RJ #17

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I currently finished reading, Wayside school gets a little stranger. By: Louis Sachar. I have read Holes, one of his books so I thought I would read this one. This is thrid and final book in the wayside school series. Yes, I have read book 1 and 2. But, I have never done a journal on either.i liked the last chapter called: The little stranger. I liked this chapter because, I realized that the book is not called Wayside school gets a little stranger because it is stranger ( which it is) but because, they meet a little stranger, Mrs. Jewle's baby.

I used six strategies while reading, 2 before, 2 during and 2 after.

2 before

I read the synopsis

1. I read book 1 and 2

2 during:

1. after every chapter I would summarize what I read
2. if I did not understand something I would re-read it.

2 after:

1. I summarized the whole book in my head
2. I discussed it with my mom
   The genre of this book is humor, the sub genre would be fantasy, because it has things like people with a third ear on their head. The protagonists are: Louis, The students, Mrs. Jewels, and Miss. Mush. The antagonist are: Mrs. Drazil, Mrs. Nogard , and Mr. Gorf.

The P.O.O. Is chronological order, it is this because it goes by time. P.O.V. Is 3^rd person because someone was narrating, the narrator knew what they were thinking and knew what they knew, nothing more. The author's purpose was to entertain with a hilarious story about a messed up school.

This book is about the grand re-opening of Wayside School after the cow flood. The student finally get back to Wayside. But everybody on the 3oth floor insist the school has gotten bigger. Mrs. Jewles announces she's has a baby and has to go on leave, so they will get a sub teacher, Mr. Gorf, they relizes Mr. Gorf is Mrs. Gorf's son, and Mr. Gorf is out to steal their mommies away from the just like how they did to him. They get rid of him, then they get Mrs. Drazil, she is a control freak that Louis had many years ago, and she makes him cut off his mustache, she may be the nicest teacher they ever had but she mad Louis cut of his mustache, SHE MUST GO. They get rid of her, by finding a student she used to have many years ago, that never did her homework, but moved, they found her then when Mrs. Drazil got her she chased her until no one will ever see either of them again. Then they get Ms. Nogard, she is an evil, cruel lady, but they don't know that,she has three, ears I mean, the third is on top of her head, that one can hear thoughts. One day she was at the art museum and she saw a shy man she heard his thought that she liked him, they started dating, then a month later he proposed, she wouldn’t marry him until she showed him her ear, when he saw it he left her, to become a heart breaker. She became a bitter and evil person, whenever she heard someone thinking happy thoughts she'd do and saw whatever to make them sad. So she became a sub teacher. If some was thinkingplease don't call on me! I don't know the answer! She'd cal on them. Until Mrs. Jewels had her baby and she tried to listen to the baby's thoughts all she heard was enough love to knock her senses back.

The figurative language are similes, metaphors and personification.

I would rate this book 10/10 because it was hilarious, and a quick read and it was very descriptive. I would recommend this book to kids ages 11-14 who love to read funny books with a good story behind it. IF YOU ARE THIS TYPE OF PERSON THEN I RECOMMEND IT TO YOU IF YOU ARE NOT DON'T!

P.S. IF YOU DO NOT PLAN ON READING MY RJ DO NOT COMMENT, I WILL JUST GET REALLY MAD AND WILL JUST IGNORE YOUR “QUESTION

RJ #16

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I currently finished reading, Monster High: The ghoul next door by: Lisa Harrison. This is book #2 in the Monster High series. Yes, I have read BOOK #1, I did last week's journal on it. I liked the part when Celo told her dad that she would be totally adult if he let her do the photo shoot. And she totally lied. So I thought it was really funny that she just totally went back on what she said. This book, unlike the last one, had chapters including: Cleo, Frankie, and Melody. Appose to the last book which only included Frankie and Melody.

I used six strategies while reading, 2 before,2 during, and 2 after.

Two before:

I read the synopsis

I went on a website about the book to see what other people thought about it.

Two during:

1. after every chapter I summarized what I read

1. if I did not understand something I would re-read it

Two after:

1. I summarized the book in my head
2. I discussed it with my mom

The genre of this book is Fantasy, the sub genre was partially realistic Fiction even though it had monsters in it.

The protagonists are ( from Frankie’s point of view): Herslef, Her mom, Dad, Cleo, Melody, Brett and all the rads.

The antagonists are ( from Frankie’s point of view): Melody, Brett, Bekka, Celo.

