Rj #15

Dear Book club members,


As you know we are reading the book "The giver" currently at the time. My last rj was based on chapters 1-3. This one is based on chapters 1-10. The character so far are Jonas,Asher,The Giver,The elders,Fiona,Lily,the new child aka Gabriel, and Jonas' parents. The setting isn't in poverty. The appears to be a piece of land. The place where they live isn't a democracy like how it is here. They live in a dictator ship by the elders. They have to go by a set of rules. If you break a rule you get kicked out which is mean. They have sets of groups by age to tell what you can do. At the age 12 they stop tract of your birthday and you have to go to city hall to find your birthday. I would recommend the book but I must warn you that the beginning is boring.


Sincerely,
Lucky

CE 3

Title: Animal shelter's behavior experts face life and death decisions for animals
Author: John Owens
Source: The Miami Herald or Chicago Tribune
The topic of the article is animal shelter decisions
The main idea of the article is: An animal shelter in Chicago that is a anti-cruelty based shelter has to chose decision that regards to life and death situations to animals. It is stated.
The author’s purpose for writing this article is to tell the reader about what animal shelters do to check the animals behavior
The author’s perspective in this article is objective/subjective (not biased) because he does not show any form of opinions.
The pattern of organization of the article is in flashback, fact by fact, and a interview of the animal shelter.
The reason the author chose this pattern for the article is to focus on the main idea to talk about what is happening in the animal shelter.
The text features included in the article are: quotes from the interview of the animal shelter which helps the pattern of organization.
This article is about (a summary in your own words) what animal shelter behavior experts do. If the animal is not tame they would train it but if it isn't trainable they would put it down humanely. 
The significance (importance) of this article is that some animals die due to behavior issues.
What I learned from this article is some animals are put down if they weren't trainable.
What I liked about this article is how they put a lot of information on what they do in the animal shelter.
What I did not like about it I don't like how they put down animals if they weren't trainable or tame I would just keep on trying.
Who should read this article and why people who would learn about animal shelters because some people would like to volunteer there. However it should be people not in the group PETA
This article reminds me of my mentally challenged bird who flew away. I chose that because he was hard to train.
(text-to-text) This really doesn't remind me anything related to this article in text form.
(text-to-world) This reminded me of the animals that were put down since the text and animal shelters that put down animals are related.
New vocabulary I learned
I did not learn any new words.

Rj 14

Dear book club members,

As you know we are reading the book "The Giver" by Lois Lowry. I would say the book is a meh book. The book started out with a plane that did not look like any other aircraft they seen. It was a fighter plane with a pilot using misguided directions. Everyone had to go inside for protection. The setting appears during poverty. As they use bicycles to move around for transportation.  I find the beginning a bit boring as it’s not like a juicy steak. However the way I'm reading is going by a fast rate. But then again I'm on the first few chapters so I really don't know the outcome of the book. To anyone else reading this, I don't know whether or not to recommend it since I'm only on the 5 chapter. I really don't know the characters since they barely say them. The only one I know is Asher they really don't tell anything about him.

From your member,

Lucky

RJ # 13

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

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

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

Current event 2

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

Author: Perry Stein
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,