Due Date/Time: Thursday, February 9th at 11:59pm
1. Always type your FIRST NAME and LAST INITIAL. Full names will result in a DELETION of the comment and no better than a C grade.
2. Provide me with some basic citation information about the novel you have chosen to read. INCORRECT CAPITALZATION and PUNCTUATION will result in a C!!!
Lastname, Firstname. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Medium of Publication.
3. Write a well developed paragraph summarizing the section of the book you read this week. You do not need to provide background information, I only want to read about what you read this week. Be sure to include a topic sentence, details, at least one piece of properly cited evidence from the text, and a concluding sentence.
4. Write one question to the main character (or one of the main characters) of the book. Explain why you want to ask the character this question.
5. Once you have posted your comment, go back and read through your classmate’s comments about the books they have been reading and comment on one of their posts by asking "I wonder..." questions; or, if you have read the book, you may make more specific comments. Be specific as to which classmate you are responding to. You must read your classmate’s entries and make a meaningful comment on their work in order to receive an A.
30 comments:
Helen C
Norton, Mary. The Borrowers. New York: Harcourt. Inc. 1953. Kindle.
In The Borrowers Arrietty dreams of seeing what’s above her home underneath a house. He father Pod borrows objects from that house so they can survive. Even though this doesn’t please her mother, Homily, much she lets Pod take Arrierry borrowing. While up thire Arrietty meets a boy. It’s says in the book “supposin one day- we’d pick a special day when no one about,... one day yur father took you borrowing...” (Norton). This book is a very interesting read.
If I could ask any of the characters something I’d ask the boy why he never went back to the house where the borrowers are after he left. I’d ask this because his sister went to the house, but he never went back. Also he seamed to be good friends with Arrietty.
Jaime G.
Shan, Darren. Cirque Du Freak, Vampire Mountain. Great Britain: Collins, 2001. Print.
In the book Vampire Mountain Darren Shan must be shown to the Vampire Generals and Princes. The trekk to the mountain is filled with dangers like bears, vampire hunters, and the occasionally insane vampaneze. The vampaneze never come near the mountain even if they were totally bonkers. So why are they? Also how will the council react to Darren being an illegal half-vampire?
If I could ask a question to any character I would ask Mr. Crepsley why he decided to quit being a Vampire General when he was so close to being made a Vampire Prince? The highest position a vampire could have and very few are chosen for it.
Austin D.
Collins,Suzanne.The Hunger Games.New York:Scholastic Press,2008.Print.
In the book The Hunger Games the main character is Katniss who lives in district 12 is a teenage girl who's going to have to be put in a pulling to see who's in the hunger games. The first person picked i s her sister Primrose Everdeen. Katniss volunteered to take her place "I volunteer,I volunteer as a tribute". That's what I've read so far.
If I could ask Katniss a question it would be what would you do if you could make someone else to take her place in the family?
Austin D.
To: Jaime G.
What is vampire mountain?
patrick u
westerfeld,scott. Behemoth. new york: simon pulse, 2010.print.
In this book the main charcter is Alek, an austrain prince, and he and a darwarnist, Dylan, needs to hide from the germans because they are at war. Dylan is a girl but acting like a guy because the air force only accepts guys not girls so Count Volger knows her secret but is hiding it from Alek. Dylan is in command of a small task force whose mission is to get the biochemical creatures on the great net to reproduce on it to eventually cut the net so the darwarnists can send in a gaint creature who can destroy anything in its path but theres one problem her men got caught and captured even though they dont know their own mission.
Mia M.
Collins ,Suzanne. The Hunger Games. New yotk: scholastic Press , 2008. Print.
This week i read about Katniss's first few days in the Hunger Games. One interesting part was when Katniss was hiding up in a tree and finds out that peter and the other careers have joined together to form an allience.
If i could ask one question to one of the characters i would ask peter if he really does like Katniss and if he does why he would join an allience with other people instead of her.
Mia M.
comment to Patrick U:
I've read a Scott Westerfield book before , it was called The Uglies. It is a whole series , and if u really like him as a writer you should read the Uglies series. Its one of the best i have ever read.
Derek G.
Collins, Suzanne. Catching Fire. New York: Scholastic, Inc, 2009. Print.
