Week 4 RR.

After analyzing your main character in a closer manner, you should now be able to compare and contrast that character with the main character from the class read. In an H-chart or in paragraph form, compare and contrast these two characters. Determine which one you identify the most with and why.

Morning McCobb	Similarities	Ben
Vampire / human	Are strong and continue in their beliefs, Morning believes in changing the world by gathering humans with vampires and Ben believes in the wave, a way of life that can organize a community.	Social studies teacher at a high school
16 years old	Both are smart and know what to do in their jobs and how to be good at them.	Around his mid 20 years of age
Can transform into animals and object (called Cd)	Want to change peoples life’s	Human being
Wants to show human beings that vampires aren’t bad creatures		Wants to encourage a society to act as a community through and discipline
Has become famous around the world		Leader of the wave.
Has the job to ensure that humans know vampires aren't bad people by showing them how cool and nice he and his race can be.		Has the job of being the person who motivates his students to be disciplined and work as a community.

The main character of my book Suck It Up by Brian Meehl, is Morning McCobb. The main character of The Wave is Ben Ross. Morning and Ben don’t really compare but more contrast. This is the basic similarities and differences these two characters.

I don’t really think I identify myself with either of these two characters. But, since I’m a supposedly an over achiever I guess there’s no harm in really thinking who that character is that I identify myself with. Here I go, I think Morning could be that person because we are both teenagers, and think outside the box. What I’m trying to say is that were can be identified by our smarts, rater than our looks. Believe me I don’t see my character dressed in skinny jeans and vans. Anyways, were both smart individuals and funny ones as well. Morning loves to laugh and so do I. He can be very Bi-polar like me, for example when I get mad and someone looks at me funny I laugh no matter how pissed off I am and everyone knows I get pretty mad! Morning does that too, and there is an example of that in page 11.

Week 3 4-18 to 4-22

Week 3 RR? - Understanding my character(s)
(Be sure to include quote and page number!!)
You must use at LEAST 2 quotes from the book.
Understanding your character is a good way for you to really get into your book and see from another person's perspective. In your response this week, describe your character. Think about and discuss:
- 1. Your main character's personality
- 2. How they act/behave
- 3. What they look like
- 4. How old they are
- 5. What sort of education do you think that they have
- 6. Who their friends and family are
- 7. What their financial (money) situation is
- 8. and what their job is (if they have one).



My book is called Suck it up by Brian Meehl, and so far I'm really enjoying it. The main character of my book is of course the vampire boy named Morning McCobb. Being a vampire he amazed me, he amazed me because he isn't attached to the personality of vampires I've seen on television. The usual dark, mean, repelling, ignorant type of vampire doesn't fit Morning. Morning is a sweet, kind, responsible, and best of all is a vegetarian 16 year old young adult. I mean young vampire. He prefers to follow the non-human blood role, he drinks his blood light (Flavored water!). He's a fun and smart dude. He always thinks outside the box. Morning doesn't have a family, only the friends that he sees as family. First there's this girl that is like his foster sister, which is always there for him, than Birnam his teacher or leader of the vampire league, then Penny the woman who represents him, finally, there’s Portia, his other half. Not that they are together or anything but there's chemistry between them and they like each other. McCobb doesn't behave out of the ordinary he's always focused on his job and he’s a gentleman over all. There are times when he’s antsy and mad, because of the pressure getting to his head. I know I would go nuts if I was trying to get killed, and had to transform from a boy to many animals, trees, etc. On chapter 26, it talks about this guy named Golpear trying to kill Morning with a croquet stick. To mornings luck him being immortal he survived. On page 185 it reads, “Yeah, it's like our bodies have an invisible finger on the reset button." This meaning if he gets hurt he can simply “reset his button " and have no harm what so ever holding him. Also, on page 204, it quotes, “Morning was dressed in blue jeans and Lycanthrope T-shirt. Although this may not clarify in detail vampire boy's appearance, it gives me a good idea of what he looks like. What I’ve got out of it is that he is tall, black hair and a skinny body, someone casual who doesn’t care how they look as much as I would, he reminds me of Alfredo but without all the whole Mohawk hair style.

Being a vampire, at first I thought Morning didn't have a job, not just any job but the job that has one thing in common to mines. We both work, but don't get money! When I reflected on what type of job my character has, I thought, and came to the idea that his job was to show the world vampires aren't bad people, or animals, or whatever they are. Doing that I don't really think he has an education for studies that I would have, but more like learning the way of a vampire and all they're secrets. Morning's financial situation is a no, because he doesn't have money nor need it. Unless, you call being transported to shows on private jets called wealthy.

