Dear people who like classic books,
I recently read this book called "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain. The book is really good, I chose the book because its an all time classic, I could't resist plus it was on my ereader. They are two types of "The Adventures of..." that are made by Mark Twain that I found on my ereader. The other one is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn." Judging the books by its covers I predict they look like someone else is telling there story at the same place. I found the Tom Sawyer one very interesting. Its time scenario would be around the 30's. Some parts when the characters were talking I really couldn't understand what they were saying from the slang. Like "I'm gonna lick you" or "My name is Tom that's how they lick me by." I find these the most weirdest things in a book. The main characters that in my opinion are the true main characters in the book are Tom the person who is telling the story, the narrator another person who is telling the story, Injun Joe a guy who is Tom's antagonist, they fight a lot, and his family. The book mainly focuses on Tom's adventures throughout his life. My favorite part is when they fight, Tom and Injun Joe fight (or Sid (a minor character) and Tom fight). I chose this because I love boxing (GO MANNY "PACMAN" PACQUIAO!). My least favorite part is when Sid throws a stone at Tom as he cowardly flees away. I chose that because Sid is a coward who wants to bring up more trouble. I would recommend this book to anyone, 5 out of 5 stars. If you want to play the video game of this book search it up on youtube or if you want to see a movie of it I advise to look at the older movies of this one not the cartoon version. Trust me this book had a video game and several movies made after it.
Sincerely,
Lucky
11/29/11
11/22/11
RJ #12
Dear Alexander,
I recently abandoned memoir "Lost in Shangri-la" by Mitchel Zurkoff. This time I actually read a lot from this book. I read up to 125 pages without skipping stuff. If you read my 1st rj you will see that I would recommend it, I still would but the book is too detailed that it makes the book boring to me in my own opinion. I'm not telling you to avoid the book I'm just neutral toward recommending it. The book focuses on a vacation during the war until bad things start to happen. Like the planes crashes with all the soldiers in them and then having to be a medic to support each other. I abandoned it for another reason is that the book got too long from being too heavily detailed to the death. I really couldn't keep count of the characters because they keep constantly adding up from the plane crashes which some survived. The date of time I would have to say is around the ending of WWII toward a little less than the middle of the Cold war as I see some signs of each. My least favorite part of the book is when they fool around with the rifles. Just to let other people know, a rifle is a gun. Some people would call it a "big gun" but that's not the write term since a shot gun is a"big gun" which is entirely different from it. I chose this part because the could get seriously injured from playing around with it. Either from the bayonet which a long mounted knife or accidentally pulling the trigger. I also chose this because in our workbook we had a thing about gun safety and gun laws. My favorite part would be when they help one another when the planes crashed by forging or scavenging for food,medial supplies,toilet paper, and water. I chose this because if someone is hurt or in need of help they helped. They started by helping the weakest or in a fragile state and let the strongest or "meh" ones help them. At least they are risking their lives to help a teammate. Overall your choice to get the book. I'm not telling you to be "Yes, get the book" or "No don't get the book" its your decision. My rating would be a 5 out of 10 since its a book what I would like to call "meh." (If you liked this, comment below and do the captcha to post comment)
From your friend,
Lucky
I recently abandoned memoir "Lost in Shangri-la" by Mitchel Zurkoff. This time I actually read a lot from this book. I read up to 125 pages without skipping stuff. If you read my 1st rj you will see that I would recommend it, I still would but the book is too detailed that it makes the book boring to me in my own opinion. I'm not telling you to avoid the book I'm just neutral toward recommending it. The book focuses on a vacation during the war until bad things start to happen. Like the planes crashes with all the soldiers in them and then having to be a medic to support each other. I abandoned it for another reason is that the book got too long from being too heavily detailed to the death. I really couldn't keep count of the characters because they keep constantly adding up from the plane crashes which some survived. The date of time I would have to say is around the ending of WWII toward a little less than the middle of the Cold war as I see some signs of each. My least favorite part of the book is when they fool around with the rifles. Just to let other people know, a rifle is a gun. Some people would call it a "big gun" but that's not the write term since a shot gun is a"big gun" which is entirely different from it. I chose this part because the could get seriously injured from playing around with it. Either from the bayonet which