Forgiveness is when you are not angry at someone who did something to hurt your feelings. Like today I did not eat my lunch at school and my mother got frustrated at me. I said I was sorry and she forgave me.

My friend and I were in a fight, he said I looked weird and I needed a haircut. This made me feel mad and insulted. We were both about to tell the teacher and then I said “Why don’t we just get on with being friends?”I forgave him because we have to forgive people sometimes otherwise you’ll go on in life being miserable.

I forgave one of my friends when I’d heard that she was saying mean things about me behind my back. Two weeks later I went biking around the block with her and some other friends. She was really nice and invited us to dinner so I forgave her. I realised that she was insecure because people who back stab are trying to stop others saying mean things about them first.

At my old school a girl was mean to me every day. It didn’t feel good. One day I’d been having a bad day. I don’t know why I was playing with the mean girl I just did. Then I saw my other friend say look out and the mean girl hit me in the head with a wooden jump rope. It hurt a lot. Then I forgave her because people make mistakes.

I have lots of forgiveness stories. My brother bit me on the hip hard and I forgave him and I’m not stressed anymore about it.

“Forgiveness is about people and you, if you do something bad you always want to say you are sorry and if they are really hurt, you want to be nice and you want to help them as much as you can. That is what forgiveness is all about.”

“Once I forgave my mom in the car for saying a bad word when another car wouldn’t let her get into another lane. I cannot say the word here. You must forgive somebody 70 times 7. That’s 490 times. Don’t worry. My mom didn’t say the word that many times.”

Miss Kate came to teach us the song. She is a singer and on TV. We sang “Brush Up Your Shakespeare” - We sung “There’s only Us” but that’s not the name of it. We made sounds like angels. I’m thinking…it made me happy to sing again. That’s all I have.

I learned a new language and made new friends.

I like the Stone Ceremony because it feels like you are saying a line and when they give you a stone it feels like you have accomplished something. Even if you are giving one to someone, it has a lot of pleasure in it.

I like the role that I have of Prospero, because I feel I can relate to him in many ways, even though I’m not a wizard.

My mom asked me how it feels to learn so many lines. This is how it makes me feel:
Mad, sad and happy.
Strange and good.
I think it feels good to accomplish a line in Shakespeare and you don’t have to win a prize to feel good about it.

The Tempest is a story about a Wizard, a Storm & a Shipwreck and they all come together into one thing——The Tempest.
Prospero is a Wizard that wants to seek revenge on his enemies that pushed him and his daughter out to sea.
One day a ship comes to the island. Prospero sees his two enemies on the ship so he gets the fairies and he makes a storm hit the ship, but not one of them dies.

I like being Prospero because I feel powerful like him when I do the lines.

The walks make me happy, because you get to do different movements. Like you get to walk like - um, you are a monster, or like a queen; we walk like there’s an enemy in the group and a savior in the group. We walk like we’re rich, like we’re sassy, they make girls walk like boys and boys walk like girls. We walk like jokers, or jesters, or fairies - but I play a sassy fairy, not a delicate fairy. Our fairies feel mad because they have been stuck in trees for one hundred days, I think.