Book Report

So, I have a book report due in May, for Alabama History in LCA. I'm doing it on Wernher Von Braun. He's a German guy, and really famous for his rockets, and NASA work. I've almost finished reading the first chapter( which is, by the way, about 13 and 1/2 pages long), and it's been pretty interesting. Here's some of it, which I revised :

Wernher was the middle of 3 boys ( their poor mom :( ), and was born March 23,1912 and into aristocracy. His father was a wealthy farmer and minister under the Weimar Republic. Wernher was a charming, and attractive boy , and given to intense but enduring enthusiasms. Wernher was barely 6 when World War II ended. Max Valier made a rocket vehicle, and being inspired by Mr. Valier, Wernher put his brain to work. He put several fireworks to the back of a coaster wagon, and set them all off at once. The wagon went totally out of control,pulling along a comet's tail of fire, but the rockets went past his dreams. But, in the end, Wernher's "rocket" drove through Berlin's most packed thoroughfare, the Tiergarten Strasse, and Wernher, I'm sure, was very scared, but pleased that his rocket car was actually going. Alas, Wernher was arrested, but was released by the Minister of Agriculture, his own father.
Wernher daydreamed about space,and that it might be possible for a man to travel among the planets, and stars( which is true now). He saw himself as a person building rockets, and sending explorers into outer space. Maybe he would even travel in space himself!!
Without knowing it, the young, 13 year old Wernerher Von Braun had just mapped out his future: 44 years later, he would really send explorers to the moon, but he would never make the trip himself. Wernher did grapple( I still can't understand what this is saying)," Building a moon rocket was engineering of high order. Braun realized, after talking with one of his teachers, that building such a thing, would take grapple more seriously than math or anything else."
( I promise I revised this stuff). Ina year, eh had risen to the top of his class in Hermann Lietz School on Spiekeroog Island, in Germany's North Sea. He persuaded the principle to buy a large telescope - a preview of Braun's further study of astronomy.Wernher graduated from high school a year early, and in his final year, his math teacher was taken ill, and Braun, a student himself, was asked to take the teacher's place. He did well, for not one of the students ( including Braun himself) flunked the official math exam at the end of the year. after graduation,Wernher attended the Charlottenburg institute of Technology in Berlin.There, he learned what being a engineer really was like. He was asked to make a iron lump, the size of a child's head, into a cube. After about 5 weeks, he turned the little thing, the size of a walnut, over to the foreman. After measuring the sides, the foreman said, in one word, " Gut!" ( that means good in German.. i know some German)."


OK, I think that's enough. I'm getting a little tired of looking at my book, revising in my head, and typing. I'll do some more in a few days, or so.

Anyway, I hope this book will be finished by the end of March or beginning of April. It has about 146 pages, including preface.

Well, I guess that's it.
See ya later!


"Then Go said " Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters."
Genesis 1:6



Katy