Friday, June 11, 2010

Pride of the Lions

Summary: Pride of Baghdad is a heart breaking tale of four lions in a Iraq war with the world against them. They travel the destroyed Baghdad for life and freedom. In the lions find something even worth wild.

Response: the book was very graphic but had much detail in between. i hope there is a sequel the ending is so devastating and the lions are like humans.

Questions: Why did Safa have one eye?
Why is it the Zill is so mean?
What will happen is Safa looses to eyes

Recommendation: I think this book is for people who love to give up and fight alot this book could really help someone

Monday, June 7, 2010

Four Poems Celebrating Women, phenomenal women

In this book my favorite out of the four poems was Still I rise. Still i rise was about not getting bring down no matter what. It is because who she is she wont be sad or cry. This is my favorite because it showed the strength we all have and she wont cry for small things either.
Phenomenal Women the main poem in this book is about how she is a mystery and how you can't read her it is that we are different in many ways. This one i thought was very inspiring because it showed how great we really are.
Weekend Glory is about even though she works at a factory all week. On the weekend she lives her own life. This poem showed how we all have our own life and different things to do we just have to make time for it all.
Our Grandmothers was difficult for me to understand really but i found that the words she most used was "I shall not be moved." So I think this poem is about the people she must leave behind and what will happen.
Connections:We can all be strong is what I think she believes and I agree.
Questions: What made the author think of writing "Our Grandmothers"?

Friday, June 4, 2010

Zeus King Of The Gods

Zeus is by George O'Connor it is about Kronos eats his babies because one of his kids are
suppose to beat him. Then Zeus and his sister Metts feed him some plant that make him throw
up all of his kids. The big 3 (Zeus,Hades, Poseidon) beat Kronos using there magic Power given
to them by mother earth.
questions
Why are the Titans naked? Why do clouds come out of the Titans mouth and nose? How do
the Titans breath?
This is The Best Book Ever.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Street Love- Ariel's over all Summary.

Summary:
The book street love, by Walter dean Myers is based on the story Romeo and Juliet. But in this story, it's about Damien and Junice. Junice has a hard life. Her mom's in jail, Mrs Ruby(her grandmother.) is loosing her mind, she has to take care of her sister Melissa who is 10 years old, and they barley have money.
Damien has a decent life, he has a well rounded family, he got a scholarship to a collage, and they have an okay amount of money. Then somehow Damien and Junice fall into a deep, passionate love.
They can't be without each other. But Junice's life keeps getting harder. Her and her sister are going to get taken away from Mrs. Ruby because they don't think she can take care of them. (because she's going crazy.) They will have to go to a foster home.. Junice doesn't like this idea; so she packs her stuff, and her sister, and they go to a train station to go to Tennessee
Damien had no idea where she was or where she was going until his friend Kevin told him. Damien went after Junice, and found her. They ended up both going to Tennesse, and might get married later on.

Connection:
A connection i have with this book is i liked this boy once, and felt like he could make my problems go away; and always make me feel better. Like how Junice felt about Damien, and how she relied on him.
 
Reaction: My reaction to when Damien went after Junice when she was leaving for Tennesse was wow. I couldn't believe he would do something like that for her, i thought it was so sweet.

By: Ariel

Ask Me No Questions; Final Blog

Ask Me No Questions Summary

After Nadira leaves Tareq, she runs away and gets on a bus. She takes the bus to Burlington where her mom is staying at a homeless shelter. While she's in Burlington, Nadira and her mom go to Abba's court appearance. When Nadira speaks in front of the judge, she convinces the judge that her father didn't do anything wrong and that they are good people and the judge let's him go. When they get home auntie and uncle are packing up and they said that they are going back to Bangladesh and they tell them about all of the bad things Aisha did. Also Nadira finds out that Ali-uncle went back to Bangladesh also. All of that drama happens in a matter of only three days. At Aisha's graduation, everyone is happy and then something amazing happens and if you want to know what happens then you have to read the book to find out.

Reaction:
My reaction for the book was happy because they all found there place and the were happy so I'm happy.
Questions:
1. Why is all of there family leaving?
2. Why did Aisha go to her mom?

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

BONE

the i finished reading is called bone. Bone i think bone is a really good book it is funny and it looks cool how the drawings are made they are very cool. i like the book Bone and i like the other ones too i think the books that the author did they are so cool because the drawings he made it by him self i think that is very cool i love all the books that he made i think he did 1-10 thoughts are all the books he did all most all his life.....................

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Street Love

Now Damien is in his room wondering if he can be Junice's hero. When Junice goes to court again for her mother her mom starts begging for freedom. People are considering that the sisters may not be able to stay together. Damien starts to think about what would i be like if he didn't know junice and what would junice be like. Damien starts to walk down the street and sledge calls out to him. Sledge starts making fun of him saying that he isn't in love and junice is just temporary, she doesn't love him. they get into a fight and sledge comes from behind grabs a a knife from his shoe and cuts him by his neck. But he is fine just a bit of blood. Junice is coming from the grocery store and she refuses to tell him that she is pure. Damien is now left with hurt and sad dreams. Damien's mom finds out that he is in love by kevin's mother. Damien's mother gets frustrated and she screams out junice is not a mystery she is a normal girl and her mother is normal. Damien wakes up early the next day thinking that he loves her because they can be more together. At 9 a.m Damien starts calling junice but no one answers. Damien later decides to go visit her at her house and Mrs. Ruby says she's at church. Damien wants to tell Junice so much mostly that he loves her. He decides to cal some more. Damien finally finds out what Junice is up to. She's heading to memphis. Damien finds this out from kevin. Kevin promises to him that he's there for him no matter what. He says this after damien decides that he wants to follow them to memphis. Damien catches Junice about to get on the bus. Junice says repeatedly that he must go back home. Damien replies and says where ever her heart lies he will be and they both get on the bus to memphis. At the end of this book Damien tells Junice that they are going to need money. He says he has been putting money in hs fund and they can use that to survive. Junice says she is street they will survive. They think about how they will live then Damien finally asks to marry Junice. She replies "We'll see, my love"
Questions: why is junice going to memphis? Why does everyone tell damien that he can't go on with her?
Reactions: surprised- that everyone is telling him he can't go with her and she isn't a good person.