Since the last blog, I've gotten to a part where Katniss is in the arena again with Peeta. They have made allies with Finnick, Beetee, Wiress, Madge, and Johanna. Sadly, Madge killed herself on purpose to save Finnick, her student, and her other two allies, Katniss and Peeta. Also, Wiress was killed unsuspectingly by a career. The gang has figured out the arena. So they have a plan, and how they will handle the rest of the careers and tributes, and how they will handle the arena and it's tricky ways. "Beetee asks Finnick to assist him, and the rest of us to stand guard." (Collins 368)
If I could ask the main character, Katniss, I would ask her why she has doubts about her soon to be husband Peeta. Peeta wil do everything for her, and he loves her so much, if I had something like that, I would not want to let it go.
To Helen.
From Derek,
I wonder if Arietty will get into any kind of trouble during some of her adventures with the boy she met, does she go out borrowing alone?
Eric D.
Collins Suzanne,Catching Fire.New York. Scholastic inc.2009 print
This week in the story catching fire Katniss Everdeen who is the main character in the story finds out that she has to go into the hunger games again because it is the 75 year anniversary of the games. The Capitol wants this upcoming game to be special, so the capitol is picking 24 of the past winners to compete in the games.
If I had one question to ask Katniss it would be, in the games how would you feel if you had to kill you friends Peeta or Haymitch if you faced them in the games.
Eric D.
Collins Suzanne,Catching Fire.New York. Scholastic inc.2009 print
This week in the story catching fire Katniss Everdeen who is the main character in the story finds out that she has to go into the hunger games again because it is the 75 year anniversary of the games. The Capitol wants this upcoming game to be special, so the capitol is picking 24 of the past winners to compete in the games.
If I had one question to ask Katniss it would be, in the games how would you feel if you had to kill you friends Peeta or Haymitch if you faced them in the games.
Eric D. to
Helen C.
What are the Borrowers and are they harmful.
Arietta C
Hahn, Mary Downing. All The Lovely Bad Ones. New York: 2008. Print.
This week in the book Travis and his sister Corey go to there grandma’s inn called The Vermont Inn. They are sent there for the summer. There grandma’s Inn is supposed to be haunted and they are starting to think that. They see someone over by the tree and not sure what to do. At first they pulled a prank as the ghost over by the tree people started coming and now they thinks its starting to happen. “she dipped and swayed, She moaned and groaned, and then turned to stare at the inn.” ( Hahn 26-27)
If I could ask Travis and Corey anything it would be why did u do this? Why are you putting on a show for everyone around you when it isn’t true. You are not the ghost so why act like it?
Eric
Arietta
If you had to say one thing to Katniss what would it be and why?
Helen C
To Patrick U
Do you think that Alek will ever find out that Dylan is actually a girl? If this were to happen would they fall in love? How would this event change the book? Plus will Dylan get her men back to retrieve the biochemical creatures?
Heather F.
Stolarz, Laurie Faria. Silver Is For Secrets. New York: Scholastic, Inc, 2010. Print.
At the end of this book Stacey and her friends go on the frat cruise-except her boyfriend Jacob. After they've been aboard for a while, Stacey notices that Jacob came aboard after all.Then Stacey finds out that Clara was making up everything that she's told Stacey and her friends. She starts to hurt Stacey, so Jacob comes to her rescue, but accidentally falls overboard in the process. Stacey is VERY distraught."Just then the railing gave way, and Jacob fell in. I stopped breathing."(Stolarz 329)
If i could ask one of the main characters a question it would be Stacey. I would ask Stacey what she was thinking the days following Jacob's fall, and how she coped with it all, or if she even coped at all.
Jaime G.
To: Arietta C.
Do you think if they hadn't pretended to be the ghost the actual ghosts might have stayed silent or that they would still eventually started "pranking" people?
Heather F.
To; Arietta C.
Why was someone pretending to be a ghost? Also, why were Travis and Corey sent to the inn for the summer in the first place? If it were me, I would be terrified, and mortified!
Heather F.
To: Arietta C.
Why was someone pretending to be a ghost? Also, why were Travis and Corey sent to the inn for the summer in the first place? If it were me, I would be terrified, and mortified!
Natalie P.
Dessen, Sarah. That summer. New York: Speak, 1996. Print.