I've had some fun with this book, although reading isn't my personal favorite pass time, this book has I don't know, given me reasons to keep reading it until the end. My point is this book is the only reason I even read! Maybe! I like it, maybe I like the silly parts it says that make me laugh, like blood light!

Week 2. 4.8.11

Review the book description found on the back cover of your book. Using the information, and this information alone, construct two alternate titles for the book that appeal to you. Pick one of the two titles and create a catch phrase and movie poster. Describe (using language that will explain what you are talking about so that we can "see" it) the movie poster to sell the new titled novel.




I'm reading Suck it up by Brian Meehl and in all honesty I'm finding it rather hard to answer these questions because I don't have the back cover with me. Luckily, having the Internet I will search for the back cover of my book. Lucky me right?
The back cover of the book is actually already pretty cool, so I'm trying really hard to think of alternative titles, but this is what I've come up with so far:


Alternative title #1 - Limitless love (catch phrase - "1 human,1 vampire, together forever").
Alternative title #2 - The kiss to love (catch phrase - "One kiss changes a vampire's heart").


I can't decide which title I prefer over the other because I like them both. However, I believe that my alternative title #2 would work better, because it goes with what it said in the back cover. The back cover described a kid kissing a girl, but after kissing her his teeth hurt, like if his fangs wanted to come out and suck the girls blood. My new design would look like this : First of all, I would put the title in the top left corner of the cover. It would be a light red color that has a bloody type of font. The first letter in the word love of the title would have blood dripping down the cover, forming the left half of a heart while the the last word of love would do the same but forming the right half of the heart. It would look like if it were stained and couldn't be removed. The background would have a light solemn black color, so that the heart stands out. This will make the heart formed by the word love look like a it is fading into the back ground. In the lower left corner, I would put a picture of a vampires mouth, black lips, pale skin and white teeth. The only thing visual would be the mouth of the vampire. The lips would be smooth looking yet kind of chapped. His mouth would be half open showing all lower teeth of the lips, and the front two teeth, with another teeth aligned left to them. Lastly it would show a beautiful fang, starting fat going down into a sharp edge. All this would fade into the background. Although, it may sound like a simple cover, I prefer it to be this way because I like things simple, but elegant.

Week 1 Quarter 4

Give the title, author, publisher, copyright date, genre (how do you know the genre - from the back of the book, the title page, the text?), a description of the cover of the book, and the main character(s) you have met so far and on what page you first met them.

Right now, I am reading Suck it up by Brian Meehl. This book was published in 2008 by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books. The genre of this book is Vampires - Science Fiction. I know this because of the book's bibliography and also because it is a proven fact that vampires are not real.

I did not choose this book, Ms. Luthey did (the vampire lover). She thought it would be good for me so that I develop creativity. I think she chose it because I need an understanding of other things in life, other people's thinking not just my typical soccer jock way of thinking. I know this because I do need more creativity and because I'm a solid person who sticks to my thoughts most times in my life.

The cover of the book is a dark black color. It has a medium size smiley face at the top left corner of the cover. The smiley face has vampire fangs with a straw halfway in its smile. The straw is white with red swirls on it. The smiley face is sucking up the words, (suck it up) that is in a dark red color. The words are written on with a sort off slur-pee blood font. It is rising from the bottom of the book cover, all red. It makes sense to me that its this color because red stands for vampire's favorite drink, (blood), and the black is because of the vampire's dark character.

I'm about a 1/4 through the book at this point (I'm trying to finish it so that Ms. Luthey and Mrs. Lord can see that I can prove to them that I can get through a vampire book.) I've met a good amount of characters at this point. For now, I'll make a list of the main characters and where I met them:

Luther Birnam - the director of Leaguers, a school dedicated to having vampires pass as normal human beings. Pg1.
Morning - main character of the story. A 16 year old guy wanting to pass his test and successfully reach his transformation (Called a CD) Pg. 1
Penny dredfull - Morning's guider of showing the world who is, a peaceful vampire. Pg49.
Portia dredfull – interviews Morning about him being a vampire and Penny’s daughter. Pg56.