The protagonists are ( from Melody's point of view): Herself, Jackson, Candace, and the RADs

The antagonist is ( from Melody's point of view): Cleo, Bekka.

The protaganist are( from Celo's point of view): HERSELF.

The Antagnist are ( from Celos Point of view): Bekka, Frankie,Melody, Brett, and all the RADs that don't put “her needs” first.

I love how this book was set up every other chapter was Frankie, Melody, or Celo and I liked that chapter 13 was Billy. The POV was 3^rd person and the way the author did it was, lets say the chapter was about Melody and she saw something that Frankie knew about, the author wouldn’t mention it in Melody's chapter. The POO is chronological order. The author's purpose was to entertain.

This book took place right were book 1 left off. Where at the dance Frankie kissed Brett and her head fell off. Where Bekka Threaten Melody to find the “green monster” who “attacked” Brett, or she'd post the video of Jackson turning into D.J. , his other half. At the hospital Brett finds out it was Frankie who he kissed. Meanwhile,Celo gets a job to model in TEEN VOGUE mag. She is afraid of losing her attention/ popularity because of Melody and Frankie that she lies and tells LA LA , Clawdeen, and Blue. That she got them jobs too!Meanwhile, Frankie and Brett start to go out, and Brett decides that he should do a face blurred documentary of the RADs so every teen RAD decides to do it. Exept Celo because she finds out that it is on the same day as her TEEN VOUGE shoot and when her friends don't want to do it anymore she makes a plan with Bekka to trash the movie. Then, the man who is producing the movie is made that it is blurred so, they cancel it all together. But then the guy lies and says he is going to put it on air even though it is blurred. Brett decided have a celebration party at his house with all the RADs, then they watch it, to see see it's unburied!

The figurative language are; similes and metaphors.

I would rate this book 5/5 because I loved it! I loved it because of the characters and the way the book was set up. I recommend this book to teen girls ages 12-16 who like modern day/ teen books and like fantasy/ drama. IF YOU ARE THIS TYPE OF PERSON THEN I RECOMMEND IT TO YOU IF YOU ARE NOT DON'T!

P.S. IF YOU DO NOT PLAN ON READING MY RJ DO NOT COMMENT, I WILL JUST GET REALLY MAD AND WILL JUST IGNORE YOUR “QUESTION”

current event #3

Date: 12-9-11

Name: Shianne Salazar

Title:Animal shelter's behavior experts face life and death decisions for animal

Author: JOHN OWENS

Source:Miami Herald

The topic of the article is: mistreatment

The main idea of the article is (stated) Animal shelter's behavior experts face life and death decisions for animal

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform people about the harm done in animal shelters.

The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective ( biased) he argues both sides, however, he does not use words like “I” and “ME”. But he does put his opinion in.

The pattern of organization of the article is argument and support, it is this because, the author states his argument with facts. 

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is argument and support because,  he lists his argument/opinion then puts in facts to support it. 

The text features included in the article are: the title to give you a little inside about what it will be about. And quotes from others.

This article is about animal behavior specialist mistreating the animals at the shelters, and then see that after the fact the animals are unsuitable for adoption, then put to death. About the harm done in animal shelters.

The significance (importance) of this article is that the public needs to be informed about the mistreated animals at shelters, it's not fair to the animals, basically what the “specialists” are taking the animals hurting them, then decide that there not good enough for adoption.

What I learned from this article is that animals are being mistreated at shelters, and the specialist think they know what their doing by giving, quote-on-quote: Demeaning. Unnecessary.

What I liked about this article is that, the author gives a strong opinion with good facts to support his opinions.

I didn't like the fact that the article had no pictures.

People that love animals should read this article, so that they can know what goes on at these shelters ( the article even states that there is a Anti-Cruelty Society) so maybe they can do something about it. And I think behavioral specialist should read this too, so they can for them selves how bad to worse this has really gotten since 27years ago.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) my dog, Cookie, and how horrible I would feel to see that she is would be mistreated then be put to death , its just sad.

(Text-to-text) I never knew about this, and I am glad I am now informed with this information. (text-to-world) This is something that goes on at most likely every animal shelter , nation wide. This is a big problem, that is still going on.

New vocabulary:

Word:                               Clue:                         Meaning:

Incompatible          nothing more heartbreaking        not in harmony

RJ #15

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I currently finished Monster High By: Lisi Harrison. I have never read a book by this author, but I know she's written a lot of books including the very popular Clique series. I know when you here monster high you think of the dolls for 6 year old's or the web show for 8-10 year old's but to my surprise this book was great. It had basically nothing to do with the dolls and such. The only thing was less than half the characters where in this book. This book has high teenage content, so that proved you cannot judge a book by it's name.

