Third Post of the Third Marking Quarter

Drums, Girls and Dangerous Pie is an amazing book. I’ve just finished reading it for the third time. This book has everything you could want in a book. This book will make you want to laugh and cry. In this book Steven is a kid in the eighth grade who plays drums and has a little brother named Jeffery who at first he thinks is annoying but grows to love him when he is diagnosed with Leukemia.  

Steven does everything to try and make his little brother feel better. He let him play his drums which he never let anyone do, and he gave him a concert to raise money to pay all the hospital bills. But my favorite thing that he did was when Jeffery was crying one day because one of his classmates called him bald, Steven went to the bathroom and shaved off all his hair to make Jeffery feel better.

Every time I read this book it’s like I’m reading it for the first time.

Second Post of the Third Marking Quarter

            In The Slayer Chronicles: First Kill, Joss goes through some major change. In the beginning of the book he starts off as an emotional and never tough, he also was afraid to become a slayer. By the end of the book he was tough, not as emotional and ready to take down any vampire that got in his way.

            In the beginning you could kind of see he was toughening up because when it was recess time in his school, the kids that bullied him were playing kickball and the ball rolled towards him. He picked up the ball and they told him to give it back, but he didn’t. Instead he kicked it with all of his might sending it to the roof of the school.

            Towards the middle he got a little tougher. He had to complete many tasks in order to become a slayer. He had to do hand to hand combat with fellow slayers. At first he would lose and then, he became a great fighter and would constantly win. He would also have to run around a huge track like 30 times.

            At the end of the book he bombed a whole house filled with vampires killing them and he was fighting a vampire and he threw him on a tree where a branch went right through his heart. Joss changed very much within this one. Let’s see how much he’ll change within the whole series. Can’t wait for the next book to come out.

First Blog Post Of The 3 Marking Period

I’ve just started reading The Slayer Chronicles: First Kill by Heather Brewer. She finished her first series The Chronicles of Vladimir Tod which consists of 5 books. This series was absolutely amazing. The Slayer Chronicles is her newest series. The main character is Joss. In the Vladimir Tod series Vlad meets Joss around the third book I believe and they become friends. Now in this series Joss is younger and is beginning his training to become a vampire slayer.

                One of the conflicts that popped up right away was the death of his younger sister. She was murdered by a vampire. This traumatized Joss in 2 ways, one because he loved his sister more than anything in the world and second because he witnessed the murder himself. He didn’t know what had killed his sister at first because the vampire had erased his face from Joss’s memory.

                But, at his sister’s funeral Joss’s uncle Abraham asked him what he remembered and he relaxed and the memory poured right back into his brain. Abraham told him that this man who killed his sister was a vampire. Abraham told him that in a few years Joss would begin to train to become a vampire slayer just like he was and just like his grandfather was. Joss was told that he had to swear his dedication to the Slayer Society and without thinking he said “I swear”.

Review to Alli's blog

I really liked Alli's post.
        I feel like she put so much effort in it. She just finished reading The Last Song by Nicholas Spark and she said that she has found more change in the main character than she did the first btime reading this novel and seeing the motion picture of it.
        The main reason why I say that she put effort into it, is that she took a poem that she thought really represented it and broke it up into peices. After she did that she wrote about each piece and why and how she thought that piece represented th book.
        Another reasons why I liked her post was that she didn't just throw the poem on the page first she told the reader what she was doing in this post and then at the end she shared the link to the poem. In addition, the way that she broke up the poem made it much easier to comprehend.
I myself was in Alli's class last year and expected nothing less than this. She always goes over the top, but it's stuff like that in which made this amazing blog post. Keep up the good work Alli.

Social issue in Charlie and the chocolate factory

One of the main issues in charlie and the chocolate factory is poverty. Everyday for the bucket family is exactly the same. Charlies father comes home everyday exaughsted after work. His grandparents all sleep in one bed together. Everyday there meals are made of cabbage. Cabbage soup cabbage salad and so on.
It finally started to get alittle better for them when Charlie gets the golden tickEt. That's as far as I'm up to at the moment hopefully I'll find some more issues.

Author's Purpose

C.S. Lewis wrote this story because he wanted children to know about christianity. He refers to christianity in the book, but also uses characters to represent christianity.
In the book the people always refer to Edmund, Lucy, Peter, and Susan as daughters of Eve and sons of Adam. The Witch is also used to refer to christianity also. In the book she is not a daughter of Eve but a daughter if Adam. She is a giantess. Aslan is also used. In the book he represents Jesus. He is a mentor for many people as Jesus was, he brings people back to life as Jesus did, and he is killed but comes back to life.

Old Memories

While reading The Lion,the Witch and the Wardrobe, past memories retured. I began to feel younger. Ifelt this way because reading this book made remember when i had first read the book. I remember thinking how magical this book was to me.
This book felt magical to me because of the setting. In Narnia some of the animals talked. I especially found the beavers interesting. They were just like the elder. The way they spoke, their childish actions. This is why i enjoyed rereading this book.