Literacy Blog #4

  Lots of people that I know are going away for this spring break. I really wish I were one of these fortunate people because I am stuck here, while most of my friends are away somewhere nice. They left me behind in the snow with my family for a week, um, not so fun. My spring breek in a nutshell would be nothing. Sleeping in and lounging about my house is how it`s going to be. Well maybe that`s not completly true. Lounging around consists of going on Pinterest (a lot!) and Facebook (etc.), finishing my drawing of Cody Simpson, and sleeping in, which is what I`m looking forward to the most! I will be leaving my house during the week (at least once) to go get my hair done. I`m looking forward to that also. For those who know me, I have always had long hair, I could not ever cut it short. So, I am just getting a little trim to get rid of all my millions of annoying split ends, and blonde highlights because I miss my blonde. I will go out to the country (my dad lives out of the city), read and watch movies. I am thinking about going shopping too and get some springy clothes! I will probablly work out in my basement a lot (I have a gym there) because know me, when I`m bored I eat. And being bored for a week= lots of food consumption! No just kidding! I do have enough self control not to just eat for a week (that would be really gross), and I will use my free time to benifit myself. So that`s my plans for my amazingly fun spring break.



This picture above will be me having fun on the computer for a week (sounds and looks great doesn`t it?)

 

 

Literacy Blog #3

I'm reading the series called Crank.The part that I enjoy the most about the series is the author's style of writing. Every page is written in like a poem style, so it keeps you really interested. Sometimes the writing is in the form of a letter, or random or symbol. I don't find it that hard to read.

The odd             time

the author           will
write very
differently.
Like this.

I think it
makes
reading               pass
faster.
It makes
the pages
turn really            fast.

That is just a bad example of how creative Ellen Hopkins is. There is two different ways that you can read it, the first being from left to right, and the second being just reading the right column.

Another

example of 

Ellen Hopkins'

style of writing would

be this one.   Personally,

                                                             I  think that       this style is

                                                           my second            favorite style

                                                          Why not my number one choice?  

                                                         Because with the other one that is 

                                                       shown above,             has not only

                                                      one way that                you can read
                                                     it but two neat               ways. Don't get
                                                     me wrong, this               is honestly very
                                                     neat, but I like               the double better.


This is another bad example of how the writing in the books are. This time I wrote in the letter A.
I really like these books, and I would highly recommend them! Here's what the series look like:

Literacy Blog #1- Semester 2

I just finished reading this book called Girl, Stolen by April Henry.

1) What happens in the book is there is this 16-year-old girl named Cheyenne Wilder who is in the back seat of her stepmother's car in a parking lot. She is waiting for her step mom to come back from the drug store with her prescription to heal her pneumonia. Cheyenne takes a nap while she waits. Then before she realizes what is happening, the car is being stolen with her in it. The thief didn't realize that there was someone in the car, otherwise he wouldn't have stole it. When Griffin notices that he isn't lonely in the car, he gets worried; he didn't mean to be a kidnapper. Cheyenne puts up a good fight, clawing at his face and screaming to let her go, but then Griffin learns that learns that she is blind, and the tables turn his way because he knows that she cannot recognize him. He decides to tie her up and keep driving. Griffin's intentions are to drop her off  on the side of a road, far enough from where he lives but close enough to city without being seen. Roy isn't that nice, and has different ideas, especially when they learn that she is the daughter of the president of Nike. Griffin doesn't know what to do and who he can trust, Cheyenne feeling very much the same way. Griffin has been nice to her and her protector from the others, yet he is the one that kidnapped her. She decides that she must escape her self because she thinks they are going to kill her. But a blind girl who could easily die from the pneumonia she has, and is lost is not the best combination for someone who wants to escape from her captors.
 

2) The protagonist in this book would be Cheyenne Wilder. She is a sixteen-year-old girl, who is blind. Her and her mom and their dog were walking one day on the side of a road and a car hit them. Her mom and the dog died, Cheyenne lost her vision. This happened when she was thirteen. Her dad is the president of Nike, and he seems very nice and caring. At the hospital where Cheyenne was staying during her treatment there was a nurse there named Danielle. Cheyenne's father ended up marring her some whiles after the accident. Cheyenne is pretty with black curly hair, like her mothers, and very dark eyes. She can see a sliver out of her left eye, but it is not much, so she is still legally blind. She hates being blind because it is confusing and embarrassing at times. She loves her guide dog because he connects her more with the world. People approach her and ask to pet him, and he even saved her life once. People don't have to ask her if she's blind because they notice her guide dog and they know. She loves her dog and her family. Cheyenne is smart and brave. If she were played by a famous actor in a movie, it would be Laura Marano. I chose her because he has dark hair and dark eyes and I think that with the right touch ups with her hair to make it all curls, she would be great!

3) The main setting in this book is somewhere in the outskirts of a bigger town or city. The house where Griffin lives is somewhere that is approximately a hour drive from the city or town. It is in a very isolated place, with no neighbors, and the small roads that lead you to there are deserted. I think that it took place in the USA somewhere because Griffin was a high school dropout and there are some states still that the dropout age is 16. I think that this book was written from the past because now people would be smart enough to lock their doors when they leave their car running with their blind child inside. I think that the time frame was 2000 ish maybe. The setting reminds me of little places like Petersfield, Manitoba or some small area like it. It's is because it is small and is a 45 minute drive from the city, so it fits the time frame that Cheyenne had calculated in her head (1 hour). The setting of this book also reminds me of the time when my family and I went for a road trip to Saskatchewan and we were running low on gas and were lost. We turned onto this gravel road, and it was so abandoned. There was just empty farmland on either side. Just before we eventually got to the end of the long road, there was this old, boarded up and abandoned house. I think that if you but the two locations together you will end up with the location in the book.

Literacy Blog #2

One of the books that I am reading right now was one that I found in Mr. Toms library. It's called Outside Shooter by Thomas J. Dygard.

 

Today's blogging is about connections that you have with your book. First I should tell you a little about the book. What happens is Bloomfeild High School is looking for a new basketball coach so Deke Warden applies for the job. He even turns down an NBA contract just to lead the team! But the team last year, the team had its struggles and Deke is worried that they don't carry on to this year.

 One connection that I have to the book is Deke's feelings the night before the Bulldogs first game. He had a bad sleep the night before because he was having nightmares about the game and the season. I can relate because I also get like this before the first game of the season, or before a big, important game against a rivalry team or something. Even if I know that someone is coming to my games and I want to impress them, I will get especially nervous. I end up getting myself worked up and I will be extra hard on myself during the game. Like Deke, I have trouble falling asleep the night before, for similar reasons. He is having nightmares about the team loosing 50-0, and I over think about everything. He wants to do a good job coaching, and I want to do a good job playing.