This book is about a girl, Frankie Stein who is 15, days old. Her father Viktor is an inventor/ collage teacher. He created Frankie in his lab, every day he put in a years worth of knowledge, so when she hit 15 days he stop mentally aging her. A couple days later Frankie's Mom and Dad told her about the RADs ( Regular Attribute Dodgers) which are all the monsters, she finds out her parents are RADs too! They tell her that back in the 1930s and before Monsters and Normies ( what RADs call humans) lived peacefully all over America ,but when horror movies came out Normies started to think the Monsters were playing tricks on them. Ever since then monsters had to move to Salem,Organ and form the RADs and hide. Then Frankie has to go to Merston High School were she may mess everything up for the RADs...

This book is about a girl, Melody Carver who is 15, and is moving to Salem, Organ for a couple of reasons, she has asthma and the air in Salem is better for her to breath, She was bullied because of her nose. She had the biggest, ugliest nose in all of Los Angeles and probably the country. The only thing someone would talk to her about is her about is her angelic voice but when she loses it to asthma at age 8 she is just considered another ugly face in the crowd until her father, the plastic surgeon operates and makes her nose perfect! Now she is probably the prettiest girl in Salem, Organ. But Melody is ANYTHING but a snob!

I used six strategies while reading two before, two during and two after.

Two before:

1. I read the synopsis
2. I went on a website about the book to see what other people thought about it.

Two during:

1. after every chapter I summarized what I read

1. if I did not understand something I would re-read it

Two after:

1. I summarized the book in my head
2. I discussed it with my mom

The protagonists are ( from Frankie’s point of view): Herslef, Her mom and Dad and all of the RAD's

The antagonists are ( from Frankie’s point of view): Melody, Jackson, and Normies in general.

The protagonists are ( from Melody's point of view): Herself, Jackson and her family

The antagonist is ( from Melody's point of view): Cleo.

I love how this book was set up every other chapter was Frankie or Melody. The POV was 3^rd person and the way the author did it was, lets say the chapter was about Melody and she saw something that Frankie knew about, the author wouldn’t mention it in Melody's chapter. The POO is chronological order. The author's purpose was to entertain. The genre of this book is Fantasy, the sub genre was partially realistic Fiction even though it had monsters in it.

I would rate this book 5/5 because I loved it! I loved it because of the characters and the way the book was set up. I recommend this book to teen girls ages 12-16 who like modern day/ teen books and like fantasy/ drama. IF YOU ARE THIS TYPE OF PERSON THEN I RECOMMEND IT TO YOU IF YOU ARE NOT DON'T!

P.S. IF YOU DO NOT PLAN ON READING MY RJ DO NOT COMMENT, I WILL JUST GET REALLY MAD AND WILL JUST IGNORE YOUR “QUESTION”

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I currently finished reading: Toeshoe Trouble. By: Wopppie Goldberg (yes, THE Woppie Goldberg). This is the book I chose for free choice . This is book 2 of the Sugar Plum Ballerinas series. Woppie Goldberg is a famous actress, so I was sum-what surprised when I found out she wrote this book.

This book is about a girl named Brenda Black is an amazing 12 year old ballerina prodigy, but what Brenda wants is to be a doctor. Every single free second she has she study's for medical school. She can piratically answer any question about doctor's. But another why she studies her butt off is because she is kind of poor well, more like middle class very, very LOW middle class because her mom is single and She is a very well behaved child that has her priorities straight: School first, Ballet second. So when her very spoiled rich (she has her own pony)cousin Tiffany comes to town she freaks out! She is so rude, consented brat! Nothing Brenda's mom does is good enough not even one of Brenda's friend's (from ballet class) Dad's pizza ( which is the best Italian restaurant in town. So when Tiffany starts talking about how she is such a good ballerina and constant bragging Brenda just ignores her but when Tiffany says Brenda's not even cultural to know who Camilla Freeman is Brenda just snapped and lies and says that she has a Camilla Freeman autographed pair of her ballerina shoes (which her headmistress of ballet school actually owns) when Tiffany asks to see them Brenda starts to regret she ever told her because then she steals the shoes loses them then goes half way across the state to find Camilla Freeman at a book signing for her new ballet book to ask her if she can sign her pair and replace Ms. Debbe's (the headmistress) pair before she finds out. But after she finally gets it signed she gets caught by Ms. Debbe who is at the book signing to and she learns a lesson and get lectures.

