,students are also helpers,and they are very nice!Friends...what can you do without them they are everything you can ask for!

Anonymous said...

I would not like the turkey to be the United States of America's national bird.Thanksgiving would be very different and weird.It is illegal to kill a national bird while in the country so you even if you wanted to.I'm so use to havIt is illegal to kill a national bird while in the country so youen if you wanted to.ing turkey on thanksgiving,it is a perfecto match with mashed potatoes and gravy.Having the turkey as a national bird would be funny because of it being a national bird,come on it;s a turkey a basic bird.

Anonymous said...

i thinks giving would be different because it would proably be a different bird than the turkey if the turkey wa the nationanal bird.thanks give also be different because if there was no turkey why would there be a thanks giveing. what i mean by why would there be a thanks giveing is if the pillgrums made peace with a turkey and we didnt then we shouldnt have thanks giveing.

Anonymous said...

I think that if the turkey would be national bird then on that day
we would probally celebrate the
national bird to and give thanks
for the national bird on thanksgiving.

Anonymous said...

It would feel wrong if a turkey were our national bird because the quarters would have a turcky on the back instead of an eagle and then you would probably would not recognize the money.

Anonymous said...

To start off I love Joliet.Not just because I live there, because its a very informational state.It has alot of history.With Aberham Lincon and Gorge Washington as the most important people of Joliet.It has great food.Amazing sites and cool atractions. to rap this up im just going to say you should visit Joliet

Anonymous said...

The thing that I love from joliet is that it has alot on history about soldiers that made the world like this if not we wouldent be sitting here right now.

Anonymous said...

1. Thanks giving might by different by people not eating the same thing.


2. I love joliet because there is alot to do.

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