a long mounted knife or accidentally pulling the trigger. I also chose this because in our workbook we had a thing about gun safety and gun laws. My favorite part would be when they help one another when the planes crashed by forging or scavenging for food,medial supplies,toilet paper, and water. I chose this because if someone is hurt or in need of help they helped. They started by helping the weakest or in a fragile state and let the strongest or "meh" ones help them. At least they are risking their lives to help a teammate. Overall your choice to get the book. I'm not telling you to be "Yes, get the book" or "No don't get the book" its your decision. My rating would be a 5 out of 10 since its a book what I would like to call "meh." (If you liked this, comment below and do the captcha to post comment)
From your friend,
Lucky
11/15/11
Rj #11
Dear my fellow classmate,
I recently read this book called "Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul" by the following authors Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen, Patty Hansen, and Irene Dunlap. I actually think these aren't the authors, its the people who send the letters are the authors in my own opinion. These are like the ones Mrs.Klink read to us last year. The version of this book I read was the 101 stories changes, choices, and growing up for kids 9-13. There are many stories in here one that I like is this story. "Run With It." The main characters in this story are Susan and her mom, Brian, and Jeff and his parents. Susan is a Tomboy who was best friends with Brian and then later befriended Jeff. Brian is one of Susan's best friend with terrible hand writing who also be friends Jeff. Jeff is a boy who has leukemia, which the teacher (mentioned only once so she is minor) said he cant always be with everyone in school. Susan's mom and Jeff's parents are like the messengers who tell which is which is happening to Jeff and then pass it on. The story is about Jeff and who comes to the 4ᵗʰ grade and the teacher announces about him. Susan and Brian who learn about Jeff from the teacher immediately befriend him. They play along and act like nothing is wrong. Then later he got his treatments and the cancer went away, but then came back. This is where all the bad things start to happen. Jeff's parents tell Susan's mom that Jeff has to get a bone marrow treatment and go to California. So they were like ok were cool with that. So Jeff and his parent go there. Later then Susan goes to a Skating party and can't find Brian. So she went home to ask whats wrong. Her mom said and I quote "Jeff's mom called..." (that's what it says in the book) If you guessed right, yes Jeff Died. Sad right? It appears Brian already has heard the news about him (in my opinion). Everyone is sad about it and guess what they can't afford Jeff's expenses. So they (Brain and Susan) started a running (a race) to support him or other people with that type of cancer by calling many companies and such and raised over ten grand. So they donate the money to the Leukemia Society under his name. Later then the mention there was a cross country biking marathon. Susan wanted enter but people called her crazy while others said and I quote "You're alive, you're here-so run with it!" So there you go that's my favorite story in this memoir. Overall Its a decent book and I would recommend it to anyone. 5 out of 5 stars for it. Hope you enjoyed my rj!
From your fellow classmate,
Lucky
11/12/11
Current event 2
Title: A legacy of service: Three generations of Pines family have served in military
Source: The Miami Herald
The topic of the article is about a family's generation about the military.
The main idea of the article is: about the military through 3 generations of a local Pines family.
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to show about a family of veterans for veterans day
The author’s perspective in this article is objective because the author is not biased and just writes a story of a family of veterans.
The pattern of organization of the article is in chronological order.
The reason the author chose this pattern for the article because he wrote what happened to one person with a the year to follow it and did the same for others.
The text feature(s) included in the article are: The picture of the family with a sub article in it.
This article is about (a summary in your own words)
This is mostly about the 92 year old veteran. He has done many things and won many medals. He even survived a failed deactivation of a land mine. His family is proud of him.
The significance (importance) of this article is to salute your troops and thank the war veterans
What I learned from this article is to keep on going even if something tells you not to.
What I liked about this article
Is how the author wrote about the veterans (the family of 3 generations) and showed the life of them.
What I did not like about it
I didn't dislike anything in this article. The author wrote it well and was not biased like the last article.
Who should read this article and why
Anyone who has is a veteran or knows a veteran. I say this because this looks like it was written for Veterans day.
This article reminds me of (text-to-self) One of my dad's friend who was a navy veteran.
(text-to-text) This remind me of this book Platoon leader.
(text-to-world) The national troops and veterans who have fought for our country.
