JAC Illustrated

By: Jay, Celia, and

Alex Volume 3 Issue 2

12/12/08

The King, Parties?

The royals and a party just don’t mix. On Sun-
day, King Lion held a divine party. All of the animals
of the kingdom were invited. This was a law, (the in-
vitation meaning) and the animals couldn’t turn
down the invitation. After the animals: The Bucks,
Leopard, Rabbit, Zebra, Mole, Elephant, Polecat,
King Lion saying hello to his guests
http://tinyurl.com/5gthee Snake, Baboon, Donkey, Rock Rabbit, Hippopota-
mus, Rock Lizard, Hyena, Jackal, Horse, Cow and the
Lynx had arrived and had partied the King had a special surprise. The King
was trying to show all the animals what a great King he was. So he cleared
his throat and said “I have gifts to show you what a great king I am”. All of the
animals got presents, and were very pleased. But it wasn’t easy for the King
to give out the presents. Everyone wanted one that was better than his or
her neighbor. But when the King roared it settled down. The hardest present
was the coats. The Cow and the horse went to the King and the Horse said
“We work on the Farm, “And we have to dress neatly every day,” added Cow.
“One suit of clothes is not enough,” said Horse. “We surely don’t want the
farmer to laugh at us animals,” said Cow. So the Lion gave them many beauti-
ful suits. The frog’s clothes got stolen. He was getting hot waiting for all of
the other animals. So he took off his clothes and jumped in the pond nearby.
When he was about to come out his clothes were stolen. He is very self-
conscious, so now he only comes out at night. Towards the end the King got
very cranky, and hungry. But in the end it was very lovely, and most of the
animals loved their presents. By: Alex U.
 Hare Jumbles Message, Moon Devious Bullfrog Abscond King’s
Mad!!! Flight

An ap-
Last Monday there was a huge fight be-
palling scan-
tween the hare and the moon. The hare has
dal has oc-
a cleft on his face from where the moon hit
curred in the
him. The moon is now very scratched up
country of
from the hare scratching his face a lot. This
South Africa.
story starts in Cairo, Egypt with the Moon
The Lion is upset because he has lost his ability to fly. The mischie-
sending an insect off with a message to http://tinyurl.com/yqesyb

vous bullfrog
mankind. The message is “As I die, and dy-
lured the guards away from our king, Oom
ing live, ye shall also die and dying live”. As
Leeuw’s cave yesterday afternoon while the
the insect was travelling farther along the
lion king was hunting on the savannah.
hare caught him and found out why the in-
When asked their feelings about being
sect was traveling. The hare decided to take
hoaxed they two white crows responded that
the message and deliver it himself so he
“We were told that we worked too hard and
could get the fame and glory. But as the
needed a break. Obviously, Bullfrog wasn’t
hare travels he mixes up the story and once
planning on just doing our job while we
he finds man he tells him this “as I die and
were away......” Bullfrog told these guards to
dying perish ye shall die in the same man-
leave their position in front of Oom Leeuw’s
ner and wholly come to an end”. When the
lair to fly off to the sunset. When they re-
moon heard of the mix up that the hare had
turned they said to have seen “Bullfrog devi-
made it was outraged and hit the hare in
ously laughing on upon a pile of bones from
the face and left a cleft there. The hare re-
Oom Leeuw’s previous meals. Has anyone
taliated and scratched and clawed the
really ever questioned why Oom Leeuw is
moon leaving marks on its face. By: Jay R.
the only lion king that could fly? Apparently
not because upon questioning, Oom Leeuw
revealed that the reason he could fly was the
power of the bones. When crushed, so was
our great King’s power of flight.

Rabbit pondering about the Moon By: Celia M.

