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.

10.22.10 Week 1

Once someone has asked you a question form the Levels of Questioning, answer it fully, in complete sentences with correct punctuation and examples to defend/support your thinking. You need two examples, one from your text (a quote) and a real world example (connection you have )

Question asked by Fernando: How would you feel if you were in that situation.

In Number The Stars By Lois Lowry, Annemarie Johansen, also know as cat, and the rest of her family who included papa, mama, and her younger sister made a huge sacrifice. The Johansen's being great friends to the Rosen's who were Jew's, took in Ellen as if she were Lise. Lise was the older sister of Annemarie who died in a car accident a few years back. They did this because the Nazi party where relocating the Jew's and killing them. One night two Nazi soldiers came to pay a visit to the Johansen's because they assumed that they were hiding the Rosen's. They thought this because word on the street was, they are very good friend's.(43-44) When the Nazi's came Ellen had black hair witch was an odd characteristic for a German. The Nazi's would look at Ellen trying to find something wrong. At that time I would have felt very hopeless. My heart would have rose up as if it where to pop out and I would start to sweat because I would be terrified. This reminds me of the time when I was afraid and in deep trouble by my mom for breaking her vase. I would also be feeling proud of myself if I were her, because she had the guts to do what she did. I know I would feel proud because one time I took care of Adian which was a big risk, his mom would have killed me. If it were me, I would have needed lot's of foster to help me over come the stress, Annemarie, her family, and Ellen passed through.

10.15.10 Week 8

It is important for readers to understand what is happening in their books, who the characters are and what the theme is. In your response, outline the following: Plot, Setting, Characters, and Universal Theme. Provide evidence to support your thinking from your book.

It is important as a reader to understand the many important features that a story can have, Such as Plot, Setting, Characters, and Universal Theme. My book, Number The Stars by Lois Lowry is about a young girl named Annemarie living in times when the Jews are being relocated or killed. Being a strong proud Jew Annemarie goes through hard times to help her friend. In my book Number The Stars, by Lois Lowry a young ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen passes through a variety of events, like running into Nazi soldier's, being in school, and having food shortages. I think the main plot of this book is that Annemarie's life and those who she shares it with live a poor life by the Nazi's. The setting's in Number The Stars is taken place in the Denmark, 1940. I know this because on it says in the summary, and also because Denmark was one of the city's under the control of the Europeans during the Holocaust. The characters in my book are Annemarie, her mom, her dad, her sister Kristi, her friend Ellen, and Ellen's family.Annemarie is very gentle, caring, smart, and spontaneous. She shows she's very caring in the first page of chapter two. Annemarie's sister Kirsti wanted her to read her bed time story, she read when kirsty fell asleep, she kept telling the story even though Kristi was asleep because she felt like she had to finish the story for her little sister. This shows me how caring she is to her little sister, even though she gets on her nerve's. I think the universal theme is how society reacts. Annemarie and her family reacted badly when the Nazi's wanted to find Ellen's family. They opposed they're own race by helping the Jews excape from Denmark, to free land.

Number the stars, I think will be even more interesting as i go reading along. It has helped me understand a little about the life of people during the hard times of the Holocaust.

9.5.10 - 9.8.10 Week 7

It is important for readers to understand what is happening in their books, who the characters are and what the theme is. In your response, outline the following: Plot, Setting, Characters, and Universal Theme. Provide evidence to support your thinking from your book.

It's very important to understand and know what is happening in our books. If we don't then we are just reading continuous words put together in a way to make sense to the reader. The Book Thief, by Markuz Zusak is a Book isn't the usual read it understand and move on book, no sir, I think it's a Life Changing kind of book. It makes you think about many things like your future, and how it would feel to die. The book is straight forward. With a shocking sentence, page 1, reads," ... Here is a small fact... You are going to Die. We all know this, right?, but why is the character bringing it up? The diversity's of this book will be interesting and it makes me eager to keep reading.

The plot is sort of confusion and hard to understand, but the events that occur in my book, The Book Thief, are not exactly put as events but as the thoughts of the character that has a connection to events he's been through. I'm only on page 5 so The events are pretty much that the character, who is Death, goes through the process of hourly, minutely, second by second, be watching you die and holding those people in his arms, noticing the colors that describe each person. Example; on page 4 it says, "Your soul will be in my arms. A color will be preached on my shoulder."

The setting of my book is easy to understand, if your me of course. If the character Death and he picks up souls, I imagine the setting must take place in the " other World' or the after life. because he's like a god, he sees what you do and knows when things are going to happen. So the setting is in between two world's, heaven and infernal hell.