So far in the book, I have read about how Havens life will change once her sister Ashley leaves the house with her new husband. Since her father already got married, part of her life has already changed. This also affects her mother because with her father and Ashley out of the house, she will think of how part of the family has already left. “She would take her dramatics and her tattoo and her legends of boyfriends to a new home…” (Dessen32). This cited text describes what Haven was thinking when her sister told her she was going to leave.
If I can ask a question to Haven, it would be why would she want to change the size of her height? Since her older sister is older and shorter than her, she describes herself as a giant because of how she towers over everyone.
From: Natalie
To: Arietta
I have read this book before and was great. The ending of it is exciting because of what Travis and Corey accomplish.
Kaleigh M
Riordan, Rick. The Sea of Monsters. New York: 2006. Nook.
In this book so far I have read that the protagonist Percy Jackson is trying to save the summer camp halfbood hill. He is trying to do so because someone posined the main power sorce which is a tree. That tree holds the key to keeping mythical mosters out of the camp which is filled with demmiegods. Percey has to sneek out of the camp and save his traped friend and get a magical fleec that can heal nature. in the book it says, "'...It can revitaliz any land whre it's placed. It curs sickness...' 'It could cure Thalia's tree'" (Riordain 63).
If I could as the main character anything I would ask Precy if he ever regreted leaving camp halfblood, because so far he has gotten into two near death experences. If I got into a near death experience I would regret ever leaving my house.
To Patrick
What is a darwarnist? i am confused about what it is or who it is and why does the airforce only take guys and why does the girl want to be in the airforce?
Molly L
Gerber, Linda. Death By Bikini.New York: 2008. Print
What I read this week was Aphra met a new guest at her and her dads hotel and his name is Adam. Adam and his parents are making Aphra suspicious because Adam's dad whispered something in Aphra's dad ear, and then he had a weird look on his face. Another guest at their hotel Bianca died and Aphra thinks she got murdered. Then Aphra figured out that Adams real name is Seth and there at her hotel hiding from these bad people. But then the bad people found them because of Aphra.
If I could ask a character a question it would be to Aphras dad because he is keeping secrets from Aphra and they usually told each other everything. Four years ago Aphras mom left her and her dad. And I want to know why Aphras dad is keeping secrets?
To; Austin D.
From Molly L
The Hunger Games sounds like a really good book and a lot of people like it, What do you think about the book ?
Emily w.
Dessen, Sarah. someone like you. New York: Speak, 1998. Print.
This week I hread the part of the book when Halley and Scarlett first met. When they were little, scarlett was sitting on her porch while her mom was looking for her keys. Halley was just standing there looking at her, then scarlett invited her to come sit with her. "She nodded, then picked up her purse and scoted down a bit on the step, brushing it off with her hand and leaving just enough space for someone else about the same size. And then she looked at me and smiled..."(Dessen8).
If there was one question i could ask, i would ask Hally how hard it was for her to get over Michael dying? If i were her i would not be able to get over it for a while.
To: Areitta C.
From: Emily W.
What is it? i didn't understand your question.
billy.S
Hirsch,Jeff. The Eleventh Plague. New York: scholastic press 2011. print
in this section of this book, a boy named Stephen survived a plague that killed most of the people on earth and is burying his grandfather. if i was to ask him a question, it would be .... how can you bury you grandfather and not completely break down and cry.
to eric D
from billy s
how is catching fire an add on from the original hunger games book?
Nick H
Clement-Davies, David. The Sight. Phoenix Ark Press. 2011 Ebook
This week in The Sight i started this book, so i didn't get very far. what i did read was the intro to the characters. They are wolves. The first characters are Huttser and Palla. They are alpha male and female. So far Palla had pups. Two of them died but two others survived. They name them Fell and Larka.
Nick H
Clement-Davies, David. The Sight. Phoenix Ark Press. 2011 Ebook
This week i started this book The Sight, so i didn't get very far. what i did read was the intro to the characters. They are wolves. The first characters are Huttser and Palla. They are alpha male and female. So far Palla had pups. Two of them died but two others survived. They name them Fell and Larka.
If i had to ask the main character Huttser one thing it would be what is it like to be a wolf? Is it nice to be able to run free? I would also ask, now that the humans are everywhere are you scared you are going to be hunted?
I would ask these questions because i would think it is cool to be able to run around free and fast. And also i would be afraid of the humans too.
Nick H
To Heather F
I read one of those books it was good , i read blue is for nightmares. are the other books good? The one i read was
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