New vocabulary I learned
I didn't learn any thing new, I understood everything and knew what they were talking about,
11/8/11
RJ #10
Dear Samuel,
I recently abandoned this short story I found on the computer called "Call of Duty" by Desmond Kelly, I thought it would be highly similar to the famously known video game series Call of Duty that recently released a new guy in the series Modern Warfare 3. With the suspense, mindblowing experiences, and showing somethings of war. This short story is not what you will expect. It is similar to Call of Duty, but its highly boring. It takes place during WWI like the older ones ( Call of Duty classic, Call of Duty 2, etc.) I do not recommend this short story. It doesn't have key plots similar to Call of Duty. This short story has several variations by different authors . Whatever you do avoid it at all cost! I only read a couple paragraphs of it until I put it down. The story even shouldn't even be named Call of Duty. This is the worst short story "evar." The author also made several spelling errors in this short story. It's also one of those what I like to call "sleep you to death books/stories" meaning you can fall asleep reading it. I can't even keep tract with the characters. Surely wish I picked a better one. This story doesn't even make me feel traveling vicariously to where WWI happened. Call of duty games make me feel like I'm in the person I'm controlling shoes (the Wii version actually does that since its made to control it to simulate anything). Like I said before if you want a nap time story here's a story. I have nothing good to talk about to talk about this "thing"
From your friend,
Lucky
I recently abandoned this short story I found on the computer called "Call of Duty" by Desmond Kelly, I thought it would be highly similar to the famously known video game series Call of Duty that recently released a new guy in the series Modern Warfare 3. With the suspense, mindblowing experiences, and showing somethings of war. This short story is not what you will expect. It is similar to Call of Duty, but its highly boring. It takes place during WWI like the older ones ( Call of Duty classic, Call of Duty 2, etc.) I do not recommend this short story. It doesn't have key plots similar to Call of Duty. This short story has several variations by different authors . Whatever you do avoid it at all cost! I only read a couple paragraphs of it until I put it down. The story even shouldn't even be named Call of Duty. This is the worst short story "evar." The author also made several spelling errors in this short story. It's also one of those what I like to call "sleep you to death books/stories" meaning you can fall asleep reading it. I can't even keep tract with the characters. Surely wish I picked a better one. This story doesn't even make me feel traveling vicariously to where WWI happened. Call of duty games make me feel like I'm in the person I'm controlling shoes (the Wii version actually does that since its made to control it to simulate anything). Like I said before if you want a nap time story here's a story. I have nothing good to talk about to talk about this "thing"
From your friend,
Lucky
11/1/11
RJ #9
Dear Person,
I finished reading "A Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mystery Hollywood Horror" by Carolyn Keene. Its a pretty decent book, plus it combines 3 famous mystery busters in one book. The book gets a little boring when they are discussing about their daily life like "Why did you not bring dinner?" or they discuss about their relation ships. Ever since the title is Hollywood Horrow it is exactly what you think if you understood it or read the book. The book is related to how John Lennon died due to a crazy stalker fan, but their are no deaths in this book. Their is two stories toward the book. One is a deadly stalker is targeting a television star Marla Devereaux from the taping of the show Sunny-Side Up. Nancy drew takes in this part of the story. While in the studios the Hardy Boys eavesdrop to locate a person of the deadly special effects which could really harm someone. My favorite thing about the book is how they combine to great detectives in one book. The downside is that the book wasn't balanced out it was mostly about Nancy drew's case. I would recommend it if you would like to read it or you just want a good mystery book.
By,
Lucky
I finished reading "A Nancy Drew & Hardy Boys Super Mystery Hollywood Horror" by Carolyn Keene. Its a pretty decent book, plus it combines 3 famous mystery busters in one book. The book gets a little boring when they are discussing about their daily life like "Why did you not bring dinner?" or they discuss about their relation ships. Ever since the title is Hollywood Horrow it is exactly what you think if you understood it or read the book. The book is related to how John Lennon died due to a crazy stalker fan, but their are no deaths in this book. Their is two stories toward the book. One is a deadly stalker is targeting a television star Marla Devereaux from the taping of the show Sunny-Side Up. Nancy drew takes in this part of the story. While in the studios the Hardy Boys eavesdrop to locate a person of the deadly special effects which could really harm someone. My favorite thing about the book is how they combine to great detectives in one book. The downside is that the book wasn't balanced out it was mostly about Nancy drew's case. I would recommend it if you would like to read it or you just want a good mystery book.
By,
Lucky
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