I used six strategies while reading: 2 before, 2 during, and 2 after.

Two before:

1. I skimmed and scanned for text features
2. I researched the book online and read the synopsis

Two during:
1) after every chapter I would summarize what I read
2) if I did not understand something I would re-read it



Two after:
1)I summarized the main idea of the book

2. I discussed it with my mom
   

The main characters are: Brenda, Ms. Debbe, Tiffany, Camilla Freeeman, and all the ballerinas in Brenda's class. The P.O.O. Is Chronological Order because it goes by time sequence. The P.O.V. Is 1^stperson. The author's purpose was to entertain. The genre of this book is realistic fiction there is no sub genre. The moral is be your self.



I WOULD RATE THIS BOOK 5/5 NOT BECUAS E IT WAS THE MOST AMAZING BOOK IN THE WORLD BUT BECAUSE IT WAS A QUICK READ. I would recommend this book to girl ages 10-13 who love ballet and Woppie Goldberg (That's the type of person I would recommend this book to. DO NOT ASK ME IF I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO YOU IF YOU KNOW YOUR'E NOT THIS TYPE OF PERSON OR EVEN IF YOU ARE, IF YOU DO I AM NOT ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION).
I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO THE CLASS BECAUSE ONLY GIRL WOULD LIKE IT AND I DOUGHT ANY OF THE GIRLS IN SEVENTH GRADE WILL ENJOY THIS BOOK. I AM BEGGING DO NOT ASK ME IF I WOULD RECOMMED THIS TO YOU ( WHOEVER YOU ARE) BECAUSE I DO NOT!

P.S. IF YOU DO NOT PLAN ON READING MY RJ DO NOT COMMENT, I WILL JUST GET REALLY MAD AND WILL JUST IGNORE YOUR “QUESTION”

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I currently finished: SOUL SURFER . By: Bethany Hamilton with the help of Sheryl Berk and Rick Bundschuh. I chose this book because it is a very inspiring memoir and also because I saw the movie (TWO THUMBS UP!). I got the newest edition of the book which means (lucky me) there was exclusive photos, two extra chapters and she added a movie journal ( her experience through out the production and filming of SOUL SURFER).

This book is about a girl, Bethany Hamilton how was literally BORN TO SURF. Her surf nut parents taught her when she was only four years old she even had her first competition when she was seven years old... and WON! Bethany went to public school up until sixth to start being homeschooling to procure her dream of being a pro surfer. Her parents backed her up 1,000%. The book takes place on Halloween morning on the island of Kauai, Hawaii she was 13 and even had a sponsor: Rip Curl. She and her mom go early in the morning ( so early it's still dark) to the beach to find a surf, there is no surf but Bethany asked her mom if she could wait there for her best friend Alana. When she, Alana, Alana's brother, and Alana dad finally find a surf far far out into the beach. When they go, the surf is gone so there all sitting on their boards waiting. Then out of the nowhere a shark bites off Bethany's arm. The rest of the book talks about her getting back on the board.

I used six strategies while reading: 2 before, 2 during, and 2 after.

Before:

1) I saw the movie to get an in site.

2) I skim and scanned for text features

During:

    1)after every chapter I summarized what I read

2)If I did not understand something I would re-read it.

After:

1. I compared the book to the movie
2. I discussed it with my mom

The book is not very different from the book except it took out chapter 2 ( which she is describing her parents that’s why its called: ROOTS). And the fact that in the book it does not talk about her getting 5^th place in her first competition after the attack.

The tone/mode is inspirational. The P.O.O. Is Chronological Order. The P.O.V. Is 1^st person. The author's purpose was to inspire and share. The genre of this book is memoir there is no sub genre. The people in this book are: Bethany, Mom, Dad, Timmy, Noah, Alana, Holt, and the girls surf team.

I would rate this book 10/10 because it's such a great story and to no that she went back on her board was cool.

I would recommend this book to people that like to read sad and true stories and also like reading biography's. ( That's the type of person I would recommend this book to. DO NOT ASK ME IF I WOULD RECOMMEND THIS BOOK TO YOU IF YOU KNOW YOUR'E NOT THIS TYPE OF PERSON OR EVEN IF YOU ARE, IF YOU DO I AM NOT ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION) . I would recommend this book to the WHOLE class.

