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.