12.10.10 Reading Response

As We Are Reading Poetry & Looking At Various Parts Of Poems, Can You Notice Some Of The Figurative Language In Your Independent Reading?

In My Book I Think There Is A Simile It Said "It Was Like She Was Watching Well A Snake Wondering If It Was The Nice Kind, Like The One I'd Fish From The Pool..."
I Think A Symbol Is "I Forgot. You Like Being Will's Lapdog & Doing Everything He Tells You"
A Metaphor Could be "Came To Young Lovers Lately Wed; 'I Am Half Sick Of Shodows'..."
From My Song On the Moodle There was A Personification 'All Hearts Could Be Warmer'
In My Book It Has A Onomatopoeia " The Ocean Breeze Snapped At The Sail Above Our Heads"...
An Aliteration In My Book Is "Say Something Man."
 I Just couldn't Find An Idiom.

12.3.10 Reading Response

Thinking About Your Main Character In Your Book, Consider What You Would Do In Their Situation. -What Would Your Reaction Be? -How Would You Handle The Situation? -What Would You Do Differently? Show Evidence.

If I Was In Ellie's Shoes, My Reaction Would Be 'I'm Really Confused' Because How Can Someone Like Marco Know About The Olden Days? Not A lot Of People Like To Study What Happen A Thousand Years Ago. I Would Handle This Situation By Trying To Just Forget What Happened, Because Maybe It Was Just A Cowincidence & He Didn't Mean To Talk About Camelot & How It Was Kinda What Was Happening To Ellie. What I Would Do Differently Is Ask Marco What He Was Talking About Like If I Didn't Know, But I Did. Just To Make Things Clear & Find Out What He Was Trying To Say.

Nov. 25.10

Using Your Notes Summarize What Is Happening In Your Story Using Two Examples From Your Book, Include At Least ONE Connection & One Inference That You Have Made While Reading..

Avalon High.  By Meg Cabot
Using My notes I Can See That Ellie[Main Character] Is Falling For A Guy Named Will[2nd Character], But Will Is Taken By Jennifer[3rd Character]. Will Invited Ellie To A Party, Ellie Was Looking For Lance[4th Character] Because  They're Partners In World Lit. & Their Teacher Found Out That They Weren't Working Together, Anyways, Ellie Went Upstairs & Found Lance & Jennifer Together Kissing! : O Ellie Wanted To Tell Will What Was Going On, But Will's Step Brother Marco, Didn't Let Her, & Then Marcos Was Telling Her Something About The Old Days, You Know About Camelot, How Lancelot[Lance], Guinevere[Jennifer] & Elaine[Ellie], & Ellie Was Suppose To Fall For Lancelot Instead Of King Arther Which Was Will. Ellie Was Puzzled By How Marco Knew All Of That. I Have A Connection With This Because When I Do Something Bad & Someone Watched Me Do It, They Want To Got Tell, But I Try To Stop Them. It's Like Im Marco & The Someone Is Ellie. I Think That Ellie Is Going To Concede[To Accept] That She's Just Making All Of  This Up In Her Head, & Everything That's Relating To Camelot Is Just A Cowincidence.[However You Spell It].

Learning Question Response 11.5.10

Daphny

It seams like you dnt really like he book your reading and like it's not interesting. My question is: Do you think you could be more descriptive and how?


I Could have been more descriptive by adding more details maybe, & i should've read my book more too, Because Yeah i don't like my book, it's boring.

Answer To My Comment

No I'm not reading a little kids book Ms. L.A It's just that I haven't been reading my book because it's really boring, & So i couldn't really find the plot, setting, & universal theme.

So today I'm going to write Ms.Luthey a letter about Switching my book.

-Daphz :D ♥

10.8.10 Reading response.

The plot in my story is that Yolanda comes back from this one place, & wants to travel alone already, but her Tias think she's joking because she barley knows her hometown or something. The conflict in my story is that Yolanda is looking for some Guavas, but she can't find any. She finally stopped at this little market, there was a lady, she asked Yolanda if she wanted anything to drink, Yolanda asked if she had any Guavas. A little boy came up from behind the counter & told Yolanda where she can find them sense the lady said they didn't have any at the moment & haven't seen any anyways. The solution is that the little boy is going to show Yolanda where they are. Yolanda wanted to go to so they went in her car, past some mean & nasty trees! Finally they got there. The setting is kinda bright dirt & Guava trees waiting to be picked. I think the universal theme is Human Nature, because Yolanda is on an adventure & we all go on adventures sense it happens to all of us.

9.24.10 Reading Response

I barley started my book, it's called How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents.  By Julia Alvarez.

I think the way the character, Yolanda, expresses her emotions is by talking.. Maybe.

I think this because, her family talks about how they're happy to see her & I think she's happy to be back too, espcially after 5 years. Yolanda told her family that she was thinking of traveling alone, I thought that meant she had courage!

9.10.10

The connection i can make to my book is that in Aurora there's over 1300 kids waiting to be adopted or in foster care. This reminds me of my book because all the girls are in a foster home together. I think that it's sad because they got abused in there home before, & they have to leave the people they love. Most of the times, kids get moved from foster home to foster home, like in my book, Whitney, has been in 7 or 8 foster homes already & she is barley 10 years old. So the world can connect to my book because of that.

9.3.10 Reading response

I did what you told me to do Ms.luthey. & i tryed pasting it to a new one & it didn't let me, because I deleted it on accident.

8.27.10 Reading Response

What I Call Life
By Jill Wolfson

The setting is in a orange colored house filled with 5 girls & an old lady. The main character is Cal Lavender. Cal was moved to a foster home after what happen in the library with her mother. She thinks that Betty-her Mother- will come & get her, but after a talk with the Social Worker- Mrs. S- Betty won't be coming for Cal anytime soon. I think the universal theme is Human Nature, because things like this happen sometimes, & you have to live on with it, even if you don't think it's YOUR life. [Im talking about Cal.]