P.S. IF YOU DO NOT PLAN ON READING MY RJ DO NOT COMMENT, I WILL JUST GET REALLY MAD ( YOU KNOW WHO I AM TALKING TO)

RJ #12

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I currently finished A CHILD CALLED IT by: Dave Pelzer. This was an extremely sad and scary book. Every time something traumatizing happened I wanted to throw the book in a river, but another part of me could not put it down. The worst thing that happened to him in my opinion was the “gas chamber” with a bucket of Clorox and Ammonia. The reason I think this was horrible was because Ammonia puts holes in your brain and Clorox messes up your lungs so to be stuck in a bathroom with a bucket of the stuff, in a good way it’s SO hard to believe that after all he went through, he survived.

This book is about a boy, David Pelzer who had a “good” life so to speak (because ages 0-5 isn’t much of a life) with a loving mom, a strong father, and two great brothers, what more could a kid in the seventies ask for? Well, everything was peachy keen until for no apparent reason one day his mother decided to get drunk and have her kids search for something she so called “lost”. She made them do this every day for a couple of months while father was at work until she told only Dave to search. After that, things went awry. She started beating him, starving him, forcing him to lie for her. Some of the things she did to him were the “gas chamber”, starving him, punching him in the face for talking, making him eat his own vomit if he wanted to eat so bad, forcing him to eat poop (but he refused), making him ware the same ragged shirt & pants every day,and shoving soap down his throat. However, that is not even half the things she would to “punish” him for being a “bad boy” (even when he did not do anything wrong). One thing that she claimed he was being a “bad boy” was when she get this: PLAYING ON THE GRASS. So for a punishment she made him strip naked (of course no one was home) while she put his hand over the stovetop! First, you do not punish a kid for doing nothing wrong like playing in the grass! Second, he was not even playing in the grass! Moreover, if things were not bad enough with him and his mom his own brothers were beginning to disown him! He was now the family slave. He did not even get a bed to sleep on anymore, but an army coat in the basement. One week she had been threating to kill him and taking a knife to scare him (even though he actually wanted her to kill him) but, became dizzy and actually stabbed him in the stomach it was an accident. (Not that she should had even had a knife in her hand). And to get food he would steal food from the kids at school, but he always got caught which meant beatings at “home”. Once, a child welfare agent was coming in two days to interview Dave to see if he were being abused so, that meant his mom tricked him into thinking she was going to stop her ways so he would lie to the agent. Plus, he was bullied at school. The book ended with his father leaving a.k.a a living hell for him. The first chapter of the book took place as a prologue, which was when the school nurse told the principle, and the police came to tell his mom that they were taking him away from her.

I used six strategies while reading, two before, two during, and two after.

The two before are:

1) Plan how much I was going to read.

2)  Asked people who read the book what they thought of it.

Two during are:

1)       After each chapter, I decided whether the title of each chapter made a lot of sense. (They all did).

2)       I would think about how I felt about every chapter. (I felt horrible after mostly everyone).

Two after:

1)       I thought about the main idea of the book.

2)       I discussed it with my mom.

The people (their not necessarily characters) in this book are: Dave, Mom, Dad, Stan, Richard, Kevin, and Ron. (Most important highlighted and underlined, second most important just underlined.)

The genre of this book is Memoir. The sub-genre of this book is Self-help, Psychology and Inspiration. P.O.O. is age sequence. The P.O.V. is 1^st person. The figurative langue is similes and metaphors. I recommend this book to people that have been abused to be inspired and to people that do not appreciate what they have.

I would rate this book 10/10 because the story was amazing, I mean just to know he survived is HUGE.

                       Sincerely,

Shianne Salazar J

Current Event #2

Date: 11-11-11

Name: Shianne Salazar

Title:A legacy of service: Three generations of Pines family have served in military

Author:PERRY STEIN

Source:Miami Herald

The topic of the article is veterans day.

The main idea of the article is (stated) “A legacy of service: Three generations of Pines family have served in military”

The author’s purpose for writing this article is to inform about families that have served our nation and continue to serve our nation.

The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (biased) because objective because he just states facts he doesn't really take a side in the article. He doesn't use words like “I” and “ME”.

The pattern of organization of the article is flashback because its starts here 2011 and goes back in time.

The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is because the article has to do with present day and past life.