Although I hesitated in reading this book, I thank my teachers for making me read it. I think I will enjoy it and learn from it as well. One of the things I will learn from this book I think will be that I will have more respect to why other people are interested in things that I'm not. For example, I'm into sports and books about drugs and violence, but now that I’ve noticed that vampires aren't as bad as they seem, I will be open to any book. I know this because you always find something cool, or funny. On this book it says blood lite, instead of it being bud lite. Those words made me laugh and know I love this book. I was wrong to judge this book for its cover, because after all I said, I'm anxious to finish this book. 

Week 5 12/6/10 – 12/10/10

daddAs we are reading poetry and looking at various parts of poems, can you notice some of the same figurative language in your independent reading? Using your notes from this week, give examples of each of the parts of figurative language we've been discussing.  You may not find all types. If you can’t find any, look at the poem you put on the moodle or the lyrics to your favorite song.  The chart attachment is at the bottom of this page 'Week 5 Blog', use it to set up your blog.   Turn in a "Process Your Process" chart to show us how you tackled this blog. This is also at the bottom of this page.

Figurative language comes in many different types of writing. It could be in story's, feature articles, movies, poem's, and song's.

 We're dancing

our arms forgotten

my tight

embrace 

just my fingertips

nothing but this sea of skin - Metaphor because it's comparing his fingertips to the sea. The sea of skin of his partner.

I'm touching

and the flow or our bodies

toward one side

forward

our two move forward-
There's alliteration because the sentence has the words start with the same sound of fo,flo,to.

and the half turn

yearning

quiet, rapture. Here there is symoblism, the author symbolyses how he's high on extacy by showing the flow of his bodie forward and back side to side like he was so high he couldn't walk at all.  

Figurative can be found in just about anything, it's hard to find, but the thing's you think dont have what you need, are usually the thing's that have the most of what you need.

We've been looking and studying how we relate to our characters and the real world around us. Now it's time to put yourself into your character's shoes. Thinking about the main character of your book, consider what you would do in their situation.  1. What would your reactions be? 2. How would you handle the situation? 3. What would you do differently? Be sure to use complete sentences and EVIDENCE to support your thinking.

I am reading The Book Thief by Markus Suzak. The main character of this book is Liesel Meminger, a girl who looses her family, but joins her new family, the Hubbermans, and makes very good friends. Liesel has been in many situations through out the book, I will be setting into her shoes as I talk about the time when Liesel Meminger beat up a kid at school. Pg's 78- 79 it talks about how Liesel Meminger beat the crap out of this guy at school for making fun of her for not being able to read. My reactions to this would be feeling mad, and having the urge to do something to prevent a young lady, from doing unsophisticated stuff a lady wouldn't normally do. I  had this reaction because I pictured Liesel as my sister, and I wouldn't let anyone in the world disrespect her, even if it where to be a family member. I know because I have done it before, I yelled at my aunt for telling my sister that she was getting fat. Although I my reaction to Liesel's situation was getting mad, I would have handled the problem differently than by fighting I would have handled it a nit more brusque. I would have simply told the kid in a calm firm voice that I didn't like the way he was treating me, and that jerks like him, should get a life and worry about themselves and not making funny regards about me. Instead of beating up the kid I would have done differently and used the power of words to solve the problem. I would do this so I could let my anger out, with out violence, and it would most likely shut the kid up, and I could continue my life satisfied. There's no stronger thing in the world, than with the power of words.

Week 3 11.22.10 - 11.26.10

1.Using your notes from your reading, summarize what is happening in your story using 2 examples from your book. Include at least 2.one connection and 3.one inference that you made while reading. Keep in mind the previous feedback that you've received so that you don't make the same errors.

 So far the summary of The Book Thief By Markus Suzak, is about Liesel's foster family the Hubberman's taking in Max, a Jew. While Max is in coma from freezing up in the basement, Liesel provides him with gift's. Gift's that she stole and found. Liesel and her best friend Rudy Steiner, stole books from the mayor's house. The book was one of the gifts she gave Max. She would read it to him, hoping, he wake up. She read it with such a clear voice and gentle touch, her lips synced into her words in such a precise matter. This is shown on Pgs 323 through 324. I have given gift's too. I gave my Mom a worthless note saying I love you and happy mothers day, I made because I didn't had money like Liesel. An inference I made while reading was that when on pg 363 Rudy dropped to his knees for being tired from all the track events he had done, I infered that he was going to die, not literaly but need to have emergency help because he ran 4 events where he he gave it his all, it's tough running alot. I've been in track too and it's hard two events  with out going all out, imagine running 4.