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Thursday, December 17, 2015

Blog for 12-18-15 Chicken Soup for the Unsinkable Soul

Prompt #1: Do you like what you’re reading? Why or why not?


I like what I'm reading because it's helpful. What I mean by its helpful is that it has lessons on how to face all of life challenges. This is helpful because whenever you think you can't face life challenges you can read this book and maybe get a little bit inspired to get up on your feet and punch life right in the face. This book is not only about facing life's challenges. It is also about facing life changes, illness and disease, emotional hardship, and etc. That's what makes this book good. It can be for everyone. Old or young, anyone can relate to this book.

Prompt #2: In 4-6 sentences, describe several insights you’ve gained from your reading.

One insight I learned in this book is that life is not always fair. Sometimes life doesn't go the way you want it to go and you just have to deal with it. Sometimes you just can't control life. But on the other hand another insight I learned from this book is that always have hope. Yeah, life can go bad sometimes, but don't give up hope. Sometimes if you have hope things can work out good in the end.

Prompt #3: In few sentences, summarize what you read today.

What I read today was insights and lessons. Insights and lessons is about different lessons and insights in life. This section of the book is very interesting and you can learn a lot from it. I think reading this section would definitely be worth it because overall it is a very good chapter/section. I like the whole entire series of these books and I can't wait to read more of them. I would definitely recommend you read this book series. 




Thursday, December 3, 2015

Exploring Non-fiction Reader Response - 11/30/15

The book I am reading is Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul III. What I have read so far in this book is the friendship chapter. This chapter is all about friendship and how to be a good person. I really like this chapter because in my opinion it is the best because I can learn a lot from it. The genre of this book is Memoir/Non-fiction. This book is nice so far, and I can hope to learn more from it. I can tell the authors are very good at detail because the book is easy to understand.

"A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same." This quote is interesting to me because it shows and tells you what a true friend is. A true friend is someone who gets you, and who cares about you. This quote is saying that a true friend is one who knows about you as a person, and one who loves you no matter what. I can relate to this quote because I know my friends are true friends, and they fit the description of the quote.

Some things I have learned so far are how to be a good person, how to be responsible, and how to deal with different issues. I am not likely to forget these things in the near future because they are the things that make a good person. If you be responsible you will be a good person. Dealing with different issues can help you get through life. These things are good for everyone to learn so they can be good people too.



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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Blog for 11-11-15 Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul



The stories The Gossiper and Betty Ann share the theme of regret. The author shows the theme of regret in The Gossiper by a lesson. The author compares gossip to chicken feathers blowing in the wind. The author talks about how when you spread gossip, you cannot take it back, just like trying to collect chicken feathers that have blown away. In this way the author shows that the character cannot take back their actions and they feel regret because of that.

The author shows the theme of regret in the story Betty Ann by feelings. In the story an adult regrets bullying a classmate when she was younger. In the story the author says "We tell ourselves it takes more than that to send someone over the edge. Maybe so, maybe not. But there are no erasers." This means that the author is saying that you may think you need to put in a lot of work to make someone feel bad, but you really don't need to. 

This ties into regret because the quote says there are no erasers. No erasers means you cannot take something back, and in this case that something is bullying. The author is talking about how you can regret bullying someone, and that you will never be able to take it back.

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Narrative Twist

“Revenge”

Her decision had been indicated in an instant, but it had been made after days and nights of anguished deliberation. She had known she would be asked, she had decided what she would answer, and, without the slightest hesitation, she had moved her hand to the right. The man opened the door and out came the lady. Everyone cheered. The priest came out and the man and the woman promptly got married. They had a big celebration with lots of joy and happiness. After the marriage, the king ordered everyone out of the arena to go home. Everyone went home, even the princess. At home, the princess got in bed and went to sleep.

5 years later the princess was going along with her business when all of a sudden the doorbell rang. At the door was the princesses old lover! She opened the door and saw that he was there with the lady he married from the arena.

“Hello!” he said.

“Hi.” said the princess.

“I just wanted to inform you on some good news.” said the man. “My wife and I have moved into a new house!” Said the man.

“Great news!” said the woman, even though on the inside she was madly jealous of him.

“Ok, well that is all I wanted to share with you. I should probably get going anyways, I drove a long drive to get here.” said the man.

“Ok, bye.” said the woman.

“Bye!” said the man.

After the man left, the woman went to her room to think. “Why does he have to get a lover and I don’t!” the woman said. “I should have never picked the woman door for him!” As the woman was thinking she came up with a deliberate plan. She would poison the man and his wife. A few days later she drove over to the man’s house and luckily he wasn’t home. She tried to open the front door but it wouldn’t budge. She went to the back door to check it. There she found that the back door was open just a crack, and it was open just enough to open it. She was lucky that he left his back door open. She snuck into his house and poured some cyanide into the wine. She got out of the car and sped off quickly. When the man and his wife got home, then opened the wine and drank it. They had spit the wine out because it tasted funny, but it was too late. They had already swallowed some of the wine. They dropped to the floor and died.

