Thursday, March 24, 2011

Literature Reading Blog

Week 2
Mon.
Mocking Jay
         District three is very different from where Katniss comes from for one thing its all underground.Katniss suffers a concussion from the explosion right before she was rescued.And is in a hospital in District 3.The President is a woman named Alda Coin. She along with all the rebels want Katniss to be the symbol for all the rebellion.Katniss weighs out the pros and cons and excepts on conditions.

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Week 2
Thur.
Mocking Jay

           Katniss has survived yet another hunger games.It turns out District 13 is still on and poppin not completely destroyed by the Capitol  forces.They came and rescued Katniss and all remaining living tributes from the arena.Except Peeta he was captured by Capitol forces.Katniss was so furious she grabbed at scratched at Haymitch .  It turns out a whole rebellion has broken out in all Districts except 2.

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Literature Reading Blog

Week 2
Tues.
The Devil's Arthimatic
              This story is about a girl named Hannah who does not respect her heritage.She is to go to Seder dinner but does not want to.After the reading and the hiding of the aschrovih Hannah was allowed to open the door for Elijah.Instead of finding a hallway she is now in a Yiddish village.Transported back in time.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Literature Reading Blog

Tues.
Catching Games
     Katniss was trying to ignore the fact that she would have to go back to the games soon.She decided to escape  into the woods.The only place where she  truly think and be alone. When she gets into the words she hears other people.She found out they were for the rebellion and needed her help.She gave them food. And in return they told her of the rebellion and also of the other districts rebelling.

Monday, March 14, 2011

Literature Reading Blog

Week 1
Catching Fire
             The President Mr.Snow is out to get Peeta and Katniss but especially Katniss.A rebellion has started all because of Katniss.And she didn't even know it.It turns out the president made it so that the next hunger games would be all winners.Which is against the rules of winning.Katniss breaks down at the thought of ever going back.

Friday, March 11, 2011

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Week 9
Fri.
Catching Fire
         Peeta and Katniss have won the prior hunger games and now live in the victor's village in District 12.Peeta and Katniss still have to pretend they are in love because of thr berry stunt they pulled.Gale has told Katniss how he loves her.Now Katniss is confused about which one she loves Gale or Peeta.President Snow has threatened to kill Gale if Peeta and Katniss don't pull off the whole we're in love thing.The thing is  Peeta really loves her. And Katniss doesn't know who she loves.

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

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Week 9
Tues.
The Hunger Games
          She has a friend named Gale who also hunts illegally. Together they hunt much better.Katniss feeds them.Her mother went into a deep depression and did nothing to help.Katniss for that reason does not look up to her.Katniss adores her little sister Primrose.Everything she does is for her.

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Week  9
Mon.
The hunger Games
         Katniss lives in Panem in District 12.Her family is very poor and do not have enough to eat.Once her father died it only got worse.Because Katniss is too young to work she defies the law and crosses a fence to go into the woods.She has a a bow and arrow in which she uses to hunt for food like rabbits.

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Literature Reading Blog

Week 1
Thur.
Where the Red Fern Grows
            Finally he got so tired he let his family help him.Whenever he caught a coon he'd sell the skins and give all the money to his parents.He didn't want it.Everything he wanted he already had.All he wanted were his pups.His parents don't really spend the money they save it.

Monday, March 7, 2011

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Week 5
Thur.
Young Samurai
       The ninjas had gone his arm had been broken and he had many bruises and cuts.He awoke in a Japanese house still drowsy.He faintly saw a girl around his age and and a woman of middle age taking care of him.He had a splint on his arm and bandages were he was hurt.Eventually after awhile of laying down and resting on the a bedding he one day got up and walked around the first person he saw was an old man pruning .He looked around and saw a beautiful garden around him.

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Week 5
Tues.
Young Samurai
              His father hid the Rutter under a oil skin. He told his son when he left to blot the door and let no one in.Then his father left out with a weapon and like his father had told him he bolted the door. But Jack started hearing the groans of dying crew members and a knocking at the door.Finally he couldn't take waiting and went out.He saw his father fighting.In the end Jack was the only one not killed.

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Week 5
Mon.
Young Samurai
             They crew has finished the boat on time and the in the morning they will set sail.Soon the whole crew has settled into bed awaiting the trip in the morning.Unlike all the other crew who slept Jack awoke to a weird feeling he just knew something wasn't right.It turns out ninjas were attacking the ship the  Wakou they were trying to avoid.But these warriors weren't seen.They almost seemed to blend in with the dark of the night. Jack ran to his father's quarters and told him what was going in. His father hurriedly  garbed  his Rutter all his life work .Maps and directions to many places including here the Japans.Where no other country has ever successfully done except the Portuguese.

Thursday, March 3, 2011

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Week 8
Thur.
Young Samurai
              As they began to become closer to land Jack starts to hear talk of the Waku.He is frightened to know that the Waku are Japanese pirates that rade ships all the time. He becomes even more frightened to know that if they don't find land soon the many holes on the boat caused by the storm will drown them.Thankfully they do find land and even better it appears to be the Japans!They are to work double shifts to perpare the boat quickly.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

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Week 8
Tues
Young Samurai:the way of the warrior

                   As Jack tumbled downward toward the deck the mighty wind pulled on the half cut rope and tore it apart opening the sail and helping them away from the storm.The whole crew went up in cheers as the captain led the boat way. In the captain's quaters Jack heard his father and the captain discuss there fusstration on the mater of finding the Japans.The captain expressed his concern to Mr.Jake teling him of how some people belive Japan to be a myth. Mr.Jake told the captain there is a Japan and he had a good idea on where it would be and that they were close.The capitain told him that he hoped he was right for the lives of the whole crew as at stake if they did not find land soon.

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Week 8
Mon.
Young Samurai : the way of the warrior
                            Story time children so listen up........Once upon a time in the 17th century lived a boy named Jack , the age of twelve. He was a rigging monkey on the ship Alexandria and his father was the pilot of the ship.They had been at sea for two years now looking or the legendary Japans.They had been through many storms and this was like many others.Things were going well in till their sail got snagged.They needed Jack to cut it a lose.Terrified he climbed to cut it a lose with a knife given to him by Ginsel a fellow sailor and a good friend of Jack's.A lass the knife was blunt and Jack had only cut the rope half a lose before he cut both palms and fell back on the deck.