So far the main character is unpleasant by his temperance, but he can be amiable. agreeable. affable. You don't have to know how he's like to know it's name is taunting, He is, DEATH. The main character is a wise person, with experience, and admirable for the thing he notices that other don't. like colors. On page 4 it reads," ... A Small Theory ... People observed the colors of day only at its beginnings and ends, but to me it's quite clear that day merges through a multitude of shades and intonations, with each passing moment. A single hour can consist of thousands of different colors. Waxy yellows, cloud-spat blues. Murky darknesses. In my line of work, i make it a point to notice them. The character of my book is exquisite at wording his precise straight to the point sentences.

The Universal is theme is the over all purpose for a book, it could be a message about life or something like that. The Book Thief, the messages about life are really juxtapose because it carries from one message about something to another. I think the universal is the most important thing to have in mind when reading because, some people like myself like to find the purpose the author wrote and what point they're trying to get at. I think the universal theme for The Book Thief, is to try to do as much as you can everyday that you enjoy doing, because you never know when it's your turn to sleep forever. Even the little things, enjoy them and try to be thankful of living life.

9/27/10 - 10/1/10 Week 6,7and 8

It is important for readers to understand what is happening in their books, who the characters are and what the theme is. In your response, outline the following: Plot, Setting, Characters, and Universal Theme. Provide evidence to support your thinking from your book.

It's very important to understand and know what is happening in our books. If we dont then we are just reading contiouse words put together in a way to make sence to the reader. The book I'm reading is Bone, By: Jeff Smith. It's a very cool,fun,and enjoyable book for all ages, being a comic it's even better, with the feature of having pictures so that the picture intented to show is captured by the reader. Bone is a great "Brain Candy" book,as my teachers say.

In my book by : Jeff Smith, has a great plot, the series of events that happen are that Bone is trying to get the love of his life Thorn, Bones cousin Phone Bone, is trying to fix a Cow Race, and Old Grandma Ben is trying to warm up for the Cow Race. There are a lot of events but mainly the main Plot, would be that people are trying to do eather evil or good stuff for getting what they want.

The book Bone, has many characters in the story but the most talked about is Bone himself, and his evil gambling unnamed cousin. These to characters share the blood of the family, but both think and beleave diffrently about everything, Bone is sweet,caring and well disciplined in some occasions, if he's ticked off enough he wont stay quiet. He'll respond with the right and well developed argument. He shows he's caring because his friend Thorn a lovely girl, wanted honey. He gets it for her even though he's got a fight with a huge bee in his hands,he strongly took the fight because he loves this Thorn girl. On page 7 through 9 it shows the idea Bone has to getting honey himself, witch was to make a fire and use the smoke to get the bee's out. It didnt work and he ran into a huge Bee, and on page 19 it shows him in pictures all bruised and scratched up saying, " Boy, Oh Boy ... That Bee Put Up A Heck Of A Fight, But I Did It! I Got Some Honey For Thorn ! " witch aviously shows that he won.

He's cousin on the other hand is a nasty gambler, who has a scam of making everyone bet on the Mystery Cow who will run on the Great Cow Race, and while everyone does that he will bet on every year's winner, who's cow belongs to Grandma Ben. Bone's cousin is trying to become rich with all the great stuff the others bet on the fake Mystery Cow, he will of course loose. Because Bone's cousin's friend will be the idiatic moron who will be dressed up as the Mystery Cow. The book shows how demoning Bone's cousin is,on pages 10 through 12 where Bone's cousin says, Wer'e Fxin' Th' Race, Remember?!" witch shows to me he has a plan to make himself asured with money, and great deals.

The setting Of Bone, By: Jeff Smith is in different places. So far up to were im reading it has tooken place at a farm, at a restaurant, at a Spring Fair, and at Grandma Ben's House. Mainly the setting is in a village, near BoneVille, I asume this because on page 1 Thorn says she only had a couple of days to spend with Bone for she had to head back to BoneVille. So up to point it's been in variety of places at a nearby village from BoneVille.

The Universal Theme is very important in every book, but in comics bot so much. I think the book Bone, sends a message about life, and that is to enjoy the company of friends, and that there will always be someone bad in life who you have to sometimes ignore, and sometimes help out. Mainly I would say the universal of the comic book, Bone, is to enjoy the company of other good or bad, because what goes around comes around.

The Book, Bone, is a great book, as I said before. All I have to say now is. Read it, enjoy it, reflect on it.

9.22.10 - 9.24.10 week5

 In your book, what are some of the ways that your character expresses themselves through their emotions? How do they show love? Anger? Hate? Why is this important to you as a reader?

Indeed it is important to me as a reader that I know how the character expresses themselves by their emotions. It is important to me because it helps me connect to the book and keep me interested enough to keep reading. My book Bone The Great Cow Race by : Jeff Smith. Does a good job expressing the characters emotions through words and pictures. In page 2 chapter one: The Spring Fair. The character Bone felt kind of lost in Thorn's eyes because he admired her beauty. This was shown in the picture with hearts bubbling out of Bones head and a grinning smile on his face. Then the character shows sadness because Thorn started talking about other guys and their cuteness Thorn said," I love it! " At the fair you can get Honey from the Southern end of the valley--- It's Sweeter .... And the boys who sell it are cuter! ", Bone got sad and heart broken  because of this, in the picture it had broken hearts popping out his head and a sigh remark on the side and his huge smile turned into a distinguished frown. In this page they showed love and sadness by the way the characters reacted to each others thoughts or opinions on people. Like Thorn having the opinion of how cute the guy behind the honey- booth was and Bone getting sad because she had eyes for someone that was not him.