A couple of days later the king went to go check on the man because he wanted to see how he was doing with his marriage.

“Hello?” the king said as he knocked on the door to the house. No one answered. Getting concerned, he knocked again. “Hello!” he screamed. When no one answered, he busted down the door, and what he found inside was horrible. He found the man and the woman lying on the ground dead. He screamed as he was terrified. He ran off back to his house. The king sent a forensic team to the house to try if they could look for any evidence. There at the house the forensic team found a bottle of cyanide. They thought to themselves if this could be evidence. They checked the bottle and found the princess’s fingerprints! The forensic team told the king about what had happened. When the king  found out it was his daughter he freaked out. He asked her, “Why would you do this!”

“Because I was jealous!” Said the woman.

“That is not a reason to kill someone!” said the man.

“Well I could not take it anymore!” said the woman.

“I am going to convict you for this.” said the king. “I love you but I cannot believe you did this!" Several days later the woman got convicted and had to go to the amphitheater. She was deathly terrified of what door she would pick. The king raised his left hand, and the princess opened the door. Out came a vicious tiger and it started ripping the woman to shreds. Everyone in the area screamed, and the princess died a horrible death, just like the man and the woman she had killed.

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Blog for October 27, 2015 - Diary of a Wimpy Kid Hard Luck

Diary of a Wimpy Kid Hard Luck
Author: Jeff Kinney


Prompt: how the conflict drives character development (causes the character to change)


The conflict in this book is how Greg's (the main character) best friend abandons him and he has to find new friends. He turns to a Magic 8 Ball to try to change his fate. The conflict in the story drives the character to change because before Greg's best friend tries to leave him Greg is struggling in middle school, but the only thing he basically has to survive is his best friend. 

When Greg's best friend leaves him, Greg is sad and lonely, and tries desperately to fit in. When he can no longer take it, he turns to a Magic 8 Ball to try to change his fate. After Greg uses the magic 8 ball to answer some of his questions about why his best friend left him, the ball answers the questions in a way he had hoped, and it is a bit creepy as the answers seem to be exactly what he wanted them to be. Then he starts using the ball for everything. Eventually the 8 ball leads Greg to solve a problem he had earlier in the book, and then the ball is never talked about again in the rest of the book. 

In the End Of the book Greg and his friend make up and become friends again. This shows how the conflict of the story drives the character to change because in the beginning Greg lost his best friend (conflict) and that caused him to change and think and do different things that eventually led to resolving the conflict.

Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Blog for Week 10/14/15 - Invasion of the Road Weenies

Book: Invasion of the Road Weenies
Author: David Lubar
Prompts
• Is the setting described well enough that can put a picture of it in your mind?
Why or why not?
• What emotions did you feel while you read? Give details from your reading
that made you feel that way.


The book I am reading is Invasion of the Road Weenies. This book is a collection of short stories. The stories are mostly weird, and sometimes scary. These stories are not long, ranging from 3 pages up to 10 pages. I am in the middle of this book currently and I am really enjoying it. The stories are mostly about kids having some sort of problem.

The setting is described very well in these stories and I can see a clear picture of what is going on. I can see the setting very clearly because the author is putting a lot of detail into what he writes. Here is an example from the book: "There was always fog. The world was never clear. Ken couldn't imagine what it would be like to see into the distance---to gaze far away without the ground and rocks and trees growing fainter and fuzzier..." Page 32 (Paragraph 1). This quote shows that the author is talking about the setting very nicely because I can make a picture in my mind of what is happening. The author uses words like "the world was never clear" or "there was always fog" to describe the setting well.

When I read the stories in this book I feel uneasy. In one of the stories it talks about a boy getting dragged into wet cement then drowning in it. As you can imagine you wouldn't feel happy reading this. I felt uneasy because it is creepy to think about someone not being able to breathe under cement. Plus the other stories in the book are equally creepy and they make me feel the same way. Another creepy detail is a story in the book that talks about a mummy sneaking into a girl's house. This makes me feel scared because it is scary thinking that a dead thing could sneak into someone's house.

Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Banned Books Vlog

                                         The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian
by Sherman Alexie


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"About Banned and Challenged Books." American Library Association. American Library    Association, 2015. Web. 8 Oct. 2015. <http://www.ala.org/bbooks/about>.

Piesyk, Christine Anne. "The Difference between a Ban and a Challenge Explained." Business &          Heritage Clarksville. Business & Heritage Clarksville, 2 Sept. 2013. Web. 8 Oct. 2015.<http://businessclarksville.com/arts/the-difference-between-a-ban-and-a-challenge- explained/2013/09/02/53635>.