Along For The Ride Novel Reflection

Have you ever try reading Sarah Dessen's books about love, friendship and family? You might think they are lame, but... if you pick up those books for once, I'll bet, you can't put them down, unless, you don't care about your social life. In this Blog Post, I will present you the book called "Along For The Ride" by Sarah Dessen. Please enjoy your stay! If you have a broken family, you might not feel sorry for Auden, because she is the same like you. I don't mean to compare or contrast or anything that might misunderstand you, but Auden's parents divorced and ever since so, she couldn't sleep. It's been long since Auden slept at night. She couldn't even remember how long it was. If you don't have a broken family, you might feel sorry for her, because you've never experience what a broken family is. Happy for you! I don't want to go anymore further because I might give out the whole story and the ending, and you won't try to read it anymore, but... when I picked up this book about 1 months ago, I read it like crazy, it was sooo goooooooooooood I couldn't express all of my feeling. Oh well, read it now or it will be to late! Enjoy reading.

SARAH CYNTHIA SYLVIA STOUT WOULD NOT TAKE THE GARBAGE OUT

1. How does Shel Silverstein use exaggeration (hyperbole) to create humor?
- Shel Silvertein used hyperbole to create humor. He wrote sentences like: "The garbage reached across the state, from New York to the Golden Gate" and "It cracked the window and blocked the door "; these sentences seems like they are NOT real, which means fiction. So, Mr. Silvertein create humor to make us attract to the poem and make us laugh. Very interesting.

2. Find three examples of alliteration in the poem.
- Alliteration means the commencement of two or more words of a word group with the same letter. For example, "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout" or "Crusts of black burned buttered toast" and "Prune Pits, Peach Pits, and Orange Peels".

3. What is the theme of the poem? Do you think Silverstein is serious about his message or having fun? Explain your answer.
- I think the theme of this poem is laziness. Silverstein is also serious because he wanted to deliver the poem to every kids in this world, to tell that DON'T BE LAZY, OR YOU WILL REGRET. He also wanted to tell us that don't harm the environment, keep it clean, nice and neat.

1. The rent man and Madam seem to disagree throughout the poem. Yet, the last line is “So we agrees!” How can that be?
- It's because they are agreeing that they are not happy either ways.
2. Infer What do you think is the message of “Madam and the Rent Man”?
- I think the message of this poem is related to racism, because Madam is a black women and the Rent Man is a white man, so when the Madam asked that could the Rent Man fix her rented house, he promised to do it, but then he didn't.
3. Analyze How does the author’s use of playful language and dialogue affect the tone of “Madam and the Rent Man”?
- The author used many metaphors and idioms to make the poem be more attractive!

Rose That Grew From the Concrete by Tupac Shakur Questions

• 1. What is concrete? Explain, using imagery, what it looks, feels, smells, tastes and sounds like.
- Concrete is a construction material that we use to build houses, companies,... It's very hard, dirty and taste disgusting. It doesn't have a scent and a sound, so I can't hear or smell anything from it.

• 2. What is a rose? Using imagery to explain it.
- Rose is a kind of flower that stands for love and betrayal in the flower language. It has a nice, wonderful scent and the flower petals are so soft, but its stem has a lot of thorns so we have to be careful when we touch the flower. It tastes sweet and has a natural taste. It doesn't have a sound so I can't hear anything either.

• 3. What is the tone of this poem?
- The tone of this poem sounds strong, hopeful and a bit sad.

• 4. What is the message of the poem?
- It seems that Tupac Shakur wanted to tell us that whatever you are different from others by the appearance or where you are from, you are still who you are, learning things by yourself without help and standing up on your own from a fall.

• 5. What figurative language does the poet use?
- Tupac Shakur used Metaphor to tell the different between the rose that grew from the concrete and the other roses that grew from the pots, the grounds,... To me roses that grew from different places are still roses; just like black people and white people are still human no matter what skin color they have.

Changes by Tupac Shakur Questions

1. What is the tone of the song?
- The tone of the song are sad and angry.

2. What imagery does Tupac use?
- He used the words to create a scene that is happening around him.

3. What figurative language does he use?
- He used onomatopoeia and rhyming.

4. Make a Text to Self connection.
- When I was young, I met a friend who was from the United State, and she was black. I thought that she's not from our country, so we don't play with her. But when I read the poem and the book I found in the Library earlier this year, I felt so bad for her, and suddenly I just wanted to hug her so much and say sorry to her. I really regret that I didn't play with her.

