Today author David Getz came to our school. We have been studying ancient man and we read a book by David Getz about a frozen man that was found in the Alps by two German hikers. The story goes on to describe how the scientists realize that the body is actually very old: the man lived about 5300 years ago! We took notes on the story and later we will have a quiz.
Author David Getz talks to 5th grade in the library
We are still studying the body today and it is amazing that we are, for the number of coincedinces that happened to make the body able to be studied is amazing. Some of them were: that it was in a crevice so a glacier could not squish and destroy the body. Also it was very important that the summer that year was especially hot and that a dark sandstorm sent dark dust on the Alps and that caused them to melt, because dark colors attract heat.
We learned many things about David Getz today, he was a teacher as well as writer and he wrote many books. First he was a teacher and then he started writing books. Many of his books were science fiction so his editor suggested writing a actual book based on facts but not just a “fact book”. He couldn’t find something to write about until one day he was reading a story about the “frozen man” in the natural history magazine and thought “hey, this sounds interesting. I know kids like kind of disgusting stuff so maybe I could write a book about this.” And he did, writing the Frozen Man. He has also wrote other books based on true stories.
One of them was about two hikers who were hiking on a mountain and come across a young girl who looked to be about twelve. She was dead and looked kind of old, she was all dried out like the frozen man. The men recognized her as a Inca, a tribe in that area. She looked very young and they were wondering how they would bring her down. If they left her then animals might eat her before they came back and if they brought her down they might be arrested for being Incas before they could get her to a university. In the end they covered her with their backpack matieral. In the end they made it to the University and were able to examine the girl. In both these books David Getz was able to talk to top experts about those subjects. He is currently teaching as a principal. We were very honored to have him come and are glad that he came.
Nicholas
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