The text features included in the article are: a photo to show or give you an idea of what the article is about. A footnote to show you what is going on in the photo.

This article is about a military family that has THREE generations of soldiers that served America in wars and we honor them on veterans day.

The significance (importance) of this article is a family that loves our nation so much to go and fight for THREE generations. And the LEAST we can do is honor that family and show our appreciation on veterans day.

What I learned from this article is that there really are people that care, and want our country to strive and be the best it can be.

What I liked about this article is the ending it was a nice “quote” if you want to call it that by his wife Marjorie Perez- Muñiz.

Soldiers should read this and family’s of soldiers and pretty much everyone in general because it so cool that a family can have (once again) THREE generations of soldiers.

This article reminds me of (text-to-self) my brother who is in the Marines. (text-to-text) I never read anything that has do with soldiers I mostly fiction.. (text-to-world) The army has very brave people fighting for our country everyday and showing there appreciation and we show them our gratitude on veterans day.

New vocabulary:

Word:                              Clue:                                                                  Meaning:

Spanning “spanning 70 years from world War 2 to Iraq”    The distance or extent between

                                                                                                          two points or extremities.

RJ #11

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I just finished reading Half Minute Horrors By: Various Authors. Most of them new to me. My favorite story is Chocolate Cake by Francine Prose:

Lately, I've had the definite feeling my parents aren’t my parents my parents. I can't exactly explain it. But I’m convinced that they're space aliens who look and act like my parents and have taken their places.

I've been asking them trick questions to trip them up. “Dad, what was the name of my first puppy?” “UH.... Fluffy?” “His name was Earnest” I say. “ I've got a lot on my mind: says “Dad”

Tonight I’m trying something new. My real mom is horribly allergic to chocolate. She breaks out in a skin rash if she even looks at chocolate. I bake my fake mom a chocolate birthday cake. I watch her eat it. No rash. She smiles.

“Delicious,” she says “ Thank you Timmy”

“My name is Jimmy” I say.

I liked it because it was really a twist. Out of all of the stories, poems and comics that was my favorite. And I have to say that the stories actually scared me a lot. My to ten favorite stories are:

Chocolate cake- Francine Prose

At waters edge- Ayelet Waldman

An easy gig- M.T. Anderson

Don't wet the bed- Alan Gratz

The prisoner of Eternia- Aaron Renier

The doll- Alice Kuipers

Worms- Lane Smith

Tiger Kitty- Joyce Carol Oates

In conclusion- Gregory Maguire

The dare- Carol Gorman.

I used six strategies while reading in total two before reading, two during reading and two after reading. Two before: 1) plan out what I am going to read and when. 2) skim and scanned the book for text features. Two during: 1) I would summarize each story 2) Depending on the author I would think about what that story would be like. Two after: 1) I thought about the main idea of each story. 2) discussed it with my mom.

The genre of this book is short story the sub genres are Horror and Humor. A lot of the stories had to do with death. The P.O.O of each story was chronological order the P.O.V was in either 3^rd person or 1^st person (depending on the story). The figurative language were similes. The text features were pictures, subtitle, and legends.

The summary on the back is:

How scary can thirty seconds be!?

Read the shortest, scariest, stories every created by: *then it lists the authors. Some of the authors were some I knew very well like James Patterson, Lemony Snicket, and R.L Stine.

I recommend this book to kids that are not easily frightened (unlike me) and love scary stories.

I would rate these stories 10/10 because they were really cool and fun to read so cool that I finished the entire book in one day.

Sincerely,

Shianne Salazar

P.S. I'm sleeping in my moms bed tonight!

RJ #10 punished

 Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I have read PUNISHED! By: David Lubar, which is a new author to me. My favorite quote is on chapter 1 page one paragraph one “This is a terrible idea” I liked it because I thought the book was going to start with the mystery, I was wrong but I still liked it. My favorite part of the book was when Logan was PUNISHED.