5. Make a Text to Text connection.
- I used to read a book about Human's Rights in the Library and it was talking about what rights do we have. There are many rights, but mainly, the book wrote about racism, at first I thought "I don't know what Racism means, let's turn the page" but then as I read along, I understand Racism better and see that it's a REALLY BAD THING, and I should never racist. When we read the poem in class, it reminds me of the book.

6. Make a Text to World connection.
- When I read the poet, I thought about black people who were treated badly by the white people because the white people were racing the black people just because they don't have the same skin color.

Amulet: The Stonekeeper N.R

Amulet is a series, and "The Stonekeeper" is book one. It was really good and I really like it. It's about a family when the moved to a new house to start a new life. When they were cleaning up their grandpa old house to start moving in, Emily found a necklace with a beautiful pink stone in it. It attracted her so much that she wore it on her neck. After that, on the very first night, their mom got kidnapped and they met their grandpa in his secret hideouts with robots that he invented to assist him. It has a very cool story line, and plot that hocked me up. You can find it in the library in the Graphic Novel Shelf. I hope you will enjoy the Amulet series.

Blue Moon Novel Reflection

Blue Moon was a very good book that I've read; I love it a lot. However, this book was not as much as suspenseful like Evermore (Blue Moon, book one's series). In this novel, Ever and Damen are immortal because they drank a juicy drink that is red, and has a bad taste. During school, Damen was poisoned by a transferred student - he was assigned to kill Damen and Ever. Ever was forgotten by Damen because of the poison. She had tried to change the juice bottles that has poison in it with hers but she failed. Read if you want to find out more!!!!!

Do i like class novel?

These weeks, we've been reading an extremely good book - When My Name Was Keoko. I really like this book because it's about invasion of the Japanese in Korea. I like the way that the author described the details in the book about who is talking and what year it was. I really like how the book was organized and when I read this book, I can practice the strategies of the week, like Visualizing and Questioning. I can visualized how Tae-yul felt when he flew the plane, how Sun-hee got to meet her dear brother again and Tae-yul miss his family during the Japanese volunteered training for the kamikaze. I really like this book. :D

Visualizing When My Name Was Keokeo Chapter 27,28

When I read Chapter 27, 28. I visualized the feeling that Tae-yul had when he was flying on an airplane. I can almost feel his feeling because the author used a lot of strong description words. I can feel how exciting it was when a volunteer will fly a mission as a kamikaze and sacrifice his life. I can also feel Sun-hee feelings when she read the last letter that Tae-yul wrote. She was so sad, and worried about her brother that is going to become a kamikaze, and will die.

Bad News that I receieved

I had tons of bad news that I had received, but, this new is the worst news I have ever receive. It was when my mother said that my Great Grand Father died two years ago. I cried a lot because my Great Grandfather was the dearest person to me beside my parents... I miss him a lot. He died because he had cancer, I'm not sure what kind of cancer it was because I forgot but my mom told me that when he had cancer, he suffered in pain, so I am very scare if any of my family or my friends will have it... I hope they won't.

Coraline [Graphic Novel Version] Novel Reflection

* Warning: You may not understand what I'm going to say below if you don't read this book, so READ IT TO UNDERSTAND ^^

Coraline loves to explore and she likes to explore her new house that her family just moved in. One day, she was bored, and bothered her dad, who always works. She wants him to play with her because she feels lonely, but then he said she should count how many doors and windows are in the house. She counted and there are 21 windows, 14 doors but in the drawing room, one door was blocked by the bricks. The next morning, Coraline visited her neighbors - Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, who were once actresses. They said that Coraline was in danger when they looked into her tea leaves. They gave her a stone with a hole in it. Suddenly, when she opened the door that is supposed to be blocked, there was a path to another house that is exactly the same as her house. There is another mom, another dad and other neighbors, but they all have buttons replaced as their eyes. Coraline's other mom has longer nails though. Her other world is always kind to her. They made her food and other fancy things that made her feel happy.
When Coraline later returned to her another home from exploring the world. Her other mom wants to keep her back by sewing the buttons in her eyes but she refused and forced her other mom to let her go back to her actual house in real life. When she came back home, her parents vanished and a cat told her where her parents were and in order to save them, she would have to go through the door again to challenge her other mom a game. When she came there, her other mom blocked her in the mirror because Coraline was stubborn. In the mirror, she met three ghosts. They told her what her other mom did to them a long time a ago and begged Coraline to free their spirit to heaven. In her dream, they whispered in her ears to look through the stone. The other mom carried Coraline out of the mirror when she was sleeping. When she woke up, Coraline challenged her other mom that she will look for her dad, her mom and the three ghosts souls. She looked through the stone to find the marble and did managed to find all of them. She escape but her other mom's hand was cut off when Coraline tried to close the door and the hand was aiming for the key and Coraline trapped it in the well. After that, everything went back to normal again but Coraline was happier than ever to have her parents back.