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J C M N E WS P A P E R
Newsletter Date
Volume 1, Issue 1

KING’S PRIZED RAM MURDERED

Jackson Duke Reporting

It was reported that yesterday at around 4:00 pm the prized ram belonging to
the king was murdered. The ram was grazing in Anansi’s crops and Anansi was very
annoyed by it so he threw a rock at it hitting it between the eyes killing it instantly.
Then Anansi went to the king blaming that the spider for what had happened. The
king believed him but later was advised by his wife that obviously Anansi did it be-
cause there’s no way a spider would have killed a ram. The king then found Anansi
and kicked him so hard that he exploded leaving him to appear as if he was spider.
Anansi’s family has been fined $1,000,000 to pay for a new ram that the king will
buy.
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Banished Sheep and Ram Cause Trouble in

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lightning.jpg
Local Village
Yesterday the banished Thunder a mother sheep and Lightning her
son a ram gave the small village that they used to live in revenge. Lightning
sent his fire down to the village destroying all the crops then his mother
made it worse by shaking the whole village with her loud rumbling voice.
The story of these two goes back to two months ago when people started
insulting Lightning; this was a big mistake causing Lightning to fly into a furi-
ous rage burning everything in his path sometimes killing people then his
mother would stop him with her loud voice. One of the only survivors of
these attacks was Fred the Farmer whose crops were all burned down wit-
nessed one of these rages and explained that Lightning was going to have
to be banished. The next day the King banished Thunder and Lightning to
the bush, but this was a big mistake because Lighting flew into one of his
furious rages and set the whole bush on fire because it was the dry season
burning crops and houses to the ground. The King knew this was bad so
he and his advisors thought of a plan and they made one. This plan was to
banish Thunder and Lightning from the earth and send them to the sky.
Thunder and Lightning agreed to go to the sky and they did. The King
thought that this had solved the problem until today. Further news tomor-
row.

Tortoise and Baboon Fight Once Again

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It was reported yesterday at 12:00 in the evening, busy neighbors were pull-
ing some pranks on each other. The two witnesses in this story were the ba-
boon and the tortoise. We sat down and interviewed the baboon about how
you felt about tortoise. He said that he wanted to strangle the tortoise be-
cause the tortoise told him he could share his scrumptious lunch with him.
After my long journey to his house my hands got dirty and he would not let
me eat. He told me to wash my hands and I washed my hands in the river
but on my way back, my hands got dirty again. He would still not let me eat
the lunch if my hands were dirty. Then I realized I was tricked. I have no
idea why he tricked me. Then we interviewed tortoise. We asked why did
you trick baboon? Tortoise answered “I only tricked baboon because he
tricked me first”. After interviewing the tortoise and the baboon we think the
dispute between tortoise and baboon will never end.
 Group Members: Ashley, Cohen, Andrew

The African Times

Final Edition

12/15/08

WHO SHOULD HE KILL? Kayatae and The Ostrich

Cohen Dworsky Reporting
Involved at the scene was a rich Arab, the ground
young squirrel catcher, and his son. On the day that it all
went down, the ground squirrel catcher took his
youngest boy to catch squirrels with him. He told
his son to wait for the squirrel to try to escape and
catch it. So the father started digging, soon enough
the squirrel came rushing out the back exit of his
home, but the son was distracted and did not catch it.
The father was so angry he knocked his son senseless
with a hoe. This news reports has been brought to you
from the great country of Saudi-Arabia.
Andrew Kenyon Reporting
One day near the watering hole the
bushman Kayatae saw the ostrich pull
fire out of her wing and use it to cook
her meal. Kayatae did not have the fire,
so he tricked the ostrich into opening
her wings and when she did, he took
some of the fire that the ostrich had.
The ostrich was embarrassed and didn’t
open her wings ever again because she
might lose whatever fire she had left.
The ostrich said “I didn’t know
that he was going to trick me, but when
he did, I gave him a sharp nip on the ear
to remind him not to trick or steal again.