This book is about a boy named Logan who is hardheaded and silly with help from his best friend Benedict.  Benedict wants to be student of the month so bad because you get a coupon for a free pizza from the best pizzeria in town that he decides to do his school report the same day it is assigned thinking it will get him in good with his teacher Mr. Vernack. Therefore, he drags Logan (who already won the award two months ago and is saving the coupon for the perfect day) to the library to get started on the report. However, as soon as they get there, Benedict tags Logan who cannot resist a good game of tag, so he runs after Benedict. Then, he bumps into a middle-aged man Logan says sorry, but the man thinks he is irresponsible and he should be punished. Logan, now scared sees the old man take out a dust old book and blows it in Logan in face, then disappears. Logan meets up with Benedict and heres how the conversation goes “cut it out! You almost got me in trouble!” (Logan says) “Sorry” (Benedict says) “will you please try to behave your shelf?” “What?” “Behave yourself”. Then he goes home and meets his mom, “did you find everything you needed?” (Mom) “Yup eyebrows the books all the time to see what’s new “(Logan) “I browse the books the books all the time too. I really enjoy it” “ Alphabet you do” “ I’ll bet I do too” “ I don’t see what’s so punny.” “very punny”. Logan’s punishment is everything he says for the rest of his life will come out as a pun! So has soon as he comes home from school the next day he goes to the library and meets the man  and asks him how he can undo the punishment. He gives Logan a camera that can only take pictures of oxymoron’s he has one day to find seven oxymoron’s. After he gets the oxymoron’s the man gives him a bag that only sucks in anagrams so, Logan has to get seven anagrams. After that he gives him rubber bands that only rap around palindromes so, he has to get seven palindromes and the punishment is lifted.

I used six strategies in total while reading this book, two before, two during, and two after.  Two during are: 1) I read the title and I thought it would be an interesting book 2) I skimmed and scanned the book to see the authors order of organization (chronological order). Two during: 1) I would summarize after each chapter. 2) depending on what the chapter was about I would predict what the next chapter will be about. Two after: 1) I thought about the main idea of the book 2)I discussed it with my mom.

 The Protagonists were: Logan, Mom, Dad, Kaylee, Benedict, and Professor Robert Wordsworh,. The Antagonists were: Benedict, Professor Robert Wordsworh, and

Mr. Vernack .

  The genre of this book is Mystery the sub genres are: fantasy and educational. The tone and mood were Mysterious. The moral was never play in the library (lame, right?) (but the book wasn’t lame). P.O.O was in chronological order. The P.O.V was in first person (Logans). The author’s purpose was to entertain and educate. The figurative language was oxymoron’s , anagrams, and palindroms.

I recommend this book to students who like to read a good mystery and learn something new ages 10-14.

I would rate this book 8-10, because it was a good book and educational, but chapter 8 really lost my attention until chapter 9.

         Sincerely,

            Shianne Salazar   

  

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                                                                            Date: 10-30-11

Name: Shianne Salazar

Title: Will Steve Jobs final vendetta haunt Google?

Author: Michael Lytle

Source: The Miami Herald

The topic of the article is Steve Jobs claiming that Android company has stolen ideas from Apple

The main idea is that Steve Jobs claims that Google stole his creation the iPhone and gave it to Android.

The author's purpose for writing this was to inform

The author's perspective in this article/ subject (biased) because the article talks about Steve Job's is angry that Google is taking his ideas and giving it to Android.

The pattern of organization is cause and effect

The reason the author chose this pattern of organization is because he wanted to show what happened and what the effect of that was.

The text features included in the article are subtitles that helps by giving extra information. A picture of Steve Jobs that lets the reader know who the article is about without reading.

This article is about (a summary in your own words) Google taking Apples ideas and Steve Jobs gets very angry.

The significance (importance) of this article is to inform people on what Google did.

What I learned from this article is to never copy someone's idea no matter how much better it is than yours

What I liked about this article was really nothing I guess I liked the pattern of organization but I really did not care for the article.

What I did not like about the article is that in my opinion it was boring and uninteresting

who should read this and why are people who are interested in Steve Jobs because this article was about what Google did to Apple.

New vocabulary I learned

Word             Context Clues           Meaning

1.Vendetta        Haunt                    Private fight 2.Bureaucracy  eliminate            body of official         

Jonas Brothers RJ #8

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I finished reading JONAS BROTHERS by: Maggie Marron. The genre of this book is biography. I got this book on my own because I used to LOVE the Jonas brothers so I thought it would be cool to read about them to get more insight about them. I thought since I was reading about them I should do some research too. Throughout those 3 days I learned a lot about the Jonas Brothers, My favorite part of the book was when Nick got diabetes, not in a cold mean horrible way, I liked it because that was one of the most emotional times in their lives and they wanted to do something about it, they did benefit concerts for research and donated money, a lot of money, so that just showed how grateful and generous they are.