My book is really cool specialy because of the pictures. The Book Bone: By Jeff Smith is entertaining fun and for any ages. It has a lot of expressions in many ways, By Dress, Talk , Walk , Eat , Sound , Emotions. Etc....

9/13/10 - 9/17/10 Week 4

It is important to use our observations/knowledge of the world around us to understand and make meaning out of what we read. Thinking about your experience with the writing excursion, how much importance does your author place on how two characters in your book dress/look? How do you know this?

The importance of our observations and knowledge of the world is very deep and extremely necessary in a life especially in trying to know what your purpose is and who you are as a person. The book I'm reading, Sold By: Patricia McCormick . Has an author that doesn't really get into detail about how the characters dress, but she does a great job going to detail about the world the characters live in and make you think ' Wow, this person must be pretty poor'' and show how they mistreat their money. Like in page 1 to 2 it talks about the poor lack of roof they have and how with the money the dad makes he buys a vest. I'm only on page 36 and its only been talking about the life of a young poor girl trying to make her life right by working and going to school.

Thinking about my writing excursions and how important I think it is to detail the characters way of dress walk speak etc.. The author up to the page I'm reading hasn't put much interest in how the way the characters dress. So I think the authors view of writing the dialogue and the situations the people are in make you think and get involved in thinking about peoples life in terms of the way they dress. The importance of telling the reader the way people dress is not important because I guess the author has the intention of making you think deeply and make you understanding that some people rather do more important stuff than have a detailed way of dress.

9.10.10 week 3

As readers, we need to be able to look at that is happening in the world around us so that we can make connections to what we are reading. Thinking about the world you live in, what connections can you make to your book.

I'm reading Sold by : Patricia McCormick. The World around me is infinite, with that I mean that anything is happening around the globe good and bad. As I think about the world around me and others. I start to think of how selfish some of us, the people can be. For example a connection I made to the book was that in some country's there are far more important things than beer, and fancy outfits. In my book a young girl saw a thin roof over her head, and saw her dad making money, instead of the dad paying to fix the roof he bought beer, and a jacket for him. Also I realize how lucky some people are for having what they have because even the little things they get should be appreciated because others don't get even that.

Although I'm only on page 9 of my book Sold. It has already shown me that it got to the point, which was a poor girl living in a poor environment. The world around is very difficult because a small amount of us think about how the world needs help and there are little things you can do to help. Also Jobs !. Some of the places around the world that we live in pay you for what you like to do. In the other hand in some places people have to go work doing things other wouldn't imagine of doing. Like prostitution in my book it has a story about that, and the sad thing is she works to pay her family not for her own good. But to give others, what she has earned. The world around us again is very cool, you just have to be aware of certain things, like that you have the choice to work a job and if you don't like it you leave, others have to because they're poor and need money. Like the fact that there's laws that protect us and some that unfortunately don't let us do some stuff. But think about it, sure other people don't have as laws as we do insuring that they can do mostly whatever they want, a very important example to this is the girl who had her ears and nose cut off in Afghanistan. Nobody cared she couldn't do anything about it just to suck it up and keep quiet. But us if something where to happen to us we could get medical help and we can sue that person for every cent they have. Think about it people, we live in a world that thanks to our parents or whom ever. We are in a nation that provides help, not only that but gives a great education, opportunity. Some people don't even make it past the age of 20 because of how harsh other people live like. So don't say my life sucks and stuff because if you don't appreciate the life we have now then you will never get to appreciate it again.

9.3.10 Book Analysys

I am reading The Perks Of Being A Wallflower by Stephen Chboski

The main character Charlie is well expressed. Charlie is expressed in many ways showing how caring he is, how hes respectfull, and much more interesting and cool intereste's he has. For example Charlie shows how he cares alot about his friend because he gets into a fight that wasnt of his buisness, and even though he got bruised up and all he still didnt back down to defend his friend that he hadnt talked to in a while. Thinking about how the Charlie expresses him self, I started to think how I had a connection with him, I have gotten in many fights to defend my friends and even though I sometimes lost I still tryed my best to keep my friend safe. Also, I have expressed me and how I am in other ways, I love sports there for I know I express myself about sports when I play them constantly and how much I talk about them. Pretty much I express myself by my actions or what I talk about. I also show how Im shy to tell people about the real me and how im afraid to tell people my other part of me.

8.27.10 Reading Response

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