Kira-Kira Novel Reflection

Kira-kira is a very good book. It's about a girl whose name is Katie. The story happened in Georgia, Japan. Their family had been saving money because they are very poor. When they moved to Georgia, Katie's sister - Lynn made a new friend and forgot about Katie. Katie was very sad without her Lynn so she played with her new brother, Sammy. When Lynn was sick because of some sort of cancer, her friend, Amber dropped her because from the beginning, Amber's purpose was to gain popularity through Lynn. After that, Katie took care of her sister but one day Lynn died and left Katie with her diary in sadness.

2 Best Question for "When my name was Keoko" Chapters 17, 18

Chapter 17: Question 3

The message that was on the leaflets are from the Americans. They said that they won't attack the Korean. After Abuji read the message, he told Sun-hee and Tae-yul which made Sun-hee happy because the Americans knew that they are not alike as the Japanese!

Chapter 18: Question 1

Tae-yul blushed when Sun-hee told him about Hee-won, because he love her, but Sun-hee didn't notice that he blused. Sun-hee told him about Hee-won's dad is a chin-il-pah, even so, Tae-yul is still protecting Hee-won.

Novel Reflection [Drawing Poster] MATILDA

When my name was Keoko [in class assignment]

My 2 BEST answer for chapter 9-11

Chapter 9: Question 4 - I think he showed the students the film because he wanted the student to hate the Americans and help the Japanese to win over the Americans.

Chapter 11: Question 3 - Sun-hee helped Mrs. Ahn how to count in Japanese, because she doesn't want to see Mrs. Ahn to get beaten up again.

The BEST Book I've Ever Read...

I love the author Judy Blume and her novels around Rachel, Stephanie and Alison. There are two novels about these three girls that I've read. They are "Just as Long as We're Together" and "Here to you, Rachel Robinson". In one of those two, "Here to you, Rachel Robinson" is what I think is the best.
"Here to you, Rachel Robinson" is full of daily life problems and I love problems. This story, the narrator is Rachel Robinson. She is a middle school student that has a genius brain. This story is mainly talk about Rachel's brother - Charles, who is a trouble maker. Rachel and her family including her dad, her mom and her big sister don't understand Charles at all because he never talk about himself to his family. He always tell jokes that make people want to cry and go to there room but then no one can blame him because they thought he would leave the house again. Rachel also hate him but her friends and other people don't understand that and they think that Charles have a sense of humor. At last Rachel and Charles finally get a little along well in talking. They get along well, but do they really do or they are just talking the same way as always?
If you buy or borrow this book and read it, you will be very surprise and love this book like me because there are a punch of easy words and it's easy to read. It's helpful for me because I can learn more words and I can do Miss Patrice homework much more easier.

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Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself is the book I'm reading

I'm reading this book and it's pretty good. If it's me, I would rate it 3 stars. This book is about a girl name Sally. She always make up stories and play with her friends and the game that she and her friends are playing is the exactly the same as her imagination story. Sally would make herself a popular girl, hero, ... (the best of all the characters) I started reading this book because my favorite author is Judy Blume and I hope you would like it! Enjoy the book
You can find the book in the library when I return as a code: JF BLU

Here to you, Rachel Robinson [Review a book]

I just finished a book called "Here to you, Rachel Robinson" by Judy Blume. It's a very very interesting book. I love the way Judy Blume write her stories with regular problems and easy words and that's really easy for me to read. In this book, Rachel Robinson is the one who is talking and the main characters are Rachel, Charlie, Stephanie and Alison. Rachel is a-straight-A's student, she is very smart, and she is perfect; that's why her Charles as her enemy and her brother said that she is a child prodigy. Everybody except for the Robinson house thinks Charles have a great sense of humor but truly he is a very bad boy. Once, there is a coolest boy in ninth grade name Jeremy Dragon (Rachel and her friends gave him the nickname), who is liking Rachel on Halloween day. Here is some more information that you can find about Judy Blume and her books : http://www.judyblume.com/