I used six strategies while reading this book, two before, two during, and two after. The two before are: 1) I read the prologue. 2) I looked at the table of contents to see what each chapter was about. The two during: 1) I read all of the subtitles and quick facts (there were a lot, and they were very helpful) 2) I summarized what I had just read. The two after: 1) I summarized the whole book in my head. 2) I discussed it with my mom. These strategies where very helpful while reading.

The main idea of the book was talking about the Jonas brothers and how it all began up until chapter 3. I learned a lot while reading like, Nick got discovered in a barber shop, then went to Broadway and soon after his brothers did too, then they all went to TV ( commercials) but they weren’t done on Broadway. Then, when Nick had to make a Christmas album for Broadway that got into the hands of Steve Greenberg otherwise known as the CEO of Columbia records! The brothers formed a band The Jonas Brothers. At first they were so excited they started writing song after song but the company kept rejecting every song so they had song specialist wright their songs but their producers never liked it but finally it took almost a year for then to release their album and a lot of the songs were covered from other bands the album was called: It's About Time, not just because it took forever for them to release their album it's also because all of the songs on the album where about time with songs like: 6 minutes , year 3000, 7:05, Time for me to fly. The album was a huge..... FLOP! Selling a disappointing number of 62,000 copies. Then Columbia dumped them, so they had a very disappointing holiday season, but in February 2007 Hollywood Records also known as Disney a way more successful and powerful company signed them and made there album: Jonas Brothers and took them less then half the time it took them at Columbia records. Their record was a huge.... SUCSESS! They were on there way. Then made Camp Rock, Jonas, Jonas L.A, Camp Rock 2 , and Jonas brothers living the dream.

The text features of this book are the table of contents, bold faced words, a lot of pictures, a bunch of captions and a bunch of quick facts.

The book is written in 3^rd person point of view because some one was narrating. There were similes, and metaphors (because the boys were compared to a lot of things)

Now, Joe is a solo singer and has just released his second album. Nick is now a music producer ( he discovered China Anne Mclain as a singer) Kevin is now happily married.

If I were to choose another name for this book I would name it Jonas Brothers living the dream. The authors purpose was to inform.

I would rate this book 10-10 because it reminded me about on of my favorite celebrity’s and it had captions and quick facts.

I recommend this book to girls ages 12-16 that enjoy reading about there favorite past celebs.

Sincerely,

Shianne Salazar

P.s. I'm listening to them right now!  

John F. Kennedy RJ #7

Dear Mrs. Zrihen,

I just finished reading John F. Kennedy: A photographic story of a life. By: Howard S. Kaplan. The genre of this book is biography I got this book on my own because I didn't know anything about John (Jack) F. Kennedy and I thought it would be interesting learn about him. My favorite part of the book was when he married Jacqueline Bouvier because he finally settled down and that’s around the time he got a career in politics.

I used six strategies while reading this book, two before, two during, and two after. The two before are: 1) I read the prologue. 2) I went online and looked up some facts about John F. Kennedy to know a little about him before I read. The Two during are: 1) I read ALL of the subtitles to find out like quick facts ect. 2) I would look at the title of the next chapter so I know what I am reading ahead of time (for example chapter 3 was called “Jack at school”). The two strategies I used after I read are: 1) summarized the whole book in my head. 2) I discussed it with my mom.

  The main idea of this book was explaining John (Jacks) life and who he was before and after his death. It talked about his youth up until chapter 4. I learned a lot while reading like, Jack was a very sick child since he got the scarlet fever ( a very cont-agious illness back then), his mother, Rose kept a box with flash cards of her children ( by 1932 9 in total) medical conditions, Jacks was the longest. I also learned he was a mischievous child,a slob and not so good of a student on the other hand, his older brother (by two years) Joe jr was not mischievous, very neat, and such a good student that when he went to boarding school he was named best student of the school in general since the school was founded! So he was often compared to his brother in a bad way. Then I learned a lot about what happened during the race against Nixon.

The text features of this book are the table of contents, bold faced words, a lot of pictures, and a bunch of caption.

The book is written in 3^rd person point of view because some one was narrating. There were similes , and metaphors (because Jack was compared to a lot of things. The book had an even amount of his youth young adult hood and his adult hood.

If I were to re name the book a I named it: 1961-1963: The story of John F. Kennedy. The authors purpose of this was to inform.

I would rate this book 8-10 because this book had captions, quick facts ect but, I got bored while reading sometimes.

I recommend this book to kids that enjoy reading about presidents and history ages 10-15.

Sincerely,

Shianne Salazar :)