LEUKEMIA By: Michelle Ramayo 3-29-12

BIG QUESTION?

CAN YOU SURRIVE IF YOU HAVE LEUKEMIA?

THINK ABOUT IT!

QUESTIONS/ANSWERS

WHAT IS LEUKEMIA?LEUKEMIA IS A TYPE OF CANCER.

DO YOU GET LEUKEMIA FROM RADIATION?YES, BECAUSE A LARGE AMOUNT OF RADIAION CAN CAUSE LEUKEMIA.

IS THERE ANOTHER WAY TO GET LEUKEMIA?YES,BECAUSE BY LARGE AMOUNTS OF RADIATION, TO CERTAIN CHEMICALS

AT WORK SUCH AS BENZENE.CAN YOU DIE IF YOU HAVE LEUKEMIA?Maybe because if you only have a small amount of radiation you can live.

Sadako

Here is the statue of Sadako and a big paper crane.

The book

MYGROUP(MICHELLE,KAI,KARLA,JASEYREAD A BOOK CALLED SADAkO AND THE THOUSaND PAPER CRANES!

SADAKO 2

SADAKO DIED BECAUSE OF THIS BOMB

Cranes

Sadako has made 644 of these paper cranes

Sadako and her class

Sadako is in the middle of the front row

STEPS

THERE ARE 25 STEPS TO MAKE A PAPER CRANE.CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT SADAKO DID THOSE STEPS 644 TIMES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! IF YOU MULTIPLY 644 25 16,100!!!!!!!

DID SOMEBODY LOSE A MENU OF THE SADAKO RESTRAUNT? 1. Gyoza(K):  pan fried Japanese

(beef) or (vege)dumpling 2. Shumai (K): steamed (shrimp)

dumpling 3. Edamame (K): boiled fresh

soybean with salt    4. Beef Negimaki (K)(A): rolled

sliced beef with scallion teriyaki sauce       

5. Yakitori (K): broiled chicken with scallion on bamboo skewer with Teri sauce 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR!

Eleanor Coerr died at 88.Coerr learned of the story while living in Japan after the war and visiting Hiroshima's Peace Memorial Park. A missionary friend who had a copy of Sasaki's autobiography encouraged Coerr to write about the girl, who is sometimes referred to as the Anne Frank of Hiroshima.

The End

I GOT ALL OF THIS INFORMATION FROM THE BOOK(SADAKO AND THE THOUSEND PAPER CRANES!) AND INTERNET!!!!THANK YOU