Scrolls and quills!

How can practicing cursive be interesting? When it's for illuminated manuscripts, on parchment paper, and with a quill! 

We collected chicken feathers from around school, soaked them over night in  water with a little bleach, then baked cat food cans full of sand at 350 for thirty minutes, then stood the ends of the feathers up in the hot sand until it cools. This hardens the feather tips enough to hold a point and retain ink. Then we sliced the tip of each feather at an angle. 

Typed Poems

  The blue prints of the Boston tea party.

  The t-chart of papa holo.

  The domain of ka’amaai.

  The alphabetizing of haupia.

  The specis of how to make a scroll.

                                                        Ho’ouka

I seem to be yellow but really

i am blue.

I seem to be kappa but really 

i am the ocean.

I seem to be an alien but really

i am a human.                            

                    :kahiau

Whatever she needs is given.

Whatever the world throw at her, she can take. 

What ever is stored is needed.

 Whatever she has laid out will be accomplished.

Whatever she doesn’t have, she shall have.

Whatever her soul craves she shall have.

Everything thats hard she will overcome.

Everything that has been a war will be won.

               :Lei’ohu 

:Mo-Z

I seem to be (blue)

But really I am (Purple)

I seem to be at school

But really I am in class

I seem to be calm 

But really I am an animal 

I seem to be a slow runner 

But really I am a fast runner

I am like a turtle

I wish for the strength to survive the next day.

:Keanu

I seem to be red but really I’m green.

I seem to be at home but I’m really at school.

I seem to be an animal but really I’m a human.

I seem to be  playing soccer but really I’m playing football.

I am like a tall mountain.

I wish i could go to disney land.

:Jaslenn

Lets not go to Paris , 

Don’t talk to me of romance ,

Talk to me of something embarrassing ,Don’t  mess with our hostage,

Lets not be resentful ,

Lets get angry , Lets be quiet ,

Lets not get a hotel room ,

Dont mess with the morass I’ve been through , Lets walk through a dark ally ,

Don’t be so tearful , 

Lets walk in the dark ,

Lets not avoid the street fighters ,Lets go to the south so we can avoid staring ,

                        Like I said, Lets be embarrassing.

Ke’alohilani ( SMAKLE )

Whatever she needs was always with her

Whenever the world denies her pushes her down

Whatever she has laid down to go forth in life

Whenever her life isn’t right, she is strong enough to push throng

Everything thats been bad has a reason

Everything that is broken is now restord,

Everything is now fine with friends by her side 

Nai’a:

My 

I seem to be white but really I’m brown

I seem to be the river but really I’m the mountain

I seem to be a cute cat but I am a mean big dog. Quiet.

Kiaura: Goodbye

This life I have lived is now gone,

All of the choices all along,

Has lead me to this day.

That one day when you have to walk away

My gray hair and pale eyes 

My life that no longer has a life,

as I look back on this broken road,

The one that fun and joy use to hold

Through my life of ups and downs,

I did my best to never frown.

To always say smile throughout he tears,

And learned to conquer all my fears.

When having to chose between two things;

Life and death.

I would honestly say to die

For I have lived my life to the fullest.

Goodbye.