The Squirrel that got Away

The Ostrich
The Boogey Man’s Wife
Ashley Corn Reporting
One day a witness noticed that a man was staying at the market way to long. The man took the
elephant path home and became quite frightened to find a lion noise. The man started crying for
help and a man named the Boogey Man let the other man in. The other man’s name was Da. Da
promised the Boogey Man that if he let him stay the night at the Boogey Mans house than he
would give him his daughter Goma for a wife. The Boogey Man agreed. The next day Da told
Goma to go home with the Boogey Man. Goma followed the Boogey man down the elephant
house to his path. When they arrived the Boogey man talked about how there was never a wife
to clean the house. He told Goma to start sweeping. Goma refused so the Boogey man went to
Da’s house and Da made Goma start sweeping the floor. The same thing happened over and
over for the yams, to hoe the yams, to fix dinner, and even to eat. Finally the Boogey Man told
Goma to go home and she did. A witness nearby though that the Boogey Man was silly because
right as he sent her home Goma started obeying him.
The Boogey Man’s Hut
 New African Times
Volume 1, Issue 1

Friday 13, 1,234

Thimsen African Story

Written by: Rachel Thimsen
Yesterday afternoon at approximately 2:31 PM, scientists discovered
why the frog and the snake are enemies. Scientists hid behind some
bushes and watched the scene. Frog walked out of a small hut and met
up with a snake a few minutes later. The watchers were puzzled..... The
two animals started to play with each other. At 2:00 PM the animals
went back to their small huts and a weird crying sound was heard from
the frog hut. The watchers started walked in a little further and looked
at the scene in the hut. The mother Frog had told the frog that she can’t www.toddzalewski.com/ books.html
play with the snake the next day because snakes are supposed to eat
frogs. When more investigators watched into the snake’s hut they found s
out that almost the same thing was happening. The mother snake told snake that she must eat the frog the
next day because snakes are supposed to eat frogs. The next day at approximately 8:30 AM, the investigators
came back to the scene and saw the snake go over to the frog’s hut. But the frog fled and escaped from the
snake. Then the two animals went different ways. The scientists are now making a book about this discovery.

Sotolongo African Story

Written by: Silvia Sotolongo
Two days ago, in a small village in Africa, the king announced that he must have wife. A
man named Mufaro, has seen this as a chance for one of his daughters to be queen.
Manyara and Nyasha are his daughters. Manyara wanted to be queen very much, and
wouldn’t stop to become the king’s wife for anything. Nyasha would be pleased to serve as
queen, but is also fine with being a village member. The king lives about half a day’s journey
from the village so Mufaro thought it was right to walk there yesterday. “It seems unfair
that any other girl should become the king’s wife, when I want it most,” Manyara quoted.
A reliable source told us that Manyara was seen sneaking off late at night, to get to the king
early. When Nyasha got to the town, she saw her sister crying. Manyara said, “There is no
king, only a big snake!” The snake actually turned into a king, and when Nyasha came in, he
announced her as his new wife. The new Queen of this town is Nyasha!
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snake.htm

Weintraub’s African Story

Written by: Jacob Weintraub
Late last night, Anansi the farmer was found to have killed the king’s prize ram. This
happened when the ram was grazing on Anansi’s fields, and Anansi threw a rock at it
to kill it. He tried to cover it up by saying a spider did it, but the king knew that An-
ansi had to have done it. The king kicked Anansi into many pieces, making him a spi-
der with long legs.

http://www.gateway-africa.com/
stories/index.html
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Elephant’s Enquirer
Bow & Arrow
Custody Battle
By: Kristin Andrejko
Mid-day on October 16, 2003 an close
to violent fight broke out between Mark
the Monkey and Brer Wolf. Earlier that
day Orang Outan, his uncle, gave
Mark a magical bow & arrow that could
shoot and kill anything desired. Unfor-
tunately, Mark didn’t guard the bow
and arrow like Orang Outan said to. In
Visulartun, a southern African forest
Mark was walking when he met upon
Wolf. Mark gave Wolf his bow and ar-
row to use to shoot a scrumptious
dear. They ate that deer pleasantly
together until later that night when
Wolf refused to give the bow and ar-
row back to Mark. This created a long
quarrel between these two animals. “I
was just walking home from work, and
from a mile away I could hear them
two bickering.” Jessi the Jackal com-
mented. Jessi, being a member of the
Animal Justice brought this matter to
court. The trial is set for October 16,
2008 and it is going to be very event-
ful. An unnamed witness said she saw
Jessi consulting with Wolf telling him
that his evidence was strong, and his
chances of winning the trial were also
strong. Monkey will have to work hard
and win the jury to get this bow and
arrow back. Be sure to guard your per-
sonal items throughout walks through
South African forests, so no cleaver
wolves will persuade you to give it to
them!
Mark the Monkey, after the trial.
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December, 12th 2008
Volume 18, Issue, 16
JOEY STEAL GOOD
SMELL; JAMES TO THE
RESCUE!!
By Tory Andrews
It happened last Monday when the
disaster struck. Joey, a poor man,
dedicated worker, and friend of Ed-
ward, a rich man who goes through
friends like the year goes through
seasons were the two sides of the
The picture shot of the wanted woman. story. It all began with a vast hun-
http://tinyurl.com/6ztgpw
ger that came over the whole vil-
Girl Breaks her lage, and Edward totally aban-
doned his and the poor man’s
friendship, thinking that all the food
Water Pot! and money he gave to Joey was
just too, too much. Joey was left in
Impresses her Family total debt of food and money, mak-
By: Anna Jenkins ing him have to go beg for all of his
other needs. Although he some-
Early yesterday morning on the
times came up lucky, getting some
way to draw water a girl had the
leftover scraps from some of the
misfortune of breaking her new wa-
citizens. Unfortunately he had no
ter pot. A rope amazingly appeared
salt to season it and no meat to
above her and she climbed up it. At
make it into soup. This food was
a strange gate there was an elderly
absolutely tasteless! Joey walked
lady resting, she gave her strange
next-door to Edwards house, and
advice: “let ants crawl in your ears.”
ate these tasteless scraps with the
The girl did not pay any attention to
great smell of Edwards always-
her and left her in a haste, afraid,
good food. The argument began
but then remembered to report that
with Edward, getting hysterically
a crazy old lady was found she
mad at Joey for this task, and or-
snapped her picture. An ant did
dered him to give him one goat as
crawl in her ear, but strangely she
a payment. Fortunately, Joey went
could not get it out. She came to a
to James; the wise man. He asked
town, but cannot remember any-
him to help him in this situation,
more “clearly she is under a delu-
and of course he solved it. During
sion, because she says that the ant
this live event, last Monday at
told her to sit down and then cook
about 3:00 p.m. the court took
for the town people, and she did!”
place, holding Joey the defendant,
says the girl’s father. The town
and Edward the accuser.
gave her lots of jewels and a baby
and her family is current happy for See page A2 for complete Story.
all the jewels and that their daugh-
ter is safe, but sad that their daugh-
ter is crazy. They blame the elderly
women who tried to give the girl
advice cast a spell on her.”The old
women seen on my daughters
camera is clearly a witch, she had
to ruin my daughter because she ,
was jealous of her.” Says mother.
The family wishes to keep all This is the tasteless corn meal that the
names anemones. The women is poor man ate with the flavor from the
rich man. http://tinyurl.com/66l9xl
being looked for, but not yet found.
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Joey Steal Good Smell;

James to the Rescue!
Continued from page A1
The Jury and the Judge would
decide how it turned out, and James
would be a “lawyer” of Joey. He
thought of the idea to pay him back
with the bleating sound of a beated
goat. James said about this case:
“Well, the poor man didn’t at all touch
the rich man’s food, so the payment
should be something that the rich man
will not touch. A stealer may only re-
pay as much as he has stolen.” These
were his last words, and the court
ended. The rich man (Edward) took in
these bleating sounds as a payment for
the great smell that the poor man
(Joey) stole from his food.

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